Chaplin, Charlie

100 Greatest Film Themes, Take 3

6 CD / Silva America / 2013-05-07

Works: Marvin Hatley: Dance of the Cuckoos; Charlie Chaplin: Smile (as used in the film "Modern Times" ) (spurious; by Geoffrey Persons); Frank Churchill: Heigh-Ho (for Disney's Snow White); Paul Dukas: The...
Performers: Ayres, Mark; Barlow, Craig Rhys [Vocals]; Blackman, Helena; Colby, Chuck; Ferreira, Keith; Hobson, Helen; Kershaw, Emma; Marshall, Chris; Paris, Richard; Russ, Herbie; Shannon, David; Stiles, Mark; W...
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Ensemble: London Music Works; N.Y. Jazz Orchestra; The Wire-Haired Terriers Athletic Social Club

The third installment in the series, 100 Greatest Film Themes, Take 3 gathers together a sprawling collection of film music into a six-disc set. Spanning from 1930 to 2012, the set features themes fro...continue...

50 Best Sensual Classics

3 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-02-26

Works: James Horner: Titanic; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Sergey Rachmaninov: Concerto for Piano no 2 in C minor; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Concerto for Piano ...
Performers: Auger, Arleen; Bloch, Nikolaj; Bran, Tim; Bream, Julian [Guitar]; Bumbry, Grace; Callas, Maria; Cortez, Viorica; Dalton, Mitchell; Dernesch, Helga [Soprano]; Garcia, Jose Luis; Garello, Raul; Garrett...
Conductors: ; Jansons, Mariss; Foster, Lawrence; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Roth, François-Xavier; Goodwin, Ron; Thompson, Bryden; Plasson, Michel; Barry, John; Love, Geoff; Barbirolli, John; Fedotov, Viktor; Boul...
Ensemble: ; Ahn Trio; Berlin Philharmonic Cellists; Virtuosi

This 3-CD set contains 50 tracks of sensual music from the catalogues of EMI Classics and Virgin Classics performed by some of the world's finest...continue...

Instrumentals

5 CD / ZYX Records / 2013-01-08

Works: Wayne Shanklin: Chanson d' Amour; Bert Kaempfert: Wonderland by Night; Peter Mösser: Morgen; Louis Louiguy: Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White, song (for the film Underwater); Frank W. Meacham:...
Performers: Bilk, Acker; Cápova, Sylvia; Calvert, Eddie; Cramer, Floyd; Davis, Tom [Piano]; Eddy, Duane; Fordham, George; Hogwallop, Lester; Jaccottet, Christiane; Kangas, John; Karas, Anton; Landry, McGe...
Conductors: Kaempfert, Bert; Vaughn, Billy; Prado, Perez; Miller, Glenn; Miller, Mitch; Greger, Max; Brown, Les; ; Faith, Percy; Mantovani; Justis, Bill; Goodman, Benny; Bush, Lou; Baxter, Les; Anthony, Ray; Hay...
Ensemble: ; Bill Black's Combo; Chris Barber's Jazz Band; Paul Kuhn Combo

Includes crazy otto medley by various composers....continue...

A Time for Us / Angele Dubeau, violin. La Pieta

1 CD / Analekta / 2012-11-27

Works: Nino Rota: A Time for Us (Love Theme from the film Romeo and Juliet); John Williams: Memoirs of a Geisha; Far and Away; Schindler's List; John Barry: Dances with Wolves; Andrea Morricone: Cinema Para...
Performers: Dubeau, Angèle
Conductors: Dubeau, Angèle
Ensemble: ; La Pieta

This is the exclusively in English version of Angele Dubeau's release "A Time For Us / Silence a Joue" re-released for the American market....continue...
Recording information: Église Saint-Matthieu de Beloeil (11/2011).

Silence, on joue! is a gathering of familiar themes from the movies, some of which -- like John Williams' Schindler's Lis...continue...

Fellini! and More - Film Music by Nino Rota, plus melodies by Charlie Chaplin, John Williams, Carlos Gardel et al. / The Austrian Salonisti

1 CD / Gramola / 2012-10-09

Works: Nino Rota: Le notte di Cabiria; I vitelloni; La strada; Lo sceicco bianco; The Godfather; The Godfather Waltz; Romeo & Juliet; 8 1/2; Giulietta degli spiriti; Prova d'orchestra; The Clowns; Amarcord;...
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Ensemble: Die Österreichischen Salonisten

Film music by Nino Rota, written for the countless masterpieces by Federico Fellini in cooperation with Francis Ford Coppola, forms the main component of this...continue...
Recording information: Saal der Landesmusikschule Bad Schailerbach (02/20/2012-02/22/2012)....continue...

Cellocinema - music for cello & piano by Rota, Herrmann, Piazzolla, Catalani, Janacek, Chaplin et al. / Eckart Runge, cello; Jacques Ammon, piano

1 CD / Genuin / 2012-09-25

Works: Nino Rota: 8 1/2; Tom Waits: Helsinki Mood; Bernard Herrmann: Psycho; Astor Piazzolla: Tanti Anni Prima; Vuelvo al sur, tango song; Regreso al amor, tango song (from Sur); Carlos Gardel: Por una cabe...
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Ensemble: Cello Project

Whatever the cello project does Eckart Runge and Jacques Ammon carry us off into faraway worlds, enchanting us like the magicians of the Big Screen....continue...

The Merrymakers - British Light Classics / Iain Sutherland

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2012-08-14

Works: Eric Coates: The Merrymakers, a miniature overture; Springtime Suite; Trevor Duncan: The Girl from Corsica; Ernest Tomlinson: Little Serenade; Suite of English Folk Dances; Hamish McCunn: Sutherland'...
Conductors: Sutherland, Iain
Ensemble: ; Concert Orchestra

For over four decades I conducted the BBC's Light Orchestras in programs like Melodies for You, Invitation to Music, Music While You Work, Friday Night...continue...

Great Motion Picture Themes

1 CD / Sepia Records / 2012-03-13

Works: Ernest Gold: Exodus; On the Beach, film theme; Manos Hadjidakis: Never on Sunday, song; Elmer Bernstein: The Magnificent Seven; God's Little Acre; Dimitri Tiomkin: Green Leaves of Summer; The Need fo...
Performers: Armstrong, Louis; Caiola, Al; Manne, Shelly; Monroe, Marilyn; Mulligan, Gerry
Conductors: ; Costa, Don; Perito, Nick; Newman, Alfred; Moross, Jerome; Powell, Mitchell; Buttolph, David; Nascimbene, Mario; North, Alex; Malneck, Matty; Bernstein, Elmer; Previn, Andre; Potts, Bill
Ensemble: ; Ferrante & Teicher; The Modern Jazz Quartet

Christmas in Vienna II / Dionne Warwick, Placido Domingo

1 CD / Sony Classical Import / 2011-11-29

Works: Charlie Chaplin: Smile (as used in the film "Modern Times" ) (spurious; by Geoffrey Persons); Placido Domingo, Jr.: Hear My Song; Adolphe Adam: Cantique de Noël for voice & orchestra ("Minuit, C...
Performers: Domingo, Placido; Warwick, Dionne
Conductors: Sutej, Vjekoslav
Ensemble: Vienna Symphony

Includes medley: mary's boy child/god rest ye merry, gentle by various composers....continue...

Mantovani's Greatest Hits

2 CD / ZYX Records Import / 2011-07-19

Works: Lew Pollack: Charmaine, song; English Traditional: Greensleeves, folk song; Jacob Gade: Jalousie (Jealousy), tango for orchestra; Charles Gounod: Ave Maria; Jacques Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann; ...
Conductors: Mantovani

Fiction

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2011-03-22

Works: Nicholas Roubanis: Misirlou, song (for the film Pulp Fiction); Doris Fisher: Amado mio, song (for the film Gilda); Eden Ahbez: Nature Boy; John Lennon: Come Together; Brad Mehldau: Unrequited, for pi...
Performers: Ardant, Fanny; Casal, Luz; Dessay, Natalie; Hery, Richard; Herzog, Mathieu; Kent, Stacey; Merlin, Raphael; Quatuor Ebene

"In everything we have been willing to do musically - during all that time spent practicing Haydn, Beethoven or Bartók - there has always been...continue...
Personnel: Pierre Colombet, Gabriel Le Magadure (violin); Mathieu Herzog (viola); Raphaël Merlin (cello); Richard Héry (drums).

Recording information: Curtis Schwartz Studios, Ardingl...continue...

The Hollywood Cello

1 CD / Soundset / 2010-12-14

Works: Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Romance-Impromptu (written for the film "Deception"), for cello & piano; Die tote Stadt; Richard Hageman: Recitative and Romance, for cello & piano; Lazare Saminsky: Chasidic...
Performers: Hamilton, Gregory [Cello]; Hamilton, Kate; Hamilton, Robert [Piano]

This recording offers concert works for cello by film composers of the Golden Era. Cellist Gregory Hamilton is on the faculty at Concordia College and...continue...

Schmankerln & Postres / Duo Intermezzo

1 CD / Genuin / 2010-08-31

Works: Gustav Sänger: Intermezzo scherzoso; Sergey Rachmaninov: Daisies, Op. 38, no 3; Manuel de Falla: Suite Populaire Espagnole; El amor brujo - Love the Magician; Fritz Kreisler: Midnight Bells; Sch...
Performers: Caspers, Ralf; Takeda-Caspers, Tamaki [Piano]
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Ensemble: Duo Intermezzo

Recording information: Studio ofthe Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie Herford (04/12/2009-04/14/2009)....continue...

Fröst & Friends / Pöntinen, Parrott

1 Super Audio CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2010-07-22

Works: Alexander Scriabin: Preludes (5) for Piano, Op. 16; Charles Gounod: Ave Maria; Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for solo violin in G minor, BWV 1001; Johannes Brahms: Songs (5) for voice & piano, Op. 10...
Performers: Ernman, Malena; Frost, Goran; Frost, Martin; Hallerback, Asa; Henryson, Svante; Kingstedt, Solve; Pontinen, Roland; Stefansson, Hermann; Svarfvar, Christian; Thedeen, Torleif

Recording information: Nybrokajen 11 (The Former Academy of Music), Stockholm, (12/2009)....continue...

Mantovani: His Greatest Melodies

2 CD / ZYX Records / 2010-06-01

Works: Lew Pollack: Charmaine, song; English Traditional: Greensleeves, folk song; Jacob Gade: Jalousie (Jealousy), tango for orchestra; Charles Gounod: Ave Maria; Jacques Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann; ...
Performers: Mantovani, The Orchestra
Conductors: Mantovani

Oh! That Cello: Music by Charlie Chaplin

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2009-10-27

Works: Charlie Chaplin: Limelight, film score; Oh! that Cello, for cello & piano; There's Always One You Can't Forget, song; A King in New York, film score; Bonjour Madame, song; The Great Dictator, film sc...

Personnel: Thomas Beckman (cello); Johannes Cernota (piano)....continue...

Cinema - Laurent Korcia

1 CD / EMI Distribution (USA) / 2009-07-28

Works: Ennio Morricone: Cinema Paradiso; George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess; Heinz Provost: Intermezzo; Lalo Schifrin: Mission Impossible, music for the television series; Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin ...
Performers: Baldos, Alexis; Becuwe, Aurelie; Boussaguet, Pierre; Camille; Frere, Florian; Gonet, Mathieu; Guittet, Arnaud; Guittet, Edouard; Hemming, Fujiko; Korcia, Laurent; Peirani, Vincent; Schilemme, Guillau...
Conductors: Wendeberg, Michael; Gonet, Mathieu

Personnel: Laurent Korcia (violin); Midori Hayashi (violin); Isabelle Sajot (cello); David Walter (oboe); Matthieu Gonet (piano); Pierre Boussaguet (acoustic bass, double bass).

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Smile - Chaplin, Pärt, Piazzolla, Messiaen, Schubert, etc / Anne Akiko Meyers, Akira Eguchi

1 CD / Koch International / 2009-01-27

Works: Charlie Chaplin: Smile (as used in the film "Modern Times" ) (spurious; by Geoffrey Persons); Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel; Astor Piazzolla: Introducción al Angel; Milonga en re; Olivier...
Performers: Eguchi, Akira; Meyers, Anne Akiko [Violin]

Best-selling American violinist Anne Akiko Meyers makes her label debut on KOCH International Classics with Smile!, a fresh new recording featuring a lively repertoire ranging...continue...

Smile / Amy Dickson

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2009-01-06

Works: Charlie Chaplin: Smile (as used in the film "Modern Times" ) (spurious; by Geoffrey Persons); Frantisek Drdla: Souvenir for saxophone & piano; Sergey Rachmaninov: Songs (14), Op. 34; Rudy Wiedoeft: V...
Performers: Dickson, Amy; Milledge, Catherine

2008 debut album from one of the world's leading classical saxophonists. Born in Sydney and still only in her mid-twenties, Amy Dickson has rapidly established...continue...

Original Jacket Collection - Itzhak Perlman

10 CD / Sony Classical / 2008-03-25

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043; Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for 3 violins, strings & continuo in F major, RV 551; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio for Piano in B mino...
Performers: Ashkenazy, Vladimir; Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Bolet, Jorge; Harrell, Lynn; Perlman, Itzhak; Stern, Isaac; Williams, John [Guitar]; Zukerman, Pinchas
Conductors: Mehta, Zubin; Leinsdorf, Erich; Previn, Andre; Williams, John

Cinema Paradiso

1 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2008-01-29

Works: Ennio Morricone: Cinema Paradiso; The Mission; Henry Mancini: Breakfast at Tiffany's, film score; Charlie Chaplin: Limelight, film score; Modern Times, film score; Francis Lai: Love Story, film score...
Performers: Buckle, Phil; Davis, Catherine; Hobson, David [Singer/Composer]; McDonald, Anna; Noble, Guy; Pryor, Shefali
Conductors: Noble, Guy

California Concert / Susanne Kessel

1 CD / Oehms / 2006-05-09

Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Preludes (13) for Piano, Op. 32; Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue, for organ in B minor, BWV 544 (BC J27); Darius Milhaud: Work(s); Ernst Krenek: Echoes from Austria, Op. ...
Performers: Kessel, Susanne

Fun Time with String Quartet

1 CD / Dynamic / 2006-01-01

Works: Werner Thomas-Mifune: Comic string quartet based on Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th Symphony; Chromatic Syncopations; Charlie Chaplin: Limelight, film score; Dmitry Shostakovich: Age of Gold, Op. 22; Serg...
Performers: Quartetto d'Archi di Venezia

Recording information: Dynamic's in Genoa, Italy.

REVIEWS:

Fanfare (5-6/98, p.254) - "...dependable playing, fine engineering, and a bourgeois choice of repertoire. Although mildly amus...continue...

Midnight Matinee - Stevens, Jones, Wayne / Farnon, et al

1 CD / Guild / 2005-07-01

Works: Len Stevens: Midnight Matinee; Leslie Julian Jones: Postman's Knock; Bernie Wayne: Magic Touch; Veradero; Cyril Ornadel: Moonlight Fiesta; Irving Caesar: Simonetta; Theo Mackeben: Bal paré; Ja...
Performers: Atwell, Winifred
Conductors: Farnon, Robert; Stott, Wally; Winterhalter, Hugo; Ornadel, Cyril; Hayman, Richard; Hermann, Harry; van der Linden, Dolf; Riddle, Nelson; Love, Geoff; Pleydell, Ronnie; Johnson, Laurie; Ros, Edmundo; ...
Ensemble: Axel Stordahl & His Orchestra; Cyril Ornadel Orchestra; Danish State Radio Orchestra; Dolf van der Linden Orchestra; Edmundo Ros Orchestra; Geoff Love Orchestra; George Siravo Orchestra; Hamburg Radi...

Songs of America from Another American / Maynor, Olsen

1 CD / Guild / 2003-03-01

Works: Traditional: Go tell it on the mountain; This little light of mine; Kumbaya; Let us break bread together; We Shall Overcome; Amen; Battle Hymn of the Republic; God of our fathers; He's got the whole ...
Performers: Maynor, Kevin; Olsen, Eric

"If you like singing, especially songs in English sung by an artist who really knows how to project and present emotion and meaning while maintaining...continue...

Le Cinema

1 CD / Elektra Import / 1999-02-16

Works: Charlie Chaplin: Smile (as used in the film "Modern Times" ) (spurious; by Geoffrey Persons); Nino Rota: Improvviso for violin & piano ("Un diavolo sentimentale"); Amanti senza amore, film score; Ser...
Performers: Kremer, Gidon; Maisenberg, Oleg
Conductors: Boreyko, Andrey; Borejko, Andrzej
Ensemble: ; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Personnel: Gidon Kremer (violin); Oleg Maisenberg (piano).

LE CINEMA is a fun compilation by the immensely talented violinist, Gidon Kremer. Kremer has taken movie music that he found particula...continue...

Songs for Sunset / Christian Linberg, Per Lundberg

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1996-11-30

Works: Jules Massenet: Méditation, for violin & orchestra (or other arrangement) (from opera "Thaïs"); Claude Debussy: La plus que lente; La fille aux cheveux de lin; Rêverie, for piano, L...
Performers: Lindberg, Christian; Lundberg, Peter