popular music: Franz Waxman

popular music: Franz Waxman

popular music:

Black & Decker HCC... Franz Waxman

Richard Kaufman, London Symphony Orchestra, ...

Varese Sarabande, 2005

A Perfect Recording
At its best, film music aurally heightens the drama, pathos, passion, joy and emotional intensity of the visual experience. And when film music is artfully written and skillfully performed, it can create a magnificent aesthetic experience. Richard Kaufman and the ...

Round-Up

Elmer Bernstein, Bruce Broughton, ...

Telarc, 2006

Essential for a Western Roadtrip
This album is the essential road trip disc for a tour of the national parks of the west. The mix of authentic western songs and Hollywood myth all done in over the top digital stereo is something to experience. On one trip through the high country of Yosemite we would ...

Happy Birthday

Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica

Nonesuch, 2003

I want to play the variations myself!
My God...I will be too grateful to anyone who can show me where I can get the printed music of the "Happy Birthday" variation ....

Sergei Nakariakov - Carmen Fantasy

Franz Waxman, Willi Brandt, ...

Teldec, 1995

"Carmen Fantasie" - Sergei Nakariakov
This album features Russian trumpet virtuoso Sergei Nakariakov playing a very wide variety of virtuoso music not only for trumpet, but violin, cello, and voice, among others. Sergei recorded this when he was only seventeen or eighteen years old, and when I had finished ...

Paramount Pictures 90th Anniversary: Memorable Scores

John [1] Barry, Elmer Bernstein, ...

Sony, 2002

A marvelous overview
When someone has ninety years of movie soundtracks to choose from it is difficult to know where to begin. Paramount has done quite well in choosing scores from a wide variety of movies. They have also gone to some lengths to arrange the tracks cronologically and ...

Masters and Commanders

Eric Kim, Klaus Badelt, ...

Telarc, 2007

"Swashbuckling Films from the Golden Age ... Kunzel ... Telarc (2007)"
Telarc Records presents "MASTERS AND COMMANDERS - MUSIC FROM SEAFARING FILM CLASSICS" --- Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops deliver a superior quality performance --- The presentation of themes from various swashbuckling films becomes an enjoyable experience --- The ...

Classic Film Scores for Bette Davis

Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman, ...

RCA, 1991

THE BEST OF BETTE!
For those who cherish those Bette Davis Golden Oldies as I do, you'll not want to be without this CD. All her most memorable film scores are here: Warner's fanfare introduces the exquisite "It Can't Be Wrong/Charlotte's Theme" from "Now, Voyager", Steiner's poignantly ...

Varèse Sarabande - A 25th Anniversary Celebration

Angelo Badalamenti, John [1] Barry, ...

Varèse Sarabande, 2003

Uplifts your soul, takes your mind into the heavens
I have been listening to great scores for many years and this collection is truly inspirational in so far as the choice of different scores takes you on a journey of listening pleasure matched by only a few collections.The price is incredibly reasonable for hours of ...

Round-Up

Elmer Bernstein, Bruce Broughton, ...

Telarc, 1990

Essential for a Western Roadtrip
This album is the essential road trip disc for a tour of the national parks of the west. The mix of authentic western songs and Hollywood myth all done in over the top digital stereo is something to experience. On one trip through the high country of Yosemite we would ...

Trumpet Spectacular

Leroy Anderson, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Telarc, 1990

The Best of Both
This album really lets Severinson shine. I always felt he was underchallenged on the Tonight Show. And Kunzel is at his best here, too. If you like Doc and Erik, also give a listen to Big Band Hit Parade.

Alfred Hitchcock: Family Plot / Strangers On A Train / Suspicion / Notorious (Film Score Re-recordings)

John Williams, Dimitri Tiomkin, ...

Varese Sarabande, 1990

If you love that movs?BUY IT!
I had already a selection of Hitchcock movs main themes when I bought this cd. Yet, I wasn't satisfied cause it didn't contain a lot of music of Suspicion, Strangers On A Train and nothing from Notorius. So I had to buy this one cause I loved the music in that films. ...

The Essential Hollywood
Elmer Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, ...

Sony, 2006

The Hollywood Sound

Harold Arlen, John [1] Barry, ...

Sony, 1997

Quite a Wonderful Addition to any Soundtrack Collection!
I would have to say that this is a wonderful tool for a soundtrack lover like me. Almost every theme is something really above the norm. Some, like "Out of Africa" and "Dances with Wolves" make me sadly reminiscent for some reason. Others, like the "Godfather II," ...

Sunset Boulevard

Franz Waxman, Joel McNeely, ...

Varese Sarabande, 2002

"I am BIG; it's the pictures that got small"
Not only can Norma Desmond's quote be applied to the stars of the past, it can be attached to the musical scores of Hollywood's Golden Age, pre-1960. For it was in the early half of the twentieth century when the pairing of film and music was at its apex. For my ...

The Bride Of Frankenstein (1993 Rerecording Of 1935 Film Score)

Franz Waxman

Silva America, 1993

Brilliant...Full of color!
This is a magnificent score filled with melody and color. Exquisitely orchestrated, the score is very well balanced and conducted. It would make a great ballet. Please bring these forgotten and obscure film scores to life again. The composers, mostly late ...