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Joseph Kosma
La Grande Illusion
Genre: Soundtracks

Track Listings (18) - Disc #1
1. Main Title
2. Frou-Frou
3. Dining With German Officers at the Front
4. La Grande Illusion, film score: Moving from a Prisoner War Camp - Joseph Kosma, Kosma, Joseph
5. It's a Long Way to Tipperary
6. Sunday Morning at the Prison Camp
7. Si Tu Veux Margueritte
8. The Sound of Frustration
9. The Railways Travel from the Fortress
10. Reception on the Military Prison
11. Two Officers and Aristocrats
12. Preparing the Escape
13. The Magic Flute
14. Noblesse Oblige
15. Refuge at a German Farm
16. A Christmas Romance
17. The Lover's Farewell
18. The Fugitives Arrive in Switzerland/End Title

CD Details

All Artists: Joseph Kosma
Title: La Grande Illusion
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Soundtrack Factory
Release Date: 4/5/2004
Album Type: Import, Soundtrack
Genre: Soundtracks
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

CD Reviews

Disappointing

Major Kong | California USA | 06/26/2001

(3 out of 5 stars)

"La Grande Illusion is one of the greatest films of the 20th century and, if you enjoyed the movie, you might like this CD. Like Hitchcock and Herrmann or Spielberg and Williams, the collaboration of filmmaker Jean Renoir and composer Joseph Kosma deserves serious attention. This CD, unfortunately, does a disservice to both artists. The soundtrack is lifted directly from the film; dialogue and sound effects obscure Kosma's music. In addition, the liner notes provide a useful filmography of Kosma's career but little else. Kosma scored over 100 films between 1936 and 1971 and is as important to French cinema as Alfred Newman, Franz Waxman, Miklos Rozsa, or Erich Wolfgang Korngold are to American film. Surely a better treatment of Kosma's work than this is possible."