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A beautiful score to a film I've never bothered to watch.
Varèse released the soundtrack album - according to their notes after an enterprising research in the Fox archives. With the permission of Lionel Newman they released the album as we know it today with a bonus track - sort of.
All the music is (mistakingly) credited to Alfred Newman on the Varèse CD edition. But at least three tracks on that album aren't Newman's at all.
"The Wildfeuer Polka" is composed by Johann Strauss (no such credit can be found on the CD).
I suspect "Riberhaus Marsch" and "Marche de Bataille" aren't composed by Alfred Newman either (again, no specific credits on the CD... ). And, at least one of these wasn't, indeed. "Marche de Bataille" was composed by the Danish composer Carl Christian Møller [Müller].
Of course, the traditional music on the selection titeled "Russian Easter" isn't an original Alfred Newman piece either.
Questions:
- Is there more music in the film than on the CD?
- Any plans for a more complete and restored release?
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Oh, on a side note, before I forget it, my Anastasia booklet beginns slowly to desintegrate. The paper splits, almost as if two pages have been clued together you could now seperate two layers. I wonder how they look in another twenty years...
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Mar 27, 2014 - 2:58 PM
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roadshowfan
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A beautiful score to a film I've never bothered to watch.
Varèse released the soundtrack album - according to their notes after an enterprising research in the Fox archives. With the permission of Lionel Newman they released the album as we know it today with a bonus track - sort of.
All the music is (mistakingly) credited to Alfred Newman on the Varèse CD edition. But at least three tracks on that album aren't Newman's at all.
"The Wildfeuer Polka" is composed by Johann Strauss (no such credit can be found on the CD).
I suspect "Riberhaus Marsch" and "Marche de Bataille" aren't composed by Alfred Newman either (again, no specific credits on the CD... ). And, at least one of these wasn't, indeed. "Marche de Bataille" was composed by the Danish composer Carl Christian Møller [Müller].
Of course, the traditional music on the selection titeled "Russian Easter" isn't an original Alfred Newman piece either.
Questions:
- Is there more music in the film than on the CD?
- Any plans for a more complete and restored release?
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Oh, on a side note, before I forget it, my Anastasia booklet beginns slowly to desintegrate. The paper splits, almost as if two pages have been clued together you could now seperate two layers. I wonder how they look in another twenty years...
The track labelled "Valse" isn't by Alfred Newman either. Although it always sounded quintessential Newman to me (probably because of the lustrous arrangement) but it's actually by Anton Arensky.
On another side note, if this score is ever reissued it would be great if both the US LP cover and the gorgeous colour photograph that graced the UK Brunswick issue were part of the booklet.
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I was wondering:
provided that the complete master tapes of this were found and were used in the isolated score track of the Bluray of Anastasia (I don't have the Bluray so I can't check if it's really the complete score), could we expect a new complete release soon?
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Dear lord I sure hope so! (Also intrigued about the complete isolated score for Lilies of the Field, assuming it contains more material than made it onto the LP program.)
Yavar
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Yeah, I'm disappointed in how many of these come on out Twilight Time but don't get a CD release (obviously I understand for ones like Mysterious Island or Under Fire, where only M&E materials are available for much of the score). Maybe rights issues are in play; I can't imagine that one of our labels wouldn't want to put out a complete Anastasia or The Blue Lagoon if they could do so without a great deal of trouble. And the music tracks have already been restored for the iso tracks so you'd think it might save them some money too.
Yavar
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Does anyone else find it interesting that even the trailer has an isolated score on the TT Blu-Ray? I find that it confirms to me that the trailer music was an original composition. If and when someone puts this score on CD, I hope they include the trailer music.
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Mar 30, 2016 - 10:05 PM
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Jim Doherty
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A few things:
I agree that the British Brunswick LP of ANASTASIA had a wonderful cover, much better than the American Decca LP.
As far as extra cuts that are not on the LP/CD, there aren't that many. There are perhaps five or six more score cuts on the Blu-ray isolated track, some of which might not even be Newman. Unfortunately, some of these have noticeable "wow," and most of them aren't very long. There are also some segments from Tchaikovsky's SLEEPING BEAUTY, and a bit of Mozart's EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK. Also the Tivoli cue and the Marche da Bataille have an extra layer of orchestration, a sort of "hurdy-gurdy," merry-go-round overlay not on the LP/CD. It sounds very similar to some of the orchestrations in certain cues heard in CAROUSEL that same year.
On the whole, the LP and CD as released really grabbed the best of the Newman cues, with a few other things thrown in.
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The Valse from "Anastasia" was adapted and reused in Elmer Bernstein's score for "From the Terrace" in 1960. It's on FSM's "From the Terrace" soundtrack CD, track 16 Valse Nocturne.
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