Editor's Choice
DVD Film:
Cleopatra (Special Edition) Music by Alex NORTH
;
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex HarrisonDirected by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
20th Century Fox Home Video 3 DVDs [Feature film: 248 mins; Documentary 2hrs approx.]
;
****
IL
Editor's Recommendation
DVD film:
To Kill A Mockingbird
with music by Elmer BERNSTEIN;
Starring Gregory Peck. Directed by Robert Mulligan
COLUMBIA TRISTAR/UNIVERSAL UDR 90085 [124 mins approx. feature] plus Making of feature [90 mins];
*****
IL
John WILLIAMS:
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
(The 20th
Anniversary edition);
MCA 112 819-2 [75:37]
;
****(*)
IL
Miklós Rózsa:
King of Kings
;
OST
RHINO R2-78348 2-CD
SET [77:38 and 56:49]
;
*****
JW
;
***(*)
JH
;
*****
GSD
Benjamin FRANKEL:
Film Music:
The Importance of Being Ernest; The Curse of the Werewolf; The Night
of the Iguana; Trottie True; The Years Between; Footsteps in the Fog. ;
Queensland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Werner Andreas Albert
CPO 999 809-2 [67:15]
;
*****
GSD
a
Miklós RÓZSA :
Lust for Life
;
OST
FILM SCORE MONTHLY Vol. 5 No. 1 [68:57]
;
****(*)
IL
;
*****
GSD
Compilation:
Soundtracks – Music for films by Wojciech KILAR;
(and Maciej MALECKI and Nicholas INGMAN)
;
CAMPION RRCD 1303 [59:39]
;
*****
IL
Various:
Things To Come: Original Film Music Themes 1936-1945
;
Naxos Nostalgia 8.120597 [60:23]
;
****(*)
PT
Sainte COLOMBE, Francois COUPERIN, Jean-Baptiste LULLY, Marin MARAIS:
Tous Les Matins du Monde
10th Anniversary expanded soundtrack reissue; sopranos Montserrat Figueras and Maria Cristina Kiehr;
Les Concert des Nations: Jordi Savall (basse de viole and direction)
ALIAVOX AV 9821 [75:45]
;
*****
GSD
Other
Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH:
The Tale about a Priest and his Labourer Balda
(opus 36) & The Story about a Silly Baby Mouse (opus 56)
;
The Symphony Orchestra of the Opera Class of the St. Petersburg Conservatoire conducted by Boris Tiles
MUSIC BOHEME CDBMR 012192 [Total: 58:57 * The Tale
about a Priest and his Labourer Balda: 44:43 * The Story about a Silly
Baby Mouse: 14:44]
;
**(*)
GSD
Alberto IGLESIAS:
Hable Con Ella
;
MILAN 74321 92849-2 [63:33]
;
***
PT
TOMANDANDY/LOW/King BLACK ACID/Glen BRANCA:
The Mothman Prophecies
;
OST
LAKESHORE RECORDS 2 CD SET [45:26, 59:21]
;
***
MH
VARIOUS ARTISTS:
100 Greatest TV Themes
;
SILVA SCREEN 4 CD SET [68:43, 71:22, 72:21, 68:39]
;
***(*)
MH
Matthew McCALEY:
Andromeda
;
OST;
GNP CRESCENDO GNPD 8077[64:47]
;
**(*)
MH
Jerry GOLDSMITH:
Logan's Run
;
OST;
FILM SCORE MONTHLY Vol. 5 No. 2 [74:18]
;
***(*)
MH
Boris TCHAIKOVSKY:
Aibolit 66/Balzaminov's Marriage
;
OST
BOHEME CDBMR 908085 [67:52]
;
**
MH
DVD Reviews
DVD film:
The Taming of the Shrew with music by Nino ROTA
;
Starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
COLUMBIA TRISTAR CDR 10015 [117 mins]
;
****
IL
Curio Corner
Compilation:
'when love speaks' A selection of Shakespeare's
sonnets
read by (among others): Richard Attenborough; Peter
Barkworth; Alan Bates;Kenneth Branagh; Richard Briers; Tom
Courtenay; Joseph Fiennes; Ralph Fiennes; Edward Fox; John Gielgud;
Ioan Gruffudd; John Hurt; Richard Johnson; Jonathan Pryce; Alan Rickman;
Diana Rigg, Timothy Spall; Imogen Stubbs; Sylvia Syms; David Warner;
Richard Wilson and Susannah York. With musicians: Barbara Bonney;
Des'ree; Bryan Ferry; Keb' Mo'; Ladysmith Black Mambazo; Annie Lennox;
John Potter; and Rufus Wainwright;
EMI 5 573231 2 [70:07]
;
***(*)
IL
Compilation:
Hoagy Carmichael - Mr Music Master
; Original recordings 1928-1947;
NAXOS 8.120574 [57:41]
;
****
GL
Compilation:
Ivor Novello (1893-1951) - Shine Through My Dreams
; Original recordings 1917-1950;
NAXOS 8.120600 [67:00]
;
[not rated]
IL
Compilation:
Albert Ketèlbey Vol. 2
;
Original historic recordings (1917-1939)
NAXOS 8.110848 [61:42]
;
[not rated]
IL
Compilation:
Dolly Parton sings Country
;
RCA Country Legends 07863 65101 2 [47:08]
;
****(*)
IL
ISKRA 1903:
Buzz Soundtrack
;
Paul Rutherford ((trombone), Derek Bailey (amplified guitar), Barry Guy (double bass)
EMANEM 4066 [79:15]
;
(*) and
. A Golden Turkey Awards contender
IL
Audio Book Reviews
George Bernard Shaw:
Pygmalion
;
with Anton Lesser as Professor Higgins; Geoffrey Palmer as Colonel
Pickering and Lucy Whybrow as Eliza Dolittle; with Hannah Gordon as Mrs
Higgins; David Burke as Doolitle, Kate Binchy as Mrs Pearce and Charles
Simpson as Freddie Eynsford Hill.
NAXOS NA326812 3 CDs
;
[not rated]
IL