Miklos Rozsa at M-G-M: Motion Picture Soundtrack Anthology

Miklos Rozsa at M-G-M: Motion Picture Soundtrack Anthology Artist: Miklos Rozsa
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 081227572327
EAN: 0081227572327
ASIN: B00001WRKT


Release Date: 1999-10-19

Miklos Rozsa at M-G-M: Motion Picture Soundtrack Anthology


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Tracks:

  1. Madame Bovary
  2. Ivanhoe
  3. Knights Of The Round Table
  4. Beau Brummell
  5. Valley Of The Kings
  6. Moonfleet

Tracks:

  1. Green Fire
  2. The King's Thief
  3. Tribute To A Bad Man
  4. Diane
  5. Lust For Life
  6. The World, The Flesh And The Devil
  7. King Of Kings

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Miklos Rozsa was one of the musical giants of Hollywood's golden age. By the time he signed on with M-G-M for what he called his "fourth phase," a successful series of historically themed costume dramas that included Quo Vadis (whose musical tracks are still lost) and Ben-Hur, the Hungarian-born composer had already written music for a disparate collection of films, including The Thief of Bagdad, Spellbound, Double Indemnity, and The Lost Weekend. This collection of original recordings documents both Rozsa's quality-conscious unwillingness to let his film work take a back seat to his other career as a classical composer and the historically authentic musical elements he continually strove to weave into these costume epics. Even his acquiescence to the studio's desire for a pop title song with <I>Green Fire</I> yielded nothing less than epic results. Half a century later, Rozsa's work still informs much of Hollywood's film scoring. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The place to start.......2002-12-28

This extraordinary collection is the place to start in learning about Hollywood's Golden Age in music. Rozsa's music represents that pinnacle of majesty and perfect representation of the movie that rarely occurs now a days. Get this.

4 out of 5 stars Only rated 4 because of the sound quality........2002-03-13

This is a wonderful collection of Rozsa's years at MGM. Movies and music from a different age indeed. If you are a fan of Rozsa already, then you must have this set or you likely already have it. If you are not aquainted with Rozsa's music, then this is not the worst place to start. There are excerpts from 13 classic MGM scores on this set, most of the arrangements being around 12 minutes in length, but Ivanhoe and Madame Bovary are much longer.
Most of this music is making it's first appearence on CD, for example, Diane, Green Fire, Moonfleet and Valley of the Kings.
The sound quality is much better than what you might expect for 50 year old tapes. The performances by the famous MGM orchestra is about as good as you might expect. All in all, an extraordinarily fine collection.

5 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. When Good Ghouls Go Bad ~ Christopher Gordon
  2. The Songs of Shirley Temples Films ~ Shirley Temple
  3. Alice et Martin (1998 Film)
  4. Mondays in the Sun ~ Lucio Godoy
  5. Final Fantasy, Vol. 10 ~ Original Game Soundtrack
  6. Serial Experiments Lain Sound Track Cyberia Mix ~ Nakaido "Chabo" Reichi
  7. Star Trek: Generations
  8. Indochine: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ~ Patrick Doyle
  9. When the Whales Came ~ Christopher Gunning
  10. Hollywood's Best: The Sixties - '60s - Motion Picture Soundtrack Anthology ~ Various Artists - Soundtracks

Music Album

Music Album

Music

Breakdown ~ Biochip C

'Til You've Seen Mine ~ Tom House

Lightning Strikes ~ Loudness

Ohmwork ~ G, Z, R

Time Heals Nothing ~ Crowbar

V.1 ~ Paco Ibanez

Ary Barroso Songbook, Vol. 3 ~ Various Artists

Namida Ha Hitonotameni ~ Sun Hee Lee

Birthday ~ Kururi (Quruli)

Best ~ Tomoko Ogawa