COMPOSERS: Sir Malcolm Arnold
LABELS: Naxos
ALBUM TITLE: The Roots of Heaven, David Copperfield: Classic Film Scores by Sir Malcolm Arnold
WORKS: The Roots of Heaven, David Copperfield
PERFORMER: Moscow Symphony Orchestra/ William Stromberg
CATALOGUE NO: 8.573366 (2000)
The jewel here is The Roots of Heaven: multi-coloured, symphonic in scope. Copperfield, Malcolm Arnold’s last cinema score, is smaller and thinner, but nothing stops the Moscow players excelling. Geoff Brown