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Rózsa: El Cid [Soundtrack]

~ Miklós Rózsa (Composer), James Sedares (Conductor), New Zealand Youth Choir (Orchestra), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Tamara Saylor Fine (Performer)
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  • Performer: Tamara Saylor Fine
  • Orchestra: New Zealand Youth Choir, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: James Sedares
  • Composer: Miklós Rózsa
  • Audio CD (20 Feb 1996)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Classics
  • ASIN: B000001SJ1
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 331,770 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Overture
2. Prelude
3. Courage And Honor
4. Fight For Calahorra
5. Palace Music
6. Palace Music
7. Palace Music
8. Road To Asturias
9. Wedding Night
10. Coronation
11. Love Scene
12. El Cid March
13. Battle Of Valencia
14. Death Of El Cid
15. Legend And Epilogue
On this CD:
  1. El Cid
    Composed by Miklós Rózsa
    Performed by New Zealand Youth Choir
    with Tamara Saylor Fine
    Conducted by James Sedares

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2.0 out of 5 stars Great music, bad production!, 4 April 2005
By F.R.M. (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews
Miklós Rózsa's score to the classic movie "El Cid" is indeed one of the greatest film scores of the 1960's. The music is epic and truly "made for wide-screen" with it's sweeping romantic themes, grandious fanfares and great orchestral build-ups. I can definitely recommend it to anyone interested in large-scale romantic film scores, but unfortunately not in this version recorded with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Sedares. The orchestra (under Sedares) plays well (which is why I rate this CD 2 stars instead of only 1, which it would deserve based on the poor production), and gives an overall perfectly acceptable performance.

But what drags this recording down is the dreadful production. It is a telling sign that the pipe organ solo of the final, and in the movie very important climax, has been replaced by a synthesized sound from what could be a cheap 300$ keyboard. Unfortunately this is not an exaggeration in any way (!). The majestically perceived (by Rósza) organ solo here falls completely apart because it sounds tame, uttermost fake and very "cheap", which of course is exactly what it is. The producers should be ashamed to murder Rosza's music, and an otherwise decent recording, like this!

That alone ruins the experience of the CD and clearly demonstrates that this is not a project made with enough musical integrity. It should never have been released like this. I'm sure Rosza would have not approved had he lived to hear the final bad result! This production soils his memory which is undeserved. But since the organ part seems to have been added after the orchestral recordings, the recorded material can hopefully be saved and at some point re-released in a proper way.

For now, I strongly recommend NOT buying this version of the El Cid score!

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