Avalon


Reprise Records (0075992643740)
Film | Date: 1990 | Sortie du film: 1990 | Type: CD, Téléchargement
 

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# Track   Duration
1.19143:42
2.Weekend Musicians1:34
3.Avalon - Moving Day2:35
4.Jules and Michael2:39
5.Television, Television, Television0:45
6.Circus3:43
7.Wedding1:53
8.The Family5:00
9.The Fire3:35
10.No More Television0:44
11.Funeral3:21
12.End Titles7:19
 36:49
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Avalon - 10/10 - Critique de Tom Daish, ajouté le (Anglais)
Barry Levinson's tail of an immigrant family told over several decades clearly inspired Randy Newman even more than usual and resulted in one of his most melancholy and beautiful scores. 1914 introduces a quiet piano version of the main waltz theme which is decorated by violin and trumpet solos (expertly performed by Stuart Canin & Malcolm McNab respectively) that develops into a glorious arrangement for full strings. The melody and arrangement echo his early song albums, Good Old Boys and Sail Away in particular; its tenderness is very bittersweet, but Newman occasionally turns it into something a little more warm and lush, but the harmony invariably suggests the melancholy beneath.

I've often noted that Newman is, along with the late Elmer Bernstein, one of the finest at scoring dramas such as this, if for no other reason that there the music is never static, but doesn't just noodle from one vague string chord to another. The movement is either achieved through shifting harmonies or a change in the orchestration which yet again shows Newman's sublime command of orchestral texture. After a quiet selection of opening cues, the mood is shifted with a fun circus march in Television, Television, Television which cleverly juxtaposes a trumpet theme with a wonderful counter melody in the upper string section. This more rambunctious carnival atmosphere is continued in the delightful Circus that echoes the short, but delightful circus marches that Aaron Copland penned for his ballet The Red Pony.

The lengthy final cue wraps up the major ideas in a fabulous, intimate, yet ultimately downbeat concert suite that caps off the entire score perfectly. A cue that should appear on any Randy Newman film music compilation (indeed it does feature on one of the discs in the Guilty boxed set). There are two very minor quibbles with Avalon, perhaps the most irritating being the fact that it's out of print and thus fairly difficult to come by. I would confess that other Newman scores are similar and perhaps the closest in quality is Awakenings, but Avalon perhaps has a touch more variety and that certain extra something that pushes a score from excellent to classic.

The second quibble is that some tracks seem to have above the expected amount of studio noise. The solo piano passages in the opening cue are particularly prone to interruption through ruffled paper or what sounds like a music stand being knocked. This is more of an unfortunate side effect than a massive problem and while there is fractionally more than desirable levels of hiss on occasion, the sound is otherwise crisp and the instruments captured in fine detailed. A score that all Newman fans should seek out without delay and one that I hope gets a re-issue sometime soon, but until then a top collectible and a classic score as well.

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