LPで発売された後、組曲がVarese SarabandeレーベルからCDリリースされたローザの後期の作品「BACKGROUND TO VIOLENCE」と1957年にLPリリース（1978年にVarese SarabandeレーベルからLP再発売）された「ORCHESTRA WORKS」をカップリング収録してついにCDリリース！
Following our reissue of A Time to Love and a Time to Die paired with Lust for Life Suite, we go on with other Miklos Rozsa’s works that were featured on the latter album, originally released on a Decca LP and subsequently on a Varese Sarabande LP and CD: the suite Background to Violence.
In the original LP liner notes included, the composer expresses his view on his scores for the three “films noirs” of the late forties featured here. Let's add that even when Rozsa intends to be just “happy”, in excerpts like Scherzo (Brute Force) and Epilogue (The Naked City), he actually lifts you off the ground with excitement, the same way as for a tense action-driven scene!
The Orchestral Works that represent the most important part of our program, and appear for the first time on CD, come from another LP that Rozsa recorded with the German Frankenland State Symphony Orchestra in 1957, reissued by Varese Sarabande in 1978. Although these classical efforts have no connection with the cinematic world, film music fans will enjoy them thoroughly because Rozsa’s style here is unmistakable. One finds in the Concert Overture (1957), Three Hungarian Sketches (1939) and Theme, Variations and Finale (1933), the same ebullient passion and fierceness, the same generous and richly textured orchestrations that characterize the 95 movie scores that made Rozsa’s name famous.
Miklos Rozsa’s overall classical production (44 opus in all) has had enduring success, which is somewhat an exception for a popular film music composer in Hollywood, a three times winner of an Academy Award. Still, his own recorded renditions of the concert works gathered here have been nearly overlooked by the music industry, and this despite the fact that they prove to be superior in our view.
While Background to Violence is in stereo, the mono concert music album has been enhanced with a slight reverberation, all the content being transferred from mint vinyl sources. 12-page color booklet. ---レーベルより
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トラックリスト
BACKGROUND TO VIOLENCE (1958) stereo Music composed by Miklos Rozsa conducting the Frankenland State Symphony Orchestra 01. Prelude to Murder (Brute Force 1947) 4:45 02. Notturno (Brute Force) 5:08 03. Scherzo (Brute Force) 2:04 04. Despair (The Killers 1946) 3:12 05. Pursuit (The Naked City 1948) 2:25 06. Epilogue: The Song of a City (The Naked City) 3:10
Total Time 21:00
ORCHESTRAL WORKS (1957) mono Music composed by Miklos Rozsa conducting the Frankenland State Symphony Orchestra 07. Concert Overture, Op. 26 10:45 Three Hungarian Sketches, Op.14 08. I. Capriccio 4:48 09. II. Pastoral 7:30 10. III. Danza 7:25 11. Theme, Variations and Finale, Op. 13 18:11
LPで発売された後、組曲がVarese SarabandeレーベルからCDリリースされたローザの後期の作品「BACKGROUND TO VIOLENCE」と1957年にLPリリース（1978年にVarese SarabandeレーベルからLP再発売）された「ORCHESTRA WORKS」をカップリング収録してついにCDリリース！
トラックリストFollowing our reissue of A Time to Love and a Time to Die paired with Lust for Life Suite, we go on with other Miklos Rozsa’s works that were featured on the latter album, originally released on a Decca LP and subsequently on a Varese Sarabande LP and CD: the suite Background to Violence.
In the original LP liner notes included, the composer expresses his view on his scores for the three “films noirs” of the late forties featured here. Let's add that even when Rozsa intends to be just “happy”, in excerpts like Scherzo (Brute Force) and Epilogue (The Naked City), he actually lifts you off the ground with excitement, the same way as for a tense action-driven scene!
The Orchestral Works that represent the most important part of our program, and appear for the first time on CD, come from another LP that Rozsa recorded with the German Frankenland State Symphony Orchestra in 1957, reissued by Varese Sarabande in 1978. Although these classical efforts have no connection with the cinematic world, film music fans will enjoy them thoroughly because Rozsa’s style here is unmistakable. One finds in the Concert Overture (1957), Three Hungarian Sketches (1939) and Theme, Variations and Finale (1933), the same ebullient passion and fierceness, the same generous and richly textured orchestrations that characterize the 95 movie scores that made Rozsa’s name famous.
Miklos Rozsa’s overall classical production (44 opus in all) has had enduring success, which is somewhat an exception for a popular film music composer in Hollywood, a three times winner of an Academy Award. Still, his own recorded renditions of the concert works gathered here have been nearly overlooked by the music industry, and this despite the fact that they prove to be superior in our view.
While Background to Violence is in stereo, the mono concert music album has been enhanced with a slight reverberation, all the content being transferred from mint vinyl sources. 12-page color booklet. ---レーベルより
メーカー取り寄せ
BACKGROUND TO VIOLENCE (1958) stereo
Music composed by Miklos Rozsa
conducting the Frankenland State Symphony Orchestra
01. Prelude to Murder (Brute Force 1947) 4:45
02. Notturno (Brute Force) 5:08
03. Scherzo (Brute Force) 2:04
04. Despair (The Killers 1946) 3:12
05. Pursuit (The Naked City 1948) 2:25
06. Epilogue: The Song of a City (The Naked City) 3:10
Total Time 21:00
ORCHESTRAL WORKS (1957) mono
Music composed by Miklos Rozsa
conducting the Frankenland State Symphony Orchestra
07. Concert Overture, Op. 26 10:45
Three Hungarian Sketches, Op.14
08. I. Capriccio 4:48
09. II. Pastoral 7:30
10. III. Danza 7:25
11. Theme, Variations and Finale, Op. 13 18:11
Total Time 48:54
Grand Total 69:54