Frankel: Curse of the Werewolf / the Prisoner / So Long at the Fair Medley

Featuring

Carl Davis
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Benjamin Frankel

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Composer Biography

Frankel was a talented violinist who played for numerous dance bands, including those of Roy Fox and Fred Elizalde, and was known as a leading 'hot jazz' fiddler.

Composer Biography

During the last fifteen years of his life, Benjamin Frankel wrote seven symphonies, a Viola Concerto, and an opera, leading a critic to declare him 'our most eloquent symphonist' in 1969.

Composer Biography

Benjamin Frankel, a London-born composer, initially faced parental opposition to a music career and was apprenticed to a watchmaker at fourteen.

Compositional Technique

The film score for "Curse of the Werewolf" is credited as the first British feature film score to employ serial technique almost entirely, a method that became central to Frankel's concert music.

Composer Biography

Benjamin Frankel scored over a hundred films, including "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "Night of the Iguana," and was nominated for a Golden Globe for "Battle of the Bulge."

Composition History

Frankel's Violin Concerto, Op. 24, was composed in memory of the six million victims of the Holocaust and commissioned by violinist Max Rostal for the Festival of Britain in 1951.

Compositional Technique

The film score for "The Prisoner" contains Benjamin Frankel's first published experimentation with serial technique, a compositional method based on all twelve notes of the chromatic scale.