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Sep 25, 2014 - 11:19 AM
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Rozsaphile
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Ever search the composer list at Screen Archives Entertainment? It's a fairly comprehensive list that features all the usual suspects plus many less familiar figures from recent years. Goblin? Vincent Gilioz? Carlo Silotto? So I've always been intrigued by the absence of Sergei Prokofiev. After all, his ALEXANDER NEVSKY is probably the most successful of all film scores in the concert hall, and for many years it was one the most frequently recorded. IVAN THE TERRIBLE is nothing to sneeze at either. You might think that SAE chooses to focus only on "film composers," but that is obviously not the case. Copland, Walton, Korngold, and Schnittke are all listed, despite their being better known outside the soundtrack world. And of course there is a fair, if not complete, selection of concert works by Rozsa, Waxman, Arnold, and others.
In fairness this is nothing more than a quirk of cataloging. SAE does carry some Prokoviev albums. You can find them by title. Still, Prokofiev has always struck me as an odd omission. I even inquired about it once, when I was seeking the film version of the NEVSKY music. Can't recall if I ever got an explanation. A listing just might help sell a few more titles, which is something I would wish for this fine and useful retailer.
Shostakovich too!
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Sep 25, 2014 - 11:44 AM
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GoblinScore
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Hey, nothing wrong with rocking some Simonetti & Co. (Goblin!) along with Sergei!
NEVSKY should be in every film score collectors collection, period, end of line, no matter what.
I typically hate when people say "Your not a fan unless you have THIS score", but in this case,
its the truth, ruth.
There is a pretty decent Vox Box double disc with Slatkin/St Louis SO if I recall, that has
NEVSKY/ IVAN THE TERRIBLE / LT. KIJE, which is worth hearing.
That RCA/Temirkanov NEVSKY however.....bloody essential. Even if you don't care for the music 100%,
the notes are a great read about filmmaking and scoring in general.
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Sep 26, 2014 - 5:07 PM
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Rozsaphile
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Wow! I had no idea there was so much Shostakovich film music out there. Twenty years ago, his soundtrack album output would have been far outweighed by Prokofiev's three famous scores. Prokofiev, of course, collaborated with a major filmmaker, and his most famous film score is also one of his most famous concert pieces. Shostakovich's films are largely unknown in the West, and nobody would claim that his movie work ranks near the top of his oeuvre. Still, I'll bet there is material worth hearing in the albums that SAE now lists. HAMLET, of course, is terrific, as we've known for years, thanks to Bernard Herrmann's recording.
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Sep 28, 2014 - 4:54 AM
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Tall Guy
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Wow! I had no idea there was so much Shostakovich film music out there. Twenty years ago, his soundtrack album output would have been far outweighed by Prokofiev's three famous scores. Prokofiev, of course, collaborated with a major filmmaker, and his most famous film score is also one of his most famous concert pieces. Shostakovich's films are largely unknown in the West, and nobody would claim that his movie work ranks near the top of his oeuvre. Still, I'll bet there is material worth hearing in the albums that SAE now lists. HAMLET, of course, is terrific, as we've known for years, thanks to Bernard Herrmann's recording.
Yes, lots of Shostakovich film music out there now. For anyone with an interest in this, I. Can recommend John Riley's book "Dmitri Shostakovich: A Life in Film"which includes notes on all DDS-scored films from New Babylon in 1929 to King Lear in 1971. ISBN 1 85043 484 0.
TG
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