My first question is, is there any other scores of his you can suggest to me? How is the Miklós Rózsa at MGM 2 CD set?

And last, when listening to that CD, there was an selection of music from King of Kings, anyway was it just me or did it sound almost exactly like the main theme to SeaQuest DSV from John Debney? I wonder if JD was paying an homage or ripping off MR?

BTW, sorry if this has been mentioned before, however seeing as I just heard King of
Kings, I think it is understandable.

Well thanks.

Does anyone know where I could get a CD copy of Time After Time? I have the LP and I wish I could have a CD.

Miklos Rozsa is an AWESOME composer. He really did a great job and has a distinct style that I love!

Later,
Aaron

Also very recomendable are the
re recordings od Ivanhoe and Julius Caesar
conducted by Bruce Broughton
This two ones from Intrada.

There is a CD with three suites from Mr Rosza
in Varese that includes King Of Kings,
Ben Hur and El Cid but the performance of
the orchestra is not very good,especially the brass,and with Mr Rosza this is essencial.
I don't recommend this one.
This CD is performed by the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Richard Muller Lampertz.

Other good Roszas bits that I have but I don't know for shure if they could be hard to find are:

A HISTORY OF HITCHCOCK ial M For Murder
FILM CD 137 (Silva)
One of the tracks is
SPELLBOUND,Concerto For Orchestra.(9.34)
A suite of the score original by Mr Rosza

GREAT EPIC FILM SCORES
Contains a suite of EL CID from the
original soundtrack.
Only music,not with sound effects.
And it runs about 20 minutes

PSYCHO,GREAT HITCHCOCK MOVIE THRILLERS
LONDON 436.797.2
Contains the Spellbound theme conducted by Stanley Black.About 4 minutes.
The rest are Herrmann suites conducted by himself.

I don't know yet about the MGM 2CD set,
but is in my future plans to buy it.

Best
M.F.

As I am going to get my haircut this weekend and was planning on picking up an couple discs at my local The Wherehouse, I think I'll see about picking up the MGM set.

I did love what I heard of Ben-Hur, though I probably should get another compilation of MR, to get more of an sampling of his work beforehand.

Either way, I am definitely going to get more of his work.

Regards,
Sean Robert Abbey

The Rozsa at MGM is a good collection that gives you Lust For Life, Knights of the Round Table, and those great preludes to Moonfleet and World, Flesh, & The Devil.

I'd also recommend the following:

The Epic Film Music of MR conducted by Ken Alwyn--

This has a re-recording of the Quo Vadis suite that is on the CD you picked up but also great stuff from Ben-Hur, Sodom and Gommorah, and Golden Voyage of Sinbad.

The Gerhardt Spellbound as mentioned above--you can compare Gerhardt's version of The Red House to the one on your CD plus you get great cues from Four Feathers, Thief of Bagdad, The Jungle Book, etc.

There is the Varese Lust for Life & Background to Violence suites (great film noir scores).

Intrada lists The Thief of Bagdad/Jungle Book CD--both great scores.

The "Time After Time" CD was available for a very long time on John Lasher's label (Southern Cross or Fifth Continent or Label X or Entr'acte or whatever the @#$% he wants to call it today) and can still be found here and there. It is highly recommended.

I also really liked "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" on Prometheus (conducted by Lee Holdridge!), although I have met quite a few people that didn't like it as much as I did.

My favorite Rozsa score is "El Cid," but the Sony release of the original soundtrack recording is no longer available, and the Koch recording, although longer and with better sound, does not handle the battle music as well. I have never seen this film, is it any good?

If you approach El Cid with the proper frame of mind, it is a truly satisfying spectacle and a wonderful kind of movie that we may never see produced again. It always amazed me that Allied Artists footed the bill for this one. Bravo to them! It's one of Martin Scorsese's favorite films, and I agree with him completely.

On this occasion, we were watching "Thief of Bagdad." Rozsa arrived towards the end of the screening, discussed the score, and fielded questions. He was very gracious. Afterwards, I got him to sign my copies of "Jungle Book", "Time to Love and a Time to Die", "Spellbound/Red House," and "Sodom and Gomorrah." He was suprised that someone would have them.

I remember talking with him while he signed them, but can't remember what I said. Probably something stupid.

If anyone knows anything about Tiomkin and the above signature I'd appreciate it. The question marks are because I'm not sure if these words are correct. Gae NP Stargate

Well there is good and bad news, I was going to get my haircut, though was so busy I did not have time to, so I did not make it to The Wherehouse. Unfortunately I could only make it to my local store, which is the only near by music store available to me, let's just say it has an selection worse than an airport lobby shop.

I did look for the Miklos Rozsa MGM set, the bad news is they did not have it.
However did get Michael Kamen's Mr. Holland's Opus and Hans Zimmer's Prince of
Egypt.

The good news is I found it online at Barnes and Noble, and ordered with an $10 off coupon for $20. I also wanted the Ben-Hur set, but only had enough for the one. Maybe next time I'll get it.

Anyway thanks again for all the suggestions.

Regards,
Sean Robert Abbey