Here are a few, mostly obscure: Waxman: Night Unto Night - obscure WB Ronald Reagan melodrama with a Tristanesque score and an ending as powerful as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde's ending
Waxman: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - score contains the stalking motif that inspired Jaws, and of course the wildly dissonant Transformation Scene, and that ending.
Waxman: Edge of Darkness - one of the best war film scores ever written.
Steiner: One Foot in Heaven - the best example of massed brass that Steiner ever composed in the Main Title.
Korngold: Another obscure WB film, and one of the few remaining Korngold scores never recorded aside from brief excerpts.
Korngold: Anthony Adverse - a masterpiece that needs a complete new recording in modern sound.
Newman: Song of Bernadette, complete in modern sound.
And from the 1950s: Waxman: The Nun's Story, The Silver Chalice. Steiner: Helen of Troy. Bernstein: The Ten Commandments.
I was going to say Waxman's DEVIL DOLL, but then I realized that's from 1936!
If re-recordings count, I'd say Rozsa's 1942 THE JUNGLE BOOK -- the film score, not the concert suite -- is tops on my Holy Grail list. It would have to be a re-recording, since the original tapes (as preserved on an archival CD from the FMS) are both incomplete and very difficult to listen to.
Raw Deal - Paul Sawtell Black Magic - Paul Sawtell T-Men - Paul Sawtell Night Has a Thousand Eyes - Victor Young Nightmare Alley - Cyril Mockridge Lost Weekend - Rozsa (plus any Rozsa Noirs) Return of the Vampire - Mario Tedesco
I'm surprised I'm the first to mention a complete "Now, Voyager," definitely my #1 '40s Holy Grail and my favorite Max Steiner. There is a lot of excellent music, themes, and delightful motifs nowhere to be found on the (breathtaking) Gerhardt suite most are familiar with. Of all the Steiners that have been re-recorded in full I am a little surprised this one hasn't.
ALINTGEN -- You didn't identify your "obscure" Korngold choice…?
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Happily, one of my biggest 1940's holy grails was finally, recently released in OST form by Kritzerland: Mockridge's LUCK OF THE IRISH.
And happily, John and Bill recorded the lion's share of my beloved Salter/Skinner Universal monster scores, 1939-1944 -- but crucial selections still remain to be presented. And of course, the entire Skinner skore for ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN still cries out to be heard.
Of the scores already mentioned by others, there are several I too would love to hear. To which compendium I would add:
Rozsa THE THIEF OF BAGDAD
Stothart THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
Webb SINBAD THE SAILOR
Webb THE BODY SNATCHER (complete)
Schumann BUCK PRIVATES COME HOME/THE NOOSE HANGS HIGH
(And maybe a few others which will come to me after I post this on the thread.)
