Doreen Carwithen: Film Music: World premiere recordings

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Release Date: 14th Mar 2011
Catalogue No: CDLX7266
Label: Dutton
Series: Epoch
Length: 60 minutes

Carwithen: Overture: Men of Sherwood Forest

Work length4:19

$1.00

$1.40

Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra

Carwithen: Boys in Brown Suite

Work length9:15

$3.00

$4.20

Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra

I. Main Titles and Opening Scene

Track length4:31

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$1.40

II. Escape Plan

Track length2:47

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$1.40

III. Kitty and Jackie - End Titles

Track length1:57

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$1.40

Carwithen: To the Public Danger (Prelude and Apotheosis)

Work length3:23

$1.00

$1.40

Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra

Carwithen: East Anglian Holiday

Work length15:33

Album only

Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra

Carwithen: Mantrap Suite

Work length12:38

$3.00

$4.20

Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra

I. Main Titles and Opening Scene

Track length3:40

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$1.40

II. Woman in Danger

Track length6:46

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$1.40

III. Closing Scene and End Titles

Track length2:12

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$1.40

Carwithen: Three Cases of Murder Suite

Work length7:02

$3.00

$4.20

Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra

I. Main Titles

Track length1:25

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$1.40

II. Mr. X's Gavotte

Track length2:10

$1.00

$1.40

III. Reception at the Connemaras

Track length3:27

$1.00

$1.40

Carwithen: Travel Royal Suite

Work length8:41

$1.50

$2.10

Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra

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Recorded: Abbey Road Studio no.1, London, 29-30 November 2010

Here, recorded for the first time, is music from seven of the thirty-four films scored by British composer Doreen Carwithen (1922-2003) between 1947 and 1954. Carwithen’s concert overture ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another) had established her as a force to be reckoned with in 1946 when it was premiered by the LPO under Sir Adrian Boult. In 1947, she was the only female composer chosen from the RAM to be apprentice to the newly instituted J Arthur Rank Apprenticeship Scheme, which taught the art of film music. Carwithen went on to become Muir Mathieson’s assistant for two years, and had the guiding hand of renowned film composer William Alwyn (1905-1985), whom she later married. The films represented here range from drama (To the Public Danger, Boys in Brown, Mantrap, Three Cases of Murder) and the ‘Boy’s Own’ adventure yarn Men of Sherwood Forest to pictorial informative documentaries (East Anglian Holiday, Travel Royal). Carwithen is adept in providing the right mood and scoring for each of these titles. From the gentle pastoralism of East Anglian Holiday and the swashbuckling Men of Sherwood Forest through to the bold and dramatic scores for Boys in Brown, Mantrap, Three Cases of Murder and To the Public Danger, an enjoyable and varied listening experience is ensured.

Doreen Carwithen: Film Music

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