Who wrote the Warsaw Concerto?
Richard Addinsell
Roy Douglas
Warsaw Concerto/Composers
About this Piece The Warsaw Concerto was written by Richard Addinsell to play a key role in the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight (also known as Suicide Squadron). Addinsell was a British composer who spent much of his creative energies on works for the stage and screen.
Who wrote the Warsaw?
Warsaw Concerto/Composers
Who wrote Cornish Rhapsody?
Hubert Bath
Cornish Rhapsody/Composers
Hubert Bath: Cornish Rhapsody – Alan Titchmarsh’s Great British Discovery – Classic FM.
Who played the Warsaw Concerto?
The film Dangerous Moonlight, and the piece everyone was talking about, and humming as they left the cinema, was the Warsaw Concerto by Richard Addinsell (1904-77). The performance they heard in the cinema and on a later disc was by Louis Kentner and the London Symphony Orchestra under Muir Mathieson.
How does the movie Brief Encounter end?
In the final scene, Laura sits in her living-room next to her husband, still upset after her painful farewell to Alec. When she burst into tears, he kindly asks her what is wrong. ‘I think I have been lost’, she says. To which he responds: ‘Thank you for coming back to me.
When did concerto begin?
The concerto originated as a genre of vocal music in the late 16th century: the instrumental variant appeared around a century later, when Italians such as Giuseppe Torelli started to publish their concertos.
What kind of music is the Warsaw Concerto?
Jump to navigation Jump to search. The Warsaw Concerto is a short work for piano and orchestra by Richard Addinsell, written for the 1941 British film Dangerous Moonlight, which is about the Polish struggle against the 1939 invasion by Nazi Germany. In performance it normally lasts just under ten minutes.
What is the Warsaw Concerto by Richard Addinsell?
Jump to navigation Jump to search. The Warsaw Concerto is a short work for piano and orchestra by Richard Addinsell, written for the 1941 British film Dangerous Moonlight, which is about the Polish struggle against the 1939 invasion by Nazi Germany.
How long is the concerto in the Warsaw Garena?
In performance it normally lasts just under ten minutes. The concerto is an example of programme music, representing both the struggle for Warsaw and the romance of the leading characters in the film. It became very popular in Britain during World War II. The concerto is written in imitation of the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Is London Fantasia a sequel to Warsaw Concerto?
British composer Clive Richardson composed London Fantasia as a sequel to the Warsaw Concerto in 1944. Spike Milligan repeatedly refers to the piece in his autobiography Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1971) and in the subsequent books in the series as ‘the bloody awful Warsaw Concerto’.