**** ALFRED THE GREAT ****
Music Composed and conducted by Raymond Leppard
Flac - Artwork include

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Tracklist

1. Prologue-Invasion Of The Vikings-Ordination (05:13)
2. Alfred Turns Back To The Vikings (01:53)
3. First Meeting (01:20)
4. The First Kiss. (04:41)
5. Death Of King Ethelred (02:14)
6. King Buhrud Deserts Alfred (02:10)
7. Queen Aelhswith Leaves Alfred-Intermission-Beginning Of Part Two (01:44)
8. Aelhswith Surrenders To Guthrum (02:31)
9. Alfred In The Outlaw Camp (01:59)
10. A Night In The Forest (02:06)
11. The Nobles Rally To Alfred (01:54)
12. Alfred's Victory (02:48)
13. End Title (02:58)
14. Lord Of The Flies (02:26)

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Thanks for this rare score and promo Calderas. It's very good music for an otherwise boring film. It's a shame the sound quality is so poor - I hope one day a cleaned-up version will come out.

Raymond Leppard, the concert harpsichordist, got the chance to compose for Alfred the Great because producer Bernard Smith liked his score for Lord of the Flies (1962).


Here's an interview with the composer on the film from December 1992:

Raymond: You are an accessory after the fact. If you are writing an opera, you are in it from the start, whereas on a film you are only engaged after the film itself is shot.

Tom: Did you work with a movieola or with a screen?

Mark: A click track.

Raymond: It's a very scientific business. You have to write within a third of a second. Of course, you know the techniques.

Tom: Cue sheets and so on.

Raymond: I did a film of Alfred the Great which had about 45 minutes of music in it. That's a hell of a lot. My brief was to write something like Walton's score for Henry the Fifth. That was the brief. That's what I did, I churned it out. It was a star-studded thing. It had David Hemmings in it, Michael York and it was just awful - made no sense at all!

Tom: In your writing, do you think in terms of individual moments or scenes or what? What is the unit of composition?

Raymond: You have to start with the style and then you just follow, whatever - you go see it a dozen times with the director, and you say "what about here and there?" Usually the director has a pretty clear image of where he wants the music. You are entirely in his hands really. You can say, what about doing some... and he says, no - oh no. He's the one that really has the control over it. The of course he can cut anoother 400 feet of film - and he's lost that bit.

Tom: Was there anything you liked in particular about the process? Something about it that was exciting to you?

Raymond: The check. Otherwise I only saw it as an intellectual exercise, as a musical exercise. I bought my house in London with [the dreadful] Alfred the Great [for MGM]. Did an extension here in Connecticut with the Hotel New Hampshire. I still get about $25 a year out of Lord of the Flies.

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Thank you for sharing this great Viking music, I will sing your praises tonight while listening to it :)

Many thanks for sharing link, Calde!!!... :)

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Thank you so much for this rarity!

Thanks ! (I haven't seen this movie since decades)

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One of my favorite soundtracks, and no need to have seen the film (although I saw it later and enjoyed it). A little let down by Leppard's interview. Reminds me of the scene in 5 EASY PIECES where Nicholson plays some lovely music, then laughs at how it affects people emotionally.

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Reup - Link Fixed :)

Thank you for making the marvellous score available again.

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The link is dead, could someone re-post this great score ? Many thanks.

Reup , Link Fixed !

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Many thanks Calderas for sharing Raymond Leppard's Alfred The Great ;-) I gave you a rep.

Please, could someone re-up this? I would appreciate it so much.

I have a link for it.