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Radio 3,02 Jul 2016,29 mins

The Music of Georges Delerue

Sound of Cinema

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Matthew Sweet reflects on the film music of the great French film composer Georges Delerue, who composed over 350 scores including much of the music for the films of FranƧois Truffaut - a composer once described as "the Mozart of cinema". The programme features scores from "Steel Magnolias"; "Hiroshima Mon Amour"; "Cartouche"; "Anne of The Thousand Days"; "Le MƩpris"; "Day for Night"; "Tirez Sur Le Pianiste"; "Le Dernier MƩtro"; "Jules et Jim"; "Day of the Jackel"; "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and "Agnes of God".

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