The Silva label has issued a number of recordings of the film score music of Maurice Jarre, notably the excellent 1989 album Lawrence of Arabia, performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Tony Bremner. This double-CD compilation album draws upon those recordings to create an extensive sampler of Jarre's film music, usually arranged and orchestrated into suites. Twenty-three of Jarre's scores are represented, and, while necessarily, there are extended excerpts from the compose...   [ read more ]

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Maurice Jarre wrote the central musical motif of his score for {#Doctor Zhivago}, "Lara's Theme," in a few minutes in a hotel, amid a frantic five-week rush to score the 197-minute movie. That theme made the Doctor Zhivago soundtrack album one of the biggest selling soundtrack of the 1960s, a considerable feat when one reckons in the competition from A Hard Day's Night, Never on Sunday, A Man and a Woman, Exodus, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. The rest of Jarre's score is more in the...   [ read more ]

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