The Film Music of Clifton Parker (Includes 'treasure Island' & 'sink the Bismarck!')

"Clifton Parker's claim to fame rests on his film music and specifically on Seascape from Western Approaches. He had a real gift for sea music both tender and stormy. Don't miss it."
- MusicWeb Feb 2005

In September last year Chandos released its first recording with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Gordon Langford's Orchestral Classics was such a big success that we asked the orchestra to record some of Chandos' hugely popular Film Music discs. The BBC Concert Orchestra is particularly at home in lighter repertoire - it is, after all, the official orchestra of Britain's longest-running live music programme on radio, Friday Night is Music Night, the show which, for the past fifty years, has featured artists from the world of opera and musical theatre, performing the very best of popular classics. Chandos Movies is one of the best known film music labels in the industry and has received tremendous critical acclaim.The series is especially
associated with the conductor Rumon Gamba whose understanding of the form shines through.

Clifton Parker was a prolific composer in the British film industry during the 1940s and 50s. Originally singled out by legendary music director Muir Matheson, he went on to enjoy a twenty-year career in the movies. Inexplicably, his work, distinctive for its lively, symphonic style, is little known today, despite his having written the scores for a number of classic movies.

Contains premiere recordings.