Richard Rodney Bennett: Murder On The Orient Express/ Nino Rota: Death On The Nile

Murder On The Orient Express (1974)
Richard Rodney Bennett
Conducted by Marcus Dodds

[320 MP3]

1) Overture
2) Kidnapping
3) Ferry
4) The Orient Express
5) The Body & Remembering Daisy
6) Entr’acte
7) Princess Dragomiroff
8) The Knife
9) Prelude to Murder
10) The Murder
11) Finale

Death On The Nile (1978)
Nino Rota

12) Main Titles
13) Arrival At Wode Hall
14) The Steamboat Departs
15) Camels & Donkeys
16) Duet & Love Theme
17) The Great Pyramids
18) I Love My Baby
19) The Statues of Rameses
20) Jealousy
21) Journey On the Nile
22) The Temple of Karnak
23) The Carriage Ride
24) Jackie’s Theme
25) Fox Trot- Don’t Say No…
26) Linnet’s Pearls
27) Waltz- The White Nile
28) The Conclusive Evidence
29) End Titles

Originally a Cloud 9 1993 release: 77:08

No longer available

Thank you two great soundtracks

Great scores!
Thanks!

Always loved Nino Rota’s Death on the Nile, but haven’t heard in years. Would love a link. Thanks!

What’s the quality/bitrate?

Look! Bunnies!

Excellent … Thanks

great scores indeed. cheers phideas

I’m glad that something that has been sitting around unplayed for years & collecting dust can bring joy to others…..

Bernard Herrmann thought the score was inappropriate for the movie but, not to argue with a master, I enjoyed it!!!!

Bernard Herrmann thought the score was inappropriate for the movie but, not to argue with a master, I enjoyed it!!!!

Herrmann thought the music was inappropriate because on his view the Orient Express was "… A TRAIN OF DEATH."

"The romantic maximalism of Herrmann’s style was too grand for realist dramas or comedies. He is most at home in subjective psychological states and non-naturalistic dreamscapes where he liked to find a certain groove or melody or rhythm, repeat it, then repeat it with a slight variation. Herrmann had almost no sense of humor. “It was ridiculous!” Hermann cried when his composer friend Elmer Bernstein spoke admiringly of Richard Rodney Bennett’s cheerful, stately train departure theme for Murder on the Orient Express (1974). “That train was a train of death!” As Bernstein explained, “He was very intense. That’s the way he saw things. If he would have done it, it would have been a train of death.”

Bernard Herrmann at Film Forum (Oct 21 – Nov 3) (http://altscreen.com/10/19/2011/bernard-herrmann-at-film-forum-oct-21-nov-3/)

It’s curious how two composers can emotionally react differently for the same scene. If Bennett scored the train departure sequence in the form of a waltz, Herrmann would have scored the scene in totally distinct way.

Sanico knows her Herrmann better than most.

Murder On the Orient Express was filmed in a dreamy fashion. Its set design was high art and great elegance. The whole film had a wonderment about it in which there just happened to be a murder. It wasn’t a gritty, blood splattered affair. It was an upper-crust who-done-it and the evil was dispatched quietly and with class…. much like the legendary train.

RRB gave it an aura of that class… a feeling of glittering snow… of golden light… and of characters faced with long suffering and thus acting out of unaccustomed revenge… in a polite fashion.

An edgy Herrmann score would not have fit. He was a superlative composer. His heart breaking music for the Ghost & Mrs. Muir probably his most romantic. He certainly didn’t score that film like Psycho. His lyrical work for 451 is legendary. But so is his grumpy behavior and wild temper. It would have been best for him & his blood pressure to have avoided watching Murder On the Orient Express.

Fascinating fact for the day. If you’ve seen Fahrenheit 451, you’ve seen my house AND my place of employment.

Book burning at Tangotreats’ house this weekend.

Counterproposal; Hans Zimmer / Remote Control CD burning at my house this weekend? 😉

Nahhhhhhhhhh. Will settle on taking you on a long train ride with other members of this forum and see how you are doing when we hit the first snow drift. (fun night for all!!)

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Thanks Phideas1, The Orient Express soundtrack is classy & unforgettable, as is Death on the Nile.

Great upload. I’ve always enjoyed Nino Rota’s work and Death on the Nile was among his best (IMO)! The score captures the past brilliantly and endeavours to open a doorway to a world that has vanished into the mist of time. Thank you for sharing this.

Phideas1’s only request in exchange for the music was me writing (nice) things about the thread. I haven’t listened to any Richard Rodney Bennett, Nino Rota, so these are my first ones. It’s nice, what else can I say. The discussion of two composers scoring a scene so drastically different is very interesting. Someone told me recently (warning: not really orchestral topic incoming) there’s so many songs about love / , because each song writer / listener sees things differently. I was also one of those "Argh, so many love / XY songs. Why bother…" Now, it’s "Duh, it’s obvious we see one thing, but react differently" Anyway, I digress. Hopefully, the next person has something more interesting to say than this :’D Thank you for sending me the link, Phideas1!

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I also have his beautiful score for Nicholas & Alexandra….

As a special treat for those who are following this thread, here is [I]The Overture from that film. It begins as it ends with the flickering flame and the rising voices of the chorus…. beautiful with ‘glistening and spaciousness’ that is the trademark of the composer.

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Herr Salat, you did very well. On our up coming train ride, stay out of Tangotreats’ berth.

(hands wringing ominously over and over again)

Thought I would arbitrarily resurrect one of my threads just to mention….

That folks on this forum have impressed me with not only their generosity but there polite responses when asking for a link. They have always written thank you and many follow up after receiving the link with an additional thank you. This is uncommonly kind. As are the links sent to me out of the blue. TREATS!!

Of course there are a few nutcases, grumblers, and dead otters in the moonlight…. but that is to be expected… and makes things interesting. 😉

As my late friend Gumdrops1, who frequented the FSM forum & shared so much of his collection that I now share (he would have loved this place), once said: "Life is about good friends and good music… the rest is all shit." Gummy was a character.

I don’t know if this is still available, but I’d love to hear it. Thank you!

R.I.P. Richard Rodney Bennett.

A great composer indeed, his music will live forever

Any chance for a re-up? Thank you!

Really two excellent masterpieces by these legendary composers…….MURDER ON THE ORIENTEXPRESS is definitely one of the best scores by this recently passed composer …….DEATH ON THE NILE was one of the last masterpieces of late Nino Rota^^

Also two great movies! 🙂

oh yes Patcher…….this of course………..and Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot was an excellent choice……but Sir Peter Ustinov was also an excellent actor…..one of the best^^ Ustinovs humour was excellent and his capibility of speaking 8 different languages……6 of them perfectly…….who met him had extremly fun seeing him talking about such various things and themes……..^^