Film (movie) Music

[Cato]

... Sainton's 'Moby Dick' (just reissued on Naxos).

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I bought the CD earlier this year, and yes, an excellent score for an excellent movie:
e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/v/o5r3g5zhKIM

https://www.youtube.com/v/ArFd_2-z9Io

[pjme]

Does anyone have Miklos Rozsa  ( more or less complete?) score of the Thief of Bagdad - the Royal Philharmonic Orch. / Elmer Bernstein. Apparently the LP was reissued a couple of years ago in a 12cd box. Possibly, but this is not clear to me, it is an LP-reissue...
Buy, exchange... copy?



The Lp

The cd box



Elmer Bernstein Filmmusic Collection FMC 8

[vandermolen]

I bought the CD earlier this year, and yes, an excellent score for an excellent movie:
e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/v/o5r3g5zhKIM

https://www.youtube.com/v/ArFd_2-z9Io

[vandermolen]

Recently watched this beautiful, moving and poetic animated film from Ireland. Have insisted that my daughter buys me the lovely soundtrack for Christmas. 
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[Bogey]

Essential Morricone traveling out in analogue waves. Heck of an album from start to finish.

[vandermolen]

Essential Morricone traveling out in analogue waves. Heck of an album from start to finish.

I was recently in Florence, on holiday with my wife. We were in a cafe having a glass of wine and a snack and they were playing this really nice jazz music. I asked what it was and the owner bought over the CD. It was the jazz piano version of movie scores by Morricone. When I got home I found a copy second hand on Amazon. It is part of a double album called 'The Oscar Winner Morricone'. I was really pleased to discover it.

[Cato]

From a Wall Street Journal essay by Peggy Noonan:

But for me, always, the greatest movie score, the one I listen to when I need it, is the most perfect pairing of story and music in the history of film: "The Best Years of Our Lives," composed by Hugo Friedhofer. Three men coming home from World War II wind up by chance in the nose of a beat-up bomber, itself heading home to the junkyard. Suddenly at dawn, after a long night's flight, they see America unfurling below them—the Midwest, and now Boone City, their (fictional) home. There's the stadium where one of them played high school ball. There's the bank where one worked. The music soars. I'm telling you, you hear in it: America. The men look down at what they'd left years before, and it's still there, and they wonder what their lives will be like now, having been for so long and in so many ways so far away . . .

A left-wing cable anchor once told me he couldn't watch that scene and hear that music and not cry. I said, me too.

See:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/music-in-the-key-of-america-1448575880

[Bogey]

Most of these themes I do not have.  It will be interesting to hear his take on the Kong piece, as that is one of my all time favorite soundtracks.  Just finished up the Now Voyager track.  What a lovely piece of sweeping movie music!


   
Track list:

1. Now, Voyager: Warner Bros. Fanfare and Main Title / Love Scene and Finale (5:51)
2. King Kong: The Forgotten Island / Natives / Sacrificial Dance / The Gate of Kong / Kong in New York (7:16)
3. Saratoga Trunk: As Long As I Live (2:30)
4. The Charge of the Light Brigade: Forward the Light Brigade (2:37)
5. Four Wives: Symphonie Moderne (8:06)
6. The Big Sleep: Main Title / Marlowe / Bookshop / Murder / Chase / Love Theme and Finale (7:03)
7. Johnny Belinda: Suite (5:05)
8. Since You Went Away: Main Title (1:25)
9. The Informer: Main Title / Love Scene / Sancta Maria (4:33)
10. The Fountainhead: Main Title (Roark's Theme) / Dominique's Theme / The Quarry / Construction - Enright House / Finale - The Wynand Building (8:07)

[vandermolen]

Been listening again to this fine Baxian score (though far better than any of Bax's film music). Don't miss it if you have any interest in film music or fine music generally:
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[Cato]

Been listening again to this fine Baxian score (though far better than any of Bax's film music). Don't miss it if you have any interest in film music or fine music generally:
[asin]B00YCAU3LK[/asin]

Incredible coincidence: I just listened to it again this morning!  Yes, an excellent score by the not-well-known-enough Philip Sainton.

[mc ukrneal]

Most of these themes I do not have.  It will be interesting to hear his take on the Kong piece, as that is one of my all time favorite soundtracks.  Just finished up the Now Voyager track.  What a lovely piece of sweeping movie music!


   
Track list:

1. Now, Voyager: Warner Bros. Fanfare and Main Title / Love Scene and Finale (5:51)
2. King Kong: The Forgotten Island / Natives / Sacrificial Dance / The Gate of Kong / Kong in New York (7:16)
3. Saratoga Trunk: As Long As I Live (2:30)
4. The Charge of the Light Brigade: Forward the Light Brigade (2:37)
5. Four Wives: Symphonie Moderne (8:06)
6. The Big Sleep: Main Title / Marlowe / Bookshop / Murder / Chase / Love Theme and Finale (7:03)
7. Johnny Belinda: Suite (5:05)
8. Since You Went Away: Main Title (1:25)
9. The Informer: Main Title / Love Scene / Sancta Maria (4:33)
10. The Fountainhead: Main Title (Roark's Theme) / Dominique's Theme / The Quarry / Construction - Enright House / Finale - The Wynand Building (8:07)

It's an outstanding disc from an excellent collection.

[vandermolen]

Incredible coincidence: I just listened to it again this morning!  Yes, an excellent score by the not-well-known-enough Philip Sainton.

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Delighted that you like it Leo. 
If you don't know them try his 'The Island' and 'Nadir' on a super Chandos double album with the wonderful 'Trees so High' by Patrick Hadley.

[vandermolen]

My daughter had never set 'Return of the Jedi' so we watched it last night. Not only have they put the younger Anakin into the final scene but also changed the Ewok celebration music to something quite banal - terrible! I hadn't realised that it was a two DVD set which does at least contain the 1983 release. They have done the same thing on the remastered soundtrack too. 
I am not a Star Wars fanatic but this did annoy me as it seemed completely unnecessary and actually detracted from both the film and the music.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

And the blu ray version ruined Vader's redemption by adding him shout "No!" when he saves Luke from the Emperor.

[Bogey]

My daughter had never set 'Return of the Jedi' so we watched it last night. Not only have they put the younger Anakin into the final scene but also changed the Ewok celebration music to something quite banal - terrible! I hadn't realised that it was a two DVD set which does at least contain the 1983 release. They have done the same thing on the remastered soundtrack too. 
I am not a Star Wars fanatic but this did annoy me as it seemed completely unnecessary and actually detracted from bot the film and the music.

There are a number of Star Wars' fans, including myself, that still hope for the day when they re-release the movies as they were first presented in the theaters.  I do not mind that Lucas when back and touched up and added to some of his work, but I wish both versions were available.

Crimes Against Star Wars

http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/star-wars/17281/the-10-worst-crimes-against-the-original-star-wars-trilogy

[vandermolen]

And the blu ray version ruined Vader's redemption by adding him shout "No!" when he saves Luke from the Emperor.

How appalling. The whole point is that the scene is brilliantly conveyed by just Vader's look alone as he keeps turning from Luke to The Emperor.

[vandermolen]

There are a number of Star Wars' fans, including myself, that still hope for the day when they re-release the movies as they were first presented in the theaters.  I do not mind that Lucas when back and touched up and added to some of his work, but I wish both versions were available.

Crimes Against Star Wars

http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/star-wars/17281/the-10-worst-crimes-against-the-original-star-wars-trilogy

Thanks for the link and totally agree, especially with his No.1 digital enhanced disaster which ruined the end for me.

[Mirror Image]

For those that haven't heard Takemitsu's Ran, then please do so. It is an incredible score. The original soundtrack may be hard to track down and if you do find it, there's no doubt you'll pay a pretty penny for it, but it's completely worth it.

[Brahmsian]

Well, this thread is in the Classical Music section.  Debate over! 

[Eli]

I've always loved the 1968 Romeo and Juliet, got to see a boob when I was 13 in class! Actually I got to see it twice! The movie is lovely and I think the music is perfectly suited. Im living in a little town where posh people have their country houses, which in this, the dry season gets them to come and use them for two weeks of the year. There is a a mural of the virgin mary, which these posh people have been adorning with lovely flowers while they've been here. Everytime I walk by it I think of this and start to sing it, and then realize again that sadly i'm tone deaf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7duepGg_1V0