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One really good offering that hasn't been mentioned yet is the Britten/Love From a Stranger disc. Also on the disc are suites from Richard Rodney Bennett's The Return of the Soldier, Roberto Gerhard's The Sporting Life, and the underrated Elisabeth Lutyens and her score for The Skull. Now THAT is a disc that avoids yet more re-recordings of film music war horses.
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I got the Love From a Stranger cd a couple of years ago. Amazon has it for under $20. And, thanks Basil, for posting that review.
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Nice to see mostly positive feedback and glad to have posted about the sale. I have to admit that I'm happy to buy all of the ones I don't yet have in lossless download but appreciate plenty of listeners prefer their media physical! I have always really enjoyed these albums, the performances and recording are broadly top notch and certainly have never had any issue with the weirdly dreaded concert hall acoustic (most classical isn't recorded cavernously, even if it's perhaps a bit more spacious than film music).
Thanks for the reminder on the Rozsa classical albums on Chandos, I only have one of them, will have to pick up the other two. I enjoy the film music one, even if like many, have plenty of recordings of bits from Ben-Hur. It's still an enjoyably lustrous performance. Indeed, I like that luster on their Korngold recordings which (and I'm sure I'll get some flack) I find more enjoyable than the Morgan/Stromberg recordings (which are still excellent, don't get me wrong). The Sea Hawk album in particular is terrific, even if it's not complete like the Stromberg version (but longer than the Kojian album), it provides a pretty good summation of the score and just sounds that bit more indulgent than Stromberg, which isn't a bad thing with Korngold. I think the Sea Wolf recording is the longest available, albeit not quite as in need of the opulance of the Sea Hawk. The Herrmann album is great too (one where the McNeely version is good, but the recording isn't the finest).
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Any other FSM folks partake from Chandos' site up to yesterday?
I myself opted for downloads only, plus 'classical' albums besides film music.
The award-winning Requiem by Wilfred Josephs (written in 1963 and recorded during early '80s for Unicorn LP) is available for download via Chandos (who offer products from other labels associated with Naxos).
Although I already own Humphrey Searle's 5 symphonies on the CPO label, I simply had to have his early '70s compositions "Labyrinth" & "Zodiac Variations" which accompany 2 of his symphonies on the Lyrita label.
The greatest revelation, though, is Lyrita's release of archival recordings by MÁtyÁs Seiber on his musical settings based upon on James Joyce literature. Prior to his death in 1960, Seiber was writing in very advanced modernistic idioms during the late '40s and 1950s.
I'm so gratified that Chandos started a cycle on volumes of orchestral music by Richard Rodney Bennett!
As for the film music, I finally got myself their Gerard Schurmann album. I'll post more thoughts on this later in the thread devoted to it, but I must mention that it seems curious that the film photo stills within the booklet notes are all from The Long Arm ... (!)(?)
We also get to see a portrait of young Schurmann in '54 before he scored British films.
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Good shout. Love that sea of sand!!
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