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Violinist Daniel Hope has a new album on DG of film music and related music for violin and orchestra. Just for starters, I love the arrangements of Rozsa's love themes for Ben Hur and El Cid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8mrhmdq_w
Escape to Paradise - The Hollywood Album
Track list
1. RÓZSA Love Theme, from the film Ben Hur
2. KORNGOLD Violin Concerto op. 35 Moderato nobile
3. KORNGOLD Violin Concerto op. 35 Romance. Andante
4. KORNGOLD Violin Concerto op. 35 Finale. Allegro assai vivace
5. CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Shakespeare Songs op. 24, Vol. 6 no. 2 Sea-Murmurs, after Arise!
6. EISLER Hollywooder Liederbuch The Secret Marriage (An den kleinen Radioapparat)
7. RÓZSA Love Theme, from the film El Cid
8. ZEISL Menuchims Lied, from the unfinished opera Hiob
9. WAXMAN Reminiscences from Come Back, Little Sheba
10. JURMANN / KAPER Tränen in der Geige, from the film Ich will dich Liebe lehren
11. WEILL Speak low, from the musical One Touch of Venus
12. KORNGOLD Vorspiel und Serenade, from the pantomime Der Schneemann
13. RÓZSA Prelude and Love Theme, from the film Spellbound
14. MORRICONE Love Theme, from the film Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
15. WILLIAMS Theme for orchestra, from the film Schindler s List
16. NEWMAN American Beauty, from the film American Beauty
17. HEYMANN Irgendwo auf der Welt, from the film Ein blonder Traum
18. HUPFELD As Time Goes By, sung in the film Casablanca
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A little more information from Amazon. (JOHN Waxman? I don't think so.)
In his latest album Daniel Hope shines a new light on Hollywood scores as he takes a widescreen musical journey, seeking out the echoes of exiled European composers, such as Miklos Rózsa, John Waxman, Hanns Eisler, Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The center piece is the famous Violin concerto by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The album also contains contemporary soundtrack classics such as Schindler´s List, American Beauty and Cinema Paradiso to reflect on the strong musical influence the Exile composer had and still has on contemporary film composers
Guest artists featuring on this record are no one less than Sting who performs in a new arrangement on The Secret Marriage a Hanns Eisler composition (originally with lyrics of Bertold Brecht, to which Sting wrote his own lyrics back in 1987) and German singer phenomenon Max Raabe on the famous speak Low by Kurt Weill
Top Arranger Paul Bateman provided brand new orchestral arrangements
Escape to Paradise is both a historical and musical concept, curated by Daniel Hope, to a theme that he has personal associations for: his maternal grandparents fled Hitlers Germany for South Africa, and his parents then fled the apartheid regime for England
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Just bumping this because it's a new Classical/Soundtrack collection that more people may be interested in. And if so, there's one more, with some of the same content, from violinist Nicola Benedetti:
The Silver Violin
1. Williams: Schindlers List
2. Korngold: Tanzlied des Pierrots
3. Gardel arr. Lenehan: Tango, Por Una Cabeza
4. Shostakovich: Gadfly
5. Korngold: Violin Concerto
6. Korngold: Violin Concerto
7. Korngold: Violin Concerto
8. Hess: Ladies in Lavender
9. Shostakovich: Andante (The Counterplan)
10. Marianelli: My Edward & I
11. Shore: Eastern Promises Concertino, mv.I excerpt
12. Shore: Eastern Promises Concertino, mv.II excerpt
13. Mahler: Piano Quartet
14. Shostakovich: Five Pieces - I. Prelude
15. Korngold: Mariettas Lied
I've listened to the Hope album through, and I think it is very good, like it much better than Perlman's albums with Williams. Especially liked the last track, a subdued, solo violin performance of As Time Goes By.
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Korngold's violin concerto gets a lot of love these days. On the Classical music retailer website arkivmusic they list 35 recordings:
http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/albumList.jsp?name_id1=6517&name_role1=1&comp_id=1169&genre=1&bcorder=195
Film music is more and more a part of the repertoire for certain kinds of Classical recordings, showing that the integration into the repertoire continues, however sketchy and arbitrary (which is true of much of the Classical repertoire once you get past the most famous composers).
If you haven't watched the video at the top of this thread, it's worth a look - it's a classy homage to the Golden age of movie music. Even more fun are the promotional pictures of Daniel Hope, evoking the classic movie stills.
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