Composers - The 6 CD sets offer

1956-1961

Born into a family of musicians, Nino Rota was one of the great Italian composers of the 20th century, and his many original soundtracks have left their mark on film history. Here Olivier Julien has collected his most remarkable film scores from the turn of the Fifties and Sixties, including such undisputed masterpieces as Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Luchino Visconti’s Rocco and his brothers.
Patrick FRÉMEAUX

CD1 : BANDE ORIGINALE DU FILM GUERRE ET PAIX (WAR AND PEACE) DE KING VIDOR : PRELUDE • THE ORGY • ANDREI LEAVING FOR WAR - PIERRE AND NATASHA • THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ • MOMENT MUSICAL; ANDREI AND NATASHA; THE HUNT • WAR AND PEACE (NATASHA’S WALTZ) • ANATOLE AND NATASHA • WINTER AND THE REMEMBRANCE OF ANDREI • THE CHARGE OF THE CAVALRY AND THE WOUNDED • EXODUS FROM MOSCOW • NAPOLEON’S RETREAT • THE HOMECOMING AT MOSCOW. BANDE ORIGINALE DU FILM LES NUITS DE CABIRIA (LE NOTTI DI CABIRIA) DE FEDERICO FELLINI : CABIRIA • LLA RI’ LLI RA’ • MAMBO DI CABIRIA • LE NOTTI DI CABIRIA - GÉNÉRIQUE • LE NOTTI DI CABIRIA - GÉNÉRIQUE • CABIRIA (NINO ROTA -TESTONI) • LLA RI’ LLI RA’ • CABIRIA. BANDE ORIGINALE DU FILM PLEIN SOLEIL DE RENÉ CLÉMENT : GÉNÉRIQUE • VIA VENETO • LE BAISER • THÈME DE MARGE • FINAL.

CD2 : BANDE ORIGINALE DU FILM LA DOLCE VITA DE FEDERICO FELLINI : TITOLI DI TESTA - CANZONETTA - NOTTURNO - CADILLAC • ARRIVEDERCI ROMA - CARACALLA’S - LA BERSAGLIERA • LA DOLCE VITA - VIA VENETO • PATRICIA - CANZONETTA - ENTRATA DEI GLADIATORI - VALZER (PARLAMI DI ME) • LOLA (YES SIR, THAT’S MY BABY) - VALZER (PARLAMI DI ME) - STORMY WEATHER • VIA VENETO E I NOBILI • BLUES - LA DOLCE VITA DEI NOBILI • NOTTURNO E MATTUTINO • LA DOLCE VITA - LA BELLA MELANCONICA • LA DOLCE VITA NELLA VILLA DI FREGENE - CAN CAN - JINGLE BELLS - BLUES - LA DOLCE VITA - WHY WAIT • LA DOLCE VITA – FINALE. BANDE ORIGINALE DU FILM IL BRIGANTE DE RENATO CASTELLANI : LA LUNGA STRADA - IN CASA DELLA NONNA • MICHELE CACCIATORE • LA PROCESSIONE NEL PAESE • ECHI DEI CANTI DI CALABRIA • PATARO • MICHELE SOLDATO AMERICANO • LA VIGILIA DELLA RIVOLTA • RISVEGLIO NOTTURNO E ATTESA NEI CAMPI • MILIELLA • ‘MMAZZATO A TRADIMENTO • LA FUGA DISPERATA - FINALE. CD3 : BANDE ORIGINALE DU FILM ROCCO ET SES FRÈRES DE LUCHINO VISCONTI : INTRODUZIONE E CANZONE (PAESE MIO) • TERRA LONTANA (VALZER) • MILANO E NADIA • VALZER AI LAGHI • L’AMORE DI ROCCO • LA GELOSIA DI SIMONE/ ADDIO DI NADIA • COME TU VUOI (SLOW) • L’AMORE DEI DUE FRATELLI • IL DELITTO DI SIMONE • PAESE MIO/RITOMO DI SIMONE • TERRA LONTANA/PAESE MIO. BANDE ORIGINALE DU FILM BOCCACCIO 70 DE MARIO MONICELLI, FEDERICO FELLINI, LUCHINO VISCONTI, VITTORIO DE SICA : A SPASSO PER ROMA • BEVETE PIÙ LATTE! • LA GRANDE SEDUZIONE • SLOW DI PUPE • RADIOLINA DI PUPE.

DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE : OLIVIER JULIEN

JULES ET JIM, LE FARCEUR, HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR…

Georges Delerue, certainly one of the greatest film-music composers, created an amazing 350 original soundtracks for films on both sides of the Atlantic. A student of Darius Milhaud at the Paris Conservatoire, Delerue was also a man of extraordinary sensitivity, and long considered the most “cinematic” of musicians due to his incredible feel for the image in the frame. It made him the great composer of the Nouvelle Vague, and especially the films of François Truffaut. This 2CD set prepared by Olivier Julien is a retrospective of Delerue’s music in 1959-1962, when his melodies filled the cinemas that screened the French Nouvelle Vague.
Patrick FRÉMEAUX

Le jour le plus long • Les dragueurs • Le soleil dans l’oeil • La main chaude • L’oiseau de paradis

Maurice Jarre was an outstanding composer of French film music and his original soundtracks became a household word in films for the entire second half of the twentieth century. This selection of music from Olivier Julien looks back on Jarre’s early period when he was the young music director of Jean Vilar’s TNP in Paris. But he also put his name to his first hit in Hollywood. He wrote for Georges Franju, Jean Pierre Mocky and Gérard Oury among others in France, and came to international attention with his music for “The Longest Day.” It was a key period for the composer who went on to work with David Lean, Alfred Hitchcock, Luchino Visconti and Clint Eastwood among others.
Patrick FRÉMEAUX

CD1 - BANDE ORIGINALE DU FILM COURT MÉTRAGE LA GÉNÉRATION DU DÉSERT DE NICOLE STÉPHANE : SODOME - MASSADAH - EIN GUEDDI - CHANT TRADITIONNEL DE MASSADAH CHANTÉ PAR AARIE LAVI DU TRIO ARAVAH - MARCHE DE LA GÉNÉRATION DU DÉSERT • BANDE ORIGINALE DU FILM LA TÊTE CONTRE LES MURS DE GEORGES FRANJU : LA TÊTE CONTRE LES MURS / SURPRISE-PARTIE - STÉPHANIE - ENTERREMENT À L’ASILE • BANDE ORIGINALE DU FILM LES DRAGUEURS DE JEAN-PIERRE MOCKY : LA FEMME IDÉALE - LA BALLADE DES DRAGUEURS - SURBOUM CHEZ GHISLAINE • BANDE ORIGINALE DU FILM LA MAIN CHAUDE DE GÉRARD OURY : CHANSON DE LA MAIN CHAUDE - THÈME DE LA MAIN CHAUDE - CALYPSO DE MICHEL - BLUES D’YVETTE - RAPID DE NORBERT • BANDE ORIGINALE DU FILM RECOURS EN GRÂCE DE LÁSZLÓ BENEDEK : VALSE DE PLATONOV - VALSE MUSETTE - PAYSAGE - DERNIÈRE VALSE.

CD2 - BANDE ORIGINALE DU FILM LE JOUR LE PLUS LONG DE KEN ANNAKIN ET ANDREW MARTON : DON’T FENCE ME IN - HARMONICA SOLO - B.B.C. DRUMS - SCÈNE DU RADAR - LES BAG PIPES DE LORS LOVAT - LE DÉBARQUEMENT À OMAHA BEACH • BANDE ORIGINALE DU FILM L’OISEAU DE PARADIS DE MARCEL CAMUS : GÉNÉRIQUE - PETITE SOEUR (INTERPRÉTÉ PAR THIEN HUONG) - LAMTHON LOTUS D’OR - THÈME DU RAMAYANA • BANDE ORIGINALE DU FILM LE SOLEIL DANS L’OEIL DE JACQUES BOURDON : THÈME FRÉDÉRIC - LAMENTU INTERPRÉTÉ PAR PAOLI - TANGO GUITARE - GÉNÉRIQUE • BANDE ORIGINALE DU FILM THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX DE GEORGES FRANJU : GÉNÉRIQUE - NON-LIEU - ARGELOUSE - THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX - GUITARE POUR THÉRÈSE • BONUS : BANDE ORIGINALE DU FILM COURT MÉTRAGE L’UNIVERS D’UTRILLO DE GEORGES RÉGNIER : L’UNIVERS D’UTRILLO.

FROM GLENN MILLER STORY TO THE PINK PANTHER 1954-1962

“Up until that time, film scoring was almost entirely derived from European symphonic composition. Mancini changed all that.” Gene LEES

MILES DAVIS • MARTIAL SOLAL • SERGE GAINSBOURG • GEORGES DELERUE • ART BLAKEY’S JAZZ MESSENGERS AVEC BARNEY WILEN • MICHEL LEGRAND.

The Nouvelle Vague is the name given to the great avant-garde trend of the late Fifties that redefined the way in which films were written, produced and directed. Up until then in the film world, music, unlike directing and screenwriting, had been considered of secondary importance, but this new cultural revolution gave pride of place to the music that accompanied the images. Take the recording session for “Lift To The Scaffold” for example, which amply illustrated the new role of music: trumpeter Miles Davis improvised over the images of filmmaker Louis Malle, and the resulting aura of the film is now a legend. Yet who remembers the famous song “L’eau à la bouche” that Serge Gainsbourg and Alain Goraguer wrote for the same film? This set produced by Olivier Julien provides a wonderful perspective that features an impressive array of exceptional musicians, from Georges Delerue to Paul Misraki and Michel Legrand, including Art Blakey and Martial Solal, and with Miles Davis, Alain Goraguer & Serge Gainsbourg of course.
Patrick FRÉMEAUX

ELLA FITZGERALD • LOUIS ARMSTRONG • NINA SMONE • OSCAR PETERSON • MILES DAVIS,…

As early as the 1920s, the musicals, concert pieces and the opera Porgy & Bess composed by George Gershwin contributed to the making of the Great American Songbook. The proof of Gershwin’s immense talent is in the fact that his music never went into purgatory after his premature death in 1937 at the age of 39. While his concert pieces are still performed by soloists and formations from the world of classical music, those who best defend the art of Gershwin remain the artists and musicians of the jazz world.
Teca CALAZANS et Philippe LESAGE