Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. 20th Century Fox Fanfare
2. City Lights
3. Bride Of Frankenstein
4. Gone With The Wind
5. Stagecoach
6. Citizen Kane
7. Casablanca
8. Oliver Twist
9. Quo Vadis
10. Quiet Man
11. High And The Mighty
12. Searchers
13. Bridge On The River Kwai
14. Big Country
15. North By Northwest
16. Ben Hur
17. Psycho
18. La Dolce Vita
19. Magnificent Seven

Disc 2:

1. Alamo
2. Pink Panther
3. Lawrence Of Arabia
4. Great Escape
5. 633 Squadron
6. Zulu
7. Zorba The Greek
8. Doctor Zhivago
9. Born Free
10. Lion In Winter
11. Once Upon A Time In America
12. Where Eagles Dare
13. Midnight Cowboy
14. Wild Bunch
15. Godfather
16. Jaws
17. Rocky
18. Taxi Driver
19. Star Wars
20. Diva

Disc 3:

1. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
2. Chariots Of Fire
3. Conan The Barbarian
4. ET
5. Once Upon A Time In The West
6. Terminator
7. Witness
8. Out Of Africa
9. Passage To India
10. Mission
11. Room With A View
12. Cinema Paradiso
13. Ghost
14. Dances With Wolves
15. 1492 (Conquest Of Paradise)
16. Unforgiven
17. Fugitive
18. Jurassic Park
19. Schindler's List

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57215 in Music
• Released on: 1999-10-01
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Soundtrack, Box set

Customer Reviews

The most comprehensive package of cinema music on offer
Cinema Century: A Musical Celebration of 100 Years of Cinema offers you the the most comprehensive package of the greatest musical songs to embrace their names in cinema history. This is a landmark celebration. In music retailing, you will not get any package that you offers the best and unique choice of high callibre music featured in movies. This takes some beating if you get what I mean. It is great value for money.

Cinema Century: A Musical Celebration of 100 Years of Cinema features three CDs of all the cinema songs which are a pleasure to listen and you can relive the magical and special moments of the greatest movies of all time. The list ranges from Lawrence of Arabia, Star Wars, Taxi Driver,Gone with the Wind, Out of Africa, A Passage to India, Chariots of Fire, Raiders of the Lost Ark and many more.

If you love classical music, then this is an album which is well suited to your musical taste. It is real treat for anyone who loves smoothing and relaxing music.

Play it Again...?
Probably not. What a shame, given the excellent range of titles on this 3 disc package. It was very disappointing to discover that these re-recordings based on the original film scores are no match for the original soundtrack recordings. To give just three examples: Max Steiner's - of all composers - 'Gone with the Wind' is weak and lacks all the pace, fullness, vigour and drama of the original soundtrack recording. And the same can be said of '633 Squadron' which has none of Goodwin's almost breathless pace; 'The Great Escape' can only be described as plodding. Unfortunately, this lack of energy in the scoring is identifiable virtually throughout the collection. There is a lot to be said for original soundtrack recordings, because the studios put a huge amount of effort into the orchestrations to get them spot on to the mood of the film, so my advice has to be go for original soundtracks every time - digtally re-mastered or not.

Very good
To be honest it is hard to review this box set. I can understand Andrew_mcp's point of view, and often find myself irritated by conductors playing around with the original material, or as Andrew wrote, when a small orchestra is used. In the case of these CDs I was not actually disappointed. I think with enough volume the recordings sound as good as the originals (though of course with a new orchestra and conductor). There are a lot of songs here for not a lot of money, which is good news, and in general the songs are great. I think I've rated this four and not five stars because I feel that potentially the song choices could have been better. For example, there is a lot of John Barry here, but it would have been nice to have varying themes as opposed to the very similar Dances with wolves, Born Free, and Out of Africa themes (though these are excellent). I also feel that there is more music from films like the Mission that I would have liked to hear rather than just the one theme. To be honest though I am being picky, and this is worth buying for unique tracks like the stroke of genius that is Where Eagles Dare, not to mention the likes of Zulu and Colonel Bogey. The more classical tracks are evened out with things like Mancini's Pink Panther and Fiedel's Terminator. This is well worth it for anyone who likes classic films.