New album: Laurence Rosenthal: Music for Film and Television

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Film Fest Gent presents:
LAURENCE ROSENTHAL: MUSIC FOR FILM AND TELEVISION
Performed by Brussels Philharmonic
Conducted by Dirk Brossé

Available to pre-order at https://shop.filmfestival.be/collections/cd

American composer Laurence Rosenthal is one of the giants of film, television and theatre music. His career in film and television composition, which began in the 1950s, spans no less than six decades and has resulted in numerous accolades and awards, including two Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations, seven Emmy Awards (with an additional six nominations) and the World Soundtrack Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. Highly regarded among film music critics and composers alike, Laurence Rosenthal is an immensely talented and versatile composer, who has enhanced films and television series time and again with superbly crafted scores.

For this historic album, the first rerecording entirely devoted to Laurence Rosenthal’s oeuvre, most of the suites have been newly created, based on the original manuscripts in the composer’s archive. Highlights include substantial suites from Arthur Penn’s The Miracle Worker, the Oscar-nominated score for Becket, the composer’s epic western score for The Return of a Man Called Horse, the Saturn Award-nominated score for Clash of the Titans, the miniseries Mussolini: The Untold Story and George Lucas’s The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

Released by Silva Screen Records during the 50th anniversary edition of Film Fest Gent in October 2023, the album Laurence Rosenthal: Music for Film and Television is the 18th title in Film Fest Gent’s continuing series of annual film music albums, containing new studio recordings with Brussels Philharmonic and Dirk Brossé that give some of the world’s greatest scores an extended afterlife beyond the films. Previous recordings feature the work of Craig Armstrong, Angelo Badalamenti, Marco Beltrami, Terence Blanchard, Carter Burwell, Mychael Danna, Cliff Martinez, Mark Isham, Alan Silvestri, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shigeru Umebayashi and Gabriel Yared.

Tracklist:

01 The Return of a Man Called Horse
02 The Miracle Worker
03 Michelangelo: The Last Giant
04 Brass Target
05 Billy the Kid
06 Clash of the Titans
07 Fantasy Island
08 Mussolini: The Untold Story
09 Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna
10 Requiem for a Heavyweight
11 Meteor
12 A Raisin in the Sun
13 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
14 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: “Ireland, April 1916”
15 Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies
16 Becket

For the full tracklist, see https://shop.filmfestival.be/products/laurence-rosenthal-music-for-film-and-television.

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“To have maestro Dirk Brossé and the Brussels Philharmonic now bringing new life to these selected scores is a very special privilege for me, for which I am so thankful.”
– Laurence Rosenthal
 

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This new recording contains - besides his classic scores - also never-before-released and even unheard music by Rosenthal.

For Young Indy fans, there are 4 minutes of unreleased music from Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies, namely "Sunset" and the finale of the film. (The first part was released as "Broadway to Hollywood" on Rosenthal's 1995 promo.) The new performances by a large symphonic orchestra of the title theme and two selections from "Ireland, April 1916" are quite worth hearing, too.

If you can, please support this recording by buying it directly from the Film Fest Gent shop.
 
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