Legendary Film Composers

Title Tracks for Legendary Film Composers

1. The Kentuckian: Prelude/The Steamboat - National Philharmonic Orchestra/Fred Steiner/Ambrosian Singers
2. The Magnificent Ambersons: Theme And Variations/George's Homecoming - Austrailian Philharmonic Orchestra/Tony Bremner
3. Sisters: Separation Nightmare/Breton's Murder/Dirge - London Studios Orchestra
4. This Is Cinerama: Ladies & Gentlemen, This Is Cinerama - Cinerama Philharmonic Orchestra/Louis Forbes
5. The Best Years Of Our Lives: Main Title - London Philharmonic Orchestra/Franco Collura
6. The Best Years Of Our Lives: Homecoming - London Philharmonic Orchestra/Franco Collura
7. In Love And War: Main Title/Requiem - National Philharmonic Orchestra/Fred Steiner/Ambrosian Singers
8. South Seas Adventure: Journey To Hawaii - Cinerama Symphony Orchestra/Normal Luboff
9. South Seas Adventure: Finale - Cinerama Symphony Orchestra/Normal Luboff
10. Cheyenne Autumn: Overture - Symphony Orchestra Of Rome/Alex North
11. Cheyenne Autumn: Main Title - Symphony Orchestra Of Rome/Alex North
12. The Four Musketeers: Overture - Lalo Schifrin
13. The Four Musketeers: Frozen Pond Fight - Lalo Schifrin
14. Voyage Of The Damned: Lament - Lalo Schifrin
15. Voyage Of The Damned: Tragedy/Time Pulse - Lalo Schifrin
16. Raintree County: Susanna's Madness/War Begins - MGM Studio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/John Green
17. Sunrise At Campobello: Main Title/Hyde Park Ten Years Wiser/End Cast - National Philharmonic Orchestra/Ambrosian Singers/Fred Steiner

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This review is from: Legendary Film Composers (Audio CD)

This is a wonderful compilation of snippets from various off-the-beaten path original recordings.

The exerpt from THIS IS CINERAMA is taken from a suite recorded by Max Steiner himself and included on the Laserlight budget disc featuring the nearly complete original score for KING KONG. The Alex North-conducted SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE (complete original soundtrack recording minus native music tracks) and CHEYENNE AUTUMN have both been available on the disc ALEX NORTH AT THE MOVIES. Bernard Herrmann's disorienting synthesiser-driven SISTERS has been out on Southern Cross Records but is difficult to find. I was lucky enough some years ago to run across it in a second-hand bookstore. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS and Friedhofer's faintly Copland-esque and particularly American neo-romantic THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (the best ever of scores which hardly anyone knows, even though it won the Oscar in 1946) have long been out on Preamble discs.

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