A Passage To India | Soundtrack Suite (Maurice Jarre)

[@brucekuehn4031]

It's a pity we don't have more David Lean pictures but what we have is an amazing group of films. They try to make epics today but it's all effects and explosions. The Lean/Jarre collaborations are true works of art!

[@bobbydazzler8684]

Agreed - although Lean made a number of excellent films that don't fit the label of "epic". His early British pictures, especially the two Dickens' adaptations, Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, but also This Happy Breed, Brief Encounter, The Passionate Friends, Hobson's Choice are among his best. His first truly international picture, Summertime, is sadly overlooked.

[@Fumino798]

Listening to the epic film soundtrack in my room in New Delhi remembering the time and place Sir David tried to capture in this beautiful picture. Thank you for posting this.

[@ahmedmahon2022]

That must be an amazing experience. Read William Dalrymple on India.

[@SandViolet]

One of my three favorite soundtracks of all time. All three just happened to be composed by my favorite composer of all-time, Maurice Jarre: "The Damned", "Ryan's Daughter" and "A Passage to India".

[@janwintz8372]

LOVE his David Lean scores!

[@janwintz8372]

what about David Raksin's The Bad and the Beautiful??

[@josephanthony8585]

What about Lawrence of Arabia?

[@CT-uv8os]

Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Passage to India.

[@kimphuong3556]

The orchestration of a Passage to India is just wonderful, I just love his orchestrations, Mr Maurice Jarre is one of my favourite greatest composers, his music orchestrations are absolutely stunning and OUTSTANDING, Mr Maurice Jarre brings passion and style in one note immediately you sense you are either in Britain or India, Mr Maurice Jarre's OUTSTANDING work and David Leans fabulous movie which I love with an amazing OUTSTANDING international cast certainly will continue to be a classic.

[@harshashah2677]

This composition is just out of this world. It is total winner at all fronts. Enjoyed. Thanks for sharing this gem. Love this. Old is gold.

[@subhaschoudhury2315]

😊😅 6:13 😊

[@dahlansimpson3416]

Wonderful soundtrack for a wonderful film.

[@hudsony777]

D'accord. Yes, I completely agree. What's happened to movies?

[@hdome79]

Love this soundtrack. One of my favorite movies (what cinematography, characters, plot, etc.) and books.

[@user-if3zy3ue1u]

Love this soundtrack so much

[@RED_indiemusic]

Mrs. Moore: God has put us on earth to love and help our fellow men. Ronny: Yes, mother. Indian Crowd: Mrs. Moore! Mrs. Moore! Mrs. Moore!

[@Owlzindabarn]

And she couldn't handle those echoes and she got deeply disturbed and the whole thing wound up in the court of Racism Unlimited. Geez--the people in this movie...!

[@guidoharmeling5872]

Beautiful movie and with epic music. I saw it too in the cinema.

[@TIOMKIN1]

One of Jarre's best scores and a favorite of mine. Thanks Fred. Out.

[@markelijio6012]

So moving and uplifting. Maurice Jarre's soaring score won an Oscar in 1985 and earned an Grammy nomination in 1986.

[@tvoommen4688]

A brilliant composition ; it reminds me of a bygone era for some reason I do not know. I have this one's vinyl LP in my classics collection. And David Lean.............!

[@stanochocki8984]

A Passage to a Bygone Era.....a swank nightclub in New Delhi....a warm night, ladies , of India or British, in flowing evening gowns; men in evening wear...cocktails under a full Indian Moon...and dancing to such refrains......

[@iAsteroidPlanetSmash]

What an astoundingly brilliantly orchestral musical family and jean Michelle jarre has always been a favorite

[@RenanCMaia]

Great film and music!

[@TIOMKIN1]

Excellent Score by one of my favorite composers Maurice Jarre. Thanks Fred for the Excellent upload. Out.

[@Kristine14]

It is an excellent film and score! I especially love the intro.

[@Kristine14]

Also I particularly love the temple music

[@Dubai1066]

I Love this Music and of course the Film!

[@johnallan4951]

Rimsky-korsakov wrote it. Try him and truely enjoy.

[@sondrasmith2691]

B e a t I f u l music! His talent was above measure.

[@jeanlou79]

Love the eerie sound of Ondes Martenot at 8:22.

[@smoothielova]

Beautiful!

[@victorsigalov2822]

MARAVILLOSA PARTITURA Y ARREGLO ORQUESTAL.GRACIAS FRED. MUY BUENO.

[@jayneholdsworth5608]

Very similar to Ryan's daughter love them both

[@christinamarti4441]

Fascinating film makes me want to visit India

[@luizcarlosmunhoz7580]

Linda, magnifica, maravilhosa. Dá sensação de arrebatamento total.

[@russellcooper5201]

Love this!!

[@adela9137]

Si la belleza tuviera música... Ésta sería.

[@TepidShark]

Would love it if you did one for Ryan's Daughter, that's another great Jarre score. There is a 13 track album from MGM Records to go off of.

[@SoundtrackFred]

Thank you, I will see what I can do. :-)

[@BillofRights1951]

A great ffilm....we saw it in first run at a 70MM house and it was stunning. Two big undeserved snubs: Judy Davis should have won the Oscar instead of Sally Field. I love Field, but her performance in A Place in the Heart just does not stand up...she essentially wore the same expression thru the entire film...in fact that film plays like a made for TV film of the era. The other snub was Victor Banerjee, who deserved a best actor nomination, at least. The film was brilliant...not static or stagey....it plays fresh to this day.

Epic...

[@plwinkler]

This music sounds just like Jarre's score for Ryan's Daughter,

[@TheDulcifer]

. . . It sounds 100% like the theme to Ryan's Daughter!

[@sondrasmith2691]

I think he did some variation on part of Ryan's Daughter music for this one but works well.

[@marklucas2591]

Actually I can notice a similarity with Murder on the Orient Express

[@victorfabianveravillalobos3539]

Genio.

[@franklinchenfranklin4840]

Amsterdam ,Batavia thank you

[@armandoleytonarmandoleyton7485]

Vital y festiva, pero tan lejana!!!

[@johnallan4951]

Try listening to Murder on the Orient Express. Notice any similarities?

[@suecollins3246]

John did you post something similar on the Murder on The Orient Express Soundtrack? Because I came back here to listen. Yes - there IS a similarity, isn't there? However don't you think you're being a little unfair, calling him a 'plagiarising shyster'? He wouldn't have been the first to dip into dear Ramsey-Korsakov. Messrs Boroden Wright and Forrest did the same for Kismet...

[@johnallan4951]

@@suecollins3246 Your right. I do get excited sometimes. And over state my opinions.

[@suecollins3246]

@@johnallan4951 Goodness! I posted that Comment AGES ago. Don't sweat it - thank God for the Passionate People. But while I've got you here - do you notice any similarities between Khartoum and Kings Row?

[@salvotoreromep5322]

Secondo il mio parere le musiche di questo film non sono all altezza di Lawrence d Arabia e del dottor Zivago.

[@robertosolito1276]

Come si dice: TALE PADRE TALE FIGLIO

[@notaire2]

The movie itself is not as deep-moving as the music. The same phenomena sometimes occurred with operas in the 19th century.

[@suecollins3246]

Yes, I hear you. I saw the movie in the cinema and remember being highly irritated that the movie almost 'petered out'. We never did find out what happened in the Caves of Malabar...

[@williamgardiner2010]

@@suecollins3246 It's because you never find out in the EM Forster book either. So it must remain as a mystery. Lean however does provide a possible clue in the jump cut from Adela panicking in the cave to water seeping out when an elephant bathes. It's clearly an orgasm - Lean never put jump cuts in without a point. So Adela freaks out over her sexuality? It's what the Australian actress Judy Davis told Lean what she thought happened and he then cast her. But he nor Forster didn't want to have some grand reveal as in an Agatha Christie novel.

[@suecollins3246]

@@williamgardiner2010 Hmmm...You might be right. Lots of symbolism in even the most harmless seeming of novels - look at Alice In Wonderland and Peter Pan and The Water Babies. I never much liked _any_ of them and I've occasionally wondered _why_ .

[@georgediiorio1065]

A. Passage to. America. The. Cid.

[@Owlzindabarn]

Love the score, but "Great Expectations" at 10:40 totally sounds like the theme song from "Let's Make a Deal" kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYrWc6Z_od2Lo9k

[@leosnzk2931]

Ennio Morricone in Once upon a time in America is better

[@williamgardiner2010]

Well that like comparing apples and oranges. One is for a film about gangsters in lower Manhattan; the other is for a film set during the British Raj in India.

[@JohnColtrane2000]

a better comparison case i think woud be Morricone's Salo, similar 20s vibe, different angle, check it out -- two great scores! OUATIA is a nostalgic piece; this is more of a period narrative.