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Nocturne is a 1946 American film noir directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring George Raft, Lynn Bari and Virginia Huston. The film was produced by longtime Alfred Hitchcock associate Joan Harrison , scripted by Jonathan Latimer , and released by RKO Pictures . [ 2 ]
Nocturne is a live double album and video by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, released on 25 November 1983 by Polydor Records.Co-produced by Mike Hedges, Nocturne features performances recorded at two shows at the Royal Albert Hall in London, on 30 September and 1 October 1983, featuring Robert Smith (of the Cure) on guitar.
The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos stated: "This CD by McPherson is his best of the '70s, '80s, and '90s, and he's done some very good ones. The combination of seasoned, thinking musicians and excellent material, played to the hilt, is too good a combination for any jazz lover to resist".
"Nocturne" is a song recorded by Irish-Norwegian duo Secret Garden –Fionnuala Sherry and Rolf Løvland– with music composed by Løvland and lyrics written by Petter Skavlan . It represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 held in Dublin , resulting in the country's second win at the contest.
Nocturne received largely positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 75, based on 27 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". [14]
A review by Pierre de Bréville in the Mercure de France has been translated as saying: "It is pure music, conceived beyond the limits of reality, in the world of dreams, among the ever-moving architecture that God builds with mists, the marvelous creations of the impalpable realms."
Albums. Nocturne (Charlie Haden album), 2001; Nocturne (The Human Abstract album) or the title song, 2006; Nocturne (Oliver Nelson album) or the title song, 1961; Nocturne (Wild Nothing album) or the title song, 2012
Georges Bizet: Premier nocturne en fa majeur Op. 2 and Nocturne in D major. Alexander Borodin: his String Quartet No. 2 third movement Notturno contains one of his most popular melodies (1881) Lili Boulanger: Nocturne pour violon et piano (1911) Benjamin Britten: Nocturne, from On This Island, Op. 11; Frédéric Chopin: 21 for solo piano