Charles Gerhardt Conducts Classic Film Scores

Contents Korngold: The Sea Hawk: Main Title – Reunion – Finale (From “The Sea Hawk”) Korngold: Nora’s Theme (From “Of Human Bondage”) Korngold: March of the Merry Men – Battle (From “The Adventures of Robin Hood”) Korngold: Juarez: Love Theme (From “Juarez”) Korngold: Kings Row; Main Title (From “Kings Row”) Korngold: Tomorrow (From “The Constant Nymph”) Korngold: Overture (From “Captain Blood”) Korngold: No Father, No Mother, No Name (From “Anthony Adverse”) Korngold: Between Two Worlds: Main Title – Mother and Son (From “Between Two Worlds”) Korngold: Deception: Main Title (From “Deception”) Korngold: The Death of Emily Bronte (From “Devotion”) Korngold: Escape Me Never: Main Title – Venice – March – Love Scene – Finale (From “Escape Me Never”) Tiomkin: Lost Horizon (1937) Tiomkin: Prelude (From “The Guns of Navarone”) Tiomkin: The Big Sky Tiomkin: Overture (From “The Fourposter”) Tiomkin: Love Scene in the Barn (From “Friendly Persuasion”) Tiomkin: Choral Finale (From “Search for Paradise”) Steiner: Adventures of Don Juan Korngold: The Sea Hawk Korngold: Ship in the Night (From “Captain Blood”) Steiner: They Died with Their Boots On Steiner: Dodge City Waxman, F: Parachute Drop (From “Objective Burma”) Hugo Friedhofer: The Sun Also Rises Korngold: The Adventures of Robin Hood Steiner: Main Title: Dixie, Mammy, Tara, Rhett (From “Gone With The Wind”) Steiner: Opening Sequence: The Twins, Katie Bell, Ashley, Mammy (From “Gone With The Wind”) Steiner: Driving Home, Gerald O’Hara, Scarlett, Tara (From “Gone With The Wind”) Steiner: Dance Montage: Charleston Heel and Toe Polka, Southern Belle Waltz, Can Can (From “Gone With The Wind”) Steiner: Grazioso, Mammy, Ashley, Ashley and Scarlett, Scarlett, Ashley and Melanie Love Theme (From “Gone With The Wind”) Steiner: Civil War, Fall of the South, Scarlett Walks Among the Wounded (From “Gone With The Wind”) Steiner: True Love – Ashley Returns to Tara from the War – Tara in Ruins (From “Gone With The Wind”) Steiner: Belle Watling (From “Gone With The Wind”) Steiner: Reconstruction, The Nightmare, Tara Rebuilt, Bonnie, The Accident (From “Gone With The Wind”) Steiner: Mammy and Melanie on the Staircase – Rhett’s Sorrow (From “Gone With The Wind”) Steiner: Apotheosis: Melanie’s Death, Scarlett and Rhett, Tara (From “Gone With The Wind”) Newman, A: 20th Century Fox Fanfare And Cinemascope Extension Newman, A: Captain from Castile Newman, A: Cathy’s Theme (From “Wuthering Heights”) Newman, A: Hornpipe (From “Down To The Sea In Ships”) Newman, A: The Song of Bernadette Newman, A: The Hunters (Main Title) [From “The Bravados”] Newman, A: Anastasia (Main Title) Newman, A: London Calling (From “The Best Of Everything”) Newman, A: Airport (Main Title) Newman, A: The Robe Steiner: Casablanca Steiner: Passage to Marseille: Rescue at Sea Steiner: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Steiner: The Big Sleep: Love Themes Steiner: The Caine Mutiny: March Waxman, F: To Have and Have Not: Main Title: Martinque Waxman, F: The Two Mrs. Carrolls Frederick Hollander: Sabrina: Main Title; The Larrabee Estate Young, V: The Left Hand of God: Love Theme Rozsa: Sahara: Main Title Steiner: Virginia City: Stagecoach; Love Scene Steiner: Key Largo Herrmann, B: The Death Hunt (From “On Dangerous Ground”) Herrmann, B: Prelude: Xanadu – Snow Picture (From “Citizen Kane”) Herrmann, B: Theme and Variations (Breakfast Montage) [From “Citizen Kane”] Herrmann, B: Aria from Salammbo (From “Citizen Kane”) Herrmann, B: Rosebud and Finale (From “Citizen Kane”) Herrmann, B: The Sea – The Lagoon (From “Beneath the 12-Mile Reef”) Herrmann, B: Descending (From “Beneath the 12-Mile Reef”) Herrmann, B: The Octopus – Homecoming (From “Beneath the 12-Mile Reef”) Herrmann, B: Concerto Macabre for Piano and Orchestra (From “Hangover Square”) Herrmann, B: Talking Drums – Prelude: The Riverboat – Petticoat Dance – The Safari (From “White Witch Doctor”) Herrmann, B: Tarantula – The Lion (From “White Witch Doctor”) Herrmann, B: Nocturne (From “White Witch Doctor”) Herrmann, B: Abduction of the Bakuba Boy – The Skulls (From “White Witch Doctor”) Herrmann, B: Lonni Bound by Ropes – Departure (From “White Witch Doctor”) Waxman, F: Prince Valiant: Suite Waxman, F: A Place In The Sun: Suite Waxman, F: The Bride of Frankenstein: The Creation of the Female Monster Waxman, F: Sunset Boulevard: Suite Waxman, F: Old Acquaintance: Elegy for Strings Waxman, F: Rebecca: Suite Waxman, F: The Philadelphia Story Waxman, F: Taras Bulba: The Ride to Dubno Korngold: Overture (From “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex”) Korngold: The Prince and the Pauper Korngold: In the Forest Korngold: The Sea Wolf Korngold: Cello concerto in C, Op.37 (From “Deception”) Korngold: Night Scene (From “Another Dawn”) Korngold: Of Human Bondage Rozsa: Prelude (From “The Red House”) Rozsa: The Morgan Farm, The New Hired Hand, Swimming Scene (From “The Red House”) Rozsa: Meg Finds the Red House (From “The Red House”) Rozsa: Teller Shoots at Meg (From “The Red House”) Rozsa: Pete’s Death and Finale (From “The Red House”) Rozsa: The Love of the Princess (From “The Thief of Bagdad”) Rozsa: The Bottle, First Meeting (From “The Lost Weekend”) Rozsa: The Mouse and the Bat, Nightmare (From “The Lost Weekend”) Rozsa: Love Scene and Finale (From “The Lost Weekend”) Rozsa: Sunstroke, River Journey (From “The Four Feathers”) Rozsa: Mrs. Dietrichson, The Conspiracy (From “Double Indemnity”) Rozsa: Scherzo: Hawks in Flight (From “Knights of the Round Table”) Rozsa: Song of the Jungle (From “The Jungle Book”) Rozsa: The Dream Sequence, The Mountain Lodge (From “Spellbound”) Rozsa: Overture (From “Ivanhoe”) Steiner: Now, Voyager Steiner: King Kong Steiner: Saratoga Trunk: As Long As I Live Steiner: The Charge of the Light Brigade: Forward the Light Brigade Steiner: Four Wives: Symphonie Moderne Steiner: The Big Sleep Steiner: Johnny Belinda: Suite Steiner: Since You Went Away: Main Title Steiner: The Informer Steiner: The Fountainhead Steiner: Fanfare – It Can’t Be Wrong (From “Now Voyager”) Steiner: Blindness (Judith’s Theme) / Winter / Resignation (From “Dark Victory”) Steiner: Main Title (From “A Stolen Life”) Korngold: Elizabeth (From “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex”) Waxman, F: Forsaken (From “Mr. Skeffington”) Steiner: Main Title / Stanley and Roy; Finale (From “In This Our Life”) Newman, A: Main Title (From “All About Eve”) Steiner: Waltz (From “Jezebel”) Steiner: Main Title / Rosa Moline / The Train / Rosa’s Death (From “Beyond the Forest”) Korngold: Carlotta (From “Juarez”) Steiner: Main Title (From “The Letter”) Steiner: Main Title – Henriette and the Children – Love Scene – Finale – End Cast (From “All This, and Heaven Too”)

Sony Classical announces another ten releases in its popular series of Classical Masters. This new batch of budget-priced sets contains major recording projects by some of the 20th century’s most celebrated musicians. It was the Warner Brothers’ 1946 Bette Davis starrer Deception – in particular, its score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold – that originally aroused a passion for film music in the American conductor and producer Charles Gerhardt. Beginning his career in 1950 as a technician for RCA, where he came into contact with Toscanini, he went on to become a producer for Westminster before returning to RCA as a conductor, moving to Europe and making his name in the 1970s with the monumental series of recordings collected here for the first time: twelve discs of classic film scores, many of them Oscar winners or nominees, from Hollywood’s “golden age” with Gerhardt at the helm of London’s elite recording ensemble, the National Philharmonic Orchestra. Besides Korngold (with selections from more than a dozen films including Deception, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Prince and the Pauper, Of Human Bondage and The Sea Hawk), the featured composers include Dimitri Tiomkin (including a medley from Lost Horizon and The Big Sky), Max Steiner (Casablanca, The Big Sleep, Key Largo, Now, Voyager, King Kong, Jezebel and a whole disc devoted to Gone with the Wind), Alfred Newman (medley from The Song of Bernadette and The Robe), Franz Waxman (medleys from A Place in the Sun, Prince Valiant, Sunset Boulevard, The Philadelphia Story and Rebecca), Bernard Herrmann (Citizen Kane, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef and White Witch Doctor) and Miklós Rózsa (Double Indemnity, Spellbound, The Lost Weekend, Ivanhoe and The Red House). “Charles Gerhardt and his handpicked London orchestra are really doing lovers of American film music a great service,” wrote Gramophone’s enthusiastic reviewer.