ON THE WATERFRONT – Music Composed by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
An important, world-class film score finally on CD for the first time ever! The 1954 Columbia Pictures’ film On the Waterfront features musical giant Leonard Bernstein‘s lone movie score. Producer Sam Spiegel asked Bernstein to write the score and the composer, who had emerged over the previous decade as one of the most well-known and...
ELMER BERNSTEIN – THE WILD SIDE
Performed by Big Band de Canarias Featuring Esther Ovejero (Vocals), Kike Perdomo (Saxophone) and Sara Andon (Flute) Varèse Sarabande Records will celebrate composer Elmer Bernstein with the release ELMER BERNSTEIN: THE WILD SIDE available digitally and on CD December 9, 2014. This special recording focuses on the jazz and big band scores from the acclaimed composer, from such films as THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN...
GAME OF THRONES: Season One – Vinyl Limited Edition
Varèse Sarabande Records is proud to announce two album releases in conjunction with Record Store Day Black Friday on November 28: Genesis: From Genesis to Revelation and GAME OF THRONES: Season One double album, composed by Ramin Djawadi. Both albums will be released on 180-gram vinyl. This release of Genesis: From Genesis to Revelation is the first time it has appeared on vinyl since its original U.S. release in 1974....
MANDINGO/PLAZA SUITE – Composed and Conducted by MAURICE JARRE
Treat for Maurice Jarre fans! Two previously unreleased Paramount film soundtracks on one CD! Anchoring is 44-minute score from Mandingo, vivid adaptation of Kyle Onstott tale of Southern slavery, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring James Mason, Perry King, Ken Norton, Susan George. Dino Delaurentiis produces film after earlier attempts by others fail, then works with...
FUNERAL IN BERLIN – Composed and Conducted by KONRAD ELFERS
Expanded original soundtrack by Konrad Elfers for second Harry Palmer film begun with The Ipcress File, again starring Michael Caine, this time directed by Guy Hamilton of Goldfinger fame. Palmer becomes snarled in espionage tale set in cold war Berlin, with questionable motives of Russian colonel, Israeli agent with questionable motives of her own, pursuit...
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 HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES – Music Composed by Howard Shore
WaterTower Music has announced the release of the soundtrack to The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, with music composed by Academy Award® winner Howard Shore, one of film music’s most respected, honored, and active composers and conductors. The soundtrack also contains an original song performed by Billy Boyd, who starred as Peregrin Took in The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. The soundtrack will be released in two configurations: a standard...
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...
WARNING SIGN – Remastered Edition Soundtrack
INVADA RECORDS TO RELEASE SOUNDTRACK FOR CULT CLASSIC 1985’s WARNING SIGN COMPOSED BY CRAIG SAFAN Ιnvada Records will release an expanded, re-mastered edition of the WARNING SIGN soundtrack digitally, on CD and LP in November. The album features the original score by Craig Safan (THE LAST STARFIGHTER, TV’s CHEERS), along with 20 minutes of unreleased...
ENTER THE DRAGON – Extended Edition Soundtrack
Aleph Records is proud to release the ENTER THE DRAGON: EXTENDED EDITION soundtrack on CD November 11, 2014. The album features 56 minutes of Lalo Schifrin’s original score, much of it previously unavailable in any format. “It was a challenge to take music from the Orient – not the stereotypical Fu Manchu ideas that Hollywood had about Chinese music, but something more authentic – and do it bigger...
Howard Shore/David Cronenberg re-issues
HOWE RECORDS CELEBRATES THE 35-YEAR, 15-FILM COLLABORATION BETWEEN DAVID CRONENBERG AND HOWARD SHORE With Three Expanded Edition Releases: DEAD RINGERS NAKED LUNCH CRASH Howe Records is pleased to announce the release of three expanded collector’s edition soundtracks celebrating the 35th anniversary of the collaboration between celebrated filmmaker David Cronenberg and Academy Award®-winning composer Howard Shore with the release of collector’s...
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,...
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