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The Adventures of Robin Hood [Enhanced] [Soundtrack]

~ Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Composer), William T. Stromberg (Conductor), Moscow Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)

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Orchestra: Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: William T. Stromberg
Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Audio CD (1 Sep 2003)
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Enhanced, Soundtrack
Label: Marco Polo
ASIN: B0000BX5L0
Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 52,281 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Main Title - Muted Fanfare
2. Sir Guy and Robin Hood
3. Meeting
4. Banquet
5. Robin Hood Outside/Robin Hood's Entrance/The Fight/The Chase of ...
6. Robin Hood Meets Little John/Robin Hood Fights With Little ...
7. Oath and the Black Arrow
8. Fish/Robin Hood's Fight With Friar Tuck
9. New Companion (Friar Tuck)
10. Robin Hood Attacks Sir Guy's Party/The Attack
11. Flirt/Feast/Poor People's Feast/Gold
12. Poor People
13. Tournament/Robin Hood's Appearance at the Archery ...
14. Arrest of Robin Hood
15. Tribunal/The Jail
16. Gallows/The Flight of Robin Hood
17. Love Scene
18. Arrest of Lady Marian
19. Much: The Knife Fight
20. Richard Meets Robin Hood/Richard the Lion-Heart
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(The) Adventures of Robin Hood
Composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Performed by Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by William T. Stromberg

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) speaks for itself, and if you don't know it by now then it's time you did. This splendid new recording presents--amazingly for the first time--the entire 75 minutes of Korngold's rambunctious, gloriously romantic music, reconstructed by film music historian and composer John Morgan. Add the mini-suite written for the original theatrical trailer and the result is over 80 minutes of the finest film music ever put to a Hollywood picture. That's almost twice as much as the previous benchmark re-recording of this score, made in 1983 with the Utah Symphony Orchestra conducted by Varujan Kojian. The sound of this new version is an improvement, too, exposing all the many nuances of orchestration revealed by Morgan's restoration.

The Moscow Symphony under William Stromberg are by now veterans of Marco Polo's worthy series of film music restorations; but this is their finest hour, as they rise to the tremendous technical challenges of Korngold's action-packed scoring with grace and abundant enthusiasm. There's little evidence here of the rough edges that marred some of their earlier film music performances. An exhaustive and informative booklet completes an absolutely essential package. Clearly, Robin Hood is still an inspiration for both performers and listeners alike. --Mark Walker

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Beautiful Recording of a Beautiful Score - And Complete!, 3 Dec 2003

By	J Scott Morrison (Middlebury VT, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This is another in Marco Polo's series of modern recordings of classic film scores. And this is one of the REAL classics. It was written in haste by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) for the Warner Brothers release, but you'd never know that. There have been recordings of bits and pieces of the score before, but this is the very first one that contains all of its 75 minutes (an amazing amount of music for a film lasting only 102 minutes). Even more amazing is the fact that Korngold didn't think he could write the music because there is so much action in the movie--which means lots and lots of notes for underscoring--and because he didn't 'relate' to it. But he was prevailed upon and the result is, simply, quite amazing. The action music is appropriately perky (as the whistling tune when Robin meets Little John), agitated (as in the attack on Sir Guy and his men, and for Robin's arrest), dramatic (as for the music of the archery tournament). And then there is the insouciant theme song for the Merry Men which opens the score and recurs throughout the film. And on and on. From a strictly musical point of view, the score shows Korngold's utter ease at using leitmotivs for various characters, scenes and situations, and his ability to combine them contrapuntally when appropriate.

I have always loved Korngold's 1919 tone poem 'Sursum Corda' and knew that he quoted and extended much of that material in this score. He had done so at the urging of his father, the eminent Viennese music critic Julius Korngold, and indeed motives from that piece occur throughout the score. It first appears as a trumpet tune during the film's first appearance of Errol Flynn as Robin. The tune is memorable in all its guises.

Like all other Korngold scores, the musical materials are quintessentially late Romantic in both their kind and use. This means there is Romantic sweep, arching melodies, extraordinarily seamless counterpoint, lush orchestration (done here, actually, by Hugo Friedhofer to Korngold's extensive specifications), exciting action and ceremonial music, melting love music (the Love Scene between Robin and Maid Marian, with its use of shimmering vibraphone and celesta is sui generis for its time, and erotic as can be). All the things that we associate with the best of movie scores of this period are here. And this is one of Korngold's best. I well remember seeing this film as a boy and whistling the March of the Merry Men as I left the theater.

The restoration of the score from the parts of the original score still extant and from the optical track of the film itself is done by movie music expert, John Morgan. The performance by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra is led by conductor William Stromberg whose CD of music ['Death Valley Suite,' et al.] by Ferde Grof� I raved about earlier this year. Both the performance and the recording are terrific.

A word needs to be said about the CD's booklet. It is quite extensive and extremely informative. There is an account by movie historian Rudy Behlmer of how the movie came to be made and the score composed. There is a 15-page set of notes by Korngold biographer, Brendan G. Carroll, detailing in scholarly detail all manner of things about the music, including a scene-by-scene description of the movie's action and the music that accompanies it. There are two pages of black-and-white pictures of the original recording of the movie's score, conducted by Korngold himself. And there is a two-page essay by John Morgan about how the score was restored. One couldn't ask for a better production values.

I know that movie music buffs will be snapping this one up.

Heartily recommended.

Scott Morrison

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