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The Essential Elmer Bernstein Film Music Collection | 
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| Creators: Elmer Bernstein, Bill Ashton, Daniel Caine, James Fitzpatrick, Nic Raine, Paul Bateman, Daniel Caine Orchestra, National Youth Jazz Orchestra, City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Label: Silva America
Category: Music
List Price: $19.98
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 9918
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1178
UPC: 738572117825
EAN: 0738572117825
ASIN: B0007XTQ14
Release Date: June 7, 2005
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | The Magnificent Seven | | • | To Kill A Mockingbird (Suite) | | • | The Buccaneer (Overture) | | • | Walk On The Wild Side | | • | An American Werewolf In London (Metamorphosis) | | • | The Age Of Innocence (End Titles) | | • | The Comancheros | | • | Ghostbusters | | • | Heavy Metal (Taarna's Theme) | | • | Johnny Staccato | | • | True Grit (Rooster Cogburn/A Warm Wrap-Up) | | • | Hollywood And The Stars | | • | Zulu Dawn (River Crossing) |
Disc 2
| • | The Great Escape | | • | The Man With The Golden Arm | | • | Far From Heaven | | • | The Sons Of Katie Elder | | • | Airplane (Suite) | | • | The Shootist (Main Title) | | • | Hawaii (Overture) | | • | The Birdman Of Alcatraz (Finale) | | • | The Hallelujah Trail (Overture) | | • | The Bridge At Remagen | | • | Thoroughly Modern Millie (Sky-Hi) | | • | The Scalphunters | | • | The Ten Commandments (Overture) |
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Album Description
*A specially priced 2CD set with over 110 minutes of some of the greatest film music in the history of cinema.
*New digital recordings in spectacular and sound performed by the acclaimed City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and National Youth Jazz Band.
*Includes world premiere recordings from "The Birdman Of Alcatraz," "Thoroughly Modern Millie," "Airplane!" and "An American Werewolf In London."
*In 2004 the world of cinema lost one of the most iconic figures in film composing. In a career that spanned half-a-century and over 250 films, Elmer Bernstein was responsible for writing the music to many of the greatest and most loved movies of all time ranging from "The Ten Commandments," "The Magnificent Seven" and "The Great Escape," through to "True Grit" and "Airplane!" This collection has been lovingly created and compiled as a tribute to a genius and true master of the art of film scoring.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 You must be kidding! January 27, 2008
Jerry McKinney
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
These remakes done by The City of Prague Orch. are worthless. Thye come no where near the actual majesty of Bernstein's music. The original, or nothing.
 Not to my liking. August 10, 2007
John Young (Arrawarra 2456,Australia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Perhaps i was expecting too much after listening to other film composers.So i will put this in the play at a later time.
Sad, Really Sad May 12, 2007
Donald Cain (Hamont, Belgium)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
These CDs don't meet the standards that I expect from Elmer Bernstein's wonderful film music.
*It's just Boring*
The ensemble doesn't have the energy one would expect to play "The Magnificent Seven" and "The Man with the Golden Arm". I think the City of Prague and National Youth Jazz Orchestras were bargain orchestras used to make an inexpensive CD set of one of my favorite film composers. The conducting and arrangements were what made this an obviously bad album.
 An excellent movie themes antology by ELMER BERNSTEIN May 10, 2007
Federico Sanchez (Costa Rica, Central America)
Silva Screen Records, presents this antology of the music from the late great composer/conductor ELMER BERNSTEIN, who supervised this recording just before die.
Played the The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, and conducted by his one time assistant James Fitzpatrick
Recorded in HDCD and Dolby Surround
Excellent April 22, 2007
tjguitar
it's unfortunate that more tracks weren't able to be recorded as theree was a good 15-20 minutes of space remaining on both discs. Regardless, this is an excellent sampler, especially in conjunction with Varese's Bernstein sampler including rare stuff like the Black Cualdron.
With regards to this silva set, these recordings range back to 1994, with Sons of Katie Elder and True Grit being recorded for a John Wayne CD and Bridge At Remagen for a CD of classic War themes. The Great Escape was also recorded for that CD, but producer James Fitzpatrick opted to record a new arrangement (same with Magnificent Seven). In '97, The Buccaneer for included on a Swashbucklers disc, while Heavy Metal was on the popular 'Space and Beyond' compilation. In '98, the world premiere recording of Airplane first appeared on a DISASTERS film disc. So while it may technically be the world premiere RECORDING it certainly is not the world premiere CD RELEASE of that recording. Ghostbusters was included on Space 3: Beyond the Final Frontier, the second followup to the popular 'Space and Beyond'. Fast forward to 2002 and 4 recordings first appeared on WAY OUT WEST: ESSENTIAL WESTERN FILM MUSIC COLLECTION VOLUME TWO, those being The Comancheros, The Hallelujah Trail, The Scalphunters and The Shootist. Man With the Golden Arm and Walk on the Wild are from Silva's JAZZ IN FILM cd.
The remaining tracks were all newly recorded for this release. They are of course the strongest tracks, seeing as the City of Prague Philharmonic has improved over time. I do wonder though why they did not include the older arrangements of Great Escape and Mag. Seven as bonus tracks.
I also recommend the simultaneously released '40 years of Film Music: Jerry Goldsmith' for another great set honoring a late great film composer.
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