The Night of the Hunter (Criterion Collection)Blu ray. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed is truly a standalone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum (CAPE FEAR, THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE) as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters (A PLACE IN THE SUN,

Clarinetist

Rostropovich and Oistrakh

snare drum soloist and featured solo percussionist

was the first major antiwar film to come out of Germany after World War II

Onslow's strict classical style

[5th MC3106] "Right at the opening

conducted by 17th Thomaskantor Gotthold Schwarz

the composer uses a modern idiom with wisdom and discretion which creates a spontaneous musical eloquence and cantabile sound

for which Franziska Pietsch is predestined

Rosso Porpora begins in this debut recording it's personal exploration and celebration of the madrigal

"New Level of Malevolence" - The little album that by could and should

including the ensemble heard in this historic recording