May 2000 Film Music CD Reviews

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Collection: The Film Music of Zhao JIPING   Electric Shadows including Farewell My Concubine and Raise the Red LanternChina Symphony Orchestra and China Symphony Chorus conducted by Hu Bing Xu  TELDEC 0630-17114-2 [77:07] [IL]
EDITOR'S CHOICE

THE FILM MUSIC OF ALAN RAWSTHORNE.
BBC Philharmonic/Rumon Gamba.
CHANDOS. CHAN 9749

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Thomas NEWMAN Erin Brockovich  SONY SK 89239 [35:10] [IL][JW]

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David HIRSCHFELDER Hanging Up  OST VARÈSE SARABANDE VSD-6120 [41:20][MH]
Mark ISHAM Rules of Engagement  London Metropolitan Orchestra, Mark Isham   Trumpet MILAN 73138 35906 [41:59][JW]
Randy EDELMAN The Whole Nine Yards    OST  VARÈSE SARABANDE VSD-6114 [56:51][DM]
EDITOR'S RECOMMENDATION

Wojciech KILAR La Neuvième Porte (The Ninth Gate)OST Sumi Jo (Soprano); The City of Prague Philharmonic and Chorus conducted by Stepan Konicek    SILVA SCREEN FILMCD 321 [54:07][IL]
Collection: Songs from and Inspired by Walt Disney's The Tigger Movie With CD-ROM content  Edel 0108742DNY[RW]

Collection: Liza Minnelli - Minnelli on Minnelli ANGEL 7243 5 24905 2 3 [65:11][IL]

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Collection: Music for Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork OrangeWARNER BROS. 7599-27256-2 [46:23][GD]

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Collection: Monstrous Movie Music: The Mole People; Them!; It Came From Outer Space; It Came from Beneath the Sea   Radio Symphony Orchestra of Cracow conducted by Masatoshi Mitsumoto    [e-mail:monstrous@earthlink.net (www.mmmrecordings.com)]   MMM-1950 [68:38]

Collection: More Monstrous Movie Music: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms; Tarantula; Gorgo; The Monolith Monsters   Radio Symphony Orchestra of Cracow conducted by Masatoshi Mitsumoto  
[e-mail: monstrous@earthlink.net (www.mmmrecordings.com] MMM 1951 [59:03] [IL][GD]


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Dimitri TIOMKIN Lost Horizon. The Guns of Navarone. The Big Sky. The Fourposter. Friendly Persuasion. Search for Paradise.   Charles Gerhardt conducting the Ntaional Philharmonic Orchestra.   RCA Victor GD81669[IL]
EDITOR'S RECOMMENDATION

Dimitri TIOMKIN The Guns of Navarone. The Fall of the Roman Empire. A President's Country. Rhapsody of Steel. Wild is the Wind  The Royal College of Music Orchestra conducted by Sir David Willcocks (David King - organ)   CITADEL STC77128 [56:56] [IL]
Dimitri TIOMKIN The Western Film Music of Dimitri Tiomkin   Laurie Johnson conducting the London Studio Symphony Orchestra and John McCarthy Singers    Unicorn-Kanchana UKCD2011 [46:15][JH][IL]

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Dimitri TIOMKIN High Noon. Cyrano de Bergerac. The Alamo. 55 Days at Peking    Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, Rundfunk Choir Berlin conducted by Lawrence Foster    RCA Red Seal 09026 
62658 2[IL]

Dimitri TIOMKIN The Fall of the Roman Empire   OST    Sony-PEG Recordings 029  [38:53][JH]

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