Miklos Rozsa

2-CD SET

Ben-Hur was a 1959 American epic historical drama film, directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Heston. A remake of the eponymous 1925 silent film, both movies were adapted from Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The 1959 version had the largestbudget ($15.175 million) as well as the biggest sets built of any film produced at the time. Costume designer Elizabeth Haffenden oversaw a staff of 100 wardrobe fabricators to make the costumes, and a workshop employing 200 artists and workmen provided the hundreds of friezes and statues needed in the film. The nine-minute chariot race has become one of cinema’s most famoussequences, and the film score, composed and conducted by Miklós Rózsa and presented here in its entirety, is the longest ever composed for a film, and was highly influential on cinema for more than 15 years.It won a record 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Wyler), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Heston), and Best Musical Soundtrack (Rózsa).

Music composed and conducted by MIKLÓS RÓZSA
Orchestrations by EUGENE ZADOR

Recorded in Rome, Italy, and at MGM Studios Scoring Stage,
Culver City, California, January- October, 1959.

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

CD1:

01 OVERTURE
02 ANNO DOMINI
03 STAR OF BETHLEHEM/ADORATION
OF THE MAGI
04 SHOFAR CALL
05 FANFARE TO PRELUDE/PRELUDE/MARCIA ROMANA
06 SPIRIT AND SWORD
07 SALUTE FOR MESSALA
08 FRIENDSHIP
09 THE HOUSE OF HUR
10 CONFLICT
11 ESTHER
12 THE UNKNOWN FUTURE
13 LOVE THEME/RING FOR FREEDOM
14 SALUTE FOR GRATUS
15 GRATUS’ ENTRY TO JERUSALEM
16 ARREST
17 REMINISCENCES
18 CONDEMNED
19 ESCAPE
20 VENGEANCE
21 THE PRISON –PARTS 1 & 2
22 THE DESERT/EXHAUSTION/THE PRINCE OF PEACE/ROMAN GALLEY
23 SALUTE FOR ARRIUS
24 QUINTUS ARRIUS
25 ROMAN FLEET
26 THE GALLEY
27 REST
28 BATTLE PREPARATIONS/THE PIRATE FLEET/ATTACK!/RAMMING SPEED /BATTLE RESCUE
29 ROMAN SAILS
30 THE ROWERS
31 VICTORY PARADE
32 VICTORY FINALE

TOTAL TIME: 72:02 Min.

CD 2:

01 FERTILITY DANCE
02 ARRIUS’ PARTY
03 NOSTALGIA/FAREWELL TO ROME
04 A BARREN COAST
05 JUDEA/BALTHAZAR
06 BALTHAZAR’S WORLD
07 HOMECOMING
08 MEMORIES/HATRED
09 LEPERS
10 RETURN/PROMISE
11 SORROW AND INTERMISSION
12 ENTR’ACTE
13 PANEM ET CIRCENSES #1
14 CIRCUS FANFARES #1-4
15 PANEM ET CIRCENSES #2
16 NEW FANFARE (#5) FOR CIRCUS PARADE/CIRCUS PARADE (PARADE OF THE CHARIOTEERS)
17 CIRCUS FANFARE #6 (FANFARE FOR START OF RACE)
18 PANEM ET CIRCENSES #3
19 CIRCUS FANFARE #7 (BEN-HUR CROWNED)
20 BITTER TRIUMPH
21 AFTERMATH
22 VALLEY OF LEPERS/THE SEARCH
23 THE UNCLEANS
24 ROAD OF SORROW
25 THE MOUNT/THE SERMON
26 FRUSTRATION
27 VALLEY OF THE DEAD/TIRZAH SAVED
28 THE PROCESSION TO CALVARY/THE BEARING OF THE CROSS/RECOGNITION
29 AFTERMATH (CRUCIFIXION)
30 GOLGOTHA
31 SHADOW OF A STORM
32 THE MIRACLE/FINALE

TOTAL TIME: 68:09 Min.