The Great Escape (Score)
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Composer: Elmer BernsteinEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
Running Time: 32 unknown-units
Published: 2004-06-15
CD Release Date: 2004-06-15
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- Main Title - Elmer Bernstein
- Premature Plans
- Cooler And Mole
- Blythe
- Discovery
- Various Troubles
- On The Road
- Betrayal
- Hendley's Risk
- Road's End
- More Action
- The Chase
- Finale
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Free Music Review: A Cherished and Essential Soundtrack
Hit: 5 Stars
Many thanks go to Rykodisc for reissuing this soundtrack on CD back in 1998. Now, minus the dialogue tracks, it is back on compact disc again thanks to Varese Records. It now has a new cover featuring Steve McQueen instead of the original poster art. That aside, THE GREAT ESCAPE left us with indelible images, characters, dialogue and music. This film contains one of Elmer Bernstein's most recognizable themes in cinema history: the main title or "The Great Escape March" as it is often referred to. To say that THE GREAT ESCAPE has such a distinction is an understatement. His main title theme is as much a tribute to the Allied prisoners in the film as it is to all men who must overcome the odds through their own perseverance and unwillingness to bend to defeat to whatever noble end they strive for. Bernstein's complex score complements the theme by giving us passages and statements on the diversity of the individuals as well as their singular overall objective. Once the Allied escapees are on the road, the music reaches exhilarating proportions unlike that of traditional action Hollywood scoring. Bernstein wants to put the audience through the same suspense and anticipation that the escapees feel and then unleashes our pent up emotions in a crescendo of rousing orchestrations that has us cheering them on. That was the same brilliant technique he employed in THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. I don't think many people give Elmer Berstein the credit for being the musical innovator that he was back in this period of his prestigious career. Composer Bernstein was able to control our emotions giving us moments of reflective tranquility, then despair and in the next moment lifting our spirits again knowing that actions were not taken in vain and good will eventually prevail. This is an excellent recording.
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