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Review: New Guitar Film Music CD!

Last year, Gregg Nestor released a surprisingly engaging album of film music, and a few concert miniatures, by Miklos Rosza. The disc drew on the composer’s wealth of thematic ideas that laid well in guitar arrangements…
New to the Library: Best of September

Most likely your wallet is as tired as mine if you love classic film music because September was filled with one great surprise after another. In fact two of my personal favorites from this month are already out of prin…
Review: Awesome Herrmann from TFC

From one set of great recordings to another and from opposite ends of the musical spectrum, it is time to encourage you to add this latest Herrmann release to your must hear list. The other day, looking through a list o…
Best/New to the "Library" for May

Had a little vacation and down time the past week so, sorry about no posts. A new pile of discs for review has arrived again and if anything looks really exciting I'll pass it along here. The floodgates were open this …
Best/New to the Collection: April

It's been a crazy couple of weeks with the semester ending and lots of grading to do. After all that, and a few reviews here and there there is not much energy left for the blog here. So, sorry about that. Though ther…
March: Best/New to the "Library"

Though it is still possible a new shipment for review may arrive this afternoon, I won't be able to get to them until April, so here are 5 picks from a meager selection for the month of March, a generally slow period an…
Best of December--New to the Library

Sorry for the delay, but I have had a little travel to deal with the past week. That and a lot of class prep and writing to get to. So, though there is a bit of a delay, here are the 5 "best" CDs that came in last mont…
North by Northwest

Just finished listening today to the limited edition release of Bernard Herrmann's North by Northwest. This time Joel McNeely moves to record with the Slovak National Symphony Orchestra. Now there are a couple of thing…
HB: Bernard Herrmann

Today marks the birthday of the legendary film composer, Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975). Herrmann's iconoclastic personality coupled with an amazingly experimental approach to instrumental combinations is remarkable. Eac…