MY SCIENCE PROJECT – Composed and Conducted by Peter Bernstein
Premiere release of knockout score by Peter Bernstein for Jonathan Betuel adventure/fantasy with John Stockwell, Fisher Stevens, Dennis Hopper. Movie was an early effort from Disney’s then-new Touchstone division, aimed at teen market. Special effects are name of the game, with everything from UFO’s to dinosaurs all getting their say in the name of high...
THE PRESIDIO – Music From The Motion Picture
Composed and Conducted by Bruce Broughton First of three pictures Broughton scored for Hyams, this one gave composer opportunities to write both strong main theme plus pulse-quickening action. Broughton launches with introspective, transparent four-note motif then moves to lean trumpet figure. Both ideas are reflective, offering cohesion that holds score together. Interestingly, brief trumpet idea...
NO MAN OF HER OWN/THUNDER IN THE EAST/WILD HARVEST –
Intrada announces a trio of Hugo Friedhofer scores from the Paramount vaults in this latest edition of the Intrada Special Collection. In Wild Harvest (1947), set against images of combines threshing amber waves of grain, Friedhofer put his “Americana stamp” on the score with a bright major-mode theme, featuring galloping trumpet and woodwind figures set to a...
OUR MAN FLINT / IN LIKE FLINT – Composed and Conducted by JERRY GOLDSMITH
Two great sixties albums by Jerry Goldsmith make their debut on CD, mastered from the recently discovered original 20th Century-Fox stereo album session masters! Preserved in pristine condition in the vast UMG vaults, Our Man Flint and In Like Flint were short but exciting LPs that came out in 1966 & 1967 respectively. Both movies featured James Coburn as...
SUMMER of ’42/THE PICASSO SUMMER – Composed and Conducted by MICHEL LEGRAND
Among the most nostalgic and wistful film scores of all time, Michel Legrand’s beautiful music for Summer of ’42 captured the hearts of moviegoers in 1971 as well as members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, who honored it with the 1971 Academy Award for “Best Original Score.” Warner Bros. Records issued a bestselling...
SEE NO EVIL – Original Motion Picture Score
World premiere release of dynamic thriller soundtrack by Elmer Bernstein for Richard Fleischer film about blind woman terrorized by sadistic killer, written by Brian Clemens, starring Mia Farrow. Outdoor farm setting, English countryside set stage for relentless pursuit of defenseless woman while one-by-one, loved ones around her are brutally slain. Bernstein fashions music only where...
SWITCHBACK – Music From The Motion Picture
Back by popular demand, Intrada presents a straight reissue of the first Special Collection release from 2000. Composer Basil Poledouris chose to anchor his score around a brief 3-note motif, heard at the very beginning of the score on solo flute. Extremely flexible, this motif worked alone, sometimes expanded into longer ideas, blended with more...
THEMES FROM THE GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER – Score by Elmer Bernstein
CD premiere of superb Elmer Bernstein score for landmark CBS television anthology series sponsored by General Electric, hosted by Ronald Reagan. The General Electric Theater presented adaptations of popular plays, short stories, novels and films in a half-hour anthology series starring top Hollywood and Broadway talent. The format accommodated live telecasts originating from both coasts and telefilms,...
THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT – Original Music From The Motion Picture
Premiere CD release of magnificent Michel Legrand score for Charles Jarrott filming of Sidney Sheldon novel. Based on Sidney Sheldon’s 1974 bestseller, The Other Side of Midnight stars Marie-France Pisier (Cousin Cousine) as Noelle Page, a young actress who beds her way into becoming the mistress of a wealthy Greek tycoon (Raf Vallon), all the while plotting revenge...
GORKY PARK – Music Composed and Conducted by James Horner
World premiere expanded CD of early James Horner score for exciting crime thriller set in Moscow, directed by Michael Apted from Martin Cruz Smith novel, starring William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy, Joanna Pacula. For the 1983 film Gorky Park, composer James Horner brilliantly blended orchestral and synthesized textures, wielding an impressive array of stringed instruments...
THE BAYTOWN OUTLAWS – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Composed by CHRISTOPHER YOUNG and KOSTAS CHRISTIDES The rousing rebel spirit of a family of Southern thugs takes off at breakneck speed in The Baytown Outlaws—a wickedly playful, high-velocity action comedy in which three infamously ruthless Alabama brothers find themselves on the wrong side of crooked cops, relentless Feds, mad mobsters, road pirates, tomahawk-wielding bikers, and tricky femmes fatales...
BLOW OUT – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Composed by PINO DONAGGIO Just a year after composer Pino Donaggio paired with Brian DePalma on the Hitchcock-inspired Dressed to Kill (soundtrack also available on Intrada), the team tackled another genre-mashup thriller — Blow Out. Donaggio’s music is a meld of his infectious synthesizer-led rhythmic voice from lower-budget horror scores of the era (to accompany the film’s false opening), to...
THE TWELVE CHORUSES – Composed by Miklos Rozsa
Intrada announces the latest in its Excalibur Collection — a brand new recording of Miklos Rozsa‘s The Twelve Choruses. The film choruses on this disc—derived from Ben-Hur (1959) and King of Kings (1961)—were published by Robbins Music, the publishing division of M-G-M, shortly after the films were released. Accessible and relatively easy to perform, they were...
HER ALIBI – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Composed and Conducted by GEORGES DELERUE “If we want someone with a light touch to do a score that really lifts the film and gives it an amiable quality, Georges [Delerue] is certainly the one to do it.” — Bruce Beresford, Director Prior to scoring Her Alibi, composer Georges Delerue had done his share of romantic comedies with elements...
CRAWLSPACE – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Composed by PINO DONAGGIO First CD release of Pino Donaggio soundtrack from David Schmoeller horror thriller with Klaus Kinski as serial killer acting as landlord, peering into private lives of female occupants. Renter Talia Balsam proves to be tough adversary. 1986 film, shot in Italy, is product of Charles Band film production company Empire Pictures...
HOUSE OF USHER – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Composed and Conducted by LES BAXTER Reissue of original Les Baxter soundtrack from landmark 1960 debut of American International Pictures cycle of highly successful Edgar Allan Poe-themed horror movies featuring Vincent Price. (Contents identical to Intrada 2011 release). Also known as The Fall Of The House Of Usher, Roger Corman directs, Richard Matheson scripts. Intrada presents entire...
SOUNDER / DECISION FOR CHEMISTRY – Music Composed By Alex North
Composed and Conducted by Alex North Alex North had a deep affinity for the music of the American South, and following his landmark 1951 score for A Streetcar Named Desire he’d been given frequent opportunities to harness this love. One such opportunity came in the form of 1972’s Sounder, based on the beloved young adult novel by William H....
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