Composer(s): Perry, William
Conductor(s): Phillips, Paul
Label: Naxos
Series: Film Music Classics
Genre: Concerto; Vocal
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: 8.573105
Barcode: 747313310579
Release Date: 04/2015

PERRY, W.: Music for Great Films of the Silent Era, Vol. 2 (RTÉ National Symphony, P. Phillips)

Composer-producer William Perry has played a major rôle in the revival of interest in silent films, both through his more than one hundred silent film scores and through his Emmy Award-winning television series, The Silent Years, hosted by Orson Welles and Lillian Gish. A rich array of Perry’s film music was presented in the critically acclaimed Naxos recording, Music for Great Films of the Silent Era (8.572567). Now this companion volume offers a further view of Perry’s colourful and exuberant writing, including his new Silent Film Heroines song-suite for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, celebrating eight of the legendary actresses of the silent cinema. Perry’s supremely melodic sense of period and style captures perfectly the romance, grandeur and humour of those entertaining days when “Movies were movies!”

Tracklist

Perry, William
Carroll, Ronn - Lyricist
Wheeling, William S. - Lyricist
Perry, William - Lyricist
Giunta, Wallis (mezzo-soprano)
Chertock, Michael (piano)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)
1I. Lillian Gish (Orphans of the Storm)04:51
Giunta, Wallis (mezzo-soprano)
Chertock, Michael (piano)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)
2II. Mary Pickford (Pollyanna)03:33
Giunta, Wallis (mezzo-soprano)
Chertock, Michael (piano)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)
3III. Greta Garbo (A Woman of Affairs)03:56
Giunta, Wallis (mezzo-soprano)
Chertock, Michael (piano)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)
4IV. Gloria Swanson (Fine Manners)04:56
Giunta, Wallis (mezzo-soprano)
Chertock, Michael (piano)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)
5V. Vilma Banky (The Night of Love)03:28
Giunta, Wallis (mezzo-soprano)
Chertock, Michael (piano)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)
6VI. Betty Bronson (Peter Pan)03:37
Giunta, Wallis (mezzo-soprano)
Chertock, Michael (piano)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)
7VII. Pearl White (The Perils of Pauline)02:31
Giunta, Wallis (mezzo-soprano)
Chertock, Michael (piano)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)
8VIII. Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven)05:58
Giunta, Wallis (mezzo-soprano)
Chertock, Michael (piano)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)
Perry, William
Hutchins, Timothy (flute)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)
9Summer Nocturne12:05
Hutchins, Timothy (flute)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)
Byrne, Nick (ophicleide)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)
10I. Blue Ophicleide06:09
Byrne, Nick (ophicleide)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)
11II. Military Ophicleide03:33
Byrne, Nick (ophicleide)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)
12III. Pastoral Ophicleide04:04
Byrne, Nick (ophicleide)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)
13IV. Latin Ophicleide07:53
Byrne, Nick (ophicleide)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)
Perry, William
Perry, William - Lyricist
Kingsley, Sidney - Lyricist
McCrae, John - Lyricist
Giunta, Wallis (mezzo-soprano)
Brancy, John (baritone)
Chertock, Michael (piano)
Chertock, Michael (organ)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)
14Hearts of the World12:04
Giunta, Wallis (mezzo-soprano)
Brancy, John (baritone)
Chertock, Michael (piano)
Chertock, Michael (organ)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Phillips, Paul (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 01:18:38