Mary Esterheld wrote:

>I know that parts of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 The Competition,
>or some such title.  and also Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 were used as
>background music in at least one movie (each work in a different movie
>- not in the same one).

Brief Encounter, most famously.

Interestingly, Richard Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto was composed in a
deliberately faux-Rachmaninov style for the movie Dangerous Moonlight;
the producers wanted to use Rach 2 but for some reason they couldn't -
or thought they couldn't.

deryk barker
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