I saw this CLASSIC New Wave film for the first time yesterday (yeah, I know I'm late), and I was intrigued by Georges Delerue and Giovanni Fusco's score. Two film music legends collaborating.
I read somewhere that Delerue only composed a single cue on it, but can't remember where I saw that. I don't think it has ever had an official release. I have a short b**t, but must admit that I don't find it particularly interesting.
Hello Thor. (Easy on the beers tonight). I have a Georges Delerue cd from Auvidis distribution, Le Club K1501 obviously from France. It features a 2'24 cue of dialogue and music by Delerue from 'Hiroshima Mon Amour. Not the greatest, but that's the only one I know of on disc.
Hmm, I think none of the melodies are paticularly catchy or interesting. They are very simplistic, and each cue changes direction/melody all too often. There isn't any central theme, just all these snippets of different and rather uninteresting melodies playing one after the other.
Perhaps I might feel differently if I watched the movie, and saw how the music worked, but I somehow doubt it. All this said, be aware that what I have is a mere 15 minutes of music, so the full score might be better than what the short album I have gives the impression of.
I looked at this film on the weekend and pretty much fell in love with it. Has there been a more formal release of the score since this thread? (I have the two tracks on Universal France's Alain Resnais compilation.)
As I've been told Delerue composed only the waltz which appears on the Auvidis CD (lifted from the movie with sfx) and also on the recent Universal France compilation of Alain Resnais soundtracks. Giovanni Fusco did the rest of the music which was released on EP in Italy on the RCA label.
It didn't sound much like Delerue to be honest. It made me think more of early Morricone, particularly the main theme.
As I said in the post just above yours, none of the music except for one cue was composed by Delerue. It was composed by the veteran composer Giovanni Fusco (probably most known for scoring Michelangelo Antonioni's 60's films).
Some tracks have been released on compilation cds, but any idea if the complete score (without effects) might get released? Maybe Stefan Schlegel knows.
Some tracks have been released on compilation cds, but any idea if the complete score (without effects) might get released? Maybe Stefan Schlegel knows.
In Italy, certainly nothing has survived at all as the music publisher there was Nazionalmusic where almost all tapes from that time period around 1959/1960 were not preserved. What was used for the French Alain Resnais CD of Fusco's score (one track with a 5 minute suite) either came from the old RCA EP or from the M&E track of the Criterion DVD. There are not many effects to be heard on this isolated M&E track anyway so that normally it could be released in just this way on CD. But the complete music track of the score has probably not survived.
