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Gone With The Wind: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Deluxe Edition) | 
 enlarge | Artist: Max Steiner
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 220468
Format: Box Set, Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 5.8 x 0.6
UPC: 081227226923
EAN: 0081227226923
ASIN: B0000033Q9
Release Date: October 15, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Main Title | | • | Tara | | • | The O'Hara Family - Max Steiner, Foster, Stephen | | • | Scarlett Prepares for the Barbecue | | • | Twelve Oaks - Max Steiner, Foster, Stephen | | • | The Barbecue - Max Steiner, Foster, Stephen | | • | Afternoon Nap - Max Steiner, Barnby, Joseph | | • | Charles Hamilton Challenges Rhett | | • | In the Library | | • | War Is Declared/The Death of Charles - Max Steiner, Emmet, D. | | • | At the Bazaar | | • | Maryland, My Maryland - Max Steiner, | | • | Dances | | • | Gettysburg - Max Steiner, Lambert, Louis | | • | Outside the Examiner Newspaper Office - Max Steiner, Tucker, H. | | • | At the Depot | | • | Christmas at Aunt Pitty's - Max Steiner, Mendelssohn, Felix | | • | Melanie and Scarlett Tend the Wounded | | • | Scarlett's Promise | | • | Train Depot - Max Steiner, Foster, Stephen | | • | Melanie in Labor | | • | Rhett Returns - Max Steiner, Foster, Stephen | | • | Escape from Atlanta - Max Steiner, Work, H.C. | | • | Soldiers in Retreat | | • | Rhett and Scarlett on McDonough Road | | • | Twelve Oaks in Ruin/Scarlett Comes Home | | • | I'll Never Be Hungry Again! |
Disc 2
| • | Alternate Entr'acte | | • | Battle Montage | | • | The Deserter | | • | Melanie and Scarlett | | • | It's Over! | | • | Frank Kennedy Asks for Sullen's Hand | | • | Paddock Scene | | • | Gerald's Death | | • | The New Store | | • | Scarlett in Shantytown | | • | Ashley and Dr. Meade/Frank's Death | | • | Belle Watling and Melanie | | • | Scarlett Gets Tipsy | | • | New Orleans Honeymoon - Max Steiner, Woodbury, J.B. | | • | Can-Can | | • | Scarlett's New Wardrobe | | • | Scarlett's Nightmare | | • | Bonnie's Birth | | • | Twenty Inches! | | • | The Lumber Mill | | • | After the Party | | • | London | | • | Rhett and Scarlett's Fight | | • | The Death of Bonnie | | • | Melanie and Mammy - Max Steiner, Axt, Williams | | • | The Death of Melanie | | • | Scarlett in the Mist/Rhett Leaves | | • | Flashback/Finale |
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Amazon.com
In the '30s, audio technology was relatively primitive, even for movies. So for years the original Max Steiner score for Gone With the Wind presumably went the way implied by its title, that is until the '60s when Selznick studios executors discovered the lost masters. Now, for the first time, this two-disc digital restoration presents the original Steiner soundtrack in its entirety. Besides the well-remembered "Tara's Theme," these tracks reveal the composer's penchant for dramatic underscoring with lushly romantic melodies, including motifs from Stephen Foster and other Old South strains. For soundtrack aficionados, the music satisfies despite the relatively primitive recording quality of the time. Also included is a 52-page illustrated booklet covering the novel's origins, the film's production, and asides about the actors. --Joseph Lanza
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Film Music Treasure November 20, 2007
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Not another recording of GONE WITH THE WIND I hear you say! But please don't jump to any conclusions for here we have the most fantastic and without doubt the most definitive version on record of this classic score.
The presentation of this original soundtrack double CD is positively stunning! Like Rhino's previous release of the double CD of Rozsa's brilliant BEN HUR their GONE WITH THE WIND is even more impressive. The elongated book-like container is graced with beautiful art work and has a handsome 52 page booklet detailing the history of the movie and score by the erudite Rudy Behlmer.
All other soundtrack versions and re-recordings can now be confidently
discarded except, of course, Muir Mathieson's fine version he conducted in 1959 when Steiner was in London scoring JOHN PAUL JONES.
Max Steiner's music for GONE WITH THE WIND is now history. Here was the budding genius that was to blossom into full flower later with such film music masterworks as "Now Voyager" (1942), "Treasure Of The Sierra Madre"
and "Johnny Belinda" (both 1948), The Flame & The Arrow" (1950),"The Searchers"(1956),"A Summer Place" (1959) and "Spencer's Mountain"(1963).
The music is arguably the most popular film music ever written. It was the first 'Blockbuster' movie score and the one that woke us up to the fact that there was music in the background of films at all. It is remarkable that the majestic 'Tara Theme' is still capable of sending a shiver up the spine.
All the themes we know and love are here but there are many more glorious cues making their way onto disc for the first time such as the lovely six minute cue "The O'Hara Family", the music for "Twelve Oaks" and "The Barbecue", the complete "Escape From Atlanta", "Scarlett in Shantytown"
and you haven't heard "Melanie's Death" until you hear it here complete with the almost bittersweet angelic chorus. Guaranteed to soften the hardest of hearts this piece is one of the composer's loveliest and most
touching musical inspirations!
Listening to the album and reading the informative booklet one begins to
realise just how gargantuan and exhaustive an undertaking the scoring of
the picture really was. Due to time constraints and constant demands from David O'Selznick Steiner was forced to enlist the help of fellow composers Hugo Friedhofer, Heinz Roemheld, Franz Waxman, Adolph Deutsch
and William Axt. Their contribution to the overall score, however, was minor and based mainly on Steiner's material. It's fun to try and locate some of these pieces on the album.
Sound is surprisingly excellent and it's hard to believe that the recording is almost 70 years old. The whole album is a collector's joy
from start to finish and makes a nice companion piece, on your bookshelf,
to the double BEN HUR - the two best soundtrack albums of the nineties!
Leonard Bernstein once remarked of Max Steiner "had he written nothing else but "Gone With The Wind" we would be forever in his debt".
WE ARE!
Rhino needs to re-release this PRONTO. August 25, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Sadly, my exposure to this excellent 2-CD soundtrack set of Gone With The Wind has been from friends who own this set. Almost every note of music from this historic film score is present, including music not previously heard in the film. The sound quality is not always perfect, but considering these recordings are nearly 70 years old, it's forgiveable.
One glaring omission is the exclusion of the overture, intermission, entr'acte, and exit music tracks. True, they're merely 5 minute suites of score heard elsewhere in the film, but I happen to think they're excellent suites and should have been included here. Other than that, it's a perfect set.
However, I'd like to be able to enjoy a 2-Disc set of my own. I'd like to be able to actually touch it and hold it and see the beautiful box art in person. I'd like to be able to look at the disc art in person. I'd also love to be able to read the booklet that comes with the box. I own Rhino's 2-CD Wizard of Oz soundtrack, and I know this one's booklet will be just as excellent as the Oz booklet.
And yes, I can touch it, read the booklet, and flat out own the thing...if I'm willing to pay $80 or more on eBay or Amazon Marketplace. C'mon, Rhino, I know you're reading this. Stop acting like you work for Disney and keep your soundtracks, compilations, etc. in print. Not all of us can just afford to toss aside $100 for an out of print soundtrack. True, there's the single-disc version that's still in print, but why? Why not keep BOTH in print? Consumers LIKE choices. I'd surely pay $25-$30 for this soundtrack, as it's absolutely 100% worth it. But not $100+ from internet sellers. It's not fair to force the fans to choose between an affordable release that's incomplete and made really only for the casual fan, or an outrageously expensive OOP edition that has everything you could want.
Please bring this 2-Disc set back into print, Rhino! As FRank Kennedy would say, please don't leave us on tenderhooks!
Rhino Does It Right September 14, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
What a pleasure to be able to hear virtually all of the original soundtrack! I bought the standard vinyl original soundtrack recording in the late 60's after the theatrical re-release that introduced me to what was to become my all-time favorite film, and eventually wore it out through overuse. It was worth the wait to be able to replace it with this fine effort, which includes deluxe packaging and a beautiful 52-page booklet on the making of the film. Granted, one wonders if perhaps the music could have been better restored but I suppose caution is indicated--overzealous use of noise-reduction technology has ruined many a remastering effort. No matter; the first few notes brought tears to my eyes.
I advise GWTW fans to go the extra mile and invest in this two-disk definitive set that will grace any collection. And for the uninitiated, my advice is to "go for it." Max Steiner, who blessed generations of movie goers with scores for such classics as King Kong; Now, Voyager; and Casablanca, composed one of the most famous and recognizable soundtracks in cinema history for what many believe to be the greatest movie of all time--find out why.
So complete I never realized some of this music existed September 5, 2003
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
A wonderful 2 disc soundtrack of the film. I know GWTW like a second language, but I was pleasantly surprised to hear music that I never noticed before such as Charles Hamilton Challenges Rhett, and many other "extended" versions.
Rudy Behlmer's liner notes are enlightening, informative, and make for interesting reading.
Max Steiner enthusiasts, and soundtrack aficionados will relish this set.
Deserves more than five stars! January 27, 2001
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Not only is Gone With The Wind the greatest movie of all time, Max Steiner produced the greatest moviescore of all time. The ONLY way the movie Gone With The Wind could have been improved would have been to crank the music score up a lot louder!
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