With Cinemacello, Susanne Beer has made a speciality of recording and performing some of the most frequently-used pieces of 'film music' in arrangements by Gareth Hancock for cello and piano. It comes as a surprise to discover just how often certain pieces of classical music have been used in film. That sections of Dvorak's highly-popular New World Symphony should have been used repeatedly may seem unsurprising, but who would have thought that parts of Erik Satie's 'Gymnopedie' would have been used in no fewer than six main-feature films?
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, this album has real flare. Gareth's perfectly structured arrangements of Puccini's 'Un bel di' and 'O mio babbino caro' allow Susanne's playing to retain all the intensity and expression of the original arias. The same goes for their interpretation of the Andante from Mozart's Piano Concerto No.21. This piece, famously, was used in Bo Widerberg's film Elvira Madigan but also in The Spy Who Loved Me and Twelve Monkeys. The addition of a prominent cello to Mozart's original choice of instrument does add a touch of glamour.
01 Ave Marie (J.S.Bach/Charles Gounod) 2:28