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03-23-2017, 11:43 AM
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Filmed on location, Shake Hands With the Devil is set in Ireland during the "troubles" of 1921. James Cagney plays a
brilliant medical professor who doubles as head of the Irish Republican Army. Cagney convinces one of his more pacifistic
students, Don Murray, to join the underground struggle against British rule. Murray suffers a crisis of conscience when his
sweetheart Dana Wynter is taken hostage by the IRA and is slated for execution by the zealous Cagney. Several members of
Dublin's Abbey Players appear in supporting roles in Shake Hands With Devil. Watch for Richard Harris in the small part of
Terence O'Brien.
This is one of William Alwyn's most powerful scores, similar in style to his brooding classic "Odd Man Out".
The sound quality isn't great, but the soundtrack lp covers about twice the material of the suite recently
released by Chandos Records (see my post on that one).
Music Composed by
William Alwyn
Played by the
Sinfonia of London
Conducted by
Muir Mathieson
"Muir Mathieson was the single most influential figure in British film music of the twentieth century. He conducted the scores
of virtually every major movie made in England from the mid-'30s until 1960 and, equally important, elevated the quality of
film music for the industry. A graduate of the Royal College of Music, he joined Alexander Korda's London Films at age 20 as an
assistant, and at 22 was appointed music director. Mathieson engaged the best musicians and some of the top young composers
in England, including his RCM classmate Arthur Benjamin, who scored The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934). Although Mathieson
occasionally composed music, it was as a conductor and music director that he was most influential -- he had the confidence
of producers and composers and could reconcile their needs. When Korda proposed that Arthur Bliss, the leading light of 1930s
British music, score the science fiction epic Things to Come(1936), it was Mathieson who made the project work, yielding a
score that still receives new recordings seven decades later. From 1935 on, every Korda movie had a prominent soundtrack
done under Mathieson's direction and utilizing such composers as Mikl�s R�zsa and Richard Addinsell. Rival producers felt
obliged to emulate his work; as Korda's studio shut down for lack of credit at the start of World War II, Mathieson was free
to work with them, and British studios were soon employing Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, and William Alwyn,
among others. It was Mathieson who convinced the 68-year-old Vaughan Williams to write film music for the first time.
During the war, Mathieson was music advisor to the British military and conducted in theater and on radio. After the war,
he was in demand throughout the industry, including the musically ambitious project The Instruments of the Orchestra, the
1946 film built around Benjamin Britten's work of that name. He also renewed his collaboration with Bliss, whom he engaged
to arrange and expand the score of The Beggar's Opera for the 1953 Olivier film. His name also became familiar on soundtrack
albums in connection with everything from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo to Disney's In Search of the Castaways; it's a reflection
of the respect he enjoyed that, when a musicians' union strike prevented composer Bernard Herrmann from conducting the
recording of his Vertigo score, the producers went to Mathieson."
Source: United Artists UASF 5043
Formats: FLAC(RAR), mp3(V0), ADD Stereo
Files Sizes: 148 & 54 MB
Please request the links in this thread. PM's will be ignored. FLAC and mp3(V0) links available.
Full size original LP cover art included. Please don't share any further.
Full size original LP cover art included. Please don't share any further.
Filmed on location, Shake Hands With the Devil is set in Ireland during the "troubles" of 1921. James Cagney plays a
brilliant medical professor who doubles as head of the Irish Republican Army. Cagney convinces one of his more pacifistic
students, Don Murray, to join the underground struggle against British rule. Murray suffers a crisis of conscience when his
sweetheart Dana Wynter is taken hostage by the IRA and is slated for execution by the zealous Cagney. Several members of
Dublin's Abbey Players appear in supporting roles in Shake Hands With Devil. Watch for Richard Harris in the small part of
Terence O'Brien.
This is one of William Alwyn's most powerful scores, similar in style to his brooding classic "Odd Man Out".
The sound quality isn't great, but the soundtrack lp covers about twice the material of the suite recently
released by Chandos Records (see my post on that one).
Music Composed by
William Alwyn
Played by the
Sinfonia of London
Conducted by
Muir Mathieson
"Muir Mathieson was the single most influential figure in British film music of the twentieth century. He conducted the scores
of virtually every major movie made in England from the mid-'30s until 1960 and, equally important, elevated the quality of
film music for the industry. A graduate of the Royal College of Music, he joined Alexander Korda's London Films at age 20 as an
assistant, and at 22 was appointed music director. Mathieson engaged the best musicians and some of the top young composers
in England, including his RCM classmate Arthur Benjamin, who scored The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934). Although Mathieson
occasionally composed music, it was as a conductor and music director that he was most influential -- he had the confidence
of producers and composers and could reconcile their needs. When Korda proposed that Arthur Bliss, the leading light of 1930s
British music, score the science fiction epic Things to Come(1936), it was Mathieson who made the project work, yielding a
score that still receives new recordings seven decades later. From 1935 on, every Korda movie had a prominent soundtrack
done under Mathieson's direction and utilizing such composers as Mikl�s R�zsa and Richard Addinsell. Rival producers felt
obliged to emulate his work; as Korda's studio shut down for lack of credit at the start of World War II, Mathieson was free
to work with them, and British studios were soon employing Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, and William Alwyn,
among others. It was Mathieson who convinced the 68-year-old Vaughan Williams to write film music for the first time.
During the war, Mathieson was music advisor to the British military and conducted in theater and on radio. After the war,
he was in demand throughout the industry, including the musically ambitious project The Instruments of the Orchestra, the
1946 film built around Benjamin Britten's work of that name. He also renewed his collaboration with Bliss, whom he engaged
to arrange and expand the score of The Beggar's Opera for the 1953 Olivier film. His name also became familiar on soundtrack
albums in connection with everything from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo to Disney's In Search of the Castaways; it's a reflection
of the respect he enjoyed that, when a musicians' union strike prevented composer Bernard Herrmann from conducting the
recording of his Vertigo score, the producers went to Mathieson."
Source: United Artists UASF 5043
Formats: FLAC(RAR), mp3(V0), ADD Stereo
Files Sizes: 148 & 54 MB
Please request the links in this thread. PM's will be ignored. FLAC and mp3(V0) links available.
Full size original LP cover art included. Please don't share any further.