6/11/2023 0 Comments Riddle on the sands![]() Howard Blake writes: The first meeting of a club to celebrate the book and film of 'The Riddle of the Sands' (THE RIDDLE OF THE SAND ADVENTURE CLUB) began with a full screening of the feature film of 1978 for which I wrote ths music. The vocal version can be heard however on CD AIRSTRIP ONE - the scores of Ridley Scott's THE DUELLISTS and Tony Maylam's THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS He requested that another version of the start and and titles be made without singers and this was the version that was finally adopted for the finished film. However a new and somewhat over-zealous voice-coach unfortunately started a totally irrelevant argument in the studio about pronunciation and this made director Tony Maylam nervous. It was recorded at CTS Studios Wembley on 18th September 1978 by The John Alldis Singers with The National Philharmonic conducted by the composer. He produced 'Das Geheimnis des Sandes' and Howard set and scored it. This was agreed with director Tony Maylam and Howard asked his friend and German literature expert Christopher Geer if he could write a period-style lyric in German describing the dawn and seascape in the North German islands where the film was shot. ![]() The long opening title sequence of the film lent itself to a song of some sort and Howard suggested a soprano and contralto chorus to sing a part-song with full orchestral accompaniment, rather in the classical period style of the early nineteen-hundreds. ![]() ![]() Featuring Michael York, Simon McCorkindale, Francesca Annis, Alan Badel. ![]()
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