A
live Philharmonia Orchestra concert screening of the 1927 silent film Love,
featuring the world premiere of a new score.
The
Philharmonia Orchestra provides live accompaniment to a screening of Love,
featuring virtuoso violinist Vadim Repin and conducted by Frank Strobel.
Aphrodite
Raickopoulou has written a new score for this classic silent film, which is
based on Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina. The score was written especially
for the renowned violinist Vadim Repin, whom Yehudi Menuhin described as 'the
best violinist I have ever heard'.
Made
in 1927 by director Edmund Goulding, Love starred the most celebrated
screen couple of the era: Greta Garbo and John Gilbert. The New York Times
motion picture critic Mordaunt Hall described Greta Garbo, in this role, as 'a
blonde Mona Lisa' and wrote that she 'outshines any other performance she has
given to the screen'.
In
2012, Aphrodite Raickopoulou's score for Faustwas premiered in Royal
Festival Hall by Carmen Zgouras Special Entertainment.
'Raickopoulou's
music mirrored the film's fantastical qualities with intensely-coloured string
passages and some Wagner-esque brass... [her] sweepingly symphonic writing
amplified the dramatic turbulence of Murnau's movie with a passion that would
surely have impressed the director himself.' (The Arts Desk on Faust)
A
Carmen Zgouras Special Entertainment Production.
Love starring Vadim Repin and Greta Garbo is dedicated to Mrs Alfiya
Kuanysheva for her special contribution to the Arts.
Carmen Zgouras is proud to
announce this concert will launch the 2016 UK-Russia Year of Language and
Literature, as it is based on Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.
