Wednesday, June 29, 2011

A FRED STEINER ALBUM

Fred Steiner's re-recording, with the National Philharmonic Orchestra, of the Max Steiner score for King Kong (1933)...



Steiner's recordings, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, of suites adapted from Star Trek (1966-1969)... some his own scores and one from Sol Kaplan ("The Doomsday Machine"). These performances lack the fire and swagger of the original recordings done for the show, and suffer a bit from the 'concertized' sound and tempo, but they are worth listening to if you want to hear outstanding dramatic music written for a television series...



... And various scores his own ("Mirror, Mirror", and "By Any Other Name"), and from others (Jerry Fielding's "The Trouble With Tribbles", and George Duning's "The Empath")...

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