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An album to listen to during the weekend: film music interpreted by the violinist Daniel Hope, excerpted from the The Hollywood Album – Escape to Paradise album, which was released by the recording label Deutsche Grammophon, on 1^st September, 2014.

This is not any kind of film music, but arrangements of soundtracks from the inter-war period; and not any kind of composers, but a number of European authors who were forced to leave Nazi Germany and to immigrate to America, among which, Miklós Rózsa, John Waxman and Hanns Eisler. Therefore, exiled composers, with whom he empathizes, because of his own life experience: his grandparents left Germany and established themselves in South Africa, and then, due to apartheid, his parents left South Africa to build a new life in England.

Daniel Hope has also distinguished guests on his Escape to Paradise album: the famous Sting, who sings a song composed by Hanns Eisler, and the German vocalist Max Raabe, soloist in a musical composition belonging to Kurt Weill.

I am altogether mentioning the presence of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Shelley, and now we have the complete picture of a charming album, which reunites not only old film music themes, among which, the famous music theme from Casablanca, but also more recent successful ones from Schindler's List, Cinema Paradiso or American Beauty.