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Feb 11, 2010 - 8:01 AM
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Official press release from Sony Classical (UK)
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SONY CLASSICAL IS THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF OVER
40 SOUNDTRACKS FROM THE LEGENDARY
WARNER BROS. & MGM VAULTS
Each Soundtrack Has Been Beautifully Remastered,
Features Extensive Liner Notes and Behind-the-Scenes Photos
and Many Include Rare Outtakes and Bonus Tracks
11 Academy Award® Winners for Best Original Score and Best Original Song Including The Wizard of Oz, Doctor Zhivago, An American in Paris, Victor Victoria and Ben-Hur
And Memorable Soundtracks from 2001: A Space Odyssey, Casablanca, Gone With the Wind, Poltergeist and North By Northwest
The First 14 Titles will be Available in the UK in April 2010
Sony Classical is thrilled to announce its new series of film scores and musical soundtracks from the legendary Warner Bros. and MGM vaults. This new series features many of the most memorable scores from the golden days of film including Academy Award® winners The Wizard of Oz, Ben-Hur, Victor/Victoria, An American in Paris, Doctor Zhivago, Annie Get Your Gun, Easter Parade, Gigi, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers as well as the legendary and best-loved scores to classic films 2001: A Space Odyssey, Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, North By Northwest, Poltergeist, Zabriskie Point, King Kong, Lolita and How the West Was Won.
In addition to the film scores and soundtracks, Sony Classical will release five compilations celebrating the finest musical movie stars in their most magical moments including Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Busby Berkeley, Judy Garland, Doris Day, Lena Horne and Connie Francis as well as the six-disc That’s Entertainment Ultimate Anthology. Each recording has been digitally remastered for pristine sound and the elaborate liner notes include extensive notes about the film, score and its cast and crew as well as rare behind the scenes photos. Many of these releases feature outtakes and bonus tracks new to this edition.
2001: A Space Odyssey t Composers: Various
Winner – BAFTA for Best Soundtrack
While the score is always integral to its film, director Stanley Kubrick elevated music from soundtrack to character in his 1968 masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick jettisoned much of the film’s dialogue and instead used works from core classical repertoire to illustrate mood and character motivation as well as to highlight the film’s motifs.
Kubrick created a masterful marriage of the sound and the visual, but perhaps these three moments are the most striking and memorable:
* Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra, which evokes the film’s major theme of transition, from the startling opening scene to the ape’s evolution, through man’s ultimate transformation to star-child
* Setting the choreography of the spaceship docking sequence to Johann Strauss’ The Blue Danube waltz
* Hal 9000’s rendition of “Daisy Bell”, a heartbreaking scene which spurs the viewer to question what makes one human, what makes one machine?
This version of the soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey also includes modernist composer György Ligeti’s Requiem, Lux Aeterna and Jupiter and Beyond, Adagio from Aram Khachaturian’s Gayane Ballet Suite and the complete Hal 9000 dialogue montage.
Blow-Up t Composer: Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock’s Swingin’ 60s Score
Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni called upon jazz-pianist Herbie Hancock to compose and perform the score for his first English-language film, Blow-Up. Hancock is not only one of the greatest active jazz musicians, but one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. His music embraces elements of funk and soul while adopting the freer stylistic elements of jazz. His compositions are the perfect accompaniment to Antonioni’s tale of a photographer’s accidental and incidental involvement with a murder, set in swinging 60s London.
This edition of Blow-Up: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features Hancock’s score, songs from The Yardbirds and Lovin’ Spoonful, and outtakes.
Casablanca t Composer: Max Steiner
Academy Award® Nomination – Best Original Score
Play it again. Play…’As Time Goes By’”. And so Ingrid Bergman’s heroine Ilsa pleads with Dooley Wilson’s Sam to whisk her back to the memories of her halcyon romance with Humphrey Bogart’s Rick. This edition of Casablanca: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features Max Steiner’s romantic, epic score, including the stirring “La Marseillaise”/“Die Wacht am Rhein” battle medley, the classic songs “Knock on Wood and “It Had to be You” and, of course, the AFI’s #2 Movie Song of All Time, “As Time Goes By”.
Doctor Zhivago t Composer: Maurice Jarre
Academy Award® & Grammy® Winner for Best Original Score
Doctor Zhivago, David Lean’s passionate adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s novel on love and war in Russia remains of the most beloved films of the 20th century. Composer Maurice Jarre won both the Oscar® and Grammy® awards for Best Score for this film, and “Lara’s Theme” remains one of the most famous in cinematic history.
This edition of the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features the complete score, outtakes and three arrangements of Lara’s Theme (the Jazz, Rock ‘n Roll and Swing versions)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas; Horton Hears a Who t Composers: Albert Hague; Eugene Poddany; Lyrics: Dr. Seuss
Two Enduring Children’s Classics
Dr. Seuss’ holiday classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas meets his Horton Hears a Who! on this soundtrack recording. Featuring the scores to both television specials and songs with lyrics by Seuss, including “You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch”.
How the West Was Won t Composer: Alfred Newman
#25 – AFI’s List of Top 100 Film Scores
9-time Oscar® winning composer, Alfred Newman was nominated for his score to this 1962 Epic MGM Western. Told in five parts by directors John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall and an un-credited Richard Thorpe, How the West Was Won is the story four generations of a family and their western migration from New York to the Pacific
Featuring an all-star cast including John Wayne, Walter Brennan, Henry Fonda and Gregory Peck to name just a few, the film won three Academy Awards®, and in 1997, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
This 2-CD edition of the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features the complete score plus outtakes, demos and extended versions of some of the tracks.
King Kong (1933) t Composer: Max Steiner
#13 – AFI Top 100 Film Scores
The groundbreaking 1933 film King Kong gave movie lovers not only one of their most enduring protagonists, but helped change the way Hollywood used music in film. Composer Max Steiner’s ability to integrate the musical story with the visual was revolutionary. The score is considered one of the most important in cinematic history, as following the film’s release,
a soundtrack transformed from being a mere assemblage of stock pieces into an art form of it’s own. Steiner, who went on to win three Academy Awards® and receive an additional 18 nominations, was innovative in his creation of individual character leitmotifs and through his ability to move from the moody to the whimsical to the grandiose and bombastic as the story called.
Lolita t Composers: Nelson Riddle; Bob Harris
“How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?”
The score to Stanley Kubrick’s influential Lolita, the film based on the classic Vladimir Nabokov novel, walks the same tight-rope as the film, teetering and flitting between the ominous and the innocent. This score, by noted bandleader, arranger and orchestrator Nelson Riddle, is a kitschy, quirky postcard representative of its time.
North by Northwest t Composer: Bernard Herrmann
Herrmann’s Complete, Captivation Score
Bernard Herrmann’s score to Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest is a dazzling musical adventure that captures the elements of chase, suspense and romance of this classic film. The listener is swept up with Cary Grant on his road trip of dangerous misadventure – chased to breakneck triple time tempos and blaring winds, swallowed by the penetrating, repetitive rhythm of the suspense themes and as enraptured as Grant and Eva Marie Saint were through the slow, throbbing strings of the love scenes.
This 2 CD set features the complete score by the Academy Award® winning composer Herrmann.
Poltergeist t Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Academy Award® Nomination – Best Original Score
Oscar® winning composer Jerry Goldsmith’s prodigious talents for scoring for the frightening and macabre are on grand form in his soundtrack to Poltergeist. From gentle, homely melodies to grisly, atonal movements, Goldsmith’s music illustrates the deep affection, decent into terror and ultimate triumph of the Freeling Family.
The Unsinkable Molly Brown t Composer: Meredith Wilson
Academy Award® Nomination – Best Original Score
Debbie Reynolds steps into the dancing shoes of The Unsinkable Molly Brown in this vibrant musical from 1964. The film, based on the Broadway hit of the same name, is the musical retelling of the life of the daring, self-made activist and socialite Margaret Brown (aka Molly) , who survived the sinking of the Titanic.
This Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features the complete score and songs by Meredith Wilson including “Belly Up to the Bar, Boys”, “I Ain’t Down Yet”, “Colorado, My Home” and “I’ll Never Say No”.
Victor Victoria t Composer: Henry Mancini; Lyricist: Leslie Bricusse
Academy Award® Winner – Best Music. Original Song Score
Julie Andrews stars in Blake Edwards’ musical comedy Victor Victoria as “A woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman”. The delicious score and original songs by composer Henry Mancini and lyricist Leslie Bricusse won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song Score. Victor Victoria also features memorable performances by James Garner, Robert Preston and Leslie Ann Warren.
This 2 CD reissue of the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack includes the full score and songs including “Cherry Ripe”, the sultry “Le Jazz Hot”, “Gay Paree” and the show-stopping “Crazy World” as well as previously unreleased music cues from Manicini’s award winning score and a rehearsal version of “Shady Lady from Seville”
The Wizard of Oz t Composer: Herbert Storthart t Songs by: Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
Academy Award® Winner – Best Score and Best Song
What other movie soundtrack has so captured the hearts of its audience and remained such a touchstone in the cultural consciousness of so many generations of dreamers? This 2-CD special edition of this indelible soundtrack features the complete score and all of the songs including “Ding, Dong! The Witch is Dead”, “Follow the Yellow Brick Road”, “If I Only Had a Brain”, “We’re Off to See the Wizard” and Judy Garland’s immortal recording of the AFI’s ‘1 Movie Song of All Time, “Over the Rainbow”. This collection also features extended versions of “If I Were King of the Forest” and “Delirious Escape” and the outtakes of “Ding Dong! Emerald City” and “Jitterbug”
Zabriskie Point t Composer: Various
Featuring Music by Pink Floyd & The Grateful Dead
Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1970 film Zabriskie Point was his second English language film (following Blow-Up) and depicted American Counter-culturalism of the late 1960s. The film was one of the first to use songs from various contemporary artists in addition to original music written for the film by Jerry Garcia and Pink Floyd.
This 2 CD edition of the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features songs by Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, Patti Page, The Youngbloods, and Kaleidoscope as well as eight outtakes from Floyd and The Dead.
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You would think that NxNW 2CD thing was a mistake. How much more music could you force on this to make it 2CDs?
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I was hoping that since FSM was revisiting Poltergeist, the same could be done for NBNW.
Me too, but much more so for Andre Previn's magnum opus, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse which doesn't just need better sound quality like NBNW but is actually missing a lot of great music!
Yavar
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The Wizard of Oz won't be a 2 CD-set like the press release and www.jpc.de say. www.jpc.de has posted the artwork and tracklist for this title.
http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/Harold-Arlen-Wizard-Of-Oz-The/hnum/1527146
I guess Gone with the Wind and Ben-Hur won't be 2 CD-sets either, but no information is available for these titles. I don't know if How the West Was Won will be a 1 CD-set or 2 CD-set. I guess it's a 2 CD-set as there was never a 1 CD-set released by Rhino for this title, while there was a 1 CD-set available for The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind and Ben-Hur with highlights.
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