New RCA Victor Series (Classic Film Scores)
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Date: Tue, Jan 2, 1996 5:17 PM EST
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NEW(!) RCA Victor Series
Since a few days/weeks there is a new RCA Victor film music series
out in Germany from BMG in Dolby Surround.
It is celebrating the '100 Years of Film Music' [1895-1995].
(100 Years of Film would be more fitting.)
I 've only got/heard one CD yet. A new Waxman sampler: "Sayonara".
It was recorded in 1994/95 in Berlin with Elmer Bernstein conducting
the Berlin Radio SO. It contains suites from "Taras Bulba",
"Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man", "Sayonara" and a new Suite
for "A Place in the Sun" by Christopher Palmer (his last).
The sound & design is very good and the liner notes are very extensive.
Executive Producer is Klaus P. Hanusa from DeutschlandRadio Berlin,
who pushes his/RCA's new line of film music as sort of continuation
of the classic Gerhardt/Korngold series.
IN DETAIL:
FRANZ WAXMAN: SAYONARA - ORCHESTRAL SUITES
Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester & Chor Berlin
Conducted by Elmer Bernstein
Catalogue-No: 09026-62657-2 RCA Victor Red Seal / BMG Classics
Taras Bulba - Suite [19:14]
Restored by Arnold Freed & Steven R. Bernstein
Overture; Torchlight Parade; Pastorale; The Black Plague; The Battle
for Dubno; End Title
A Place in the Sun - A Symphonic Scenario [12:37]
Arranged by Christopher Palmer
Prelude; The Two Girls; Angela Vicker's Theme; The Drowning; Farewell &
Frenzy; The Witness Montage; George's Story; The Last Mile
Hemingway: A Symphonic Suite [14:17]
Adapted by Arnold Freed
The Northern Woods; A Soldier Home; On His Own; War
Sayonara - Suite [20:05]
Arranged by Christopher Palmer
Song 'Sayonara' by Irving Berlin
Prelude & 'Sweet Katsumi'; Eileen; Love Scene; Street Fight;
Elegy & Finale
ALSO:
REEL BY REEL - 100 YEARS OF FILM MUSIC Highlights
This is the Sampler for the New Series. It's out (in Germany) at a
very low price (5 US Dollars) and I think it will sell-out soon.
A pity because the first two recordings are only on this Disk!
Details:
1. The High and the Mighty (Tiomkin) [4:49] Prelude & Save Landing
2. Night Moods (Waxman) [14:30] Suite VERY GOOD!!!!!
3. Ivan the Terrible (Prokofiev) [8:56] Overture & Finale
4. Panamericana (Zillig) [5:28] Famous German Documentary
5. 55 Days at Peking (Tiomkin) [7:00] Main Title & Waltzes
6. Die Austernprinzessin / Die Puppe [5:47] (Sasse) Early German
Lubitsch!
7. Cyrano de Bergerac [2:29] (Tiomkin) Overture
8. Nosferatu [3:37] (Erdmann) Selection from the classic Murnau pic.
9. The Prince & the Pauper [5:28] (Korngold) Main & End Titles
10. The Alamo [9:45] (Tiomkin) The Battle
A bit too much Tiomkin in there for my tastes, but the Waxman Suite alone
is worth the (low) price!
OTHER RECORDINGS IN THE SERIES:
already released:
09026-62658-2 DIMITRI TIOMKIN: HIGH NOON
Suites from "The Alamo","Cyrano de Bergerac", "High Noon",
"55 Days at Peking"
Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester & Chor Berlin
Conducted by Lawrence Foster
09026-68143-2 HANS ERDMANN: NOSFERATU - A Symphony in Horror
Complete Restored Version
Brandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Gillian B. Anderson
09026-61954-2 SERGEI PROKOFIEV: IVAN THE TERRIBLE
New Live Recording
Frankfurt Radio SO
Conducted by Dmitri Kitaenko
09026-62656-2 KARL-ERNST SASSE: THE LUBITSCH TOUCH
Two Silent Movie Scores "Die Austernprinzessin", "Die Puppe"
Film Orchestra Babelsberg
Conducted by Manfred Rosenberg
to be released:
09026-62660-2 MAX STEINER: THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN
& ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD: THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
Brandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by William T. Stromberg
09026-68145-2 FILM NOIR - CONCERT SUITES
Contains "All Through the Night", "The Maltese Falcon" & Others
Brandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by William T. Stromberg
No further information available.
09026-62659-2 WINFRIED ZILLIG: PANAMERICANA (TRAUMSTRASSE DER WELT)
Rundfunk SO Berlin
No further information available.
09026-68146-2 CHARLES KOECHLIN: THE SEVEN STARS SYMPHONY
An "...impressive Hommage to the Golden Age of Hollywood..."
No further information available.
09026-68271-2 CHARLES CHAPLIN: FILM MUSIC
"The Gold Rush", "The Kid", "The Circus", "Modern Times"
Conducted by Carl Davis
The Sampler mentions a recording of a "Midsummer Night's Dream"
by Korngold.
That's all for now.
Guenther Koegebehn
10066...@compuserve.com
02-Jan-1996
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Subject: New RCA Victor Series
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Benda
ones, but newly composed for German tv broadcast.
The seven stars symphony is not a film score in the strict sense. Its movements
are inspired and dedicated to several film stars. Koechlin was in particular
a great admirer of the English German actress Lilian Harvey and after seeing
her films he used to compose songs that could replace the music actually played
in the picture. One of the movements of the seven stars symphony is dedicated
to
her. The others to Charly Chaplin, Emil Jannings, Douglas Fairbanks as far as
I remember.
Martin
Mike Quigley
I can't see a single thing by Rozsa in this listing!! ";-(
>The Sampler mentions a recording of a "Midsummer Night's Dream"
>by Korngold.
I think they mean Korngold's arrangement of Mendelssohn's A Midsummer
Night's Dream...
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