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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      General Discussion: Georges Auric - The beauty and the beast    FIRST   PRIOR   1 2       Last Post   Posted:   Nov 8, 2014 - 5:22 AM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) Send me your address, so I can let you have a CDR of "The Body Snatchers", an incidental music I composed many years ago - which I consider still amusing and valuable. Or is there any of those old Marco Polo CDs you still don't have? You can write through the e-mail link of my homepage. Thank you Mr. Adriano, I just sent you a message!    Posted:   Nov 8, 2014 - 5:46 AM     By:   .   (Member) For the most part, I really like the Beauty and the Beast performances. The dark atmospherics of the latter two-thirds are very good. Some earlier parts sound a bit stodgy to me and my conclusion was that the recording itself was more to blame for that. The somewhat diffused sound gives a nice ghostly sheen to the more intimate mysterious scenes, especially those with chorus. But in more extrovert tracks like "In the Forest", and even the Main Title, the sound seems somewhat confused and mushy. For me, the recording is two-thirds Beauty and one-third Beast. But I'd say that this doesn't just afflict Adriano's recording. I find that many (actually, most) of the early Stromberg and Morgan Naxos recordings feature similar sound limitations that make busier and louder passages mushy.    Posted:   Nov 8, 2014 - 6:29 AM     By:   hadrianus   (Member) You are perfectly right BW, but you must not forget that at that time Naxos-Marco Polo were recording at very low costs and this included sound technique too. In Bratislava they had a good multi-microphone-system (but never enough mikes for greater scores), and the whole was instantly mixed down to two channel stereo. And in Moscow, the dimensions of the studio itself was a poroblem... And there were, at the beginnings, quite a few producers/sound engineers doing dozens of recordings one after the other, so mostly the real commitment was only there as far as the conductor is concerned. There was never enough time to seriosuly rehearse; but I was concentrated and prepared well enough to obtain a maixum of goo results. But concessions had alwasy to be made.    Posted:   Nov 8, 2014 - 7:51 AM     By:   .   (Member) You are perfectly right BW, but you must not forget that at that time Naxos-Marco Polo were recording at very low costs and this included sound technique too. In Bratislava they had a good multi-microphone-system (but never enough mikes for greater scores), and the whole was instantly mixed down to two channel stereo. And in Moscow, the dimensions of the studio itself was a poroblem... And there were, at the beginnings, quite a few producers/sound engineers doing dozens of recordings one after the other, so mostly the real commitment was only there as far as the conductor is concerned. There was never enough time to seriosuly rehearse; but I was concentrated and prepared well enough to obtain a maixum of goo results. But concessions had alwasy to be made. Please tell us more about "The Body Snatchers". Was it used for film or TV, or was it a concert work? Did it get a commercial release at the time?    Posted:   Nov 8, 2014 - 9:06 AM     By:   hadrianus   (Member) "The Body Snatchers" was an incidental music, composed in 2003 for a Zurich theatrical adaptation of Jack Finney's novel. Young students from various higher classes were acting. It had extra dream sequences, in which mimes and dancers were included. Unfortunately I had only a small budget, so the whole (conceived for strings, choir, percussion and keyboard instruments) had to be played by synthetic sounds - and I am amazed that it still sounds well today :-). I have composed some 30 different stage works and it was always great fun. Only in one production we had a live chamber group, which I conducted. In earlier times I used to write a lot of musique concrète-like electronic scores. Of "The Snatchers", of course there was no commercial release, but I had to make a lot of private copies, since the students were absolutely thrilled, they meant that my music was even better than the adpated play itself :-)    Posted:   Apr 28, 2015 - 12:14 PM     By:   Sir David of Garland   (Member) I found the re-recording for cheap, so now I'm watching the dvd. I liked the sound samples in the store (I haven't heard the cd yet). I am liking the score in the film, even if it sounds more like ballet music than a film score.     General Discussion: Georges Auric - The beauty and the beast    << < 1 2  >   Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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