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I love that "Arabesque" score too. Very dreamlike stuff.
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I love that "Arabesque" score too. Very dreamlike stuff.
Superb music, one of my favourite Mancini scores. A rerecording but I don't think too much is missing from what was in the film. I'm not too keen on the Ascot music but the rest of the music on album and in the movie is sublime.
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If I'm not mistaken, both ARABESQUE and CHARADE were recorded in London. I believe John Scott even played on both of these scores.
James
At CTS Studios in Bayswater, London, and engineered by Eric Tomlinson.
The actual soundtrack recordings for Mancini’s many scores would be most welcome.
Chris
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Henry Mancini's Arabesque is one of my desert island scores. For me, it's his best. Period.
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This will only be possible if Sony agrees. Maybe Quartet could do it. Sony in Europe may be easier to deal with.
There should be plenty of unreleased Mancini from that era - yet no interest to release it. I wonder if Sony also has distribution rights for albums that may have been planned, but never materialized.
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Mancini too damn underrated as a dramatic composer. And you know why? Because so little of his non-"easy listening" stuff has been released, and it's frustrating.
Yet some of his albums, like “Experiment In Terror” and “Arabesque” are worthy representations and still manage to retain (if not all) so,e of his dramatic scoring. I do agree however, Mancini was a bit typed by his easy listening material and his dramatic work was overlooked.
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Mancini was a genius. Because of his pop status, he was underrated. Look at The Night Visitor, Wait Until Dark or Lifeforce.
The last two of which are my favorites.
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Mancini was typecast, but he brought it on himself. Those 60s RCA albums were easy listening records, and he went out of his way to select source cues over score and then re-record. Good results, but if producers somehow got the impression that Mancini was an easy listening guy, you don't have to wonder why.
In Joseph Tandet's entertaining book about his many attempts to get movies and stage productions of The Little Prince made, he recalls Alan Jay Lerner's search for a composer. Mancini's name came up but was dismissed as "light."
"Arabesque" is one of my favorite Mancini themes.
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