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11-18-2012, 01:12 PM
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These two CDs feature selections from Franz Waxman's and Malcolm Arnold's film music, re-arranged for piano trio and
other chamber-sized ensembles, plus some of their non-film chamber music, all played by the St. Clair Trio and guest
performers, recorded by Koch International in the 1990s. The Waxman album includes a Hollywood Suite with material from Huckleberry Finn,
The Young in Heart, Come Back Little Sheba and Old Acquaintance - as well as a few isolated film score and chamber
pieces. On the Arnold Disc you'll find a spirited suite from his lovely comedy score Hobson's Choice, plus non-film works.
Enjoy! Don't share! And a note of thanks might get you more stuff! ;)
Music Composed by Malcolm Arnold & Franz Waxman
Played by The St. Clair Trio (& guests)
"In this delightful compact disc, the St. Clair Trio presents a chamber music overview of the music of Malcolm Arnold,
that treasure among English twentieth-century composers who kept composing comprehensible tonal music with solid
workmanship, genuine feeling, and good tunes right on through decades when the cognoscenti dismissed such
"reactionary" elements as irrelevant to history.
The Trio is based in Detroit and comprises violinist Emmanuelle Boisvert, cellist Marcy Chanteaux, and pianist Pauline Martin.
They present a program on this disc in various combinations. All three play in Leslie A Hogan's cheerful arrangement of
music from Arnold's score to the Charles Laughton film Hobson's Choice, deftly capturing the British music hall elements
in the score. (Another thing for which Arnold was routinely put down was his tendency to drop in pop music elements
unpredictably.)
Martin takes a solo turn in Homage to the Queen, a piano version of the deftly Neo-Classical ballet score Arnold wrote for
the 1953 Coronation presentation of Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet. The pianist is alert to the brief and clever parodies of
such patriotic thumpers as the Pomp and Circumstance March in the final "Homage March" movement.
All three players unite again for Arnold's Op. 54 Piano Trio. The Trio here copes with full understanding with Arnold's tense
and serious side, not easy to do since he was also unfailingly concise, here requiring his players to make his point in three
movements totaling less than eleven minutes.
Boisvert and Martin co-operate beautifully in the Five Pieces for Violin and Piano, written to be crowd-pleasing encores for
Yehudi Menuhin, and Chanteaux deals very well with the relatively introspective Fantasy for Cello solo, Op. 130.
The record is produced and engineered by Michael Fine, a guarantee of quality in all respects that is fully
observed here. Highly recommended."
All Music
"Franz Waxman was a genius, an immensely gifted composer and conductor, most of whose work is only gradually
becoming available as classic film scores are slowly restored, published, and recorded. This delightful collection presents
some original chamber works and a slew of transcriptions as they might have been presented at, say, a soir�e chez Heifetz
in 1950s Los Angeles. In fact, that�s exactly how the hilarious Auld Lang Syne Variations came into being. This four-movement
spoof on Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and �Shostakofiev� will have you and your musical friends in stitches. Find a violinist
acquaintance and play him �Chaconne a son gout�. It�s a panic. The other original chamber work is the sweetly nostalgic
Four Scenes from Childhood, sensitively played by Geoffrey Applegate and Pauline Martin. The biggest piece is the Hollywood Suite,
transcriptions of music from The Young in Heart, Old Acquaintance, Huckleberry Finn, and Come Back, Little Sheba. Obviously
the music would benefit from the brilliant original orchestrations, but it�s a tribute to Waxman�s talents that it certainly works
in this more intimate manner of presentation. The performers all sound as if they�re having lots of fun, and the recording is well
focused. Anyone interested in the legacy of the great Hollywood composers should snap this up without delay."
Classics Today http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/j415/wimpel69/p9s9.gif
Source: Koch International CDs (my rips!)
Format: mp3, 320k/s (CBR), DDD Stereo
File Sizes: 133 / 124 MB
Re-upped upon request
Malcolm Arnold: Chamber Music & Film Music - https://mega.nz/#!awoGSaiA!BEUjLPenqs-h7dyZUIeFk4SsH3WB0KORDEj1vLvLpq0
/> Franz Waxman: Chamber Music & Film Music - https://mega.nz/#!i9olWagT!Qw5Dk4GvzqMHbiFF1N9GItYzje3i7tg6H4esFYdBmiA
Please do not share this material further! If you like this music, kindly add to my reputation!! :)
These two CDs feature selections from Franz Waxman's and Malcolm Arnold's film music, re-arranged for piano trio and
other chamber-sized ensembles, plus some of their non-film chamber music, all played by the St. Clair Trio and guest
performers, recorded by Koch International in the 1990s. The Waxman album includes a Hollywood Suite with material from Huckleberry Finn,
The Young in Heart, Come Back Little Sheba and Old Acquaintance - as well as a few isolated film score and chamber
pieces. On the Arnold Disc you'll find a spirited suite from his lovely comedy score Hobson's Choice, plus non-film works.
Enjoy! Don't share! And a note of thanks might get you more stuff! ;)
Music Composed by Malcolm Arnold & Franz Waxman
Played by The St. Clair Trio (& guests)
"In this delightful compact disc, the St. Clair Trio presents a chamber music overview of the music of Malcolm Arnold,
that treasure among English twentieth-century composers who kept composing comprehensible tonal music with solid
workmanship, genuine feeling, and good tunes right on through decades when the cognoscenti dismissed such
"reactionary" elements as irrelevant to history.
The Trio is based in Detroit and comprises violinist Emmanuelle Boisvert, cellist Marcy Chanteaux, and pianist Pauline Martin.
They present a program on this disc in various combinations. All three play in Leslie A Hogan's cheerful arrangement of
music from Arnold's score to the Charles Laughton film Hobson's Choice, deftly capturing the British music hall elements
in the score. (Another thing for which Arnold was routinely put down was his tendency to drop in pop music elements
unpredictably.)
Martin takes a solo turn in Homage to the Queen, a piano version of the deftly Neo-Classical ballet score Arnold wrote for
the 1953 Coronation presentation of Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet. The pianist is alert to the brief and clever parodies of
such patriotic thumpers as the Pomp and Circumstance March in the final "Homage March" movement.
All three players unite again for Arnold's Op. 54 Piano Trio. The Trio here copes with full understanding with Arnold's tense
and serious side, not easy to do since he was also unfailingly concise, here requiring his players to make his point in three
movements totaling less than eleven minutes.
Boisvert and Martin co-operate beautifully in the Five Pieces for Violin and Piano, written to be crowd-pleasing encores for
Yehudi Menuhin, and Chanteaux deals very well with the relatively introspective Fantasy for Cello solo, Op. 130.
The record is produced and engineered by Michael Fine, a guarantee of quality in all respects that is fully
observed here. Highly recommended."
All Music
"Franz Waxman was a genius, an immensely gifted composer and conductor, most of whose work is only gradually
becoming available as classic film scores are slowly restored, published, and recorded. This delightful collection presents
some original chamber works and a slew of transcriptions as they might have been presented at, say, a soir�e chez Heifetz
in 1950s Los Angeles. In fact, that�s exactly how the hilarious Auld Lang Syne Variations came into being. This four-movement
spoof on Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and �Shostakofiev� will have you and your musical friends in stitches. Find a violinist
acquaintance and play him �Chaconne a son gout�. It�s a panic. The other original chamber work is the sweetly nostalgic
Four Scenes from Childhood, sensitively played by Geoffrey Applegate and Pauline Martin. The biggest piece is the Hollywood Suite,
transcriptions of music from The Young in Heart, Old Acquaintance, Huckleberry Finn, and Come Back, Little Sheba. Obviously
the music would benefit from the brilliant original orchestrations, but it�s a tribute to Waxman�s talents that it certainly works
in this more intimate manner of presentation. The performers all sound as if they�re having lots of fun, and the recording is well
focused. Anyone interested in the legacy of the great Hollywood composers should snap this up without delay."
Classics Today http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/j415/wimpel69/p9s9.gif
Source: Koch International CDs (my rips!)
Format: mp3, 320k/s (CBR), DDD Stereo
File Sizes: 133 / 124 MB
Re-upped upon request
Malcolm Arnold: Chamber Music & Film Music - https://mega.nz/#!awoGSaiA!BEUjLPenqs-h7dyZUIeFk4SsH3WB0KORDEj1vLvLpq0
/> Franz Waxman: Chamber Music & Film Music - https://mega.nz/#!i9olWagT!Qw5Dk4GvzqMHbiFF1N9GItYzje3i7tg6H4esFYdBmiA
Please do not share this material further! If you like this music, kindly add to my reputation!! :)