Apr 11, 2017
Formini - Footing
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Formini - Footing
Miklós Rózsa - A Time to Love and a Time to Die [1958; Decca Records, Inc., Fonit]
In this score to the 1958 film, Miklós Rózsa opens with a bold brass fanfare before slipping in stringed gentility, with the balance and interplay between those two sides shaping most of the score. It’s a natural fit for the wartime romance, but despite the care put into the arrangements, the close adherence to the standard full orchestra war film scoring of the time leaves little room for distinction outside of the infrequent and short passages of low-key moodiness.
The woodwinds are employed to nice effect for those slices, and the playful humor of a few moments bring more life and character to their cues than the stretches of brash trumpeting, heavy melancholy, or lushly-played but fairly stock romance strings. Likewise, while the main themes are well-developed and revisited with attentive reworking, they end up feeling too much in line with the scoring done on other more sober war films of the era to really stand out. Appreciable though the quality of the score-writing is, with Rózsa managing both large and small-scope direction in good standing, it ends up undone more by its familiar form than anything else.
Giampiero Boneschi - Con Pifferi E Banjo
Giampiero Boneschi - Can Can Fantastique
