Which orchestral score would you recommend ( only 2 or 3) of scores that are not so widley known ?
How about Tristram's three "T"s?
Town on Trial (1956) Time without Pity ('57) Tread Softly Stranger ('58)
Mr. Cary wrote uncompromising modern orchestral scores before his subsequent association with electronic music. Due to the paucity of Tristram Cary's music on discs, though, appreciation of these scores is best served by watching these pre-1960 non-Hollywood monochrome films.
Thanks Doc*, I'd never heard of Peter Bateman, but his music is wonderful. Tuneful...melodic...beautifully orchestrated and spacious. I see he has two CD's available (Atlantis : The Last Days...and Summer Song).
His music sounds way too good to be considered for film music used these days!!
Doyle's INDOCHINE was a blind buy at a secondhand shop and I was brilliantly pleased with the lush orchestral cues, never having seen or heard of the film.
Nigel Westlake's BABE is another personal favorite though that's a fairly well known film.
David Michael Frank's two score CDs for THE MOLE, the defunct early-proto reality TV game show are a lot of fun. I particularly enjoy the music on the first release from Varese (I think it was season 1).
Plus many others but those three jumped to mind off hand.
Well, Joe LoDuca's ARMY OF DARKNESS is not exactly a 'hidden' gem but in case you don't know it, I cannot recommend it highly enough. Ditto for Roque Baños's exceptional SEGUNDA PIEL - if you can find a copy.
I'll back in time to the 30's - Maurice Jaubert's scores for Jean Vigo's only 2 films of any length - Zero for Conduct (Zero de conduite) and L'Atalante, themselves gems that have inspired a lot of filmmakers even as they were barely distributed at the time of release.
Jaubert sadly died at the beginning of WWII, but his output for film, ballet and the concert hall in the 30s is worth a listen. François Truffaut used his music for 3 of his films in the 70s (Georges Delerue did the adaptations.)
