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  • Summary: The three-disc set includes music composed by Russian composer who worked on many popular 1960s Soviet TV shows and movies.
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  1. Dec 16, 2015
    90
    A sublime, succinct overview of the composer’s sprawling catalog.
  2. Dec 16, 2015
    90
    Film Music is a beautiful package, even if it is, in the grand scheme of things, one-sided.
  3. Dec 16, 2015
    80
    The music is impossibly wistful and full of pastiche (chanson, big band, Piazzolla), but something about it gets under the skin.
  4. The Wire
    Dec 16, 2015
    80
    Despite its recourse to sentimentality, this is appealing, historic and culturally important music. [Dec 2015, p.68]
  5. Dec 16, 2015
    80
    Easy on the ears, Film Music’s approachable offerings are compounded by the high recording quality, new transfers made from original half-inch tapes in the Tariverdiev family’s Moscow apartment.
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