Christopher Gunning

Christopher Gunning

出生 : 1944-08-05, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK

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Christopher Gunning (born 5 August 1944) is an English composer of concert works and music for films and television. Gunning was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where his tutors included Edmund Rubbra and Richard Rodney Bennett. Gunning's film and TV compositions have received many awards, including the 2007 BAFTA Award for Best Film Music for La Vie en Rose, as well as three additional awards for Agatha Christie's Poirot, Middlemarch, and Porterhouse Blue. He has also won three Ivor Novello Awards, for the TV miniseries Rebecca, and the film scores for Under Suspicion (1991), and Firelight (1997). His other film scores include Goodbye Gemini (1970), Hands of the Ripper (1971), Ooh... You Are Awful (1972), the film version of Man About the House (1974), In Celebration (1975), Rogue Male (1976), Charlie Muffin (1979), Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981), Knights of God (1987), When the Whales Came (1989), Lighthouse Hill (2004) and Grace of Monaco (2014). In the 1970s and 1980s, Gunning collaborated with rock musician Colin Blunstone and was responsible for the distinctive string arrangement on Blunstone's 1972 hit "Say You Don't Mind". He also provided the haunting string arrangements on "Won't Somebody Dance With Me", the Ivor Novello award-winning song written and performed by Lynsey De Paul as well as another of de Paul's hit singles "My Man and Me" and her 1974 album "Taste Me... Don't Waste Me". Gunning's scores for The Big Battalions, Wild Africa, Cold Lazarus and When the Whales Came also received nominations for BAFTA and Ivor Novello Awards, and his music for the Martini advertising campaign, heard around the world for thirty years, won three Clio Awards. Gunning composed the music for nearly all of the Poirot TV films starring David Suchet, and worked on all three series of Rosemary and Thyme featuring Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris. In addition to performances of his television and film scores, Gunning's Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra and The Lobster have been performed at various venues including London's Southbank Centre. The Saxophone Concerto, played by John Harle with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, has been released by Sanctuary Classics, The Lobster is available on the Meridian label, and the Piano Concerto, Symphony No. 1 and Storm have been released by Albany Records. Recent works include concertos for the oboe and clarinet and the CD Skylines. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performed the premiere of Symphonies No.3 and No.4, coupled with Concerto for Oboe and String Orchestra. This has been released by Chandos Records. Gunning has now completed twelve symphonies, several of which have been recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer and released on Signum Classics. In recognition of Gunning's unique contribution to music, he received a BASCA Gold Badge Award 19 October 2011. Gunning has four daughters and lives in Hertfordshire. One of his daughters is a professional oboist. Another runs the travel blog wanderlustchloe.com. Source: Article "Christopher Gunning" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Christopher Gunning

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グレース・オブ・モナコ 公妃の切り札
グレース・オブ・モナコ 公妃の切り札
Music
人気の絶頂でハリウッド・スターの座を捨て、モナコ公妃となったグレース・ケリーはモナコ宮殿のしきたりに馴染めず、公務に勤しむ夫レーニエ3世とのすれ違いも重なり孤独を感じていた。結婚から5年が過ぎた1961年12月、グレースのもとにハリウッド時代の知己だったヒッチコックが新作映画「マーニー」の脚本を携え会いに来る。ヒッチコックは、宮殿で孤立するグレースに「マーニー」の主演を引き受けて欲しい」と依頼する。
エディット・ピアフ～愛の讃歌～
エディット・ピアフ～愛の讃歌～
Orchestra conductor
1915年、フランス・パリの貧しい家庭に生まれたエディット・ジョヴァンナ・ガション。母は路上で歌を歌い、日銭を稼ぐ毎日だった。その後、祖母が経営する娼館に預けられた彼女は、娼婦ティティーヌたちに可愛がられ束の間の安らぎを得る。やがて兵役から戻った父に引き取られると、路上で大道芸をする父の手伝いをする中で、自らも人前で歌うことを覚えるのだった。そして1935年、路上で歌を歌い日銭を稼いでいた彼女は、パリ市内の名門クラブのオーナー、ルイ・ルプレにスカウトされ大きな転機を迎えた。ルプレによってピアフと名付けられた彼女は、歌手としてデビューするや、瞬く間にスターダムへと駆け上っていくのだったが…。
エディット・ピアフ～愛の讃歌～
エディット・ピアフ～愛の讃歌～
Original Music Composer
1915年、フランス・パリの貧しい家庭に生まれたエディット・ジョヴァンナ・ガション。母は路上で歌を歌い、日銭を稼ぐ毎日だった。その後、祖母が経営する娼館に預けられた彼女は、娼婦ティティーヌたちに可愛がられ束の間の安らぎを得る。やがて兵役から戻った父に引き取られると、路上で大道芸をする父の手伝いをする中で、自らも人前で歌うことを覚えるのだった。そして1935年、路上で歌を歌い日銭を稼いでいた彼女は、パリ市内の名門クラブのオーナー、ルイ・ルプレにスカウトされ大きな転機を迎えた。ルプレによってピアフと名付けられた彼女は、歌手としてデビューするや、瞬く間にスターダムへと駆け上っていくのだったが…。
Lighthouse Hill
Lighthouse Hill
Original Music Composer
After his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village where residents seem to know a lot more about him than they should.
Firelight
Firelight
Original Music Composer
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.
Under Suspicion
Under Suspicion
Original Music Composer
In the late 1950s, British police officer Tony Aaron resigns from the force after sleeping with Hazel, wife of the man whose house he was supposed to guard. In his new job as a fake private investigator, he helps couples get divorces by photographing Hazel having "affairs" with the husband. When she is murdered during a job, Tony begins having an affair with the dead man's mistress, Angeline, while trying to prove his innocence.
When the Whales Came
When the Whales Came
Music
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.
The Alamut Ambush
The Alamut Ambush
Music
This British espionage thriller stars Terence Stamp as David Audley, former Oxford professor turned intelligence agent.
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
Original Music Composer
The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.
Running Blind
Running Blind
Music
Cold War thriller set in Iceland – a British agent and his Icelandic fiancee try to protect an electronic device from falling into the clutches of the KGB.
Rogue Male
Rogue Male
Original Music Composer
Early in 1939 Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
In Celebration
In Celebration
Music
In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of their parents, but dark secrets come to the fore.
Man About the House
Man About the House
Original Music Composer
An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings.Householder George Roper is happy to take the offered money and run but his wife Mildred and their lodgers join with other residents to take a stand and keep things as they are, finally winning the day
Ooh... You Are Awful
Ooh... You Are Awful
Original Music Composer
Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000 but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for coning an American and a dog. Reggie stores the money in a Swiss Bank and after Charlie is released is about to tell him which Bank when he is killed by Sid Sabbath's gang whose girlfriend Reggie had an affair with. The only lead is four tattoos that is on the girls Reggie had affairs with while Charlie was in jail. But Sabbath is on Charlie's trail to kill him and the Italians contract the mob - to find the money and then kill him.....
Hands of the Ripper
Hands of the Ripper
Original Music Composer
A series of murders occur that mirror those committed by the Whitechapel Ripper. Through his experiments with psychoanalysis Dr Pritchard discovers a deadly violence in one of his young female patients. As he delves into the recesses of her mind he uncovers that Anna is possessed by her dead father's spirit, willing her to commit acts of gruesome savagery over which she has no control. But the most chilling revelation of all is the identity of her father: Jack the Ripper himself.
Goodbye Gemini
Goodbye Gemini
Music
Unnaturally close, jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relationship is strained after they befriend a predatory hustler and his girlfriend.