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The orchestral score for Anthony Hickox thriller Knife Edge is an affectionate hommage to the classic genre film scores of the 1970s: you will hear influences of John Barry in the wonderful love theme, of Jerry Goldsmith in the atmospheric horror writing and of Bernard Herrmann in the tense suspense music and title theme.
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| Knife Edge priced £ 11.50
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Music from the second series of the popular BBC Fantasy adventure - Merlin. The album features a carefully assembled selection from the second series. Don't expect anything less than epic, exciting, romantic, spell-binding and magic original music that takes the high standard from the first series of Merlin to an even higher level!
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| Merlin - Series Two priced £ 11.50
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Bernard Herrmann sits perfectly amongst the Chandos Movies series, conducted by Rumon Gamba and is sure to be a must for nostalgic film music lovers. Often cited as the greatest movie ever made, Citizen Kane was Herrmann’s first film score. Herrmann's score plays no small part in the film's incredible success and earned him a nomination for Academy Award for best dramatic score.
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| Film Music priced £ 12.50
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Miklós Rozsa's music for the 1961 Hollywood epic El Cid is widely regarded as one of the greatest film scores of all time, a masterpiece of the cine-musical art. This world premiere recording is one of the largest projects ever undertaken to restore a complete score and totals over 140 minutes of music including themes omitted from the film.
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| El Cid priced £ 12.50
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Soundtrack to the film 'Farinelli', the 1994 biopic film about the life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time. Farinelli's singing voice was provided by a soprano, Ewa Malas-Godlewska and a countertenor, Derek Lee Ragin, who were recorded separately then digitally merged to recreate the sound of a castrato.
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| Farinelli - Il Castrato priced £ 11.19
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The Chandos label needs no introduction. It has always been renowned for the quality of performances and sound. The highly successful Chandos Movies series restores many scores to their original version and even records music that, in the end, never made it to the big screen.