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Film & TV Music of Christopher Gunning

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2010-11-16

Works: Christopher Gunning: Poirot Variants, for alto saxophone & orchestra; La Môme; Under Suspicion; Cold Lazarus; Rosemary and Thyme; Rebecca; Pollyanna; Firelight; When the Whales Came; Poirot; Lig...
Performers: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Bradshaw, Julia; Compton, Matthew; Gamba, Rumon; Ogden, Craig [Guitar]; Robertson, Martin; Tibbels, Nicole; Torchinsky, Yuri [Violin]
Conductors: Gamba, Rumon

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Recording information: Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester (2009-07-14&2010-01-04&2010-)....continue...

Geoffrey Burgon: Viola Concerto; Merciless Beauty

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2010-04-27

Works: Geoffrey Burgon: Concerto for Viola ("Ghosts of the Dance"); Merciless Beauty; Concerto for Cello
Performers: Connolly, Sarah [Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)]; Dukes, Philip; Knight, Josephine
Conductors: Gamba, Rumon

For a generation or more of television watchers and filmgoers with even a passing interest in music, the name of British Composer Geoffrey Burgon will...continue...
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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...

Matthews: Music of Dawn, Concerto in Azzurro, etc / Gamba, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2009-02-24

Works: David Matthews: The Music of Dawn, symphonic poem for orchestra, Op. 50; Concerto in Azzurro, for cello & orchestra, Op. 87; A Vision and a Journey, symphonic fantasy for orchestra, Op. 60
Performers: Johnson, Guy
Conductors: Gamba, Rumon
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

"The reputation of David Matthews has risen steadily over the last few years... among his contemporaries he has few rivals in the creating and sustaining...continue...

Williamson: Orchestral Works Vol 2 / Gamba, Iceland SO

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2007-03-27

Works: Malcolm Williamson: Elevamini [Symphony no 1]; Epitaphs for Edith Sitwell for organ; Symphony no 5 'Aquerò'; Lento, for Strings
Conductors: Gamba, Rumon
Ensemble: Iceland Symphony Orchestra

This release further helps to restore Malcolm Williamson's reputation as the late Master of the Queen's music, and this new series of recordings and Chandos's...continue...

Williamson: Orchestral Works Vol 1 / Gamba, Iceland SO

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2006-03-21

Works: Malcolm Williamson: Santiago de Espada, overture for orchestra; Our Man in Havana, suite for orchestra; Concerto grosso, for orchestra; Sinfonietta, for orchestra
Conductors: Gamba, Rumon
Ensemble: Iceland Symphony Orchestra

This superb release marks the beginning of a new, exclusive relationship between Chandos and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rumon Gamba. It includes the...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

Film Music of Richard Rodney Bennett

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2001-01-23

Works: Richard Rodney Bennett: Murder on the Orient Express, film score; Far from the Madding Crowd, film score; Lady Caroline Lamb, elegy for viola & orchestra; Tender is the Night, television score; Encha...
Performers: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Dukes, Philip; Gamba, Rumon; Millar, Cynthia
Conductors: Gamba, Rumon

This splendidly performed and recorded album of film music by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett is the first such CD since one conducted by the composer...continue...
Personnel: Philip Dukes (viola); Cynthia Miller (ondes martenot).

Recording information: Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, England (01/24/2000-07/05/2000)....continue...