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thanks to all your reccomendations, i am getting THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII, THE NAKED MAJA, and ESTHER AND THE KING. i just want to know your opinions are of THE SIEGE OF SYRACUSE as i am seriously thinking of picking this one up also. does it have alot of great romantic and choral harmonies that will really capture the conflagrations of that peiod? thanks alot for any advice.
I had written something about the CD here:
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=61618&forumID=1&archive=0
For me it is one of the best Lavagnino efforts within the Peplum genre. I am very glad that this score has been finally made available on CD because in former times we never had anything from it on sound carrier at all. The expansive main theme - almost in the vein of an epic Italian Max Steiner score - is gorgeous and highly romantic, one of the most beautiful things Lavagnino has ever written. He seems to have been particularly inspired at the time this movie was made. Yes, there is also some lovely choral stuff in the score which you will certainly like, particularly in the main title and the sensual variations in the love scenes. The passages with solo viola - an instrument which Lavagnino particularly loved for romantic scenes - are also delicious.
I must say that I myself even prefer this splendid score to Lavagnino's LAST DAYS OF POMPEJI. So yes, of course highly recommended.
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L'ASSEIDO DI SYRACUSA and SAFFO VENERE DI LESBOS are both very good, with some lovely sections. (In English they are SIEGE OF SYRACUSE and THE WARRIOR EMPRESS.)
There was a response in a thread around here someplace, where a producer, as I recall, from one of the labels stated more peplums would be released this year, but he was not specific about titles. (Are they ever????)
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A I mentioned in another thread, the latest addition. Nascimbene's "Le Baccanti" is one of the very best in the series. Wonderful music and very good sound. I'd call this a must-have without doubt.
seconded!
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The Warner Archive Collection has announced made-on-demand DVDs of six peplum films (actually four peplum and two related films). All of these films were released by MGM in the early 1960s. All of the DVDs are 16x9 widescreen and are remastered, which should be the best presentations these films have had on video. In addition, only one of the six has had a score release, so for the others, the only chance to hear their scores is within the films themselves. The titles are:
[Sandokan the Great (1963) - Giovanni Fusco / No Release
Anyone still interested in the SANDOKAN score by Fusco?
Just have a look at the new clues/posters on the Beat Facebok website and you will see that the SANDOKAN score from 1963 will quite obviously be released on a Beat Records CD in December. Great news!
http://www.facebook.com/BeatRecordsCompany
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