Love From A Stranger [Import]

Richard Rodney Bennett (Composer), Benjamin Britten (Composer), Roberto Gerhard (Composer), Elisabeth Lutyens (Composer), Jac van Steen (Conductor), Martyn Brabbins (Conductor), BBC Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor: Jac van Steen, Martyn Brabbins
• Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett, Benjamin Britten, Roberto Gerhard, Elisabeth Lutyens
• Audio CD (May 25, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Nmc Records
• ASIN: B00022XECC
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #686,457 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Title Music [From Love from a Stranger]

2. Traffic Music [From Love from a Stranger]

3. Brighton [From Love from a Stranger]

4. Love Music [From Love from a Stranger]

5. Channel Crossing [From Love from a Stranger]

6. End Titles [From Love from a Stranger]

7. I [From This Sporting Life]

8. II [From This Sporting Life]

9. III [From This Sporting Life]

10. IV [From This Sporting Life]

11. V [From This Sporting Life]

12. VI [From This Sporting Life]

13. VII [From This Sporting Life]

14. VIII [From This Sporting Life]

15. I. Title Music [From the Skull]

16. II [From the Skull]

17. III [From the Skull]

18. IV [From the Skull]

19. V [From the Skull]

20. VI [From the Skull]

See all 29 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Four Rare Film Score Treasures, July 13, 2010

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This review is from: Love From A Stranger (Audio CD)

This is a wonderful collection. Suites from four major film scores by four major British composers.
Because of her relatively small discography, pride of place must go to Elisabeth Lutyens' dramatic and dissonant score for the movie THE SKULL.This makes a very strong impression even deprived of the visual images to which it was originally attached. Her own brand of atonality mixes wonderfully with somewhat Bartokian sounds. Having seen the film, based on an absurd story by Robert Bloch about the fate over the years of people who have owned the skull of the Marquis De Sade, I can say that the music is highly effective and helps overcome many weaknesses in the film itself. If ever there was a score that suited a film, this is it. (Lutyens apparently was rather proud of this particular score.)
The Gerhard score for THIS SPORTING LIFE, its sophisticated atonality rather less suited to the gritty film to which it is attached, is still a fine piece of music.
The Britten and Bennett pieces, a bit less imaginative, are nonetheless attractive listening.
The performances and sound recording are superb.