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Great Composers [Soundtrack]

~ Elmer Bernstein
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  • Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Cliff Eidelman, Elmer Bernstein, Joel McNeely
  • Composer: Elmer Bernstein
  • Audio CD (26 Oct 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Universal
  • ASIN: B00002DDPE
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 337,150 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Magnificent Seven
2. Great Escape
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
4. Wild Wild West
5. Age of Innocence
6. True Grit
7. My Left Foot
8. Them Commandments
9. Gifters
10. Comancheros
11. Shootist
12. Frankie Starlight
13. Lost in Yonkers
14. Rage in Harlem
15. Black Cauldron
16. Buddy

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Unlike the subject of the previous collection--Great Composers: John Williams--there haven't been many retrospectives of Elmer Bernstein's career. The best thing about Varese Sarabande's collection is the number of original performances from the composer himself the label has been able to assemble from its own back catalogue. Together with faithful re-recordings by Joel McNeely and Cliff Eidelman from other Varese albums, this makes for a brilliant introduction to Bernstein's long and distinguished film career. He practically invented the adventurous Western sound full of charging rhythms and vastly-stretching hero motifs. John Wayne's saunter would never have been the same without them. All-time highs include: The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape and True Grit. From the more recent end of his career there's a real display of diversity between The Age Of Innocence (a lush turn-of-century portrait), The Grifters (tongue-in-cheek film noir), A Rage In Harlem (a stroll through the backstreets of Bernstein's youth in mid-1930s New Yawk) and Wild Wild West (clearly an attempt at "The Magnificent Will Smith"). The latter is the closing segment of a Western section, preceded by Wayne's classic vehicles: The Shootist, The Commancherosand True Grit. If there's a few lesser items among the many greats, this is nonetheless an excellent career overview. --Paul Tonks

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4.0 out of 5 stars A great collection of a great composer, 1 Aug 2001
By G. Bingham (Sheffield, England) - See all my reviews
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This collection of the work of Elmer Bernstein, one of the greatest, most prodigious movie composers of the last 45 years, is a long overdue and much awaited release. Spanning the scope of his entire career, this collection is a [largely] well chosen mix of Bernstein's most famous and iconic works [ the main titles and themes from The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape and To Kill A Mocking Bird], his most skillful, subtle and sublime pieces [the delicate and poignant Moon from Frankie Starlight, the heartrending Love Spoken from My Left Foot and the neo noir-esque overtones of The City from The Grifters] and some cues from some of his lesser known scores [The main theme from the Michael Curtiz/John Wayne western The Comancheros and the finale from the 1985 Disney release The Black Cauldron]. The orchestrations by [principally] the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Utah Symphony Orchestra are very good, capturing the unique texture and lucid flow, as well as the often dynamic and, on some of the western themes in particular, complex interaction of instruments and instrument groups with consumate applomb. Some of the cues are not that great as film compositions. His suite for De-Mille's The Ten Commandments feels slightly forced and, though certainly a professional piece, a little as though he had soaked up the best of North and Tiomkin but couldn't really add much of his own. And, of course, there are some of his scores that i would have liked to have heard covered here which are'nt [His vibrant and evocative score for Preminger's The Man With The Golden Arm, one of his earliest works and more low key than many of his western scores - his work on Anthony Mann's The Tin Star and his recent, old fashioned, Miklos Rosza style score for Robert Benton's Twilight] but, hey, thats always going to be some kind of a problem for almost everyone with a compilation release. This is as essential a purchase for film and film music lovers as anything currently available. And serves just as well as a summation [for Bernstein fans] or as an introduction [for the uninitiated]. Highly recommended.
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