Naturally, you wouldn't want to listen to Max Steiner's score for John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre before seeing the movie. Without the powerful performances of Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, and Tim Holt, the indelible images of sun-dried Mexico and the relentless drive of the film's narrative in the memory, Steiner's music could ...
Not since the Jemelik/Klima version of the Khachaturian Piano Concerto that appeared on a Parliament LP around 1960 have I heard a recording of this work as compelling as this new one from Naxos. I've endured through the Katz/Boult, Entremont/Ozawa, De Larrocha/Frühbeck De Burgos, Orbelian/Järvi, and maybe some others, always with an expectation ...
Appallingly awful as the music is, everybody who knows and loves -- or thinks they know and love -- Shostakovich has to hear this disc. First, both pieces on it are essentially world-premiere recordings of substantial works from his prime as a composer. Second, both pieces show a side of Shostakovich that those who know and love only his heroic ...
For fans of the film music of Alfred Newman, this 2007 Naxos reissue of Marco Polo's 1996 recording of three of his scores will be very welcome. With the brief but evocative Suite from All About Eve, eight cues from the heroic Beau Geste, and 17 cues from the extravagant Hunchback of Notre Dame, three sides of Newman's many-sided musical ...
Following his stupefyingly huge Symphony No. 1 in D minor, "The Gothic" (which is famous and infamous for being the most massively scored symphony in history), Havergal Brian's immense Symphony No. 2 in E minor seems quite modest in comparison and almost reasonably laid out, though it was composed for a full-size post-Romantic orchestra and ...
Even though Universal's over-the-top film House of Frankenstein seems more amusing than scary today, its spine-tingling score by Hans Salter and Paul Dessau was quite effective for its purposes and remains one of the more atmospheric and compelling examples of music from the golden age of monster movies. John Morgan's carefully restored score ...
Composer and theoretician Émile Jaques-Dalcroze is best remembered today for the Dalcroze Eurhythmics, his pedagogical system linking music to movement. However, his amiable but highly derivative scores have largely been neglected due in part to changing tastes, but even more to their blandness. Attempts to resurrect Dalcroze's late-Romantic works ...
It appears that the orchestral music of the long-neglected Swiss composer Fritz Brun is undergoing a minor revival in his homeland, since a handful of his symphonies and symphonic poems have been recorded since the 1990s on such labels as Sterling and Guild. Yet if one were to regard his lighthearted Symphony No. 9 in F major (1950) as indicative ...
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