First release of entire Dominic Frontiere soundtrack from George Miller aviation adventure with Christopher Reeve, Rosanna Arquette, Jack Warden, from book by Ernest K. Gann.
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First release of entire Dominic Frontiere soundtrack from George Miller aviation adventure with Christopher Reeve, Rosanna Arquette, Jack Warden, from book by Ernest K. Gann. Reeve (a pilot in real life) stars as vintage U.S. mail flyer who pilots treacherous route, crashes while transporting daughter of wealthy banker who owns fleet of planes. Surviving the elements, packs of deadly wolves and each other forms basis for old-fashioned tale. Frontiere anchors with stirring main theme in grand major-key manner. Idea literally soars. Receiving near-equal attention is gorgeous, broadly-phrased love theme in three parts: first is sunny major-key melody, second is contrasting minor-tinged melody, third is reprise of initial idea. Throughout, richly-harmonized main theme never strays, keeps score on course. Frontiere balances melodic portions with sizzling, percussive action material for variety of survival scenes, wolf attacks. Intrada CD is significant: both original 1985 LP release and subsequent, slightly expanded CD version oddly omitted numerous percussion parts, recorded in separate sessions, to key action cues. Intrada presentation not only presents complete mixes for the first time, but also features plethora of never-before-released cues from the film as well as several alternates - 75 minutes of music in all, courtesy MGM. Attractive booklet design by Joe Sikoryak features informative liner notes by Tim Greiving. Jack Hayes, Herbert Spencer orchestrate, Dominic Frontiere conducts Munich Symphony Orchestra. Intrada Special Collection CD available while quantities and interest remain!
01. The Crash/Main Title (4:16) 02. Tillie's Theme (2:02) 03. The Hangar (1:57) 04. Have A Good Flight (0:26) 05. Here We Go (3:55) 06. Sit With You (2:29) 07. The Crash No. 2 (3:35) 08. The Forest (4:35) 09. Real Prize (1:12) 10. Saw The Fire (3:42) 11. Air Terminal (1:56) 12. The Rabbit Hunt (1:19) 13. The Wolf Pack (Complete Mix) (1:07) 14. Stitch In Time (1:16) 15. Something To Eat (0:51) 16. Search Is On (1:21) 17. Take What You Need (Complete Mix) (1:55) 18. Tillie Falls (1:57) 19. Kid I'm Sorry/All Addicts (Revised) (2:43) 20. Go To Sleep (1:02)
21. That's Capital Peak (1:21) 22. Our Luck Is Changing (1:44) 23. Have To Pee (2:08) 24. I Belong To Some Place (1:07) 25. Locked Pistol (1:10) 26. Pole Wires/Old Man (Complete Mix) (5:00) 27. The Cabin (1:46) 28. End Titles - Long Version (3:22) Total Time: 1:01:57
The Extras 29. Coffee Donut (2:42) 30. "Poor Butterfly" (Raymond Hubbell-John Golden) (1:13) 31. All Addicts (2:09) 32. All Addicts (Alternate) (1:18) 33. Old Man (Vibes) (0:18) 34. Old Man - Part 2 Short Version (Complete Mix) (2:57) 35. End Titles - Short Version (2:28) Total Extras Time: 13:08
Tech Talk From The Producer…
This newly remastered premiere of the entire soundtrack from The Aviator features a number of important distinctions from all previous releases of the music. It was originally available on vinyl from Varèse Sarabande; later it was slightly expanded for release on CD by La-La Land. Both of these prior versions not only omitted a significant number of cues from the score but, interestingly, did not include the separately recorded percussion tracks for several sequences. Our release features every track recorded by Dominic Frontiere during his Munich scoring sessions— including the separate percussion overlays which are mixed as the composer intended.
The score was originally recorded on 2′′ 24-track tape and mixed down to three-channel stereo for Dolby presentations of the film, and two-track stereo for all other purposes, including the soundtrack albums. There were our rolls of ½′′ mixes plus all of the selections from sides A and B of the Varèse Sarabande album (taken directly from the first four rolls and edited onto two separate rolls by themselves). Including several alternates in “the extras” section of the disc plus the composer’s source cues, this new Intrada CD presents 75 minutes of music in all.
One source cue for piano (“Sit With You,” track 6) appears in sequence during the main program as it complements the previous cue and adds to the period flavor of the picture. The other source cues appear in the extras. For “The Addicts,” a late sequence where Jack Warden delivers a monologue reflecting on the lives of various pilots, Frontiere wrote and recorded one version, re-scored the scene with a shorter version for a recut of the picture, and then revised the cue yet a third time for the finished film. We have included all three versions on our album. (In fact, the film ran 11 reels—approximately 110 minutes—when Frontiere scored it, but ultimately it was cut down to the current 96-minute length.) Also appearing on our CD are alternate versions of “Old Man” and “End Titles”—both recorded in two different lengths.
Now, take to the skies with all of Dominic Frontiere’s soaring music for 1985’s The Aviator.
