The Essential Elmer Bernstein Film Music Collection
$16.99
You must be kidding! - These remakes done by The City of Prague Orch. are worthless. Thye come no where near the actual majesty of Bernstein s music. The original, or nothing.
Not to my liking. - Perhaps i was expecting too much after listening to other film composers.So i will put this in the play at a later time.
Sad, Really Sad - These CDs don t meet the standards that I expect from Elmer Bernstein s wonderful film music.*It s just Boring*The ensemble doesn t have the energy one would expect to play The Magnificent Seven and The Man with the Golden Arm. I think the City of Prague and National Youth Jazz Orchestras were bargain orchestras used to make an inexpensive CD set of one of my favorite film composers. The conducting and arrangements were what made this an obviously bad album.
An excellent movie themes antology by ELMER BERNSTEIN - Silva Screen Records, presents this antology of the music from the late great composer/conductor ELMER BERNSTEIN, who supervised this recording just before die.Played the The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, and conducted by his one time assistant James FitzpatrickRecorded in HDCD and Dolby Surround
Excellent - it s unfortunate that more tracks weren t able to be recorded as theree was a good 15-20 minutes of space remaining on both discs. Regardless, this is an excellent sampler, especially in conjunction with Varese s Bernstein sampler including rare stuff like the Black Cualdron.With regards to this silva set, these recordings range back to 1994, with Sons of Katie Elder and True Grit being recorded for a John Wayne CD and Bridge At Remagen for a CD of classic War themes. The Great Escape was also recorded for that CD, but producer James Fitzpatrick opted to record a new arrangement (same with Magnificent Seven). In 97, The Buccaneer for included on a Swashbucklers disc, while Heavy Metal was on the popular Space and Beyond compilation. In 98, the world premiere recording of Airplane first appeared on a DISASTERS film disc. So while it may technically be the world premiere RECORDING it certainly is not the world premiere CD RELEASE of that recording. Ghostbusters was included on Space 3: Beyond the Final Frontier, the second followup to the popular Space and Beyond . Fast forward to 2002 and 4 recordings first appeared on WAY OUT WEST: ESSENTIAL WESTERN FILM MUSIC COLLECTION VOLUME TWO, those being The Comancheros, The Hallelujah Trail, The Scalphunters and The Shootist. Man With the Golden Arm and Walk on the Wild are from Silva s JAZZ IN FILM cd.The remaining tracks were all newly recorded for this release. They are of course the strongest tracks, seeing as the City of Prague Philharmonic has improved over time. I do wonder though why they did not include the older arrangements of Great Escape and Mag. Seven as bonus tracks.I also recommend the simultaneously released 40 years of Film Music: Jerry Goldsmith for another great set honoring a late great film composer.