Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger in Swing Time. The waltz scene from Madame Bovary. Sample iconic waltzes from movies and TV during this hour of Soundtrack, and hear how they were composed to fit certain scenes.
Waltzes
Gingers Roger and Fred Astaire in "Follow the Fleet" (Photo: eBay (archived)Front and back, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons).
Playlist
Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare
London Phil Orch; John Mauceri
Jerome Kern : Swing Time
“Waltz in Swing Time”
National Phil Orch; John McGlinn
Miklos Rózsa: Madame Bovary
Waltz
Hollywood Bowl Sym Orch/John Mauceri
John Lunn: Downton Abbey
“Sunset Waltz”
Chamber Orch of London/Alastair King
Alexandre Desplat: The Painted Veil
“River Waltz”
Lang Lang, p
Shigeru Umebayashi: A Single Man
“George’s Waltz”
Brussels Phil/Dirk Brossé
Michael Giacchino: The Family Stone
“The Family Stone Waltz”
Studio Orch/Tim Simonec
Hans Zimmer: Matchstick Men
“The Banker’s Waltz”
Studio Orch/Hans Zimmer
John Lanchbery: Tales of Beatrix Potter
“The Mouse Waltz”
Royal Opera House Orch/John Lanchbery
Lerner & Loewe: My Fair Lady
“Embassy Waltz”
Sinfonia of London/John Wilson
Johann Strauss II: Waltz, “On the Beautiful Blue Danube,” Op. 314
Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
Nino Rota: The Leopard (Il Gattopardo)
Waltz
Alexandre Tharaud, p
Nino Rota: The Godfather
Waltz
Orch/Carlo Savina
Giacomo Puccini: La bohème
Musetta’s Waltz Song, “Quando m’en vo'”
Dick Hyman, p; Dominic Cortese, acc; Moe Koffman, sx; Santa Cecilia Orch/Dick Hyman
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