Forgive me if this is a daft question, but am I right in thinking that there isn't an OST album for this score? I'm just watching the film now on TCM, and it really does have great music.
Forgive me if this is a daft question, but am I right in thinking that there isn't an OST album for this score? I'm just watching the film now on TCM, and it really does have great music.
There is an album with a large suite of a a rerecording of this score with another title. RECORDED with an english orchestra, and not very old. THE ESSENTIAL MICHEL LEGRAND MUSIC silva america 13.58 SUITE
The most complete version I am aware of was recorded by Legrand with the London Symphony, coupled with a suite from THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. I have the LP; the catalog number is CBS M 35175. I don't know if this recording was ever released on CD.
The most complete version I am aware of was recorded by Legrand with the London Symphony, coupled with a suite from THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. I have the LP; the catalog number is CBS M 35175. I don't know if this recording was ever released on CD.
A great album that. I'm afraid I don't know if it had a CD release either?
Cheers for this - just ordered the CD from HMV in Japan - who are incredibly efficient about shipping stuff - it should probably get here about Wednesday.
Wonderful score; terrific movie. First saw it on TV one Christmas Eve when I was a little older than the young protagonist, and it fascinated me back then; just caught it again on TV for the second time in a few months, and it's hard not to be drawn in to the mystery and charm of the story. Legrand's music contributes so much to this, as well as the chemistry of Julie Christie and Alan Bates. Would love to see this score get a restoration.
Agree. The film also needs a Region 1 DVD release. It hasn't even appeared on the Sony Choice Collection MOD series. It is available for rent or purchase as a download from Amazon, but there's no indication as to whether the film is in widescreen. When TCM ran THE GO-BETWEEN a few years ago, it was full-frame. Maybe Twilight Time can license it for release as a Blu-ray.
Funny you should bring this up as I asked Michel Legrand about it on Friday night when he appeared in Hollywood after a screening of YENTL at The Egyptian.
Legrand told a very interesting story about how director Losey wanted this music that was completely inappropriate for the film, featuring a saxophone if I remember correctly.
Legrand fought to record the music he felt was best. Losey hated every piece Legrand recorded but Michel told him to dub it into the film and then see how it worked and they'd discuss it. Losey never got back to Legrand and he had no idea for months if the music was even used in the film. It wasn't until he read that it was at Cannes and then won the Palm D'or that Losey sent him a very long telegram thanking him for his music and saying he wanted to work with him again.
Legrand said after that he was through with Joseph Losey. (Although he must have forgotten he scored his film of A DOLL'S HOUSE a couple years later.)
There's a great article/ interview with Richard Rodney Bennett (by James Phillips) in the February 2002 edition of FSM. It's interesting - and kind of ironic - because Bennett says that he was influenced by Michel Legrand's piano-heavy sound for BAY OF ANGELS when he wrote BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN. I'm sure that Losey was aware of that approach when he contracted Bennett to score THE GO-BETWEEN. As mentioned earlier in this thread, Losey wanted a modern-jazz approach. Bennett didn't deliver the goods in that area, and although he was offered the chance to rescore it, was unable to do so due to other commitments. Losey then brought in Michel Legrand who did another ("terribly wrong" according to Bennett) score - which was piano-heavy (as in his BAY OF ANGELS and Bennett's own BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN).
It's kind of a mixed up story the way I told it, but there's something ironic about it.
I think the rights to the score might belong to EMI. I wonder if Quartet Records could do a release of the original tracks, taking into account that they still exist.
I think the rights to the score might belong to EMI. I wonder if Quartet Records could do a release of the original tracks, taking into account that they still exist.
James
EMI was one of the producing companies for the film, but Columbia Pictures still holds the copyright to the film as a whole. It may take some collaboration between Sony and StudioCanal.
I think the rights to the score might belong to EMI. I wonder if Quartet Records could do a release of the original tracks, taking into account that they still exist.
James
EMI was one of the producing companies for the film, but Columbia Pictures still holds the copyright to the film as a whole. It may take some collaboration between Sony and StudioCanal.
The original 45 single with two Legrand tracks was on EMI.
James
Forgive me. I just looked at my copy. It's on Columbia/Pathe Marconi. EMI is very much prominent in the artwork and that was why I thought it was EMI.
