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CD Review: Citizen Kane – The Classic Film Scores of Bernard Herrmann
The concluding batch of Sony reissues from Charles Gerhardt’s Classic Film Scores series has been released and the first CD is a gem. CITIZEN KANE – THE CLASSIC FILM SCORES OF BERNARD HERRMANN brings together
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CD Review: Lost Horizon – The Classic Film Scores of Dimitri Tiomkin
The final reissued album in the Charles Gerhardt Classic Film Scores series (at least until March) is LOST HORIZON–THE CLASSIC FILM SCORES OF DIMITRI TIOMKIN. Though there were at least two albums in the
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CD Review: Captain Blood – Classic Film Scores for Errol Flynn
Out of the numerous albums in Charles Gerhardt’s Classic Film Scores series, CAPTAIN BLOOD–CLASSIC FILM SCORES FOR ERROL FLYNN, released in 1975, was the final album devoted to a particular star. While some of the
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CD Review: Gone With the Wind – Max Steiner’s Classic Film Score
In his Classic Film Scores series LPs devoted to Golden Age film music, Charles Gerhardt only produced one album devoted to a single score–Max Steiner‘s classic GONE WITH THE WIND, released in 1974. Of all
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CD Review: Casablanca – Classic Film Scores for Humphrey Bogart
In addition to albums devoted to certain composers, Charles Gerhardt compiled a series of albums devoted to various film stars as part of his Classic Film Scores. The second album (the first was devoted
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CD Review: Captain from Castile – The Classic Film Scores of Alfred Newman
If you’ve read this blog for any reasonable amount of time, you already know of my love for Alfred Newman. Newman’s music speaks to me in a way that no other composer–Golden Age or
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CD Review: The Sea Hawk – The Classic Film Scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Classic Film Scores recordings of Charles Gerhardt from the 1970s were an essential part of my film music education, unearthing a whole new world of Golden Age film music for my still-developing love.
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Charles In Charge
Published in Film Score Monthly Online March 2009 Before there was Lukas, Bob, or Doug, before there was Silva Screen, Chandos, or Naxos, one man was responsible for excavating classic film scores from
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