Product Overview
Music by Franz Waxman
Limited edition of 1000 units
La-La Land Records and Paramount Pictures present a 75th Anniversary remastered and expanded limited edition CD re-issue of legendary composer Franz Waxman’s Academy Award-winning original motion picture score to the 1951 big-screen drama A PLACE IN THE SUN, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters and directed by George Stevens.
Renowned composer Franz Waxman (SORRY, WRONG NUMBER, THE FURIES, SUNSET BOULEVARD) unleashes a magnificent score that powers this classic and tragic story of a man irreversibly corrupted in his struggle to trade his working-class existence for one among the wealthy elite, complicated further by his relationships with two women, one from each of his separate worlds. Anchored by its towering love theme, Waxman’s orchestral score surges with emotion, weaving the romantic and the optimistic while countering with the sinister and tragic.
Marking the 75th anniversary of the film and its score, La-La Land has been able to expand the previously existing soundtrack presentation with newly restored material, including music salvaged from a lacquer disc housed in the Waxman Collection at Syracuse University. The label then worked in consultation with the composer’s son, John Waxman, to create an assembly that showcases the original vision for the score to the fullest extent possible, with dramatically improved sound quality. Listeners can now hear Waxman’s musical vision with unprecedented clarity and impact.
Produced by Dan Goldwasser, restored by Chris Malone, and mastered by Doug Schwartz, this limited edition CD of 1000 units features The Franz Waxman Score tracks, along with additional music and source music. The exclusive, in-depth liner notes are by writer John Takis, and the sharp art design by Dan Goldwasser includes rare behind-the-scenes images.
Track Listing
TRACK LISTING:
THE FRANZ WAXMAN SCORE
1. Prelude And First Scene (Stem Restoration) 2:50
2. The First Mile 3:00
3. Dance And Angela 3:15
4. Not Married (Stem Restoration) 1:28
5. Evil Plans 3:29
6. Loon Lake – Part 1 (Stem Restoration) 2:40
7. Loon Lake – Part 2 2:03
8. Buildup To Murder 3:22
9. The Drowning – Part 1 3:14
10. The Drowning – Part 2 3:13
11. Despair – Part 2 (Stem Restoration) 0:58
12. Exhaustion (Stem Restoration) 1:06
13. Farewell And Frenzy (Stem Restoration) 3:05
14. Angela Collapses 1:15
15. Witness Montage 1:44
16. The Last Mile (Finale Soft Ending) 1:47
TOTAL WAXMAN SCORE TIME: 38:29
ADDITIONAL MUSIC
17. Theme From A Place In The Sun 3:57
18. The President’s Office (Stem Restoration) 0:35
19. Love’s Meeting 2:16
20. Dance And Angela (Rescored Version) 3:07
21. Dance And Angela (Alternate Version) 3:07
22. Ophelia (Stem Restoration) 2:11
23. To The Lake 1:43
24. Farewell And Frenzy (Rescored Version) 2:15
25. Anguish (Stem Restoration) 0:29
26. Finale (Rescored Version) 0:49
TOTAL ADDITIONAL MUSIC TIME: 20:29
SOURCE MUSIC
27. Movie End Title / Paramount On Parade 0:26
28. Rhumba (Unused) 2:07
29. Out Of Nowhere (Rhumba) 2:34
30. Alice’s Radio 1:16
31. Why Fight The Feeling? (Stem Restoration) 0:56
32. Girl’s School – Alma Mater 1:05
TOTAL SOURCE MUSIC TIME: 8:24
TOTAL ALBUM TIME: 67:22
This is a CD format release
