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!"

Music for Great Films of the Silent Era II

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