The Essential Michel Legrand Film Music Collection [Soundtrack]

Michel Legrand (Composer), Michel Legrand (Conductor, Performer), Flemish Radio Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Michel Legrand
• Orchestra: Flemish Radio Orchestra
• Conductor: Michel Legrand
• Composer: Michel Legrand
• Audio CD (October 4, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Silva America
• ASIN: B000B5XSSA
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #187,426 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Les Parapluies de Cherbourg

2. Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

3. Summer of 42

4. Never Say Never Again

5. How Do You Keep The Music Playing

6. The Thomas Crown Affair

7. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?

8. Les Trois Mousquetaires

9. Wuthering Heights

10. Brian's Song

11. Dingo

12. Yentl

13. Le Messager - Variations 1-2-3-4-5-7

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Beautiful Re-Creation of Over-Exposed Legrand Material, February 9, 2006

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Carlos from Rio "Carlos from Rio" (Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Essential Michel Legrand Film Music Collection (Audio CD)

Michel Legrand is one the biggest artists of music entertainment, a sensitive composer and arranger.

Here you'll find a correct selection of Legrand's material with unnecessarily new arrangements though with an impeccable performance.

Many of the songs in the repertoire are still available in CDs you can find here @Amazon and the best Legrand is the original Legrand.

This album stands only for those who doesn't care about original takes and wishes just for a selection of the best Legrand.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "one of the greatest film composers of the 20th Century ~ Michel Legrand", October 25, 2005

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This review is from: The Essential Michel Legrand Film Music Collection (Audio CD)

Silva Screen has released a collection that will set you on your ear "The Essential Michel Legrand Film Music Collection"...Legrand's score sets the tone and mood you experience a sense of power and freedom, so exhilarating...Legrand's genius in composition and orchestration, puts the listener smack dab in the middle of each film he scores as it serves up a generous helping of heaven for all "film-score-buff" collectors

Michel Legrand was born in Paris on February 24th, 1932...attended the Paris Conservatory Progressing...worked in various jazz bands, later a staff arranger and composer...an orchestrator in the '50s...scored films in the early '60s with "THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG" (1964)..."THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR" (1968)..."THE GO-BETWEEN" (1970)..."SUMMER OF '42" (1971)..."THE THREE MUSKETEERS" (1973)...and three Oscars from the Academy Awards for "THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND" for best music and original song in 1969 , "SUMMER OF '42" for best original song and original dramatic score in 1972... "YENTL for best music and original song score in 1984...then in 2003 nominated for Broadway's Tony Awards for Best Original Music Score for the Musical "Amour", there's no letting up for this hard working composer.

The Flemish Radio Orchestra featuring conductor composer Michel Legrand on piano and harpsichord, Philippe Chayeb on bass, Thierry Chauvet on drums and Bruno Caviglia on guitar...all in all did a magnificent job in bringing the music of a composer who wrote for a multitude of films, receiving recognition from the industry and fans which is long over-due ~ his work is in constant demand.

This collection contains an overlay of each cue in Legrand's distinctive style of legendary scoring ~ the man who made this possible, a tremendous asset to every project he undertakes is Reynold da Silva [executive producer of the album] ~ symphonic suites with full orchestra fullfilling the "film-score-buffs" cravings for more of the same, just the way we like 'em!

Total Time: 77:55 ~ Silva America 1185 ~ (10/04/2005)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not "Essential" exactly, but nice., April 23, 2010

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While not all selections are worthy of the classification essential and some are left out (Umbrellas of Cherbourg in particular}, it is a fairly good sampler.