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Music by Raff used in films

Started by adriano, Wednesday 11 April 2018, 09:41

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adriano

One could start this theme (if it's welcomed) with this example:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Judex-DVD-Region-US-NTSC/dp/B0001Y4MJA/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1523435524&sr=8-2-fkmr1&keywords=judex+feuillade

In this excellently remastered version of Feuillade's silent crime series of 1915 (of which I am a great fan), composer Robert Israel created an excellent soundtrack, made of (orchestral) arragements and pastiches of different Romantic pieces (including the theme of Alkan's Etude VIII, op. 39 as a main title and thorough leitmotif). The 10th and 12th episode of this series has Raff's Adagio from "Lenore" as an accompaniment of paceful family life scenes.

eschiss1

See also IMDb: some music by Raff was used in the film Downtown Express (2011) (not sure what, though- has anyone seen the film?)

adriano

Oh well, it's the Cavatina (track No. 3 of the soundtrack disc):
https://downtownexpress.bandcamp.com/album/downtown-express-the-soundtrack
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798143/soundtrack

Speaking about the Cavatina, in this album we can hear Debussy's transcritpion of Raff's piece:
https://www.europadisc.co.uk/classical/137119/Debussy_-_Centenary_Discoveries.htm
(suppose these discoveries are also in the complete Debussy CD edition by Warner)

Mark Thomas

It's always the Cavatina! The piece on the Debussy set is his piano arrangement of the piano four hands Humoreske in Waltzform. It's a pretty piece, but not particularly well played unfortunately.

adriano

Oh yes, sorry, Mark, for my mistake :-(
Good enough, since there are already enough arrangements of the Cavatina around...

britishcomposer

There is a 1993 romansh (rumantsch) movie, an unhappy love story about two young people who have ben left unaware that they are in fact brother and sister. It's called ,,Levzas Petras" (Bitter Lips) and uses the lovely main subject of the slow movement of Raff's Spring Symphony, No. 8.
You can watch it here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TbX5xkLXp10

adriano

Thanks, britishcomposer :-)
As a Swiss, I should have had perhaps an idea about this movie...
And to those members in here, who do not know what "rumantsch is, we should explain that it is our 4th national language :-)

semloh

Ah, what I we called "Romansh" back in school days!