Orchestra SKU: HL.14005162
Composed by Benjamin Britten. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Score. Composed 2001. 70 pages. Chester Music #CH61781. Published by Chester Music (HL.14005162). ISBN 9780711987586. 7.0x10.0x0.259 inches.
Love from a Stranger was a 'thriller' starring Ann Harding and Basil Rathbone, based on an Agatha Christie short story, Philomel Cottage. As well as Britten's score, the film also included excerpts from Grieg's Peer Gynt music, and a contemporary dance band. Not all of the present score was used - No. 3, Brighton, was omitted and cuts were made in nos. 5 and 6. In the latter, a savage cut deleted the references to the music of the other numbers in bars 13-20, including the trombone's scale, which alludes to a scene in which a child practices the piano unseen. Britten was not happy with the way his music was used, and this was to remain his only work for the commercial cinema composed in 1936.
