If you have a favorite pianist consider

The Silent Years
Three Rhapsodies for Piano and Orchestra

(Can be performed with or without film)

 

 

1.

THE BELOVED ROGUE
with John Barrymore

8:09

2.

BLOOD AND SAND
with Rudolph Valentino

7:44

3.

THE GOLD RUSH
with Charlie Chaplin

7:51

Total Playing Time:   23:46

Performed here with film by Michael Chertock, piano
and the RTE National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland) conducted by Paul Phillips.
(Naxos 8.572567)

 

 

Instrumentation

Solo Piano

3 Flutes  (3 doubles Piccolo)
2 Oboes  (2 doubles English Horn) 
3 Clarinets in Bb  (3 doubles Bass Clarinet)   
Alto Saxophone
2 Bassoons 
4 Horns 
3 Trumpets in Bb
3 Trombones (3 is Bass Trombone)
Tuba 
Timpani 
Percussion (3 players):
Harp 
Strings

 

To read the program notes, click here

Rental includes the film material on DVD.
 
 
 

 

If you have a favorite singer consider this celebration
of the great actresses of the silent era

Silent Film Heroines A Song-Suite for Mezzo-Soprano And Orchestra

 

 

1.

 LILLIAN GISH
Orphans of the Storm  (1921) 		4:51
   
     

2.

 MARY PICKFORD
Pollyanna  (1921)

3:33
   
     

3.

 GRETA GARBO
A Woman of Affairs  (1928)

3:56
   
     

4.

 GLORIA SWANSON
Fine Manners  (1928)

4:56
   
     

5.

 VILMA BÂNKY
The Night of Love  (1927)

3:28
   
     

6.

 BETTY BRONSON
Peter Pan  (1924)

3:37
   
     

7.

 PEARL WHITE
The Perils of Pauline  (1914)

2:31
   
     

8.

 JANET GAYNOR
Seventh Heaven  (1927)

5:58
   
     

Songs Can Be Performed Separately.
Total Playing Time:  33:03

Songs performed here by Wallis Giunta
and the RTE National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland) conducted by Paul Phillips. (Naxos 8.573105)

 

 

Instrumentation

Solo Mezzo-Soprano

2 Flutes (2 doubles Piccolo)
2 Oboes (2 doubles English Horn)
2 Clarinets in Bb (2 doubles Bass Clarinet)  
Alto Saxophone
2 Bassoons
4 Horns in F
2 Trumpets in Bb
3 Trombones (3 is Bass Trombone)  
Timpani  
Percussion (2 players):
Harp  
Piano  
Strings

 

 

Booklet of lyrics can be made available for reprint or inclusion in the program.

 

  

PETER PAN
 

PEARL

 

Click here to read the Booklet and the Lyrics