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Composer:
Christopher Gunning

Artist(s):
Martin Robertson
Craig Ogden

Conductor:
Rumon Gamba

Background: Christopher Gunning is perhaps most famous for his music for the TV series Poirot, but his career in film and TV music stretches back some forty years. In his twenties Gunning composed the music for several documentary films and also worked as an arranger. At the same time he composed the music for a lot of advertising campaigns, some of them long-running, such as those for Martini and Black Magic.

Gunning has spent the greater part of his career writing television and film scores for productions that vary in character from period pieces to contemporary drama, many of which are represented on this disc. He has won four BAFTA awards, for La Vie en rose, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Middlemarch, and Porterhouse Blue, and three Ivor Novello awards, for Rebecca, Under Suspicion, and Firelight. His scores for The Big Battalions, Wild Africa, Cold Lazarus, When the Whales Came, and Winalot have also received nominations for BAFTA and Ivor Novello awards, and his music for the Martini advertising campaign, heard around the world for thirty years, has won three Clio awards. His most recent film commission was the score for La Mome Piaf, also known as La Vie en rose, the feature film starring Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf and directed by Olivier Dahan. In February 2008, he was presented with the BAFTA award for Best Music and on the same night, La Vie en rose won another three BAFTA awards, including one for Marion Cotillard as Best Actress, who went on to win an Oscar for her performance.

The Film and TV Music of Christopher Gunning is performed by the BBC Philharmonic, under the British-born conductor Rumon Gamba who records exclusively for Chandos. It also features exquisite performances from a number of soloists with whom Gunning has worked over the years: the saxophonist Martin Robertson, soprano Nicole Tibbels, and guitarist Craig Ogden whose many recordings, including more than half a dozen for Chandos, have received wide acclaim. His debut solo album led the magazine BBC Music to dub him ‘a worthy successor to Julian Bream’, and it was also nominated for a Grammy award.


CATALOGUE NR: CHAN10625
RECORD LABEL: Chandos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.50
RELEASE DATE: 01-Nov-2010

COMPOSER: Christopher Gunning
TITLE: The Film and TV Music of Christopher Gunning
TRACKS: Cold Lazarus. Firelight. The Hollow. Lighthouse Hill. Five Little Pigs. Poirot Variants. Pollyanna. Rebecca. Rosemary and Thyme. Under Suspicion. La Mome Piaf from La Vie en rose. When the Whales Came.
ORCHESTRA: BBC Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Rumon Gamba
ARTISTS: Martin Robertson   Craig Ogden   Nicole Tibbels  

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