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monkey Oscar® Winner	Lately I`ve been getting more and more into French film music and am in serious need of some suggestions. Here`s a few items in this catgory that i have: Bruno Coulais (the best of them IMHO): Crimson Rivers (great thriller score, perhaps best described as a mixture of Young and Debney`s I know what you did last summer) Le Peuple Migrateur (good mixture of ethnic vocals and lyrical orchestra, a bit like Isham`s Fly Away Home, but better) Le Fantome de Belphegor (weird mixture of Northern African folk music and orchestra) Vidocq (a gothic horror score, at times similar to Elfman`s Tales from the Crypt theme) Le Comte de Monte Cristo (better than Shearmur`s Americanisation, though VERY dark) Yann Tiersen: Amelie (a great and quirky score) Alexandre Desplat: The Lutzhin Defense (though not a French film, a French composer, great theme, though rest of the score gets a tad tedious) Jean-Louis Roques: Germinal (very `French`, don`t really know how to describe that, but quite a grand score) Michel Magne: Les Miserables (epic choral and orchestral work) Jean-Claude Petit: Cyrano de Bergerac (never really got into thisd composer`s works) And who could forget: Eric Serra: Haven`t liked any of his strictly French scores though Leon and Joan of Arc are good. So, any suggestions? Cheers! NP: Crimson Rivers ***/***
posted 02-26-2002 08:51 AM PT (US)

cine-sin Oscar® Winner	Philippe Sarde
posted 02-26-2002 08:58 AM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	Yup. And Georges Delerue (sp?) - although I have to admit that I still haven't heard anything by him, except a few pieces in a documentary.
posted 02-26-2002 01:03 PM PT (US)

Luscious Lazlo Oscar® Winner	http://www.musicweb.uk.net/film/Dec99/auric.htm Georges Auric's ORPHEE is a masterpiece. It has been re-recorded by the Slovak Radio Orchestra. (Not to be confused with the City of Prague Philharmonic. The Slovak Orchestra is in Bratislava.)
posted 02-26-2002 02:12 PM PT (US)

monkey Oscar® Winner	Yes, Delerue is good, although really haven`t heard enough from him, though I do have one of his London Sessions album. Any recommendations in particular?
posted 02-28-2002 05:09 AM PT (US)

JJH Oscar® Winner	Varese released a nifty 2CD set awhile back in their "Great Composers" series. A must if you don't have -- or can't get --all the London Sessions albums. also of note is his "Dorothy and Ben" on the Amazing Stories re-recording Varese did a couple years ago. Touching music. Np -- Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, Newman
posted 02-28-2002 12:02 PM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Oscar® Winner	I think your best Delerue intro is the Nonesuch Music for Truffaut CD conducted by Hugo Wolf that includes selections from Shoot The Piano Player, Jules and Jim, and Two English Girls which are among Delerue's best scores. Another great (though pricy) is The Day of the Dolphin CD from Japan. I don't know what one Sarde to suggest to you, probably one of the Universal France Jazz CDs either Le Train or Tess. There are many other French composers both recent and older that have done great work: Vladimir Cosma, Claude Bolling, Michel Legrand, Maurice Jaubert, Antoine Duhamel, Maurice Jarre, Georges Auric, Michel Magne come to mind off the top of my head.
posted 02-28-2002 08:50 PM PT (US)

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