One of the finest and yet one of the most frustrating historic compilations ever released, this 2-CD set contains 61 selections culled from every one of Korngold’s seventeen Warner Bros. film scores, with the exception of ANOTHER DAWN, taken from the original recording sessions. As an historic overview, the set is superb, with surprisingly full,…
When Varèse announced their CD release to THE COWBOYS earlier this year, I went through the roof. Initially, the score was rumoured to appear in the limited edition Varèse club, but it soon transpired that Williams’s popular favourite was going to be available for all to enjoy. However, a disquieting rumour began to spread just…
Ron Grainer was an extremely prolific composer for British television programmes and his music for “Maigret”, “Man in a Suitcase”, “The Prisoner”, Dr Who, “Tales of the Unexpected” and many others, demonstrated his skill in composing an inventive, catchy theme tune. Although he scored the occasional feature film, he never made the transition from major…
Though the 1950s spawned a variety of (often ridiculous) Hollywood mutations, the first film to deal seriously with nuclear issues was Stanley Kramer’s ON THE BEACH in 1959, the restrained screenplay of which documents the last days of a varied group of survivors who await the end as fallout from the ultimate nuclear conflict slowly…
This is about as near to nirvana as the soundtrack collector can come. Fox Records’ STAR WARS TRILOGY is the first real boxed-CD set for soundtrack collectors (GNP Crescendo’s recent STAR TREK set while gathering four previously-released STAR TREK TV soundtracks into a box set, isn’t really what the “boxed set” has come to imply:…
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