wimpel69
11-15-2011, 11:37 AM
This upload is dedicated to the few on this board who aren't hunting for the "complete 9CD edition" of "Avatar" that has a 9 second cue missing
from the 8.5CD edition, but are more interested in listening to some really solid, classic film music. ;)
Doreen Carwithen was a mid-20th century British concert and film composer who had quite a nice career going in both mediums, but then decided to retire from
professional life to dedicate herself completely to supporting her husband, and became Mrs. Mary Alwyn (the wife of William Alwyn, arguably the most significant English
film composer of the 20th century). Only in her final years, after Alwyn's death, did she finally get out some of her old scores - and the results include this agreeable
and colorful collection of film score suites in brand-new recordings wit the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Enjoy!
Tracks:
01. Overture, "Men of Sherwood Forest"
02. Boys in Brown (Suite) - I. Main Titles and Opening Scene
03. Boys in Brown (Suite) - II. Escape Plan
04. Boys in Brown (Suite) - III. Kitty and Jackie - End Titles
05. To the Public Danger (Prelude and Apotheosis)
06. East Anglian Holiday (Suite)
07. Man Trap - I. Main Titles and Opening Scene
08. Man Trap - II. Woman in Danger
09. Man Trap - III. Closing Scene & End Titles
10. Three Cases of Murder (Suite) - I. Main Titles
11. Three Cases of Murder (Suite) - II. Mr. X's Gavotte
12. Three Cases of Murder (Suite) - III. Reception at the Connemaras
13. Travel Royal (Suite)
(Total Time: 61:31)
Music Composed by Doreen Carwithen (Mary Alwyn)
Played by the BBC Concert Orchestra
Conducted by Gavin Sutherland
Andr� Morell and Orson Welles in "Three Cases of Murder"
Poster art for Hammer's "Men of Sherwood Forest"
"This disc is more than ably annotated by Alwyn authority Andrew Knowles and his notes run to ten pages - English only. It furnishes collectors with just over an hour's slice of Carwithen's film music. She was one of the host of composers who stoked the musical boilers of the British film industry in the late 1940s and into the 1950s.
The Sherwood Forest overture is fluently regal with pastoral interludes. The music for the Boys in Brown is tense and bright-eyed yet not overly ‘psychological’. To the Public Danger is a short-angst ridden piece of surging panic. It has an athleticism that shouts Constant Lambert. East Anglian Holiday was a score written for British Transport Films. It is, as expected, a sighingly pastoral piece with many homely touches including church bells. It is, as Knowles writes, a continuous pastoral tone-poem running to approaching 16 minutes. The writing is undemandingly smooth in an idiom not far removed from Vaughan Williams In the Fen Country or Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 or Butterworth in the English Idylls.
With the Mantrap suite we return to the pressurised psychological style. It is associated with a plot that entails an allegedly insane murderer who escapes from his asylum with a view to proving his innocence. There is some countryside poesy coming as remission from all this angst. That said, jaggedly torturous emotions - usually voiced by the trumpets - are never that far distant. Three Cases of Murder was a 1953 film which tells three murder stories one after the other. The music tracks through a big ‘main titles’ violin theme seguing into rage and then tension. The last movement Reception at the Connemaras put me in mind of the stately ball room music by Bernard Herrmann for The Magnificent Ambersons except that this is specifically in the English country house aristocratic manner. The last score represented is the single-tracked Travel Royal suite. This nine minute continuous piece is masterfully broad. It was written for BOAC and radiates 1950s confidence. The sumptuous score blends in Oranges and Lemons, Greensleeves and John Peel for this travelogue.
There's some really fine music here, low on challenge but high on confidence or 1950s super-complacency."
Rob Barnett, MusicWeb
Format: mp3 / 320kbps (CBR) / Stereo
Encoder: Lame 3.98 via DB Poweramp Batch Converter
File Size: 141 MB
Download Link (re-up) - https://mega.co.nz/#!f1RSlQqa!AXJcD1XM4X1hF2VsgkFU6hdvWEBtfrpzIhbwEJ9 ux1o
This is my own rip. Please do not share or (re)post it without my consent.
If you like this music, support the artists and buy the original album.
from the 8.5CD edition, but are more interested in listening to some really solid, classic film music. ;)
Doreen Carwithen was a mid-20th century British concert and film composer who had quite a nice career going in both mediums, but then decided to retire from
professional life to dedicate herself completely to supporting her husband, and became Mrs. Mary Alwyn (the wife of William Alwyn, arguably the most significant English
film composer of the 20th century). Only in her final years, after Alwyn's death, did she finally get out some of her old scores - and the results include this agreeable
and colorful collection of film score suites in brand-new recordings wit the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Enjoy!
Tracks:
01. Overture, "Men of Sherwood Forest"
02. Boys in Brown (Suite) - I. Main Titles and Opening Scene
03. Boys in Brown (Suite) - II. Escape Plan
04. Boys in Brown (Suite) - III. Kitty and Jackie - End Titles
05. To the Public Danger (Prelude and Apotheosis)
06. East Anglian Holiday (Suite)
07. Man Trap - I. Main Titles and Opening Scene
08. Man Trap - II. Woman in Danger
09. Man Trap - III. Closing Scene & End Titles
10. Three Cases of Murder (Suite) - I. Main Titles
11. Three Cases of Murder (Suite) - II. Mr. X's Gavotte
12. Three Cases of Murder (Suite) - III. Reception at the Connemaras
13. Travel Royal (Suite)
(Total Time: 61:31)
Music Composed by Doreen Carwithen (Mary Alwyn)
Played by the BBC Concert Orchestra
Conducted by Gavin Sutherland
Andr� Morell and Orson Welles in "Three Cases of Murder"
Poster art for Hammer's "Men of Sherwood Forest"
"This disc is more than ably annotated by Alwyn authority Andrew Knowles and his notes run to ten pages - English only. It furnishes collectors with just over an hour's slice of Carwithen's film music. She was one of the host of composers who stoked the musical boilers of the British film industry in the late 1940s and into the 1950s.
The Sherwood Forest overture is fluently regal with pastoral interludes. The music for the Boys in Brown is tense and bright-eyed yet not overly ‘psychological’. To the Public Danger is a short-angst ridden piece of surging panic. It has an athleticism that shouts Constant Lambert. East Anglian Holiday was a score written for British Transport Films. It is, as expected, a sighingly pastoral piece with many homely touches including church bells. It is, as Knowles writes, a continuous pastoral tone-poem running to approaching 16 minutes. The writing is undemandingly smooth in an idiom not far removed from Vaughan Williams In the Fen Country or Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 or Butterworth in the English Idylls.
With the Mantrap suite we return to the pressurised psychological style. It is associated with a plot that entails an allegedly insane murderer who escapes from his asylum with a view to proving his innocence. There is some countryside poesy coming as remission from all this angst. That said, jaggedly torturous emotions - usually voiced by the trumpets - are never that far distant. Three Cases of Murder was a 1953 film which tells three murder stories one after the other. The music tracks through a big ‘main titles’ violin theme seguing into rage and then tension. The last movement Reception at the Connemaras put me in mind of the stately ball room music by Bernard Herrmann for The Magnificent Ambersons except that this is specifically in the English country house aristocratic manner. The last score represented is the single-tracked Travel Royal suite. This nine minute continuous piece is masterfully broad. It was written for BOAC and radiates 1950s confidence. The sumptuous score blends in Oranges and Lemons, Greensleeves and John Peel for this travelogue.
There's some really fine music here, low on challenge but high on confidence or 1950s super-complacency."
Rob Barnett, MusicWeb
Format: mp3 / 320kbps (CBR) / Stereo
Encoder: Lame 3.98 via DB Poweramp Batch Converter
File Size: 141 MB
Download Link (re-up) - https://mega.co.nz/#!f1RSlQqa!AXJcD1XM4X1hF2VsgkFU6hdvWEBtfrpzIhbwEJ9 ux1o
This is my own rip. Please do not share or (re)post it without my consent.
If you like this music, support the artists and buy the original album.