Scoop [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

by Scoop / O.s.t.

Overview

In the movie business, where hiring the composer is generally one of the last actions in the post-production process, it is common practice for directors to shoot and cut their films to "temp" scores consisting of music they know, often well-known classical music, later to be replaced by a newly written score. Some directors even fall in love with their temp scores and use them instead, a famous example being Stanley Kubrick with 2001: A Space Odyssey. But Woody Allen, always working on modest budgets for his urban comedies and dramas, has tended to dispense with the idea of a composer from the outset, providing music for his films by rooting around in his own record collection and often coming up with 1920s jazz recordings. For his 2006 film, Scoop, Allen has turned largely to the classical realm, setting his story to old warhorses like Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Ballet Suite, Khachaturian's Sabre Dance, and Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, which is the music that takes up this soundtrack album, along with a few Latin swing numbers by Xavier Cugat and Lester Lanin. One reason directors don't do this sort of thing more often is that audiences usually already have associations in their minds with existing music, particularly, say, music for a famous ballet. Of course, directors sometimes use those very associations as part of the experience of watching the film, and Allen may be doing that here. Or maybe he's just saving money. In any case, the soundtrack album to Scoop as a listening experience separate from the film comes off as simply some miscellaneous classical music with a rhumba tossed in here and there. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	07/25/2006
Label:	Decca / Ims
UPC:	0602498416587
Rank:	136562

Tracks

1. The Swan Lake, suite, Op. 20a~Scene (as used in the film "Scoop")
2. The Swan Lake, suite, Op. 20a~Valse (as used in the film "Scoop")
3. The Swan Lake, suite, Op. 20a~Danse des cygnes (as used in the film "Scoop")
4. The Swan Lake, suite, Op. 20a~Scene (as used in the film "Scoop")
5. The Swan Lake, suite, Op. 20a~Danse hongroise (czardas) (as used in the film "Scoop")
6. The Swan Lake, suite, Op. 20a~Scene (finale) (as used in the film "Scoop")
7. Annen-Polka, for orchestra, Op. 117 (RV 117)
8. Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka (Chit-Chat Polka), for orchestra, Op. 214 (RV 214)
9. Miami Beach Rhumba
10. Gayane, ballet in 4 acts~Sabre Dance (as used in the film "Scoop")
11. Peer Gynt Suite for orchestra (or piano or piano, 4 hands) No. 1, Op. 46~Morning Mood (as used in the film "Scoop")
12. Peer Gynt Suite for orchestra (or piano or piano, 4 hands) No. 1, Op. 46~Aase's Death (as used in the film "Scoop")
13. Peer Gynt Suite for orchestra (or piano or piano, 4 hands) No. 1, Op. 46~Anitra's Dance (as used in the film "Scoop")
14. Peer Gynt Suite for orchestra (or piano or piano, 4 hands) No. 1, Op. 46~In The Hall Of The Mountain King (as used in the film "Scoop")
15. Nutcracker, ballet, Op. 71~No. 7 Scene (as used in the film "Scoop")
16. Adios Muchachos, for tango ensemble
17. Recado
18. Dengozo, maxixe for piano

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Lester Lanin & His Orchestra   Primary Artist
Leon Spierer   Primary Artist,Violin
Berlin Symphony Orchestra   Primary Artist,Orchestra
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin   Primary Artist,Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra   Primary Artist,Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra   Primary Artist,Orchestra
Vienna State Opera Orchestra   Primary Artist,Orchestra
Xavier Cugat   Primary Artist,Conductor
Vienna Strauss Orchestra   Primary Artist,Orchestra
Lester Lanin   Primary Artist
Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra   Primary Artist
Xavier Cugat Orchestra   Orchestra
Johann-Strauss-Orchester Wien   Orchestra
Peter Wohlert   Conductor
Mstislav Rostropovich   Conductor
Stanley Black   Conductor
Herbert von Karajan   Conductor
Aram Khachaturian   Conductor
Jascha Horenstein   Conductor
Joseph Francek   Conductor
Eberhard Finke   Cello

Technical Credits

John A. Camacho   Composer
Lester Lamin   Performer
Meredith Friedman   Sound Coordinator
Edvard   Composer
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky   Composer
Kathy Nelson   Music Executive
Ernesto Nazareth   Composer
Irving Fields   Composer
David Novik   A&R
Djalma Ferreira   Composer
Lester Lanin   Arranger,Performer
Jennifer Towle   Sound Coordinator
Paul Altomari   Sound Coordinator
Sheryl Gold   Music Business Affairs
Albert Gamse   Composer
Fanny Gotschall   Art Direction
Tom Arndt   Package Coordinator
Clive Coote   Photography
Chris Roberts   Unknown Contributor Role
Christine Bergren   Music Business Affairs
Luiz Antonio   Composer
Leif Covington   Package Coordinator
Aram Il'yich   Composer
Julio Cesar Sanders   Composer