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Orbital......you may want to check out the recent (ca.2011-recorded 2010) Chandos Recording 10636. dedicated primarily to the Music of Brian Easdale and conducted by Chandos' regular conductor of these film-dedicated CDs, Rumon Gamba.
This one includes a 15+ minute version of the Ballet suite from THE RED SHOES (in a "Performing Arrangement by John Wilson"!!! who we've been talking about in relation to his Prom Nights English concerts on another thread.)
It also includes a suite from the legendary Powell-Pressburger/Archers film, BLACK NARCISSUS, which I like quite a lot, as well as a suite from Powell and Pressburger's GONE TO EARTH (aka THE WILD HEART).
There are others included on the CD, too.
http://www.chandos.net/details06.asp?CNumber=CHAN%2010636
All around, a quite fine recording, but it remains a shame about the full score.
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There are several recordings of the ballet, another being that on Silva Screen with the Philharmonia and Kenneth Alwyn on 'Classic British Film Music' FILMCD 072.
Another great Powell & Pressburger concoction where, as is always their take, the trickster has full play over any stereotype hero template.
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Sep 1, 2014 - 10:36 AM
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finder4545
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THE RED SHOES, despite its general interest and the importance earned and maintained over the years - for being an eternal and multifaced movie document on the art of dance and related music, with a visual triumph in colour photography - remains an unsolved case of “unreleased score”, as is BLACK NARCISSUS, and it’s very strange that nobody cared to investigate about the survival and existence of an original recording.
England, despite the high profile of its composers (beyond Easdale, we find names like Alan Rawsthorne, John Greenwood, Anthony Collins, not to mention the better known Addisons, Arnolds, Alwyns, Waltons...), seems to have suffered a lack of preservation of historical materials, more or less in the same way happened in Italy, where hundreds of fine symphonic scores made in the Forties and Fifties by high school composers, for movies with wonderful ancient background (Middle Ages, Renaissance, the old Venice of intrigues and conspiracies, shot in black and white with games of watery reflections) remain without a trace of existence on its own.
Of RED SHOES, I can say that along with that of Muir Mathieson, I often play the very fine 1958 performance on Columbia Odyssey album, running about 17:00 min, of Vladimir Golschmann conducting St.Louis SO, paired with Weber and Delibes ballet pieces.
BTW a Blu Ray disc of the movie was released in England.
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There are a few old cues from 'Black Narcissus' on the 'World of Sabu' CD from EI (a branch of Cherry Red).
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D bleedin' P.
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