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MOMENTS FROM THEWORLD OF CINEMA

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CD1 [75’06]

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)HENRY MANCINI

1 Moon River 2’56Jack Harrison harmonica, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Richard Mills conductor

When Harry Met Sally (1989)ISHAM JONES / GUS KAHN

2 It Had to Be You 1’36Frank Sinatra vocals

Moulin Rouge (1952)GEORGES AURIC

3 Moulin Rouge 2’50The Mantovani Orchestra, Annunzio Paolo Mantovani conductor

The Portrait of a Lady (1996)WOJCIECH KILAR

4 Prologue: My Life before Me 4’05Studio Orchestra, Stepan Konicek conductor

Swing Time (1936)JEROME KERN / DOROTHY FIELDS

5 The Way You Look Tonight 3’10Fred Astaire vocals

The Bridges of Madison County (1995)CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS

6 Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (Softly awakes my heart) from Samson et Dalila 5’36Lauris Elms mezzo-soprano, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Arnold conductor

Spellbound (1945)MIKLÓS RÓZSA

7 Spellbound Theme 4’47London Festival Orchestra and Chorus, Stanley Black conductor

Dying Young (1991)LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

8 Adagio un poco moto from Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat, Op. 73, ‘Emperor’ 7’34Gerard Willems piano, Sinfonia Australis, Antony Walker conductor

Casablanca (1942)HERMAN HUPFELD

9 As Time Goes By 2’44Dooley Wilson vocals

At First Sight (1999)ERIK SATIE

0 Gymnopédie No. 1 3’07Lyle Chan piano

Meet Danny Wilson (1952)GERALD MARKS / SEYMOUR SIMONS

! All of Me 2’46Frank Sinatra vocals

Groundhog Day (1993)SERGEI RACHMANINOV

@ Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini –18th variation 2’55Isador Goodman piano, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Thomas conductor

Intermezzo (1939)HEINZ PROVOST

£ Intermezzo Theme 3’09Sidney Sax violin, Stanley Black piano

Love Me Tonight (1932)RICHARD RODGERS / LORENZ HART

$ Isn’t It Romantic 3’20Jeanette MacDonald vocals, Paramount Studio Orchestra, Nat Finston conductor

The Gadfly (1955)DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

% Romance 6’22Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, David Stanhope conductor

Moonstruck (1987)GIACOMO PUCCINI

^ Che gelida manina (Your tiny hand is frozen) from La Bohème 4’31David Hobson tenor, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Marco Guidarini conductor

Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)JIMMY McHUGH / DOROTHY FIELDS

& I’m in the Mood for Love 2’49Errol Garner vocals and piano, John Simmons bass, Harold ‘Doc’ West drums

Crush (2001)EDWARD ELGAR

* Nimrod from Enigma Variations 3’15Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Myer Fredman conductor

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)MICHEL LEGRAND / ALAN & MARILYN BERGMAN

( The Windmills of Your Mind 2’17Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Stanley Black conductor

There’s Something about Mary (1998)GEORGES BIZET

) Danse bohème 4’51Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier conductor

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CD2 [69’51]

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)BERT KALMAR / HARRY RUBY / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II

1 A Kiss to Build a Dream on 3’01Louis Armstrong vocals

Frankie and Johnny (1991)CLAUDE DEBUSSY (orch. Alfred Luck)

2 Clair de lune from Suite bergamasque 4’46Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, David Stanhope conductor

The Road to Morocco (1942)JIMMY VAN HEUSEN / JOHNNY BURKE

3 Moonlight Becomes You 3’09Bing Crosby vocals, John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra

Love Story (1970)FRANCIS LAI

4 Main Title: For Me Alone (Snow Frolic) 6’43London Festival Orchestra, Stanley Black conductor

The Affair of the Necklace (2001)GIOVANNI MARTINI (arr. Whaite)

5 Plaisir d’amour (Love’s pleasure) 3’17Yvonne Kenny soprano, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kamirski conductor

Top Hat (1935)IRVING BERLIN

6 Cheek to Cheek 5’01Fred Astaire vocals

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)LÉO DELIBES

7 Valse from Coppélia 2’32Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier conductor

Kate & Leopold (2001)LEOPOLD GODOWSKY (transcr. Jascha Heifetz)

8 Alt Wien (Old Vienna) 2’31Jascha Heifetz violin, Emanuel Bay piano

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001)TEODORO COTTRAU

9 Santa Lucia 2’04Enrico Caruso tenor

Un Homme et une femme

(A Man and a Woman) (1966)FRANCIS LAI

0 A Man and a Woman Theme 3’18London Festival Orchestra and Chorus, Stanley Black conductor

Modern Times (1936)CHARLIE CHAPLIN

! Smile 3’19Judy Garland vocals

Pretty Woman (1990)ANTONIO VIVALDI

@ Allegro from Spring, The Four Seasons 3’42Elizabeth Wallfisch violin, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer conductor

Radio Days (1987)MOE JAFFE / JACK FULTON / NAT BONX

£ If You Are but a Dream 3’03Frank Sinatra vocals

Vertigo (1958)BERNARD HERRMANN

$ Scène d’amour 2’46London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Herrmann conductor

Truly Madly Deeply (1991)JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

% Adagio from Sonata in G minor,BWV1029 6’18Mischa Maisky cello, Martha Argerich piano

Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)JAMES MONACO

^ You Made Me Love You 3’12Harry James and His Orchestra

Kismet (1955)ALEXANDER BORODIN

& Polovtsian Dance No. 17 1’21Sydney Philharmonia Choir and Orchestra, Antony Walker conductor

Enigma (2001)RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

* Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’ 2’25Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Carl Pini conductor

Celebrity (1998)WALTER DONALDSON / HAROLD ADAMSON

( Did I Remember 2’52Billie Holiday vocals

Only You (1994)GIUSEPPE VERDI

) Brindisi 3’03Joan Sutherland soprano, Luciano Pavarotti tenor,Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra, Richard Bonynge conductor

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There are 40 brilliant romantic themes and songsfrom movies on these CDs. Many of the trackshave been suggested by listeners to our Lights,Camera, Action! radio program – thankseveryone! When initially faced with the task ofcompiling the best of the bunch, it was difficultchoosing what to leave out. But after severalsleepless nights, we’ve come up with a collectionthat’s a kind of mosaic of romantic film musicwhich will melt the heart of the most hardenedcynic. Love songs by Irving Berlin, RichardRodgers, Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields;melodies by Ennio Morricone, Henry Mancini andMiklós Rózsa; and some classical works, whichhave brought lumps to more than a century ofcinemagoers’ throats. Weepies with IngridBergman and Meryl Streep, love sagas featuringGregory Peck and Nicole Kidman; romanticcomedies starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, andchick flicks with Hugh Jackman, Julia Roberts andAndy MacDowell. There’s enough musicalromance here to satisfy every punter who eversat in the dark and gave up their heart to flickeringimages of love, tenderness and passion.

Amongst all the celebrated swoon-tunes, we’veincluded some music from films that aren’tgenerally considered ‘romantic’. Chaplin’sModern Times may be a satirical farce about anassembly-line worker who runs amok, but there’sa love story (of course) to the tune of Charlie’sfamous ‘Smile’. Although Alfred Hitchcock’sVertigo is an unsettling tale of obsession, BernardHerrmann’s score has a beautiful ‘Scène

d’amour’, which caresses the listener, whileevoking a yearning, tinged with doom.

One the other hand, the charming 1932 movie,Love Me Tonight gets straight to the point. Oneof its hit songs, ‘Isn’t It Romantic’, became theubiquitous movie melody of the last century.Because the rights were owned by Paramount;over the next 20 years they used the tune tounderscore virtually every close encounter ormoonlit tryst that occurred in a Paramountmovie – just in case the audience hadn’t noticedthat love was in the air.

It could be argued that romantic movies simplywouldn’t work without romantic music. In 1970,a friend of mine was desperately keen to seeLove Story – the classic tale of young lovethwarted by terminal illness. She was so full ofnervous anticipation when the movie finallybegan that she sobbed uncontrollably all the waythrough the opening credits. After that, shefound the rest of the film an anticlimax. Wouldshe have wept without Francis Lai’s sensitive,Oscar-winning music? I doubt it. And, in TheBridges of Madison County, would action-manClint Eastwood’s heart have awakened quite sosoftly without that exquisite Saint-Saëns aria?Probably not. However, back in 1942, the song‘As Time Goes By’ had done so-so business formore than a decade before Dooley Wilson sang itin Casablanca. Since then, thanks to that perfectexample of Hollywood art, it’s become immortal.‘Moonlight and love songs, Never out of date …’

Well, actually, some once-beloved melodiesseem to have been forgotten over the years, sowe’re giving them a deserved re-airing. HeinzProvost’s theme for Intermezzo is a bittersweetlove duet between piano and violin, whichmirrors the movie’s romance between a famousfiddler (Leslie Howard) and a much youngerconcert pianist, played by Ingrid Bergman(making her American movie debut, in 1939). Thedreamy hit song ‘Moonlight Becomes You’ wasoriginally crooned by Bing Crosby to DorothyLamour (as a Moroccan princess!) in The Roadto Morocco. In 1952, Moulin Rouge, a totallynon-Baz Luhrmann biopic of Toulouse-Lautrec,yielded a lilting theme by Georges Auric whichlater became a million-selling song.

There are also some modern treasures whichwe believe deserve much more recognition thanthey’ve hitherto received; like Wojciech Kilar’shaunting, unforgettable music for The Portrait ofa Lady. Jane Campion was fortunate in acomposer who can really deliver the goods.Nowadays, it seems that while original themesare composed for romantic movies, the mostimpact is often achieved by classics. ComposerStephen Warbeck set the bar pretty high whenhe included Caruso singing ‘Santa Lucia’ on thesoundtrack of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. AndJohn Barry’s score for Enigma, though lovely,can’t match the power of Vaughan Williams’‘Dives and Lazarus’, which really makes themovie’s love story take flight.

Equally it’s classic pop, which so often comes tothe romantic rescue. Woody Allen’s films arefamous for their old jazz and dance bandsoundtracks. The neurotic shenanigans ofLeonardo DiCaprio and Kenneth Branagh inCelebrity are given an incomparably affectionatesheen by Billie Holiday; and, in When Harry MetSally, how could Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal notfall in love while Sinatra sings ‘It Had to Be You’?

Romance at the Movies is full of valentines,both classic and rare; the music that gives greatromantic movie scenes that extra edge. Wehope it inspires you to not only revisit someclassic movies, but to also seek out some of thecurios. And remember: ‘We’ll always have Paris.’

Adam Bowen

Presenter, Lights, Camera, Action!ABC Local Radio

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