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Summary:

With support from the BBC Concert Orchestra, Valentina Lisitsa explores the glorious music of cinema's golden age, including original scores for piano and orchestra written for the movies of the 1940s and 1950s.

Table of Contents:

• Dangerous moonlight : (1941). Warsaw concerto / Richard Addinsell (8:41)
• Murder on the Orient Express : (1974). Murder on the Orient Express / Richard Rodney Bennett (3:00)
• The unforgettable year 1919 : (1951). The storming of Red Hill : (Assault on beautiful Gorky) / Dmitri Shostakovich (6:56)
• The apartment : (1960). Jealous lover / Charles Williams (3:44)
• The glass mountain : (1949). The legend of the glass mountain / Nino Rota ; arr. Arthur Wilkinson (3:48)
• Player's TV advert : (1961). Seashore / Robert Farnon (3:02)
• Journey to romance : (1946 radio feature). Invocation / Richard Addinsell (4:16)
• The women's angle : (1952). The Mansell concerto / Kenneth Leslie Smith (4:23)
• Love story / A lady surrenders : (1944). Cornish rhapsody / Hubert Bath (6:15)
• The case of the frightened lady : (1940). Portrait of Isla / Jack Beaver ; arr. Philip Lane (4:44)
• On Golden Pond : (1981). New Hampshire hornpipe / Dave Grusin (2:33)
• Stage fright : (1950). Stage fright rhapsody / Leighton Lucas ; arr. Philip Lane (4:30)
• Train of events : (1949). Legend of Lancelot / Leslie Bridgewater (3:26)
• While I live : (1947). The dream of Olwen / Charles Williams (4:51)
• Pride and prejudice : (1985 TV series). Pride and prejudice / Carl Davis (4:14).

Contributors:

Lisitsa, Valentina , instrumentalist

Warren-Green, Christopher , conductor

Sutherland, Gavin , conductor

Wilkinson, Arthur , arranger of music

Lane, Philip , arranger of music, writer of supplementary textual content

Bennett, Richard Rodney , composer

Farnon, Robert , composer

Beaver, Jack , composer

Lucas, Leighton, 1903-1982 , composer

Bridgewater, Leslie, 1893-1975 , composer

Addinsell, Richard, 1904-1977

Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975

Williams, Charles, 1893-1978

Rota, Nino, 1911-1979

Leslie-Smith, Kenneth

Bath, Hubert

Grusin, Dave

Davis, Carl, 1936-

BBC Concert Orchestra , instrumentalist, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/itr

Included Works:

Dangerous moonlight [by Addinsell, R.] > Warsaw concerto

Nezabyvaemyĭ 1919 god [by Shostakovich, D.D.] > Assault on beautiful Gorky

Jealous lover [by Williams, C.] (arranged)

Glass mountain [by Rota, N.] > Legend of the glass mountain (arranged)

Woman's angle [by Leslie-Smith, K.] > Mansell concerto (arranged)

Love story [by Bath, H.] > Cornish rhapsody

On Golden Pond [by Grusin, D.] > New Hampshire hornpipe

While I live [by Williams, C.] > Dream of Olwen

Pride and prejudice [by Davis, C.] > Pride and prejudice

Other Related Resources:

Source record: Love story (London, England : Decca, [2016] — OCLC Number 953715937)

Subjects:

Motion picture music — Excerpts

Piano with orchestra

Motion picture music — Excerpts, Arranged

Piano with orchestra, Arranged

Television music — Excerpts

Radio music — Excerpts

Motion picture music

Television music

Radio music

Genres:

Motion picture music

Television music

Radio music

Excerpts

Arrangements (Music)

Concertos

Art music

Excerpts, Arranged

Performers:

Valentina Lisitsa, piano ; BBC Concert Orchestra ; Christopher Warren-Green, Gavin Sutherland, conductors.

Performance Medium:

1 performer and 1 ensemble: solo piano; orchestra

General Notes:

(1st-2nd, 4th-8th, 10th-13th works) recorded 2015 August 24-25 Watford Colosseum, Watford.
(Remaining works) recorded 2015 January 21 Watford Colosseum, Watford.
Description based on: Hard copy version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file)

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

audio file

Call Numbers:

Online Audio

Other Standard Numbers:

International Standard Recording Code: GBF071505010
International Standard Recording Code: GBF071504920
International Standard Recording Code: GBF071500330
International Standard Recording Code: GBF071504980
International Standard Recording Code: GBF071504960
International Standard Recording Code: GBF071504940
International Standard Recording Code: GBF071504970
International Standard Recording Code: GBF071505040
International Standard Recording Code: GBF071504930
International Standard Recording Code: GBF071504990
International Standard Recording Code: GBF071505020
International Standard Recording Code: GBF071505000
International Standard Recording Code: GBF071505030
International Standard Recording Code: GBF071504900
International Standard Recording Code: GBF071504910
Publisher Number, Decca: 00028947894551

OCLC Numbers:

1010492276