48/60: Cinema
Wednesday 3 October 2007 16:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
Performances of the music James Naughtie mentions in his Radio 4 series, which connects historical events and their effect on the course of classical music.
Playlist
48/60. Cinema
The film industry became the great patron of music in the 20th century. Including music by Max Steiner, who wrote scores for Casablanca and Gone with the Wind, and said film music 'should be felt and not heard'.
Steiner: Gone with the Wind (Tara's theme)
Richard Hayman and his Symphony Orchestra
NAXOS 8.990024. Track 5
Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto
Misha Dichter (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Neville Marriner (conductor)
Philips 4111232 Track 2
Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica - Scherzo
Alison Hargan (soprano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Ian Tracey (chorus master, organ)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)
EMI CDEMX2173 Track 3
Auric: Suite from 'The Titfield Thunderbolt'
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
Chandos CHAN9774 Tracks 4-6
Benjamin Frankl: Curse of the Werewolf - Prelude
The Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra
Kenneth Alwyn (conductor)
Silva Treasury SILVAD3507 Track 13
Walton: Spitfire prelude and fugue
Academy of St. Martin in the fields
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
Chandos CHAN 8870 Tracks 1-2
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky (extracts)
The Battle on the Ice, April 5 1242
Evgenia Gorohovskaya (mezzo-soprano)
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)
RCA 09026619262 Track 9
Steiner: King Kong
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Gerhardt (conductor)
RCA GD80136 Track 2
Korngold: The Sea Hawk - Part 5
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)
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