The Sea Hawk: The Classic Film Scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Erich Wolfgang Korngold | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA Victor
• ASIN: B00000E6G0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,935 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sea Hawk : Main Title; the Albatross; the Throne [New Extended Version]

2. Of Human Bondage : Main Title; Christmas; Sally; [New Extended Version]

3. Between Two Worlds : Main Title; Mother and Son; [New Extended Version]

4. The Sea Wolf : Main Title; Escape in the Fog; Love Scene; Finale

5. The Contant Nymph: Tomorrow-Tone Poem

6. Kings Row: Main Title

7. Anthony Adverse: No Father, No Mother, No Name; in the Forest

8. Deception: Main Title

9. Devotion: The Death of Emily Brontë

10. Escape Me Never: Main Title; Venice; March; Love Scene; Finale

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GET IT!, January 7, 2008

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Giovanna Visconti - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sea Hawk: The Classic Film Scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Audio CD)

All Gerhardt's film music recordings are worth finding. Once you've heard them, you'll treasure them and only wish he were alive and recording NOW when so many scores are being "reconstructed" and recorded complete.

It's just amazing how wonderful this particular recording of Korngold's music sounds today, 36 years after it's original release on LP. All the CD transfers of Gerhardt's film music recordings still hold up against anything recorded today, but only "The Sea Hawk" was actually re-mastered--and extended with music that had been recorded but left off the LP because of space/time constraints. (See my review of the William Stromberg "Sea Hawk" on Marco Polo/Naxos for a full explanation.) And only THIS edition of "The Sea Hawk" CD (RCA Victor 7890-2-RG) was NOT issued on CD using Dolby Surround! (NOTE: ONE of the two issues of "Sunset Boulevard: The Classic Film Scores of Franz Waxman" was also issued without Dolby Surround. It's RCD1-7017. It too was expanded to include music not on the LP.) The others in the series WERE issued that way, but even that mistake doesn't destroy the vitality, searing lyricism, exquisite orchestral playing and overall superiority of the Gerhardt series.

He was the first to give film music the respect and reverence it deserves; the first to bring this music front and center with that splendid series on RCA.

And he's still non pareil.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Errol Flynn and English buccaneers raise cain, March 23, 2011

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marlene - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sea Hawk: Korngold Film Scores (Audio Cassette)

Errol Flynn and his English semi piratical buddies flay the Spanish from stem to stern and capture a ladies heart along the way! Great black and white classically photographed film of epic proportions, its gorgeous screen stuff not made anymore! Flynn was a handsome devil..and devil he is to the Spanish of 1588. Gotta love the fighting, the clipped english accents the blood and gore , God its just great. This musical treat and the movie are both fabulous to spend an evening with!

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Careful about this purchase - it's incomplete!, June 12, 2011

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romainvicta - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sea Hawk: The Classic Film Scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Audio CD)

Those of you who are Flynn/Korngold fans should be aware that the earlier version of this outstanding CD contained the "Main Theme" of the first great Flynn/Korngold classic, Captain Blood. For some inexplicable reason, it has been left off this version and constitutes, in my opinion, a great loss for Flynn/Korngold fans. As the first Korngold work for a Flynn swashbuckler, it holds a special place for me and many other fans of the genre and its music. If you are like me and want the complete original work by Gharles Gerhardt and George Korngold (son of Erich), look further than this incomplete version!!