Rumon Gamba, BBC Concert Orchestra - The Film Music of Constant Lambert & Lord Berners (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 308 Mb | Total time: 79:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | CHAN 10459 | Recorded: 2007
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 308 Mb | Total time: 79:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | CHAN 10459 | Recorded: 2007
Chandos has been offering some interesting scores in the Movies series, but this differs in their having had to combine two composers on one CD since neither one scored enough films to have an album entirely to himself. Lambert and Berners were close friends, and William Walton was part of their circle as well. All three of them tried to separate their music from the strictly English style and to be more cosmopolitan. Lambert even called music of the English pastoral tradition "cow pat." The first of Lambert's scores was for a documentary about the Merchant Navy - which, being made in 1940, had a scene of a ship being torpedoed. Lambert was considered something of a Russian specialist in music and got the job for the Russian drama on Anna Karenina, released in 1948.