The Spirit of St. Louis


RCA Records (0743217205126)
映画 | 発売日: 16/11/2004 | 映画のリリース: 1957 | フォーマット: CD
 

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# トラック   期間
1.Prelude1:14
2.Building the Spirit4:08
3.New York to Cape Cod6:50
4.Nova Scotia2:26
5.St John6:35
6.Asleep4:05
7.Ireland3:52
8.Plymouth3:30
9.Landing at Le Bourget6:10
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The Spirit of St. Louis - 08/10 - その改訂 Tom Daish, 提出された (英語)
The mastery of aviation is one of the greatest accomplishments of the 20th Century and in the early days, one of the most important milestones was Charles Lindbergh's epic flight from New York to France in 1927, the first trans-Atlantic crossing. Naturally enough, Lindbergh's account of the journey in the titular aircraft was turned into a film, starring James Stewart and directed by the legendary Billy Wilder. Unfortunately, the film's fundamental flaw is its subject matter, a solo flight across a big ocean is just a man in a plane with his thoughts, not really cinematic gold and the film didn't do very well, despite the subject and Wilder's wise decision to bring in Franz Waxman to be the emotional accompaniment to his stylised version of the aviator.

Although the journey itself was moderately untroubled given its seeming impossibility, Waxman's score is often wildly dramatic, perhaps surprisingly so. Most of New York to Cape Cod, particularly in the latter stages, uses an assault of brass and veers towards melodrama. Although there is some attempt to evoke the beauty of flight, it always seems suffused with danger. St John has some eerie, Stravinsky inspired string effects which evoke the chilliness of the locale as well as sustain a certain level of tension. Although never quite shaking the undercurrent of potential doom, the second half of the cue manages a brash and more heroic brass fanfare, before resolving more quietly. Asleep is a stand out cue that opens with an ingenious ticking motif, which soon becomes more suspenseful and culminating in a burst of brass and percussion that wouldn't be out of place in an early Jerry Goldsmith action score. Ireland has a hint of a jig and Landing at Le Bourget a few bars from the Marseilles, the mood lightens considerably towards the heroic conclusion as Lindbergh lands in France.

The opening of the Prelude and the end of St John contain aeroplane sound effects which are a curious addition, but don't trample on the music and can be forgiven. Given the score's 1957 vintage, the sound quality is surprisingly good, even if there is a considerable amount of tape hiss. However, the orchestral detail is clear and there is minimal distortion during the louder passages, even if the stereo image isn't particularly good - it might even be mono, I couldn't quite tell. The brief liner notes don't actually say much about the score, but are a good basic background to the event and the film. Undoubtedly a crucial dramatic device in the film itself, Waxman's music feels more incidental in album form. Undoubtedly vivid, it comes across as more a series of dramatic episodes which are interesting enough unto themselves, but don't make a work greater than the sum of its parts.

その他のリリース The Spirit of St. Louis (1957):

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Spirit of St. Louis, The (1977)
Spirit of St. Louis, The (2013)
Spirit of St. Louis, The (2016)
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