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Jul 10, 2014 - 2:23 PM
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Thor
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There were several threads about this, but they were all about various versions and other collector-oriented aspects. I just wanted one on the music itself.
I'm late to the party, but I just listened to this for the first time. It's been on my list for a long time, since I love Newman's approach to religious material, especially through scores such as THE SONG OF BERNADETTE and THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD. Well, this certainly doesn't hold anything back compared to those. OK, so there might not be the overt religious harmonies, but it's still a smokin' good album. Choral forces, epic action music, aching strings, you name it.
Nice discovery!
Oh, and if it's important -- I was listening to this version on Spotify:
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Gorgeous score.
I had this on lp, then CD. Technically, it's a re-recording, though it includes the voice of Christ, intoning, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do," though not the same actor saying it as on the actual film track, as I recall.
I also love the later Varese 2-CD complete tracks release, which is even more wonderful, as it includes so much more music, such as the transition to Jerusalem, complete with the original Ken Darby chorus recordings, as well as many other cues unheard on the lp recording.
One of my all-time Top Ten Favorite Film Scores.
A must for any collector!
(I'm just a Newman-iac...)
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Jul 10, 2014 - 9:30 PM
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manderley
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.....Technically, it's a re-recording, though it includes the voice of Christ, intoning, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do," though not the same actor saying it as on the actual film track, as I recall.....
It's always been my opinion that the actor in question, on film and LP, is Cameron Mitchell---being very dramatic.
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Manderley,
For whatever it may be worth, at first I thought it might be Royal Dano speaking Christ's last words, but then, I seem to recall reading somewhere a long time ago that it was indeed Cameron Mitchell. And even if I hadn't read it: what the hell, when have you ever been wrong?
PNJ
PS: Answer your e-mail!
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Anyone have any favourite tracks?
Without hesitation, "The Crucifixion." Seven minutes of absolutely sublime music, a cosmic lament for the death of Christ consisting of five fugally constructed choral statements of the chaconne theme first heard in the Prelude, structurally building up to a shattering climax (preceded by a sudden serene pause, a dramatic musical suspension, in which Christ speaks from the cross). The mono Decca LP doesn't do it full justice.
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For me my favorite parts of the score are anything with the sublime love theme. I love the other stuff too of course, but as with Rozsa's El Cid the love theme is the best part for me. Newman was probably second only to Rozsa in writing great ones...
I wish the album re-recording had been remastered and included on LLL's otherwise superlative set so that it could have been truly definitive...but I feel the same way about their beautiful Stagecoach release (never understood the dumping on the LP recording for that, sorry Lukas) as well as Intrada's Masada (the Varese CD issue of the LP recording for this had mastering problems so this was a real missed opportunity).
Did The Egyptian similiarly have a different recording for the original album? If LLL or Intrada should happen to do a new release of that score I hope it's included if so.
Yavar
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For me my favorite parts of the score are anything with the sublime love theme.
The classic statement of the love theme would be in disc 1, track 6, "The Map of Jerusalem." Another haunting favourite theme is that for Michael Rennie's portrayal of Peter ("The Big Fisherman" on the Decca LP) which appears on disc 2, track 3, "The Death of Justus."
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Yeah, I never understood why the LLL release didn't have the repaired version of that track if the Blu-ray iso score did...
Yavar
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