MUSIC FOR GREAT FILMS OF THE SILENT ERA, VOL. 2 SILENT FILM HEROINES
Wallis Giunta, Mezzo-Soprano
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland)
Paul Phillips, conductor
Lillian Gish
Mary Pickford
Greta Garbo
Gloria Swanson
Vilma Banky
Betty Bronson
Pearl White
Janet Gaynor
Summer Nocturne - Timothy Hutchins, flute
Brass from the Past - Nick Byrne, ophicleide
I. Blue Ophicleide
II. Military Ophicleide
III. Pastoral Ophicleide
IV. Latin Ophicleide
Hearts of the World
Wallis Giunta, Mezzo-Soprano, John Brancy, Baritone
SILENT FILM HEROINES
32:50
1.
I. Lillian Gish (Orphans of the Storm)
04:51
2.
II. Mary Pickford (Pollyanna)
03:33
3.
III. Greta Garbo (A Woman of Affairs)
03:56
4.
IV. Gloria Swanson (Fine Manners)
04:56
5.
V. Vilma Banky (The Night of Love)
03:28
6.
VI. Betty Bronson (Peter Pan)
03:37
7.
VII. Pearl White (The Perils of Pauline)
02:31
8.
VIII. Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven)
05:58
9.
SUMMER NOCTURNE
12:05
BRASS FROM THE PAST
21:39
10.
I. Blue Ophicleide
06:09
11.
II. Military Ophicleide
03:33
12.
III. Pastoral Ophicleide
04:04
13.
IV. Latin Ophicleide
07:53
14.
HEARTS OF THE WORLD
12:04
Total Playing Time: 1:19:09
Music for Great Films of the Silent Era Volume II
Composer-Producer William Perry has played a major role in the revival of interest in silent films, both through his more than 100 silent film scores and through his Emmy Award-winning TV series The Silent Years, hosted by Orson Welles and Lillian Gish. A rich array of Perry's film music was presented in the critically-acclaimed Naxos recording, Music for Great Films of the Silent Era (8.572567). Now this companion volume offers a further view of Perry's colorful and exuberant writing, including his new Silent Film Heroines song-suite for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, celebrating eight of the legendary actresses of the silent cinema. Perry's supremely melodic sense of period and style captures perfectly the romance, grandeur and humor of those entertaining days when "Movies were movies!"
Mary Pickford 
Gloria Swanson 
Betty Bronson 
Janet Gaynor
