Film music from the golden age

[davidraphael]

I was wondering what your favourite movie soundtracks or scores are. And favourite composers, if you have any.

I'm a big Bernard Herrmann fan and probably have most of his scores in some form or another. I frequently listen to Vertigo and North by Northwest. What a career he had - from Citizen Kane to Taxi Driver!

Then there's Franz Waxman (Bride of Frankenstein, Rebecca);
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (The Adventures Of Robin Hood);
Miklos Rozsa (Lust For Life, Lost Weekend);
Carl Stalling (the Warner bros. cartoons).

At the moment I'm listening to a wonderful 3-disc box set of Vaughan Williams' film music (Scott of the Antarctic, the 49th Parallel and others). Absolutely incredible whether you like film music or not.

Other great composers not normally associated with film wrote soundtrack/scores in the early 20th C.: Shostakovich (The Man with a Gun), Prokofiev (Alexander Nevsky), to name but two.

Although outside of the golden age, here's some rare footage of Herrmann conducting the score for Fahrenheit 451 with Truffaut in attendance.

[video=youtube;Oqp8Rek3zhY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqp8Rek3zhY[/video]

 

[Doctor Strange]

Great choices.

You know, this sort of thing has been discussed here many times - you really should revive an older thread rather than start a new one. Here's one of them:

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?36806