
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
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
Hopefully this will be the first disc in an extended Herrmann project–even if the results aren’t quite perfect, they’re still very fine. Citizen Kane has
This disc may be aimed more at the Shostakovich completist, but it’s no less wonderful for that. The Girlfriends is a major film score dating
This CD offers three first recordings, the most important of which is the complete ballet Miracle in the Gorbals, a sordid story of prostitution and
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,
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
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
Most of the releases in RCA’s classic film score series consisted of short extracts or suites from the complete scores, but here we have an
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