Composer of the Week - Franz Waxman - Cabaret Scenes and Gothic Fantasies

Donald Macleod explores the era going from the heady world of 1920s German cabaret to the supernatural drama of Hitchcock's Rebecca, via a quintessential piece of early Hollywood horror. Allein in einer grossen Stadt (arr. Fontaine) Ute Lemper Gruss und Kuss - Veronika Eva Busch Weintraubs Synkopators Hollander, arr. Wachsmann (Waxman's name in German): Falling In Love Again Marlene Dietrich Friedrich Hollander and his Symphony of Jazz The Bride Of Frankenstein - film score (Main Title; Danse Macabre; The Creation of the Female Monster) Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra Kenneth Alwyn (conductor) Rebecca - film score (Arrival at Manderley; Mrs Danvers; Rebecca's Room; The New Mrs De Winter; The Fire - Epilogue) Royal Scottish National Orchestra Joel McNeely (conductor).