1941 Warsaw Concerto - Theme from Dangerous Moonlight
Douglas Holland notes:
The Warsaw Concerto is sometimes dismissed merely as a pastiche in the style of Rachmaninoff. For me
it evokes, in part the agony of Warsaw during World War II, when 850.000 of Warsaw citizens were killed, of whom 400.000 were
of Jewish ancestry and 85% of Warsaw`s buildings were totally destroyed. This in turn acts as a reminder of the
often tragic History of Poland and her people.
Warsaw Concerto Notes and Links
Warsaw Concerto was composed for the film
Dangerous Moonlight by
Richard Addinsell and was then orchestrated by
Roy Douglas in the style of
Sergei Rachmaninoff, whom the producers had originally approached
to write the theme, but he had declined the
commission.
In the video the Music in being played by the
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra featuring the Swedish Pianist
Patrik Jablonsk
The scenes in the video are in order:
From 1.07 to 2.04 min: Ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto 1945
From 2.23 to 2.46 min: General Eisenhower in the Old Town in Warsaw 1945
From 9.02-9.19 min: Destroyed monument of King Sigismund Wasa and ruin of Royal Castle 1945.
From 9.19 to the End: monument of King Sigismund Wasa and ruin of Royal Castle in 2008
Links:
Warsaw Concerto - Wikipedia Entry
Richard Addinsell - Wikipedia Entry
Roy Douglas - Wikipedia Entry
Notes:
The film's love-story plot revolves around the fictional composer of the Warsaw Concerto, a piano virtuoso and shell-shocked combat pilot,
who meets an American War Correspondent in Warsaw, esacpes to America, but then travels to Britain to join the RAF to continue to fight
against the Nazis World War II occupation of Poland.
Re-titled: Suicide Squadron for US Audiences
Links:
The film notes above were extracted from:
Dangerous Moonlight - Wikipedia Entry
