الاثنين، 17 أكتوبر 2011

The "Warsaw Concerto"


I heard this while driving today; it has a number of very familiar passages which I'm sure I"ve heard a dozen times, but couldn't remember where.  It sounds like it should be soundtrack from Brief Encounter, but a quick search reveals that it was composed by Richard Addinsell for the 1941 British movie, Dangerous Moonlight.
The film-makers wanted something in the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini or the Second and Third Piano Concertos, but were unable to persuade Rachmaninoff himself to write a new piece or to afford to obtain the rights for any of these existing pieces. The music was later used in another film, The Sea Wolves (1980)... 
I've not seen either of those movies.  I suspect my familiarity with it stems either from this: "The Concerto is frequently used in championship figure skating (especially in Japan)" or from its use as a filler for 10-minute spaces in classical music radio programming.

And now I can't resist reposting that parody of the closing scene of Brief Encounter.

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