When it came to the musical swashing of bucklers there were few to equal, and none to surpass, my old friend MiklOs ROzsa, with whom I...

North Goldsmith Varese Sarabande 0 0 VSD5400 (3/94) ROzsa Sedares Koch International Classics ® 0 37244-2(6/94) Haentzschel Smola...

Film music concerts dominate my choice for 1995 and I have no hesitation in placing Silva Screen's second volume of music from the films...

Music for Pleasure Ltd. have launched a new series of spoken word cassettes called "Listen for Pleasure". The 21 neatly packaged...

Producer David 0. Selznick described Victor Young as an 'extremely practical and successful man in doing scores without nonsense and...

Film music fans will be sad to hear of the untimely death of composer Basil Poledouris in November. He studied music with David Raksin at...

STA3055 (12 in., 27s. 8d. plus 8s. ld. PT.). Sergeants 3 (May). Background score. Orchestra conducted by Billy May. Reprise Q R2013 (12...

White Christmas (Berlin). Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye. MCA mono ® MCL1777. From Brunswick LAT8044 (12/54).

Naxos ® 8 554323 (74 minutes: DDD). Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto (arr. Douglas). Beaver: Portrait of Isla (arr. Lane). Rózsa: Spellbound...

With nearly ninety major film scores, including three Oscar-winners, to his credit, MiklOs ROzsa might well be regarded simply as one of...

Here are stereo versions of six records the mono releases of which I have recommended at various dates during the last coupe 01 years or...

George Greeley (piano), Warner Bros. Orchestra conducted by Felix Statkin. Warner Bros. © 5VM4057: 0 WSS 057 (12 in., 27s. plus is. Sd....

With one play of the hand RCA have reissued at bargain price on disc and cassette (prefix GK, same number as disc) all 12 of their...

UILM music continues to be a much-maligned form of musical expression. Whilst film scores by 'serious' composers the likes of Prokofiev...

Bernard Herrmann provided several celebrated scores for the thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock and whilst North by Northwest (Unicorn-Kanchana...

Matthew Peak's painting for the cover of Varese Sarabande's Romeo and Juliet "I've never been part of something this unique," Cliff...

WHEN Polydor relinquished their rights to the MGM film soundtrack recordings in 1983, the resultant void in the catalogue seemed destined...

GIANT—Prelude. RED RIVER—Prelude and Wagon Train. Red River Crossing. The Challenge and Finale. DUEL IN THE SUN—Prelude and Legend....

AS a tribute to the indomitable actress who died last October, RCA have chosen "Classic Film Scores For Bette Davis" (8 GK80183;

I start this month with a long-player about which I cannot find very much good to say. The recording has a curiously dead quality,...