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  1. Classical Music Discussion
    Has anyone seen (or have info about) the documentary film Maestro? This apparently focuses on the conductor Paavo Järvi and several performers, and the joys and tribulations of the classical music world. I have found the following YouTube trailer, but nothing else about where the full...
  2. Identifying Classical Music
    Help! I am trying to identify selections from the original piano score for the 1925 film "Ben-Hur". Most of the music for this film was "compiled" from existing works. So far I have identified music from "Thais", " Herodiade" and "Le Jongular de Notre Dame" all by Massenet. Also extracts...
  3. Identifying Classical Music
    Greetings! If you will forgive my ignorance, I'm trying to discover which piece Glenn Gould is playing at the very beginning of the film "Genius within - the inner life of Glenn Gould". Any help would be appreciated, with grateful thanks in advance.
  4. Identifying Classical Music
    Hi there, I am in the process of making a short film and we bought a lovely retro tape deck from a car boot with lots of old classical tapes - we used it as a prop in the film which really works for the style - but I am having trouble finding the composer in order to ensure we can use it within...
  5. Classical Music Discussion
    A movie about Franco-flemish life in the 1400 starting whit Dufay i.e , or like Lassus , vaet, Manchcourt , Crécquillon, the plot would be stark dramatic every actor would play a classical composer of Burgundy, during Charles quint ruling and ect... I have neat idea to make Belgie , Flander...
  6. Off Topic Pub
    Recommendations and suggestions welcome. For my criteria and ratings scale, go here: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=463672#463672 Note that this is not a complete list of films I'd recommend, just those that I consider among the "Greatest of All Time". In other words...
  7. Blog
    A classical radio station in Washington, DC once ran a regular feature called "What Makes It So Great," in which the "greatness" of some musical work was analyzed. I would like to do something similar with a movie scene: the penultimate scene of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, commonly...
  8. Opera
    I'm thinking of checking out the movie ONEGIN with Ralph Fiennes in the title role. Has anyone here seen this movie? If so, I am curious to know how closely its storyline resembles that of Tchaikovsky's EUGENE ONEGIN. Also, how would you rate the production and the acting? Any impressions...
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  10. Solved Cases (archive)
    today I watched 'The Cabinet of Dr. Calgari' in cinema for my study at the University of Amsterdam. It's a silent film so we had a musician playing piano along with the film, very beautiful. Well, I recorded a bit and now I want to know what he was playing... All films on YouTube have different...
  11. Off Topic Pub
    Actresses - they may not get more beautiful, but they seem to acquire mellowness & flavour as they age. Which is your favourite British Blonde Actress Of A Certain Age - and why? Which film do you like them best in - this can be from when they were young, of course. For me it has to be Julie...
  12. Solved Cases (archive)
    I have always wondered what this piece of music is from a TV Spot advertising the 1992 film "Bram Stoker's Dracula". It's not part of the soundtrack. The piece comes in at 11 seconds: Many thanks! I've loved this advertisement since it first aired on Entertainment Tonight. I was sad it...
  13. Off Topic Pub
    Does anyone get truly passionate, seriously evocative about film? What films? I could write hours on certain movies, but I am curious if any of you are so passionate about certain films that you could just pour over pages, threads, post -- ...the point being that this movie, or actually this...
  14. Classical Music Discussion
    So sebelius and the like .... The violin concerto is amazing - engaging, thrilling and gorgeous. I excitedly commenced exploring some of his symphonies - only to discover its like listening to ver pleasant and at times dramatic incidental film music i.e. all atmosphere but incoherent. Do I lack...
  15. Solved Cases (archive)
    I was recently watching Batman Begins and I head this piece. It really caught my ear, but I have no idea what it is. I've looked through some of Haydn and Mozart's trios as well as some quartets, though it could be any other composer. I've also tried Musipedia (no results). The song is not on...
  16. Opera on DVD, Blu-ray and CD
    I've been searching in vain for quite some time for a copy of a 1977 of Dvorak's Rusalka sttarring Gabriela Benackova and directed by Peter Weigl. The parts of it that are available on YouTube are beautiful and I'd love a chance to watch the whole thing. If anyone knows where it's available or...
  17. The Movie Corner: Music for Cinema and TV
    I've been wondering what film composers are slightly left of centre. Michael Nyman springs to mind with his music for Greenaway films. Erik Satie's Entr'acte I think was actually written as a film interlude in his ballet Relache, but interesting as a film score for a bizarre film nevertheless...
  18. The Movie Corner: Music for Cinema and TV
    Ockay ever notice horror movie had it's golden era , back than the horror movie soundtrack where classical score this was the case for countless film (the shining ect) even before this... Horror movies and the soundtrack that come whit it were fabuleous, but now i discover they put rap in...
  19. The Movie Corner: Music for Cinema and TV
    In the 1948 film, George Stevens' production of 'I Remember Mama', there is a beautiful waltz. It is in the scene where the mother (Irene Dun) visits the celebrity character Miss Florence Dana Moorhead, who is a published writer in the film. This waltz is playing in the background. I have heard...
  20. Off Topic Pub
    Any fans of Watchmen here? I love the graphic novel and Snyder's film almost as much.
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