Miklós Rózsa — Ben-Hur: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Soundtrack Factory (24-bit Remastered Limited Edition 2CD)

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Product Details:

• Product Type: Audio CD (2-disc set)
• Brand / Label: Soundtrack Factory
• Composer / Conductor: Miklós Rózsa
• Catalogue No.: 606351
• Barcode / UPC: 8436539313175
• Release Year: 2015 (this edition)
• Original Film: Ben-Hur (1959, dir. William Wyler)
• Genre: Film Score / Soundtrack

Product Features

• Format: 2 x CD
• Edition: Limited Edition, 24-bit Remastered
• Includes 16-page booklet
• Made in the EU
• Condition: Brand new, factory packaged

Overview

The Ben-Hur original soundtrack is Miklós Rózsa's towering score for William Wyler's 1959 epic — the film that won a record eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Spread across two discs and remastered in 24-bit, this Soundtrack Factory edition gives the music room to breathe, from the brass-heavy Overture to the hushed cues built around the Star of Bethlehem.

Rózsa composed and conducted the score at MGM Studios in 1959, drawing on years of research into Roman and early Christian music to give the picture its distinctive ancient weight. The result is one of the most studied and imitated film scores ever written — grand processionals, the famous galley and chariot sequences, and quiet sacred passages all sitting side by side.

This is the full presentation: a limited, remastered set with a 16-page booklet, aimed squarely at collectors of golden-age Hollywood soundtracks.

Interesting Facts

• Ben-Hur won eleven Academy Awards in 1960, a record it held alone for decades and still shares only with Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
• Miklós Rózsa spent over a year on the score and conducted it himself, making it one of the longest scores written for a film up to that point.
• Rózsa researched Greco-Roman and early Christian sources to shape the score's ancient sound world.
• The "Parade of the Charioteers" became one of the most recognised concert pieces to come out of a film score.
• Rózsa won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Ben-Hur — one of three Oscars across his career.

Track Listing

Disc 1 highlights: Overture; Anno Domini; Star of Bethlehem / Adoration of the Magi; Friendship; The House of Hur; Esther; Love Theme; Salute for Gratus; Arrius' Party; The Galley; The Rowers; Victory Parade; Victory Finale.

Disc 2 highlights: Fertility Dance; Nostalgia / Farewell to Rome; Balthasar's World; Homecoming; Sorrow and Intermission; Circus Fanfare; Parade of the Charioteers; The Search; Valley of the Dead / Tirzah Saved; The Procession to Calvary / The Bearing of the Cross; Golgotha; The Miracle and Finale.

Publishers

Released by Soundtrack Factory (cat. 606351), made in the EU, 24-bit remastered limited edition with a 16-page booklet. Music composed and conducted by Miklós Rózsa.

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