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A. Andersen | Bellows Falls, VT USA | 08/16/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The five cuts from EAST OF EDEN and the four cuts from REBEL were lifted directly from the film soundtrack music masters, but pressed onto lp and 45 rpm in mono only. The three pieces from GIANT are poor. These pieces had to be short in order to fit on 45 rpm formats as well as lp, so no more than 3.5 minutes from each cut could be recorded onto the vinyl pressings.



You can find all the music from EDEN and REBEL presented here plus lots more from both films' musical tracks in the album A TRIBUTE TO LEONARD ROSENMAN. John Adams conducts the London Sinfonietta, perfectly capturing the original orchestrations and tempi -it's like listening to the film's track, but in full stereo and you get lots more music for your money. Stick to that one and leave this one alone."

Really great movie music!

Stefan Huber | Bischofstetten Austria | 06/24/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Without any doubt, James Dean is and will be one of the most remembered actors in a whole galaxy of movie stars.
Although his career covered only three feature movies, they still stand as classics, and so does the music!
For the first two features "East Of Eden" and "Rebel Without A Cause", the producers turned to Leonard Rosenman, who (although these were some of his first works) created outstanding scores for both.
While "East Of Eden", JD's first major movie, is an outstanding symphonic work (based on the never-forgotten main theme), "Rebel Without A Cause" includes more jazzy tones.
Warner-veteran Dimtri Tiomkin scored the final of the three features, "Giant". Although I regard all three scores among my favorite soundtracks, I think, "Giant" is the most outstanding. Tiomkin's variations of the three main themes (Giant, There Has Never Been Anyone Else But You, Jett Rink) are nostalgic treasures, nobody should miss! I can't wait, when they're finally going to release the entire score! The two cuts from ?Giant? included here are the ?Giant? theme and ?There Has Never Been Anyone Else But You?. These two tracks do not appear in the movie in this form, but were recorded to promote the film. As a bonus, the producers have added Mitch Miller?s ever-popular recording of ?The Yellow Rose Of Texas?.
Last, but not least, this album is the best possibility to get the soundtrack to these three great movies! Previous issues included drastical hiss and other noise or were taken directly from the music and effect track of the movies!"

THE SOUNDTRACK

Edward Oleksak | New Jersey USA | 02/13/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Worth having - after all, it is the soundtrack. But the later Nonesuch re-recording would be my first choise (if I could not get both). The Nonesuch sound is so much improved, really 1st class & the preformance is excellent. Also there's more music to be had. The old Columbia sound does show its age - It was of poor quality even as a '50s LP -it's harsh and thin. But, then again, an original soundtrack "holds much weight" to collectors of film music.

The "GIANT" tracks are torally absurd, they are NOT soundtrack recordings but silly arrangements of Tiomkin's superb score, which really cries out for a reconstructed re-recording."