Erich Korngold • Gerhardt KINGS ROW Film Soundtrack LP Ronald Reagan USA • RARE

Description: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, National Philharmonic, Charles Gerhardt – Kings Row (Film Soundtrack) LP Fabulous US import gatefold issue. A digital release.Also included is an illustrated insert with extensive liner notes on the film and recording. The movie (1942, dir. Sam Wood) starred Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings and Ronald Reagan. Recorded on July 25, 1979, at Walthamstow Town Hall, London. This is one of the most widely praised re-recordings in cinematic history. They were produced by George Korngold, son of Erich Wolfgang, between 1973 and 1978. Well known as the inspiration for the opening bars to John Williams' Star Wars music.... Condition Vinyl: NM. Superbly clean on visual inspection. Played just pre-listing and sound clarity is great throughout. Only played a few times. Outer sleeve (Cover): EX. Colours and artwork remain unfaded and clean. Beautiful designed thick-card gatefold edition with liner notes and colour stills on inner gate. Minor disc showthrough outline on reverse. A few tiny marks and scuffs but very fine overall. Inner sleeve: EX. Original. Clear plastic with paper lining one side. Minor creasing and folds. Clean and intact. Insert: EX. Original. White paper with black and white printed information. Clean and intact. Minor crease on one edge. Tracklist A1. Main Title. A2. The Children (Parris And Cassie). A3. Parris And Grandmother. A4. Cassie's Party. A5. Icehouse. A6. Operation. A7. Cassie's Farewell. A8. Parris Goes To Dr. Tower. A9. Winter. A10. Grandmother's Last Will. A11. Seduction. A12. All Is Quiet. A13. Grandmother Dies. A14. Sunset. B1. Parris Leaves Kings Row. B2. Flirtation. B3. Vienna And Happy New Year 1900. B4. Randy And Drake. B5. Financial Ruin. B6. Accident And Amputation. B7. Drake Awakens. B8. Vienna — Cable — Randy And Drake. B9. Letters Across The Ocean. B10. Parris Comes Back. B11. Kings Row. B12. Elise. B13. Parris's Decision. B14. Finale Composer – Erich Wolfgang Korngold Conductor – Charles Gerhardt Leader – Sidney Sax Liner Notes – George Korngold, Rudy Behlmer Orchestra – National Philharmonic Orchestra About the score: This recording and the music on it have an interesting history. In the five decades since his death, Erich Wolfgang Korngold's reputation has become most closely associated with the swashbucklers of Errol Flynn, mostly because those movies -- Captain Blood, The Prince and The Pauper, The Adventures of Robin Hood, and The Sea Hawk -- are among the most frequently revived and reshown of the movies that Korngold scored. In his own time, however, his greatest success, in terms of eliciting a direct response from the public, came with Kings Row (1942), a complex piece of Americana in which the Austrian-born and raised Korngold proved that he could generate music every bit as beguilingly "American" -- and that Americans could respond to warmly -- as such native-born figures as Aaron Copland or Virgil Thomson. The composer received thousands of letters from moviegoers who felt compelled to either compliment Korngold or inquire about aspects of the music that he'd written for Kings Row. Over the ensuing decades, the movie's reputation rose and fell in cycles, mostly in association with the political success of its co-star, Ronald Reagan, but the score remained beloved of film music enthusiasts, and in late July of 1979, it became the first Korngold score to get re-recorded in full for a commercial release when Charles Gerhardt led the National Philharmonic Orchestra in sessions at Walthamstow Town Hall in London, produced by Korngold's son George. That recording was done for Chalfont Records (later taken over by Varese Sarabande for its CD edition). Following the composer's own plan, Gerhardt broke the music into a two-part suite totalling 48 minutes of music, with the result that there are only two chapters on the LP. ––––––––––––––––––– I offer combined postage on all multiple purchases placed in the same order. Please await invoice before making payment. Postage and packaging FREE to UK (Royal Mail 2nd Class Signed For). Will post worldwide (ALL Royal Mail International Tracked).Europe – £13 Canada, South America – £19 USA, Asia, Australia, Japan – £21.50 Sorry but no returns are accepted. Please see my other soundtrack listings. Thanks for looking and happy eBaying!

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