[ RCA Red Seal / Sony music Masters / 12 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Friday 13 March 2020
In the 1970s, the Classic Film Scores series introduced a new generation to the sumptuous sound of music in Hollywood's "Golden Age."
Charles Gerhardt's Classic Film Score series re-introduced moviegoers to orchestral scores and helped usher the modern era of film music. Using the original orchestrations, heard in rich stereo sound, Gerhardt and the National Philharmonic Orchestra recreated the great moments from the legendary scores of Hollywood's most memorable films. Now re-mastered the Classic Film Scores are once again available for both collectors and a new generation of listeners.
Citizen Kane: The Classic Film Scores of Bernard Herrmann is probably the best of the entire series by conductor Charles Gerhardt and the National Philharmonic Orchestra. Every track is worthwhile and memorably played, especially Beneath the 12-Mile Reef and the suite from Citizen Kane, the latter highlighted by Kiri Te Kanawa's performance of the Strauss-like aria from Salammbo.
Korngold: The Sea Hawk: Main Title - Reunion - Finale (From "The Sea Hawk")
Korngold: Nora's Theme (From "Of Human Bondage")
Korngold: March of the Merry Men - Battle (From "The Adventures of Robin Hood")
Korngold: Juarez: Love Theme (From "Juarez")
Korngold: Kings Row; Main Title (From "Kings Row")
Korngold: Tomorrow (From "The Constant Nymph")
Norma Procter (contralto)
Ambrosian Singers
Korngold: Overture (From "Captain Blood")
Korngold: No Father, No Mother, No Name (From "Anthony Adverse")
Korngold: Between Two Worlds: Main Title - Mother and Son (From "Between Two Worlds")
Korngold: Deception: Main Title (From "Deception")
Korngold: The Death of Emily Bronte (From "Devotion")
Korngold: Escape Me Never: Main Title - Venice - March - Love Scene - Finale (From "Escape Me Never")
Sidney Sax (violin)
Tiomkin: Lost Horizon (1937)
John Alldis Choir
Tiomkin: Prelude (From "The Guns of Navarone")
Tiomkin: The Big Sky
Tiomkin: Overture (From "The Fourposter")
Tiomkin: Love Scene in the Barn (From "Friendly Persuasion")
Tiomkin: Choral Finale (From "Search for Paradise")
John Alldis Choir
Steiner: Adventures of Don Juan
Korngold: The Sea Hawk
Ambrosian Singers
Korngold: Ship in the Night (From "Captain Blood")
Steiner: They Died with Their Boots On
Steiner: Dodge City
Waxman, F: Parachute Drop (From "Objective Burma")
Hugo Friedhofer: The Sun Also Rises
Korngold: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Steiner: Main Title: Dixie, Mammy, Tara, Rhett (From "Gone With The Wind")
Steiner: Opening Sequence: The Twins, Katie Bell, Ashley, Mammy (From "Gone With The Wind")
Steiner: Driving Home, Gerald O'Hara, Scarlett, Tara (From "Gone With The Wind")
Steiner: Dance Montage: Charleston Heel and Toe Polka, Southern Belle Waltz, Can Can (From "Gone With The Wind")
Steiner: Grazioso, Mammy, Ashley, Ashley and Scarlett, Scarlett, Ashley and Melanie Love Theme (From "Gone With The Wind")
Steiner: Civil War, Fall of the South, Scarlett Walks Among the Wounded (From "Gone With The Wind")
Steiner: True Love - Ashley Returns to Tara from the War - Tara in Ruins (From "Gone With The Wind")
Steiner: Belle Watling (From "Gone With The Wind")
Steiner: Reconstruction, The Nightmare, Tara Rebuilt, Bonnie, The Accident (From "Gone With The Wind")
Steiner: Mammy and Melanie on the Staircase - Rhett's Sorrow (From "Gone With The Wind")
Steiner: Apotheosis: Melanie's Death, Scarlett and Rhett, Tara (From "Gone With The Wind")
Newman, A: 20th Century Fox Fanfare And Cinemascope Extension
Newman, A: Captain from Castile
Newman, A: Cathy's Theme (From "Wuthering Heights")
Newman, A: Hornpipe (From "Down To The Sea In Ships")
Newman, A: The Song of Bernadette
Newman, A: The Hunters (Main Title) [From "The Bravados"]
Newman, A: Anastasia (Main Title)
Newman, A: London Calling (From "The Best Of Everything")
Newman, A: Airport (Main Title)
Newman, A: The Robe
Band of the Grenadier Guards
Ambrosian Singers
Steiner: Casablanca
Steiner: Passage to Marseille: Rescue at Sea
Steiner: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Steiner: The Big Sleep: Love Themes
Steiner: The Caine Mutiny: March
Waxman, F: To Have and Have Not: Main Title: Martinque
Waxman, F: The Two Mrs. Carrolls
Frederick Hollander: Sabrina: Main Title; The Larrabee Estate
Young, V: The Left Hand of God: Love Theme
Rozsa: Sahara: Main Title
Steiner: Virginia City: Stagecoach; Love Scene
Steiner: Key Largo
Herrmann, B: The Death Hunt (From "On Dangerous Ground")
Herrmann, B: Aria from Salammbo (From "Citizen Kane")
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
Herrmann, B: Rosebud and Finale (From "Citizen Kane")
Herrmann, B: The Sea - The Lagoon (From "Beneath the 12-Mile Reef")
Herrmann, B: Descending (From "Beneath the 12-Mile Reef")
Herrmann, B: The Octopus - Homecoming (From "Beneath the 12-Mile Reef")
Herrmann, B: Concerto Macabre for Piano and Orchestra (From "Hangover Square")
Joaquín Achúcarro (piano)
Herrmann, B: Talking Drums - Prelude: The Riverboat - Petticoat Dance - The Safari (From "White Witch Doctor")
Herrmann, B: Tarantula - The Lion (From "White Witch Doctor")
Herrmann, B: Nocturne (From "White Witch Doctor")
Herrmann, B: Abduction of the Bakuba Boy - The Skulls (From "White Witch Doctor")
Herrmann, B: Lonni Bound by Ropes - Departure (From "White Witch Doctor")
Waxman, F: Prince Valiant: Suite
Waxman, F: A Place In The Sun: Suite
Waxman, F: The Bride of Frankenstein: The Creation of the Female Monster
Waxman, F: Sunset Boulevard: Suite
Waxman, F: Old Acquaintance: Elegy for Strings
Waxman, F: Rebecca: Suite
Waxman, F: The Philadelphia Story
Waxman, F: Taras Bulba: The Ride to Dubno
Korngold: Overture (From "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex")
Korngold: The Prince and the Pauper
Korngold: In the Forest
Korngold: The Sea Wolf
Korngold: Cello concerto in C, Op.37 (From "Deception")
Francisco Garbarro (cello)
Korngold: Night Scene (From "Another Dawn")
Korngold: Of Human Bondage
Rozsa: Prelude (From "The Red House")
Rozsa: The Morgan Farm, The New Hired Hand, Swimming Scene (From "The Red House")
Rozsa: Meg Finds the Red House (From "The Red House")
Rozsa: Teller Shoots at Meg (From "The Red House")
Rozsa: Pete's Death and Finale (From "The Red House")
National Philharmonic Orchestra, The Ambrosia Singers
Rozsa: The Love of the Princess (From "The Thief of Bagdad")
Rozsa: The Bottle, First Meeting (From "The Lost Weekend")
Rozsa: The Mouse and the Bat, Nightmare (From "The Lost Weekend")
Rozsa: Love Scene and Finale (From "The Lost Weekend")
Rozsa: Sunstroke, River Journey (From "The Four Feathers")
Rozsa: Mrs. Dietrichson, The Conspiracy (From "Double Indemnity")
Rozsa: Scherzo: Hawks in Flight (From "Knights of the Round Table")
Rozsa: Song of the Jungle (From "The Jungle Book")
Rozsa: The Dream Sequence, The Mountain Lodge (From "Spellbound")
Rozsa: Overture (From "Ivanhoe")
Steiner: Now, Voyager
Steiner: King Kong
Steiner: Saratoga Trunk: As Long As I Live
Steiner: The Charge of the Light Brigade: Forward the Light Brigade
Steiner: Four Wives: Symphonie Moderne
Steiner: The Big Sleep
Steiner: Johnny Belinda: Suite
Steiner: Since You Went Away: Main Title
Steiner: The Informer
Steiner: The Fountainhead
Steiner: Fanfare - It Can't Be Wrong (From "Now Voyager")
Steiner: Blindness (Judith's Theme) / Winter / Resignation (From "Dark Victory")
Steiner: Main Title (From "A Stolen Life")
Korngold: Elizabeth (From "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex")
Waxman, F: Forsaken (From "Mr. Skeffington")
Steiner: Main Title / Stanley and Roy; Finale (From "In This Our Life")
Newman, A: Main Title (From "All About Eve")
Steiner: Waltz (From "Jezebel")
Steiner: Main Title / Rosa Moline / The Train / Rosa's Death (From "Beyond the Forest")
Korngold: Carlotta (From "Juarez")
Steiner: Main Title (From "The Letter")
Steiner: Main Title - Henriette and the Children - Love Scene - Finale - End Cast (From "All This, and Heaven Too")