The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre / Stromberg, Moscow Symphony

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
September 25, 2007
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      STEINER, MAX
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Moscow Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
    • PERFORMER
      William Stromberg
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 25, 2007
    • UPC
      747313018574
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8570185
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Main Title

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    2. A. Sanchez: El Desayuno

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    3. Attack on the Train

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    4. The Journey Commences

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    5. Windstorm

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    6. Campfire - Up There - Water Trough - Gold-Digging - Cave-in - Rescue

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Dino Soldo

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    7. Texas Memories

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    8. Night - Distrust - Gila Monster

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    9. Bandits - Outnumbered - Federales

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    10. Cody's Letter - Texas Memories (Reprise)

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    11. Packing Up - Indian Visitors

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Chorus

      Performer: Dino Soldo

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    12. Funeral Chant

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Symphony Chorus, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    13. Unwilling Caretakers

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    14. Madness

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    15. Narange Dolce

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    16. After Dobbs - The Man in the Hole! - Arrested

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    17. The Ruins

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    18. Texas Memories - Finale

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    19. End Cast

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    20. Theatrical trailer

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    21. Alternate Main Title

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg

    22. Alternate Finale

      Composer: Max Steiner

      Ensemble: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: William Stromberg


Consistently enjoyable and exciting, glistens with personal touches.

This is another escapee from Marco Polo [8.225149] newly revivified by Naxos in their Film Music Classics series. There’s an hour’s worth of music here with short cues run together for reasons of continuity in the proper sequence. Steiner’s music is consistently enjoyable and exciting. It glistens with personal touches and little orchestral feats that captivate and evoke in the shortest possible time.

The Train Attack scene sets the pulse racing – all one hundred seconds of it – and Steiner cleverly uses percussion voicings to summon up thoughts of finding gold. There are opportunities for nostalgia and reflection as well – Steiner uses Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms as such a device in the sixth track here, Campfire, and it reappears later. The cave-in scene is excitingly but tersely done – for all Steiner’s symphonic depth and range he maintained a "go for the jugular" precision when necessary.

These are qualities strongly in evidence in the banditry and violence of the score as when, for instance, the remorseless gaining of the bandits is so trenchantly evoked by the slash of the strings and the throb of the rhythm. Steiner builds up tension with inexorable but concise precision. And there are of course plenty of moments for the unleashing of his lyric affiliations; the romantic string curve of the tenth track, Cody’s Letter, leads on to a reprise of Texas Memories and its evocation of the sentiment of Believe Me.

The more horrifying elements of the score are also targeted with his accustomed finesse and compact perception. The cue The Ruins for instance has an abundance of high string and harp writing that has a satisfyingly high spine-tingle quotient. The Chorus is used very sparingly, here to sing the Funeral Chant [track twelve] and it’s done in the usual accomplished way.

Talking of accomplishment the orchestral and vocal forces of the Moscow Symphony sound notably well drilled and on the ball in this performance. John Morgan’s restorations are part of the backbone of the whole series and his written notes are always worth reading. Production values are high, as always.

Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International