Concert Reviews and Previews

Our performance reviews section covers any kind of live musical entertainment, such as concerts, shows or musicals, and including recordings of live performances or film versions of broadway musicals. We present performances by the RSNO and other leading orchestras and groups from the worlds of classical music and film music. (Since these worlds are the main focus of mfiles we maintain that these worlds are not so far apart). In addition we list here some recordings of live concerts or films of shows.

• Silence, Night & Dreams (Album and UK Premiere Concert) by Zbigniew Preisner



• The Producers (Original Cast Recording) by Mel Brooks (musical based on his film of the same name)



• Michael Nyman - Music from the Movies featuring the film music of Michael Nyman



• Alexander Nevsky (in film and concert versions) by Sergei Prokofiev



• Man with a Movie Camera a 1929 film with new music by Michael Nyman



• Northern Sounds...Islands a new orchestral work by Craig Armstrong



• 80th birthday concert of veteran film composer Elmer Bernstein



• West Side Story - the film version of the stage musical by Leonard Bernstein



• Wings of a Film - a live recording of a concert of film music by Hans Zimmer



• All 15 symphonies of composer Dmitri Shostakovich conducted by Alexander Lazarev



• 70th birthday concert of that other veteran film composer Jerry Goldsmith