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 a selection of these. The objective has been to concentrate on Rozsa’s earlier scores between 1937 and 1948, with the…
There are not enough superlatives to describe this recording triumph by John Morgan and William Stromberg. Nearly two hours of the complete score from Korngold’s wall to wall music for THE SEA HAWK played brilliantly and impeccably true to the original by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. This is romanticism personified, with gloriously rich melodies and…
Allyn Ferguson’s music for producer Norman Rosemont’s well received 1982 TV film is light years removed from Rozsa’s score for the 1952 feature film. This is a far more intimate score emphasising the reflective and romantic aspects of the story. Whilst the themes are not unattractive, particularly the source cues such as ‘King John’s Party’,…
After years of remaining virtually unseen (or more correctly, unheard), composer Bob Cobert has suddenly reappeared with a very fine score for the ABC television mini-series, THE WINDS OF WAR, directed by Dan Curtis. A textbook example of leitmotif scoring, THE WINDS OF WAR contains several major themes for the lead characters, including the surging…
As a die-hard Williams fan, I’ve been looking forward to the HARRY POTTER score as much as anyone has. I’d read on the Internet that the composer was delighted to be working on three disparate projects in a row: first A.I., then POTTER, then ATTACK OF THE CLONES. I, for one, love the A.I. score,…
Mention the historical epics of the 50’s and 60’s in casual conversation, and most of your listeners will nod in recognition. They might mention movies like BEN-HUR, QUO VADIS, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and perhaps even KING OF KINGS, GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD and EL CID. The one they probably won’t recall (unless they’re film buffs)…
Kritzerland has rapidly become one of the most interesting soundtrack labels; especially for the many rare original soundtrack LPs newly transferred to CD such as this score written by Dimitri Tiomkin for the United States Steel animated industrial short film RHAPSODY OF STEEL. This is Tiomkin at his most archetypal – rumbustious, loud, heavy on…
Another soundtrack CD to appear months after the main release. Michael Convertino plays this unlikely comedy rather straight, opening with a variety of highly classical cues - much of which (as in “Elves with Attitude”) associated with Santa Claus’s diminutive helpers. In fact the CD’s first six cues are comprised of nothing but these classical…
Military marches originally served to set the pace for the advancing ranks, but as time passed they grew from being a mere time-keeping measure to a technique used for raising the esprit de corps. In the album’s meticulous and thoroughgoing sleeve notes (by Richard Ashton), Addison comments, “Earlier in the film the march music was…
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