Editor's Choice

Music composed by Trevor Jones : The Dark Crystal ;   Available from Numenorean Music NMCD003; Total running time: CD1: 40.54 CD2: 71.35 ; ***** 5 GSD

Editor's Recommendation

Music composed by John Sponsler & Tom Gire: Final Solution ;   Available from Crown Video (promotional copy without product code); Running time: 38.49 ; **** 4 GSD

Performed by Holly Gornik: (oboe & English horn) Gabriel’s Oboe – Musica d’Amore del Cinema ;   LA East Orchestra  Available from EJG Productions 71105 40012; Running time: 52.18 ; **** 4 GSD

Music composed by Eric Colvin: Monte Walsh (2003) ; & Crossfire Trail   Available on La-La Land Records LLLCD 1006; Running time: 66.39 ; ***(*) 31/2 GSD

Nino Rota: Suite from the Ballet La Strada (1966) ;   Orchestra Sinfonica del Teatro Massimo di Palermo conducted by Marzio Conti; (recorded at the Teatro Massimo, Palermo, Italy; 19-21 July 2002)   Available on CHANDOS CHAN 10090 ; Running time: 64.04 ; ****(*) 41/2 IL

Max Steiner: All This And Heaven Too ; and A Stolen Life - Music for Bette Davis films   Score restorations by John Morgan Moscow Symphony Orchestra & Choir conducted by William Stromberg  Available On: Marco Polo 8.225218; Running Time: 71:08 ; ****(*) 41/2 IL

Music by Charles Fox: Zorro Original Score from the Smuin Ballet; World Premiere Production;   Performed by the Czech Philharmonic; Chamber Orchestra conducted by the composer ;   Available on a Promo Album (Warrior Productions) CFCD 01; Running Time: 53:30 ; **** 4 IL

Music composed by Charles Fox: A Song For Dead Warriors Original score for the San Francisco Ballet Production ;   Performed by the Nationalo Philharmonic Orchestra of London conducted by Jean-Louis LeRoux;   Available on a Promo Album (Warrior Productions) CFCD 02; Running Time: 38:28 ; ***(*) 31/2 IL

Alan Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountains - 3 symphonies ;   Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Conductor Gerald Schwarz   Available on Telarc CD-80604; Running time: 71.47 ; ****(*) 41/2 GSD

Book Review: Stu Phillips: "Stu Who?" – Forty Years of Navigating the Minefields of the Music Business;   Published by Cisum Press 2003; ISBN 0-9720363-3-4; hardback, 301 pages; $29.95 (U.S.) ; **** GSD

Other

Albert Ketèlbey (1875-1959): Historic Recordings 1908-1940 ;   Available on NAXOS 8.110869; Running time: 70.58 ; **** 4 IL

Music and lyrics by Cole Porter: Born to Dance (1936 M-G-M Musical);   Available On: RHINO RHM2 7778; Running Time: 68:26 ; *** 3 IL

Clifton Parker; Leighton Lucas; Anthony Collins; Bruce Montgomery; Eric Rogers: British Film Composers in Concert ;   Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by Gavin Sunderland(Recorded 16-18 September 2002 at The Warehouse, London)   Available on ASV White Line CD WHL 2145; Running time: 71.48 ; **** 4 IL

Nino Rota: The Essential Nino Rota ;   The City Of Prague Philharmonic Conducted by Derek Wadsworth, Paul Bateman, Nic Raine, Mario Klemens   Available On: SILVA SCREEN FILMXCD 369; Running Time: 114:50 [Disc 1: 56.47; Disc 2: 58.03] ; ****(*) 41/2 IL

Music composed by Thomas Newman: Finding Nemo ;   Orchestrations by Thomas Pasatieri;   Available from Walt Disney Records 60078-7; Running time: 60.23 ; ***(*) 31/2 GSD

All music composed, arranged and played by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson : Children of Nature (Börn Náttúrunnar);   Recorded at Studio S'yrland, Reykjavik (first issued in 1996).   Available on TOUCH T33.14; Running time: 40.14 ; ***** 5 NH

Various: The In-Laws ;   Source Music featuring: Paul McCartney; Bee Gees; Elvis Presley; Ella Fitzgerald; Mel Tormé; Michel Legrand, Claudine Longet and Yma Sumac etc.   Available On: Bulletproof/WSM R273886; Running Time: 59:58 ; **(*) 21/2 IL

Various: Music for Jacques Tati films ;   Jour de fête Music by Jean Yatove Mon oncle Music by Frank Borsellini Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot Music by Alain Romans Playtime Music by Francis Lemarque   Available On: Travelling Naïve K1611; Running Time: 43:35 ; *** 3 IL

Music composed by John Cameron: Psychomania ;   Available on Trunk Records (JBH 002 CD); Running Time: 44:58 ; **** 4 MH

Burton Lane; Music by Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner : Royal Wedding (1951 M-G-M Musical);   Available On: RHINO RHM2 7777; Running Time: 60:08 ; **** 4 IL

DVD Reviews

Roman Polanski (director): The Pianist ; Film ****(*) 41/2; DVD **** 4 MB

Director Dario Argento: Opera (Terror at the Opera) ;   Studio: Arrow Film Distributors Ltd; Run Time: 107 minutes ;Region 2 encoding; Subtitled, PAL ; Film ****(*) 41/2; DVD ***** 5 MB

New Films

Score composed by Elia Cmiral; Written by Alan B McElroy; Directed by Roy Schmidt: Wrong Turn ;   Principle Cast: Desmond Harrington , Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Lindy Booth, Julian Richings , Kevin Zegers   Twentieth Century Fox; Running time: 85 minutes; Certificate 18; UK Release 27^th June 2003 ; **(*) 21/2 MB

Director: William Malone: Fear Dot Com (2002) ;   Starring Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea ;101 minutes Film *(*) 11/2; MB

Score composed by John Debneyl; Written by Steve Koren, Mark O'Keefe and Steve Oedekerk; Directed by Tom Shadyac: Bruce Almighty (2003) ;   Principle Cast: Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Baker Hall, Catherine Bell, Lisa Ann Walter, Steven Carell, Tony Bennett   Running time: 101 minutes; Certificate 12a; Screen Ratio 1:1.85; UK Release 26th June 2003 ; **(*) 21/2 MLB & CO

Book Reviews

Jake Horsley: Matrix Warrior: Being The One ;   Gollancz, 2003; 232pp hb; £6.99; ISBN 0 575 07527 9 ; [no stars] GSD