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DPDM 004CD
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2013 release. Digitmovies, with the collaboration of Sugar Group, make available this premiere release of the complete score as a tribute to the musical genius of Miklós Rózsa. To realize this ambitious project, Digitmovies utilized a first-generation, full-stereo master tape of the original LP soundtrack album, augmented by first-generation stereo masters (preserved in the Sugar Music archives). In addition to the fifteen tracks from the album presentation (released in France on Pema Music and reissued on CD in Italy, Japan, and the United States) Digitmovies' CD includes, as bonus tracks, all the remaining cues from the master tapes. With the assistance of Doug Raynes from The Miklós Rózsa Society, Digitmovies wanted to produce a deluxe edition digipack that would pay homage not only to the wonderful musical artistry of the legendary Miklós Rózsa but to the great director Alain Resnais and a film that has left its mark on the history of international cinema. Providence was a multi-award winner at the 1978 César Awards, including Best Music, Best Film, and Best Director. Sir John Gielgud also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor.
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DPDM 017CD
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2007 release. Digitmovies present the first reissue in digipack format of the CD dedicated to the important international musician Miklós Rózsa releasing in a double-CD of the full stereo original motion picture score from the 1962 movie Sodom And Gomorrah, directed by Robert Aldrich (and Sergio Leone as second unit director). This double-disc set also celebrates the 52nd anniversary of the movie and its musical score. Miklós Rózsa's name is closely linked to hundreds of scores for romantic and dramatic cinema exploding effectively during the golden age of Hollywood. Miklós Rózsa's score was recorded in the studio "A" of RCA in Rome in June 1962. Rózsa has always been a researcher specialized in world music history. In the case of Sodom And Gomorrah he had performed deep research into Yemeni and Babylonian Jewish music so as to create the dances and prayer songs for choir in their original language. Thence the orchestral themes of pure fantasy are combined with motifs that have antique origins. For what concerns the OST discography of Sodom And Gomorrah, this score has been issued on 33rpm long-playing record by RCA in different countries all over the world. The first CD release of this OST in mono sound was issued on Cambria then the original American LP was reissued on the CD by BMG in stereo. The first complete and stereo version was issued in 1986 on a double-LP set. The realization of Digitmovies' double-CD was made possible -- once again -- thanks to the generous help of C.A.M. authorizing this reissue of this memorable OST including the six rare bonus tracks discovered on the original session master tapes: five alternative choral pieces and a Jewish dance piece that were recorded during the 1962 session but not used in the final version of the movie. Despite careful digital restoration and remastering some anomalies pre-existing on the original sources remain.
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ACMEM 151CD
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Kipling's Jungle Book, The Thief of Bagdad, and Black Narcissus. "Selar Shaik Sabu made his first film appearance in 1937 as a 12-year-old orphan, having landed the title role in Elephant Boy purely by chance after being plucked from Indian obscurity by a British location crew. His rise to international stardom was swift and dramatic with leading roles in Alexander Korda's productions The Thief of Bagdad and Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book. But by the time he appeared in Powell & Pressburger's Black Narcissus in 1947 that stardom was already guttering, and during the remaining sixteen years of his tragically short life he was obliged to accept increasingly minor roles that mostly traded on former glories. Yet during those ten extraordinary years Sabu illuminated the screen in a way that remains without precedent. The renowned Hungarian film composer Miklos Rozsa wrote the scores for The Thief of Bagdad and Kipling's Jungle Book. Our edition restores them to the catalogue for the first time in decades. Sabu narrates the Jungle Book to Rozsa's music in character as Mowgli. The result is charming. The recordings were originally released as a set of four 78 RPM discs in 1940. The first ever film soundtrack album Black Narcissus is classic Powell & Pressburger; The Archers at the height of their powers. A triumph of artistry in cinema to which Sabu contributes the memorable role of the young general."
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