The Valley of Gwangi
The Classic Film Music of Jerome Moross


Silva Screen Records (5014929016122)
映画 | 年: 2003 | フォーマット: CD, ダウンロード
 

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# トラック   期間
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1.Prelude3:59
2.Huck's Escape3:10
3.The Mississippi3:15
4.Flight and Finale3:58
 
Five Finger Exercise
5.Romance5:27
 
Wagon Train
6.Theme3:08
 
The War Lord
7.Prelude and Main Title4:18
8.What of the Future? - Vengeance and Death - Finale7:22
 
The Sharkfighters
9.Overture11:22
 
Rachel, Rachel
10.Americana Miniature6:02
 
The Mountain Road
11.Overture6:22
 
The Valley of Gwangi
12.The Landscape - The Forbidden Valley - Pterodactyl Attack5:15
13.Capture of Gwangi - Gwangi Enchained5:58
14.Night in the Valley - Gwangi in the Cathedral - Death of Gwangi - Finale7:31
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The Valley of Gwangi - 08/10 - その改訂 Tom Daish, 提出された (英語)
Silva Screen have been a champion of Jerome Moross' film music and this is their first compilation. They evidently took it as read that those who bought the album would already have The Big Country and so his most famous score is missing, but the selections included are still very enjoyable. Perhaps the biggest issue with Moross' music, certainly with his film scores, is that several of them do tend to sound like less interesting versions of The Big Country. This is in evidence in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which is charming and whimsical, but very familiar in its syncopated Americana. Those that are dissimilar to his western scores are perhaps the more interesting and Romanza from Five Finger Exercise (the arrangement taken from a concert suite called Music for the Flicks) is in a swooning and romantic vein, although Moross' favourite harmonic tricks and some interesting orchestral touches set it apart from a typical Hollywood romance.

Ironically, the theme from the well known TV series, Wagon Train, is somewhat different to The Big Country, taking a lighter approach to the western, much closer to the simple, balletic approach of Aaron Copland. The War Lord, a more intimate style of filmic depiction of the middle ages, starts with a fairly heraldic Prelude and Main Title. The lilting What of the Future? contains a wonderful oboe melody and some more pastoral writing, but away from Moross' more typical American idiom. The Sharkfighters was a pretty limp film, but Moross' energetic, Cuban flavoured score - with a little hint of Gershwin here and there - is a delight, with bouncing percussion and vigorous brassy episodes. Introspection returns for Rachel, Rachel with the style of music clear from the subtitle, Americana Miniature. This is more akin to the Elmer Bernstein or Randy Newman style of scoring for a smaller picture and perhaps demonstrates that Moross might have made greater successes had he been given the chance to score something along the lines of To Kill A Mockingbird.

The album's centrepiece is the 19 minute suite from The Valley of Gwangi, which was a Ray Harryhausen film that takes the King Kong concept of a large beast back to civilization where it meets its ultimate fate. Evidently Bernard Herrmann was unavailable at the time, although Moross alters his upbeat personality to become more astringent and aggressive, even if a couple of episodes unexpectedly veer towards Big Country territory. The results are rousing and again, far more exciting than the pretty turgid film, with Moross himself called idiotic and I'm inclined to agree, Harryhausen worked on many efforts better than this. The scores that aren't too obviously similar to his western style are those that probably hold the most interest and indicate a broader scope to Moross' musical palette. The performances by the City of Prague Philharmonic are fine and largely idiomatic; an ideal complimentary album to their more recent Cardinal compilation.


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