Moonfleet [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] [Soundtrack]

Miklós Rózsa (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Miklós Rózsa
• Audio CD (January 11, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Film Score Monthly
• ASIN: B0006SSQA2
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #519,835 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Prelude / Foreword - Miklós Rózsa

2. Graveyard / Letter of Introduction

3. Escape / Garden

4. Preceding Nightmare / Nightmare / Summerhouse

5. Cave / Redbeard

6. Smugglers / Passepied from Bovary

7. Denouement / Murder

8. Cipher

9. Hollisbrooke Castle

10. Well / Diamond / Snare Drums

11. Imposter

12. Forsaken

13. Crossroad / Finale

14. Letter of Introduction (original version) (Bonus Material) [*]

15. Garden (original version) (Bonus Material) [*]

16. Redbeard (film version) (Bonus Material) [*]

17. Cipher (original version) (Bonus Material) [*]

18. Well (film version) (Bonus Material) [*]

19. Forsaken (original version) (Bonus Material) [*]

20. Finale (original version) (Bonus Material) [*]

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Style and panache, February 12, 2007

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Mr. Francois Cuadrat "BigJake" (FRANCE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moonfleet [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Audio CD)

Miklos Rozsa was born around Budapest in 1907 (he died in Los Angeles in 1995). As a child, he was a prodigy and ended up first violin in an orchestra, but already he felt drawn to composing : he was just ten then, jus like the hero of the film for which he would write this beautiful score. His encounter with Arthur Honegger in Paris would definitely put his musical life toward one direction. First in England and then in Hollywood, he would become the appointed composer for the greatest directors of the time, along with another mainstay of the MGM, Bronislaw Kaper. Miklos Rosza would also compose "classical music", which would also reflect his dramatic and pessimistic - almost dark - style, but never lacking lyricism, style and panache. On that respect, the Moonfleet score reveals his boiling and tormented artistic temper : this natural born musician was nicknamed "Hollywood great Wagnerian gypsy". The musical theme of this film (sadly enough, it was a low budget project, but a great success anyway) sounds like a piece of traditional Scottish music and the orchestration is more than brilliant in the minor tone (ancient minor tone, without a leading-note) ; the horns alternating with the strings is amazing, the changing of scales strung together by the flutes and the piccolos will give you the goose-bumps : this film has a peculiar atmosphere to it and a spellbinding that cannot be ignored, anyway !