Captain From Castile [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] [Soundtrack]

Alfred Newman (Author) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Original Release Date: 1947
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: SAE
• Run Time: 97.0 minutes
• ASIN: B000FUMIZU
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #369,923 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Two CD set featuring the original soundtrack from the film Captain From Castile, composed and conducted by Alfred Newman. Tracks: Main Title, Search for Runaway Slave, Aiding the Runaway, Pedro and Juan, De Vargas' Terrace, Pedro and Luisa, Pedro Captured by Inquisition Guards, Inquisition, Duel with DeSilva and Escape, De Vargas Family Escape, News of the Expedition, Shores of Cuba/Villa Rica, Catana's Dance, Zarabanda, Pledge of Love, Cempoala, Pedro Moves to Recover the Jewels, Escape from Traitors, Watching Over Pedro, Destroying the Armada, Cholula Hostages/Ominous Drums/Catana Is Enciente, Cortez Returs From Villa Richa, De Silva Reappears, De Silva Murdered, Assembly, Conquest.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE definitive remastering of the Original Soundtrack, July 17, 2007

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Juan Alberto Diaz Wiechers (Santiago Chile) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Captain From Castile [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

Along the years I have made several reviews on remasterings and recordings of this Score. I do like, especially, Facet's 44-minute remastering, as well as Charles Gerhardt's recording. No doubt, great events in the history of film music.

But this double CD is the SUMMIT of all prior remasterings. SAE and FOX have discovered the original masters of the Soundtrack, and have produced the DEFFINITIVE and OFFICIAL release of the score, as it was recorded by Alfred Newman. The double CD includes 96:31 minutes of music. The booklet is very clear: the remastering is ALMOST the whole score AND in stereo. There is ONLY ONE missing cue, not very important, and, except the main title, everything is in STEREO, thanks to the computer advances which permit to create stereo versions from Newman's early two-microphone recordings. There are even some cues corresponding to beatiful Spanish-flavoured source music composed by Spanish guitarist Vicente Gómez.

If you have Tsunami's version, please discard it. If you have Facet's version, you can keep it, because it deserves a place as a very good attempt of early remastering of a symphonic suite of the score. Obviously you MUST always keep Gerhardt's re-recording, which is part of the history of Film Music.

At the moment when I write this review (July 2007) this release is still extant in the market. You can get it at Screen Archives Entertainment and Intrada. In the future, I am certain it will be a treasure.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Membran reissue of Tsunami. Not necessary., February 26, 2006

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Juan Alberto Diaz Wiechers (Santiago Chile) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Captain From Castile (Audio CD)

The CD which appears in the main photograph is the MEMBRAN reissue of the Tsunami edition of the Original Soundtrack. For a while it was very good, because it was the most complete available remasterization of the original recording. And it was quite good, with around 75 minutes of music, in mono, and a very acceptable sound. But, please never forget that Tsunami editions do not employ the best sources for their releases, and every day Tsunami reissues turn outdated when US based companies discover and remaster the original recordings.
Not long ago SAE issued an official double CD, authorized by 20th. Century Fox, with the whole (or almost complete) Original Soundtrack, and, morover, in stereo. That must be considered the definitive edition. I understand it is still available at Intrada. And it has around 95 minutes of music.
Cosequently, if you can, get the SAE edition.
If you cannot, try directly with the TSUNAMI edition, which is still extant in Europe (amazon.co.uk). It is a double CD which also includes THE SNAKE PIT (also by Alfred Newman).
Only in the last place get this MEMBAN reedition of Tsunami.

Now, if you ask my advise, the edition of around 45 minutes by FACET (there is a comment written by me there), is a very good suite, apparently also assembled using elements of the Original Soundtrack, easier to find in the US and cheaper. In my opinion, a person who loves this score for CAPTAIN FOR CASTILE should have only three versions:
1) SAE's double CD (95 min.)
2) FACET's Symphonic Suite (45 min.)
3) Charles Gerhardt's CD Captain from Castile (6 minutes rerecording).
If you have them, Tsunami's or Membran's editions are superfluos.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Soundtrack rarity, October 13, 2010

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M. Wilke "Husband of M" (Mission Viejo, Ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Captain From Castile [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

Sometimes the music score for a movie is like a co-star. This Alfred Newman score achieves that stardom. The "Conquest" theme was commercialized soon after the pictures release. The structure of film scores is forever influenced by this score. And this is the original stereo score assembled from the studio archives.

This is as complete a movie score from original sources. It is Alfred Newman's work. There are excerpted recreations that are fine samples of the music. This recording is the composers best work. It is a collectors "must have" item.