VINTAGE CINEMA

Erich Kunzel’s new Vintage Cinema film music collection will have obvious appeal for film buffs who have actually seen these celluloid classics (if you haven’t,

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Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker

Telarc calls this album “Favorite Selections”, but a more appropriate labeling would be “Almost the Nutcracker”, for it contains all but two numbers (and half

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GREAT FILM FANTASIES

The Cincinnati Pops is splendid here in excerpts from three genre-leading fantasy and science-fiction film series. Erich Kunzel, something of a genre-leader himself, directs with

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Rosza: Choral Suites

Miklós Rósza’s music usually constituted one of the more compelling aspects of the films he scored. This is especially the case in his Biblical epics,

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BALLET FAVORITES

Erich Kunzel’s highly enjoyable ballet album offers a wide sampling of music from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Naturally the emphasis is on French

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