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09-17-2010, 07:38 PM

Spellbound
Music composed by Mikl�s R�zsa
Conducted by Allan Wilson with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
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Time for a golden age classic score in this case with the music soundtrack composed by Miklos Rozsa, for the Hitchcock motion picture film Spellbound.
This is a commemorative edition comissioned by Intrada in celebration of Miklos Rozsa centenary in 2007, and it was the first time the complete music score was re-recorded and released on CD, under the conducting baton of Allan Wilson and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
There are many details concerning the music for this film and they are all clearly described in the liner notes, both on the production stage with Hitchcock, Rozsa and David O. Selznick (what a histrionic clash of egos here), but also regarding the music primary themes (the "mistery" and the "love" theme), and how they are connected and interchangeable in the score.
So in short the score of Spellbound is regarded as not only one of the best from Rozsa, but a landmark in film music history, mainly from the use of a theremin integrated in the most eerie music moments for the surreal dream sequences in the movie, like you can hear on tracks 'The Burning Hand', 'Dream Interpretation' or in 'Contance's Discovery', accentuating the psychological strugles of Gregory Peck character who suffers of amnesia and is suspected of murder. And the main theme, that depicts the Ingrid Bergman character a psychologist who falls in love for him, is a strikingly beautiful piece of music, where his most emotional moments are when all the strings of the orchestra plays the love theme. Listen 'The Awakening; Love Scene' for a full grandious rendition. It's simply sublime!
This theme has became so popular that Rozsa later adopted it as the basis of his Spellbound Concerto.