Cabaret Scenes and Gothic Fantasies
Donald Macleod examines the career of film composer Franz Waxman, including his score for Hitchcock's Rebecca.
Donald Macleod explores the era going from the heady world of 1920s German cabaret to the supernatural drama of Hitchcock's Rebecca, via a quintessential piece of early Hollywood horror.
Allein in einer grossen Stadt (arr. Fontaine)
Ute Lemper
Gruss und Kuss - Veronika
Eva Busch
Weintraubs Synkopators
Hollander, arr. Wachsmann (Waxman's name in German): Falling In Love Again
Marlene Dietrich
Friedrich Hollander and his Symphony of Jazz
The Bride Of Frankenstein - film score (Main Title; Danse Macabre; The Creation of the Female Monster)
Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra
Kenneth Alwyn (conductor)
Rebecca - film score (Arrival at Manderley; Mrs Danvers; Rebecca's Room; The New Mrs De Winter; The Fire - Epilogue)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Joel McNeely (conductor).
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- Mon 19 May 200812:00BBC Radio 3
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