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For those who can view it this great undervalued film is being shown on BBC2 on Monday 2.55pm. From the timings it appears to be the uncut version. What's not to like about this movie. The ever beautiful Ingrid Bergman as star, Victor Fleming as director and the great Hugo Friedhofer producing one of his greatest scores.
View this if you can it's a rare treat especially as the DVD/Blu Ray is so expensive (if you can find it?)
and it's preceded by a 35 minute Ingrid documentary.
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It's a sumptuous colour print, the score is highly orchestral but without a noticeable melody. Interestingly the Musical Arrangements credit is by Jerome Moross ?. I'd never previously realised.
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Hugo Friedhofer's score to JOAN OF ARC ranks extremely high on my most wanted list for a new recording.
One of my Top 5 Friedhofer scores (after "One Eyed Jacks", "The Best Years Of Our Lives", "The Young Lions" and "The Secret Invasion") and one of two on the list that isn't on C.D.. I'm still waiting for a World Premiere Recording.
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Oooh, I still desperately want a complete version of The War Lord, too. A re-recording might not be too likely but maybe the original tracks survive in the Universal vaults, since it's for a 60s film?
Would be great if Chandos did Friedhofer's Joan of Arc... don't see much reason to expect they would, though. The last time they released a new volume in their film music series was mid-2019 (Gerard Schurmann), and that was a compilation. When was the last time they recorded a full score by a Hollywood composer?
Yavar
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So glad that the Gothic Prelude piece is online again. I was very disappointed when the Friedhofer website the piece premiered on stopped working and making the clip inaccessible (I foolishly didn't think to download it).
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Same. Would still be great to get a lossless version.
Yavar
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Their recordings of The Sea Hawk, Citizen Kane and The Sea Wolf were extensive.
Yes (though The Sea Hawk of course still omitted a great deal of material due to the length of the score). And they were recorded in 2007, 2009, and 2005, respectively. Have they done anything other than a compilation in the past 12 years?
Yavar
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Seven years ago they gave us over half-an-hour of Rozsa's Jungle Book.
That was just Rozsa's half hour orchestral concert suite that had been recorded before, if I'm not mistaken. Probably cost a lot less to just rent an existing concert piece rather than having to reconstruct the score. Don't really see it as remotely the same situation as producing a premiere recording of even part of an unreleased film score.
I wonder if that Jungle Book recording would ever have been made if they'd held an online vote at FSM and pitted it against a Goldsmith score to decide which one to go ahead with? Probably not.
Based on what? I'm sure they would have. Rozsa has more cache with classical music fans than Goldsmith. Intrada has a different customer base than Chandos. But I for one really wished they had focused their resources more on Rozsa scores that had never been recorded before — that would have, as I said, been more expensive though.
A similar half-an-hour of Joan of Arc would be ok by me.
And also cost a lot more than the pre-existing Jungle Book orchestral suite (which doesn't have choir like Joan of Arc...unless you want the choir omitted). But sure, I'd also rather have half an hour of Joan of Arc rather than none at all, if that were an option. But I still doubt you'll find a label (including Chandos) to take it on. Friedhofer didn't even produce (m)any concert works, unlike Rozsa, Korngold, Schurmann, Alwyn, Parker, Shostakovich, and many other composers whose film work Chandos has recorded.
Yavar
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