Captain from Castile: Music from Alfred Newman Film Scores
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Composer: Alfred NewmanConductor: Charles Gerhardt
Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-07-01
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- 20th Century-Fox Fanfare and Street Scene
- Captain from Castile
- Wuthering Heights
- Down to the Sea in Ships
- The Song of Bernadette
- The Bravados
- Anastasia
- The Best of Everything - National Philharmonic Orchestra, Cahn, Sammy
- Airport
- The Robe
Music reviews of Captain from Castile: Music from Alfred Newman Film Scores
Music Review: Two of my favorites - Newman and Gerhardt
Rating: 5 Stars
The music of Alfred Newman has held a special place in my heart since 1962 when at the age of nine I exited a theater stirred by several of the melodies I'd heard in HOW THE WEST WAS WON. A decade later, THE ROBE would be one of my first two soundtrack albums and THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, upon its rerelease in 1971 or 72, the first film I ever paid to see specifically to hear the music.
Gerhardt's sound does it for me, too. It's big and splashy, passionate and indulgent and at times just a little rough around the edges, but that's OK. He's not neurotically fussy over every detail; he sees the trees but loves the forest. His National Philharmonic Orchestra plays both tenderly and exuberantly and really captures Newman's spirit. Their sound is so lush and has such presence you can almost wrap your hands around it and squeeze.
My favorites are the heavenly "Cathy's Theme" from WUTHERING HEIGHTS, the 7:57 suite from SONG OF BERNADETTE, "London Calling" from THE BEST OF EVERYTHING and the disc's finale, the 8:42 suite from THE ROBE.
The suite from CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE begins ethereally, like Debussy's "Iberia", and shifts into an exhilarating march. Another reviewer complains of awkwardly uneven tempi at the finish. I do see what he means, but still the performance convinces me. It's just a different vision. Pointedly altering a tempo (Stokowski, Bernstein) CAN work. What I don't see are his complaints concerning "Caligula's March" and "The Map of Jerusalem" from THE ROBE; I just don't hear anything wrong with either of them. The final impassioned choral statement of "Diana's Theme" in "Map of Jerusalem" nearly bursts at the seams. Wonderful. I know of no two orchestras, conductors, soloists or anyone else who have ever been precisely the same and I like that Newman's and Gerhardt's approaches and results differed.
This is classy stuff. I think that for most listeners this would be a rewarding place to start with this composer.
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