Charles Gerhardt
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Biography
[Edit]Gerhardt was the first conductor to treat film soundtracks in the same manner as fine concert music. He re-recorded the music with a professional orchestra, thereby encouraging awareness of the many composers writing for the medium.
He began to play the piano at the age of five and was already composing and orchestrating his scores at nine. His formal studies were undertaken at the College of William and Mary and the Juilliard School of Music. During World War II, Gerhardt, known to his friends simply as Chuck, was a chaplain's assistant. At the conclusion of the conflict, he enrolled at the universities of Illinois and Southern California. Upon graduation, he was hired by RCA Victor to transfer old recordings by legendary artists such as Enrico Caruso and British pianist Artur Schnabel for issue on the new LP-formatted vinyl records. He soon advanced to the mixing and the assembly of new recordings by such artists as Sir Adrian Boult, Leopold Stokowski, Massimo Freccia, Alexander Gibson, René Leibowitz, Erich Leinsdorf, Charles Münch, Fritz Reiner, and James Levine. Gerhardt met and became friends with many of these legendary conductors. Arturo Toscanini, who had created the NBC Symphony for RCA Victor, worked with Gerhardt for several years and encouraged him in the direction of a conducting career.
In 1955, Gerhardt left RCA Victor and began production work for the American Westminster Company in London and Vienna. When the company went bankrupt, Gerhardt worked briefly for Bell Sound producing the recordings of several pop music artists like Eddie Fisher.
In 1960, Gerhardt returned to RCA Victor and, together with Kenneth Wilkinson, produced a series of classical music albums that featured well-known artists for Reader's Digest. The first series of 12 LPs was entitled The Festival of Light.
In 1961, Gerhardt began the work that was to make him legendary when, substituting for a contracted conductor who had to cancel at the last moment, he led the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with a pencil at a recording session in the Walthamstow Assembly Hall. By 1964, Gerhardt had assembled, together with Sydney Sax, an orchestra they named the National Philharmonic, which brought together many of the finest musicians in London. With this group, Gerhardt created more than 600 albums for Reader's Digest over the next 12 years. In 1968, Gerhardt recorded the first of his albums of film scores, entitled Great Music from the Movies, which included a 17-minute suite arranged by Gerhardt of Korngold's music for the film King's Row. In 1972, because of the success of the film music arrangements, RCA contracted Gerhardt to produce a series of recordings, entitled Classic Film Scores. The first of these was the music for the film Sea Hawk by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The composer's son, George Korngold, became the producer for the 12-album series, which included music by Alfred Newman, Max Steiner, Franz Waxman, Dimitri Tiomkin, Bernard Herrmann, and John Williams. Gerhardt used the National Philharmonic and prepared suites of the music when the original composer had not done so. Gerhardt would meet with the composers and discuss with them the forms these arrangements should take, to remain faithful to their intentions. Many of Gerhardt's suites continue to be used in concert performances. ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Rovi
Title: Classic Film Scores: The Sea Hawk
Artist: National Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Classic Film Scores: Spellbound
Artist: National Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Classic Film Scores: Sunset Boulevard
Artist: National Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Classic Film Scores: Casablanca
Artist: National Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Charles Gerhardt Conducts Classic Film Scores (CD11)
Artist: Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Classical
Title: Charles Gerhardt Conducts Classic Film Scores (CD2)
Artist: Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Classical
Title: Charles Gerhardt Conducts Classic Film Scores (CD3)
Artist: Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Classical
Title: Charles Gerhardt Conducts Classic Film Scores (CD5)
Artist: Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Classical
Title: Charles Gerhardt Conducts Classic Film Scores (CD7)
Artist: Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Classical
Title: Classic Film Scores: Bernard Herrmann
Artist: Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack, Classical
Title: Classic Film Scores: Citizen Kane
Artist: Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack, Classical
Title: Classic Film Scores: Errol Flynn
Artist: Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack, Classical
Title: Lost Horizon (The Classic Film Scores Of Dimitri Tiomkin)
Artist: Charles Gerhardt, Gerhardt NPO
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack, Classical
Title: Spellbound: The Classic Film Scores Of Miklos Rozsa
Artist: Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack, Classical
Title: Charles Gerhardt Conducts Classic Film Scores (CD4)
Artist: The Wind, Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Classical
Title: Classic Film Scores: Alfred Newman (Original Soundtrack)
Artist: Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Charles Gerhardt Conducts Classic Film Scores (CD12)
Artist: Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Classical
Title: The Motion Picture And Television Music Of Lee Holdridge
Artist: Lee Holdridge, Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack, Classical
Title: Classic Film Scores: Captain Blood
Artist: National Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack, Classical
Title: Classic Film Scores: Gone With the Wind
Artist: National Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Classic Film Scores: Bette Davis
Artist: National Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Star Wars & Return Of The Jedi (Original Soundtrack)
Artist: Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack, Classical
Title: God Bless America
Artist: Leontyne Price, National Philharmonic Orchestra, John McCarthy, The Ambrosian Singers, Charles Gerhardt
Genre:
Title: Charles Gerhardt Conducts Classic Film Scores (CD8)
Artist: Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Classical
Title: Serenade
Artist: James Galway, Charles Dutoit, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Philip Moll, The Chamber Orchestra Of Europe, Marisa Robles, Kazuhito YAMASHITA, John Birch, Charles Gerhardt, Myung Whun Chung, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, David Measham, Susumu Miyashita, Barry Griffiths, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Ayako Shinozaki, Graham Oppenheimer
Genre: New Age, World Music, Celtic
Title: Classic Film Scores: Now, Voyager
Artist: National Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Charles Gerhardt Conducts Classic Film Scores (CD10)
Artist: Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Classical
Title: Classic Film Scores: Lost Horizon
Artist: National Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Charles Gerhardt Conducts Classic Film Scores (CD1)
Artist: Charles Gerhardt
Genre: Classical
Collections
Title: 100 Bailes de Salón / 100 Bailes de Salon
Genre: Latin
Title: Classical Encores! Vol. 2
Genre:
Title: Classic Brass, Vol. 1
Genre:
Title: 200 Masterpieces: Simply Classic - Simply Essential
Genre:
Title: I Don't Like Classical Music, but I Really Like This!
Genre:
Title: Simply Grand: Piano Classics, Vol. 1
Genre:
Title: Reader's Digest Classical Collection: Nocturnes
Genre:
Title: O Sole Mio: Great Italian Songs
Genre: World Music
Title: Journey's End: Classics for Solace and Peace
Genre: Gospel
Title: Relaxing Classics, Vol. 2: Adagio
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: English Accents
Genre:
Title: Lover's Romance: A Classical Valentine
Genre:
Title: Reader's Digest Music: Classical Goth
Genre:
Title: Classical 1 Hit Wonders
Genre:
Title: Reader's Digest Music: Classic Symphonies 101
Genre:
Title: Reader's Digest Music: Silent Night: Christmas Dreams
Genre:
Title: RCA Symphony Orchestra: Film Scores and More! - Vol. 1
Genre:
Title: Classical Encores! Vol. 3
Genre:
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Genre:
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Genre:
Title: The Great Russian Masters, Vol. 1
Genre:
Title: Classical Tai Chi: Flowing Music for Mind and Body
Genre:
Title: The Great Russian Masters, Vol. 2
Genre:
Title: Melodies on Ice: The Skating Mix
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Classical Aerobics: Workout with the Masters
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Genre: New Age, Jazz, World Music, Classical, Celtic, Smooth Jazz
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Artist: James Galway
Genre: New Age, Jazz, World Music, Classical, Celtic, Smooth Jazz, Classical Crossover
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Artist: James Galway
Genre: New Age, Jazz, World Music, Classical, Celtic, Smooth Jazz
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Artist: James Galway
Genre: New Age, Jazz, World Music, Classical, Celtic, Smooth Jazz
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Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Classical
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Artist: James Galway
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Genre: Orchestral, Classical, Orchestral