Benjamin Frankel – Music for the Movies

BENJAMIN FRANKEL
MUSIC FOR THE MOVIES

Werner Andreas Albert conducting The Queensland Symphony Orchestra

MP3-VO + Booklet Scans

http://www.mediafire.com/?2m5s05dw87aoalf

The headlining work here, a suite from the classic Anthony Asquith adaptation of Importance of Being Earnest, is a pert and surprisingly lyrical set of variations. The film itself is intentionally stagy and theatrical, and the main tune music makes a great ‘curtain raiser’.

Frankel’s dramatic-introspective gifts are showcased in John Huston’s Night of the Iguana. Huston is becoming a favourite director of mine and he worked with many outstanding composers during the course of his career: Steiner on Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Goldsmith on Freud and Toshiro Mayuzumi on Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Bible. Night of the Iguana, presented here in its entirety, can stand proudly beside those others. It’s subtle and suspenseful, quietly digging into the psychological nooks and crannies of the strange story – you might find a Herrmann connection.

Musically, Trottie True is a colourful cousin to Earnest. ‘The Life and Times of a Gaiety Girl’ features a dreamy melody – you’ll feel like you’re lounging in a hammock on a lazy summer’s day. Another beauty of a theme is that of Lily Watkins from Footsteps in the Fog. A simple tune, but one that’s worth hearing again and again – and a good thing too because it dominates the score! The booklet note rightly suggests that it deserves to be better known today. Again I should mention that fans of Herrmann are going to love the finale.

I’d just like to finish by saying a big thank you once again to the institution that is Tangotreats. He very kindly fixed some audio glitches on this recording that had been bothering me for ages. Now you can enjoy a pretty well pristine account of this lovely music. 🙂

Article – The making of "Music for the Movies" (http://benjaminfrankel.org/?page_id=23)

Can’t wait for the battle of the bulge, I love that movie

It’ll be up this week. Unfortunately, it seems the recording has the same technical issue mentioned above (I’d never even noticed before, playing through my crappy speakers!). I’m going to see if I can sort it going on the help I got from Tango with this. 🙂

Me too!

The Battle of the Bulge Benjamin Frankel 1965 would be Nice to have. Can’t find it anywhere.

Hm…still would like to see Battle of the Bulge pop up somewhere, especially in lossless or V0. I second that it simply can’t be found anywhere.

Can you upload this album in lossless,please?

Thank you!!!

It appears that multiupload is kaput!
Could you please upload it somewhere else?
Thanks in advance!

With pleasure. Link updated 🙂

Thank you.

Thanks indeed for your very prompt response!

Thanks!

Thanks for sharing

Thanks for the post! Link is still active.

thanks

for those who want this, link is still on!!!

Many thanks for this little gem!

Amazing that the link still works,and a nice set of scans included,at least the English only portion of them.

Thanks!!

The link still works.
Thank you so much!

Thank you

thank you

Thanks!

Thank you very much!

Thanks!

Thank you for the BENJAMIN FRANKEL link

Very interesting. Much thanks!

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