Symphonies for moments that will never return

 

Vladimir Cosma (1940) is a Romanian composer, conductor, and violinist; he studied music in Bucharest and in September 1962 emigrated to Paris, France with his family. There he continued his musical education at the École Normale de Musique de Paris under Nadia Boulanger's guidance as well as at the Conservatoire National Supérieur De Musique Et De Danse De Paris.

 

He started as the assistant of Michel Legrand. He has written the music for many well known French movies; he received two Césars for the best movie score, for "Diva" (1982) and "Le Bal" (1984), two 7 d'Or for the best music for television, as well as a number of prizes and awards in France and other countries.

 

Michel Bernholc (1941 - 2002) was a French pianist, arranger and composer; he arranged and conducted four Eurovision Song Contest entries between 1976 and 1995, including the winning 'Si la vie est cadeau' in 1983. Founder of Studio B. Side. 

 

Vladimir Cosma & Michel Bernholc - Musique Dramatique Et Nostalgique

Humming harmonies from the underworld

 

Riz Ortolani (1926 - 2014) was an Italian composer, conductor, and orchestrator, predominantly of film scores. He scored over 200 films and television programs between 1955 and 2014, with a career spanning over fifty years; internationally, he is best known for his genre scores, notably his music for mondo, giallo, horror, and Spaghetti Western films.

 

His most famous composition is "More," which he wrote for the infamous film Mondo Cane. 

 

Riz Ortolani - Danza Macabra

Flying through the sonic spiral

 

Ron Geesin is a Scottish self-taught composer, performer, sound architect, writer, lecturer and designer, born December 17, 1943 in Stevenson, Ayrshire. He has lived in the south of England since joining a jazz band at 17. He was co-writer of Pink Floyd's "Atom Heart Mother".

 

In 1990, Ron Geesin created his Tune Tube, a giant interactive tube in sound and light 'played' from the inside by individual's body-movements, which was a huge success at the Art Machine exhibition for "Glasgow 1990". 

 

He has composed music for innumerable films and TV programs; father of The Geesin Brothers , Dan Geesin, Fraser Geesin and Joe Geesin.

 

Ron Geesin - Electrosound

Waiting for dawn arrival

 

Andrzej Waldemar Korzyński (1940 - 2022) was a Polish composer whose work ranged from some of the biggest hits from the 1960's to the early nineties, a popular children's musical ("Akademia Pana Kleksa") and scores for some of the best Polish films of the second half of the 20th century, including Andrzej Wajda's (The Birch Wood, Man of Marble) and Andrzej Żuławski's (The Devil, Possession). 

Born in Warsaw, Korzyński graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in 1964; also he was a member of the Polish Film Academy.

Andrzej Korzynski - Trzecia Część Nocy

Dancing to multicolored melodies

 

 

Janko Nilović (1941) is a pianist, arranger and composer of Montenegrin and Greek descent who was born in Turkey and has lived in France since 1960; he has published many works, most of them on library labels not available for sale to the public. His oeuvre stretches from Classical, Jazz, and Funk to Pop, Psychedelia, and Easy Listening.

 

Janko Nilovic - Chorus

Invoking the powers of the singing nymphs

 

Milos Krkoska was born on June 21, 1965 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). A permanent collaborator of Zdeněk Troška, ​​he was born in Bratislava, where he studied composition at the conservatory. 

 

In 1984, he went abroad, continued his composition studies in Freiburg, Germany, and then in Vienna. In collaboration with the EMI Music Publishing group, his music is played all over the world. He has lived in the Czech Republic since 1999. Here, his well-known works include film music - for example, Juraj Jakubisko's film It's Better to Be Rich and Healthy Than Poor and Sick, Zdeněk Troška's fairy tales The Princess from the Mill 1 and 2, The Most Beautiful Riddle, the comedies The Stonecutter 1 - 3, or The Doctor from the Hippopotamus Lake.

 

Milos Krkoska - Other Dimensions