Barbara Howitt (mezzo-soprano),
Royal Opera House Chorus (Douglas Robinson), Bernard Herrmann
led by Granville Jones
The orchestra was filmed for the nine-minute long cantata scene and its brass and percussion are also seen behind the two-minute opening titles sequence.
BENJAMIN Storm Clouds - cantata
Bernard Herrmann scored this second version of the film,
retaining the cantata from the original 1934 version.
VHS: (’85) CIC VHT1137,
(Aug99) Universal 044 707.3,
(Apr03) Universal 820 032.9.
DVD video: (Apr03) Universal 820 052.5.
(Oct05) Universal 823 628.1,
(Jun07) Universal 824 906.3.
>A187 “1984” film soundtrack OSC
(?) 1956 [first shown Mar 56] (unidentified studio)
composed by MALCOLM ARNOLD and conducted by Louis Levy
DVD video: (Jan07) Orbit Media ORB10122.
>A188 “The 3 Worlds of Gulliver” film soundtrack OSC
Columbia Pictures sought the Board’s permission to
issue this recording on LP (Minute Book, 24 Sep 60).
25-27 Apr 1960 [first shown Nov 60] Denham Film Studios
composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann
led by Hugh Maguire
LP: (’61) Colpix CP414,
(Mar61) Pye GGL0065,
(’81) Klavier Citadel CT7018,
(Sep85) Cloud Nine CN4003.
CD: (’93) Cloud Nine ACN7018.
>A189 “Mysterious Island” film soundtrack OSC
4-6 Apr 1961 [first shown Jun 62] Denham Film Studios
composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann
LP: (’84) Cloud Nine CN4002.
CD: (’93) Cloud Nine ACN7017.
Thereafter no film sessions are listed until “Song of Norway” in 1969. By that time the orchestra’s own sources can be used to date film sessions precisely and they are accordingly included in the main part of the discography.
>AU Unofficial Recordings by “Members of the L.S.O.” / “L.S.O. strings”
Several light music recordings, which were not booked through the
LSO’s management (and consequently do not appear in the orchestra’s
schedules or attendance sheets), have been issued using these appellations
in the album credits.
>A201 CHARISMA
Pr: Stephan Galfas & Marty Scott Eng: Nick Griffiths
1977 ? Britannia Row, Islington
Members of the L.S.O., Harry Rabinowitz
Backing tracks for The Intergalactic Touring Band (rock group),
who were recorded in New Jersey between Jly 76 and Aug 77.
Approach
Reaching out
LP: (Dec77) CDS4009; (Jan78) Arista Passport 9823.
>A202 Coldeye Productions
Pr: Denny Diante Eng: Ron Malo
1978 ? CTS Studios, Wembley
[b] Michael Brecker (saxophone); Members of the L.S.O., Michel Colombier
[a] COLOMBIER Dreamland
[b] Bird Song
[c] Spring (The Birth of)
[d] Autumn Land
LP: [a-d] (Apr79) Chrysalis CHR1212.
>A203 “The Last Unicorn” film soundtrack
Pr: Matthew McCauley Eng: John Richards
1982 CTS Studios, Wembley
composed by JIMMY WEBB, L.S.O. strings, conducted by ?
Backing track for America (rock group).
LP: (Ger:’84) Virgin 206 684.
CD: (’88) Virgin 610 388 222,
(Ger: c92) E.M.I. Virgin 7 86735.2,
(Feb97) E.M.I. CTMCD307 = 7243 8 55559.2,
(Sep01) Rhino 8122 73552.2.
>A204 Teddy Bear Productions / T.P.Productions
Pr: Martyn Ware Eng: Graham Bennett
1993 ? Red Bus Studios, Marylebone
L.S.O. strings, Nick Ingman
Backing tracks for Tashan Rashad (singer).
“For the Sake of Love” Tempted
For the sake of love
Single and lonely
Romantically inspired
Coupled with nine more titles recorded in London and New York.
LP: (Mar94) Sony Columbia COL472411.1.
CD: (Mar94) Sony Columbia COL472411.2; (Jan94) Chaos OK52469.
In a number of other instances, ad hoc ensembles named in album or film credits as “London Session Orchestra” or “orchestre symphonique de Londrès” have been mis-interpreted as being The London Symphony Orchestra.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PHILIP STUART was born in 1944, read Modern History at Worcester College, Oxford, and was a school teacher for nearly twenty years. He first saw the LSO at the Bath Festival in 1962. Five years later he moved to London, accompanied by a collection of LPs carefully catalogued on index cards. Listening to records, reading about records and cataloguing records eventually left no time for the day job and he has been a freelance discographer since 1985. His first publication, “Igor Stravinsky – The Composer in the Recording Studio” (Greenwood Press, 1991) won the Association for Recorded Sound Collections annual Award for Best Research in the Field of Recorded Classical Music in New York in 1992. “The London Philharmonic Discography” (1997) was followed by “Marriner and the Academy – A Record Partnership” (1999). A catalogue of Decca’s classical recordings was interrupted by the present study, but resumed in 2005 and was completed in 2009. A discography of the world’s most recorded chamber orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, followed in 2010, then “Benjamin Britten Performing and Performed - a Centenary Discography” in 2012 and “Adrian Boult, 1889-1983 - A Chronological Discography” in 2016. In 2003 he made his debut as a lecturer at the Cardiff Recorded Music Society and in 2006 he presented a programme of LSO recordings there, which he repeated for the Bath Recorded Music Society. “Classic Record Collector” devoted five pages of its Summer 2009 issue to a profile of “the indefatigable discographer”. He still enjoys listening to music, particularly eighteenth century wind octets.
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