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Arthur Benjamin and Leighton Lucas: Film Music / Rumon Gamba

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2012-03-27

Works: Arthur Benjamin: The Conquest of Everest; Storm Clouds, cantata from The Man Who Knew Too Much, film score; An Ideal Husband; Leighton Lucas: Yangtse Incident; Portrait of Clare; The Dam Busters; Sta...
Performers: Court, Robert; Roe-Williams, Catherine; Sara, Abigail
Conductors: Gamba, Rumon
Ensemble: ; BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Arthur Benjamin composed the Storm Clouds Cantata in 1934 for Hitchcock's first version of The Man Who Knew Too Much. In the 1956 color remake...continue...
Recording information: BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff (10/03/2011-10/05/2011).

Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960) is by far the better known of the two composers represented on this CD, a beautifully rec...continue...

The Film Music of Brian Easdale

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2011-02-22

Works: Brian Easdale: The Red Shoes, ballet; Kew Gardens, suite; Black Narcissus, suite; The Battle of the River Plate, prelude and march; The Battle of the River Plate; Adventure On!, suite; Gone to Earth,...
Performers: Easdale, Brian; Gamba, Rumon; Lane, Philip; Millar, Cynthia
Conductors: Gamba, Rumon

Brian Easdale was a prolific composer whose extensive output covered many genres; from instrumental pieces to choral works, including a mass for the new Coventry...continue...
Recording information: BBC Hoddinott Hall (03/08/2010-03/10/2010)....continue...

Bernard Herrmann: Film Music - Citizen Kane

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2010-02-23

Works: Bernard Herrmann: Hangover Square, film score; Citizen Kane; Norma Shepherd: Concerto macabre, for piano and orchestra (after Bernard Herrmann's concert version of music from Ha
Performers: Roscoe, Martin [Piano]
Conductors: Gamba, Rumon

Brilliant as both a conductor and composer, Bernard Herrmann was arguably the most innovative film composer of his generation. He provided background music for 47...continue...
Recording information: Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester.

Rumon Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra continue their survey of seemingly every piece of film music worthy of a full...continue...

The Film Music of Mischa Spoliansky

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2009-09-29

Works: Mischa Spoliansky: Suite from North West Frontier; Three Songs from Sanders of the River; Suite from The Man who Could Work Miracles; Wanted for Murder, film score; Suite from The Ghost Goes West; Id...
Performers: Coles, Mark; Elms, Roderick; Ruhemann, Ileana; Wright, John; Wright, John [Organ]
Conductors: Gamba, Rumon
Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra

Chandos Movies, conducted by Rumon Gamba has the deserved reputation as a label preserving under-recorded film music from the halcyon days of British cinema. In...continue...
Personnel: Ileana Ruhemann (flute); Roderick Elms (piano); John Elijah Wright (organ)....continue...

The Film Music of Sir Arnold Bax / Gamba, BBC PO

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-11-25

Works: Arnold Bax: Oliver Twist, film score; Malta GC, film score
Performers: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Gamba, Rumon; Janes, Paul
Conductors: Gamba, Rumon

"Bax wrote only two film scores, and although he found the form uncongenial and his music suffered at the hands of the directors, they were...continue...
Personnel: Paul Janes (piano).

Recording information: Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, England (09/24/2002/09/25/2002).

This recording was first reported about on the Intern...continue...

Gordon Langford's Orchestral Classics / Gamba, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-10-21

Works: Gordon Langford: Fanfare and Ceremonial Prelude, for orchestra; Concertino for trumpet & orchestra; Movements (4) for string orchestra; A Song for All Seasons, fantasie for piano & orchestra; First S...
Performers: Steele-Perkins, Crispian [Trumpet]; Stephenson, William
Conductors: Gamba, Rumon
Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra

"Rumon Gamba, a conductor on the rise, it seems, does a fine job with all of this. The two soloists handle their parts very well,...continue...

Bear Essentials - British Film Classics

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-08-26

Works: Ron Goodwin: The Trap; Battle of Britain; 633 Squadron; Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines; Sir Arthur Bliss: Things to Come, F 131; Alan Rawsthorne: Uncle Silas; The Cruel Sea; William W...
Performers: Carewe, Mary [soprano]; Dukes, Philip; Roscoe, Martin; Wild, Earl
Conductors: Goodwin, Ron; Gamba, Rumon; Marriner, Sir Neville; Hickox, Richard; Stephens, D. S.; Horenstein, Jascha
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Royal Air Force Regiment Band; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

The Film Music of Richard Addinsell

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2003-03-25

Works: Richard Addinsell: Goodbye Mr. Chips, film score; Warsaw Concerto; Love on the Dole, film score; Blithe Spirit, film score; The Black Rose, film score; Scrooge, film score; Tom Brown's Schooldays, fi...
Performers: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Roscoe, Martin [Piano]
Conductors: Gamba, Rumon
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Chetham's Chamber Choir; Manchester Cathedral Choir Boys

"In works not so familiar Addensell sounds less like Rachmaninov and more like the purveyors of British light music. Bliss and Eric Coates come to...continue...
Personnel: Martin Roscoe (piano).

Recording information: Studio 7, New Broadcasting, Manchester, England (02/12/2002/02/13/2002).

If the public perception were correct, Richard Addinsel...continue...

The Film Music of Malcolm Arnold Vol 2 / Rumon Gamba, BBC PO

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2000-11-28

Works: Malcolm Arnold: Trapeze, film score; The Roots of Heaven; Machines, symphonic study for orchestra, Op. 30; No Love for Johnnie, film score; David Copperfield, film score; You Know What Sailors Are, f...
Performers: Bradbury, John; Dyson, Phillip; Janes, Paul
Conductors: Gamba, Rumon
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

"...As in his concert music, Arnold can turn his hand from deliberately vulgar material to music of nostalgic sentimentality with almost schizophrenic facility. But despite...continue...