(The) Classic Film Music of Victor Young

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Victor Young

Label: Marco Polo

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 70

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: 8 225063

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(The) Greatest Show on Earth Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
(The) Uninvited, Movement: Prelude Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
(The) Uninvited, Movement: Squirrel Chase Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
(The) Uninvited, Movement: The Village Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
(The) Uninvited, Movement: The Sobbing Ghost Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
(The) Uninvited, Movement: Sunday Morning - Stella's Emotions Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
(The) Uninvited, Movement: The Cliff Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
(The) Uninvited, Movement: Grandfather and the Cliff Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
(The) Uninvited, Movement: End of Ghost - Finale Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
Gulliver's Travels, Movement: Prelude - The Scroll and Storm Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
Gulliver's Travels, Movement: Pussyfoot March Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
Gulliver's Travels, Movement: Giant in Tow Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
Gulliver's Travels, Movement: Gabby and the King - the Tower - The Archers Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
Gulliver's Travels, Movement: Finale Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
Bright Leaf, Movement: Suicide Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
Bright Leaf, Movement: Sonia and the Wedding Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
Bright Leaf, Movement: Southern Vengeance - The Fire - Finale Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
Bright Leaf, Movement: Prelude - Welcome to Kingsmont Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
Bright Leaf, Movement: Sonia Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
Bright Leaf, Movement: Machine Montage Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
Bright Leaf, Movement: Margaret Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
Bright Leaf, Movement: Tobacco Montage Victor Young, Composer
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Victor Young, Composer
William T. Stromberg, Conductor
Producer David O. Selznick described Victor Young as an ‘extremely practical and successful man in doing scores without nonsense and within economic boundaries’. Something Selznick overlooked, however, was Young’s gift for melody; an attribute affectionately dubbed by colleague Miklos Rozsa as ‘Broadway-cum-Rachmaninov’. It is odd, then, that although Young’s film-inspired songs, Love Letters and When I Fall in Love, have been indestructible standards for over four decades, his vibrant film scores are only now beginning to receive the attention they deserve.
Amid the four attractive rarities on this latest addition to Marco Polo’s enterprising film music series is the main theme from The Uninvited (1944), which will be more familiar as another of Young’s enduring song hits, Stella by Starlight. This unashamedly lush, rhapsodic theme is both pure Young and pure Hollywood, and makes tantalizingly flitting appearances throughout a skilfully crafted score that shares the slightly edgy, mist-shrouded romanticism of Franz Waxman’s Rebecca. Representing his association with director Cecil B. DeMille is the march from The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), a blazing anthem to the technicolored world of the three-ring circus that out-Sousas Sousa!
If I can’t quite share notator Bill Whitaker’s enthusiasm for the rather overgenerous 26-minute suite from Bright Leaf (1950), the two ardent, contrasting love themes and a bustling ‘Machine Montage’ are certainly welcome discoveries. For me the most delightful item is the 16-minute selection from the animated feature Gulliver’s Travels (1939). Although based on several of the film’s songs (by Ralph Rainger and others), Young’s rich embroidery is a wonderful example of his nimble, warm-hearted style.
A few restrained moments aside, the Moscow orchestra captures the spirit of these scores with great success, in a clean, robust acoustic that brings a satisfying sheen to the whole disc.'

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