If I Could Choose Only One Work By...WAXMAN
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2023
- It Would Have To Be...Sunset Boulevard (complete film score)
Because it's just a great piece of music, period.
The List So Far...
1. Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Ballet)
2. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
3. Schubert: String Quintet in C major
4. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
5. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
6. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
7. Debussy: Preludes for Piano (Books 1 & 2)
8: Handel: Saul
9. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
10. Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major
11. Vaughan Williams: Job
12. Bach: Goldberg Variations
13. R. Strauss: Four Last Songs
14. Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust
15. Haydn: “Paris” Symphonies (Nos. 82-87)
16. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
17. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor
18. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
19. Chopin: Preludes
20. Verdi: Rigoletto
21. Roussel: Symphony No. 2
22. Copland: Appalachian Spring (complete original ballet)
23. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2
24. Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
25. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
26. Rimsky-Korsakov: Opera Suites (Scottish National Orchestra/Järvi) Chandos
27. Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
28. Smetana: Ma Vlást
29. Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
30. Bizet: Carmen
31. Elgar: In the South
32. Sullivan: The Mikado
33. Dvořák: Symphony No. 8; Cello Concerto (Piatigorsky/Munch/Boston Symphony) RCA
34. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies
35. Monteverdi: Orfeo
36. Scarlatti: Sonatas
37. Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op. 17
38. Berg: Wozzeck
39. Hermann: Psycho (film score)
40. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini
41. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
42. Holst: Suites for Military Band
43. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
44. Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures
45. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Pohjola’s Daughter (Bernstein, New York Philharmonic) Sony
46. Britten: The Turn of the Screw
47. Borodin: String Quartet No. 2
48. Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen
49. Korngold: Violin Concerto
50. Tallis: Spem in Alium
51. Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
52. Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
53. Hindemith: Symphony in E-flat
54. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
55. Franck: Violin Sonata
56. Rossini: La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
57. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 “Egyptian”
58. Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
59. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
60. Albeniz: Iberia
61. Bernstein: Mass
62. Schreker: Chamber Symphony
63. Walton: Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
64. Dukas: Piano Sonata
65. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
66. Tippett: Piano Concerto
67. Poulenc: Songs (ATMA, 5 discs)
68. Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1
69. Gluck: Alceste
70. Vivaldi: L’estro armonico, Op. 3
71. Puccini: La Bohème
72. Hanson: Symphony No. 2 “Romantic”
73. Alkan: 12 Etudes in All the Minor Keys, Op. 39
74. Dutilleux: Métaboles
75. Glinka: Kamarinskaya
76. Crumb: Makrokosmos III (Music for a Summer Evening)
77. Biber: Sonata violino solo representativa
78. Josquin: Missa Ave maris stella
79. Arnold: Symphony No. 5
80. Fauré: Piano Quartets (Trio Wanderer) Harmonia Mundi
81. Hovhaness: Fra Angelico
82. Martinu: Symphony No. 6 “Fantaisies symphoniques”
83. Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy
84. Corelli: 12 Concerti grossi, Op. 6
85. Bellini: Norma
86. Ives: “Concord” Sonata
87. John Williams: Jaws (film score)
88. Honegger: Le Roi David (King David)
89. Kodály: “Peacock” Variations
90. Milhaud: Une Vie Heureuse (10 CD Set, Erato)
91. Scriabin: Piano Sonatas (Hamelin/Hyperion)
92. Casella: Concerto for Orchestra
93. Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus
94. Chabrier: España
95. Reich: Music for 18 Musicians - เพลง
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Ibert's soundtrack for Macbeth was a recent discovery of mine. Wonderful.
Can't say I disagree with the musical choice; a masterpiece. But, I think you are a little hard on the movie 'Bride of Frankenstein' itself; many consider it a masterpiece of its type (as I do). Certainly a quirky masterpiece, with humor mixed into the grotesque melodrama, and some wonderful and iconic performances and 'style'. Perfectly melded into it is also the brilliantly quirky music and orchestration...
Best film ever made in the Frankenstein family. With the possible exception of Young Frankenstein.
Some of Waxman's score always makes me think of the "malign influence" idea in Elgar's Second.
@@bbailey7818 I think you are right...
You are absolutely correct. James Whale had free rein to do whatever he wanted and he used it to make one of the greatest films ever made and the best horror film of the Golden Age
Yes! You are ready for your close up, Mr. Hurwitz!
In the scene of Joe’s first meeting with Norma together with dead pet monkey, the same fragments of melody as in the scene of Joe’s walking out on Norma is played softly, Waxman’s Salome/Norma theme, Habanera? I think that foreshadows Joe is going to be the next pet monkey, and soon or later he’ll need a coffin for himself. Max says he will help Joe at that time. I like that.
I like the creepy submarine music in "Run Silent, Run Deep". . . . "A Place in the Sun", "Rear Window", "Taras Bulba" - those all really good too. He did TONS of film scores.
An excellent choice from a bevy of terrific Waxman scores. I'm always delighted when you give excellent film music the recognition it deserves.
For second place, I would nominate "Sorry, Wrong Number."
@@robertjones447 That's a good one. I'm also partial to "A Place in the Sun" and "The Nun's Story," but there are plenty of others.
Perfectly said! A masterpiece! Waxman was an extraordinary master.
Great pick. One can’t imagine Sunset Blvd without Waxman. He captures and intensifies the decadence. He adds a layer of almost impossibly perfect artistry.
Amazing stuff in there: the opening credit music, the exotic solo violin associated with Norma Desmond, Joe’s “baggy pants” theme, the stinging cue that follows the salesman’s “vicuña” line, the jaw-dropping descent down the staircase at the end…
By the way, Desmond’s line (“It’s the pictures that got small.”) is so iconic today that nobody notices Joe’s funny and wry retort. He says “I knew there was SOMETHING wrong with them.”
"I didn't know you were planning a comeback."
"I hate that word! It's return!"
Thank you so much. How have I missed those Salome connections before? Kankerzans would surely punish me, unless, of course, learning it here saves me from perdition.
Really appreciate your bringing classic film scores to more attention! It is refreshing to hear you speak of these composers in the same light as composers of classical music.. However, I think you should give Bride of Frankenstein another look. The film is considered a classic in the genre due to the direction of James Whale and the performance of Karloff. Thanks for all the great reviews!
Yeah, I know it's considered a classic film, and I understand that. I also don't care. I've seen it about ten million times.
Excellent choice! A wonderful score.
Thanks for this - a great score to a great movie. I've been extolling the virtues of Waxman's music (particularly The Bride of Frankenstein) previously.
The Shostakovich link has an interesting twist. Waxman apparently premiered Shostakovich's 11th Symphony on the West Coast on 1958, and noticed the agitated music in the second movement had a remarkable resemblance to part of his score for the film A Place in the Sun (Farewell and Frenzy) written seven years earlier. As the film hadn't been shown in the Soviet Union, Waxman realised it was just a quirky coincidence. Actually quirky coincidences in music might make a good video!
Yes, by heaven, the conclusion to this film (“I’m ready for my close-up, Mr DeMille”) is as satisfying as any I can recall. That said, Waxman’s score for Billy Wilder’s THE SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS (1957) is another of my favorites. Cheers! Thanks for another great video!
Ive seen the film and heard the Strauss opera multiple times, but never noticed the similarity of the final scenes until now. Thanks for pointing that out.
I was listening to his Sinfonietta for Strings and Timpani the other day whilst driving on a sunny day and am quite fond of it. I only know his score for Sunset Blvd. from the film itself which I've seen several times, but your review is nudging me strongly to get a recording of it. Thanks.
I love this music. In fact I love a lot of his film scores . Prince Valiant is another top-notch score. But my top choice for Waxman has to be Peyton Place. His original RCA recording is much better, if less complete, than the Chandos.
Waxman is very underappreciated. Much of his music for "The Bride of Frankenstein" was recycled and adapted for both "Flash Gordon Goes to Mars" and "Buck Rodgers." I hope he got paid.
Most probably not; the ways of Hollywood producers of the day were nefarious. But, he kept being employed to write music, so indirectly he still benefitted...
Such a complete masterpiece! (both the score and the movie - one can´t be without the other).
However I also hear a good deal of Mahleresque inspirations in Waxmans scores; there are passages in "Rebecca" that sounds like "beyond Mahler´s 6th". Notably Waxman even paraphases the last bars of the Auferstehung chorus of Mahlers Second in his score for "Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde" as can be heard in the suite on the DECCA "Hollywood Nichtmares" conducted by John Maucieri. And yes: Waxman did in also conduct Mahlers Second at at least one occasion.
PLEASE do Langaard!!