At last! World CD premiere of original score from mega-hit fourth installment of wildly popular ROCKY saga, starring Sylvester Stallone as iconic boxer, with Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers - and formidable Russian opponent Dolph Lundgren. Original album featured songs plus two excerpts from score. Intrada release offers entire score by Vince DiCola, including his arrangement of classic "Theme from ROCKY" by Bill Conti. Unleashed at last is rich score, initially for keyboards, ultimately for large orchestra. Many highlights include haunting piano/cello theme for "Apollo's Death and Funeral", powerful "Up the Mountain" sequence, dynamic "Training Montage", powerhouse "War", epic "Knockout" for full orchestra. Intrada presents score in crisp, punchy stereo mixed directly from original 24-track digital masters courtesy of Sony. Vivid artwork courtesy of MGM, enthusiastic liner notes by Daniel Schweiger. Finally, biggest gap in Rocky soundtrack series is delivered! Vince DiCola composes, produces. Jeremy Lubbock orchestrates, conducts.
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At last! World CD premiere of original score from mega-hit fourth installment of wildly popular ROCKY saga, starring Sylvester Stallone as iconic boxer, with Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers - and formidable Russian opponent Dolph Lundgren. Original album featured songs plus two excerpts from score. Intrada release offers entire score by Vince DiCola, including his arrangement of classic "Theme from ROCKY" by Bill Conti. Unleashed at last is rich score, initially for keyboards, ultimately for large orchestra. Many highlights include haunting piano/cello theme for "Apollo's Death and Funeral", powerful "Up the Mountain" sequence, dynamic "Training Montage", powerhouse "War", epic "Knockout" for full orchestra. Intrada presents score in crisp, punchy stereo mixed directly from original 24-track digital masters courtesy of Sony. Vivid artwork courtesy of MGM, enthusiastic liner notes by Daniel Schweiger. Finally, biggest gap in Rocky soundtrack series is delivered! Vince DiCola composes, produces. Jeremy Lubbock orchestrates, conducts.
Composed by Vince DiCola and Conducted by Jeremy Lubbock. Orchestra recorded on October 8, and 17, 1985, at Evergreen Recording Studios, Burbank, California. Small Ensemble recorded from August, 1985, through January, 1986, at Scotti Bros Records, Santa Monica, California.
VIOLIN Gerald Vinci
Dixie Blackstone
Jacqueline I. Brand
Thomas R. Buffum
Isabelle Daskoff
Assa Drori
Bruce Dukov
Henry Ferber
Irving Geller
Edward P. Green III
Clayton Haslop
Reg Hill
Alexander Horvath
Bill Hybel
Brian Leonard
Gordon H. Marron
Ralph D. Morrison III
Don Palmer
Sheldon Sanov
Robert Sushel
Mari Tsumura-Botnick
Harold Wolf
Arthur Zadinsky
Shari Zippert
VIOLA David Schwartz
Marilyn H. Baker
Kenneth Burward-Hoy
Peter Hatch
Myra S. Kestenbaum
Margot MacLaine
Michael Nowak
Herschel Wise
CELLO Frederick Seykora
Ronald B. Cooper
Larry Corbett
Ernie Ehrhardt
Marie Fera
Dennis Karmazyn
Raymond J. Keeley
David H. Speltz
BASS Buell Neidlinger
John Clayton Jr.
Stephens LaFever
Bruce P. Morgenthaler
Susan Ranney
Margaret Storer
WOODWINDS James R. Walker
Dominick Fera
Gary Gray
David Shostac
Susan Greenberg
Tom Boyd
Earle Dumler
Ronald A. Janelli
James M. Kanter
Kenneth Munday
Joseph Nazzaretta
Geraldine Rotella
David W. Riddles
TRUMPET Jerry Hey
Charles B. Findley
Robert H. Findley
Gary E. Grant
Charles Davis
Nelson E. Hatt
TROMBONE Charles C. Loper
Alan L. Kaplan
Charles C. Reichenbach
Donald G. Waldrop
Leslie K. Benedict
Roy G. Main
Lew McCreary
TUBA John Thomas Johnson
James M. Self
HORNS Vincent N. De Rosa
Calvin L. Smith
Richard Todd
Brad Warnaar
DRUMS/PERC. Donald J. Williams
Victor S. Feldman
Steve Forman
Jerry D. Williams
Terry Mahady
Robert F. Pavlon
COPYIST/
LIBRARIAN Suzie Katayama
COPYIST Terence A. Bonnell
Robert G. Skinnell
Stuart Balcomb
SMALL ENSEMBLE Paul Merar (bass)
George Perilli (drums)
Vince Di Cola (keybds)
Michael Sembello (gtr)
Duane S. Hitchings (keys, gtr)
Casey Young
Eric G. Sylvester
Scott L. Shelly (gtr)
Mike Wald
David Sylvest
Christina Erickson (trpt/cornet)
Randy Sanchez
Richard Bourk
Mike McGurk
John Weaver
Dale A. Sterling
Don Marchand
Jessica Shaver
Susan K. Smith
Marc Dickman
Thomas C. Hager
Terryl Wayne
Morris Fuselier
Mike Junkroski
Leonard Castro (perc)
Ed Fruge
Nick Brown
