The Phantom of the Opera and the Mummy

Label: Soundtrack Factory
Category: Music

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Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 822165356224
EAN: 0822165356224
ASIN: B00006BNFZ

Release Date: 2002-07-30

The Phantom of the Opera and the Mummy

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Tracks:

Overture/Lullaby Of The Bells/The Porter Lied/Martha - Nelson Eddy
Lullaby Of The Bells (Followed By The Murder Of The Musical Publisher) - Edward Ward
Lullaby Of The Bells (Reprise)/Grand Polonaise/Nocturne In E Flat: Waltz In C Minor From Amour Et Gloire - Chorus
The Diva Murder - Phantom Of The Opera/The Mummy: The Screen's Classic Of Terror!
Le Prince Masque Du Caucasus - Nelson Eddy
Lullaby Of The Bells (Orchestral) - Susanna Foster
Excerpts From Swan Lake And Die Weisse Holle Vom Piz Palu - P.I. Tchaikovsky

Customer Reviews:

WELL worth the money!.......2005-12-17

For years the only recording I had of this Academy Award nominated score (outside of the videotape) was the old 2-LP pressing of the entire film's audio track -the one Sue Foster herself used to plug when she made a rare public appearence because it was the only commercially released recording she ever made.

Well, until some collector or custodian digs through their collection and unearths either the original master tapes, scoring session masters, acetates, playback discs or transcriptions, this CD is the closest thing PHANTOM '43 will ever have to a soundtrack album.

That said, this CD is much, much better than I was expecting.

First of all, yes, it is drawn from the mixed audio tracks of the film itself...HOWEVER the engineers have done an amazing job of sound editing, so while negligible bits and pieces of the score have been edited out in order to remove the more intrusive dialogue and sound effects, the overall integrity of the musical selections is preserved.

The sound quality is substantially better than the old vinyl LP and most of the VHS prints. PHANTOM '43 used an early noise-reduction technique during the original recording sessions and the clarity of the original is preserved here, even several generations removed.

The CD presents about 45 minutes of the soundtrack, which contains 98% of the opera sequences and a generous portion of the incidental underscore (including the heartbreaking 'Claudin's Theme' which accompanies the sad walk back to his garrett after getting sacked).

This is about as much of the score as can be presented without being interrupted by dialogue and sound effects.

The CD is filled out with an 11 minute suite of incidental cues from the 1931 Boris Karloff version of THE MUMMY, and while it makes a nice curio, it strikes me as somewhat out of place here. The decision to include the random insane laughter of Bramwell Fletcher (when it could have easily been edited out) mars the listening enjoyment.

Finally, the booklet includes some excellent black and white stills from PHANTOM, including an extremely rare still of the Phantom unmasked (worth the purchase price alone just for that!). The English-as-a-second-language liner notes are riddled with typos and not terribly useful.

But the music is Glorious!

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