Korngold: Captain Blood / Steiner: The Three Musketeers / Young: Scaramouche

Featuring

Richard Kaufman
Neubrandenburger Philharmonie
Miklós Rózsa
Victor Young
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Max Steiner

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Recording & Production

The reconstruction process for this album involved re-orchestrating music from piano scores, which were often incomplete or contained errors, using the original soundtrack audio as a guide.

Performer Biography

Richard Kaufman, the conductor for this album, began his musical life as a violinist at age seven and started conducting at age eleven.

Performer Biography

Richard Kaufman has coached actors like Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks, and Susan Sarandon in instrumental, vocal, and conducting roles for films, and played violin on scores for Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Recording & Production

Most of the music on this album was reconstructed from piano/conductor scores because many classic American film scores no longer exist in their fully orchestrated original versions.

Cultural Impact

Captain Blood (1935) not only launched Erich Wolfgang Korngold's influential career in film music but also established that swashbuckling films require athletic scoring from master composers.

Composition History

The film Captain Blood (1935) marked the beginning of romantic symphonic movie music in Hollywood, with Erich Wolfgang Korngold, an acclaimed opera and concert composer, creating its original score.

Composer Biography

Max Steiner, whose music for The Three Musketeers (1935) is featured on this album, pioneered film music even before Korngold, notably with his scores for King Kong (1933) and The Most Dangerous Game (1932).