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Well, almost the complete HAREM score (without the song) is already available on the Sarde CD COLETTE, but I think that it was a new recording where just the same tracks composed for HAREM were re-used.
Can José Benitez say something more about the differences between the original recording and the one which was used for COLETTE in 2003?
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By the way, in the end title of the HAREM movie the Orchestre de Paris is credited and not the LSO. Why this?
And at least in the German version of the film the song "Hey Stranger" is heard during those end titles.
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It's a long time that I have seen the film, but I made some notes and comparisons in early 2004 - I still have those notes here before me - - when I got the COLETTE CD and just at that time I made a comparison between all the tracks on the COLETTE CD and those which crop up in the German dubbed film version of HAREM. And I am sure that I heard that song in the end title, not in the main title. Of course I had the song on a CDR even a long time before 2004 so I really knew it quite well before I saw the movie.
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I saw the film a couple of times in French and English, and unlike the German version I'm almost certain there was no song at the end. But, well, I could be wrong... although it would really suprise me. I will check on the DVD when I have access to it next week (there is only the English and French soundtrack on it).
Odelayy, here you can view the Main Title of the film and you will now have the confirmation that not the song "Stranger" is used there, but that the music - which starts at about 1:40 minutes of the clip - begins with track 6 of the COLETTE CD. Maybe the chorus at the beginning of that track has deceived you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XasOKgcTl-I
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Thanks for the interesting info, Odelayy.
So where is the song in the English and the French version? Does it really appear at the beginning of the film? And if yes, has the music which appears at about 1:40 in the clip above on Youtube been replaced with the song?
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actually, there is no song at all in the film in both versions, not in the end, nor the beggining or the middle. I think it was a German treat...
This is really strange.
So which music is heard during the end title of the DVD versions? Just an instrumental version of the main theme or something completely different?
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I fully agree with you, Thor, that this is a fascinating romantic and rapturous score which engulfs the listener with its dreamlike atmosphere. Simply beautiful and enchanting music. Sarde was at the zenith of his career when he composed that wonderful score which I also like very much.
I just want to let you know that if you now already have the HAREM CD - or at least the digital version - you really don´t need Sarde´s COLETTE CD from 2004 anymore as it is not only the same music, but also the same recording - even though the booklet of COLETTE states the contrary by telling you that all the music had been newly recorded for the 2004 French TV film.
I had closely compared everything track by track in 2013 when the HAREM CD got released and was very surprised myself: Actually, there is no difference between the tracks which are on both CDs and you even hear exactly the same rustlings of the instruments and some background noise during a few tracks. It´s really a quite funny experience to make that comparison!
However, the sound quality on the Quartet CD has beeen somewhat improved and the mixing is a bit different so that the strings come more to the fore and sound a bit more lush than on the COLETTE CD.
Also, you get about 9 minutes more music compared with what is on the COLETTE CD: The song "Hey Stranger", track 8 "Hamman" and track 11 "The Desert" - these are the three tracks which you won´t find on the COLETTE CD. And the first 30 seconds of track 2 "New York" on HAREM with the street noise and the muezzin singing had also been removed for the COLETTE CD.
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