Sound of Cinema: The Harpsichord and Film
Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of the harpsichord in film scores from the late 1930s to the present day. #91热爆SoundofCinema.
As part of the 91热爆's Sound of Cinema season, Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of the harpsichord in film scores. #91热爆SoundofCinema
Lucie looks back on the pioneering work of Wanda Landowska in stimulating a renewed interest in the instrument in the first third of the 20th Century, and how the distinctive sound of the instrument quickly found a use in the cinema. She considers how the harpsichord has been used in film to suggest a sense of the past; a sense of the present; and how its created a particularly effective colour in the world of horror films.
Featured film scores include: "Wuthering Heights"; "Papillon"; "Restoration"; "Henry V"; "Love Story"; "Rosemary's Baby"; "The Vampire Lovers"; "Pirates of Caribbean"; "The Corpse Bride" and "Amelie".
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Music Played
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in A major, K.331: Rondo alla Turca
Performer: Alice Ehlers.- Wuthering Heights (1939) MGM DVD 100001143MZ1.
- MGM.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
English Suite No.1 in A BWV 806 - Prelude
Performer: Richard Egarr.- HMU 907591.92.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Klaus Badelt
Music for Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl
Conductor: Blake Neely. Composer: Hans Zimmer.- WALT DISNEY 353237 2.
- Walt Disney.
- 1, 2.
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Ron Goodwin
Miss Marple Theme
Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.- CHANDOS CHAN 10262.
- Chandos.
- 17.
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Fran莽ois Couperin
Les baricades myst茅rieuses
Performer: Wanda Landowska.- Naxos 8.111055.
- Naxos.
- 6.
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Danny Elfman
Music for the film 'The Corpse Bride' - Main Title; According to Plan
Actor: Albert Finney. Actor: Joanna Lumley. Actor: Tracey Ullman. Actor: Paul Whitehouse. Conductor: Nick Ingman.- Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
- Warner Sunset.
- 2.
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Jerry Goldsmith
Music for the film 'Papillon' - Main theme
- SILVA SCREEN FILMCD029.
- Silva Screen.
- 1.
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Krzysztof Komeda
Music for the film 'Rosemary's Baby' - Theme
- EMPORIO EMPRCD628.
- Emporio.
- 14.
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Francis Lai
Music for the film 'Love Story' - Search for Jenny
- MCA MCLD 19157.
- MCA Classics.
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Harry Robinson
Music for the film 'Vampire Lovers' (1970) - Baron Harlog's Story
- GDI RECORDS GDICD009.
- GDI Records.
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- Sun 15 Sep 2013 13:0091热爆 Radio 3
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