Naturally, you wouldn't want to listen to Max Steiner's score for John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre before seeing the movie. Without the powerful performances of Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, and Tim Holt, the indelible images of sun-dried Mexico and the relentless drive of the film's narrative in the memory, Steiner's music could ...
For fans of the film music of Alfred Newman, this 2007 Naxos reissue of Marco Polo's 1996 recording of three of his scores will be very welcome. With the brief but evocative Suite from All About Eve, eight cues from the heroic Beau Geste, and 17 cues from the extravagant Hunchback of Notre Dame, three sides of Newman's many-sided musical ...
Even though Universal's over-the-top film House of Frankenstein seems more amusing than scary today, its spine-tingling score by Hans Salter and Paul Dessau was quite effective for its purposes and remains one of the more atmospheric and compelling examples of music from the golden age of monster movies. John Morgan's carefully restored score ...
Best-known for his popular Broadway musicals The Music Man and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Meredith Willson was also a highly skilled composer in a variety of concert genres, including the symphony. Willson's Symphony No. 1 is an expansive tone poem about his beloved San Francisco. Cast in the traditional four-movement scheme, but with tone ...
"Lights, camera, action!" I don't know how authentic or prevalent that famous expression actually was (or is), but the film music on this disc clearly invokes images from a golden Hollywood era that featured exotic locales, swashbuckling heroism, tear-jerking romance, cliff-hanger endings, and the quiet spirit of expectation and excitement those ...
Bernard Herrmann had an unusually busy year in 1952. While he did score three films that year -- The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 5 Fingers, and On Dangerous Ground -- he also scored three films in 1953 -- Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, King of the Khyber Rifles, and White Witch Doctor -- and three more films in 1954 -- Garden of Evil, The Egyptian, and ...
The complete 1940 English release of Warner Brothers' The Sea Hawk is 126 minutes long. The complete 2005 Naxos recording of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score for The Sea Hawk is 114 minutes long, which means that all but 12 minutes of the film was accompanied by music. And if you think for a minute that there's a dull second anywhere in that 114 ...
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