City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra - Essential Elmer Bernstein Film Music Coll - O.S.T.
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Track List: Essential Elmer Bernstein Film Music Coll - O.S.T.
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Disc 1:
- The Magnificent Deven - Elmer BernsteinDownload & Buy
- To Kill A Mockingbird (Suite) - Elmer BernsteinDownload & Buy
- The Buccaneer (Overture) - Elmer BernsteinDownload & Buy
- Walk On The Wild Side - Elmer BernsteinDownload & Buy
- An American Werewolf In London (Metamorphosis) - Elmer BernsteinDownload & Buy
- The Age Of Innocence (End Titles) - Elmer BernsteinDownload & Buy
- The Comancheros - Elmer BernsteinDownload & Buy
- Ghostbusters - Elmer BernsteinDownload & Buy
- Heavy Metal (Taarna's Theme) - Elmer BernsteinDownload & Buy
- Johnny Staccato - Elmer BernsteinDownload & Buy
- True Grit (Rooster Cogburn/A Warm Wrap-Up) - Elmer BernsteinDownload & Buy
- Hollywood And The Stars - Elmer BernsteinDownload & Buy
- Zulu Dawn (River Crossing) - Elmer BernsteinDownload & Buy
Disc 2:
- The Great Escape - Elmer Bernstein
- The Man With The Golden Arm - Elmer Bernstein
- Far From Heaven - Elmer Bernstein
- The Sons Of Katie Elder - Elmer Bernstein
- Airplane (Suite) - Elmer Bernstein
- The Shootist (Main Title) - Elmer Bernstein
- Hawaii (Overture) - Elmer Bernstein
- The Birdman Of Alcatraz (Finale) - Elmer Bernstein
- The Hallelujah Trail (Overture) - Elmer Bernstein
- The Bridge At Remagen - Elmer Bernstein
- Thoroughly Modern Millie (Sky-Hi) - Elmer Bernstein
- The Scalphunters - Elmer Bernstein
- The Ten Commandments (Overture) - Elmer Bernstein
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Album Details: Essential Elmer Bernstein Film Music Coll - O.S.T.
- Release Date:
- 06/07/2005
- Label:
- Silva America
- UPC:
- 738572117825
Pro Reviews: Essential Elmer Bernstein Film Music Coll - O.S.T.
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews The death of film composer Elmer Bernstein in 2004 made him an obvious choice for Silva Screen Records' "essential" composer series (Gone with the Wind: The Essential Max Steiner Film Music Collection, The Essential Nino Rota Film Music Collection, etc.). Silva Screen is dedicated to creating new recordings (sometimes the first ever) of film music, generally performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (which doubtless works cheaper than a major orchestra in the unionized West would), and it has had occasion to apply itself to Bernstein before, sometimes with his active cooperation. In fact, of the 26 tracks included here, 15 have been released previously on such albums as The Crimson Pirate: Swashbucklers of the Silver Screen and Jazz in Film (performed by the National Youth Jazz Orchestra). The compilers and producers, primarily James Fitzpatrick, have chosen from among Bernstein's 150+ scores with an eye toward the composer's versatility as well as his bestknown work. He was typecast in Hollywood, but fortunately, with such a long and prolific career, he managed to be typecast several times for different things. Early on, The Man with the Golden Arm marked him as a "jazz" composer, and he got similar assignments, which he treated similarly (a good example being Walk on the Wild Side). Then, with the success of The Magnificent Seven and its memorable, appropriately magnificent theme (the leadoff track here), he became known as a composer of Westerns, and there is a noticeable similarity in his work on such successors as The Comancheros, True Grit, The Sons of Katie Elder, and The Shootist, even though the compilers have deliberately spread them out through the album. Later in his career, Bernstein's delightfully parodic score for Airplane (with a suite given a premiere recording on this collection) suddenly made him the man to see for comedies, though we get relatively little of that work here. The compilers have gone out of their way to find scoring that falls outside of these three main threads in Bernstein's work, including horror (a premiere recording of "Metamorphosis" from An American Werewolf in London), period romance (The Age of Innocence), and musical comedy (Thoroughly Modern Millie, another premiere recording of the cue "SkyHi"), along with more exotic efforts such as Zulu Dawn and Hawaii. Perhaps Bernstein's greatest scores (though also atypical) get the longest excerpts: a haunting eightplusminute suite from To Kill a Mockingbird and a stirring eight minutes of the overture from The Ten Commandments at the end. The result may not be all of the essential Bernstein on two CDs in 110 minutes, but it is a good sampler of a lengthy and varied career. - William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
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If Elmer Bernstein had realized his childhood hopes, he might have been a successful concert pianist from the '40s through the '60s. Instead, thanks to his ability as a composer (manifested at an early age), and the timely intervention of World War I...Full City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra Biography
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