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06-12-2018, 12:15 PM
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In Garden of Evil (1954), Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark and Cameron Mitchell portray three somewhat disreputable 19th-century
soldiers of fortune, en route to California to prospect for gold. Stopping over in a tiny Mexican village, the three men are hired by
Susan Hayward to rescue her husband, who is trapped in a gold mine in hostile Indian territory. The threesome agree to the expedition,
their interest piqued by the possibility of picking up some gold themselves. During the harrowing journey, the party's already frayed
nerves are aggravated when the men become attracted to Hayward. The group arrives at the mine's location--the Garden of Evil, so
named because the Indians regard it as the domain of evil spirits. During the escape, Hayward's husband (Hugh Marlowe) is killed by
the Indians, as is Mitchell. Cooper and Widmark play cards to decide who will take Hayward to safety and who will cover them while
they flee. Cooper wins--but later discovers that Widmark had cheated in order to sacrifice himself. Garden of Evil takes too long to
get to its climax, but the Cinemascope photography and Bernard Herrmann's rich musical score make the wait worthwhile.
Screenwriter Philip Dunne doubled as director on the elaborate filmed biography Prince of Players (1955). Richard Burton stars
as the eminent American tragedian Edwin Booth, whose life and career is thrown into turmoil after his younger brother John Wilkes
Booth (John Derek) assassinates Abraham Lincoln. The film begins as the younger Edwin assists his alcoholic, ailing father Junius
Brutus Booth (Raymond Massey) during a tour of the American hinterlands. When Junius dies just before a performance, Edwin goes
on in his stead, thereby launching his own starring career. In danger of becoming as much of a drunk and carouser as his father,
Edwin eventually pulls himself together, but his brother's act of violence turns the audience against the name of Booth. Almost
booed offstage during a performance of Hamlet, Edwin stands his ground, finally earning the respect of his rowdy audience.
Not exactly packed with fast action, Prince of Players will appeal most to lovers of theater in general and Shakespeare in particular.
Highlight: Richard Burton and Eva LeGalleine performing the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet in the courtyard of a brothel.
Music Composed by
Bernard Herrmann
Played by the
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by
William T. Stromberg
"Marco Polo continue to explore the realms of classic film music. Their entire emphasis is on rerecording and reconstructing scores.
This is an expensive process. Given the occasional criticisms of Naxos/Marco Polo it is worth making the point that this is not a field
you would obviously expect Mr Heymann to be involved in if his only concern was with cheap product and a quick return. In the
series involving John Morgan and William Stromberg we have previously had Friedhofer, Salter, Dessau, Skinner, Korngold and Steiner.
They do not restrict themselves to complete scores and have been quite happy to resurrect or create suites of music.
Prince of Players (a drama of theatre life) is represented by a suite. The Prelude is instantly engaging: brisk, breezy but with the
usual black undercurrents reflected in the brass. Having been listening to quite a lot of Herrmann recently I am struck by how much
really quiet music he wrote. The lovely Idyll is a reflective sketch with a blossoming Scandinavian coolness to it. The music has
Herrmann's usual sour fanfares, basalt-toned string writing, athletic vigour and icy tenderness. The 2:20 prelude is a very
entertaining showcase for the whole disc.
The Garden of Evil was a Western starring Susan Hayward, Gary Cooper and Richard Widmark. It was an unofficial remake of
Treasure of the Sierra Madre - a very moral tale. The Prelude has echoes of the fanfares from the Herrmann wartime Symphony
and this figure recurs throughout the score. The archetypal open prairie jog-trot with a long lyrical line on the violins is heard in
track 16 (Hooker) and later at 25. The Nocturne [20] is a very English serenade for clarinet and oboe perhaps a step out of
Herrmann's own For the Fallen. A threatening oppressive atmosphere permeates The Revolver. Shreds of a desperate hoe-down
are heard in track 30 and even a shard of Dies Irae. Interesting that while Herrmann enjoyed the prairie serenade in track 16
he did not resort to 'Tom-Toms along the River' clich�s for the Apaches. Instead at 34 and 36 we get impending doom and tension.
The Watchers and the turbulent Chase deploy a new galloping dynamism but still using that fanfare figure. The finale has an
appropriate deep pile richness and romance.
The overall effect of the mosaic of cues (mostly less than two minutes and many less than a minute) is one of great and ear-
stimulating variety. Those from a classical music background will have sport spotting the influences. It recently clicked with me
that the ticking insistent figure in the Psycho score must surely have been inspired by the string accompaniment figure in
Khachaturian's violin concerto. Before anyone jumps to Herrmann's defence I am not criticising his music which I have devotedly
followed since the mid-1970s. No composer is uninfluenced one way or another by the music he hears, performs or conducts.
By the way for anyone with lingering suspicions about how well the Muscovites would handle a Herrmann score be reassured.
You might have expected braying fruity brass and old style warbling wind instruments. There is none of that. Personally I rather
lament the increasingly cosmopolitan tone of orchestras from Seattle to Kamchatka; Glasgow to Cape Town. Here the grand
conformity serves Herrmann's cause cleanly and well.
Steve C Smith (author of THE Herrmann bio A Heart at Fire's Center, University of California Press, 1991) wrote the Prince of
Players notes; Christopher Husted, the Garden of Evil notes. There are equally valuable notes by John Morgan and profiles of
all the main players. 16 page booklet. A new photo of Herrmann conducting (p.13). Several stills from the films and a rather
grainy colour handbill of Garden of Evil on the front cover. Notes in English only. Some proofreading oversights - e.g. surely
it should be 'Norma' rather than 'Norman' Shepherd Herrmann? This is a picky point as the product overall is excellent and
I would have to say a better intro to Herrmann's work than the recently issued bleak as bleak score for Torn Curtain.
Here are two hardly known scores from the same tumultuous year. Garden of Evil is Herrmann's only film score for a Western!
These recordings have been long anticipated and their arrival is very much to be welcomed. Recommended!"
Musicweb
Source: Marco Polo CD (My rip!)
Formats: FLAC(RAR), mp3(320), DDD Stereo
File Sizes: 246 MB / 149 MB
Download Link (mp3) - http://depositfiles.com/files/66s8ppc9e
Please do not share this material any further. Buy the original! Thank you! :)
This is my own rip. You will find the mp3 version above. If you want the FLAC version,
please request it in this thread. PM's will be ignored. Do not share further. Thank you!
please request it in this thread. PM's will be ignored. Do not share further. Thank you!
In Garden of Evil (1954), Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark and Cameron Mitchell portray three somewhat disreputable 19th-century
soldiers of fortune, en route to California to prospect for gold. Stopping over in a tiny Mexican village, the three men are hired by
Susan Hayward to rescue her husband, who is trapped in a gold mine in hostile Indian territory. The threesome agree to the expedition,
their interest piqued by the possibility of picking up some gold themselves. During the harrowing journey, the party's already frayed
nerves are aggravated when the men become attracted to Hayward. The group arrives at the mine's location--the Garden of Evil, so
named because the Indians regard it as the domain of evil spirits. During the escape, Hayward's husband (Hugh Marlowe) is killed by
the Indians, as is Mitchell. Cooper and Widmark play cards to decide who will take Hayward to safety and who will cover them while
they flee. Cooper wins--but later discovers that Widmark had cheated in order to sacrifice himself. Garden of Evil takes too long to
get to its climax, but the Cinemascope photography and Bernard Herrmann's rich musical score make the wait worthwhile.
Screenwriter Philip Dunne doubled as director on the elaborate filmed biography Prince of Players (1955). Richard Burton stars
as the eminent American tragedian Edwin Booth, whose life and career is thrown into turmoil after his younger brother John Wilkes
Booth (John Derek) assassinates Abraham Lincoln. The film begins as the younger Edwin assists his alcoholic, ailing father Junius
Brutus Booth (Raymond Massey) during a tour of the American hinterlands. When Junius dies just before a performance, Edwin goes
on in his stead, thereby launching his own starring career. In danger of becoming as much of a drunk and carouser as his father,
Edwin eventually pulls himself together, but his brother's act of violence turns the audience against the name of Booth. Almost
booed offstage during a performance of Hamlet, Edwin stands his ground, finally earning the respect of his rowdy audience.
Not exactly packed with fast action, Prince of Players will appeal most to lovers of theater in general and Shakespeare in particular.
Highlight: Richard Burton and Eva LeGalleine performing the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet in the courtyard of a brothel.
Music Composed by
Bernard Herrmann
Played by the
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by
William T. Stromberg
"Marco Polo continue to explore the realms of classic film music. Their entire emphasis is on rerecording and reconstructing scores.
This is an expensive process. Given the occasional criticisms of Naxos/Marco Polo it is worth making the point that this is not a field
you would obviously expect Mr Heymann to be involved in if his only concern was with cheap product and a quick return. In the
series involving John Morgan and William Stromberg we have previously had Friedhofer, Salter, Dessau, Skinner, Korngold and Steiner.
They do not restrict themselves to complete scores and have been quite happy to resurrect or create suites of music.
Prince of Players (a drama of theatre life) is represented by a suite. The Prelude is instantly engaging: brisk, breezy but with the
usual black undercurrents reflected in the brass. Having been listening to quite a lot of Herrmann recently I am struck by how much
really quiet music he wrote. The lovely Idyll is a reflective sketch with a blossoming Scandinavian coolness to it. The music has
Herrmann's usual sour fanfares, basalt-toned string writing, athletic vigour and icy tenderness. The 2:20 prelude is a very
entertaining showcase for the whole disc.
The Garden of Evil was a Western starring Susan Hayward, Gary Cooper and Richard Widmark. It was an unofficial remake of
Treasure of the Sierra Madre - a very moral tale. The Prelude has echoes of the fanfares from the Herrmann wartime Symphony
and this figure recurs throughout the score. The archetypal open prairie jog-trot with a long lyrical line on the violins is heard in
track 16 (Hooker) and later at 25. The Nocturne [20] is a very English serenade for clarinet and oboe perhaps a step out of
Herrmann's own For the Fallen. A threatening oppressive atmosphere permeates The Revolver. Shreds of a desperate hoe-down
are heard in track 30 and even a shard of Dies Irae. Interesting that while Herrmann enjoyed the prairie serenade in track 16
he did not resort to 'Tom-Toms along the River' clich�s for the Apaches. Instead at 34 and 36 we get impending doom and tension.
The Watchers and the turbulent Chase deploy a new galloping dynamism but still using that fanfare figure. The finale has an
appropriate deep pile richness and romance.
The overall effect of the mosaic of cues (mostly less than two minutes and many less than a minute) is one of great and ear-
stimulating variety. Those from a classical music background will have sport spotting the influences. It recently clicked with me
that the ticking insistent figure in the Psycho score must surely have been inspired by the string accompaniment figure in
Khachaturian's violin concerto. Before anyone jumps to Herrmann's defence I am not criticising his music which I have devotedly
followed since the mid-1970s. No composer is uninfluenced one way or another by the music he hears, performs or conducts.
By the way for anyone with lingering suspicions about how well the Muscovites would handle a Herrmann score be reassured.
You might have expected braying fruity brass and old style warbling wind instruments. There is none of that. Personally I rather
lament the increasingly cosmopolitan tone of orchestras from Seattle to Kamchatka; Glasgow to Cape Town. Here the grand
conformity serves Herrmann's cause cleanly and well.
Steve C Smith (author of THE Herrmann bio A Heart at Fire's Center, University of California Press, 1991) wrote the Prince of
Players notes; Christopher Husted, the Garden of Evil notes. There are equally valuable notes by John Morgan and profiles of
all the main players. 16 page booklet. A new photo of Herrmann conducting (p.13). Several stills from the films and a rather
grainy colour handbill of Garden of Evil on the front cover. Notes in English only. Some proofreading oversights - e.g. surely
it should be 'Norma' rather than 'Norman' Shepherd Herrmann? This is a picky point as the product overall is excellent and
I would have to say a better intro to Herrmann's work than the recently issued bleak as bleak score for Torn Curtain.
Here are two hardly known scores from the same tumultuous year. Garden of Evil is Herrmann's only film score for a Western!
These recordings have been long anticipated and their arrival is very much to be welcomed. Recommended!"
Musicweb
Source: Marco Polo CD (My rip!)
Formats: FLAC(RAR), mp3(320), DDD Stereo
File Sizes: 246 MB / 149 MB
Download Link (mp3) - http://depositfiles.com/files/66s8ppc9e
Please do not share this material any further. Buy the original! Thank you! :)
This is my own rip. You will find the mp3 version above. If you want the FLAC version,
please request it in this thread. PM's will be ignored. Do not share further. Thank you!