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Adolph Deutsch is not a name that looms too large in the field of soundtrack music, this despite the fact that he made his career in Hollywood for nearly 25 years, from 1938 until 1961, and worked in every idiom from crime dramas to big-budget musicals. This release gives the composer just about the best exposure he's ever had for his dramatic film scores, and delineates his strengths and weaknesses. On the positive side, Deutsch was excellent at setting moods using short cues, whether lighthearted, as in the comedy George Washington Slept Here, or dark and serious, as in The Maltese Falcon and, even more so, The Mask of Dimitrios. The latter score, clocking in at 16 minutes of music, is arguably the masterpiece among the soundtracks represented here, dark and threatening and written in an accomplished late-Romantic/post-Romantic style, with superb writing for the strings and brass, and excellent use of the winds in a suspenseful mode. The score for The Maltese Falcon is almost too short to make an enormous impression, as a dark-toned dramatic piece, but George Washington Slept Here, with its much lighter, more playful tone, works much better, and is a good counter-balance to the ominous Dimitrios score that follows. The bulk of this disc is given over to thrillers, however -- High Sierra with its uplifting horn parts and gorgeous solo violin part (representing the heroine), and Northern Pursuit, which mixes patriotic symbolism with thriller scoring. They all work well as freestanding music, despite Deutsch's tendency to slip into musical conventions; Deutsch also occasionally slips into the Steiner mode of relying on anthems and other familiar signature material as shorthand, but it's no more obtrusive here than it is on Steiner's work. The playing is excellent and finds just the right balance between the musical materials as concert repertory and dramatic underscoring.
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The Maltese Falcon (restored J. Morgan) (Adolph Deutsch)
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
George Washington Slept Here (restored J. Morgan) (Adolph Deutsch)
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
The Mask of Dimitrios (restored J. Morgan) (Adolph Deutsch)
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
High Sierra (restored J. Morgan) (Adolph Deutsch)
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Northern Pursuit (restored J. Morgan) (Adolph Deutsch)
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Adolph Deutsch, Composer - Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - John Morgan, Composer - William Stromberg, Conductor
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
Albumbeschreibung
Adolph Deutsch is not a name that looms too large in the field of soundtrack music, this despite the fact that he made his career in Hollywood for nearly 25 years, from 1938 until 1961, and worked in every idiom from crime dramas to big-budget musicals. This release gives the composer just about the best exposure he's ever had for his dramatic film scores, and delineates his strengths and weaknesses. On the positive side, Deutsch was excellent at setting moods using short cues, whether lighthearted, as in the comedy George Washington Slept Here, or dark and serious, as in The Maltese Falcon and, even more so, The Mask of Dimitrios. The latter score, clocking in at 16 minutes of music, is arguably the masterpiece among the soundtracks represented here, dark and threatening and written in an accomplished late-Romantic/post-Romantic style, with superb writing for the strings and brass, and excellent use of the winds in a suspenseful mode. The score for The Maltese Falcon is almost too short to make an enormous impression, as a dark-toned dramatic piece, but George Washington Slept Here, with its much lighter, more playful tone, works much better, and is a good counter-balance to the ominous Dimitrios score that follows. The bulk of this disc is given over to thrillers, however -- High Sierra with its uplifting horn parts and gorgeous solo violin part (representing the heroine), and Northern Pursuit, which mixes patriotic symbolism with thriller scoring. They all work well as freestanding music, despite Deutsch's tendency to slip into musical conventions; Deutsch also occasionally slips into the Steiner mode of relying on anthems and other familiar signature material as shorthand, but it's no more obtrusive here than it is on Steiner's work. The playing is excellent and finds just the right balance between the musical materials as concert repertory and dramatic underscoring.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 41 track(s)
- Total length: 01:15:47
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: William Stromberg
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Naxos
- Genre: Klassiek
- Collection: Marco Polo Film Classics
2005 Naxos 2005 Naxos
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