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Today, from the Bond on Vinyl archives, we’re moving ahead a couple of years to music featured in The Living Daylights!
Two years after ‘A View to a Kill,’ composer John Barry kept up with the Tchaikovsky source music in Timothy Dalton’s first run at Bond in The Living Daylights. In the film, Kara Milovy, played by Maryam d’Abo, is a professional cellist who also doubles as a KGB agent. This story element gives plenty of opportunities for classical music.
One scene sees Kara practicing Dvořák’s ‘Concerto In B Minor For Cello And Orchestra.’ Later, near the film’s finale, Kara performs a cello solo in Tchaikovsky’s ‘Variations on a Rococo Theme.’ This performance is conducted in an onscreen cameo by John Barry himself.
I was pretty stoked to find this 1965 recording of the Philadelphia Orchestra featuring both pieces on cello.
59. Dvořák / Tchaikovsky – Philadelphia Orchestra – Cello Concerto / Variations On A Rococo Theme
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