Richard Addinsell
1904 - 1977
British
Summary
Undoubtedly his most successful work was to be the Warsaw Concerto, for piano and orchestra in the grand heroic style of Rachmaninov, the most memorable feature of the film Dangerous Moonlight (1941). But his fluent and versatile writing was to prove highly suitable to a whole era of British films of the mid-twentieth century, in many instances, as in all the best film scores, contributing independently to the popular success of the film. Addinsell was a match for many cinematic genres: historic drama (Fire over England, 1937, Tom Brown's Schooldays, 1950, Beau Brummel, 1954)), psychological (Gaslight, 1940), contemporary (Love on the Dole, 1941, Life at the Top, 1965) or even comedy (The Prince and the Showgirl, 1957, Waltz of the Toreadors, 1962). He was hugely influential on a generation of British film composers and established a quality and style of full scale orchestral writing that was never bettered.
Performances
24th June 2023
- SOLOISTS
- Marco Baldelli, piano
- PERFORMERS
- Lübeck Pop Symphonics
- CONDUCTOR
- Martin Herrmann
- LOCATION
- Musik- und Kongresshalle, Lübeck, Germany
11th July 2023
- PERFORMERS
- Sinfonieorchester der Universität Bayreuth
- CONDUCTOR
- Albert Hubert
- LOCATION
- Universität, Bayreuth, Germany
18th August 2023
- PERFORMERS
- NSU Festival Orchestra
- CONDUCTOR
- Prof. Mark Cavanaugh
- LOCATION
- Arena at the Don Taft University Center, Fort Lauderdale-Davie, FL, United States of America