This release pairs film/television composer and orchestrator Nan Schwartz with Australian composer Brenton Broadstock in a program of orchestral music with its roots deep in jazz.

Raised at the heart of the Hollywood music scene, Schwartz’s sound has a lithe, film-score clarity, showcased in lucid performances by Australian conductor Kevin Purcell and Vienna’s Synchron Stage Orchestra. The brooding Aspirations and nostalgic Perspectives – shot through with (another Aussie) jazz guitarist Jon Delaney’s atmospheric solos – were written almost two decades apart for The New American (later Henry Mancini Institute) Orchestra. Angels Among Us sees Mat Jodrell’s trumpet evoke distant, elegiac longing, while Romanza‘s wistful violin (Dimitrie Leivici) floats above cool strings.

Broadstock wrote Made in...