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| Masters and Commanders | 
 enlarge | Creators: Eric Kim, Klaus Badelt, Elmer Bernstein, Luigi Boccherini, John Debney, Morton Gould, Bronislaw Kaper, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Henry Mancini, Alfred Newman, Miklos Rozsa, Franz Waxman, Hans Zimmer, Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Label: Telarc
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 10926
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 80682
UPC: 089408068225
EAN: 0089408068225
ASIN: B000RHRG3A
Release Date: July 24, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | ALFRED NEWMAN'S Conquest from "Captain from Castile: | | • | MIKLOS ROZSA's The Mayflower from "Plymouth Adventure"KLAUS BADELT's | | • | The Medallion Calls | | • | The Black Pearl | | • | He's a PirateHANS ZIMMER's Selections from Pirates of the Caribbean: | | • | Jack Sparrow | | • | Hornpipe | | • | ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD's Overture to Captain Blood | | • | . | | • | Prelue | | • | Out to Sea | | • | FRANZ WAXMAN's Overture to "Anne of the Indies" | | • | HENRY MANCINI's Artic Whale Hunt from "The White Dawn" | | • | KORNGOLD's Suite from "The Sea Hawk" | | • | BRONISLAU KAPER's Main Theme from "Mutiny on the Bounty" | | • | WAXMAN's Suite from "Captains Courageous" | | • | MORTON GOULD'S Main Title (The Ship) from "Windjammer" | | • | JOHN DEBNEY's End Title from "Cutthroat Island" |
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Album Description
Masters and Commanders, the newest release by Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra on the Grammy Award-winning Telarc label, is a swashbuckling musical portrait of valiant seamen, tempestuous captains, eccentric pirates, pious pilgrims and more. The new recording includes selections from classic films such as Captain Blood, Sea Hawk, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Buccaneer and Plymouth Adventure, as well as the recent Pirates of the Caribbean movies and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Highlights from Masters and Commanders include Academy Award-winning composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Captain Blood Overture and Suite from Sea Hawk. Captain Blood, which was the legendary actor Errol Flynn's first starring role, also was Korngold's first original film score. Korngold's evocative cinematic scores set a benchmark for numerous film composers who followed, including John Debney, whose score for the 1995 film, Cutthroat Island, was dedicated in part to Korngold and MiklAs RAzsa. The end title from Cutthroat Island is heard on Masters and Commanders, as well as Morton Gould's Main Title from Windjammer and Henry Mancini's "Arctic Whale Hunt" from The White Dawn. MiklAs RAzsa, of Ben-Hur fame, composed "The Mayflower" for the film, Plymouth Adventure, in 1952. Franz Waxman's film music is represented with the Overture to Anne of the Indies and Suite from Captains Courageous. Hans Zimmer, considered a worthy successor to Korngold's symphonic idiom, scored big with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and the earlier Crimson Tide, both of which are represented on Masters and Commanders. Three selections from Klaus Badelt's score from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, also are included. The recording also includes music by Elmer Bernstein (selections from The Buccaneer); Alfred Newman ("Conquest" from Captain from Castile); and Bronislau Kaper (Main Title from Mutiny on the Bounty). A Richard Tognetti arrangement of Luigi Boccherini's Los Manolos is included from Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, the 2003 film starring Russell Crowe.
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 Commanders in need of a little remastering May 14, 2008
I've enjoyed the Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops discs I've owned and have always appreciated the clever mix and variety of selections programmed - a few warhorses and some very out-of-the-way things.
Most of the music on MASTERS AND COMMANDERS is wonderful. A few other reviewers complain of the performance of the suite from Korngold's THE SEA HAWK, but for me it's OK. I find the Newman, Rozsa and Kaper very well done. I was completely unfamiliar with the ultra-romantic Waxman piece from ANNE OF THE INDIES and it's tremendous. So is his CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS. Other music I didn't know and am now very happy to have: the Bernstein, Mancini (very impressive) and the very obscure Gould. The bit from Debney's CUTTHROAT ISLAND is a rousing finish, too.
However, there are a couple of issues. First, the music by Klaus Badelt and Hans Zimmer for the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN films is painfully trivial and out of its league between Rozsa's PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE and Korngold's CAPTAIN BLOOD. This is what passes for film music these days? I understand the desire to include something from these popular new films, but this stuff just doesn't hold up. I program the disc to omit the offending tracks (3-7) and it's much improved for the omission.
Second, I don't know how the microphones were placed for these sessions but most of this CD sounds as if the whole orchestra were set up down in the cellar with the door closed to the upstairs while the recording crew and their equipment were in the living room! The brass is getting through, but the strings are just lost. How unfortunate! It's pretty weak and turning it up doesn't solve the problem. The other Kunzel discs I've had haven't sounded like this to me.
Still, recommended.
 "Swashbuckling Films from the Golden Age ... Kunzel ... Telarc (2007)" December 3, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Telarc Records presents "MASTERS AND COMMANDERS - MUSIC FROM SEAFARING FILM CLASSICS" --- Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops deliver a superior quality performance --- The presentation of themes from various swashbuckling films becomes an enjoyable experience --- The sound is vintage Telarc with the rich embodied texture that we've come to expect and Kunzel makes the most of it --- Like a breeze filling the sails of his pirate ship Kunzel keeps us straight on course captive and spellbound --- This collection from the Golden Age of film music represent treasures from the past --- With brilliant and vibrant direction Kunzel keeps the orchestra within his grasp and the listener is completely engulfed and loving every minute and morsel --- Some inside information, Kunzel loves sailing, so this album was given the utmost care for his love of the sea and music.
The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is a pops orchestra based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, founded in 1977 --- Erich Kunzel, celebrating his 30th season with the orchestra in 2005-2006, continues to lead the Pops today.
It was Maestro Max Rudolf who, in 1965, invited Erich Kunzel, then a young conductor on the faculty of Brown University, to join the Cincinnati Symphony --- That October the Dartmouth graduate, who had been personal assistant to the great French conductor Pierre Monteux, conducted his first sold-out 8 O'Clock Pops concert --- From this orchestra eventually sprang the Cincinnati Pops --- It was the beginning of a modern orchestral legend and, 30 years later, the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra under its first and only conductor is still performing for packed houses in Cincinnati's Music Hall and gaining new fans the world over through tour performances and its recordings on the Telarc label.
Kunzel and the CPO made history by becoming the first American pops orchestra to perform in China in October, 2005 --- In 2006, Kunzel was awarded the National Medal of Arts. --- (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Masters and Commanders - Music from Seafaring Film Classics - Performed by Cincinnati Pops Orchestra - Conducted by Erich Kunzel
(Track Listings)
1. Captain from Castile, film score: Conquest [3:38]
Composed by Alfred Newman
2. Plymouth Adventure, film score: The Mayflower [4:02]
Composed by Miklos Rozsa
3. Pirates of the Carribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score: The Medallion Calls [1:13]
Composed by Klaus Badelt
4. Pirates of the Carribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score: The Black Pearl [2:19]
Composed by Klaus Badelt
5. Pirates of the Carribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score: He's a Pirate [1:21]
Composed by Klaus Badelt
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, film score: Jack Sparrow [4:06]
Composed by Hans Zimmer
7. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, film score: Hornpipe [1:26]
Composed by Hans Zimmer
8. Captain Blood, film score: Overture [3:27]
Composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
9. String Quintet (Quintettino) for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos in C major
("La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid"), G. 324 (Op. 30: Los Manolos
(as used in the film "Master and Comma [3:32]
Composed by Luigi Boccherini
Performed by Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and Timothy Lees
Conducted by Erich Kunzel
10. The Buccaneer, film score: Prelude [3:18]
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
11. The Buccaneer, film score: Out to Sea [3:24]
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
12. Anne of the Indies, film score: Overture [4:23]
Composed by Franz Waxman
13. The White Dawn, film score: Arctic Whale Hunt [3:45]
Composed by Henry Mancini
14. The Sea Hawk, film score: Suite [5:36]
Composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
15. Mutiny on the Bounty, film score (1962): Main Title [2:09]
Composed by Bronislaw Kaper
16. Captains Courageous, film score: Suite [5:39]
Composed by Franz Waxman
17. Windjammer, film score: Main Title ("The Ship") [3:08]
Composed by Morton Gould
18. Cutthroat Island, film score: End Title [5:08]
Composed by John Debney
Hats off to Telarc Records --- strongly recommend this CD to all music lovers and others who need to hear some great film music --- Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and Erich Kunzel (conductor) please stand up and take a bow for this well deserved rare gem you've given us --- this is a keeper!
Total Time: 68 mins on 18 Tracks ~ Telarc Records ~ (7/24/2007)
 disappointing, alas November 6, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Here is another of Mr Kunzel's recordings of film music which concentrates not on what is good music, but what is current film music. Discerning Mr Kunzel is not, which is why we can have music by such first-rate musicians as Newman, Rozsa and Waxman (not to mention Korngold) side by side with that of Mr Zimmer and the other less-than-notable current crop.
One really wishes that Mr Kunzel would at last get serious and start recording music that has stood the test of time, rather than music from the most recent box-office success.
 Under Whelming Even With Bone-Jarring Bass Blast October 18, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
1. Small ensembles are asking for it when re-recording film music of recent vintage (or when competing with modern recordings of classic-film scores by orchestras almost twice their size). The comparisons can be brutal. This is exactly what the listener is confronted with on this CD. And by boosting the bass on most tracks, not only is it flat-out annoying, but it often covers up what the orchestra is trying to convey.
2. That said, there are some great tracks here especially the OVERTURE TO ANNE OF THE INDIES composed by Golden Age Film Music Magician, Franz Waxman. Selection from PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN composed by Klass Badelt (PIRATES I) and Hans Zimmerr (PIRATES II) also seem to hold their own when compared with the films' sound tracks (the most effective use of bass blast). Not so for many of the other 18 tracks on this CD--Elmer Bernstein (THE BUCCANEER), John Deney (CUTTHROAT ISLAND), Alfred Newman (CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE), etc.
3. Suites from film scores composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold are, well, pedestrian. Korngold's OVERTURE TO CAPTAIN BLOOD is rather poorly orchestrated, sounds under rehearsed, and suffers from small ensemble whimpiness and bass blast. Pretty much the same for Korngold's SUITE FROM THE SEA HAWK except this version (one of close to two dozen and counting) is only half awake. No energy here. Which is astonishing, since Korngold's film scores and conducting performances approach the music equivant of the speed of light!
4. Bottom line: Nice CD, but conductor Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra have released better.
William Flanigan, Ph.D.
Shipshape recording October 9, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Kunzel does a fine job here, as he does in the vast majority of his recordings. Above all, he shows respect for the music at all times, and makes no attempt to glitz or schmaltz it up. In this reording, he brings out the majesty and fun of the music while respecting it. Great film scores are rare these days, and Kunzel, with recordings like these, is one of the few still taking up the cause
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