Music Webmaster Len Mullenger

FILM MUSIC RECORDINGS REVIEWS

July 1999 Part 1

For those wishing to print these reviews there are scrolling copies available: (a) including CD covers or (b) text only

© Film Music on the Web 1999.  All rights retained. Reviewers retain copyright on their reviews.                                     Disclaimer  

 COMPETITION WIN a CD of your Choice  

If downloading takes a long time the July reviews may also be seen on a server in the USA here

Click on the CD cover to read the review

The music of George and Ira GERSHWIN, IRVING BERLIN; JEROME KERN and COLE PORTER for:-
FRED ASTAIRE (1899-1987) - Let's face the Music and Dance - A centenary celebration. ASV CD AJA 5123 [77:52] Original Historic Mono Recordings


EDITOR'S CHOICE


Don DAVIS The Matrix OST   VARÈSE SARABANDE VSD-6026 [30:13]

&

Richard ADDINSELL Film Music Royal Ballet Sinfonia/ Kenneth Alwyn  ASV CD WHL 2115
Blithe Spirit; Encore; Gaslight; The Passionate Friends; Parisienne; Scrooge; Southern Rhapsody; Waltz of the Toreadors; South Riding; WRNS March; Fire Over England

EDITOR's RECOMMENDATION

Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD's arrangements of Mendelssohn's music for Max Reinhardt's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Celina Lindsley (Titania); Michelle Breedt (Fairy); Scot Weir (Demetrius and Lysander); Michael Burt (Oberon); Rundfunkchor Berlin; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Gerd Albrecht.  cpo 999 449-2 [59:58]

EDITOR's RECOMMENDATION


&

Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD Songs and Chamber Music Anne Sofie Von Otter; Bengt Forsberg  2CDs DG 459 631-2 [119:15]

EDITOR's RECOMMENDATION

Nino ROTA Il cappello di paglia di Firenza (The Florentine Straw Hat) A comic opera in 4 acts Daniella Mazzuccato; Viorica Cortez; Ugo Benelli; Mario Basiola; Alfredo Mariotti. Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Roma directed by Nino Rota BMG RICORDI 74321551092 2CDs [104:46]

EDITOR's RECOMMENDATION

John WILLIAMS Jane Eyre OST SILVA SCREEN FILMCD 204 [33:51]

EDITOR's RECOMMENDATION


&

Collection: I SALONISTI play Film Music SONY ASK 61731 [65:56]

Collection: Amazing Stories   John WILLIAMS Amazing Stories - main title and end title (1985-1987), The Mission, Georges DELERUE Dorothy and Ben Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Joel McNeely (Williams); John Debney (Delerue)  VARESE SARABANDE VSD 5941

John WILLIAMS The Missouri Breaks OST  RYKO RCD 10748 [44:21]

David MANSFIELD Heaven's Gate OST  RYKO RCD 10749 [54:45]


&

There are more >>>>>

© Film Music on the Web 1999.  All rights retained. Reviewers retain copyright on their reviews.

 COMPETITION WIN a CD of your Choice

  Search the Crotchet database from here

To locate a specific title in the Crotchet Classical, Jazz and Film Soundtrack Database input your search words to the relevant box below and click the Search Button. For example to display titles by James Horner just key james horner. If you are seeking a specific title e.g. Titanic then just key the word titanic after james horner. (Please note no words such as and or signs such as + are required)
Enter search words:

Discs on these pages are offered for sale.  There is also a page of search engines from a selection of on-line retailers here.
                                                                      Please support this web-site by buying your discs here.
Disclaimer: Every effort is made to make sales links to the correct disc but, in the end, you must take responsibility for checking that what you are purchasing is what you want. Some of these discs were not actually available for sale at the time of posting but a link has been made in anticipation of their forthcoming availablility.

Return to :   Film Music on the Web

e-mail  Len Mullenger len@musicweb.force9.co.uk