What a special recording The Black Cauldron was. The day before the film opened in 1985, Elmer Bernstein and producer George Korngold went into the studio in Salt Lake City with the Utah Symphony Orchestra to make a new recording of highlights from Elmer’s epic score. This used to happen all the time. The original soundtrack albums for so many scores, including Elmer’s The Great Escape and Hawaii, were not the actual soundtrack recordings heard in the film. They were studio recordings. The recording they produced in Utah is nothing short of a masterpiece.
Bernstein showed what he could do with animation when he took on Heavy Metal in 1981. That score was magnificent. When it was announced that Elmer Bernstein would be the composer for Walt Disney’s The Black Cauldron, there was tremendous excitement, and he did not disappoint. A powerful, beautiful, soaring score, loaded with themes. The Black Cauldron is a towering achievement in fantasy scoring.
This album has been out of print for years. We included a number of cues in our 6-CD package of 1985 At The Movies, but the complete album has been unavailable for decades. We’ve received a lot of mail about this one and we are so excited to see this classic return for a new generation.
Fantasy, magic, and fun are all brewed together in Disney's legendary adventure The Black Cauldron. Whoever releases the mysterious Black Cauldron's power will be invincible! The fearsome Horned King will do anything to possess it, but he is challenged by the most unlikely adversary: a young assistant pig keeper named Taran, who dreams of doing heroic deeds. With a motley team of the brave Princess Eilonwy, a minstrel named Fflewddur Fflam and Hen Wen, a remarkable pig who can predict the future, Taran embarks on a quest to stop the Black Cauldron's evil once and for all. Will he have the courage to succeed?
VARESE CLUBのアンコール限定盤！ディズニーの冒険ファンタジーアニメ。エルマー・バーンスタインによるオリジナル・サウンドトラックが、多くの要望に応え、ENCORE EDITIONで再発売！演奏はユタ・シンフォニー・オーケストラ。従来盤と同じ内容です。限定1000枚。
トラックリスト手に入れたものに無限の力をもたらすという秘宝“ブラック・コルドロン”をめぐって繰り広げられる闘いを描いたファンタジー・アドベンチャー。騎士になることを夢見る少年ターランはある日、彼の飼っている豚のヘンの予知能力により魔王ホーンド・キングが“ブラック・コルドロン”を狙っていることを知る。やがて、その不思議な力を利用しようとした魔王によりヘンがさらわれてしまう……。監督：テッド・バーマン、 リチャード・リッチ。1984年米。
What a special recording The Black Cauldron was. The day before the film opened in 1985, Elmer Bernstein and producer George Korngold went into the studio in Salt Lake City with the Utah Symphony Orchestra to make a new recording of highlights from Elmer’s epic score. This used to happen all the time. The original soundtrack albums for so many scores, including Elmer’s The Great Escape and Hawaii, were not the actual soundtrack recordings heard in the film. They were studio recordings. The recording they produced in Utah is nothing short of a masterpiece.
Bernstein showed what he could do with animation when he took on Heavy Metal in 1981. That score was magnificent. When it was announced that Elmer Bernstein would be the composer for Walt Disney’s The Black Cauldron, there was tremendous excitement, and he did not disappoint. A powerful, beautiful, soaring score, loaded with themes. The Black Cauldron is a towering achievement in fantasy scoring.
This album has been out of print for years. We included a number of cues in our 6-CD package of 1985 At The Movies, but the complete album has been unavailable for decades. We’ve received a lot of mail about this one and we are so excited to see this classic return for a new generation.
Fantasy, magic, and fun are all brewed together in Disney's legendary adventure The Black Cauldron. Whoever releases the mysterious Black Cauldron's power will be invincible! The fearsome Horned King will do anything to possess it, but he is challenged by the most unlikely adversary: a young assistant pig keeper named Taran, who dreams of doing heroic deeds. With a motley team of the brave Princess Eilonwy, a minstrel named Fflewddur Fflam and Hen Wen, a remarkable pig who can predict the future, Taran embarks on a quest to stop the Black Cauldron's evil once and for all. Will he have the courage to succeed?
Limited Edition of 1000 copies
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1. Escape From The Castle (2:27)
2. Taran (3:58)
3. The Witches (2:14)
4. Gurgi (3:24)
5. The Horned King (2:51)
6. The Fair Folk (3:06)
7. Hen Wen’s Vision (3:41)
8. Eilonwy (5:02)
9. Finale (4:32)