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As we have those really interesting two threads,
http://fsm.rciwebhosting.net/board/posts.cfm?threadID=43899&forumID=1&archive=0
and
http://fsm.rciwebhosting.net/board/posts.cfm?threadID=43516&forumID=1&archive=0
about Franz Waxman's score from A PLACE IN THE SUN, I've did a quick research to find more threads dealing with the topic. So, by chance I've found the information here
http://fsm.rciwebhosting.net/board/posts.cfm?threadID=15129&forumID=1&archive=1
by Preston Neal Jones that should not be overlooked when discussing the SAYONARA sampler (conducted by Elmer Bernstein):
This thread got me to pull off my shelf that German BMG conducted by Elmer Bernstein and organized by Christopher Palmer. Haven't listened to A PLACE IN THE SUN yet, but it purports to include passages in their original form before studio execs insisted on getting Victor Young, among others, to "soften" parts of it.
I did listen to the brief suite from HEMINGWAY'S ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN, a personal favorite, and was startled to hear one track that didn't belong there at all, misidentified: it was actually "The Old Jenny" from SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS. Was this another instance of mis-labelled manuscripts, I wonder, as when a cue from AFRICA was recorded by Varese/Goldsmith as part of North's 2001 score...?
I don't know why or how that mistake happened. But it's good to know that there's also music from SPIRIT on that CD. Thanks to the (better) working search engine.
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Aug 7, 2007 - 10:48 AM
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Ag^Janus
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I finally managed to get hold on Hans Erdmann's NOSFERATU. As always the background informations in the booklet are very helpful. However, I was not impressed by the music, I found it often very boring. The actual score has been lost a long time ago. Gillian B. Anderson did the reconstruction of the score based on three sources:
1) Erdmann's suite where he adapted parts of the actual score ("Fantastisch-Romantische Suite").
2) The handbook by Hans Erdmann and Guiseppe Becce (Allgemeines Handbuch der Filmmusik). - BTW, it would be interesting to have some rerecordings of Becce's film music.
3) Reivews of the 1922 premiere in the German press.
So, I got the feeling, Anderson's job was really very difficult. It's my least favorite edition of the series so far, not knowing yet the Waxman, Chaplin, Koechlin and Dessau albums.
I'm not sure what you were expecting, however you will want to watch the film with this music, it is very tightly bound to the motion picture. Certainly not as separable as Waxman's Place In The Sun.
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On Google I found an FSM thread from years ago which I can't find here today re: Waxman's "Night Moods." No one apparently had an answer to the query of which films the four disparate sections were derived from. Just to add to the mystery, on the Waxman Website page for works available for performance, "Nightmoods" (one word) lists not four but five pieces, though the total timing corresponds with the timing on the BMG. Maybe "Longing" exists like Hogwarts in another dimension:
For Orchestra 14:30
1. Blind Pursuit – Allegro Ritmico
2. Whispering Shadows – Andante
3. Longing – Lento
4. Delirium – Intense
5. Panic – Allegro Furioso
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