EDITOR: Ian Lace
Music Webmaster Len Mullenger

FILM MUSIC RECORDINGS REVIEWS

  September 1999 Part 1

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Reviewers: Ian Lace, Rob Barnett, Paul Tonks,  Jeffrey Wheeler, Don Mather, Katherine Fear, Two-Names
Los Angeles correspondent: Anthony E. Anderson

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We have received a large number of discs to review for September so there is a supplementary listed posted here
Many of these discs are reviewed slightly ahead of the UK release. The Crotchet sales links for these may not be immediately active in which case try again in a couple of weeks time. 18/8/99

Collection: Alfred Hitchcock Presents…Signatures in Suspense   HIP-O HIPD-64661 [62:36]

EDITOR'S CHOICE

Collection: Psycho – The Essential Alfred Hitchcock   SILVA SCREEN 2CDs FILMXCD 320 [132:49]

Book/CD/Video Review:
FEATURE FILM   Douglas Gordon's vision of Bernard HERRMANN's Vertigo

Film and book

CD

Jerry GOLDSMITH The Haunting   OST    VARÈSE SARABANDE VSD-6054 [35:14]

Elmer BERNSTEIN Wild Wild West Music conducted by the composer   OST    VARÈSE SARABANDE VSD-6042 [30:14]

Lalo SCHIFRIN (composer and Musical Director) Tango   OST   DG 459 145-2 [63:04]

John OTTMAN Lake Placid   OST   VARÈSE SARABANDE VSD-6055 [47:10]

Alessandro VLAD and Stefano ARNALDI Tea with Mussolini OST   FIRST NIGHT REELCD 101 [39:50] (UK DRG DRGCD12618)

Mark McKENZIE Durango   OST City of Prague Philharmonic  INTRADA MAF 7087 [46:56]

Charlie MOLE An Ideal Husband   OST City of Prague Philharmonic  BMG 74321 669222 [50:06]

Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD Devotion   William T. Stromberg conducting the Moscow Symphony Orchestra MARCO POLO 8.225038 [69:40]


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Max STEINER Distant Drums; South of St Louis; Cloak and Dagger; My Girl Tisa   2CDs SCREEN ARCHIVES SAE –CSR –0001 [103:00]

Dimitri TIOMKIN Lost Horizon   Complete Original Motion Picture SoundtrackConducted by Max Steiner  BYUFMA (Brigham Young University Film Music Archives ) FMA/DT103 [69:14]

Collection: Great Composers (of Film Music) John Williams   VARÈSE SARABANDE VSD 6047 [59:24]

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