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1. Green Fire / Bhowani Junction
(Miklós Rózsa)

An entertaining, undemanding adventure film set in South America, GREEN FIRE (1954) made good use of the new CinemaScope and stereophonic sound processes. Miklos Rozsa didn’t think much of ...

2. Providence
(Miklós Rózsa)

Alain Resnais’ first English language film about an aging author who lives in two worlds: one the dark, tortured, illusory dungeon of mistrust and self-hate, and the other a sunlit bourgeois family estate ...

3. Quo Vadis
(Miklós Rózsa)

Hearing this Quo Vadis is much like seeing a grime-besmirched and damaged painting restored to its natural brilliance. This is not to say that the album is an exact duplicate of either the film’s execrably ...

4. The Immortal Film Music of Miklos Rozsa
(Miklós Rózsa)

As Christopher Palmer points out in his illuminating sleeve notes, new recordings and re-issues of Miklos Rozsa’ s inspired music continue to appear with unceasing regularity. How many of today’s currently ...

5. The Music of Miklós Rózsa
(Miklós Rózsa)

This is a perfectly wonderful recording. Elmer Bernstein and the Utah Symphony Orchestra could not have done better, their control of Rozsa’s music being completely assured. The greatly expanded 1984 version ...

6. The Spectacular Film World of Miklos Rozsa
(Miklós Rózsa)

This ambitious independently produced LP features an interesting combination of Rozsa’s concert and film music selections played mainly by wind ensemble. The raison d’être of the album is the first recording ...

7. Miklos Rozsa: Classic Film Music
(Miklós Rózsa)

This 70 minute compilation disc makes a worthy tribute to Miklos Rozsa in his eightieth year, even if the recording by the Nuremberg symphony Orchestra fails to match the excellence of the three album ...

8. Eye of the Needle / Last Embrace
(Miklós Rózsa)

EYE OF THE NEEDLE Rapidly approaching his 100th film score, Miklos Rozsa continues to impress with his unceasing capacity to create motion picture music of the very highest quality. It is a matter of ...

9. Ben-Hur
(Miklós Rózsa)

This 2-CD set is one of several ‘expanded’ reissues of classic scores to be released by Sony Music Special Projects and it is one of the most interesting of the bunch. It combines both of ...

10. Ivanhoe
(Miklós Rózsa)

IVANHOE is the archetypal Miklos Rozsa historical score. A medieval pageant full of glorious, rousing themes. It is an ambitious subject for a re-recording, not least because it contains the lengthiest ...

11. Knight Without Armour: Film Music for Piano
(Miklós Rózsa)

Many of Miklos Rozsa’s film scores have featured solo piano, unusually as on-scene music, so it is perhaps not surprising that someone (in this case Tony Thomas) has come up with the idea of re-recording ...

12. Julius Caesar
(Miklós Rózsa)

MGM's prestigious 1953 production of JULIUS CAESAR remains a powerful film even today and is one of the finest examples of filmed Shakespeare. No expense was spared on creating a prestigious production ...

13. Captain Blood
(Erich Wolfgang Korngold)

Once again, Marco Polo sets the pace with a CD every collector will want to own and play again at every opportunity. With selections from classic scores from the golden era of film music, when Max Steiner, ...

14. Ben-Hur: A Tale Of The Christ
(Miklós Rózsa)

Rhino/Turner have at long last released the original music tracks of BEN-HUR - Rozsa's greatest and most popular film score. This is what devotees of Rozsa's magnum opus have waited many years for. Production ...

15. El Cid
(Miklós Rózsa)

The sound quality of this recording benefits from a richness which the MGM soundtrack album could not achieve back in 1961 but, having said that, this is by no means the definitive EL CID recording which ...

16. The Epic Film Music of Miklós Rózsa
(Miklós Rózsa)

This ambitious recording with Kenneth Alwyn conducting the City of Prague Philharmonic is a first rate Rozsa compilation. Although the usual audience pleasers such as BEN-HUR and EL CID are included, there ...

17. The Film Music of Miklos Rozsa
(Miklós Rózsa)

SPELLBOUND and JUNGLE BOOK present two early scores, respectively composed and recorded in 1945 and in 1942, with Rozsa conducting. Evidently, the source material comes from the composer’s ...

18. Film Scores of Miklos Rozsa
(Miklós Rózsa)

FILM SCORES OF MIKLOS ROZSA returns to the catalog rerecordings made by the composer for Capitol in the U.S. in 1952 and 1967. From the first dates come excerpts from THE RED HOUSE, QUO VADIS ...

19. Miklos Rozsa at M-G-M
(Miklós Rózsa)

Miklos Rozsa’s scores for MGM have not been particularly well represented on recordings, considering the large number which he composed for the studio from 1948 to 1962. It was MGM which brought out Rozsa’s ...

20. The V.I.P.s
(Miklós Rózsa)

Just about anything by Miklos Rozsa is worth hearing. This 1963 film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Louis Jourdan is not one of the great films of that era, yet Rozsa has managed to compose ...