After producing manifold high-quality volumes on British film music composers ranging from Addinsell to Vaughan Williams, Chandos Movies turns its attention to two prominent English composers whose individual output for film doesn't amount to enough to fill a whole CD: Constant Lambert and Lord Berners. These two were friends, and this is more than a little unusual, as you couldn't imagine personalities more dissimilar. Lambert, the ex-"angry young man" who settled into a position as conductor of the Sadler-Wells ballet ...
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After producing manifold high-quality volumes on British film music composers ranging from Addinsell to Vaughan Williams, Chandos Movies turns its attention to two prominent English composers whose individual output for film doesn't amount to enough to fill a whole CD: Constant Lambert and Lord Berners. These two were friends, and this is more than a little unusual, as you couldn't imagine personalities more dissimilar. Lambert, the ex-"angry young man" who settled into a position as conductor of the Sadler-Wells ballet company without conquering his addiction to alcohol, and Berners, the contrite, noble, and dapper diplomat who was nevertheless in his off-hours something of an artistic renaissance man: painter, novelist, and composer. What the two also share in this context is that their film music all dates to their last years of activity, a period when both composers -- who had in their youth enthusiastically embraced modernistic styles -- had moved into more conventional methods of expression while...
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