VICTOR YOUNG (1900-1956): Music from the Films The Greatest Show on Earth, The Uninvited, Gulliver's Travels, Bright Leaf.

Catalogue Number: 01R075

Label: Naxos

Reference: 8.573368

Format: CD reissue

Price: $11.98

Description: "Broadway-cum-Rachmaninoff" is how Miklós Rósza described his friend Victor Young's film music; there is a lot of truth in the description, especially when considering such a famous tune as Stella by Starlight which came from the score to The Uninvited and was made world-famous by Sinatra, Harry James and others. But there is also some dazzlingly impressionistic music in this score for the 1944 Ray Milland ghost story. The other major suite here comes from 1949's Bright Leaf, a tobacco dynasty drama starring Gary Cooper - a rather boring, drab film which Young's score far outstrips in creativity, vigor and talent. Another worthy rescue of a composer who has increasingly been overlooked even as other film composers of the Hollywood Golden Era are being rehabilitated. Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; William T. Stromberg. Original 1999 Marco Polo release.

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