Regarding the Musical Score…
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Madame X
RAS-1 — 20 years ago(August 29, 2005 11:14 PM)
Can anyone tell me the name of the classical composition played solo on a piano 44 minutes into the movie? It then is accompanied by orchestra and continues as an underscore throughout the sequence. I've heard this piece on many other occasions but have never been able to nail it down. Thanks in advance!
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RAS-1 — 20 years ago(October 23, 2005 03:07 PM)
That's not the one I'm referring to. I am very familiar with the "Swedish Rhapsody" composed by Charles Wildman and used as the main title theme and elsewhere throughout the movie (and also credited at the beginning of the film). As stated in my earlier post, the one I'm inquiring about is precisely 44 minutes into the movie and is not identified in the credits nor on IMDb. The scene is very moody with subdued lighting and begins with a piano solo performed by the character Christian Torben (John Van Dreelen) while Holly Parker (Lana Turner) sits by the fireplace. At 45 minutes in, the piece evolves into a light orchestral underscore for the next minute and 54 seconds, then is not heard again for the remainder of the film.
By the way, in 1949, the "Swedish Rhapsody" was used very effectively throughout the Swedish-French film production "Singoalla" starring Viveca Lindfors and Christopher Kent (later known as Alf Kjellin, real name). It is the tale of a nobleman (Kent) who foresakes his royal life to marry a beautiful gypsy girl (Lindfors). It was released in the United States in 1951 by Monogram Studio under the title "Gypsy Fury" to raves and kudos by the press and theatre audiences, a rarity for Monogram, but then Monogram was only the distributor. To anyone's knowledge, no known trace of the film remains today, but then miracles do exist.
Thanks groomer-1 for the guesswork, but it just isn't what I'm looking for. Sorry. -
oliver-177 — 19 years ago(June 17, 2006 04:58 AM)
"This is a Frank Skinner arrangement of Franz Liszt's Consolation No. 3." which he must have loved because it pops back here and there, notably in "All that Heaven Allows."
Now, back to Swedish Rhapsody: That is the schmaltzy slow waltz in a minor key with a poignant augmented fourth on the fourth note, right? So after drying my eyes, I went to iTunes to see if I could find it: Bingo, four versions. Mantovani, Percy Faith But when I listened to the excerpt first, it's a ridiculous march, vaguely Tyrolean, which everyone knows (but which I wouldn't want playing on my iPod when I hug the wrong children on the snowy street thinking they are mine)
I guess the fifties were crammed full of Swedish Rhapsodies. I'll have to content myself with the Warsaw Concerto