Intrada
  • Sign InSign Out
  • My Account
  • View Cart (0)
  • Checkout
Search
 
 
  • Home
  • Store
    • New Releases
      • Now Available
      • Coming Soon
    • Store Catalog
      • Intrada Label
      • By Label
      • By Composer
      • By Film Decade
      • By Film Genre
      • By Special Note
      • By Music Style
    • Collector's Corner
      • One-of-a-Kind
      • Anything Goes
      • Featured
      • Danger Zone
    • Vinyl
  • Discussion
    • Doug’s Corner
      • Archive
    • Soundtrack Forum
      • Views & Opinions
      • Pre-Release
      • Suggestion Box
  • Label
    • Press Room
  • About Us
    • About Intrada
      • History
      • Staff
    • Our Collaborators
  • Contact
    • Newsletter
    • Get In Touch
      • E-mail
      • Postal Address
    • Store Policies
      • FAQs
      • Privacy Policy
      • Order Form
Products > Intrada Label > Main Catalog > 
Shopping Cart
Your Cart is Empty
View Cart
Search
 
 
 Products
 Store Catalog
 Intrada Label
 Disney/Intrada
 Excalibur Collection
 Main Catalog
80 FOR BRADY
ALBERTINA RASCH & THE GREAT AMERICAN BALLET - PIANO MUSIC FOR CONCERT AND STAGE
PRANCER: A CHRISTMAS TALE
STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK (2CD - REISSUE)
THE LAST STARFIGHTER (REISSUE)
THE SAND PEBBLES (2CD - REISSUE)
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - NEW MUSIC FOR THE 1925 FILM
BLACK PATCH / THE MAN (RE-RECORDING)
CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD / WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
JULIUS CAESAR (REMASTERED RE-RECORDING)
THE CALL OF THE WILD
RIO CONCHOS / THE ARTIST WHO DID NOT WANT TO PAINT (REMASTERED RE-RECORDING)
THE CROODS: A NEW AGE
THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR
IVANHOE (REMASTERED RE-RECORDING)
DRAGONHEART VENGEANCE
PARIS UNDER THE STARS - BALLET MUSIC FOR ALBERTINA RASCH
DIAL M FOR MURDER (RE-RECORDING)
DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD
CRAWL
MA
HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U
BACKDRAFT 2
WELCOME TO MARWEN
RAMBO III (RE-MASTERED)
RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II (2CD)
TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (6CD BOX SET)
SILVER STREAK (REISSUE)
TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE, THE (180 GRAM VINYL)
CLASH OF THE TITANS (180 GRAM VINYL)
ROCKY IV (180 GRAM VINYL)
WARLOCK (180 GRAM VINYL)
JAWS (2CD)
BACK TO THE FUTURE
IN HARM'S WAY (EXPANDED)
TROLL (180 GRAM VINYL)
ON THE WATERFRONT
BEN-HUR / KING OF KINGS: THE TWELVE CHORUSES
SHIVER
MAN IN HALF MOON STREET, THE
RE-ANIMATOR
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
REVENGE
CONAN THE BARBARIAN (3CD)
RED HOUSE, THE
CHARADE
STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER (2CD)
 Signature Edition
 Special Collection
 Digital

ON THE WATERFRONT

ON THE WATERFRONT
Download Artwork
    Leonard Bernstein
    Label: Intrada INT 7141
    Film Date: 1954
    Album Date: 2014
    Time: 50:21
    Tracks: 24
    An important, world-class film score finally on CD for the first time ever!

    Price: - (Sold Out)

    Add to cart
    • More Info
    • Track List
    • Doug's Tech Talk
    • Musicians List
    • Reviews
    • An important, world-class film score finally on CD for the first time ever! Leonard Bernstein's magnificent music for Elia Kazan's equally-magnificent, multi Oscar-winning film On The Waterfront - with its landmark performance by Marlon Brando - has until now been available only as an oft-perfomed, re-arranged 19-minute "classical" suite, a brief 2-minute selection on "Leonard Bernstein's New York" album with the Orchestra of St. Luke's plus one short segment on a 1956 Decca collection of Columbia movie themes entitled You Can't Run Away With It. The actual original soundtrack scoring session elements have been missing for ages and were presumed lost for ever. But, incredibly, when Sony unearthed elements for their recent restoration of the film classic on Blu-ray, myriad cans of audio turned out to contain not just effects and film dialog but also the entire scoring sessions, probably being discovered for the first time in a half century. These recordings, captured on acetate discs for playback purposes during the sessions, included music not heard in the finished film! Recorded at Columbia Pictures' own scoring stage at the end of April 1954, with vintage audio and surface noise in abundance, these none-the-less priceless recordings at last reveal the entire score in all of its magnificence. While some nominal restoration was necessarily performed during mastering, Intrada took pains to retain the integrity of the original recordings, avoiding attempts to engage excessive noise reduction (which would damage the upper range, string sonorities and harmonics) or otherwise sonically compromise this important piece of musical history. Several authors have written about Bernstein's lone original film score, including text by the composer himself. The architecture is worthy of the great symphonies, the harmonic vernacular still profound today. The potent violence music, the dramatic ideas, the memorable love theme and all their collective variants are here, including the actual soundtrack performance of the music for the legendary "cab" scene which Bernstein completely dropped from his concert suite. Deserving particular spotlighting is the main theme and how it appears: In an incredibly stark and unusual beginning device, one French horn plays the theme without introduction, without accompaniment. Soon woodwinds, then straight-mute trumpets enter. It's subtle and profound. Then the melody disappears for nearly the entire score (!), finally emerging on a single trumpet late during "Dead Pigeons", prior to the final fight scene. Equally profound, subtle scoring. Then, for his actual finish, Bernstein goes to the other extreme, bringing the entire orchestra into a triumphant, fortissimo climax on the theme worthy of Brando's famous "walk", massive chords pounding, multiple tympani, tam tam & gong crashing. Note also a solo trumpet crying out alone with the love theme high above the rest of the orchestra which instead shouts out the main theme in powerhouse fashion. A brilliant melding of two memorable melodies into one! Film music doesn't get any better than this. As "extras", our CD also offers a rejected take of the main title with trumpets using cup mutes (a warmer sound) as well as the premiere of "The Accident" that was also dropped from the picture. Yet another treat is hearing a surging, powerful full strings treatment of the main theme following the aforementioned "Dead Pigeons" quote. It too was completely dropped from the film but arranged into Bernstein's concert suite. Listeners who thought it was exclusive to the suite will be delirious to discover it's all here! Morris Stoloff conducts the Columbia Pictures Orchestra. Bernstein himself is one of the session pianists. Classic music from a classic film. Own this incomparable piece of American musical history at last!
    • Play all clips

      01. On The Waterfront – Main Title (Revised) (3:26)
      02. Roof Morning (1:03)
      03. Scramble (1:18)
      04. Riot In Church (1:57)
      05. Glove Scene (1:45)
      06. Glove Scene – Coda (0:54)
      07. Pigeons And Beer (2:37)
      08. Saloon Love (1:39)
      09. Waterfront Love Theme (1:33)
      10. Blue Goon Blues (2:28)
      11. After Sermon (1:12)
      12. Roof 3 (1:35)
      13. Confession Scene (1:15)
      14. Kangaroo Court (0:34)
      15. Cab And Bedroom (3:59)

      16. Charley’s Death (4:21)
      17. Throwing The Gun (1:11)
      18. Dead Pigeons (4:35)
      19. The Challenge And The Fight (3:38)
      20. Walk And End Title (4:09)
      Total Time: 45:55

      The Extras
      21. On The Waterfront – Main Title (1:28)
      22. The Accident (1:59)
      23. “Gott Lebet Noch” – Organ
      (J. S. Bach, Arr. L. Bernstein) (0:35)
      24. Blue Goon Blues – Whistle (0:11)
      Total Extras Time: 4:18

    • Store

    • New Releases
    • Store Catalog
    • Collector's Corner
    • Discussion

    • Doug's Corner
    • Forum
    • Label

    • Press Room
    • About Us

    • About Intrada
    • Our Collaborators
    • Contact Us

    • Newsletter
    • Get In Touch
    • Store Policies

    Follow us:

    Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter
    Security Seals
    Intrada
    • Intrada: 5940 College Ave, Suite G. Oakland, CA 94618
    • Ph: (510) 250-9178 Fax: (510) 250-9268
    • Email: intrada@intrada.com