PIANORAMA

Here’s a “concept album” that really works. Roland Pöntinen’s collection of piano music used in films (with one exception discussed below) not only is an

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CLASSIC FILM SCORES

For 20 years (1940-60) Alfred Newman presided over the music division at Fox studios, enlisting the talents of a remarkable stable of composers and in

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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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FILM MUSIC, VOL. 2

Although written for different types of propaganda films, each of these three Vaughan Williams scores retains high artistry and a sense of elevated purpose. In

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Tiomkin film scores

Shangri-La, the utopia of James Hilton’s novel Lost Horizon, had a powerful grip on the world’s imagination in the dystopian 1930s. Frank Capra achieved his

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Korngold: Film Scores

RCA’s classical film score series with Chuck Gerhardt never should have gone out of print, so it’s particularly good to see Arkivmusic.com bringing the whole

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