Veröffentlichung Kritzerland: Michael Small - Black Widow/The Star Chamber/The Driver

[horner1980]

Was für Michael Small-Fans von Kritzerland

 

 

Kritzerland is proud to present a limited edition soundtrack CD release – three complete great film scores in one two-CD set, for the price of one CD:

 

BLACK WIDOW, THE STAR CHAMBER and THE DRIVER

 

Music Composed and Conducted by Michael Small

 

The Driver. The Star Chamber. Black Widow. Three very different films from one studio, Twentieth Century-Fox, directed by three very different filmmakers, connected by one very gifted composer – Michael Small.

 

BLACK WIDOW

 

The Widow

Ondine’s Curse

Investigation

No Evidence

Chasing After Phantoms

Hawaii

No Air

Seduction

She’s Deadly

The Truth

Knowing When to Stop

 

THE STAR CHAMBER

 

Main Title

Andujar Trial

Monk and Coombs

Star Chamber

Judged

Another Little Boy

Hardin

Dawson Tried

The Chamber

Flowers

Lowes and Hardin

What Happened?

Shafts of Light

Hardin Kicks Coombs

Warehouse Run

Rescue

Revision

End Credits

 

THE DRIVER

 

No Names

The Man

The Woman

The Detective

Mercedes Prelude

The Challenge

The Driver

Sucker’s Game

Cat and Mouse

Finis

 

Michael Small began his film music journey in 1969. However, Small’s breakthrough film happened two years later when Alan Pakula hired him to score his first film as a director, Klute.The marriage of director and composer on Klute was absolute perfection and Small’s score was unique, original, and immediately put him in demand. From there, he went on to write incredible scores for some classic 1970s films, including Pakula’s Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing and The Parallax View, The Stepford Wives, Night Moves, The Drowning Pool, Marathon Man, and Audrey Rose, with each score unique, original, and filled with the Michael Small sound, which was unlike any other composer working back then. In the midst of all that wonderful work, he wrote three of his finest scores, and those are the three scores represented in this two-CD set: The Driver (1978), The Star Chamber (1983), and Black Widow (1987), for directors Walter Hill, Peter Hyams, and Bob Rafelson.  They are a perfect neo-noir musical trilogy.

 

Black Widow is a terrific thriller starring Theresa Russell and Debra Winger. The acting is superb, the photography of Conrad Hall is amazing, as always, and the production design of Gene Callahan is stunning. Michael Small’s score is as entrancing, captivating, alluring, and dangerous as the Black Widow of the title. It has all the hallmarks of a classic Michael Small score and is one of his best.

 

The Star Chamber, directed by Peter Hyams and featuring a stellar cast, including Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, and Sharon Gless, became kind of a cult film thanks to cable TV and home video and is generally well thought of today. Once again, Michael Small provides a terrific score, beginning with its classic Small main title, majestic-yet-ominous, strings, woodwinds and piano doing an uneasy dance against a steady rhythmic pulse, a perfect beginning for the music and drama to follow.

 

Walter Hill’s The Driver is a quintessential 1970s movie – it looks, smells, feels and sounds like the 1970s. If anyone is unsure of this, the fact that Quentin Tarantino has referenced it in two films and thinks it’s one of the coolest movies ever made cements its reputation and is probably one of the key reasons the film has just been remade. The cast couldn’t be better – Ryan O’Neal as the The Driver, Bruce Dern as The Detective determined to catch “the cowboy who’s never been caught,” and beautiful Isabelle Adjani as The Player. And Michael Small as The Composer.

 

Small’s score for The Driver is, like the film, lean, cool, stylish and, yes, unique. Small uses electronics sparingly amidst the strings, reeds, and brass, and plays off The Detective’s line about The Driver being “the cowboy who’s never been caught,” with the use of a twangy country-western guitar that occasionally insinuates itself into the music.   

 

All three scores were previously released by Intrada – Black Widow as a standalone and The Star Chamber and The Driver together on one CD. For this release, all three have been remastered by Mike Matessino, carefully removing numerous small dropouts and ticks and pops, most especially on The Driver. Black Widow and The Star Chamber are in stereo, while The Driver is in mono. With The Star Chamber and The Driver about to make their debut on Blu-ray, we thought the timing was perfect to make these three large Small scores available again in a two-CD value-for-money set. If you have never heard this music, you owe it to yourselves to grab this – there has never really been anyone quite like Michael Small.

 

BLACK WIDOW/THE STAR CHAMBER/THE DRIVER is limited to 1000 copies only. The price is $19.98, plus shipping.

Quelle: http://www.kritzerland.com/driver.htm

 

 

[sinus]

aus 2 CDs mach eine?

[horner1980]

Ich glaube, die meinen damit.. man bekommt eine Doppel-CD, zahlt aber den Preis, wie er für nur eine CD gewesen wäre.. oder so

[Mephisto]

In Angesicht des sehr gerechten Preises und der Tatsache, dass beide CDs schon längst ausverkauft sind, wieder eine sehr schöne Kritzerland-Veröffentlichung, die ich mir allerdings sparen werde, da ich die Intrada-CDs habe.

[queenofthefoovultures]

Von dem Black Widow (der nebenbei schön zu hören ist) hab ich schon eine ... rentiert sich die andere? bzw gibts die andere auch noch in ner anderen Veröffentlichung?

[sinus]

In seinem Schaffen sind alle drei nicht sooo hervorstechend, schlechter sind die älteren Sachen auf jeden Fall nicht!

Habe gerade im Veröffentlichungsblabla lesen müssen, dass die neue Kritzerland mit verbessertem Klang aufwartet und wohl auch ein paar Fehler ausmerzt. Macht die VÖ schon interessant, aber den Star-Trek-Schriftzug hätten die sich echt sparen können ...

[sinus]

Ach je, ich überlege jetzt ernsthaft trotz Besitzes der zwei Intrada-CDs und trotz der sinnfreien Wahl der Schriftart mir diese überarbeitete Version zu holen, insbesondere wegen des Highlights namens The Driver ... Damn you, Kritzerland!

[Souchak]

In Angesicht des sehr gerechten Preises und der Tatsache, dass beide CDs schon längst ausverkauft sind, wieder eine sehr schöne Kritzerland-Veröffentlichung, die ich mir allerdings sparen werde, da ich die Intrada-CDs habe.

 

Ach je, ich überlege jetzt ernsthaft trotz Besitzes der zwei Intrada-CDs und trotz der sinnfreien Wahl der Schriftart mir diese überarbeitete Version zu holen, insbesondere wegen des Highlights namens The Driver ... Damn you, Kritzerland!

 

Tja, gut, dass mir bisher noch alle drei fehlen...

[sinus]

Damit willst du sagen: sinus, verkauf mir deine zwei CDs überteuert und besorg dir deine Doppel-CD.

[Souchak]

Damit willst du sagen: sinus, verkauf mir deine zwei CDs überteuert und besorg dir deine Doppel-CD.

 

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