Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Music From The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1988 Re-recording of 1938 Score)
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Free Music Notes for Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Music From The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1988 Re-recording of 1938 Score)
Free Music Review: Korngold sets the proper mood for Robin Hood
Hit: 4 Stars
The soundtrack for 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' is outstanding. You can almost see in your mind what action is taking place. Korngold did numerous scores for various movies, but none as great as the ones starring Errol Flynn.Free Music Review: Great music, not my favorite arrangement
Hit: 3 Stars
I guess I was hoping it would sound exactly like what I loved in the film. This recording is too heavy on the brass, too light on the woodwinds. Every time there's brass playing, everything else gets buried.
Still, when I play it I get the same feeling of adventure and excitement. Great score and great memories.
Free Music Review: What a wasted opportunity!
Hit: 2 Stars
Last month, I bought the DVD edition of THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, and found myself reintroduced to the finest film incarnation of the Sherwood Forest swashbuckler. So naturally, I decided to try and see if the soundtrack was available. I stumbled across this disc on Amazon, and decided to try my luck.Well, I can honestly say this 1983 re-recording of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's legendary score is a major disappointment.
This is not a knock against the Utah Symphony Orchestra or its conductor Varujan Kojian. The quality of the performance is top-shelf (although I think Charles Gerhardt and the National Philharmonic Orchestra's rendition of the Robin/Merry Men fanfare is more appropriately bombastic). My problem is-and this is a gripe I have with ALL soundtrack albums-that Korngold's music has been severely edited and, in some instances, butchered beyond recognition. Huge chunks of music are missing from this album. The opening sequence, with Prince John's men attacking the Saxons, is absent, as is Robin's first appearance and rescue of Much. Robin's meetings with Little John and Friar Tuck are ridiculously pared down to nearly nothing. The scene where the Merry Men set and execute their trap for Sir Guy of Gisbourne in Sherwood is chopped in half, as is the music for Much's battle with the assassin Dicken and King Richard's stay in Sherwood. The coronation scene is cut off before Richard reveals himself to John. The finale where John is exiled and Robin is re-knighted is needlessly edited. The end credits music is completely absent. But the most unforgivable chopping comes with the climactic battle music. The fight in the throne room is just GONE, and the savage sword battle between Robin and Gisbourne...
...good grief, whoever decided to edit the music for this recording should be slapped. Repeatedly. With an armored glove. The music for this battle, with its ultraviolent orchestration and high-pitched xylophone percussion, is the high point of Korngold's score in the movie. For this recording, it's MUTILATED. We get the chase down the stairs, then an abrupt jump to the shadows bashing it out on the wall, then we get a grotesque, discordant, and just plain stupid bridge that was never in Korngold's score to begin with, then another bizarre jump to Robin getting backed against the wall, then ANOTHER jump to Robin freeing Marian. What the heck is this? The powers at Varese Sarabande clearly had access to Korngold's original compositions, especially with his son George producing the album. There was not one reason for them to butcher his score like this. But they did, as the end result is an album that, while nicely performed by a group of talented musicians giving it their all, is a disgrace to Korngold's work. To listen to this album, you'd never be able to understand why Korngold won an Oscar for this music.
Making this album an even bigger embarrassment is-surprise, surprise-the ROBIN HOOD DVD, which features an audio-only track in which every single bit of Korngold's music can be heard in all its glory, digitally remastered to the point where it sounds as brand-spanking new as any soundtrack album just coming off the assembly line. If the original soundtrack recording from 1938 still exists and is in pristine condition, why in blue blazes doesn't Warner Bros. release it all on a two-disc soundtrack album like they did with John Williams' SUPERMAN? After all, they released the soundtrack to James Cagney's YANKEE DOODLE DANDY just recently to coincide with the DVD release. Why don't they do the same for ROBIN HOOD and let people hear Korngold's score for what it is? Because I just have to say, it would beat the pants off this misbegotten Varese re-recording, and unlike this album, a full-blown Korngold reissue would actually be well worth the money.
Free Music Review: OK- but 2004 COMPLETE Moscow Symphony recording is MAGNIFICENT!
Hit: 2 Stars
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD complete film score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra is the most magnificent rendition of this remarkable, hauntingly beautiful music. COMPLETE is the key word here as the Moscow Symphony performance has not edited the score for time considerations. John Morgan of Marco Polo Classic Film Music Series has restored bars of music previously taken out, and returned to the original full orchestration the score deserves. Don't buy this old, almost tinny recording when an infinitely better rendition awaits you.
It is available through Amazon. Play the previews and hear the difference!
The Adventures of Robin Hood, film score
Composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Performed by Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by William T. Stromberg
Free Music Review: Nothing is as good as the original
Hit: 1 Stars
I do not own any of the "rehashes" of the Adventures of Robind Hood soundtrack. However, I feel with the soundtrack I do own, I can say that this soundtrack and any others are terrible compared to what I have. I'm sure they're okay since I assume they are professionals, but the soundtrack I'm going to tell you about is the best out there.
This soundtrack is the COMPLETE, ORIGINAL, and OFFICIAL recording of The Adventures of Robin Hood conducted by the composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold. This cd was never intended for a public release, but it is now thanks to the guys at Tsunami doing their best to convert any old movie soundtracks that were a vinyl recording onto a cd without skimping out on the original sound. This soundtrack sounds just as well as you hear it in the movie.
Anyone who is looking for the original soundtrack can find it by searching with the serial number: Tsunami TSU 0139. Expect to look hard for a while and have to deal with foreign money. [...].