Veröffentlichung Intrada: Maurice Jarres THE SETTING SUN

[Gast Stefan Jania]

 

Rare find! Exciting, flavorful score by Maurice Jarre in epic-style for 1992 Rou Tomono film gets premiere release on CD! Japan soldier (Masaya Kato) helps finance military invasion of Manchuria, then becomes caught up in both romance with Chinese rebel leader (Diane Lane), conflict with Chinese mafia leader (Yuen Biao). Jarre writes to all three elements with powerful symphonic score that features large orchestra, multiple harps, pianos, synthesizer, shakuhachi, Chinese sheng, pipa, erhu, Chinese lute, 13-string koto, 3-string samisen, EVI & EWI (Electronic Valve & Wind Instruments) plus mammoth orchestral percussion section including full tympani, 2 large bass drums, 2 taiko drums, odaiko drum and huge da-daiko drum. Jarre frames with rousing "Main Title", equally exciting "End Credits", then embarks on dynamic journey with motifs both epic, haunting. Rhythmic action music also has plenty to say. Truly powerful Maurice Jarre score! Entire CD presented from pristine-condition, two-track digital stereo session mixes recorded by Shawn Murphy at UCLA's Royce Hall in late June & July 1991 and mixed at Sony Pictures Studios. Long-time Jarre orchestrator Patrick Russ assists with production, Jim Lochner offers informative liner notes, Joe Sikoryak designs dramatic packaging. Maurice Jarre conducts. Intrada Special Collection CD available while quantities and interest remain!

Composer Maurice Jarre was no stranger to the Far East by the time he scored The Setting Sun in 1992. He had traveled musically back in time to feudal Japan for the ten-hour miniseries of James Clavell’s bestseller Shogun in 1980. A few years later, he underscored the warring factions of the nineteenth-century Hong Kong opium trade in a feature film adaptation of Clavell’s Tai-Pan (1986).

Maurice Jarre scored The Setting Sun as an epic musical tapestry depicting events leading into WWII and Japan’s pending invasion of Manchuria. He wrote a large-scale, lavishly percussive and florid orchestral work, featuring both grand and tender themes. The orchestration included additional winds and brass, harps, pianos and other keyboards, a synthesizer and other electronics such as the EWI and EVI (Electronic Wind Instrument and Electronic Valve Instrument), played by Judd Miller and Nyle Steiner, the inventor of the instruments. The massive forces of the percussion ensemble included seven percussionists covering orchestral timpani, two large bass drums and a range of double-sided Japanese drums—two taiko, one odaiko, and a da-daiko— which often played in unison.

Jarre scored The Setting Sun with his customary musical continuity, allowing Intrada to construct the album by fashioning the shorter cues into lengthy, cohesive set-pieces that followed the overall picture narrative while playing as musically complete “movements” unto themselves, just as Jarre would have done. The score was recorded at Royce Hall on the University of Southern California campus and subsequently mixed by Shawn Murphy at Sony Pictures Studios. The digital masters survived in pristine condition.

First-time director Rou Tomono wrote the script for The Setting Sun based on his novel Rakuyô (the Japanese title of the film) about a Japanese soldier (Katô Masaya) who helps financially support his country’s military invasion of Manchuria and falls in love with the leader of a Chinese rebel force (Diane Lane). When they are drawn deep into the illegal opium trade to finance Japan’s imperialist mission, he collides with the ruthless leader of the Chinese mafia (Yuen Biao).

 

http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.9971/.f

 

Wuchtige Musik. Kenne bisher nur die sechs Minuten auf dem Universal-France-4CD-Sampler Le Cinéma de Maurice Jarre. Das Hauptthema, das bei Intrada z.B. ab 30 Sekunden im Clip der "End Credits" zu hören ist, hat Jarre 1997 übrigens als Hauptthema für den Alain Delon-Lauren Bacall-Film Le jour et la nuit recyclet.

 

Vom Song aus dem Film, der auch auf der Universal France-CD drauf ist und der von Ella Fitzgerald gesungen wird, steht bei Intrada allerdings nichts.

[Stempel]

Danke!

Das kannte selbst ich noch nicht.

Tolle Entdeckung!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiiYDhH9Xz4

[Gast Stefan Jania]

Dachte ich mir, dass Dir der Song gefällt. Geschrieben wurde er laut Booklet der Le Cinéma de Maurice Jarre-Box von Jarre und Atsushi Fujiura. Arrangiert hat's Billy May. Schade, dass er es nicht auf die Intrada-CD geschafft hat.

 

Musik aus dem Film in diesem Clip.

 

[ronin1975]

das Cover is ja nen Photoshopdesaster ey... puh... hoffe gibt als Rückseite nen vernünftiges Filmposter

[Gast Stefan Jania]

Klar. So was Tolles wie das hier.

 

 

 

Oder so was:

 

 

Bei welchem von den beiden Covern würdest Du die CD ganz bestimmt kaufen?

[queenofthefoovultures]

Haha das mit dem Cover habe ich mir auch gerade gedacht... haben die das mit Paint erstellt?

[Gast Stefan Jania]

Endlich Erlösung für alle, die das Cover grottig finden: die CD geht bei Intrada ab 4. Juli in die Tonne. Inklusive Cover.

[Thomas Nofz]

Endlich Erlösung für alle, die das Cover grottig finden: die CD geht bei Intrada ab 4. Juli in die Tonne. Inklusive Cover.

 

Danke für den Hinweis, Stefan!