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The Incredible Film Music Box,City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

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City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Released 2005

The Magnificent Seven
04:52
995 plays

Back To The Future: Main Theme
03:26
941 plays

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
02:53
932 plays

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- 1
- Gone With The Wind: Overture
- 06:26
- 873 plays

- 2
- Citizen Kane: Overture
- 02:46
- 401 plays

- 3
- Casablanca: As Time Goes By
- 03:07
- 487 plays

- 4
- It's A Wonderful Life: It's A Wonderful Life
- 02:35
- 475 plays

- 5
- The Third Man: The Harry Lime Theme
- 02:23
- 361 plays

- 6
- The Searchers: Suite
- 07:21
- 409 plays

- 7
- The Bridge On The River Kwai: Colonel Bogey March
- 04:06
- 809 plays

- 8
- Vertigo: Prelude
- 03:00
- 446 plays

- 9
- Touch Of Evil: Main Title
- 05:57
- 372 plays

- 10
- Ben-Hur: Parade Of The Charioteers
- 03:39
- 457 plays

- 11
- North By Northwest: Prelude
- 03:21
- 459 plays

- 12
- Psycho: Suite
- 07:24
- 566 plays

- 13
- The Magnificent Seven
- 04:52
- 995 plays

- 14
- Lawrence Of Arabia: Overture
- 04:39
- 421 plays

- 15
- To Kill A Mockingbird: Suite
- 08:23
- 724 plays

- 16
- The Great Escape: Main Title
- 02:18
- 749 plays

- 17
- Doctor Zhivago: Main Title & Lara's Theme
- 05:28
- 509 plays

- 18
- The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
- 02:53
- 932 plays

- 19
- Once Upon A Time In The West: Jil's Theme
- 06:09
- 352 plays

- 20
- 2001 A Space Odyssey: Also Sprach Zarathustra
- 01:52
- 1,015 plays

- 21
- Midnight Cowboy
- 03:59
- 400 plays

- 22
- Get Carter: Main Title
- 05:15
- 338 plays

- 23
- A Clockwok Orange: Ode To Joy
- 05:35
- 1,082 plays

- 24
- The Godfather: Waltz & Love Theme
- 06:27
- 677 plays

- 25
- Jaws
- 02:16
- 626 plays

- 26
- Rocky: Gonna Fly Now
- 04:42
- 1,020 plays

- 27
- Taxi Driver: Suite
- 08:03
- 357 plays

- 28
- Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
- 05:27
- 709 plays

- 29
- Superman: Main Theme
- 04:11
- 861 plays

- 30
- Alien: End Title
- 03:51
- 391 plays

- 31
- Raging Bull: intermezzo From Cavalleria Rusticana
- 03:22
- 559 plays

- 32
- Raiders Of The Lost Ark: Raiders March
- 05:28
- 880 plays

- 33
- Blade Runner: End Titles
- 04:46
- 486 plays

- 34
- E.T.: The Extraterrestrial: Adventures On Earth
- 10:53
- 522 plays

- 35
- Once Upon A Time In America: Doborah's Theme
- 04:45
- 401 plays

- 36
- Back To The Future: Main Theme
- 03:26
- 941 plays

- 37
- Witness: Building The Barn
- 04:40
- 444 plays

- 38
- Aliens: Main Title
- 04:50
- 469 plays

- 39
- Cinema Paradiso
- 03:34
- 393 plays

- 40
- Glory: Charging Fort Wagner
- 03:01
- 1,199 plays

- 41
- Dances With Wolves: The John Dunbar Theme
- 02:33
- 744 plays

- 42
- Unforgiven: Claudia's Theme
- 06:20
- 496 plays

- 43
- The Piano: The Heart Asks Pleasure First
- 03:45
- 517 plays

- 44
- Schindler's List: Main Theme
- 04:03
- 599 plays

- 45
- Braveheart: End Credits
- 07:04
- 819 plays

- 46
- Titanic: My Heart Will Go On
- 05:02
- 605 plays

- 47
- Saving Private Ryan: Hymm To The Fallen
- 06:04
- 913 plays

- 48
- American Beauty: Any Other Name
- 03:51
- 625 plays

- 49
- Gladiator: Now We Are Free
- 04:24
- 860 plays

- 50
- Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring: The Fellowship
- 05:52
- 907 plays

- 51
- The Girl With The Pearl Earring: Griet's Theme
- 04:22
- 439 plays

- 52
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl: Suite
- 07:33
- 3,294 plays

- 53
- Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban: Suite
- 07:00
- 580 plays

- 54
- Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Letter That Never Came
- 03:57
- 635 plays

- 55
- Finding Neverland: Impossible Opening
- 03:38
- 662 plays

- 56
- The Incredibles: Overture
- 03:32
- 914 plays

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album review

Silva Screen Records devotes itself to making new recordings of old film music, usually employing the (presumably non-unionized) City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. The label has been at this task for some time, and thus has built up quite a library of recordings, which allows it to recycle its material in compilations like this one. Spanning four discs, with a running time approaching four-and-a-half hours, The Incredible Film Music Box seems intended as a kind of omnibus collection to be popped into a multi-CD player and provide an evening's worth of often quite familiar movie music. Unfortunately, whoever designed the cover added a legend that reads, "Celebrating music from the 'Greatest Box Office Hits' of the last 60 years," which is not true. To begin with, the first three of the 56 selections (sequenced in chronological order of the films' releases), the overtures from Gone with the Wind and Citizen Kane, and an instrumental treatment of the song "As Time Goes By," heard in Casablanca, date from more than 60 years before this album's 2005 release. Then, too, the emphasis on "box office hits" is problematic. That is a quantifiable (if disputable) measure for inclusion, and the collection simply does not live up to it. According to www.filmsite.org , for example, only 11 of the 56 biggest box office hits of the past 60 years have music included here: Titanic, Star Wars, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Jaws, The Incredibles, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, and Saving Private Ryan. (That is considering the list of top money makers as of 2005 without regard to inflation; the adjusted list would also include Gone with the Wind, Doctor Zhivago, Ben-Hur, and The Godfather, but back out some of the more recent titles, such that a mere ten of the 56 highest grossers would be featured.) Nor are these the most celebrated scores; only 12 were Academy Award winners. But what the collection does have going for it is familiarity. "The Harry Lime Theme" from The Third Man, "Colonel Bogey March" from The Bridge on the River Kwai, the main theme from The Magnificent Seven, the overture from Lawrence of Arabia, the main title music from The Great Escape, the main theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, "Also Sprach Zarathustra," interpolated into 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Wendy Carlos synthesizer arrangement of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from A Clockwork Orange -- these are all musical works that have entered the public consciousness, and they do come from successful films, if not actually "the greatest box office hits of the last 60 years." The orchestra (heard on all but six tracks) handles them adequately for the most part, though the pieces that have become closely associated with particular recordings, such as "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and "Gonna Fly Now" from Rocky suffer in obviously inferior treatments that ape the hit versions. The Incredible Film Music Box doesn't justify its billing, but it does fulfill its main function, to present a big collection of well-known film music in a single package. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide