OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE / THE 25TH HOUR (FSM0610)

Description: FSM reissues two classic MGM Records albums on one CD, Our Mother's House and The 25th Hour, both from 1967 and composed by Georges Delerue.Georges Delerue (1925-1992) was a gifted melodist and dramatist whose music accompanied the best films of the French new wave: Shoot the Piano Player, Contempt, Jules and Jim, The Soft Skin, Two English Girls, Day for Night, Love on the Run and The Last Metro, most directed by Francois Truffaut. While he was recognized for the gentle, lyrical quality of his scores (such as the Oscar-winning A Little Romance), Delerue tackled every sort of genre in more than 300 films, including epics, crime thrillers, romances and political dramas.Our Mother's House was an offbeat drama directed by Jack Clayton about seven English children who decide to raise themselves after their mother passes away. It works well enough—until the arrival of their no-good father (Dirk Bogarde). Delerue's lovely, melodic scoring made headlines 17 years later when it influenced Quincy Jones's music for The Color Purple. How similar is it? For years Our Mother's House was notoriously difficult to hear, the LP having been released only in Canada—now, you be the judge!The second half of the program is Delerue's equally melodic but much different score for the Eastern European Holocaust saga The 25th Hour, starring Anthony Quinn as a Romanian farmer mistaken for a Jew and cast about Europe for the better part of a decade. Delerue provided a simple, heartfelt theme for cimbalom and eerie, dirge-like music for a continent gone mad—in the "25th hour" of humanity.FSM's premiere CD features both album programs newly remastered from the best possible stereo sources. The packaging includes the original album notes as well as new commentary. Music Composed and Conducted by Georges Delerue Our Mother's House Solo Piano: Peter KatinMain Title -- Our Mother's House 3:42The Garden 3:34Mother Will Always Be Here 3:23Recess 1:34Gertie Is Punished 3:53Charlie 1:31The Children 1:42Charlie Arrives Home 2:20The Boat Race 1:20The Party 1:30Charlie Burns Mother's Pictures 3:43The Children Leave Our Mother's House 2:35 Total Time: 31:18 The 25th HourOpening 2:30In the Church 1:56Johann & Suzanna 2:50Deportation of the Jews' 2:46Suzanna at the Minister's House 1:38Johann in the Wheat Field 2:20Arrival of the Germans 1:06Johann in Budapest 1:42The Train Stops 0:51Gathering of the Flowers 1:59Arrival of the Russians 2:57Death of Traian 2:15Johann on the Platform 0:57Johann and Suzanna Reunited 1:17 Total Time: 27:31 Total Disc Time: 58:49

Price: 19.95 USD

Location: Linden, Virginia

End Time: 2024-10-09T15:54:40.000Z

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