All About Eve [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] [Soundtrack]

Alfred Newman (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Alfred Newman
• Audio CD (January 11, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
• ASIN: B0006SSPPI
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #418,708 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Title [From All About Eve]

2. Prologue [From All About Eve]

3. The Award [From All About Eve]

4. Eve's Narration [From All About Eve]

5. The Friendship Begins [From All About Eve]

6. Margo [From All About Eve]

7. Exit Music [From All About Eve]

8. The Party [From All About Eve]

9. A Theme for Piano [From All About Eve]

10. Liebestraum / Liebestraum 2 (Franz Liszt) [From All About Eve]

11. Eve's Dream [From All About Eve]

12. The Audition [From All About Eve]

13. Margo and Bill [From "All About Eve"]

14. Karen's Decision [From All About Eve]

15. Beau Soir (Claude Debussy) [From All About Eve]

16. Eve's Success [From All About Eve]

17. Karen's Guilt [From All About Eve]

18. Margo and Bill's Reconciliation [From "All About Eve"]

19. Karen's Resignation [From All About Eve]

20. The Real Eve [From All About Eve]

See all 33 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Full title - All About Eve/Leave Her To Heaven. Reissue of 1950 & 1946 soundtracks with special plastic packaging. Membran. 2004. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hard To Find Movie Soundtrack, February 26, 2010

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L. Huber (Charlotte, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All About Eve/Leave Her to Heaven (Audio CD)

I've been trying to get the soundtrack to ALL ABOUT EVE for years. I tried ordering it at several music stores and on I-Tunes. Nobody had it. Who knew I could get it on Amazon? This is the original soundtrack and it is excellent. Alfred Newman's score for this movie is as good as the movie itself. The only drawback is that since this is the original soundtrack, it is largely in mono, not stereo. There are a two tracks that were rerecorded in stero, but the rest is mono. There is no other place to get this soundtrack, so if you can accept the sound limitations of mono recording you will be very satisfied with this one. This CD also includes music from LEAVE HER TOO HEAVEN.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars An LP Not A Digital Recording, March 4, 2010

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howardq9 (Newport Beach CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All About Eve [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

Disappointing reproduction of soundtrack - from an LP and not from a new digital master

2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Bit Over-Rated, January 16, 2009

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J. A. Retzer (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All About Eve/Leave Her to Heaven (Audio CD)

This is not meant as a slam at Alfred Newman by any means, but I think much of the rave reviews this score has received is based more on the film (and all the baggage associated with it) than with the score itself.

There is no question that Alfred Newman was a master composer, of more genuine talent and creativity than John Williams could muster in his lifetime, and a much better arranger/conductor -with nine Oscars to prove it.

My gripe, however, is that "All About Eve" is one of Newman's weaker scores, completely purpose-build and squarely centered around the central theme, which is repeated endlessly throughout in various guises (no less than six separate times in major cues and quoted in almost all.

This would have been okay if it were a catchy tune -like Tara's Theme, or even Lara's Theme- but in this instance it's a completely out-of-place piece of music which would have served well for the opening sequence of some film about life in the big city, or perhaps a police drama, but try as I may, I could make no connection between the theme and anything presented on the screen.

The music simply "didn't fit" and yet Newman worked it into the very fabric of the score to the point of boredom.

"Leave Her To Heaven," the second half of this double-feature CD, is a much more solidly grounded -yet strangely bland- Newman score.