Film (movie) Music

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NP
'Capricorn One' (great score)
Other highlights include 'Total Recall' (original film), The Omen (original) and First Knight.
One of my favourite compilation soundtracks:

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As used in François Ozon's "Peter von Kant"

https://www.youtube.com/v/IuaPk1sQ3-o

Cora Vaucaire, "Comme au théâtre" - what a great voice and a great cynical text!

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I'm a sucker for British film music. Do y'all think the Vaughan Williams film music series on Chandos is worth hearing?

[Roasted Swan]

I'm a sucker for British film music. Do y'all think the Vaughan Williams film music series on Chandos is worth hearing?

Absolutely - and you can buy the 3 disc set direct from Chandos at the moment for £5.00

https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2010529#CD

don't know what the p&p would be to your part of the world!

[vers la flamme]

Absolutely - and you can buy the 3 disc set direct from Chandos at the moment for £5.00

https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2010529#CD

don't know what the p&p would be to your part of the world!

Okay... I had to jump on that  Total came out to £10.80, or $13.43. Not bad at all for three discs, brand new, shipped.

Thank you for alerting me to this deal, RS! I'll be sure to let you know what I think when it comes.

[Roasted Swan]

Okay... I had to jump on that  Total came out to £10.80, or $13.43. Not bad at all for three discs, brand new, shipped.

Thank you for alerting me to this deal, RS! I'll be sure to let you know what I think when it comes.

That's still a great deal - fingers crossed you enjoy them - I'm sure you will - the music's great and backed up with fine performances and engineering.  Always worth keeping an eye on the Chandos deletions there - some really good bargains to be had......

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NP
'Capricorn One' (great score)
Other highlights include 'Total Recall' (original film), The Omen (original) and First Knight.
One of my favourite compilation soundtracks:

Capricorn One. Ha. I can remember that music too. I just love that movie. "She's on the roof" and "get your god-damned head out of the way." That movie has to be loved. OJ! ETA: 38% on metacritic! The 12 year old in me is horribly disappointed.

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Capricorn One. Ha. I can remember that music too. I just love that movie. "She's on the roof" and "get your god-damned head out of the way." That movie has to be loved. OJ! ETA: 38% on metacritic! The 12 year old in me is horribly disappointed.

Ah yes 'She's on the roof' - I remember that sequence well (it also features 'piece of cake'). Ironically, in the film, James Brolin is saved by Elliot Gould - in reality Brolin ran off with Gould's wife Barbara Streisand!

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Currently enjoying this (I like the cover). It's actually from a London stage production but utilises old scores to Hitchcock etc movies.
Music by Herrmann, Korngold, Addinsell, Tiomkin etc.

[Roasted Swan]

Currently enjoying this (I like the cover). It's actually from a London stage production but utilises old scores to Hitchcock etc movies.
Music by Herrmann, Korngold, Addinsell, Tiomkin etc.

The show version of The 39 Steps was simply BRILLIANT!  Extremely silly and light-hearted but a stunning piece of theatre acted out with minimal props and (if I remember rightly) only about 4 actors.  It was so tongue in cheek and just good fun.

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The show version of The 39 Steps was simply BRILLIANT!  Extremely silly and light-hearted but a stunning piece of theatre acted out with minimal props and (if I remember rightly) only about 4 actors.  It was so tongue in cheek and just good fun.

Sadly I missed it. There is a version of the play on You Tube.

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First listen to this fabulously recorded set. I've started with 'The Mysterious Film World of Bernard Herrmann' including 'Mysterious Island' and one of my favourite films 'Jason and the Argonauts' (original version):

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First listen to this fabulously recorded set. I've started with 'The Mysterious Film World of Bernard Herrmann' including 'Mysterious Island' and one of my favourite films 'Jason and the Argonauts' (original version):

A very fine composer and conductor with a tempestuous personality.  I once knew a session performer who played for him and was there the day he got fired from Hitch's score for Turn Curtain that ended their personal and professional relationship.  Sounds like he was a fascinating personality who always seemed to have a very bad attitude but wrote fantastically original music.

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A very fine composer and conductor with a tempestuous personality.  I once knew a session performer who played for him and was there the day he got fired from Hitch's score for Turn Curtain that ended their personal and professional relationship.  Sounds like he was a fascinating personality who always seemed to have a very bad attitude but wrote fantastically original music.

Indeed! There was a great TV documentary about Herrmann many years ago. Hitch wanted a 'pop score' for 'Torn Curtain' but Herrmann produced his usual kind of lush orchestral score. Hitchcock humiliated Herrmann in front of the orchestra, I think. I remember that they played a murder scene without any accompanying music (as in the movie) and then with Herrmann's rejected original score, which was incomparably better. According to the late Christopher Palmer, who featured a lot on the documentary, Hitchcock had the loyalty of a jellyfish considering all those marvellous scores which Herrmann composed for him. Another thing I remember is an entertaining interview with Elmer Bernstein in the documentary in which they discussed Richard Rodney Bennett's light-hearted score for the tongue-in-cheek movie 'Murder on the Orient Express' which Herrmann didn't like at all, exclaiming 'BUT THIS WAS A TRAIN OF DEATH!!!' There's a very good biography of Herrmann called 'A Heart at Fire's Centre' I think. Herrmann was quite a difficult man and could be very rude to orchestral musicians. I've listened to this great CD today:

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I love Herrmann's scores. My favorite is Citizen Kane. When it comes to his  scores with Hitchcock , I prefer Vertigo to Psycho. Vertigos swirling and circling opening theme not only illustrates vertigo - it also fits the theme of obsession which drives the film, circling around the same idea.

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I love Herrmann's scores. My favorite is Citizen Kane. When it comes to his  scores with Hitchcock , I prefer Vertigo to Psycho. Vertigos swirling and circling opening theme not only illustrates vertigo - it also fits the theme of obsession which drives the film, circling around the same idea.

I like all those scores. My favourite is probably 'The Ghost and Mrs Muir' along with 'North by Northwest' and Jane Eyre but I like many of his film scores as well as his concert music. Citizen Kane is terrific!

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Now playing: Anna Karenina by Constant Lambert - a fine score:

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I like all those scores. My favourite is probably 'The Ghost and Mrs Muir' along with 'North by Northwest' and Jane Eyre but I like many of his film scores as well as his concert music. Citizen Kane is terrific!

I may have to rewatch that film.  I loved its story-lines but don't remember the music! 

There was a t.v. series here in the States based on it created years ago which I loved. 

PD

[Karl Henning]

I may have to rewatch that film.  I loved its story-lines but don't remember the music! 

There was a t.v. series here in the States based on it created years ago which I loved. 

PD

I remember that TV series. And I've meant to check out the movie!

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I may have to rewatch that film.  I loved its story-lines but don't remember the music! 

There was a t.v. series here in the States based on it created years ago which I loved. 

PD

I think that it was Herrmann's own favourite of his movie scores.