Murder on the Orient Express [Soundtrack]

murder on the orient express [soundtrack]

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Murder on the Orient Express, film score
Composed by Richard Rodney Bennett
Performed by Charles Taylor, Royal Opera House Orchestra Covent Garden
Conducted by Marcus Dods

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Murder on the Orient Express [Soundtrack]

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A unique collection of film music
delightful

Film Music of Richard Rodney Bennett

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Murder On The Orient Express
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Customer Reviews:

A unique collection of film music.......2001-06-17

This recording is generally very well performed and produced. The playing of the BBC Philharmonic under Rumon Gamba is very high caliber indeed. I am not a big fan of movie music, but I was glad I bought this CD.

I bought this album for the highlight selection, the Elegy for Viola and Orchestra from Lady Caroline Lamb. This piece is pure heaven. The only piece I know that is even somewhat similar is Vaughan-Williams' Flos Campi. The soloist, orchestra and conductor are magnificent in Bennett's work - this is reason enough to own this CD.

delightful.......2001-02-13

I remember Bennett for his wonderful film scores for Nicholas and Alexandra(the fold-out LP album had a regal splendour to it) and Lady Caroline Lamb. Marcus Dodds conducted the Lamb score with the New Philharmonia Orchestra on LP (Angel S-36946) - now out of print. Gamba`s conducting is marvellous on this Chandos re-recording. But Dodds is unsurpassed for his romantic and passionate handling, with Peter Mark giving an intense interpretation of the Caroline theme. Overall, the LP has

Tracks:

Overture And Kidnapping
Stamboul Ferry
The Orient Express
The Body / Remembering Daisy
Entr'acte
Princess Dragomiroff
The Knife
Prelude To Murder
The Murder
Finale

Customer Reviews:

A Trip On The Orient Express.......2007-04-05

The soundtrack is great just as the movie! When you listen to the musical score you see the movie again in your mind. A wonderful cast of stars to go along with the music.

A Brilliant Score Beautifully Recorded.......2005-11-30

For MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, Richard Rodney Bennett could have arranged a 1930's pastiche score and left it at that. Instead, he created an entirely original score, by turns melodious and atonal, to enhance the classic murder mystery on screen. The Overture certainly does, to quote Bennett himself, "give one the sense of excitement and anticipation that one felt in the theatre, as a child, before the curtain went up," while the main theme of "The Orient Express" combines a joyous waltz with an ominous woodwind motif that tells of dark deeds to come. "The Reenactment" and "The Murder" consist of some of the eeriest music ever heard in a film (as frightening - if not more so - as much of Bernard Herrmann's score for PSYCHO). At other times, the score is impressionistically beautiful, as in the Puccini-esque "Stamboul Ferry." Bennett impressively handles both music under dialogue (in "The Orient Express," for example, or "Princess Dragomiroff") and leitmotifs (the nervous string motif associated with the villain of the piece, acted by Richard Widmark). In short, this is a brilliant score. But what truly raises the soundtrack to the highest level is the grandly scaled playing of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, led by Marcus Dods. The 1974 recording matches the orchestra in quality, with each instrument clearly audible. Thus, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS is a remarkable original soundtrack recording in more ways than one.

Christie Music at its Best!.......2005-09-01

"Murder on the Orient Express" was the one that really started the whole Agatha Christie craze at the movies, but none can top this one. I really love this soundtrack; it captures the real mood of this movie. From the excellent mood piece, "Kidnapping" to the majestic "The Orient Express", this soundtrack has just about everything for the lover of this movie. On most soundtracks you listen to some cuts and skip the others, but this one has such a variety of mood music that you'll want to hear it all.

The genius of Sir Rodney Benet!!.......2005-06-10

This film is perfect; and one of its undeniable virtues was precisely his admirable soundtrack. Exquisite in all the extension of the word. Absolutely gratifying and recommended.

Orient Express - Delightful!.......2004-06-10

I remember enjoying the movie when it first came out, as a matter of fact, it was the first movie on VCR I purchased; I guess that makes me really old! I loved the soundtrack, and you can almost hear the steam engine being fired, as it prepares to leave Paris. My vinyl copy has been gone for years, so I was delighted to stumble across it here. I have played it a number of times in the two weeks I have had it, and copied it to my MP3 player also. It is a great recording!

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Two Composers Confront Poirot

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Two Composers Confront Poirot.......2006-02-21

This CD presents the original soundtracks of two movies based on Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot detective novels and made in the 1970's, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (with score by Richard Rodney Bennett) and DEATH ON THE NILE (with score by Nino Rota). Listening to the scores one right after the other makes one appreciate the differing ways in which their composers - one British and the other Italian-born - approach the English detective story musically. While Bennett's score is often atonal, Rota's is basically Romantic in character (the "Great Pyramids" music recalls Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyeries"). Yet both scores convey tension, terror, mystery, and, of course, an aura of 1930's glamour so appropriate to both movies.
For MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, Bennett could simply have arranged a 1930's pastiche score and left it at that. Instead, he created an entirely original score to enhance the classic murder mystery on screen. The Overture certainly does, to quote Bennett himself, "give one the sense of excitement and anticipation that one felt in the theatre, as a child, before the curtain went up," while the main theme of "The Orient Express" combines a joyous waltz with an ominous woodwind motif that tells of dark deeds to come. "The Reenactment" and "The Murder" consist of some of the eeriest music ever heard in a film (as frightening - if not more so - as much of Bernard Herrmann's score for PSYCHO). At other times, the score is impressionistically beautiful, as in the Puccini-esque "Stamboul Ferry." Bennett impressively handles both music under dialogue (in "The Orient Express," for example, or "Princess Dragomiroff") and leitmotifs (the nervous string motif associated with the villain of the piece, acted by Richard Widmark). In short, this is a brilliant score. But what truly raises the soundtrack to the highest level is the grandly scaled playing of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, led by Marcus Dods. The 1974 recording matches the orchestra in quality, with each instrument clearly audible. Thus, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS is a remarkable original soundtrack recording in more ways than one.
Rota begins DEATH ON THE NILE with a stirring overture that reminds the listener first of the magnificent Nile, then of the tragic love triangle at the movie's center. The overture's themes - and especially the five-note motif with which it starts - are repeated and developed throughout the score. Also suggesting the love triangle is the so-called Love Theme, heard in the tracks "Arrival at Wode Hall" and "Duet and Love Theme." "Jackie's Theme" is a remarkable depiction in music of that wronged woman's passionate desperation. And while always remaining tonal, Rota's music chills the listener in "The Temple of Karnak" (a memorably suspenseful scene in the film), "Linnet's Pearls," and "The Conclusive Evidence." The only "minus" of the DEATH ON THE NILE recording is that the various cues are presented out of order, making it hard to follow or to remember the movie's plot accurately simply by listening to the soundtrack.

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Homesick

British Film Classics

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Customer Reviews:

Homesick.......2004-03-06

Perfect

I found this CD in chicago, where this brit now lives, and the tunes and themes are such a retrieval cue for sunday afternoons watching these old stiff upper lip black and white movies on tv. Just what I needed, although the addition of 4 weddings is slightly odd. Good quality recordings...:-)

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