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Miklos Rozsa Conducts His Epic Film Scores

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This CD contains some of Miklos Rozsa's finest film scores. My biggest problem with the album was there was not enough pieces from QUO VADIS (my personal favorite). But I guess that can be solved by purchasing the actual film score album (it's best to think of this album as a sampler). Other than that, the CD is a fine start for those of us (like me) who are getting acquianted with this excellent composer.

ROZSA'S MUSIC THRILLED ME AS A CHILD AND IT STILL DOES NOW. A MUST FOR ANY LOVER OF FILM SCORES.

Miklos Rozsa composed some impressive scores. These are among his best. These recordings and selections are outstanding. Mother's Love from BEN-HUR is very emotional. The Spellbound: Concerto is also included.

I bought this cd after watching "El Cid" the dvd and getting hooked on the music. I watched scenes over and over just to listen to the heroic music. The special features on the dvd had a section on Miklos Rozsa. I learned about him and found out that he was a giant and had scored dozens of wonderful movies. I bought this Cd and was not disappointed. There are great tracks from "Ben Hur","El Cid", "King of Kings", and "Quo Vadis". Plus they threw in his piano concerto from his oscar winning soundtrack to "Spellbound". This cd is a keeper!

Even with the recent DVD release of the restored El Cid, Rosza's excellent score goes wanting for a proper release. Until then, this CD offers a sample of Rosza great works including the moving Love Theme from El Cid. Recommended.

I read a review of the "Three Choral Suites - Ben Hur, Quo Vadis, King of Kings by Erich Kunzel-Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir"(a TELARC release)that said something like this: "If you really want to hear how this music should sound get the 'Miklos Rozsa Conducts His Epic Film Scores'." I already had the former disc (and love it) so I ordered this suggested CD. I was excited to hear what this music "should sound like" so when it arrived and I played it, I could not have been more shocked. It is the most "tinny" (high pitched) sounding recording I have ever heard. The quality of this recording is horrible. If you have a good sound system that brings out the essence of the music with presence and warmth you, too, will be disappointed in this CD. (Unless you are one that favor gimmicks, high sounding flavors, and/or cookbook-style sound that strays from the total fidelity of the original source. To you, I say, enjoy.)

Conducting four of the most beautifully scored films in the history of Hollywood, Rozsa never disappoints in conveying the sounds and spirit of the time periods portrayed in these epic films. From the streets of the Holy Land in the three biblical epics to Spain's ancestral music in El Cid, these scores represent the pinnacle of great music during the Hollywood epic period. Personal favorites include the main themes of Ben Hur and King of Kings as well as the love themes in all four films. These scores could easily have been extended in great modern yet classic scores as Rozsa demonstrates in his Spellbound concerto added as a bonus on this CD. Rozsa, Korngold, Newman and Bernstein were incredibly talented composers/musicians and their music should be treated with the utmost respect in the music world. These are the themes of my life, and I am grateful to have been exposed at a young age to this music, so that I could know what the glory of Heaven will sound like.

I received this order in excellent condition in a very timely manner. This cd covers the main themes of the these biblical films as intended by this composer without being a long and tedious rendition of each score as preferred by me.

this may be the only recording that I have not been able to listen to, from beginning to end. The scores seem to be played by a bunch of musicians that have not slept for days. Even worse it sounds that the recording engineer was in his 90's Can you say tinny. this my nomination for the worst DVD ever produced.....

The CD brings back the memories of what motion pictures were all about and the epic movies merited EPIC MUSIC.Mr.Rozsa was the master of the art and he was able to depict the emotions and the drama of the various scenes.This year marks the 50th Anniversary of Ben-Hur and it is my hope that a special programme would be put in place to celebrate same.