I’m not sure there’s another musician working today who truly ‘gets’ what the ‘Hollywood Sound’ was, or indeed so successfully champions its place in music culture...Music from the likes of Laura, Rebecca, The Wizard of Oz and Now, Voyager might be familiar, but it has never sounded so good thanks to Chandos’s super high quality recording. A dazzlingly rich and ravishing treat.

Top of the list is Wilson’s own suite from Max Steiner’s Now, Voyager, the much-loved Bette Davis film. Steiner’s passionate, Wagner-influenced music gets inside the head and will not let go...
All blaze into life in these performances from Wilson and the Sinfonia of London, silver-screen heroes for a new generation of film music lovers.

He has listened long and hard to the way the Hollywood studio orchestras played this music and has recreated it to the manner born for our technologically advanced times.

Every single piece is given the respect it deserves, and Wilson is never content just to go along with any performing traditions that might have accrued over the years...I can't really recall any other album recently that has been so full of such joyous, exuberant, and infectiously emotional playing.

An exercise in unapologetic nostalgia, this lovely celebration of classic Hollywood film scores is delivered with deep care and affection by Wilson and his dependably excellent players.

Chandos ensures the music hits you right between the eyes in a recording that has both depth and immediacy... Wilson, an expert in film music of this period, gets everything right – pace, emotional impact, and good old-fashioned Hollywood chutzpah – and his orchestra is superb.