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Newman - The Hunchback of Notre Dame, etc | Naxos - Film Music Classics 8570187

Newman - The Hunchback of Notre Dame, etc

£11.78

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Label: Naxos - Film Music Classics

Cat No: 8570187

Barcode: 0747313018772

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Soundtrack

Release Date: 28th August 2007

Contents

About

Though Alfred Newman was one of the great Hollywood composers, he was very much a scene painter, as opposed to the 'symphonic' scores of Korngold and Herrmann. 
 
More famous was his score for the ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’, written for the RKO 1939 film and starring Charles Laughton as the Hunchback. It is the grotesque aspects which find Newman at his most imaginative, and it was the music that is often attributed as causing that terror in the film. From the complete score John Morgan has taken 17 extracts to form this extended suite of music lasting almost 39 minutes, using the full string section of a symphony orchestra.
 
Beau Geste’ dates from 1939, and managed to capture the grim life in the Foreign Legion with the back-drop of the empty Sahara Desert. In this suite Stromberg has brought together eight sections, the opening Prelude setting the scene for a film of danger and excitement. 
 
Throughout this spectacular recording, conductor and orchestra respond to the composer's crisp phrasing and agile scoring with a flair that would surely have delighted the man himself" Gramophone on the original Marco Polo release
 
All About Eve: Suite
 
Beau Geste (Reconstructed by William Stromberg):
Prelude; The Early Years; Chasing a Mouse; Blue Water Sapphire—Farewell; March Out; Battle; A Viking’s Funeral*; Finale—End Cast
 
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Restored/Reconstructed by John Morgan):
Main Title and Foreword; The Gypsies; The Festival; In the King’s Box; The Dance of Death; Garbage at Gringoire; Esmeralda’s Dance; Thank You Mother of God; Whipping; Esmeralda Walks up Steps; A Woman Has Bewitched Me; Hallelujah; Esmeralda in Bell Tower; Clopin Calls Charge;  Victory at Notre Dame; Clopin on Ground—Hallelujah
Reprise; End Cast

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