Classically trained in St. Petersburg, Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution, composer and conductor, Dimitri Tiomkin,  emigrated to Berlin and then New York City after World War One. He would go on to be one of the most successful and celebrated composers of film music in the history of cinema.

In 1929, after the stock market crash, he moved to Hollywood, where he became best known for his scores for Western films, including Duel In The Sun, Red River, High Noon, The Big Sky, 55 Days At Peking, Gunfight At The O.K. Corral, and Last Train From Gun Hill. Nominated for 22 Academy Awards, he won four of them, for Best Original Score for High Noon, The High And The Mighty and The Old Man And The Sea and for Best Original Song for High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin’).

In the process of writing songs and themes for dozens of movies, he had more than 25 chart entries with his compositions when recorded as singles by other artists.

This 55-track collection covers themes and music from original soundtrack compositions, along with recordings of his movie songs and music by other artists from the first and highly significant first quarter-century of his career. It includes music from all the films for which he won Academy Awards, and a significant proportion of those for which he was nominated.

It also features 27 records which made either US or UK charts, including Top 5 hits with major artists like Frankie Laine, Les Baxter, Pat Boone, Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Dean Martin and Gene Pitney.

A substantial and varied insight into the work of one of the true legends in the world of movie music.

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