Escape Me Never

music for the film

General Information – Instrumentation – Manuscript – Publication – Arrangements – Recordings

General Information:

Composition:
1934

Film First Shown:
14 October 1935. London Pavilion, London.

Film Personnel:
Director: Paul Czinner
Producer: Herbert Wilcox
Screenplay: From the play by Margaret Kennedy
Cast: Elisabeth Bergner, Hugh Sinclair, Penelope Dudley Ward, Leon Quartermaine
Musicians: British and Dominion Studio Orchestra, Hyam Greenbaum conductor
Studio: British and Dominion, Elstree

Craggs Catalogue Number:
C28

Instrumentation:

2 flutes, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon – 2 horns, 3 trumpets – percussion (side drum, tambourine, triangle, cymbal, celesta, cowbells, glockenspiel, vibraphone, tubular bells, gong) – harp – strings

Manuscript:

Frederick R. Koch Collection. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Manuscript FRKF 609. Autograph full score, of the complete film music, partly in a copyist's hand. 113 pages.

Publication:

This music has only been published in the arrangements listed below.

Arrangements:

Ballet Music, exerpted from the film for separate publication. Published in the composer's arrangements for full orchestra, or for piano solo.

Suite for Orchestra, arranged by Christopher Palmer, 1990

Recordings:

Apart from the film, this music has only been recorded in the arrangements listed above.

WilliamWalton.net – Catalogue of Works – Film Music