Next Events: On September 1, we'll be performing the live premiere of our new score for The Italian Straw Hat at the Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder! For details, see our Schedule page.

Our new CD, Passion, Betrayal, and Redemption, is now shipping! See details on our Recordings page.

The most recent DVD release with Mont Alto's score is Chicago, from Flicker Alley. For details and some samples from the score, visit our Recordings Page. This project was recently reviewed by Dave Kehr at The New York Times.

Bardelys the Magnificent, with Mont Alto's soundtrack, is now available on DVD! It can be ordered from our Recordings page, where you can also hear several excerpts from the score. Dave Kehr of the New York Times praises "...Vidor’s rapid, razor-sharp cutting, mobile camera and compositional brilliance... for all of the inventiveness he never loses the continuity and clarity of the action... This excellent edition from Flicker Alley offers a crystalline transfer... The score, compiled from period music by Rodney Sauer and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, provides glittering support."

Mont Alto's "fierce" score (according to Slate Magazine) for F.W. Murnau's Faust is now available on DVD from Kino. Some audio excerpts can be found on the Recordings page.

Douglas Fairbanks: A Modern Musketeer, a DVD collection of early films with Douglas Fairbanks, was just released on the Flicker Alley label. Dave Kehr of the New York Times calls it "...an extraordinary, well-produced set of 10 features and one short film... accompanied by appropriate scores performed by some of the leading figures in silent-film music, including Philip Carli, Robert Israel and Rodney Sauer, the leader of the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra."

Mont Alto's new DVD release of The Mark of Zorro, has received some great reviews! Details and sample audio files on our Recordings page. Read original reviews at DigitallyObsessed and at DVDTalk.com. Also available, our DVD of Buster Keaton's The General.

        

• Dave Kehr of the New York Times says our scores "...are often breathtakingly beautiful and always in the strict service of the film on the screen." More complete reviews on our Reviews page.
• Mont Alto's second limited edition t-shirt, Caravan, featuring Douglas Fairbanks in a scene from The Thief of Bagdad, is now available.
• Available from Flicker Alley: a vast compendium of 173 early films by Georges Melies, several of which have scores by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, including his longest film, The Conquest of the Pole.
• DVDTalk has reviewed our new personal DVD release of Buster Keaton's The General -- "The new soundtrack by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra is wonderful to listen to and fits the movie very well. It's the best available score for this film which makes it easy to Highly Recommend this disc." For details and purchases, see The General on our Recordings page.
• Rodney's interview with Dan Lybarger about Bed and Sofa.

Click here to email Rodney Sauer about the Mont Alto orchestra: rodney@mont-alto.com.