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Release Round-Up: Week of June 16

June 16, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring the return of a veteran artist, celebrations of the renowned musicians of Nashville and Los Angeles, a classic Disney soundtrack, and much more! Various Artists, Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City (Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Legacy teams with the Country Music Hall of Fame for this 2-CD, 36-song companion soundtrack to the Nashville museum’s current exhibit chronicling Music City’s fusion of country of rock. One previously unreleased cut by Bob Dylan joins both familiar and rare tracks by Johnny Cash,…

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Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Christopher Cross, Donovan, Eddi Reader, James Taylor, John Barry, Johnny Cash, Miklos Rosza, The Dream Syndicate, Various Artists

You Must Remember This: TCM, Masterworks Compile “Classic Sound of Hollywood” From Mancini, Williams, Morricone, More

April 8, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

On April 1, Sony’s Masterworks division and Turner Classic Movies marked the cable network’s twentieth anniversary with a new 2-CD collection of vintage Hollywood movie themes. Play It Again: The Classic Sound of Hollywood continues the Masterworks/TCM series that has previously encompassed archival releases from Doris Day, Mario Lanza and Fred Astaire. Composers represented include Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner, Maurice Jarre, Elmer Bernstein, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone and John Williams. Most of the tracks on Play It Again aren’t derived from the original film soundtracks, but rather from renditions…

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Maurice Jarre, Miklos Rosza

Golden Age Noir: Miklos Rózsa Score to “Strange Love” Premieres On CD

August 13, 2012 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Had Miklós Rózsa only composed the Academy Award-winning score to 1959’s epic Ben-Hur, his place in the cinema pantheon would likely have been assured. But Ben-Hur was just one of three Rózsa scores to win Oscars in a career that spanned from 1937’s Knight Without Armour through 1982’s Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. Rózsa, who also maintained a career as a composer of concert works, often employed a rich, sweeping orchestral style, and though he famously crafted “big” scores, he was also an important film noir composer, with films such as Billy…

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Miklos Rosza

Soundtrack Surplus: Varese, Intrada, La-La Land Announce List of Heavyweights

May 16, 2012 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Soundtrack fans had a lot of courses to chew on this week, with batches from Intrada and Varese Sarabande landing within mere hours of each other on Monday and Tuesday and a reissue announced for next week by La-La Land Records. Over at Intrada, fans got to enjoy a new entry in the label’s Special Collection series: Michael Small’s sexy, suspenseful score to The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981). Small’s soundtrack is released in full for the first time anywhere, featuring a handful of alternate cues intended for a soundtrack LP that never…

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Leonard Rosenman, Miklos Rosza

Soundtrackus Maximus: “Ben-Hur” Gets Five-Disc Expansion by FSM

March 8, 2012 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

UPDATE: After selling through its initial pressing of 2,000 in two weeks, Film Score Monthly has pressed another 2,000. As label head Lukas Kendall cheekily explained, “I NEED THE MONEY!” Original post: One of Hollywood’s greatest film scores and one of the catalogue world’s greatest soundtrack labels have finally, excitedly joined forces to produce a definitive box set edition of the Oscar-winning soundtrack William Wyler’s classic Ben-Hur. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Ben-Hur, released in 1959 (and recently released on Blu-Ray), was Hollywood’s second adaptation (after a 1925 silent film) of the novel of the same name by Lew…

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