Post by TJ on May 8, 2007 15:12:52 GMT -8
I just put on this disc I bought the other day of Cyril Scott's 3rd symphony....this sounds very "film music"-ish to me.
I think you guys will like it.
I see its currentonly on sale at amazon for 13.99 from the 17.99 list price: www.amazon.com/Cyril-Scott-Symphony-Concerto-Neptune/dp/B0001XLVXQ/
The liner notes state:
I like the brass parts especially, and the BBC Philharmonic seems to have a very good brass section here. Very fun stuff indeed.
edited to add ...funnily enough in an amazon review, one reviewer compares one of the other pieces, "Neptune" to film music (though condescendingly it seems)
I think you guys will like it.
I see its currentonly on sale at amazon for 13.99 from the 17.99 list price: www.amazon.com/Cyril-Scott-Symphony-Concerto-Neptune/dp/B0001XLVXQ/
The liner notes state:
It requires an enormous orchestra, including four flutes, a large percussion section with wind machine and two harps, the distinctive sound of orchestral piano, and in the last movement a vocalizing choir.
I like the brass parts especially, and the BBC Philharmonic seems to have a very good brass section here. Very fun stuff indeed.
edited to add ...funnily enough in an amazon review, one reviewer compares one of the other pieces, "Neptune" to film music (though condescendingly it seems)
That leaves `Neptune', which is a revised version of `Disaster at Sea', a long tone poem depicting the sinking of the Titanic that was written in the late 1910s. There was a tardy first performance in 1933, when the critics panned the work as mere film music. Scott responded by removing the more crudely programmatic parts of the score in a revised and renamed version of the work, which was published in 1935 but has gone unperformed till now. I am happy to hail it as a masterpiece. The tragic atmosphere is sustained throughout, and the writing is beautifully diaphanous and full of highly original orchestral effects, which evoke the surge and the spray and the careering bulk of the doomed ship with uncanny vividness; there is nothing finer in Scott than the bleak epilogue depicting the bare and icy ocean as night sets in. In the wake of the famous film, and with the original title restored, could not this work achieve a belated popularity? Certainly this skilfully crafted and richly sonorous recording makes the strongest possible case.