La Grande Illusion [Soundtrack, Import]

Joseph Kosma (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Joseph Kosma
• Audio CD (September 19, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack, Import
• Label: Soundtrack Factory
• ASIN: B0000508J0
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #954,090 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Title

2. Frou-Frou

3. Dining With German Officers at the Front

4. La Grande Illusion, film score: Moving from a Prisoner War Camp - Joseph Kosma

5. It's a Long Way to Tipperary

6. Sunday Morning at the Prison Camp

7. Si Tu Veux Margueritte

8. The Sound of Frustration

9. The Railways Travel from the Fortress

10. Reception on the Military Prison

11. Two Officers and Aristocrats

12. Preparing the Escape

13. The Magic Flute

14. Noblesse Oblige

15. Refuge at a German Farm

16. A Christmas Romance

17. The Lover's Farewell

18. The Fugitives Arrive in Switzerland/End Title

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3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, June 26, 2001

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This review is from: La Grande Illusion (Audio CD)

La Grande Illusion is one of the greatest films of the 20th century and, if you enjoyed the movie, you might like this CD. Like Hitchcock and Herrmann or Spielberg and Williams, the collaboration of filmmaker Jean Renoir and composer Joseph Kosma deserves serious attention. This CD, unfortunately, does a disservice to both artists. The soundtrack is lifted directly from the film; dialogue and sound effects obscure Kosma's music. In addition, the liner notes provide a useful filmography of Kosma's career but little else. Kosma scored over 100 films between 1936 and 1971 and is as important to French cinema as Alfred Newman, Franz Waxman, Miklos Rozsa, or Erich Wolfgang Korngold are to American film. Surely a better treatment of Kosma's work than this is possible.