wimpel69
12-18-2013, 03:51 PM
Re-upped FLAC link (incl. artwork & booklet) now openly available below. This is my rip.
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Enjoy one of the ten best film scores of all time!
This is a 1978 re-recording of Hugo Friedhofer's landmark score for The Best Years of Our Lives of 1946.
It was the very first Hollywood score that was taken seriously enough by the snobbish concert music establishment that
it actually got a detailed review/analysis in some magazines at the time. Scoring the WWII-homecoming drama,
Friedhofer avoided the pitfalls and clich�s of the traditional 19th century Viennesse or "Broadway-cum-Rachmaninov"
(a phrase coined by Mikl�s R�zsa) approach, then popular with the Hollywood musical establishment.
Instead, he wrote a score in an Americana idiom that was popular in US concert music at the time. So if you like
Copland or Virgil Thomson, you should love this film score! While he was working of the film, very few people at
20th Century Fox would even talk to Friedhofer any more, due to the alleged "modernism" of his score. It was
only when he won an Academy Award for it that suddenly he was everybody's darling again.
Despite his many, many outstanding scores (Vera Cruz, One-Eyed Jacks, Seven Cities of Gold, The Young Lions,
The Boy on a Dolphin, readily come to mind), Friedhofer has never quite enjoyed the popularity of Korngold,
Herrmann or R�zsa. This is a pity, because in some respects, he was a "composers' composer", one who mastered
the art of film scoring second to none. Much of the underappreciation may have to do with Friedhofer's modesty
and self-depreciating humor. He often referred to his job as film composer as that of a "plumber", and when asked
about his standing in film music, he said: "I'm a fake giant among real dwarfs".
The history of this new recording that was made in 1978 is a colorful one, too. The independent label Entr'acte
made a survey among film music fans on which unrecorded classic score would be the most in-demand.
The Best Years won that ballot, so Entr'acte financed this expensive London recording. When it came
out, almost nobody bought it. Its failure contributed to a large extent to the downfall of Entr'acte. Later, it was re-
released on CD by the successor of Entr'acte, Preamble, and even later it was pirated(!) by Membran.
This is the original Preamble CD release, which includes the extensive analysis of the score by Page Cook.
Music Composed by
Hugo Friedhofer
Played by the
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by
Franco Collura
Tracks:
1. Main Title (01:26)
2. Homecoming (06:17)
3. The Elevator; Boone City; Peggy (04:12)
4. Fred & Peggy (02:22)
5. The Nightmare (06:12)
6. Fred Asleep (02:19)
7. Neighbours; Wilma; Homer's Anger (07:31)
8. Homer Goes Upstairs (05:49)
9. The Citation; Graveyard & Bombers (04:21)
10. End Title & End Cast (Wilma) (01:58)
11. Exit Music (01:54)
Total Time: 44'21
http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/j415/wimpel69/fried_zps6bf8e18c.gif
Oscar time: Samuel Goldwyn, Harold Russell and William Wyler (left to right).
Source: Preamble CD (my rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo, Level: -5
File Size: 248 MB (including artwork & booklet)
Download Link (re-up) - https://mega.nz/#!dtEiTYBT!idbE8xJXbn4EEwl8AenMFWl4YlszzIWBDfE0txalcG4
If you download my material, please add to my reputation. Otherwise, this gravy train will come to a halt. Thank you.
If you download my material, please add to my reputation. Otherwise, this gravy train will come to a halt.
Enjoy one of the ten best film scores of all time!
This is a 1978 re-recording of Hugo Friedhofer's landmark score for The Best Years of Our Lives of 1946.
It was the very first Hollywood score that was taken seriously enough by the snobbish concert music establishment that
it actually got a detailed review/analysis in some magazines at the time. Scoring the WWII-homecoming drama,
Friedhofer avoided the pitfalls and clich�s of the traditional 19th century Viennesse or "Broadway-cum-Rachmaninov"
(a phrase coined by Mikl�s R�zsa) approach, then popular with the Hollywood musical establishment.
Instead, he wrote a score in an Americana idiom that was popular in US concert music at the time. So if you like
Copland or Virgil Thomson, you should love this film score! While he was working of the film, very few people at
20th Century Fox would even talk to Friedhofer any more, due to the alleged "modernism" of his score. It was
only when he won an Academy Award for it that suddenly he was everybody's darling again.
Despite his many, many outstanding scores (Vera Cruz, One-Eyed Jacks, Seven Cities of Gold, The Young Lions,
The Boy on a Dolphin, readily come to mind), Friedhofer has never quite enjoyed the popularity of Korngold,
Herrmann or R�zsa. This is a pity, because in some respects, he was a "composers' composer", one who mastered
the art of film scoring second to none. Much of the underappreciation may have to do with Friedhofer's modesty
and self-depreciating humor. He often referred to his job as film composer as that of a "plumber", and when asked
about his standing in film music, he said: "I'm a fake giant among real dwarfs".
The history of this new recording that was made in 1978 is a colorful one, too. The independent label Entr'acte
made a survey among film music fans on which unrecorded classic score would be the most in-demand.
The Best Years won that ballot, so Entr'acte financed this expensive London recording. When it came
out, almost nobody bought it. Its failure contributed to a large extent to the downfall of Entr'acte. Later, it was re-
released on CD by the successor of Entr'acte, Preamble, and even later it was pirated(!) by Membran.
This is the original Preamble CD release, which includes the extensive analysis of the score by Page Cook.
Music Composed by
Hugo Friedhofer
Played by the
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by
Franco Collura
Tracks:
1. Main Title (01:26)
2. Homecoming (06:17)
3. The Elevator; Boone City; Peggy (04:12)
4. Fred & Peggy (02:22)
5. The Nightmare (06:12)
6. Fred Asleep (02:19)
7. Neighbours; Wilma; Homer's Anger (07:31)
8. Homer Goes Upstairs (05:49)
9. The Citation; Graveyard & Bombers (04:21)
10. End Title & End Cast (Wilma) (01:58)
11. Exit Music (01:54)
Total Time: 44'21
http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/j415/wimpel69/fried_zps6bf8e18c.gif
Oscar time: Samuel Goldwyn, Harold Russell and William Wyler (left to right).
Source: Preamble CD (my rip!)
Format: FLAC(RAR), DDD Stereo, Level: -5
File Size: 248 MB (including artwork & booklet)
Download Link (re-up) - https://mega.nz/#!dtEiTYBT!idbE8xJXbn4EEwl8AenMFWl4YlszzIWBDfE0txalcG4
If you download my material, please add to my reputation. Otherwise, this gravy train will come to a halt. Thank you.