Alexander The Great 1956 Soundtrack

By Mario Nascimbene

[@raulpr777]

It is men who endure toil and dare dangers that achieve glorious deeds. And it is a lovely thing to live with courage and to die leaving behind an everlasting renown.

[@IsraelNowIsraelForever]

That line is much better than the way it was written for Alexander (MMIV).

[@raulpr777]

@@IsraelNowIsraelForever Can you explain. I am not sure, but I assume the original line is from Plutarch (maybe his Parallel Lives)

[@IsraelNowIsraelForever]

@@raulpr777 I would not know about the line being from Plutarch, but the pedestrian way it was written for Alexander was terrible compared to the eloquent manner in which it was written for Alexander The Great.

[@TIOMKIN1]

One of my favorite composer every since I saw "The Vikings" when it first came out in 1958. He never really got the recognition and appreciation he so truly deserved. Thanks for the upload of this magnificent score. Out..

[@raulpr777]

Wonders are many, but none is more wonderful than man himself.

[@goranvisnjic9714]

Burton is a legend and this theme is epic

[@andrewgrundy744]

I love this underrated composer this is a great score in a unique style .Some parts remind me of Alfred Newman

[@swashbucklerscinema6825]

I like both. The Robert Rossen Classic as well as Oliver Stones one. First of all it's Art and Entertainment for Cinema and TV but no time travel.

[@gregorbegger9291]

I like the 1956 film better

[@micharuszkowski48]

Epic !!!

[@LockAndLoadp]

I have yet to see it

[@DarkWhispers__]

Legends will know it from M&B Warband

[@stephensorenson6559]

i'd love to have the CD and DVD,also,if anybody on youtube can upload nascimbene's score for the film"francis of assisi",which i do have on DVD,i'd love to hear it!

[@LockAndLoadp]

It's good,not bad as the Oliver Stone film.

[@IsraelNowIsraelForever]

The photoplay written and directed by Oliver Stone was dreadful in my opinion. I only saw the CLXVII minute Director's Cut, and it was crap, save for the brief nude shots of Barsine (Rosario Dawson). The story structure was even more confusing than Mario Puzo's The Godfather Part II. I personally do NOT believe that Alexander was either homosexual or bisexual. Although I love three and a half hour epic dramas (ie. The Birth Of A Nation, etcetera), I refuse to watch Alexander Revisited because it focuses more on Alexander and Hephastion, and there is some male frontal nudity. I am straight, so lower male nudity grosses me out.

[@edernhaushofer2011]

​@@IsraelNowIsraelForeverCope with your unsure yet toxic masculinity mate and just leave us to appreciate this beautiful music. Whatever you wish Alexander's sexual oriention were does not interest me or any historian for that matter. If penises gross you out, maybe it's time to do some triming down there (don't i'm joking you could die). Hope you realise that you homophobic reaction is not appropriate in this comment section.

[@kinalk]

What is he saying at the begining? I cannot recognise.

[@danielm3670]

Macedonia forever.

[@ForgottenHeroes]

& Hellenism forever

[@danielm3670]

@@ForgottenHeroes "Hellenism" is a term created by the western European mainstream history. It never existed in the BC era.

[@ForgottenHeroes]

​@@danielm3670 Right, but there was a similar concept of being Greek (a Hellen) and belong to its culture (Hellenism). The rest was barbarian.

[@danielm3670]

@@ForgottenHeroes Hellene and Greek are generally two different things. The real "Greeks" were the Danaians, pirates/marauders and arrivals from Africa/Arabia, who settled around the Peloponnese at about 600 BC. "Hellenes" were a cultural/religious movement of sort, not exactly a race of people, and who were subjugated by the Macedonians from the north. The "barbarians" were non-Greek speaking people, known as the aryan Macedonians/Pelasgians, and who were the indigenous population of the Balkans all the way down to the Peloponnese.

[@ForgottenHeroes]

​@@danielm3670 I'm historian and what you said, seems more like a gaudy nationalist theory to discredit the Greek nation's history, than historical facts. Therefore I refuse to argue with you. "Aryan macedonians" and "arab pirate Greeks"? Haha come on. Greetings.