Richard Rodney Bennett - The Film Music

Richard Rodney BENNETT (1936-2012)

Film Music  

Murder on the Orient Express

Far from the Madding Crowd

Lady Caroline Lamb*

Tender is the Night

Enchanted April

Four Weddings and a Funeral

 

Philip Dukes (viola)*

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Rumon Gamba 

Recorded January 24-25 and July 4-5, 2000.

British Tone Poems Vol.2 (Bliss, Foulds, Fogg, Goossens, Vaughan Williams, Howell, Cowen, Hadley)

British Tone Poems - Volume 2

John FOULDS (1880-1939)

April-England, Op.48 No.1 (1926, orchestrated 1932)

Eric FOGG (1903-1939)

Merok (1929) 

Eugene GOOSSENS (1893-1962)

By the Tarn, Op.15 No.1 (1916) 

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Harnham Down (ed. James Francis Brown) (1904-07)

Dorothy HOWELL (1898-1982)

Lamia (1918) 

Frederic Hymen COWEN (1852-1935)

Rêverie (1903) 

Patrick HADLEY (1899-1973)

Kinder Scout (1923) 

Arthur BLISS (1891-1975)

Mêlée fantasque (1921, revised 1937) 

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba

Recorded: 2019, MediaCity UK, Salford

British Tone Poems Vol.1 (Austin, Alwyn, Bantock, Gurney, Balfour Gardiner, Vaughan Williams)

British Tone Poems - Volume 1

Frederic AUSTIN (1872-1952)

Spring. Symphonic Rhapsody (1902-07) 

William ALWYN (1905-1985)

Blackdown. A Tone Poem from the Surrey Hills (1926) 

Granville BANTOCK (1868-1946)

The Witch of Atlas. Tone Poem No 5 for Orchestra (1902) 

Ivor GURNEY (1890-1937)

A Gloucestershire Rhapsody for Orchestra (1919-21), ed. Philip Lancaster and Ian Venables 

Henry BALFOUR GARDINER (1877-1950)

A Berkshire Idyll for Small Orchestra (1913) 

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

The Solent. Impression for Orchestra (1902-03) ed. James Francis Brown 

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Rumon Gamba

Recccorded:  14-16 September 2016, BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff

Erich Wolgang Korngold - The Film Music

Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD (1897-1957)

Film Music

The Sea Wolf - film music (1941) plus trailer

The Adventures of Robin Hood suite from film music (1938) 

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Rumon Gamba

rec. Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester; 1, 3 Sept 2004.

 

Malcolm Arnold - Symphonies Nos. 7, 8 & 9; Oboe Concerto

Malcolm ARNOLD (1921-2006)

Symphonies: 7 (Op.113), 8 (Op. 124), 9 (Op. 128)

Concerto for Oboe and Strings (Op. 39)

Jennifer Galloway (oboe) 

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Rumon Gamba

recorded Studio 7, NBH Manchester, Jan. 2001

The Film Music of Alan Rawsthorne

Alan RAWSTHORNE (1905-1971) 

The Film Muisc

The Captive Heart

West of Zanzibar 

The Cruel Sea 

Where No Vultures Fly 

Uncle Silas 

Lease of Life 

The Dancing Fleece 

Burma Victory 

Saraband for Dead Lovers

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba

Recorded in May 1999 at: New Broadcasting House, Manchester

Released March 2000

Malcolm Arnold - Clarinet Concerto and other Orchestral Works

Malcolm ARNOLD (1921-2006)

Commonwealth Christmas Overture Op.64 (1957)

Clarinet Concerto No.1 Op.20 (1948)

Divertimento No.2 Op.24/75 (1950)

Larch Trees Op.3 (1943)

Philharmonic Concerto Op.120 (1976)

The Padstow Lifeboat Op.94a (1967, orch. Philip Lane,2000)

Michael Collins (clarinet)

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba

rec. 2019/22, MediaCity UK Salford, Manchester

Miklos Rozsa - The Film Music

Miklos ROZSA (1907-1995)

Film Music Suites

The Thief of Bagdad

Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book

Sahara

Ben-Hur

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Rumon Gamba

Recording venue:  MediaCity UK, Salford on 1 and 20 July 2013

Bernard Herrmann - Film Music

Bernard HERRMANN (1911-1975)

Film Music 

Hangover Square

Concerto Macabre*

Citizen Kane**

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Bernard Herrmann, Composer

Martin Roscoe (Piano)*

Orla Boylan (Soprano)**

Tracks 1-8, 10, 11 recorded March 24 & 25, 2009.

Track 9 recorded July 14, 2009.

Malcolm Arnold - Ballet Music

Malcolm ARNOLD (1921-2006)

Ballet Music

Homage to the Queen - suite op. 42 (1953) 

Rinaldo and Armida - dance-drama in one act op. 49 (1954)

Sweeney Todd - concert suite op. 68a (1959) (prepared 1984, David Ellis with composer) 

Electra - ballet in one act op. 79 (1963) 

BBC Philharmonic

Rumon Gamba

rec. Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, 9-10, December 2008

The Film Music of Brian Easdale

Brian EASDALE (1909-1995)

Film Music

The Red Shoes - Ballet (1948)

Kew Gardens - Suite for Chamber Orchestra (1936) 

Black Narcissus - Suite for Chorus and Orchestra (1947) 

The Battle of the River Plate - Prelude and March for Orchestra (1956) 

Adventure On!- Suite for Orchestra - A musical progress for Sir John Barbirolli and the Hallé Orchestra (1957) 

Gone to Earth - Suite for Chorus and Orchestra (1950) 

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Adrian Partington

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Rumon Gamba

Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot) (Red Shoes)

rec. BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff Bay, 

Cardiff, Wales, 8-10 March 2010

The Film Music of Arthur Benjamin and Leighton Lucas

The Film Music of Arthur Benjamin and Leighton Lucas

Arthur BENJAMIN (1893-1960)

Suite from The Conquest of Everest (1953) 

The Storm Clouds Cantata from The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

Waltz and Hyde Park Galop from An Ideal Husband (1947) 

Leighton LUCAS (1903-1982)

Portrait of the Amethyst from Yangtse Incident (1957) 

Dedication from Portrait of Clare (1950) 

Stage Fright Rhapsody from Stage Fright (1950)

Suite from Ice Cold in Alex (1958) 

This Is York (1953) 

March-Prelude from Target for Tonight (1941) 

Abigail Sara (mezzo)

Rob Court (organ)

Côr Caerdydd/Adrian Partington

Gwawr Owen

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Rumon Gamba

rec. BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales, 3-5 October 2011. DDD

The Film Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams Vol.3

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

The Film Music Volume 3

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

The Story of a Flemish Farm (Suite from the film The Flemish Farm) (1942) 

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (Edited Stephen HOGGER)

The Loves of Joanna Godden (1946) 

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS and Ernest IRVING (1878-1953) (Edited HOGGER)

Bitter Springs (1950) 

Ladies of Manchester Chamber Choir

Darius Battiwalla

BBC Philharmonic Orchesta

Rumon Gamba

rec. Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, 22-23 June 2005. DDD

 

The Film Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams Vol.2

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

The Film Music Volume 2

49th Parallel (1940) (Suite edited by Stephen Hogger)

The Dim Little Island (1949) (Partially reconstructed by Stephen Hogger)

The England of Elizabeth (1955) (Suite edited by Stephen Hogger)

Emily Gray (soprano)

Martin Hindmarsh (tenor)

Chetham’s Chamber Choir

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Rumon Gamba

Recorded Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, 30 September - 1 October 2003.

The Film Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams Vol.1

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

The Film Music - Vol. 1

Scott of the Antarctic *(1948);

The People’s Land (1942) ;

Coastal Command (1943)

Merryn Gamba (soprano) *

Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus *

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Rumon Gamba

Recorded in New Broadcasting House, Manchester; 12 and 21 March 2002

 

Dag Wirén - Symphony No.3 and Other Orchestral Works

Dag WIREN (1905-1986) 

Symphony No.3, Op.20 (1943-44)

Serenade, Op.11 (1937)

Divertimento, Op.29 (1953-57)

Sinfonietta, Op.7a (1933-34, revised 1939)

Iceland Symphony Orchestra

Rumon Gamba

The Film Music of Ron Goodwin

Ron Goodwin (1925-2003)

The Film Music of Ron Goodwin

BBC Philharmonic

 Rumon Gamba

The Film Music of Arthur Bliss

ARTHUR BLISS (1891-1975)

THE FILM MUSIC OF ARTHUR BLISS