Ernest Gold - Film Themes & Suites
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Track List: Film Themes & Suites
Album Details: Film Themes & Suites
- Release Date:
- 01/01/2000
- UPC:
- 503649100129
Pro Reviews: Film Themes & Suites
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Ernest Gold enjoyed some considerable success as a composer of soundtrack music between the end of the 1950's and the early 1960's, and in 1963 England's Decca Records gave him the opportunity to record his own versions of such popular pieces as the waltzlike main theme from It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and the rousing main theme from Exodus, as well as the less obvious, more complex material associated with such films as The Young Philadelphians and Judgment At Nuremberg, and the Coplandlike material from The Last Sunset, and the much more jazzoriented music from Pressure Point; and the music from Exodus is presented in the form of a concert suite running just under seven minutes that fully exploits the main theme without being overly repetitive, using the various parts of the orchestra starting with the various elements of the string section to offer the material in myriad permutations and timbres. Gold is equally adept at all of it as a conductor, leading the London Festival Orchestra (the inhouse name for the Decca/Londonsponsored ensemble that would later grace the Moody Blues' Days Of Future Passed) in superb performances that expand considerably on the music as represented in the original soundtracks of the era; he gets fine performances out of the players, whether as an ensemble or as soloists (especially the oboist in "The Last Sunset" and "Inherit The Wind". As with other London and Decca instrumental releases of the era, the sound is stateoftheart, and the only drawback to the appeal of this album is the singularly unimaginative cover, which probably helped dampen down sales considerably across the decade or more that this album was in print. - Bruce Eder, All Music Guide |
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When he died early 1999, Ernest Gold was best remembered as one of Hollywood's most successful film composers and one of the busier composers in television during the '70s and '80s. If things had been different in the world of the '30s, however, Erne...Full Ernest Gold Biography
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