BSXDG0192
Includes Digital Booklet
THE SEARCHERS: THE MAX STEINER COLLECTION VOL. 2 also includes music from CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, FOUR WIVES, A STOLEN LIFE and THE SEARCHERS.
BSX DIGITAL presents THE SEARCHERS: THE MAX STEINER COLLECTION VOL. 2, featuring music composed by Max Steiner (KING KONG, GONE WITH THE WIND) for two film scores from the 1950s featuring Yvonne De Carlo, along with a selection of bonus tracks from several films from his extensive filmography.
Released in 1957, directed by Raoul Walsh, written by John Twist, Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, starring Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo and Sidney Poitier, BAND OF ANGELS tells the story of Amantha Starr (De Carlo), a privileged young woman living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War whose world is turned upside down after her father, a wealthy plantation owner, dies and she learns that her mother was actually a slave and her fathers mistress. The plantation is going to be sold to pay off her fathers debts and, as the daughter of a slave, Amanthas fate is also to be sold off as property. Amantha is bought by Hamish Bond (Gable), another plantation owner and, over time, she grows to love him.
Released in 1956, written and directed by Charles Martin, starring George Sanders, Yvonne De Carlo and Zsa Zsa Gabor, DEATH OF A SCOUNDREL takes place after the murder of Clementi Sabourin (Sanders), a wealthy Czech immigrant, as his secretary, Bridget (De Carlo) recounts his rags-to-riches story to the New York police, a tale of betrayal, womanizing and fraud that reveals that almost everyone who knew Sabourin wanted him dead.
Born on May 10th, 1888, Max Steiner was an Austrian composer and conductor who emigrated to America and became one of Hollywood’s greatest musical composers. Steiner was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, proficient at composing, arranging, and conducting, by the time he was fifteen. Threatened with internment in England during World War I, he fled to Broadway; and in 1929 he moved to Hollywood, where he became one of the first composers to write music scores for films. He is often referred to as “the father of film music”, as Steiner played a major part in creating the tradition of writing music for films, along with composers Dimitri Tiomkin, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Alfred Newman, Bernard Herrmann, and Mikls Rzsa.
Steiner composed over 300 film scores with RKO Pictures and Warner Bros., and was nominated for 24 Academy Awards: His filmography includes THE INFORMER, NOW, VOYAGER, AND SINCE YOU WENT AWAY, LITTLE WOMEN, JEZEBEL, CASABLANCA, THE SEARCHERS, A SUMMER PLACE and GONE WITH THE WIND, which ranked second on the AFI’s list of best American film scores, and is the film score for which he is best known. He was also the first recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, which he won for his score for LIFE WITH FATHER. Steiner was a frequent collaborator with some of the best-known film directors in history, including Michael Curtiz, John Ford, and William Wyler.
BSX Digital presents THE SEARCHERS: THE MAX STEINER COLLECTION VOL. 2, featuring music composed and conducted by Max Steiner, performed by the Warner Bros. Orchestra and the RKO Studio Orchestra. Originally released in the early days of compact discs by Fifth Continent Music, the music for this release has been newly mastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland and retains original liner notes written by John Steven Lasher and Page Cook.
