Bernard Herrmann & Alfred Newman: The Egyptian
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Composer: Bernard HerrmannComposer: Alfred [1] Newman
Conductor: William T. Stromberg
Orchestra: Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2005-02-22
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- Prelude [From the Egyptian]
- The Ruins [From the Egyptian]
- The Red Sea & Childhood [From the Egyptian]
- The Nile & Temple [From the Egyptian]
- Her name was Merit [From the Egyptian]
- The chariot race [From the Egyptian]
- Pursuit [From the Egyptian]
- Akhnaton - One Deity [From the Egyptian]
- Taia [From the Egyptian]
- Party's end [From the Egyptian]
- Nefer-Nefer-Nefer [From "The Egyptian"]
- The rebuke [From the Egyptian]
- The deed [From the Egyptian]
- The harp & couch [From the Egyptian]
- The perfection of love [From the Egyptian]
- Violence [From the Egyptian]
- Valley of the kings [From the Egyptian]
- The homecoming [From the Egyptian]
- Hymn to Aton [From the Egyptian]
- Sights, sounds & smells [From the Egyptian]
- Live for our son [From "The Egyptian"]
- Am I mad? [From the Egyptian]
- The true Pharaoh [From the Egyptian]
- The tomb [From the Egyptian]
- The holy war [From the Egyptian]
- Dance macabre [From the Egyptian]
- Death of Merit [From the Egyptian]
- Death of Akhnaton [From the Egyptian]
- The new pharaoh [From the Egyptian]
- Exile & death [From the Egyptian]
Music reviews of Bernard Herrmann & Alfred Newman: The Egyptian
Music Review: A Film Score by Both Hermann and Newman
Rating: 4 Stars
Very unusually Darryl Zanuck assigned this film score to two of 20th Century Fox's stable of composers, one very established, Alfred Newman, and one a newcomer who was gaining a reputation as a superb writer, Bernard Herrmann. This was for expediency's sake because Newman was also involved at the same time in writing the score for another movie in production, 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' And, in fact, Herrmann wrote most of the score, although some of the cues had melodies written by Newman but expanded and orchestrated by Herrmann; each of those cues had the notation 'music developed by Bernard Herrman from themes composed by Alfred Newman.' (It is of note that Newman did not do any of his own orchestration, leaving that to Edward Powell; Herrmann did all his orchestrations.) Herrmann and Newman each conducted some of the original sound track recording. What is amazing is that there is no fault line between the music written by Newman, a composer of the old Austrian high-romantic camp, and Herrmann, whose style ultimately developed along much more advanced lines (witness his score for 'Psycho').
The movie itself was one of those blood-and-sandal epics so beloved by Hollywood in the 1950s. And it was one of the very first Cinemascope extravaganzas. It was not much of a movie, starring a cipher of an actor, Edmond Purdom. And the story isn't much, either. The music, accordingly, partakes rather too much of the faux-oriental style so familiar from such movies. Still, there are some really memorable passages, particularly those that are of the more intimate scenes. The love scene--the cue is titled 'Her Name was Merit' -- features a really lovely alto flute and oboe d'amore theme with harp and string accompaniment. There are also some scenes of religious splendor -- e.g. Hymn to Aton -- that are also quite striking for all they owe to the temple scene of 'Aïda.'
The score was cut down somewhat for this CD. Originally there were about 100 minutes of music. Film music arranger John Morgan gets credit for making what turns out to be an effective 70 minutes of music that can stand on its own, absent the film. It is played more or less without pause, moving from one cue to the other seamlessly. Veteran film music conductor William Stromberg gets a fairly decent performance out of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Choir. This performance was originally issued in 1998 on the full-price Marco Polo label.
This score is a superior example of its type and it is given a creditable performance here.
TT=71:30
Scott Morrison
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