In collaboration with EMI Music Publishing France, Music Box Records proudly presents the newly remastered and expanded edition of Georges Delerue's score to the 1966 classic film Le Roi de c?ur (King of Hearts), directed by Philipe de Broca and starring Alan Bates, Genevieve Bujold, Pierre Brasseur and Adolfo Celi.
After the huge success of That Man from Rio (1964) and the more lukewarm reception of Up to his Ears (1965), Philippe de Broca decided to momentarily stop making big-scale comedy and adventure films. With Daniel Boulanger and Marcel Dalio, he wrote the script of King of Hearts, a tender and tragic farce set at the end of the First World War. Now considered one of Philippe de Broca’s masterpieces, the movie was a complete failure when it came out, despite starring the best French actors of the time. Probably too ahead of its time, this attempted foray into a dreamlike, unreal and irrational world was rehabilitated in the 1980s when it was belatedly released in the United States. To the director’s surprise, it subsequently achieved cult status with cinema lovers.
King of Hearts was the eighth collaboration between de Broca and Georges Delerue. The film gave the composer the opportunity to write a new theme built on a three-beat rhythm, another contribution to the nostalgic yet light-hearted universe created by the two men from movie to movie. Full of contrasts, Georges Delerue’s enchanting score is at once discordant and delicate, joyful and sad, like those broken characters thrown into a world where they feel ill-at-ease and that rejects them.
This present edition has been fully remastered from complete scoring session elements and features around 20 minutes of previously unreleased music compared to the previous Varese Sarabande album released in 2004 and long sold out. The package includes a 12-page booklet with liner notes by Sylvain Pfeffer, discussing the film and the score. The CD release is limited to 1000 units.
トラックリスト
1. La valse tordue (6:53) 2. Le colonel McBibenbrook (Marche ecossaise) (2:53) 3. Theme de la joie de vivre (2:20) 4. La valse tordue (2:11) 5. La pavane (1:50) 6. La marche du sacre (1:31) 7. La valse tordue (2:22) 8. La ceremonie (2:10) 9. La polka du roi (0:54) 10. Le cortege (2:12) 11. Les bicyclettes (1:12) 12. La polka pavane (2:37) 13. Le repos (1:42) 14. Marche allemande (1:37) 15. Un c?ur qui bat (5:45) 16. Marche ecossaise (1:51) 17. La berceuse (1:04) 18. Theme du retour a l'asile (1:12) 19. La danse ecossaise (1:24) 20. La valse tordue (piano) (1:43) 21. Theme de la joie de vivre (Final) (2:15)
フィリップ・ド・ブロカ監督、アラン・ベイツ、ジュヌヴィエーヴ・ブジョルド、ピエール・ブラッスール、アドルフォ・セリが出演した1966年の名作映画『まぼろしの市街戦』のジョルジュ・ドルリューのスコアが新たにリマスタリングされ、完全盤でリリース！
トラックリスト『リオの男』（1964年）の大成功と『カトマンズの男』（1965年）の不評を受け、フィリップ・ド・ブロカは大作コメディや冒険映画の製作を一時中断することにしました。ダニエル・ブーランジェとマルセル・ダリオと共に、第一次世界大戦末期を舞台にした優しく悲劇的な茶番劇『まぼろしの市街戦』の脚本を執筆しました。今ではフィリップ・ド・ブロカの代表作のひとつとされていますが、当時最高のフランス人俳優が出演していたにもかかわらず、公開当時は完全な失敗作でした。夢のような、非現実的な、非合理的な世界に踏み込もうとしたこの作品は、1980年代に遅ればせながらアメリカで公開され、再評価されました。監督も驚いたことに、その後、映画ファンの間でカルト的な人気を獲得しました。
『まぼろしの市街戦』は、ド・ブロカとジョルジュ・ドルリューの8度目のコラボレーション作品。この映画によって、作曲家は3拍子のリズムをベースにした新しいテーマを書く機会を与えられ、2人が映画から映画へと創り上げてきたノスタルジックでありながら軽快な世界に、またひとつ貢献することになりました。コントラストに満ちたジョルジュ・ドルリューの魅惑的なスコアは、不協和音と繊細さ、喜びと悲しみが同居しています。
このエディションは、2004年にリリースされ、長い間廃盤となっていたVarese Sarabandeの従来盤に比べ、完全なスコアリング・セッション・エレメントからリマスターされ、約20分の未発表曲が収録されています。パッケージには12ページのブックレットが付属し、シルヴァン・プフェールによる映画とスコアについてのライナーノーツが掲載されています。1000枚限定盤。
In collaboration with EMI Music Publishing France, Music Box Records proudly presents the newly remastered and expanded edition of Georges Delerue's score to the 1966 classic film Le Roi de c?ur (King of Hearts), directed by Philipe de Broca and starring Alan Bates, Genevieve Bujold, Pierre Brasseur and Adolfo Celi.
After the huge success of That Man from Rio (1964) and the more lukewarm reception of Up to his Ears (1965), Philippe de Broca decided to momentarily stop making big-scale comedy and adventure films. With Daniel Boulanger and Marcel Dalio, he wrote the script of King of Hearts, a tender and tragic farce set at the end of the First World War. Now considered one of Philippe de Broca’s masterpieces, the movie was a complete failure when it came out, despite starring the best French actors of the time. Probably too ahead of its time, this attempted foray into a dreamlike, unreal and irrational world was rehabilitated in the 1980s when it was belatedly released in the United States. To the director’s surprise, it subsequently achieved cult status with cinema lovers.
King of Hearts was the eighth collaboration between de Broca and Georges Delerue. The film gave the composer the opportunity to write a new theme built on a three-beat rhythm, another contribution to the nostalgic yet light-hearted universe created by the two men from movie to movie. Full of contrasts, Georges Delerue’s enchanting score is at once discordant and delicate, joyful and sad, like those broken characters thrown into a world where they feel ill-at-ease and that rejects them.
This present edition has been fully remastered from complete scoring session elements and features around 20 minutes of previously unreleased music compared to the previous Varese Sarabande album released in 2004 and long sold out. The package includes a 12-page booklet with liner notes by Sylvain Pfeffer, discussing the film and the score. The CD release is limited to 1000 units.
1. La valse tordue (6:53)
2. Le colonel McBibenbrook (Marche ecossaise) (2:53)
3. Theme de la joie de vivre (2:20)
4. La valse tordue (2:11)
5. La pavane (1:50)
6. La marche du sacre (1:31)
7. La valse tordue (2:22)
8. La ceremonie (2:10)
9. La polka du roi (0:54)
10. Le cortege (2:12)
11. Les bicyclettes (1:12)
12. La polka pavane (2:37)
13. Le repos (1:42)
14. Marche allemande (1:37)
15. Un c?ur qui bat (5:45)
16. Marche ecossaise (1:51)
17. La berceuse (1:04)
18. Theme du retour a l'asile (1:12)
19. La danse ecossaise (1:24)
20. La valse tordue (piano) (1:43)
21. Theme de la joie de vivre (Final) (2:15)
Total Time: 48:31