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11-20-2017, 04:42 PM
This is my own album. Please request the FLAC link in this thread.
PM's will be ignored. Covers & liner notes included.
City Lights is a 1931 American pre-Code silent romantic comedy film written, produced, directed by and starring
Charlie Chaplin. The story follows the misadventures of Chaplin's Tramp as he falls in love with a blind girl (Virginia Cherrill)
and develops a turbulent friendship with an alcoholic millionaire (Harry Myers).
Although sound films were on the rise when Chaplin started developing the script in 1928, he decided to continue working
with silent productions. Filming started in December 1928 and ended in September 1930. City Lights marked the first time
Chaplin composed the film score to one of his productions and it was written in six weeks with Arthur Johnston. The main
theme, used as a leitmotif for the blind flower girl, is the song "La Violetera" ("Who’ll Buy my Violets") from Spanish composer
Jos� Padilla. Chaplin lost a lawsuit to Padilla for not crediting him.
City Lights was immediately successful upon release on January 30, 1931 with positive reviews and box office receipts
of $5 million. Today, many critics consider it not only the highest accomplishment of Chaplin's career, but one of the
greatest films of all time. In 1991, the Library of Congress selected City Lights for preservation in the United States
National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2007, the American Film Institute
ranked it 11th on its list of the best American films ever made. In 1949, the critic James Agee called the film's final
scene "the greatest single piece of acting ever committed to celluloid".
Music Composed by
Charles Chaplin
(& Jos� Padilla)
Played by
"The City Lights Orchestra"
Conducted by
Carl Davis
Tracks:
1. Overture/Unveiling the Statue (04:14)
2. The Flower Girl (La Violetera) (03:03)
3. Evening/Meeting the Millionaire (05:42)
4. At the Millionaire's Home (03:55)
5. The Nightclub - Dance Suite (05:08)
6. The Limousine (02:24)
7. The Sober Dawn (03:02)
8. The Party and the Morning After (02:37)
9. Eviction/The Road Sweeper/At the Girl's Home (07:43)
10. The Boxing Match (04:49)
11. The Burglars (03:12)
12. Reunited (07:33)
"New York-born and England-based composer/conductor Carl Davis has delivered ear-catching symphonic music for more
than four decades. His dramatic scores have been performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theater
while the pieces he composed for ballet have been utilized by the London Contemporary Theater Company, the Sadler Wells
Royal Ballet, the Northern Ballet Theater, and the English National Ballet Company. A master at composing scores to accompany
silent films, Davis has provided soundtracks for Napolean, Flesh and the Devil, Ben-Hur, Thief of Baghdad, Greed and
Intolerance, and Phantom of the Opera. His work in television includes composing scores for Pride and Prejudice, which
received a BASCA Ivor Novello Award for "best music for a television production" in 1996. His score for the film The French
Lieutenant's Woman received BAFA "original film score" and Ivor Novello Awards. Davis' collaboration with Sir Paul McCartney
on his symphonic piece "Liverpool Oratorio" attracted worldwide attention in 1991. He conducted the piece's premier at
Anglican Church.
Born to a Jewish family, with roots in Poland and Russia, Davis began studying piano at the age of seven. He attended his
first opera three years later.
After attending the New England Conservatory of Music and graduating from Bard College, Davis worked with the New York
City Opera and toured with choral conductor Robert Shaw as accompanist. He relocated to England after marrying British
actress Jean Boht in 1971.
Appointed artistic director and conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's summer pops season in 1993,
Davis serves as vice chancellor of the University of Liverpool.
Davis was made a Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French ministry of culture."
Source: Carl Davis Collection (My album!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 284 MB (incl. covers & liner notes)
This my own album. If you want the FLAC link, please request it in this thread!
PM's will be ignored. Covers & liner notes included. Please do not share further!
Please add to my reputation if you download my material. Thank you! :)
PM's will be ignored. Covers & liner notes included.
City Lights is a 1931 American pre-Code silent romantic comedy film written, produced, directed by and starring
Charlie Chaplin. The story follows the misadventures of Chaplin's Tramp as he falls in love with a blind girl (Virginia Cherrill)
and develops a turbulent friendship with an alcoholic millionaire (Harry Myers).
Although sound films were on the rise when Chaplin started developing the script in 1928, he decided to continue working
with silent productions. Filming started in December 1928 and ended in September 1930. City Lights marked the first time
Chaplin composed the film score to one of his productions and it was written in six weeks with Arthur Johnston. The main
theme, used as a leitmotif for the blind flower girl, is the song "La Violetera" ("Who’ll Buy my Violets") from Spanish composer
Jos� Padilla. Chaplin lost a lawsuit to Padilla for not crediting him.
City Lights was immediately successful upon release on January 30, 1931 with positive reviews and box office receipts
of $5 million. Today, many critics consider it not only the highest accomplishment of Chaplin's career, but one of the
greatest films of all time. In 1991, the Library of Congress selected City Lights for preservation in the United States
National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2007, the American Film Institute
ranked it 11th on its list of the best American films ever made. In 1949, the critic James Agee called the film's final
scene "the greatest single piece of acting ever committed to celluloid".
Music Composed by
Charles Chaplin
(& Jos� Padilla)
Played by
"The City Lights Orchestra"
Conducted by
Carl Davis
Tracks:
1. Overture/Unveiling the Statue (04:14)
2. The Flower Girl (La Violetera) (03:03)
3. Evening/Meeting the Millionaire (05:42)
4. At the Millionaire's Home (03:55)
5. The Nightclub - Dance Suite (05:08)
6. The Limousine (02:24)
7. The Sober Dawn (03:02)
8. The Party and the Morning After (02:37)
9. Eviction/The Road Sweeper/At the Girl's Home (07:43)
10. The Boxing Match (04:49)
11. The Burglars (03:12)
12. Reunited (07:33)
"New York-born and England-based composer/conductor Carl Davis has delivered ear-catching symphonic music for more
than four decades. His dramatic scores have been performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theater
while the pieces he composed for ballet have been utilized by the London Contemporary Theater Company, the Sadler Wells
Royal Ballet, the Northern Ballet Theater, and the English National Ballet Company. A master at composing scores to accompany
silent films, Davis has provided soundtracks for Napolean, Flesh and the Devil, Ben-Hur, Thief of Baghdad, Greed and
Intolerance, and Phantom of the Opera. His work in television includes composing scores for Pride and Prejudice, which
received a BASCA Ivor Novello Award for "best music for a television production" in 1996. His score for the film The French
Lieutenant's Woman received BAFA "original film score" and Ivor Novello Awards. Davis' collaboration with Sir Paul McCartney
on his symphonic piece "Liverpool Oratorio" attracted worldwide attention in 1991. He conducted the piece's premier at
Anglican Church.
Born to a Jewish family, with roots in Poland and Russia, Davis began studying piano at the age of seven. He attended his
first opera three years later.
After attending the New England Conservatory of Music and graduating from Bard College, Davis worked with the New York
City Opera and toured with choral conductor Robert Shaw as accompanist. He relocated to England after marrying British
actress Jean Boht in 1971.
Appointed artistic director and conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's summer pops season in 1993,
Davis serves as vice chancellor of the University of Liverpool.
Davis was made a Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French ministry of culture."
Source: Carl Davis Collection (My album!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 284 MB (incl. covers & liner notes)
This my own album. If you want the FLAC link, please request it in this thread!
PM's will be ignored. Covers & liner notes included. Please do not share further!
Please add to my reputation if you download my material. Thank you! :)