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Sound of Cinema Podcast

Sound of Cinema: Game Changers

Sound of Cinema: Game Changers: Part 1

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Part 1 Game Changers

Sound of Cinema

BBC Radio 3 - Sound of Cinema, Game Changers, Part 1

Matthew Sweet and Neil Brand explore film music from the golden age of cinema.

Exploring film scores in which composers rethought the nature of the genre, Matthew Sweet and Neil Brand focus on music for films made during the golden age of cinema.

Matthew Sweet and Neil Brand look back on the Golden Age of the cinema in the first of two programmes charting scores in which composers rethought the nature of film music. 

In today's programme music by Camille Saint-Saëns; Eric Satie; Max Steiner; Kerry Mills and Hugh Martin; Dmitri Tiomkin; Leith Stevens; Bernard Herrmann and Ennio Morricone.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet and Neil Brand explore film scores that changed the nature of the genre

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