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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0095115989623
Label: Chandos
Manufacturer: Chandos
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Chandos
Release Date: April 24, 2001
Sales Rank: 226528
Studio: Chandos
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According to which account you read, H.G. Wells either loved Bliss' music for his prophetic "Things To Come", hated it, wanted it, didn't want it, didn't care, or never gave an opinion one way or the other.
Regardless of all that, the music is simply staggering. It is one of the great achievements not only in the genre of film composition, but in the broader genre of 20th Century British music in general.
This recording does full service, I feel, to Sir Arthur's legendary score. ... Read More
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If the Marco Polo CD, under "Adriano," of the scores for "Seven Waves Away," "Christopher Columbus," and "Man of Two Worlds" were still available, then, with the splendid new Chandos CD, under Rumon Gamba, it would be possible to assemble the complete film-music of Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975). The Chandos issue is a real treat. It includes the march "Welcome the Queen" (1953), originally written for a short film about Elizabeth II in the first year of her reign, a new suite from the score to "Things to ... Read More
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This CD is really an engrossing and riviting concert consisting of a sampling of confections from three film symponies, a newsreel, and several televison programs. But you would never know it unless you checked the disc's back cover and booket. The CD is seamless! Very few film-score composers have actually constructed film (or TV) symphonies. Sir Arther is one; Erick Wolfgang Korngold is another. It's usually the music that underlines the main credits and the closing credits that define the film "score" ... Read More
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