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| Author: | Roger Feigelson [ Mon Mar 17, 2014 4:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | INTRADA Announces THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD |
INTRADA Announces: THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD Composed and Conducted by SOL KAPLAN INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 272 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold marked the beginning of a brief stint of projects Kaplan would score for Paramount Pictures in the mid ’60s, including Judith in 1966. He wrote a lonely, melancholy theme that captured both with the film’s cold, monochrome look and Richard Burton’s haunted, morally exhausted character. The melody, often performed as a gloomy saxophone solo shrouded in a heavy, relentless march of rumbling, low piano notes, dominates the score, repeating as if to underscore the futility of a bleak and quietly angry view of the world. The Spy score features a library of extended piano effects, created by striking, brushing or plucking the strings in various ways to create resonant, highly atmospheric sounds. These effects permeate the score, swamping the cues in mysterious, nocturnal textures and adding to the feeling of gloom and uncertainty. For this release, Intrada presents not only the original stereo LP rerecorded program sourced from the master tapes, but also the film recording, complete and in stereo from the master elements stored at Paramount. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold features British intelligence operative Alec Leamas (Richard Burton), a burnt-out veteran who returns from Germany to London after one of his operatives is shot. Leamas is keen to retire, but his superior asks him to undertake one last mission. He is to exaggerate his very real disillusionment and anger in order to move Eastern bloc agents in Britain to encourage him to defect. Once relocated in East Germany, he will provide Communists with evidence to implicate one of their top operatives, former Nazi officer Hans-Dieter Mundt, as a double agent and cause him to be executed—a slippery method of disposing of a major threat to British intelligence. But of course, nothing goes exactly as planned. INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 272 Retail Price: $19.99 Available NOW For track listing and sound samples, please visit http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.8603/.f |
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| Author: | sans sense [ Mon Mar 17, 2014 6:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD |
I thought this might be too much of a downer (like the film) where you need to be in the right mood to appreciate it, but the samples suggest it's just right. Thanks! |
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| Author: | T. Newman Fan [ Tue Mar 18, 2014 3:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD |
Awesome release, and it's good to see that the film elements survived. |
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| Author: | Sean Nethery [ Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD |
I didn't think I needed this - thought the music was too monochromatic, even though I love the film (which is of course, also monochromatic, but that's not important right now). I was happily wrong - the clips are quite striking, and even the album-only versions of the theme are strong, if a different vibe from the rest. Brilliant! |
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| Author: | Swashbuckler [ Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD |
I am so glad that you did this. I have the LP, and so for a portable version I bought what I found on iTunes, only to find that it was mono — and not even a mono mixdown, it was just one channel! I am glad to get a good remaster of the LP, but am excited to get the original film recordings as well. This is definitely a winner. |
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| Author: | RM Eastman [ Sat Mar 22, 2014 12:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD |
I wish I could order every film score that is being released. I can financially, but due to the time factor I just don't have the time to spend listening to all these great releases. So I was forced to narrow it down to composers I love and/or a film score I really love. |
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| Author: | American Nightmare [ Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD |
Excellent score! Spinning again for the umpteenth time in the past few days. Jazzy, suspenseful, inventive, colorful, lyrical...groovy! Very happy to discover this score, thanks to Intrada. I've never even seen the film, but now I want to. Bravo, gents! |
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| Author: | TheFamousEccles [ Wed Mar 26, 2014 11:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD |
I think you'll love the movie, American Nightmare - it's a real favorite here, anyway. The opening sequence, with the "Piano Prelude," the stark photography, and empty, foreboding locale all work together to create this all-pervading air of loneliness and isolation that is indelible. It's one of Ritt's best movies, I think - uniformly great performances, a sharp script, and very smart, to-the-bone direction - it's great. Anyway, I love this score, and am thrilled that it received such a definitive release - I've been listening to it quite a lot lately. |
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| Author: | American Nightmare [ Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD |
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