Competitions

March competions: Thunbderbirds and The Day the Earth Stood Stlill

Editor's Choice

Debbie Wiseman: My Uncle Silas ;   Available on Universal 472-087-2 Running time: 60.55 ; ****(*) 41/2 GD

Michel Legrand: Ice Station Zebra ;   FSMCD Vol. 6, No. 2 Running time: 79.20 ; ***** 5 GSD

Barry Gray : Thunderbirds ;   Available on Silva Screen Records (FILMCD 606) Running Time: 61:10 ; ****(*) 41/2 MH; GSD

Editor's Recommendation

Daniel Tarrab & Andrés Goldstein: Some Who Lived (original soundtrack of the Argentinean film Algunos Que Vivieron) ;   Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de la República Argentina Nestor Marconi (Bandoneon)   Available on Chandos CHAN 10057 Running Time: 55.13 ; **** 4 GSD

Wojciech Kilar : Bram Stoker's Dracula and Other Film Music ;   Conducted by Antoni Wit. Cracow Philharmonic Chorus;> Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
  Available on MARCO POLO 8.225153 Running time: 63.39 ; **** 4 MH

Miklós Rózsa : Tribute to a Bad Man ;   Orchestrations by Eugene Zador   Available from Film Score Monthly (FSM Vol.5 No.19) Running Time: 50:30 ; **** 4 PT

Miklós Rózsa: Plymouth Adventure ;   Orchestrated by Eugene Zador & Robert Franklyn   Film Score Monthly (FSM Vol. 6 No. 1) Running Time: 79:36 ; **** 4 GA

Paolo Fresu : Kind of Porgy & Bess ;   Based on the opera Porgy and Bess by George and Ira Gershwin & on Miles Davis and Gil Evans 1958 LP of the same name (Columbia Legacy CK 65141);   Available BMG 951952 Running time: 62.25 ; **** 4 GSD

Bernard Herrmann: The Day the Earth Stood Still ;   Conducted by Joel McNeely   Available on Varese Sarabande VSD-6314 Running time 38.26 ; **** 4 MW

Other

André Previn: It's Always Fair Weather - 1955 M-G-M musical ;   Available on RHINO RHM2 7766 Running Time: 79:11 ; **** 4 IL

Lew Brown , B.G. DeSylva & Ray Henderson: Good News - MGM Musical 1947 ;   Available on: RHINO RHM2 7763 Running Time: 62:27 ; ***(*) 31/2 IL

Philip GLASS (b.1937): The Hours - Music from the Motion Picture (2003) ;   The Lyric Quartet; Orchestra conducted by Nick Ingham   Available from NONESUCH 7559-79693-2 Running time: 57.39 ; [Not rated] NH

Alex & Jake Parker: The Life Of David Gale ;   Available on Decca Records (066 733-2) Running Time: 79:36 ; *** 3 GA

Mitch Leigh & Joe Darion: Man of La Mancha - The New Broadway Cast Recording ;   Available on: RCA Victor 09026-64007-2 Running Time: 52:12 ; ***(*) 31/2 IL

Compilation:: George Melachrino and his Orchestra - Great Film and Show Tunes ;   Available on: Living Era CD AJA 5469 Running Time: 75:06 ; **** 4 IL

Cole Porter: The Pirate - 1948 M-G-M musical ;   Available on RHINO RHM2 7762 Running Time: 68:55 ; *** 3 IL

Klaus Badelt: The Recruit ;   Orchestrations by Klaus Badelt and Bruce Fowler   Available on Varèse Sarabande (VSD-6433) Running Time: 49:44 ; *** 3 GA

John Powell: Two Weeks Notice ;   Available on Varèse Sarabande 302 066 434 2 Running time:29.00 ; **** 4 JC

Yanni: Ultimate Yanni ;   Available on BMG Heritage Running Time: 69:47 (Disc 1) 57:13 (Disc 2) ; No stars GA

Jeff Danna: Uncorked (At Sachem Farm) ;   Available on La La Land Records (LLLCD-1001) Running Time: 29:32 ; **** 4 GSD ; ** 2 IL

Johnny Mercer: Way Ahead of the Game ;   Available on: Black Box BBJ2018 Running Time: 51:22 ; *** 3 IL

Marco Werba: Zoo ;   Available on Hexacord (HCD-15) Running Time: 39:28 ; ***(*) 3½ MH

DVD Reviews

Eisenstein/Prokofiev:: Eisenstein: The Sound Years, Alexander Nevsky (1938) & Ivan the Terrible (1945-6), Alexander Nevsky: Lilli Paasiviki, Philharmonia Orchestra, Brighton Festival Chorus, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Royal Festival Hall 11 March 2003;   3 discs, Criterion Edition, region coded 0 ; [Not rated] MB

Stephanie Black (director): Life and Debt - Documentary film;   UK theatrical release - limited, spring 2003 82 minutes ; *** 3 GSD

Gustav Noé (director): Irreversible (2002) ;   Music composed and performed by Thomas Bangalter (+ Mahler Symphony No.9 and Beethoven Symphony No.7)   Studio Canal, DVD 9, Format 2:35, colour, 99 minutes, French language (no subtitles) ; [Not rated] MB

Curio Corner

Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942): Symphony No. 1 in D minor*; Symphony No. 2 in B flat major + ;   *Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava) conducted by Ludovit Rajter; + Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edgar Siepenbusch   Available on: Naxos 8.557008 Running Time: 68:41 ; *** 3 IL