Charles Gerhardt/NPO, Celebrating the classics FLAC+320k+artwork

Request by Tri2061990

Released in 1999 under the label Themes and Variations, this Charles Gerhardt CD added previously unreleased piece to the Classic Film Score series. The piano solo by Gerhardt himself in the first track, the fountainhead, was never released before. Also, Tiomkin’s the Thing suite only appeared on the sampler CD, not on the Lost Horizon CD. The CD comes with well written articles worthy for a read. It’s a pity there is no further CD produced under this label.

File format:
FLAC: 2 parts, 303MB
320k MP3: 143MB
Artwork: 8MB
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The following information is from screenarchives website, from where the CD is still available for ordering. Although I remember it was $4.95 a few years ago when I got my copy.

CELEBRATING THE CLASSICS — SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT (http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm?ID=503)

Celebrating the Classics
Very limited mail order only issue released to recognize the six great Hollywood film composers stamps issued by the U.S. Postal Service on September 17th, 1999. All six stamps are reproduced on the cover in full color.
Notes by Rudy Behlmer
Charles Gerhardt conducts the National Philharmonic Orchestra.
1. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Max Steiner (13:21)
w/previously unreleased music
Main Title; (Roark’s Theme)
Dominique’s Theme
The Quarry
Construction – Enright House
The Opening
Recollections
Integrity
Finale – The Wynand Building
Charles Gerhardt, piano soloist

2. THE ROBE by Alfred Newman (8:40)
Main Title
Elegy
Caligula’s March
The Map of Jerusalem
With The Ambrosian Singers and the Band of the Grenadier Guards

3. THE THING by Dimitri Tiomkin (10:32)
Prelude: The Flying Saucer Under The Ice
Melting Sequence
The Hand;
Plasma I
Plasma II
The Growing Plants
The Thing on the Walkway
Electrocution

4. THE SEA WOLF by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (7:27)
Main Title
Escape in the Fog
Love Scene
Finale

5. BENEATH THE TWELVE MILE REEF by Bernard Herrmann (10:27)
The Sea: The Lagoon
Descending
The Octopus: Homecoming

6. Prince Valiant by Franz Waxman (9:54)
Prelude
King Aguar’s Escape
The Fens
The First Chase
The Tournament
Sir Brack’s Death & Finale

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This was a wonderful series and great introduction to film music. George Korngold was behind it and celebrated not only his father but so many others. When they first showed up on the market there was still very little Korngold and his work still suffered being ignored by the classical world. All that has changed now.

Everyone should have these recordings.

I believe the Tiomkin disc lacked THE THING since these were mostly derived from the LPs and there was no room on The Lost Horizon side B. Of course they did extend the Korngold Sea Hawk disc.

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-Matt