VARESE SARABANDE FOX CLASSICS
David Raksin:
FOREVER AMBER
Although his name never achieved the popularity and recognition levels reached by Alfred Newman or Franz Waxman (jut to mention a couple of contemporary colleagues in 20th Century Fox), David Raksin will be always recalled as the composer of Laura (1944), whose main theme is already part of the musical profile of this century. Regrettably, the rest of his works have passed to a discreet and unjustified forgetfulness from which only in counted occasions, as The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), some of them are accessible to the fan; because of this, this sufficiently complete issue of the original recording of the stupendous Forever Amber (1947), is a magnificent opportunity to approach this composer whose path and influence can be tracked in several of the sharp-shooting composers in the seventies. Split into five suites that gather around twenty-three sequences of the film, the recording extracted from the optical support of the film surprises by its terrific stereo sound, logically limited in dynamic range and spatial sense, and completes to the perfection the first approximation to this score that supposed the suite of five movements presented in the 1976 record David Raksin Conducts His Great Film Scores [RCA VICTOR 1490-2-RG], stupendous version under the baton of the own Raksin that also included suites of the mentioned Laura and The Bad and the Beautiful.
All of a classic in the best sense of the word. M.A.F.

/ VARESE SARABANDE VSD-5857 / 65'


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