Symphonic Visions: music for silent films by Ed Hughes

A DVD release comprising five original musical compositions (composed 2015-2017) to accompany silent films ranging in dates from 1902 to 2016, all viewable on this disc. Including Brighton: Symphony of a City (2016) by Lizzie Thynne (University of Sussex). Also including an essay by Prof Mervyn Cooke (University of Nottingham). Cooke describes this album as 'a complex meditation on general issues of darkness and light, both moral and musical'. Released on Metier Records (USA) in February 2018.