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Michel Legrand & Noel Harrison: The Thomas Crown Affair - Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack (1968) Expanded 2014

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Michel Legrand & Noel Harrison: The Thomas Crown Affair - Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack (1968) Expanded 2014

Michel Legrand & Noel Harrison: The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Expanded Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack, Limited Edition 2014

EAC | FLAC (Image) + cue.+log ~ 419 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 192 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score, Jazz Pop, Easy Listening | Label: Quartet | # QR158 | 01:10:29

Quartet Records and MGM are proud to present the world premiere release of Michel Legrand’s complete original soundtrack from the highly sophisticated 1968 thriller The Thomas Crown Affair, the story of a Boston millionaire who puts together an insurance scam by committing holdups against himself.

Brilliantly directed by Norman Jewison (Fiddler on the Roof, In the Heat of the Night, The Cincinnati Kid), and starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, the film enjoyed great critical and commercial success and has become an icon of sixties style—known for its agile and surprising editing (by Hal Ashby), Pablo Ferro’s designs, the hot chemistry between Dunaway and McQueen, the costumes, and, of course, the music.

Having just moved to Los Angeles after the success of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Michel Legrand (The Young Girls of Rochefort, Summer of ’42, Yentl, Never Say Never Again), infused his music with a new, fresh and never-before-heard style, mixing influences of jazz, pop, Baroque and Stravinsky. It was sophisticated and chic—and worked perfectly with the film.

Legrand also composed (along with Alan & Marilyn Bergman) the beautiful song “The Windmills of Your Mind”—a song that immediately became a classic, with countless recorded versions around the world. It won Legrand and the Bergmans the Academy Award for Best Original Song (the composer was also nominated for Best Original Score).

The music was recorded in Los Angeles, with Michel Legrand conducting a great group of musicians—including Ray Brown and Shelly Manne in the rhythm section, Louise DiTullio on flute, Bud Shank on alto saxophone, Vincent DeRosa on horn, etc. When the film and the song became a success, United Artists naturally decided to release an album, but as was common with soundtrack LPs of the era, they opted for a re-recording with new arrangements that made for a supposedly more pleasant listening experience. Legrand beautifully arranged his material and re-recorded the music in France. The LP—a masterpiece in terms of its arrangements, sound and production—was a huge success, repeatedly re-released until today. The album was first issued on CD in the nineties by Ryko; it was later reissued by Varèse Sarabande and a couple of times in Japan, but the original film recording has never before been released—until now.

This CD contains the remastered album presentation (with much-improved sound) plus the entire original recording presented from mono elements, courtesy of MGM. The package includes a 16-page full-color booklet with liner notes by Legrand biographer Stéphane Lerouge, including quotes from the composer, Norman Jewison, Alan & Marilyn Bergman and Alexandre Desplat.

The ultimate presentation of a score that defines the essence of the elegant and sophisticated sound of the sixties. The cool essence!

One of the most sophisticated pop-jazz soundtracks of the 1960s – a decade filled with entries in that genre – The Thomas Crown Affair was pretty much driven, for sales purposes, by its seductive opening track, Noel Harrison's rendition of "The Windmills of Your Mind." But composer Michel Legrand had also taken an exceptionally bold approach to the overall scoring of the movie: after screening a five-hour rough cut of the film he wrote a full jazz symphony independent of the final editing or timing of the shots and scenes, which he then cut to fit the film. This approach had been used in the past for films mostly on those rare occasions when scores were written by established classical composers such as Arthur Bliss and Ralph Vaughan Williams – who had their own ways of working and felt no need to see a final edit, leaving it to the music director to make the music fit. This approach wasn't favored by Hollywood because it left too much up to the composer and could get very expensive. But for Legrand and the score, it was a liberating experience, allowing him the freedom to write his impressions of scenes that would presumably be (and ultimately were) in the final cut of the movie. The quality of the music was reflected throughout the soundtrack, which has held up astonishingly well as freestanding music across four decades; indeed, in the company of moody yet dazzling virtuoso pieces such as "The Chess Game," "The Windmills of Your Mind" almost pales as a creative work.

Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

Michel Legrand & Noel Harrison: The Thomas Crown Affair - Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack (1968) Expanded 2014


~ Michel Legrand at Allmusic
~ Michel Legrand Website
~ Michel Legrand at Wiki

~ Film at IMDB
~ Film at Wiki

Tracklist:

THE 1968 SOUNDTRACK ALBUM RECORDING

01. The Windmills Of Your Mind (2:24) performed by Noel Harrison
02. Room Service (1:41)
03. A Man's Castle (2:41)
04. The Chess Game (5:58)
05. Cash And Carry (2:35)
06. His Eyes, Her Eyes (2:17) performed by Noel Harrison
07. Playing The Field (5:48)
08. Moments Of Love (2:19)
09. The Boston Wrangler (2:49)
10. Doubting Thomas (3:48)
11. The Crowning Touch (2:59)
12. The Windmills Of Your Mind (2:22)
13. His Eyes, Her Eyes (2:15)

THE ORIGINAL FILM SCORE

14. The Windmills Of Your Mind (2:25) performed by Noel Harrison
15. Knock, Knock (0:50)
16. The Gang (3:02)
17. Getaway (0:52)
18. Escapeline (1:28)
19. Cemetery (1:20)
20. More Cemetery (1:19)
21. Enter Vicky (0:25)
22. The Windmills Of Your Mind (1:25) performed by Noel Harrison
23. Polo (0:47)
24. Brandy (1:33)
25. Chess Anyone? (4:26)
26. Let's Play Something Else (1:18)
27. Togetherness (1:38)
28. Don't Bug Me (1:15)
29. Beach House (1:01)
30. Love Montage (1:21)
31. No Deals (1:01)
32. All My Love, Tommy (3:07)


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Michel Legrand & Noel Harrison: The Thomas Crown Affair - Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack (1968) Expanded 2014

Michel Legrand & Noel Harrison: The Thomas Crown Affair - Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack (1968) Expanded 2014

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