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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3      General Discussion: A Certain Smile - 2-CD masterpiece now $9.98    FIRST   PRIOR   1 2 3       Last Post   Posted:   Jun 14, 2014 - 1:43 PM     By:   Score Whore   (Member) I'm so glad I bought this, and at a ridiculously low price. It's instantly likeable and reminds of everything that so many of today's composers aren't. Thank you!    Posted:   Nov 9, 2014 - 3:15 PM     By:   James MacMillan   (Member) Still available at a ridiculously low price (as stated above) ! A two-disc set with Alfred Newman at the height of his powers, this is GREAT film music, a terrific wallow.    Posted:   Nov 10, 2014 - 3:54 AM     By:   Score Whore   (Member) I agree. So much quality music, so cheap. If only I could get a 2CD set like this for IMITATION OF LIFE.    Posted:   Nov 10, 2014 - 12:26 PM     By:   Rozsaphile   (Member) Seconded! So much beautiful music here. I confess that I hadn't played the LP for forty years or so. That was likely because the gooey opening title song (not by Newman) left a bad taste. Now I see (if memory serves) that the film uses a different rendition that would seem to have been perfectly appropriate to the nightclub setting. The new set has received more plays in the last few months than the the LP did in the last half-century! The only drawback is the repetition. As is so often the case with soundtrack albums, some of the material is repeated more often that necessary -- more often than I can stand. I respect the archival impulse to preserve everything. But, oh, for the time and talent to edit the thing down to reasonable scale! The notes are seriously inadequate for a deluxe two-disc set. Given the unfamiliarity of the movie, an effort should have been made to relate the various tracks to the on-screen action. One wonders if the writer has even seen the movie. Film music does not exist in a vacuum. And there's a moment of unintentional hilarity when the writer goes on about Newman's distinction as a conductor and then suddenly remembers to tell us that the music was actually conducted by one Urban Thielmann. Actually there's an interesting subject for discussion here: Everyone acknowledges that Fox had a fine house orchestra and recording stage and that Alfred Newman was a terrific studio conductor and music director. (Opinions differ about his live performances.) But from this period we have two fine scores (CERTAIN SMILE and THE BRAVADOS) recorded in Germany by different conductors. Can anyone say that these realizations are seriously inferior to Fox's Hollwyood standard?    Posted:   Nov 10, 2014 - 1:54 PM     By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member) I agree about the liner notes. Lots of comments and praise but little detail. Some people like that style of liner notes I guess (Bruce at Kritzerland holds to it religiously). I much prefer the work of Jeff Bond, Doug Adams, John Takis, Lukas Kendall, etc. It's a gorgeous package though -- just a beautiful booklet as usual from Jim Titus. I just wish the notes were as beautifully detailed. It still shouldn't stop anyone from buying this great set at such an amazing price! Yavar P.S. If I was editing down a shorter version of the score, I confess I would take out some of Newman's (lovely) arrangements of the title song theme, but I wouldn't lose a NOTE of original Newman music, which is not repetitive at all and all GORGEOUS! I mean, his arrangement of the title theme is lovely, but his original love theme just blows it out of the water.    Posted:   Nov 10, 2014 - 2:38 PM     By:   Joe Caps   (Member) Of ourse, Bravados and Certain smile were recorded in Germany because of the musicians strike. But no, I don't think the sound is as good as the Fox sound stage. with Certain Smile, Alfred Newman would certainly have the musicians play with more portamento and rubato than we here in Germany.    Posted:   Nov 10, 2014 - 3:50 PM     By:   .   (Member) The notes are seriously inadequate for a deluxe two-disc set. Given the unfamiliarity of the movie, an effort should have been made to relate the various tracks to the on-screen action. One wonders if the writer has even seen the movie. Unfortunately, the same writer has provided even worse waffle for the recent release of Newman's "Man Hunt".    Posted:   Nov 10, 2014 - 3:54 PM     By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member) I'm bummed to hear that but I'll still be getting it for Newman (of course) and Jim Titus's amazing art direction. Yavar     General Discussion: A Certain Smile - 2-CD masterpiece now $9.98    << < 1 2 3  >   Go to page:  1 2 3   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3

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