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Interesting French film playing late on Sky 301 this week. The Page Turner it's on tonight 12.15. I very much enjoyed it and an enjoyable Shostakovich trio is featured, looks convincingly played by the actors. Is it?
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It's music for a television series rather than for a film but I always have a soft spot and get quite nostalgic when I hear the music for the 1960s Robinson Crusoe series, composed by Robert Mellin and Gian-Pierro Reverberi.
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Interesting French film playing late on Sky 301 this week. The Page Turner it's on tonight 12.15. I very much enjoyed it and an enjoyable Shostakovich trio is featured, looks convincingly played by the actors. Is it?
I gather that the actors played simplified versions of the music in some scenes. It's certainly a very fine film, with some wonderful performances - Catherine Frot is normally cast in light comedy and gives a commanding performance against type in the role of the pianist. And one will never see a cello spike in the same light again ... |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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.......an enjoyable Shostakovich trio is featured, looks convincingly played by the actors. Is it?
I gather that the actors played simplified versions of the music in some scenes. It's certainly a very fine film, with some wonderful performances - Catherine Frot is normally cast in light comedy and gives a commanding performance against type in the role of the pianist. And one will never see a cello spike in the same light again ... Indeed (not to give away anything to others not having seen the film) that seemed an unlikely event, though I've never closely examined a spike Other than the keyboard Bach I recall there was some other music, maybe Imdb or somewhere will list it. John W |
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« Reply #20 on: 11:49:14, 22-12-2007 » |
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.......an enjoyable Shostakovich trio is featured, looks convincingly played by the actors. Is it?
I gather that the actors played simplified versions of the music in some scenes. It's certainly a very fine film, with some wonderful performances - Catherine Frot is normally cast in light comedy and gives a commanding performance against type in the role of the pianist. And one will never see a cello spike in the same light again ... Indeed (not to give away anything to others not having seen the film) that seemed an unlikely event, though I've never closely examined a spike Other than the keyboard Bach I recall there was some other music, maybe Imdb or somewhere will list it. John W The two main works played in the film are the finale of Shostakovich's second piano trio and Schubert's Notturno. |
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« Reply #21 on: 13:16:34, 22-12-2007 » |
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Other than the keyboard Bach I recall there was some other music, maybe Imdb or somewhere will list it.
John W
Regrettably, the IMDB seems to be woefully unconcerned with the musical scores of the movies catalogued. At least the ones I have looked at. |
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« Reply #22 on: 00:10:29, 29-12-2007 » |
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It's music for a television series rather than for a film but I always have a soft spot and get quite nostalgic when I hear the music for the 1960s Robinson Crusoe series, composed by Robert Mellin and Gian-Pierro Reverberi.
Oh Tony! I'm not the only one then? I've just noticed this reply to something I wrote back in March, KB! I got the series on DVD to replace my VHS recordings this summer (it had only just appeared in that format) and I've got the CD. |
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« Reply #23 on: 23:34:36, 29-12-2007 » |
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It's music for a television series rather than for a film but I always have a soft spot and get quite nostalgic when I hear the music for the 1960s Robinson Crusoe series, composed by Robert Mellin and Gian-Pierro Reverberi.
Oh Tony! I'm not the only one then? Oh damn. I saw lots of repeats of these as a child in the Summer Holidays, and I would dearly love to hear the tune again. But I just have it on the cusp of my eardrum, as it were. Tommo |
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« Reply #24 on: 01:19:03, 30-12-2007 » |
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I think you can find it here. |
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« Reply #25 on: 08:19:57, 30-12-2007 » |
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Does anybody remember the theme tune for Garry Halliday (probably the second series) back in the early 60s? Some fairly wild big-band jazz, ear-grabbing at the time.
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« Reply #26 on: 10:40:48, 30-12-2007 » |
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I think you can find it here. Thank you Kitty - no longer on the aural tip-of-my-tongue, and hapilly rolling around my brain for the rest of the day! Tommo |
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« Reply #27 on: 11:37:28, 30-12-2007 » |
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Gosh, thanks for that Kitty. I am now basking in nostalgia. It was just as `wobbly` as I remembered it!  |
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« Reply #29 on: 08:17:01, 31-12-2007 » |
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It's music for a television series rather than for a film but I always have a soft spot and get quite nostalgic when I hear the music for the 1960s Robinson Crusoe series, composed by Robert Mellin and Gian-Pierro Reverberi. Oh Tony! I'm not the only one then? Members may be interested to see that this has recently appeared at thebox.bz. Here is what is said about it there: " Unseen on television for many years, this is the definitive television version of Daniel Defoe's classic adventure story of a young Englishman's solo quest for survival on a desert island.
"Filmed extensively on location in the Canary Islands, the serial boasts feature-film production values, a very distinctive Crusoe in the shape of Austrian actor Robert Hoffmann, and a haunting and unforgettable music score.
"Produced by Franco-London Films in 1964, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe made its U.K. debut on B.B.C.1 in 1965, and thereafter became a staple part of the school summer holiday schedules before finally being exiled to a French film archive in 1982, where, incidentally, these last remaining prints of the English version were discovered." Mr. Watson's encouraging words about the music are there confirmed! The story has what we suppose is called a "powerful sub-text" does it not? There is a much more recent French version, in colour; it too quite affecting in its way - we wonder how the two compare in the eyes of the cognoscenti . . . |
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