The Wild West: Essential Western Film Music Collection

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Overview

This is the first of two double-disc collections from Silva Screen devoted to Western movie and television theme music, all played by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra under Paul Bateman. Ranging across the history of the genre from the 1930s to the 1990s, the results are generally impressive, if occasionally a little weighty -- "A Fistful of Dollars" seems rather elephantine here compared with Ennio Morricone's own rendition, but self-conscious "big tunes" such as John Barry's "The John Dunbar Theme" from Dances With Wolves, Elmer Bernstein's main title music from The Magnificent Seven and The Sons of Katie Elder, and Alfred Newman's main title theme from How the West Was Won work just fine. The producers have also included oddities such as Maurice Jarre's main theme from Red Sun and John Williams' theme from The Rare Breed (1966), and a handful of television themes are here, most notably Jerome Moross' main title theme from Wagon Train. The sound is state of the art but the annotation is minimal, one is sorry to say, with nothing but movie and television series credits in the booklet. ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	09/21/1999
Label:	Silva America
UPC:	0738572109929
Rank:	42756

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Prague Philharmonic Orchestra   Primary Artist
Paul Bateman   Conductor

Technical Credits

David Mansfield   Arranger,Composer
Brian Gascoigne   Arranger
John Luard Timperley   Digital Recording Engineer
Eric Tomlinson   Engineer
Gareth Williams   Mastering
Lee Holdridge   Arranger
John Williams   Arranger,Composer
John Barry   Composer
Neil Richardson   Arranger
Jerry Goldsmith   Composer
Maurice Jarre   Arranger,Composer
Randy Newman   Composer
Mike Townend   Arranger
Mike Ross-Trevor   Engineer
Bruce Broughton   Arranger,Composer
Henry Mancini   Arranger
David Snell   Arranger
Max Steiner   Composer
Dee Barton   Composer
Trevor Jones   Arranger,Composer
Jack Hayes   Arranger
James Newton Howard   Composer
Ennio Morricone   Composer
David Stoner   Release Coordinator
Dimitri Tiomkin   Composer
Jerome Moross   Arranger,Composer
Gary Carter   Cover Art
Greig McRitchie   Arranger
Ira Hearshen   Arranger
Jimmy Fitzpatrick   Producer
Don Davis   Arranger
John Leopold   Composer
Leo Shuken   Composer
Rudolph Wiederman   Orchestra Contractor
Reynold da Silva   Executive Producer
Clint Eastwood   Composer
Alfred Newman   Composer
Prague Philharmonic Orchestra   Performer
Randy Edelman   Composer
Brad Dechter   Arranger
Basil Poledouris   Composer
James Horner   Arranger,Composer
Don Wilkerson   Arranger
Elmer Bernstein   Composer
Jerry Fielding   Composer
Richard Markowitz   Composer
Nic Raine   Arranger
Christopher Palmer   Arranger
Jan Holzner   Assistant Engineer
Richard Bronskill   Arranger
Arthur Morton   Arranger
Murray Cutter   Arranger
Earl Sheldon   Composer