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Many things come together to make this great movie. A bevy of stars. Purposeful direction. Glamourous location. A fantastic music score by Richard Rodney Bennett. And of course, the story. The book and the film are quite different, but the gist is the same. Albert Finney hams it up for the camera as the immortal Hercule Poirot. The DVD is well done, and the soundtrack sounds wonderful. The documentary is especially good. There is no commentary, but the documentary is all you need. Subtitles are in English.
I am in the middle of this book now. Harrison talks in detail about all of the works Rachmaninoff wrote as well as discussing the recordings he made. There are musical examples as well. Footnotes are at the ends of the chapters, which can be bothersome to some people (I just read the ones that I am interested in at the end of the chapter.) Max Harrison is British, so if you enjoy Grammophone Magazine (I do) you will appreciate his style of writing. There are no photographs, but a discography of his recordings as well as a list of works.
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Murder on the Orient Express
mahlerii, March 14, 2007
Many things come together to make this great movie. A bevy of stars. Purposeful direction. Glamourous location. A fantastic music score by Richard Rodney Bennett. And of course, the story. The book and the film are quite different, but the gist is the same. Albert Finney hams it up for the camera as the immortal Hercule Poirot. The DVD is well done, and the soundtrack sounds wonderful. The documentary is especially good. There is no commentary, but the documentary is all you need. Subtitles are in English.Rachmaninoff: Life, Works, Recordings by Max Harrison
mahlerii, March 14, 2007
I am in the middle of this book now. Harrison talks in detail about all of the works Rachmaninoff wrote as well as discussing the recordings he made. There are musical examples as well. Footnotes are at the ends of the chapters, which can be bothersome to some people (I just read the ones that I am interested in at the end of the chapter.) Max Harrison is British, so if you enjoy Grammophone Magazine (I do) you will appreciate his style of writing. There are no photographs, but a discography of his recordings as well as a list of works.