Stunning score. Except for title track none of the score has been released before. What is so interesting about this score is it has pieces that foreshadow scores from films from the 60's and 70's including the Time Machine 1960. I'd buy this one if ever released.
I'd love to see a recording of that score also along with a complete SAHARA and a much better sounding BLOOD ON THE SUN than what's available now. YES to the topic title.
KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOUR would be an instant-buy for me. I liked the film and the score is wonderful. The suite on the Rozsa Polydor LP runs about 10 minutes if I remember right. I'm surprised Chandos has not done a CD of Rozsa's British film scores.
(I pressed the button late to correct the stupid spell-checker's impertinent insistence on rendering 'Korda' as 'Korea'. 'More trouble than they're worth.)
Stunning score. Except for title track none of the score has been released before. What is so interesting about this score is it has pieces that foreshadow scores from films from the 60's and 70's including the Time Machine 1960. I'd buy this one if ever released.
What do others think?
The title track? Do you mean the short suite Rozsa recorded with the RPO for Polydor? Yes, that's wonderful. It's three pieces, an Overture, 'Siberia' and the Love Scene music. Daniel Robbins also released a piano version of Dietrich's song for Intrada.
It's a real tour de force for Rozsa to begin his career with, and a reasonably well-regarded film too. An extended suite would be a great thing. It anticipated his great obsession with period and locale authenticity, using Russian styles, and at least one folk tune.
It's probably his best Korda score of the pre-Hollywood era.
Stunning score. Except for title track none of the score has been released before. What is so interesting about this score is it has pieces that foreshadow scores from films from the 60's and 70's including the Time Machine 1960. I'd buy this one if ever released.
What do others think?
The title track? Do you mean the short suite Rozsa recorded with the RPO for Polydor? Yes, that's wonderful. It's three pieces, an Overture, 'Siberia' and the Love Scene music. Daniel Robbins also released a piano version of Dietrich's song for Intrada.
It's a real tour de force for Rozsa to begin his career with, and a reasonably well-regarded film too. An extended suite would be a great thing. It anticipated his great obsession with period and locale authenticity, using Russian styles, and at least one folk tune.
It's probably his best Korda score of the pre-Hollywood era.
I was mistakenly thinking of the Intrada and sound factory albums. From above I now understand that's only the piano version of Alexandra song. I'd love to see the polydor lp on CD. Based on clip above, you're right about it being a nice 9-10 minutes.
Ah, how these famous names recede into history! Sir Alexander Korda (1893-1956) was a legendary Hungarian-born producer who left an enormous mark on the British film industry. He gave Miklos Rozsa his start in movies and brought him over to Hollywood in 1939. Rozsa's first dozen or so movie assignments were mostly for Korda films. Unfortunately the scores are lost.
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII, REMBRANDT, ANNA KARENINA, THE JUNGLE BOOK, THE THIEF OF BAGDAD, RICHARD III, THINGS TO COME, THE THIRD MAN . . . Surely you've seen some of these Korda productions with the famous Big Ben logo of London Films.
Ah, how these famous names recede into history! Sir Alexander Korda (1893-1956) was a legendary Hungarian-born producer who left an enormous mark on the British film industry. He gave Miklos Rozsa his start in movies and brought him over to Hollywood in 1939. Rozsa's first dozen or so movie assignments were mostly for Korda films. Unfortunately the scores are lost.
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII, REMBRANDT, ANNA KARENINA, THE JUNGLE BOOK, THE THIEF OF BAGDAD, RICHARD III, THINGS TO COME, THE THIRD MAN . . . Surely you've seen some of these Korda productions with the famous Big Ben logo of London Films.
