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The French Play Time label will release on April 8th for the first time ever the complete Delerue score for PROMISE AT DAWN (1970) with a duration of 55 minutes. The CD will apparently also include a few alternate tracks and demo versions as director Jules Dassin had at first rejected part of Delerue's score so that the composer was forced to revise some tracks.
More infos here:
http://www.fglmusic.com/produit.php?id=1681
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Yeah, Delerue can do that to you. He keeps writing beautiful things that go to the top of your list, and then he goes and writes something else that's so beautiful it knocks the other score off its perch. Watcha gonna do?
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Yeah, I must I say I don't remember how my Cinemusique Cd sounds and if it is vinyl sourced, but I'm surprised by the "first time ever" here.
Sorry, this was certainly a misunderstanding, but "first time ever" here of course does only mean "for the first time complete" as this new edition is now more than 20 minutes longer than the old Polydor LP or the DCM CD. As is mentioned on this Play Time website, the additional tracks all come from Delerue's private archive. So it is clear that Colette Delerue was again heavily involved with the production of this album.
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Feb 26, 2016 - 3:13 AM
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By: |
PlayMuzik
(Member)
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On April 8th the French Play Time label will release the complete Delerue score for PROMISE AT DAWN (1970), in limited edition at 750 discs !!
In 1970, American filmmaker Jules Dassin contacted Georges Delerue, the renowned French composer who had already enjoyed success with his scores for Jules & Jim, Contempt, King of Hearts and A Walk with Love and Death. Dassin wanted him to do the music for Promise at Dawn, his adaptation of Romain Gary's autobiographical memoir.
Delerue thought it was an interesting challenge: he would use notes of music to tell this story, an impassioned mother-son relationship, and explore the torments of the Slav soul, while travelling through time (from 1914 to 1945), and covering a lot of territory (Russia, Poland and France). Unfortunately, the trip had pitfalls: Dassin turned down part of the music already recorded by the composer, and Delerue had to go back to the drawing board.
Here, for the very first time, is the double score for Promise at Dawn: the music heard in the film, plus the music that Jules Dassin didn't keep.
You can hear the firepower in Delerue's compositions, his great lyricism, and the very personal way that he revisits music of the past. The complete score is accompanied by some previously unreleased demos, miraculously exhumed from the composer's archives. Today, 45 years after the original recordings, you can listen to the musical adventure of Promise at Dawn, revealed at last in its full dimensions.
This is both an album and an event, an indispensable collectors' item for lovers of the great Georges Delerue.
More infos here : http://www.fglmusic.com/produit.php?id=1681
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Good to hear this will be available again. Hopefully, many other wonderful scores from Monsieur Delerue will follow!
Cheers!
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Looks promising... Thanks for posting the complete content of this. And thanks Slint for the F. de Roubaix expanded release info. A lot to look forward to.Cheers!
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This shall be mine - for the Melina song alone...
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