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 Posted:   Mar 18, 2024 - 8:06 AM   
 By:   ryanpaquet   (Member)




https://www.musicbox-records.com/en/cd-soundtracks/14293-le-roi-de-coeur-king-of-hearts-expanded.html

Remastered and expanded edition.
12-page CD booklet with French and English liner notes by Sylvain Pfeffer.
Limited Edition of 1000 units.

In collaboration with EMI Music Publishing France, Music Box Records proudly presents the newly remastered and expanded edition of Georges Delerue's score to the 1966 classic film Le Roi de cœur (King of Hearts), directed by Philipe de Broca and starring Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Pierre Brasseur and Adolfo Celi.

After the huge success of That Man from Rio (1964) and the more lukewarm reception of Up to his Ears (1965), Philippe de Broca decided to momentarily stop making big-scale comedy and adventure films. With Daniel Boulanger and Marcel Dalio, he wrote the script of King of Hearts, a tender and tragic farce set at the end of the First World War. Now considered one of Philippe de Broca’s masterpieces, the movie was a complete failure when it came out, despite starring the best French actors of the time. Probably too ahead of its time, this attempted foray into a dreamlike, unreal and irrational world was rehabilitated in the 1980s when it was belatedly released in the United States. To the director’s surprise, it subsequently achieved cult status with cinema lovers.

King of Hearts was the eighth collaboration between de Broca and Georges Delerue. The film gave the composer the opportunity to write a new theme built on a three-beat rhythm, another contribution to the nostalgic yet light-hearted universe created by the two men from movie to movie. Full of contrasts, Georges Delerue’s enchanting score is at once discordant and delicate, joyful and sad, like those broken characters thrown into a world where they feel ill-at-ease and that rejects them.

This present edition has been fully remastered from complete scoring session elements and features around 20 minutes of previously unreleased music compared to the previous Varèse Sarabande album released in 2004 and long sold out. The package includes a 12-page booklet with liner notes by Sylvain Pfeffer, discussing the film and the score. The CD release is limited to 1000 units.

LE ROI DE CŒUR (KING OF HEARTS)

1. La valse tordue (6:53)
2. Le colonel McBibenbrook (Marche écossaise) (2:53)
3. Thème de la joie de vivre (2:20)
4. La valse tordue (2:11)
5. La pavane (1:50)
6. La marche du sacre (1:31)
7. La valse tordue (2:22)
8. La cérémonie (2:10)
9. La polka du roi (0:54)
10. Le cortège (2:12)
11. Les bicyclettes (1:12)
12. La polka pavane (2:37)
13. Le repos (1:42)
14. Marche allemande (1:37)
15. Un cœur qui bat (5:45)
16. Marche écossaise (1:51)
17. La berceuse (1:04)
18. Thème du retour à l'asile (1:12)
19. La danse écossaise (1:24)
20. La valse tordue (piano) (1:43)
21. Thème de la joie de vivre (Final) (2:15)

Total Time • 48:31

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 18, 2024 - 12:49 PM   
 By:   Big X   (Member)

An original film and a fine score, will pick this up.

 
 Posted:   Mar 18, 2024 - 1:20 PM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

Always great to see more Georges Delerue music making it out of the vaults… very happy the old album program has been expanded.

Yavar

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 18, 2024 - 1:31 PM   
 By:   Anthony N.Putson   (Member)

Lovely! Ordered alongside the new Beltrami release.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 18, 2024 - 9:10 PM   
 By:   JEC   (Member)

I had the United Artists LP of this which I found at one of those three for a dollar sales Woolco used to have in the 70s.

I didn’t know till recently that Varese had released this in 2004. Definitely won’t miss it this time.

 
 Posted:   Mar 18, 2024 - 9:24 PM   
 By:   DeviantMan   (Member)

Oh nifty,
Got this on order, but what about VIVA MARIA??

Is that due for an improved edition, too?

Still hoping SALVADOR gets a new revisit as well.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 19, 2024 - 9:47 AM   
 By:   Bond1965   (Member)

Oh nifty,
Got this on order, but what about VIVA MARIA??

Is that due for an improved edition, too?

Still hoping SALVADOR gets a new revisit as well.


In other words, "That's nice but what I really want is..."

James

 
 Posted:   Mar 19, 2024 - 11:58 AM   
 By:   DeviantMan   (Member)

That's nice but what I really want is..."

What is really want is that YOU Speak for YOURSELF, JAMES

Thank you

The more DELERUE the merrier wink

 
 Posted:   Mar 19, 2024 - 12:38 PM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)


Got this on order, but what about VIVA MARIA??


See? James is right, thats what you said.

 
 Posted:   Mar 19, 2024 - 2:39 PM   
 By:   Diederik   (Member)

Great, another new Delerue release! Delerue releases have been slowing down, now its about one release a year. The last one was last years Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine, I believe, and before that L'homme de Rio, both also from Music Box Records and for De Broca films. I am unfamiliar with this one and looking forward to discovering a new Delerue score! His scores with De Broca are very varied in sound and style, and from the description this sounds yet again different from what came before.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 19, 2024 - 3:32 PM   
 By:   oregstevens   (Member)

Lovely score for a charming movie. Glad to see an expanded CD release.

 
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