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20 cds!?!?
The 20 CD Legrand set will now be released by Universal France in November. This is certainly no coincidence as THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND movie will get its premiere also in November.
However, only 9 of those 20 discs will now be devoted to Legrand´s film scores. And among the scores on those 9 CDs just a few will be unreleased ones.
The 20 CD box set will not appaear as part of the "Ecoutez le cinéma" series, but apparently as a separate entity:
"Parallèlement à Ecoutez le cinéma !, Universal Music France publie en novembre un coffret évènement consacré à Michel Legrand, monstre sacré de la musique.
Parmi les 20 CDs du coffret, 9 CDs réunissent ses bandes originales, certaines inédites."
https://www.facebook.com/EcoutezLeCinema/
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On Amazon France the complete track listing of this 20 CD set which is now called "Les Moulins de Son Coeur" can be found:
https://www.amazon.fr/Moulins-Son-C%C5%93ur-Yves-Montand/dp/B07HPY9GKK/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1539259946&sr=1-2&keywords=michel+legrand&refinements=p_n_date%3A183202031
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND seems to be on CD 19 - but is it only a selection from the complete score with 6 tracks? - and 4 tracks from VIVRE SA VIE ARE on CD 4.
On the other hand, probably quite a lot of tracks are on all these CDs which get now released for the umpteenth time. And the assembly of the tracks is quite strange. It is explained in French.
"Certains CDs fonctionnent sur le couplage de deux vinyles (l'album historique 'Legrand Jazz' avec l'album hommage à Richard Rodgers), d'autres relèvent de l'anthologie, selon des thématiques précises : Nouvelle Vague, interprètes francophones et internationaux, dessins animés, hommages à des comédiens comme Steve McQueen (L'Affaire Thomas Crown) ou Alain Delon (La Piscine), à des cinéastes comme Jean-Paul Rappeneau (Les Mariés de l'an II, Le Sauvage). Le coffret comprend un grand nombre d'inédits dont la musique écrite en 2018 pour le film posthume d'Orson Welles (The Other Side of the Wind), des publicités et indicatifs radio, de nombreux albums rares, jamais réédités en CD (La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil, Legrand Cinéma.)
Au détour du chemin surgissent des invités prestigieux, tous interprètes du grand Michel : Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz, Stéphane Grappelli, Louis Armstrong, Yves Montand, Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Jessye Norman. Dans le registre du classique, ce sont aussi des ouvrages portés par des solistes comme Natalie Dessay, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Maurice André ou Michel Legrand lui-même, soliste de son propre Concerto pour piano, fraîchement enregistré avec l'Orchestre de Radio-France."
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I am wondering about reactions to the film and its score - ? I love the score -- especially the smoky jazzier elements. The film itself is fascinating and rather sad -- I may have to watch it again to come up with any reasonable opinion. The first time through I was just in a state of "I can't believe I am watching this after all of these years..."
The score sets a melancholy mood -- the end titles are a bit strident/celebratory but that is a minor quibble.
It will be a while before I revisit the film -- it is not an "easy" watch. But maybe in a month or so I will go back for a second look.
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Netflix is supposed to show this soon.
Hoping its good.
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I was very much looking forward to this. But unless I'm reading the Amazon France website description wrong, a number of the discs look like compilations and not full scores or albums. Kind of a Greatest Hits compilation. I'm a huge fan of Michel Legrand and will probably get it. But there are a number of his scores and even musicals that are still out of print, and I'd love to see them re-issued in a box set. Of course labels and rights may prevent that.
I was watching the documentary (not done yet) having no idea that the actual film was posted at the same time. Wild.
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I also presume that Legrand's score for Godard's 'Bande à Part' (1964) is lost. I have never seen any music from this film anywhere, nor was it ever released on EP at the time. I saw the film recently and it's very entertaining for a Godard. He get's this credit in the main titles; pour la dernière fois (?) a l'écran la musique de Michel Legrand (meaning something like 'for the last time (?) on screen, the music of Michel Legrand'). One wonders what happened between composer and director that would spur such a credit, but Godard was always playful with words and in the booklet of Le cinéma de Michel Legrand Nouvelle Vague there is only praise, affection and appreciation for Godard by Legrand.
There had been no controversy between Godard and Legrand at all. In 1964 Legrand quite simply wanted to leave France and to make his career as a film composer in the USA. Actually, his plans came to fruition only in 1968, but nevertheless he already wanted to go in 1964 and therefore told Godard that this would be his last film score in France. Therefore Godard made this nice farewell gesture to his friend by putting the "dernière fois à l´écran..." credit into his film.
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Thanks for explaining Stefan. That makes perfect sense. My imagination started kicking in, perhaps Godard making life for Legrand so difficult with his messing around with the music that Legrand would never write for film again after this experience. Now I know the real story behind that credit, interesting.
And what about the score? Lost? Does anybody know if it's lost or simply neglected?...
In interviews (and also in his autobiography) Legrand always stated that it was a great pleasure for him to work with Godard because he was so inventive, broke the conventional rules of filmmaking and invented new ones. So he was not at all disappointed when Godard chose to use only several bars of the theme with 11 variations which he had composed for VIVRE SA VIE. In fact, Antoine Duhamel had just the same opinion about Godard and was very satisfied with the fragmentary approach Godard took when using the score he had composed for PIERROT LE FOU in 1965. Of course, many other conventional composers would have been very irritated by Godard´s way of using music in his films, but not musicians like Legrand or Duhamel.
As to BANDE À PART: I also suppose that the original tapes are lost. Otherwise Lerouge would have used at least one or two tracks for one of his many Nouvelle Vague compilations throughout the last 15 years. And you have to consider that VIVRE SA VIE had also been lost before the material was accidentally found in an archive in France about 5 or 6 years ago.
By the way, the 6 additional tracks of LES MARIÈS DE L´AN DEUX which you mention above and which can be found on the new 20 CD box had already been available on the Bell LP from 1971 as you can see here:
https://www.discogs.com/de/les-maries-de-l-an-deux-bande-originale/release/3049012
Unfortunately, these tracks had then been missing on the Playtime CD from the mid-90s (which also contained LE SAUVAGE and LA VIE DE CHATEAU). Therefore I myself have both the LP and the CD of this lovely score.
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The opening and closing music for the film is actually a VERY old Legrand track from L'Amérique Insolite:
James
Quite interesting!
Could it therefore be that the six tracks from THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND which are now on the 20 CD box contain everything that has been especially composed by Legrand for this film? Or is there more new music which can be found in the film?
I suppose that those who have already seen the movie can say something about this.
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