Track Listing

1. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: Prelude
2. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: Aerial Pursuit (Kiley's Plane Chases Hessler's Car)
3. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: Back To Base - Hessler's Arrival
4. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: The Plan Of Attack - Tank Inspection
5. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: Christmas In Ambleve - The Americans Debate
6. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: Panzerlied (Words: Kurt Wiehle, Music: Adolf Hoffmann)
7. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: Interlude With A Courtesan 1st Class
8. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: The German Tanks Emerge And Break Through
9. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: First Tank Battle
10. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: Massacre At Malmedy (The Massacre Of The American Prisoners)
11. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: The Armaments Train
12. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: The Siege Of Ambleve
13. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: Night Assault On Ambleve
14. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: Soldiers In Hiding - The Americans Prepare
15. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: Hessler In High Spirits - Flight Through The Fog
16. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: Final Tank Battle
17. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: The Attack On The Fuel Depot Fails And Hessler Is Killed
18. The Battle Of The Bulge - Complete Film Music: The Panzerman abandon their tanks : Victory And Postlude

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #69495 in Music
• Released on: 2000-09-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
Following a highly acclaimed cycle of Benjamin Frankel's symphonies which saw Frankel hailed as one of the great post-war orchestral voices, CPO embarks on a series devoted to the composer's film work. Battle of the Bulge (1965) was the last of 105 film, theatre and television productions to be graced with a Frankel score, and is his film-music masterpiece. Reflecting a film on the scale of The Longest Day and The Great Escape, there are more than 78 minutes of music, and, due to the low level at which the score was mixed in the finished film, much of it is really heard on this release for the first time. Ranging from huge battle sequences filled with thrilling motor rhythms to the terror of a massacre of prisoners, through a moment of peace that interpolates traditional Christmas carols, this is movie music on a vast canvas. The sound is bold and dynamic, while the Queensland Symphony Orchestra who have recorded many discs of Frankel's music under the baton of Werner Andreas Albert, respond with terse, electrifying performances. The full power of Frankel's vision is unleashed in the Violin Concerto In Memory of the Six Million, Frankel's profoundly personal, rather than Hollywood-inspired, reaction to the horrors of WWII. --Gary S Dalkin