荒馬と女

発売日：2004年8月3日(火)
レーベル：Varese Sarabande

レビュー (Amazon)
Renowned as the final screen vehicle of both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, director John Huston's unsentimental portrait of a group of outcasts teamed in a metaphorical hunt for wild Mustangs in the American Southwest can also be seen as a bittersweet elegy to Hollywood's Golden Age. But composer Alex North (whose work here marks the beginning of a quarter century long association with Huston) eschews virtually every shred of traditional Western musical cliche; ironically, he'd beat out his old teacher -- and one of the chief architects of said American musical iconography -- for the job: Aaron Copland. North underpins the film's characters and their deep-seated conflicts with an evocative orchestral score that often turns on the composer's trademark emotional introspection, yet one whose sweep seamlessly encompasses romantic traditions, 20th century classicism, the jazz inflections of some of his 50's work and even some early rock-tinged atmospherics. It's a masterful fusion of melancholy and melodrama, rendered with North's impeccable dramatic instincts and attention to detail. --Jerry McCulley

1. Main Theme
2. Rendezvous
3. New Life
4. Roslyn (Aka Misfits Theme)
5. Love's Reverie
6. Love IdyII
7. Paddleball
8. Reno Bar Dance
9. Compassion/Compassion for Guido
10. Help
11. The Round-Up Suite /Disagreement/ Round-up/Chase/Tension
12. Trying For Freedom
13. Resolved Part I
14. Resolved - End Title

発売日：1998年9月15日(火)
レーベル：Rykodisc

レビュー (Amazon)
Fifteen-time Academy Award nominee Alex North came up with a jazz-tinged score to John Huston's star-studded 1961 bizarro Western The Misfits (written by Arthur Miller and featuring his wife Marilyn Monroe in her final role). North's soundtrack sashays between pastoral orchestration and sprightly dance numbers that could find a place in a juke joint or jazz club alike. The slower tunes operate around lurching horn parts and sweeping string arrangements that evoke the lonely plains, while the up-tempo material spotlights boisterous saxophones, giddy banjo runs, and taut piano vamps. It's a suitably eclectic musical romp from a film about three Nevada cowboys (including Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift) who wrangle wild horses to sell to butchers. --Richard Martin