wimpel69
11-28-2017, 01:55 PM
This is my own rip. Please request the FLAC link in this thread.
PM's will be ignored. Includes the music and miniature covers only.
I already shared this score in mp3 format as part of my ongoing classical program music thread.
"Reading plays was my number one favourite thing to do in childhood. I staged them in my mind. Cyrano was on the
family bookshelf and I was repeatedly drawn to it. Although I saw the 1950 Hollywood film starring Jose Ferrer
and the stunning 1990 French production with Gerard Depardieu, live stage productions and David Bintley's earlier
ballet slipped past my radar. But in 2004 when the offer to compose a new score for David came (through the
magical midwifery of Faber Music's Sally Cavender) memories, not so much of the films, but of my childhood
stagings came flooding back. I had one niggling doubt the subject of the play is eloquence, i.e. words.
Can words be translated into movement? David, through gesture, immediately convinced me that it can
and we were off!
Of my three full-length ballets, Aladdin, Alice in Wonderland and Cyrano, this bears the strongest
relationship to the dramatic scores required for the silent cinema. But now the long paragraphs to parallel the vivid
scenes on the screen must be dance, and yet continue to drive the narrative forward."
Carl Davis
Music Composed by
Carl Davis
Played by
The Birmingham Royal Ballet Sinfonia
Conducted by
Paul Murphy
"A consummate all-round musician, Carl Davis is widely known in many spheres of international music-making. Born in
New York in 1936, he studied composition with Paul Nordoff and Hugo Kauder, and subsequently with Per Nørgaard in
Copenhagen. He has been enormously successful in the world of theatre, composing scores for the Royal Shakespeare
Company and the National Theatre. Davis is equally well-known in the field of dance. He began working with London
Contemporary Dance Theatre in 1975. Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet commissioned A Picture of Dorian Gray in 1987, and
this was followed by commissions from Northern Ballet Theatre. His most recent full-length ballet, commissioned by
the English National Ballet, is based on themes by Tchaikovsky. Davis's output for film and television is vast, including
The World At War, The Rainbow, The French Lieutenant's Woman (the winner of both the BAFTA and Ivor Novello awards),
and Pride and Prejudice (nominated for a BASCA Ivor Novello award for Best Music For a Television Production in 1996).
His 1980 score for Abel Gance's silent film Napoleon triggered an extraordinary revival of interest in the silent film,
and Davis's oeuvre of more than twenty scores for this medium has brought him international acclaim. His most recent
symphonic work, A Circle of Stones, consists of four symphonic pictures for orchestra and was written for Mike Mansfield
Publications for broadcast on S4C in 1997. There are also many concert suites derived from film scores, vocal music,
choral works, instrumental and chamber music, and opera."
Source: Carl Davis Collection CD (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 537 MB
This is my own rip. Please request the FLAC link in this thread.
PM's will be ignored. Includes the music and miniature covers only.
Please add to my reputation if you download my material. Thank you! ;)
PM's will be ignored. Includes the music and miniature covers only.
I already shared this score in mp3 format as part of my ongoing classical program music thread.
"Reading plays was my number one favourite thing to do in childhood. I staged them in my mind. Cyrano was on the
family bookshelf and I was repeatedly drawn to it. Although I saw the 1950 Hollywood film starring Jose Ferrer
and the stunning 1990 French production with Gerard Depardieu, live stage productions and David Bintley's earlier
ballet slipped past my radar. But in 2004 when the offer to compose a new score for David came (through the
magical midwifery of Faber Music's Sally Cavender) memories, not so much of the films, but of my childhood
stagings came flooding back. I had one niggling doubt the subject of the play is eloquence, i.e. words.
Can words be translated into movement? David, through gesture, immediately convinced me that it can
and we were off!
Of my three full-length ballets, Aladdin, Alice in Wonderland and Cyrano, this bears the strongest
relationship to the dramatic scores required for the silent cinema. But now the long paragraphs to parallel the vivid
scenes on the screen must be dance, and yet continue to drive the narrative forward."
Carl Davis
Music Composed by
Carl Davis
Played by
The Birmingham Royal Ballet Sinfonia
Conducted by
Paul Murphy
"A consummate all-round musician, Carl Davis is widely known in many spheres of international music-making. Born in
New York in 1936, he studied composition with Paul Nordoff and Hugo Kauder, and subsequently with Per Nørgaard in
Copenhagen. He has been enormously successful in the world of theatre, composing scores for the Royal Shakespeare
Company and the National Theatre. Davis is equally well-known in the field of dance. He began working with London
Contemporary Dance Theatre in 1975. Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet commissioned A Picture of Dorian Gray in 1987, and
this was followed by commissions from Northern Ballet Theatre. His most recent full-length ballet, commissioned by
the English National Ballet, is based on themes by Tchaikovsky. Davis's output for film and television is vast, including
The World At War, The Rainbow, The French Lieutenant's Woman (the winner of both the BAFTA and Ivor Novello awards),
and Pride and Prejudice (nominated for a BASCA Ivor Novello award for Best Music For a Television Production in 1996).
His 1980 score for Abel Gance's silent film Napoleon triggered an extraordinary revival of interest in the silent film,
and Davis's oeuvre of more than twenty scores for this medium has brought him international acclaim. His most recent
symphonic work, A Circle of Stones, consists of four symphonic pictures for orchestra and was written for Mike Mansfield
Publications for broadcast on S4C in 1997. There are also many concert suites derived from film scores, vocal music,
choral works, instrumental and chamber music, and opera."
Source: Carl Davis Collection CD (My rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo
File Size: 537 MB
This is my own rip. Please request the FLAC link in this thread.
PM's will be ignored. Includes the music and miniature covers only.
Please add to my reputation if you download my material. Thank you! ;)