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David Raksin Conducts His Great Film Scores: Laura / The Bad and the Beautiful / Forever Amber

David Raksin (Composer, Conductor), New Philharmonica Orchestra (Orchestra) Format: Audio CD

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Track Listings

1	Laura
2	Forever Amber (Suite): Main Title: Amber
3	Forever Amber (Suite): The King's Mistress
4	Forever Amber (Suite): Whitefriars
5	Forever Amber (Suite): The Great Fire
6	Forever Amber (Suite): End Title: Forever Amber
7	The Bad and The Beautiful (Suite): Main Title Theme: Love Is For The Very Young
8	The Bad and The Beautiful (Suite): The Acting Lesson
9	The Bad and The Beautiful (Suite): The Quickies And The Sneak Preview
10	The Bad and The Beautiful (Suite): Nocturne And Theme

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 4.94 x 0.45 inches; 3.68 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ RCA Legacy
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 21, 2006
Label ‏ : ‎ RCA Legacy
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000003EMJ
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #207,326 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #2,606 in Movie Scores (CDs & Vinyl)
- #4,688 in Easy Listening (CDs & Vinyl)
- #24,507 in Classical (CDs & Vinyl)

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Alan B. Campbell

Beautiful orchestrated "Laura"

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2020

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David Raksin wrote and orchestrated two notable melodies: "Laura" (beautiful) and "The Bad and the Beautiful" (notable). "Forever Amber" not so much.

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John BMW

My favorite song

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2020

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Great movie great music

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carlito

... the quality of my lp and the lp is great. I expected better

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2017

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Not the quality of my lp and the lp is great. I expected better. Sorry

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richard viola

Fine music.

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2014

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My comments for this cd are exactly the same as I posted for the Now Voyager cd I just purchased. The music had no coarse language and didn't constantly repeat itself.

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William J. Phillips Jr.

Laura.

Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2014

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I bought this to hear his rendition of his song Laura. I wasn't disappointed.

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Cheryl A. Cerna

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2014

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Love it!

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Cody Robert at Spokane

OUR BAD, BEAUTIFUL HOLLYWOOD: DAVID CONDUCTS RAKSIN

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2014

The late Charles Gerhardt (discophile turned producer turned studio conductor) kicked off this distinguished RCA series with Korngold and his rousing, sweetly Viennese SEA HAWK. The series continued very successfully for half a decade, with the Herrmann, Waxman and Rozsa anthologies having the most lasting value. At Gerhardt's retirement the series abruptly terminated without including Victor Young or David Raksin's peers Hugo Friedhofer and George Duning. Still, this 1975 capstone of the entire series, Raksin (produced by Gerhardt) conducting three of his finest scores, is a special career summation. Moreover, Raksin works here with a properly constituted concert orchestra, the New Philharmonia, as against Gerhardt's ad hoc studio band the National Philharmonic.

His contemporary Bernard Herrmann notwithstanding, David Raksin (1912-2004) was the most musically progressive, intellectual and avant of the second wave of Hollywood composers trained in America, born here and during the American Century dominated by its irresistible new artform, talking pictures with original underscoring and crossover theme songs. Raksin came from Philadelphia with Ivy League credentials from Penn, Broadway arranging experience and, from 1936 on (his first West Coast gig orchestrating Chaplin's MODERN TIMES score) the most prestigious Hollywood Insider status--he studied in Brentwood with Arnold Schoenberg in a trial-by-fire perfecting of his modernist leanings.

Raksin and Gerhardt stipulated in making this programme that it would be chronological (1944-52) and also move in artistic progression from the mandatory hit-song overture for Laura to a conservative period suite for Amber and climax in Raskin's best and most daringly modern score for the great Houseman-Minnelli drama, both beautiful and bad. LAURA's haunting theme is quite short, and this familiar music's permanent appeal derives not just from Raksin's wistful minor-key melodic arc but also from the brilliant aftermarket lyric crafted by our poet laureate Johnny Mercer. The ethereal beauty, nicely conveyed by RCA's cover art, of the late Gene Tierney makes it own considerable contribution to the enduring LAURA mystique. (There were two Laura portraits, one an original rendering by Mrs. Rouben Mamoulian, and--once Preminger replaced Mamoulian--this Tierney photograph daubed with oils to simulate a painting.)

In another Preminger film, FOREVER AMBER, Raksin's mode is more conventional, given the story's bodice-ripping Regency setting. Like all Raksin scores this long suite is well ahead of its time, its composer never fearful of the odd dissonance, unorthodox progressions or deviant rhythms. Preminger consistently commissioned unexpected scores, with two more from Raksin (FALLEN ANGEL, WHIRLPOOL) and from jazz modernists (MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM, ANATOMY OF A MURDER).

Ideally sequenced as the program highlight, THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL is Raksin's richest and most abundant score. The blowsy main theme (a louche sax solo over a velvety cushion of strings and a sprawling, lazy rhythm) perfectly evokes Hollywoodland in its tarnished, noirish postwar (and post-Schoenberg) glory. David Raksin was an intellectual musician existing on a loftier artistic plane than transitory starlets, pitchmen and hustlers, yet we know he knew these industry types only too well. How utterly objective and appropriate this music is for Lana Turner's most challenging performance (channeling Diana Barrymore) and Gloria Grahame's hilarious and touching trophy bride (channeling Carole Lombard). Raksin also scored Minnelli's sequel exactly a decade later, TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN.

Raksin is a winningly persuasive conductor of his own works, and he clearly reveled in this overdue recognition and in this resonant, lush London orchestral palette, the next best thing to a malleable Tinseltown soundstage ensemble. Check out the composer's excellent booklet notes, and buy this essential soundtrack connoisseur's release even if you buy no other. But buy Gerhardt's sumptuous SEA HAWK anyway, simply to compare its sweeter (major-key) Warners/Vitaphone tradition that Raksin, Friedhofer, Ernest Gold and their (minor-key) allies successfully tilted against.

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The Raksin report

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2018

These early RCA/BMG masters were not great - there has subsequently been reissues of most the series and in every case they are superior. For some reason, this one was the hardest to find, but I just found a reasonable copy and it's on its way to me now so I'll be able to compare and report back.

As to the music, Raksin was brilliant and so is this CD. Beautifully produced by Charles Gerhardt, who conducts all the other volumes, I'm praying the remaster is as brilliant as the music. The Laura "suite" is too short, but Forever Amber and The Bad and the Beautiful are well served here.

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