James Galway at the Movies: Quiet on the Set.(Sound Recording Review)

James Galway at the Movies: Quiet on the Set. James Galway, flute; Thomas Kochen, London Mozart Players. RCA 82876-50932-2.

It had been quite some time, over a year or two, since BMG had last sent me a disc to review, leading me to believe they might have given up on the classical music market. But suddenly and out of nowhere, up pops James Galway and this new RCA release of movie music with the London Mozart Players, not a genuine classical disc, perhaps, but a sign that maybe BMG and RCA don't consider the classical market as dried up as they once thought.

The disc contains the kind of music you might expect best suited for reproduction via flute, not epic, old-time, big-scale Hollywood film music but softer, more gentle, more lyrical material. Galway and his accompanists do original music from "The Horse Whisperer," "Il Postino," "Forrest Gump," "Emma," "Far and Away," and "Cinema Paradiso," plus music adapted for movies like "She" in "Notting Hill," "O mio babbino caro" in "A Room With a View," and "Angel Band" in "O ...