Business/Industrie Kritzerland Records: Elmer Bernstein - Summer and Smoke (complete)

[horner1980]

Wie grade Bruce Kimmel auf Facebook postete, kommt morgen bei Kritzerland zum ersten Mal der komplette Score zu "Summer and Smoke" von Elmer Bernstein raus..limitiert auf 1000 Stück

Bruce Kimmel

New Kritzerland limited edition - our 100th CD coming tomorrow.

Bruce Kimmel A masterpiece - Elmer Bernstein's glorious Summer and Smoke - complete for the first time.

Denke damit kann man diese Woche Elmer Bernstein-Woche nennen.. nach "Trading Places" und "Rampage"

[BigMacGyver]

Meine güte! Mir fehlen die worte! Ist das genial!

[Beaverhausen]

Sind wir im Bernstein Jahr:)?

[horner1980]

Sind wir im Bernstein Jahr:)?

Gute Frage.. aber ist grade auffällig, dass drei Labels unabhängig voneinander Elmer Bernstein Scores rausbringen... vielleicht haben wir ja den Bernstein-Monat

[BigMacGyver]

Fehlt nur noch ein bernstein score von varese

[Sebastian Schwittay]

Wie gut, dass ich kein großer Bernstein-Enthusiast bin, sonst wären das teure Tage für mich...

[Beaverhausen]

Hier die offizielle Ankündigung:

Kritzerland is very proud to present its 100th CD release: A limited edition soundtrack and the world premiere release of the complete score to:

SUMMER AND SMOKE

Music Composed and Conducted by Elmer Bernstein

Tennessee Williams was already a legend when Summer and Smoke premiered on Broadway on October 6, 1948, thanks to the huge success of his play The Glass Menagerie and, more importantly, A Streetcar Named Desire, which had opened the year before Summer and Smoke and become a sensation with critics and audiences and catapulted Williams into the playwriting firmament. Summer and Smoke failed to ignite the same kind of heat as Streetcar and closed after only 102 performances at the Music Box Theatre. However, the play was revived a mere four years later, this time off-Broadway at the then-new Circle In The Square Theater, directed by Jose Quintero and starring Geraldine Page. That production was a big success for Page and Quintero and the play. Nine years later, Summer and Smoke was brought to the screen by Paramount Pictures, with Geraldine Page recreating her stage success as the spinster Alma Winemiller. Peter Glenville directed the film from a screenplay by James Poe and Meade Roberts. Starring opposite Page was Laurence Harvey, along with a wonderful supporting cast that included Rita Moreno, Una Merkel, John McIntire, Thomas Gomez, Pamela Tiffin, and Earl Holliman.

The film received excellent reviews and Page’s brilliant performance was universally praised – she was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Actress category. Una Merkel received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her performance as Page’s dotty mother, and the film also picked up nominations for Best Art Direction – Best Set Decoration, and another for Elmer Bernstein’s incredible score.

Summer and Smoke is one of Bernstein’s greatest scores in a career that is jam-packed with great scores like To Kill a Mockingbird, The Magnificent Seven, Birdman of Alcatraz, Walk on the Wild Side, The Great Escape, Love With the Proper Stranger, Airplane!, Ghostbusters, and so many others. Bernstein captures every emotion, every subtext, every character – the loneliness, the longing, the yearning, the repression – it’s a textbook example of what great film scoring is all about. His main theme is one of his most haunting and beautiful – a swirling, sinuous, delirious melody that recurs throughout the score. His score brilliantly evokes a different time, place, and world, much like his score to To Kill A Mockingbird, which would follow a year later – a world belonging to one of the great poets of American drama – Tennessee Williams. And a world perfectly captured by Elmer Bernstein’s timeless music.

Summer and Smoke was originally released on an RCA Victor soundtrack LP. That LP contained approximately thirty-six minutes of music, including some heavily edited versions of cues. For this first-ever release of the complete score, we had access to two rolls of 1/2’’ three-track masters that were sent by Paramount to RCA Victor at the time of the film’s release. Those masters were used to assemble the LP, but happily contained all of the cues that were not used on the album. In those days, to assemble the LP they simply edited the three-track masters – thankfully, all the edited out bits were kept and put at the end of the reels. It was simply a matter of putting them all back where they belonged to make the cues once again complete. For reference, we also had the complete scoring sessions archived from 35mm scoring mag on 2’’ tape in the Paramount vaults. The LP program was released on CD by RCA Spain, taken from a sub-master that simply did not sound very good, so this is not only the first release of the complete Summer and Smoke, it is the first time it is being released from those original, superb-sounding three-track tapes.

We have put the score in film order, which is how it plays best. Because all the Glorious Hill band music is used in short versions throughout one sequence in the film, we decided to include those other tracks in the bonus section, as it did not make for a good listening experience to have them all lumped together in a row. Additionally, we have included a source cue and the original LP edited cues in the bonus section. The CD contains over seventy-seven minutes of one of Bernstein’s most ravishingly beautiful scores.

This release is limited to 1500 copies only. The price is $19.98, plus shipping.

CD will ship the second week of November – however, never fear, preorders placed directly through Kritzerland usually ship one to five weeks earlier (we’ve been averaging four weeks early).

• Prologue

• Prelude

Glorious Hill Waltz

Rosa Enters

John Comes Home/Changed Decision/Hat Snatcher

Two Lonely Women

• Alma’s Dilemma

A Stranger in the House

• John’s Patient

The Cockfight

Summer Thoughts

The Greased Pig

Trouble With Papa/Doctor’s Dilemma/

Dr. John’s Demise

• Alma’s Secret/Dr. John’s Triumph

• Johnny Is Not Welcome

Alma’s Stone Angel

• The Tables Have Turned/Finale

Bonus Tracks

The Band Music

The Phyllis Gavotte

To Be or Not

Alma’s Flareup

Southern Comfort Waltz

The Album Versions (Including Source Cues)

John Comes Home/Changed Decision

(previously unreleased album edit)

Degeneration (The Greased Pig)

Moon-Lake Casino (Rosa’s Dance)

The Father’s Murder (Trouble With Papa/

Doctor’s Dilemma/Dr. John’s Demise)

The Final Irony and Finale (The Tables Have Turned/Finale)

Quelle:

http://www.kritzerla...om/sumSmoke.htm

[BigMacGyver]

Du meine güte! Ist das genial? Oh ja! Komplett und in super sound!

[Beaverhausen]

Meine CD ist gerade angekommen. Zur Info: Knapp 78 Minuten Musik!!!!!!! Davon sind 21Minuten Bonus.

[BigMacGyver]

Meine cd kam letzte woche an und nun hatte ich die chance zum anhören bekommen. Die soundqualität ist beeindruckend gut. Hätten die studios mal ordentlich auf ihre bänder aufgepasst hätten wir heute keine diskussionen über soundqualität bei älteren scores, weil alle so gut klingen würden wie summer and smoke. Abgesehen von einem leichten grundrauschen würde man hier nicht erkennen, dass die aufnahme über 50 jahre alt ist.

[Osthunter]

Aus den Clips kann ich nicht all zu viel raushören. Wie ist denn die Musik? Mit welchen Bernstein-Scores lässt sie sich vergleichen? Lohnt sich der Kauf auch für "Nicht-Die-Hard-Fans"???

[BigMacGyver]

Am ehesten würde ich ihn als eine mischung aus drama und suspense score beschreiben. Stell dir die holzbläser- und streicherlastige spannungs/drama-musik aus great escape mit einem schuss to kill a mockingbird vor. Erwarte aber keine groß einprägsamen themen. Letzteres dürfte für nicht-fans eventuell ein abturner sein.

[Thomas Nofz]

BigMac, abgesehen von der Klangqualität, lohnt sich die Anschaffung, wenn man bereits das RCA-Album hat?

[BigMacGyver]

Kommt darauf an... was den underscore betrifft bietet dieses release im prinzip einfach more of the same, wobei more of the same schon einige nette stücke beinhaltet. Dazu kommt noch die ganze source music. Wenn man diese faktoren plus den guten sound zusammenrechnet und der score einem schon auf dem alten album gut gefallen hat, dann lohnt es sich unterm strich schon. Wer den alten schnitt aber so mag, wie er ist und das neue album nicht umprogrammieren will, der bleibt besser dabei. Für mich selbst kann es ja nie genug bernstein geben, also hat es sich gelohnt obwohl ich das alte album habe.

[Thomas Nofz]

Danke für deine Einschätzung!