| View Larger Image | All About Eve/Leave Her to Heaven | Audio CDAlfred Newman (Composer)
| List Price: | $19.98 | |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Format: | Soundtrack | | Studio: | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation | | Release Date: | January 11, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 319,672th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Main Title [From All About Eve]
- Track 2: Prologue [From All About Eve]
- Track 3: Award [From All About Eve]
- Track 4: Eve's Narration [From All About Eve]
- Track 5: Friendship Begins [From All About Eve]
- Track 6: Margo [From All About Eve]
- Track 7: Exit Music [From All About Eve]
- Track 8: Party [From All About Eve]
- Track 9: Theme for Piano [From All About Eve]
- Track 10: Liebestraum/Liebestraum 2 [From All About Eve]
- Track 11: Eve's Dream [From All About Eve]
- Track 12: Audition [From All About Eve]
- Track 13: Margo and Bill [From "All About Eve"]
- Track 14: Karen's Decision [From All About Eve]
- Track 15: Beau Soir [From All About Eve]
- Track 16: Eve's Success [From All About Eve]
- Track 17: Karen's Guilt [From All About Eve]
- Track 18: Margo and Bill's Reconciliation [From "All About Eve"]
- Track 19: Karen's Resignation [From All About Eve]
- Track 20: Real Eve [From All About Eve]
- Track 21: Eve's Photo [From All About Eve]
- Track 22: Phoebe's Arrival [From All About Eve]
- Track 23: All the Eves [From All About Eve]
- Track 24: Encore [From All About Eve]
- Track 25: All the Eves [Stereo][Version]
- Track 26: Encore [Stereo][Version]
- Track 27: Prelude [From Leave Her to Heaven]
- Track 28: Ash Ritual [From Leave Her to Heaven]
- Track 29: Bar Harbor [From Leave Her to Heaven]
- Track 30: Unrest [From Leave Her to Heaven]
- Track 31: Homicide [From Leave Her to Heaven]
- Track 32: Arsenic [From Leave Her to Heaven]
- Track 33: Redemption [From Leave Her to Heaven]
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Album Description
Full title - All About Eve/Leave Her To Heaven. Reissue of 1950 & 1946 soundtracks with special plastic packaging. Membran. 2004. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 1 review)
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A Bit Over-Rated by J. A. Retzer (Phoenix, AZ)  3 Stars
January 17, 2009
This is not meant as a slam at Alfred Newman by any means, but I think much of the rave reviews this score has received is based more on the film (and all the baggage associated with it) than with the score itself.
There is no question that Alfred Newman was a master composer, of more genuine talent and creativity than John Williams could muster in his lifetime, and a much better arranger/conductor -with nine Oscars to prove it.
My gripe, however, is that "All About Eve" is one of Newman's weaker scores, completely purpose-build and squarely centered around the central theme, which is repeated endlessly throughout in various guises (no less than six separate times in major cues and quoted in almost all.
This would have been okay if it were a catchy tune -like Tara's Theme, or even Lara's Theme- but in this instance it's a completely out-of-place piece of music which would have served well for the opening sequence of some film about life in the big city, or perhaps a police drama, but try as I may, I could make no connection between the theme and anything presented on the screen.
The music simply "didn't fit" and yet Newman worked it into the very fabric of the score to the point of boredom.
"Leave Her To Heaven," the second half of this double-feature CD, is a much more solidly grounded -yet strangely bland- Newman score.
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