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Inspired by Orson Welles, admired by Michael Powell, Ken Russell set British cinema aflame in the 1960s and 70s with his superbly crafted, often highly controversial dramatised documentaries on the lives of classical music composers.

Gravitating to film via the excellent British Monitor and Omnibus art television programmes, his subjects included Elgar, Debussy and Delius, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Mahler and Liszt. Russell pulled no punches in putting their indulgences and personal demons up on the screen beside their genius. Until then, the immortals had been sacrosanct. Ken's filmmaking was uncompromising, passionate and instinctive, revealing a gift for pairing music with images; resulting in such indelible scenes as the nude male wrestlers in Women In Love. Ken Russell's audacity was much admired. For some, he was regarded as nothing less than the saviour of British cinema, while others saw him as an outlandish 'reckless eclectic', out to
shock. His incendiary tour-de-force, The Devils, sharply divided audiences but is regarded by his disciples to be one of the top ten films of all time.

This edition comprises music from Elgar - Portrait of A Composer (voted by readers of The Sunday Times as the 'Most Memorable Television Programme Ever Made'), The Debussy Film, Delius: Song of Summer, The Music Lovers (Tchaikovsky) and Mahler, alongside Dante's Inferno (Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood), Savage Messiah (Scott Antony's effervescent debut as the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska) and Russell's breakthrough film, D.H. Lawrence's Women In Love (for which Glenda Jackson won an Oscar for Best Actress).

DISC ONE

1. Sinfonia of London with the Allegri String Quartet / Conductor: John Barbirolli - Introduction and Allegro (excerpt)

2. Sinfonia of London / Conductor: John Barbirolli - Serenade For Strings: Larghetto

3. W. H. Reed: violin / New Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Edward Elgar - Salut D'Amour

4. The London Philharmonic Orchestra / Conductor: Adrian Boult - Symphony 2: Larghetto (excerpt)

5. Richard Lewis: tenor / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Conductor: Malcolm Sargent - Dream Of Gerontius: Sanctus Fortis

6. Philharmonia Orchestra / Conductor: John Barbirolli - Enigma Variations: Nimrod

7. Paul Tortelier: cello / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Malcolm Sargent - Cello Concerto: Lento - Allegro Molto

8. Philharmonia Orchestra / Conductor: Guido Cantelli - Pr\xe9lude \xe0 l'Apr\xe8s-midi d'un faune

9. Philharmonia Orchestra / Conductor: Guido Cantelli - Nocturnes: Fetes

10. Philharmonia Orchestra / Conductor: Guido Cantelli - Le Martyre de saint S\xe9bastien : La Cour Des Lys

11. Walter Gieseking: piano - Jardins Sous Le Pluie (Gardens In the Rain)

12. Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / Conductor: Constantin Silvestri - La Mer: De L'aube \xe0 Midi Sur La Mer (From Dawn to Noon on the Sea)

13. Suzanne Cotelle: harp / Orchestre Lamoureux / Conductor: Igor Markevitch - Danse Profane

14. Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion fran\xe7aise / Conductor: Andr\xe9 Cluytens - La Bo\xeete \xe0 Joujoux (The Toybox): Le Magasin De Jouets (excerpt)

15. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Conductor: Eduard van Beinum - Berceuse H\xe9ro\xefque

16. Severino Gazzelloni: flute - Syrinx for flute sol

DISC TWO

1. USSR State Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky - Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3: Allegro Agitato

2. Hall\xe9 Orchestra / Conductor: John Barbirolli - John Ireland: The Forgotten Rite

3. Philharmonia Orchestra / Conductor: William Walton - William Walton: Henry V Suite: Touch Her Soft Lips And Part

4. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Conductor: Thomas Beecham - On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring

5. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Conductor: Thomas Beecham - Song of the High Hills - with easy movement - tranquillo

6. Luton Choral Society and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Conductor: Thomas Beecham - Song Of The High Hills - The Wide, Far Distance

7. Hall\xe9 Orchestra / Conductor: John Barbirolli - Walk To The Paradise Garden

8. Hall\xe9 Orchestra / Conductor: John Barbirolli - A Song of Summer

9. Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Roma / Conductor: Artur Rodzinski - Alexander Scriabin: Symphony No. 3: 'The Divine Poem': Volupt\xe9s (excerpt)

10. Orchestre De L'Op\xe9ra National de Paris / Conductor: Manuel Rosenthal - Claude Debussy: Nocturnes: Nuages

11 Orchestre de l'Op\xe9ra National de Paris - Choeurs de Radio France / Manuel Rosenthal - Claude Debussy: Nocturnes: Sirenes

DISC THREE

1. Albert Campbell And Henry Burr - I\u2019m Forever Blowing Bubbles (1919)

2. The National Radio Orchestra Romania / Conductor: Constantin Silvestri - Theodor Rogalski: Three Romanian Dances: Gaida

3. Philharmonia Orchestra / Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony 6: Allegro Molto Vivace

4. Philharmonia Orchestra / Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet: Fantasy Overture (excerpt)

5. Sviatoslav Richter: piano / Czech Philharmonic Orchestra / Conductor: Karel Ancerl - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1: Andantino Semplice

6. Vienna Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Charle Adler - Symphony No. 10: Adagio (excerpt)

7. New York Philharmonic / Conductor: Leonard Bernstein - Symphony No. 3: Kr\xe4ftig Entschieden ('Pan Awakes, Summer Marches In')

8. New York Philharmonic / Conductor: Leonard Bernstein - Symphony No. 3: Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck ('What The Angels Tell Me')

9. Philharmonie Orchestra / Conductor: Paul Kletzki - Symphony No. 4: Bed\xe4chtig, nicht eilen (excerpt)

10. London Philharmonic Orchestra / Conductor: Adrian Boult - Symphony No. 1: Kr\xe4ftig Bewegt, Doch Nicht Zu Schnell (excerpt)

11. London Philharmonic Orchestra / Conductor: Adrian Boult - Symphony No. 1: Feierlich Und Gemessen, Ohne Zu Schleppen (excerpt)

12. London Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Rudolf Schwarz - Symphony No. 5: Scherzo (excerpt)

13. London Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Rudolf Schwarz - Symphony No. 5: Adagietto

14. Southwest German Radio SO / Conductor: Hans Rosbaud - Symphony No. 6: Allegro Energico

15 Southwest German Radio SO / Conductor: Hans Rosbaud - Symphony No. 6: Andante Moderato (excerpt)

16. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: tenor / Berlin Philharmonic / Conductor: Rudolf Kempe - Kindertotenlieder: Wenn Dein Mutterlein Tritt Zur Tur Herein

17. Columbia Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Bruno Walter - Symphony No. 9: Andante Comodo (excerpt)

18 Philharmonia Orchestra / Conductor: Otto Klemperer - Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection': Mit Aufschwung, Aber Nicht Eilen