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Kritzerland is proud to present a new limited edition soundtrack release:
THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO
Music Composed and Conducted by Bernard Herrmann
In 1952, Twentieth Century Fox memorably brought Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro to the screen in a lavish production directed by Henry King, with a screenplay by Casey Robinson, starring a stellar cast including Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Susan Hayward, along with Hildegard Knef, Leo G. Carroll, and Torin Thatcher. The beautiful cinematography was by Oscar-winner Leon Shamroy.
With stunning location photography in Nairobi, Kenya, Cairo, Egypt and the French Riviera, the film was a Technicolor dazzler. The film was one of Fox’s biggest hits, earning huge grosses. It was nominated for two Academy Awards – one for Best Cinematography, Color and one for Best Art Direction, Color.
There could not have been a better choice for composer than Bernard Herrmann, who gave the film his completely unique sound and sense of drama. Herrmann had already written many scores for Fox films, including Jane Eyre, Hangover Square, Anna and the King of Siam, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and 5 Fingers, and subsequent to The Snows of Kilimanjaro he would continue to compose brilliant scores for the studio, including White Witch Doctor, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, King of the Khyber Rifles, Garden of Evil, The Egyptian (with Alfred Newman), Prince of Players, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, A Hatful of Rain, Blue Denim, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Tender Is the Night.
In his score for The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Herrmann captures all moods of the story, from nostalgia to sadness to joy to romance. The music is achingly beautiful, most especially in the sublime “The Memory Waltz.” As always with Herrmann, his orchestral colors are uniquely his own (as are his orchestrations), and even though with most Herrmann scores you can easily say it’s one of his best, The Snows of Kilimanjaro is right up there with his greatest.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro was previously released as part of the Bernard Herrmann at Fox box on Varese Sarabande. This is the scores’ first standalone release.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro is limited to 1000 copies only and is priced at $19.98, plus shipping.
CDs will ship by the third week of February, but we’ve been averaging three to five weeks early in terms of shipping ahead of the official ship date. To place an order, see the cover, or hear audio samples, just visit www.kritzerland.com.
NOTE TO OUR INDIEGOGO SUPPORTERS: IF YOU DO NOT WANT THIS TITLE YOU MUST OPT OUT OF THE RELEASE BY SENDING US AN E-MAIL TO KRITZERLAND@GMAIL.COM. IF YOU DO NOT OPT OUT, YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY RECEIVE THIS CD, DEPENDING ON YOUR PERK LEVEL.
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GREAT START TO 2016 - ORDERED!
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The major question: is this the same master as the Varese? 
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The major question: is this the same master as the Varese?
Close enough that if you have the Varese you're probably fine
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Jan 11, 2016 - 10:14 AM
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manderley
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All Herrmann fans should have this one. For years, in the 50s, all we had of this score was a nice, but short, suite conducted by Al Goodman on a 12" RCA Lp of music from Hollywood films.
Then, of course, some of us who remembered back to 1952 were thrilled when JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, the film of 1958, came out, and we could hear a bit of the end of the SNOWS score on the end title card "thank you" to Carlsbad Caverns for shooting permits.
In his comments, Bruce should have pointed out that THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO, although a then-normal, 4x3, 1.37-1, standard-frame movie, had its score recorded in stereo for mixing purposes, and this very nice stereo recording is replicated on the CD.
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Excellent. I think this leaves only Jane Eyre remaining for Varese Herrmann Box scores Bruce can reissue individually. (Well technically there's Blue Denim but as it's still in print from FSM I doubt he'd bother!)
Yavar
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And then, (to continue the thread of Manderley's narrative), we had to content ourselves with the composer conducting his beautiful "Memory Waltz" -- tender indeed was the night or day when Herrmann wrote that one -- on the LP of highlights from the Hollywood Bowl film composers' concert.
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If I'd known Kritzerland were going release improved editions of these Herrmann scores with proper artwork, I probably wouldn't have bothered with the Varese box set.
As it happens I did and because I had the Varese box set, I didn't purchase the first few Kritzerland reissues of that material—because at the time I didn't figure Kritzerland were going to go the whole way.
In hindsight I wish I had started re-building my collection of these Herrmann scores from the bottom up using the Kritzerland editions.
Hey ho.
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Half of them are Varese-owned in perpetuity. I believe the only other one Kritzerland is going to do is Jane Eyre.
Yavar
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