Laura Rossi - Reviews

'And these troops in the mud grinned or stared at us to a new music score by Laura Rossi, brilliantly effective, played with typical dexterity and polish by the Philharmonia Orchestra under the conductor Nic Raine. Whatever piercing image you might pick — the troops’ cheerful waves, the mascot dog dead with its master, the trench channel’s mud and corpses — Rossi’s score and the IWM’s new print will help them to reverberate even further into the future.'
Geoff Brown, The Times.

'A thoughtful, elegiac work which wonderfully matched the images.'
Jerome Kuehl - History Today.

'Extremely accomplished music.'
Annette Morreau, The Independent.

'Laura Rossi has composed a hauntingly atmospheric accompaniment to the seven Silent Shakespeares featured on this tape. A graduate of the London College of Music, Rossi is an award-winning young musician making a startling debut. Under Rossi's direction, the mood sweeps through a spectrum of spine-tingling emotions, encapsulating the drama and poetry of each tale.'
British Film Institute.

'The BFI should be congratulated on this tape. It provides a rare opportunity to see these beautiful early films which are now much too fragile to project.'
Martin Scorsese.

'Watching them - hearing the cellos and violins, the piano solos - becomes a dream-like experience.'
Nicci Gerrard, The Observer.

'Musical director Laura Rossi's tremolo sound effects portentously drive home the horror of the experience, her nondiegetic mood music perpetuating the silent-film custom of emulating the elaborate orchestral arrangements in nineteenth-century theatrical playhouses...both films offer a sensuous attraction for eye and ear, with rich stencil coloring and the sonic punctuation of Rossi's musical score.'
Kenneth S. Rothwell, Shakespeare Quarterly.

'Sonorous soundtrack by Laura Rossi. A dream to be shared.'
Sergio Salvia Coelho, Folha de Sao Paulo. ****