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Monday, February 19, 2018

Miklós Rózsa - Film Music (Rumon Gamba)


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Composer: Miklós Rózsa
  • (01-07) Suite from "The Thief of Bagdad"
  • (08-17) Suite from "Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book"
  • (18) Suite from "Sahara"
  • (19-24) Suite from "Ben-Hur"

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Rumon Gamba, conductor

Date: 2014
Label: Chandos
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2010806

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Review

Miklós Rózsa’s name is so indelibly linked to historical widescreen epics such as Ben Hur (1959) that it’s a pleasure to be reminded of his earlier work, with its links to the Korda family, his fellow Hungarians, and the producers of his earlier work, including The Thief of Bagdad (1940) and Jungle Book (1942). In these magical pieces set in distant lands that we once called the Orient, Rózsa exhibits a lightness of touch and tuneful simplicity that he never quite managed to recapture in his later work. Far removed from the brazen empirical fanfares of Ben Hur and ancient Rome, his music for The Thief of Bagdad dances along in a kaleidoscopic whirl of instrumental colours, from the winding-up of the Sultan’s toys to a jaunty ‘Flying Horse Gallop’; then moving on to the seductive ‘Silvermaid’s Dance’. In Jungle Book, the characters and animals, each with their own theme and identification with a particular instrument, spring to life in the manner of Peter and the Wolf. A nocturnal jungle scene and a fierce stampede add further contrasts to this appealing work.

The musicologist Christopher Palmer constructed the succinct Suite from the film Sahara (1943), a gritty drama of man’s heroism in the blazing heat of the North African desert, where the music reflects the inhospitable terrain as well as the welcome sounds of water at an oasis (2'25" into the ‘Beginning’). The Suite from Ben Hur, an Academy Award-winner that chalked up a run of 122 weeks on its initial London engagement, includes many of the film’s most iconic moments: ‘The Rowing of the Galley Slaves’, ‘Parade of Charioteers’ and, of course, that richly endowed Prelude. These performances by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Rumon Gamba, who have many a cinematic credit to their name, carry the conviction of an original soundtrack recording in state-of the-art sound.

-- Adrian Edwards, Gramophone

More reviews:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2014/Mar14/Rozsa_film_CHAN10806.htm
http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/c/cha10806a.php
https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-film-music-of-miklos-rozsa-mw0002617510
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rozsa-Music-Suites-Philharmonic-Chandos/dp/B00I530252
https://www.amazon.com/Rozsa-Music-Suites-BBC-Philharmonic/dp/B00I530252

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Miklós Rózsa (18 April 1907 in Budapest – 27 July 1995 in Los Angeles) was a Hungarian-American composer. Best known for his nearly one hundred film scores, he nevertheless maintained a steadfast allegiance to absolute concert music throughout what he called his "double life". His notable Hollywood career earned him considerable fame, including Academy Awards for Spellbound (1945), A Double Life (1947), and Ben-Hur (1959), while his concert works were championed by major artists such as Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, and János Starker. Rózsa also received recognition for his choral works.

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Rumon Gamba (born 24 November 1972), is an English conductor. He studied conducting with Colin Metters, George Hurst and Sir Colin Davis at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Gamba was Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra from 2002 to 2010. In October 2008, he was named the next chief conductor and music director of NorrlandsOperan. In March 2011, Gamba was named chief conductor of the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra. Gamba has conducted a number of recordings for the Chandos Records label, particularly in their Film Music series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumon_Gamba

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