Limited Edition of 1,200 Copies
Intrada (Special Collection Volume 159)
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Conducted by Les Baxter
Format: CD
1. | Overture | 03:06 |
2. | Main Title | 02:02 |
3. | Roderick Usher | 04:03 |
4. | Madeline Usher | 02:52 |
5. | Tormented | 02:26 |
6. | Lute Song | 01:01 |
7. | Reluctance | 04:00 |
8. | The Sleepwalker | 04:13 |
9. | The Vault | 02:38 |
10. | The Ancestors | 03:00 |
11. | House Of Evil | 04:55 |
12. | Catalepsy | 04:15 |
13. | Pallbearers | 02:06 |
14. | Buried Alive | 08:17 |
15. | Fall Of The House Of Usher | 13:56 |
Total Album Time: | 62:50 |
At last! World premiere release of intense, evocative Les Baxter score for famous Roger Corman debut in series of Edgar Allan Poe tales starring Vincent Price, filmed for American International in evocatively-colored widescreen.
While original session elements have long-since vanished, complete music tracks mixed into mono and assembled for film do remain. Slight variances in levels designed for later addition of dialog & effects in post-production could not be completely avoided but have been minimized during mastering of this CD. As a result, most cues have identical assemblies of film itself, albeit happily without dialog or effects! (We edited together short pieces to create better musical experience.) Every cue appears! Rare music-only elements survive courtesy of MGM vaults and efforts of Taylor White of Percepto Records.
Neat bonus! MGM commissioned Chace Productions to restore long-lost original "Overture", previously heard only with initial 1960 release of film in theaters. Chace provided newly-restored master to Intrada for this CD premiere as well! Les Baxter creates sometimes beautifully evocative, sometimes intensely scary score with some of his most striking and exciting music in a lengthy and successful career. Film itself was later re-titled THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER. Les Baxter conducts. Intrada Special Collection release limited to 1200 copies!
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Released: November 14, 2014 |