GOODBYE BAFANA
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Music Composed by Dario Marianelli

Joseph Fiennes
Dennis Haysbert
Diane Krueger

Also includes
MANQOBA Performed by Johnny Clegg

Based on the Memoirs of Nelson Mandella’s Prison Guard.

“Every once in a blue moon you stumble across a perfect movie — one that gets it all right — and flows so smoothly from start to finish, you almost wish it could go on and on ... and on. This year, in Berlin, Goodbye Bafana is that film.” — Cinematical

South Africa - 1968 Twenty-five million blacks are ruled by a minority of four million whites under the brutal Apartheid regime of the Nationalist Party Government. Black people have no vote, no land rights, no rights to freedom of movement, to own a business, to housing or education. Determined to retain power, whites ban all black opposition organizations, forcing their leaders into exile or imprisoning them for life on Robben Island.

James Gregory, a typical white Afrikaner, regards blacks as sub-human. Having grown up on a farm in the Transkei, he learned to speak Xhosa at an early age. This makes him an ideal choice to become the warder in charge of Mandela and his comrades on Robben Island. After all, Gregory speaks their language and can spy on them. However, the plan backfires. Through Mandela’s influence, Gregory’s allegiance gradually shifts from the racist government to the struggle for a free South Africa. Goodbye Bafana tracks the unlikely but profound relationship between these two men. Through their unique friendship, we witness not only Gregory’s growing awareness of man’s inhumanity to man, but South Africa’s evolution from Apartheid to a vibrant democracy.

The story, which documents how Mandela became the most inspirational political figure of the modern world, poses the questions: Who is the prisoner? And who sets whom free?

The powerfully evocative score for Goodbye Bafana was composed by Dario Marianelli, the Academy Award-nominated composer of Pride & Prejudice. It is a riveting, captivating and beautiful work.

Goodbye Bafana begins its international roll out on April 13.

Catalog #: 302 066 811 2
European Release Date: 04/10/07
Domestic Release Date: TBD

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MIKLÓS RÓZSA
A Centenary Celebration

3 CD Set At A Special Price!

3 CD set includes:
SPELLBOUND CONCERTO • BEN HUR • EL CID • KING OF KINGS • THE LOST WEEKEND
QUO VADIS • DEAD MEN DON’T WEAR PLAID • EYE OF THE NEEDLE • JUNGLE BOOK
JULIUS CAESAR • THAT HAMILTON WOMAN • THE STORY OF THREE LOVES • FEDORA
THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS • TRIBUTE TO A BAD MAN
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES • LAST EMBRACE • BECAUSE OF HIM
THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL • THE THIEF OF BAGDAD • PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE
THE NEW ENGLAND CONCERTO

Conducted by
Miklós Rózsa • Elmer Bernstein • Joel McNeely • Cliff Eidelman

April 18, 2007 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of legendary composer Miklós Rózsa. To celebrate one of the truly great film composers we have put together this special CD set compiling recordings that have been unavailable, in some cases, for decades.

Rózsa won three Academy Awards (Spellbound, Ben Hur, A Double Life) and is revered as one of the master composers of the century. His piece Theme, Variations and Finale was on the program (along with works by Shumann and Strauss) that historic night in 1943 when Leonard Bernstein stepped in at the last minute for Bruno Walter and shot to overnight stardom. Rózsa composed his Violin Concerto for none other than Jascha Heifetz!

Rózsa’s film music is simply some of the greatest and most memorable ever composed. Grand, sweeping melodies and breathtakingly complex orchestrations helped create a genuine sense of awe in his music that, in the annals of film, may be second to none. Rózsa could write epic like no one else!

We present over three hours of his music in honor of the maestro’s birthday. So many of his classics are here … Ben Hur, Spellbound, Jungle Book, Julius Caesar, The Lost Weekend, The Thief of Bagdad — and are now available at this special price.

Just in time for what may be the most important birthday celebration this year comes Miklós Rózsa: A Centenary Celebration!

I don't think so. I think it will be a case of Varese's True Grit re-issue, they will combine some of those LP recordings into one disc, otherwise there's no way all these recordings would fit onto 3 single discs.

with that said, I wouldn't be surprised to see this have a higher price tag than the Omen, Waxman and Goldsmith 3-cd reissues.

edit: Yes it will be the same recordings, but I don't think it will be a straight re-issue of the disc.