Almost as another part in the integral recording of Miklós Rózsa's orchestral music -that the label Koch International Classics, the conductor James Sedares and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra are recording from a little while-, these three suites of the same number of movies from the most serious and productive period of the Hungarian composer, receive an absolutely concert and scarcely cinematographic treatment. Never before Rózsa's film music had been recorded in a way so symphonic, with a sound so "classic" that grants it with a different dimension from the one which originally received when it was composed, therefore it does not result difficult to imagining their interpretation in a concert hall at the side of any other of the orchestral scores of their author, as can be the contemporary Theme, Variations and Finale (1943). Is possible that it will be this sound, precisely, the one which not end of convincing many fans, and that the serious, grave and sober interpretation of Sedares (so removed from the vehemence and aggressiveness that the own composer demonstrated in anyone of his recordings) could result difficult to accepting, but it is precisely this different view the one which reveals, without any doubt, the quality and versatility of the works. In any case, we must recall that they aren't complete editions of any of the three scores, and that in CD only are available some isolated themes of each of one of them, what makes even more interesting and necessary this compilation of three suites from so many masterpieces of the Hungarian genius. M.A.F.

The Lost Weekend (Suite) (1945) - 33:33
Double Indemnity (Suite) (1944) - 26:19
The Killers (Suite) (1946) - 11:18
Arrangements and Orchestrations: Patrick Russ and Jon Kull
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: James Sedares
/ KOCH INTERNATIONAL 3-7375-2-H1 / 72'