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Masters and Commanders
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0089408068225
Label: Telarc
Manufacturer: Telarc
MPN: 80682
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Telarc
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Studio: Telarc
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Editorial Review:
Masters and Commanders, the newest release by Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra on the Grammy Award-winning Telarc label, is a swashbuckling musical portrait of valiant seamen, tempestuous captains, eccentric pirates, pious pilgrims and more. The new recording includes selections from classic films such as Captain Blood, Sea Hawk, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Buccaneer and Plymouth Adventure, as well as the recent Pirates of the Caribbean movies and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
Highlights from Masters and Commanders include Academy Award-winning composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Captain Blood Overture and Suite from Sea Hawk. Captain Blood, which was the legendary actor Errol Flynn's first starring role, also was Korngold's first original film score. Korngold's evocative cinematic scores set a benchmark for numerous film composers who followed, including John Debney, whose score for the 1995 film, Cutthroat Island, was dedicated in part to Korngold and Miklós Rózsa. The end title from Cutthroat Island is heard on Masters and Commanders, as well as Morton Gould's Main Title from Windjammer and Henry Mancini's "Arctic Whale Hunt" from The White Dawn.
Miklós Rózsa, of Ben-Hur fame, composed "The Mayflower" for the film, Plymouth Adventure, in 1952. Franz Waxman's film music is represented with the Overture to Anne of the Indies and Suite from Captains Courageous.
Hans Zimmer, considered a worthy successor to Korngold's symphonic idiom, scored big with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and the earlier Crimson Tide, both of which are represented on Masters and Commanders. Three selections from Klaus Badelt's score from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, also are included.
The recording also includes music by Elmer Bernstein (selections from The Buccaneer); Alfred Newman ("Conquest" from Captain from Castile); and Bronislau Kaper (Main Title from Mutiny on the Bounty). A Richard Tognetti arrangement of Luigi Boccherini's Los Manolos is included from Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, the 2003 film starring Russell Crowe.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellent per usual
Masters and Commanders mixes well known movie themes and some not so well known. Whatever-I enjoyed it. Provider sent offered material in good condition and on time.LTD
Rating:  - Commanders in need of a little remastering
I've enjoyed the Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops discs I've owned and have always appreciated the clever mix and variety of selections programmed - a few warhorses and some very out-of-the-way things.
Most of the music on MASTERS AND COMMANDERS is wonderful. A few other reviewers complain of the performance of the suite from Korngold's THE SEA HAWK, but for me it's OK. I find the Newman, Rozsa and Kaper very well done. I was completely unfamiliar with the ultra-romantic Waxman piece from ... Read More
Rating: - "Swashbuckling Films from the Golden Age ... Kunzel ... Telarc (2007)"
Telarc Records presents "MASTERS AND COMMANDERS - MUSIC FROM SEAFARING FILM CLASSICS" --- Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops deliver a superior quality performance --- The presentation of themes from various swashbuckling films becomes an enjoyable experience --- The sound is vintage Telarc with the rich embodied texture that we've come to expect and Kunzel makes the most of it --- Like a breeze filling the sails of his pirate ship Kunzel keeps us straight on course captive and spellbound --- This ... Read More
Rating:  - disappointing, alas
Here is another of Mr Kunzel's recordings of film music which concentrates not on what is good music, but what is current film music. Discerning Mr Kunzel is not, which is why we can have music by such first-rate musicians as Newman, Rozsa and Waxman (not to mention Korngold) side by side with that of Mr Zimmer and the other less-than-notable current crop.
One really wishes that Mr Kunzel would at last get serious and start recording music that has stood the test of time, rather than music ... Read More
Rating:  - Under Whelming Even With Bone-Jarring Bass Blast
1. Small ensembles are asking for it when re-recording film music of recent vintage (or when competing with modern recordings of classic-film scores by orchestras almost twice their size). The comparisons can be brutal. This is exactly what the listener is confronted with on this CD. And by boosting the bass on most tracks, not only is it flat-out annoying, but it often covers up what the orchestra is trying to convey.
2. That said, there are some great tracks here especially the OVERTURE TO ... Read More
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