Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Music From The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1988 Re-recording of 1938 Score) [Soundtrack]

Utah Symphony Orchestra, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Robin Hood (Related Recordings) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B00000153H
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #239,442 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Prologue (Main Title)

2. Banquet at Nottingham Castle

3. Robin Enters the Great Hall

4. Escape from the Castle

5. Robin Meets Little John

6. The Oath and the Black Arrow

7. Robin and Friar Tuck

8. Ambush in Sherwood

9. Feast in the Forest

10. Robin and Marian

11. The Archery Tournament

12. Escape from the Gallows

13. Love Scene

14. Dagger Fight: King Richard in Sherwood

15. Coronation Procession

16. Duel, Victory and Epilogue

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Movie! One of the best ever!, February 18, 2003

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J. K. Moser "JKM" (Flemington, New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Music From The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1988 Re-recording of 1938 Score) (Audio CD)

As a little child my favorite movie was The Adventures of Robin Hood. While I still love the movie (still waiting rather impatiently for the DVD), the original score to the movie is now among my favorites. Robin Hood is one of if not the best movie score written by Korgold. The sense of adventure, danger, excitement and romance are captured perfectly in the different cords of his music. Whether its Robin's Merry Men sliding down vines and attacking Guy of Gisbourne in Sherwood, the climactic sword fight in the castle or the classic ending as Marion and Robin duck out of the castle, Korngold perfectly captures the emotions of the movie. The Adventures of Robin Hood is the kind of movie that helped make Hollywood what it is today.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "the film was great & Korngold's score made it a classic", November 8, 2000

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J. Lovins "Mr. Jim" (Missouri-USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Music From The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1988 Re-recording of 1938 Score) (Audio CD)

Varese Sarabande presents this classic among classics - "The Adventures Of Robin Hood" (1938), rollicking tale of the legendary outlaw, regarded as the standard-to-go-by swashbuckler. Grand castles and lush forest photography, with Errol Flynn in his prime, as our hero who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor - enthusiastically performed most of his own stunts, including intricate swordplay advanced tree and wall climbing.

His Robin brimed with charm and bravura, protector of poor Saxons everywhere, declaring war on the Normans Prince John (Claude Rains) and doing battle with Sir Guy (Basil Rathbone) in one of the most spectacular sword-fights ever filmed.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was called upon to compose the archetypal score, more so even than his score for "Kings Row", in "Robin Hood" he came closest to creating an opera without singing, bolstering and carrying the action, at the same-time blends uninterrupted streams of colorful music. For "PROLOGUE(MAIN TITLE) use motif a sweeping, heroic trumpet theme...rest of the score a multitude of themes and variations entirely original, but track 5 "ROBIN MEETS LITTLE JOHN" is English folk song "Sumer Is Icumen In", with exceptional orchestration by Hugo Friedhofer, marked every texture and nuance - even exact voicing of chords highly dramatic and unique.

Korngold set standards for Williams, Goldsmith, Horner and every composer from that time on, listen to this classic masterpiece and see what I mean...a great film and Korngold made it a classic!

Total Time: 42:43 on 16 Tracks...Varese Sarabande 47202...(1988)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Most Worthy Recording of a Timeless Film Score, January 7, 2006

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Michael F. Hopkins "A Deeper Groove" (Buffalo, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Music From The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1988 Re-recording of 1938 Score) (Audio CD)

Varese Sarabande's digital recording of the Erich
Wolfgang Korngold score for THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN
HOOD is a feat of great courage, and memorable
results. Far superior to previous attempts to
re-record these epic themes, Varujan Kojian and
the Utah Symphony Orchestra superbly capture the
heroic zeal, lyrical magic, and burning passion
which so emblazoned Korngold's music unto the
hearts of all who experienced the 1938 Errol
Flynn-Olivia deHavilland film classic.

While it is hoped that someone will issue a
digitally-remastered CD of Korngold's original
soundtrack (certainly Warner Video's restoration
of all aspects of the film suggests that this
is possible), it is no reason to belittle the
merits of the Kojian recording. It should be
remembered that this recording is of the score,
which would not have the minute -though precious-
cues which Korngold ingeniously added later. That
Kojian is able to bring out the polyharmonic
wonders of this music is no mean feat, and is
quite commendable.

If anything, this recording spurred some exceptional
recordings of epic film scores which followed this
1980s release. Certainly, composer Bruce Broughton's
1994 recording of Miklos Rozsa's chivalrous score for
IVANHOE is a marvelous accomplishment in itself, one
further noteworthy in that it aided in the eventual
issue -albeit limited- of Rozsa's original 1952
soundtrack by Rhino in 2002. Certainly, the digital
recording of Georges Auric's score for Cocteau's LA
BELLE ET LE BETE, or Philip Sainton's seafaring music
for the 1956 version of MOBY DICK represents magnificent
achievements in presenting some of the finest music
ever conceived - music which might never be heard
for its own beauty but for enterprising recordings
such as these.

Listen to this recording, and gain an appreciation
of what the imagination of one man can inspire in
so many, for so long a time.