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The Alamo: An Original Sound Track Recording [Soundtrack]

Dimitri Tiomkin | Format: Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (23 Dec 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Sony
  • ASIN: B000002AN4
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 78,338 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1. Overture
2. Main Title/Legend Of The Alamo/Sam Houston
3. Davy Crockett And The Tennesseans
4. Cantina Music
5. Davy Crockett's Speech ('Republic Is One Of Those Words...')
6. Love scene
7. Crockett And The Tennesesseans Enter The Alamo
8. The Mexicans Arrive
9. Intermission
10. Entr' acte
11. Tennessee Babe
12. Here's To The Ladies
13. Raid For Cattle
14. Santa Anna
15. Crossing The Line
16. The Green Leaves Of Summer
17. Charge Of Santa Anna/Death Of Davy Crockett/Teh Final Assault
18. Finale
19. Exit Music
20. Davy Crockett And Flaca ('I'm Gonna Tell You Something, Flaca...')
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars How does 1995 extended release compare with original 1960 album? 2 May 2010
By Truview
Format:Audio CD
Collectors of movie scores may be disappointed with the Columbia/Legacy 1995 release of "The Alamo" soundtrack album, or more particularly with some of the "9 previously unreleased tracks". The most noteworthy addition is "Entr'acte" (3.44), an exciting choral rendition of the "Ballad of The Alamo. The others have sound effects, horses hooves, dialogue and gunshot sounds. The only other new 100% unadulterated music tracks are "Cavatina Music" (2:10), "Love Scene" (6.32), an additional choral arrangement of "Tennessee Babe" now called "Finale" (1.50), "Exit Music" (orchestral interjections included) (1.50) and alternate ending "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You" (1.10). The usual purpose of a soundtrack album was for the music lover to hear the music without the film sounds, in which case you might just as well see the DVD! The literate sleevenotes from the LP by Patterson Greene are not included. The current sleevenote writer
notes the fact that enthusiasts had originally longed for a proper 2 LP release. Like Houston's troops it "never came,never came,never came". If you buy, be shrewd with your money.
PS. Well, who can predict? Since writing this a first-rate 3CD set from the City of Prague Philharmonic has appeared! Great!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Forgotten Film Music Genius 17 April 2004
By David M. Hogan
Format:Audio CD
Not so much the Alamo more Dimitri Tiomkin!

I do not understand why the work of Dimitri Tiomkin, the composer of the music for the original film, "The Alamo", and many other great film successes, is not heard today. He has a genius for relating human emotional experience to expression in music in a way only hitherto exemplorised by Mozart, Faure, Rutter, Martynov and Tchaikovsky!

For reasons imponderable, his music seems to have been suppressed. This is disastrous! He has the power to invoke in the listener, deep emotional feelings of an order rarely experienced. Listening to his music arouses emotions that hithertoo were overwhelmed by the synthetic lives that we find ourselves navigating in the so called "modern age."

Music appreciation will be rewarded after experiencing Tiomkin's genius expressed completely in the Alamo! In this score Tiomkin demonstrates his remarkable breadth of skill in a range of tracks covering Joy, sadness, triumph and defeat. How is it possible, in what must have been a very short period in time, for him to produce such a beautiful collection of contrasting moods.

Hear this and you will understand, indeed, you will know, what real musical genius can do.

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Alamo: A Film Score To Remember 3 July 2000
By James D. Eret - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
Dimitri Tiomkin has written the film music of some of my favorite movies and westerns. I think "The Alamo" is his masterpiece. Mixing Spanish themes with other western standards captures the period of the Alamo perfectly. When he introduces Davy Crockett, riding to immortality with his ragged bunch towards the Alamo with a funny accordian theme, or the bombastic fanfares of generalisamo Santa Anna, or the exciting battle music, history comes alive. His beautiful "Green Leaves of Summer,' perfectly captures the sadness of a noble stand and regret. John Wayne, if my memory serves me, when he won his only Oscar for playing Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit,"thanked the Academy and Dimitri Tiomkin, for Tiomkin scored many films Wayne acted in, classics like "Red River," and others.Also,"The Alamo" was Wayne's only directorial effort and he must have had a great love of Tiomkin's music. This CD gives the listener more music. I had and still have the original LP of "The Alamo" and remains one of my favorites. It is wonderful when Tiomkin takes the "Dueglo," or "no quarter" trumpet solo and blends in "The Green Leaves of Summer" for added effect and power. After the last song, like the survivors of the Alamo, we too feel regret and know that this is great music. Highly recommended. Also try to get or request out of print Tiomkin scores, classics like "The Old Man and the Sea,"(He won an Academy Award for it) and one of my other favorites, "The Guns of Navarone," a great score to a rousing classic as "The Alamo" is. There are many many others but "The Alamo" is a good introduction to Dimitri Tiomkin's wide range of film scores as any and still stands the test of time.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Western Score 10 Feb 2000
By Steve Rawlings - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
The musical score for John Wayne's "The Alamo" was arranged by the Russian-born composer, Dimitri Tiomkin. It is ironic that a man with Russian heritage would compose many of the great American western scores, including "High Noon," "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," and "Rio Bravo." Tiomkin also wrote scores for other genre including "The Guns of Navarone" and "The Fall of the Roman Empire." "The Alamo" is his signature western work.

Tiomkin beautifully captures the many moods and themes of the film in his haunting and reflective Overture. These themes play out again and again in the natural setting of the movie, from the plaintive guitar and harmonica to depict the southwestern flavor of the mission near San Antonio, to the stirring brass to introduce Davy Crockett, or the imperial trumpets to announce Santa Anna. The music is varied, rich, robust, and teeming with excitement.

Tiomkin is a master. He can at once soothe the soul with "The Green Leaves of Summer" on the eve of the final climatic battle when the defenders of the Alamo lay wake in the still of the night, as one of them said, "not thinking...just remembering." He can then stir the soul with the clash of strings, brass and percussion in the final dramatic assault. I have listened to this music for forty years, first on records and now this CD. It evokes the many memorable scenes from the movie and is timeless and enduring...

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A great soundtrack for the greatest movie. 13 Jun 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
I'm a great fan of "The Alamo" since I first saw it at the age of 14. Now I'm 48. Since then, I saw it whenever I could. Its music amused me. I worship "The Green Leaves of Summer"and its openig, too. The other tracks included recently, such as Marty Robbins' "Ballad of The Alamo", made this CD a precious item. I've been after it for a long time. Since the time of vinils, but never managed to get it here in Brazil. Recently, I found it at Amazon.com. So the dream of having it in my collection at last came true. So now I see the film and listen to this great, great soundtrack. In time, I'm very found of movies tracks and songs.
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