Glorious! Brings me to tears. I treasured the original soundtrack album, when it was a new release in 1974. What a seamless work of art that movie was -- Sidney Lumet's adroit direction, Ingrid Bergman's Acadamy Award-winning, one-take monologue, Martin Balsam, playing straight to an unrecognizable Albert Finney, and the wry presence of Lauren "Betty" Bacall, to boot. It was the last gasp of a granduer and craftsmanship that harkend back to the golden age of Hollywood -- and Sir Richard's score was more than music; it was a lead character in the film. Bravo!
@frogsleapmeda9 жыл бұрын
This has just got to be one of the most wonderful pieces of film music - among thousands - that has ever been written. Richard Rodney Bennett's theme for Murder on the Orient Express is exquisite. I've heard this piece hundreds of times and felt its power. Seeing it performed is emotional. One of the best arrangements I've heard.
@glennsymonds-geniau52227 жыл бұрын
I totally agree Adam.
@alexkije7 жыл бұрын
I also TOTALLY agree!
@JerseySurvivor7 жыл бұрын
I'll 'fourth' that. I remember hearing it in the theater on first release and thinking how elegant for such a Classic film. It has only gotten better with age. One of my two favorite pieces of film scoring--the other being Bennett's riff under Julie Christie's introduction in Billy Liar.
@lucienbandet25686 жыл бұрын
Adam Turner I totally agree with you. This is one of my favourite pieces of music and one of my favourite movies
@christopherheath73404 жыл бұрын
The Royal Academy of Music regarded him as the most talented composer of his generation.
@lawrencecody40852 жыл бұрын
This is one piece of film music that really makes me smile, and lifts my moods, when I hear it, I get goosebumps, when I see the film sequence with the music.. I get double goosebumps and my emotions go into overdrive. The film sequence is so beautifully executed..a stroke of genius on the part of R.R.Bennett..as a lover of railways and music..this is the most perfect combination of music and railways coming together..
@johnsherman6718 Жыл бұрын
My sentiments exactly. Since I first watched the movie. It thrills me!
@andynicholls5173 жыл бұрын
January 2021 and I still love this music. Very emotional.
@sandralewis41904 жыл бұрын
Beautiful tune as train leaves station love it
@58christiansful2 жыл бұрын
Must be one of the most brilliant film soundtracks. Conveys both glamour and drama. Particularly like the piano at the start.
@geoffwalker93926 жыл бұрын
Bennett's technical mastery always leaves me speechless - every little detail is perfect!
@simoncoxall35244 жыл бұрын
How evocative. A masterpiece of film music...classy, vivid a complete joy... somehow a steam train departing will never be the same again. Thankyou
@DavidA-ps1qr7 жыл бұрын
This proves without any doubt at all what a versatile composer Richard Rodney Bennett was. He could do it all, Jazz, Film, Chamber, Concertos, Symphonies and Orchestral. Some of it was very serious too. Terribly underestimated, but his legacy will live for ever.
@TyneRiverGirl833 жыл бұрын
One of my all time favourites and you see how much effort goes into creating it. So many different sections of the orchestra involved, it's breathtaking. Thanks for sharing.
@iqbalzaidi3532 жыл бұрын
Incredible and elegant A true Hollywood classic Thanks for sharing
@sidneyfrederickson39415 жыл бұрын
The whole package, film and music, are an homage to a way of life and a style of film making that will never return. The era of hotel and steamship dance orchestras, of bands in train stations welcoming and sending off crack express trains, of 5 course dining car meals and steamer trunks and servants accompanying their employers in their journeys.
@unowen-nh9ov4 жыл бұрын
& the wink & the nod to the whole era when the dining room musicians break into "On the Good Ship Lollipop"!
@danshari59752 жыл бұрын
A true masterpiece! Beautiful music for an awesome film!
@CoplandFan5110 жыл бұрын
I think the part that starts at 3:15 is the best part of the soundtrack. It is a wonderful musical description of the Orient Express leaving the station to start its trip!! Wonderful tune!
@102firefly4 жыл бұрын
Gordon, I totally agree with you!
@rosedewittbukater42033 жыл бұрын
@@102firefly John, and I totally agree with you!
@phillipmcgough62823 жыл бұрын
i agree. it's only of my favourites. it sounds like the train gotta train - let her loose please!
@Sudobeast2 жыл бұрын
It sounds so magical!
@simoncoxall35243 жыл бұрын
I just love this... every mood conjured and conveyed... a beautiful ensemble to match that orchestrated for the movie ...what a haunting theme. Bathe in it... a class and depth rarely encountered since.
@josefernandesvancouver55956 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece! It almost brings me to tears every time I listen to it...
@orca6283 жыл бұрын
I'm so relieved to know that I'm not the only one cry on this 😂
@vintagebrew10572 жыл бұрын
Me too.....
@josefernandesvancouver55952 жыл бұрын
@@orca628 oh, yes...
@hilarywade6872 жыл бұрын
Me too
@sallyoasispaintingsorigina38592 жыл бұрын
Stunning!!!!! I ADORE this score…..so atmospheric and stirring…. I’d love to hear it at a future proms one day. 🎼🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🎨
@poshmum6 ай бұрын
Fabulous score, wonderful film and homage to the glory days of classic film. Just wonderful.
@sandralewis419011 ай бұрын
Beautifully music brilliant actors and actresses
@chazmann1082 жыл бұрын
@4:10 when the music time signature turns into a waltz...spine chills. When I saw it in the movies as a kid in 1974, I went quietly crazy over this 3/4 time. Though there was otherwordly music in the murder scenes, with the blue lighting later on, but this introductory waltz was SO energizing, evocative and got everyone ready for what was to come. The impossible sadness of this train full of brokenhearted people was palpable but despite their loss - the ending left me in a state of recovery and joy for their successful revenge. This wonderful movie from the blockbuster era when films did not require superheroes beating the snot out of each other but never dying from their horrific injuries. Those were the days...gone forever. Everyone does remakes that can't hold a candle to the originals because originality is DEAD.
@lawrencekeesler73698 жыл бұрын
Have loved this music since I first saw the movie! At 3:10 the train's preparation and departure is my absolute favorite segment! I can see it in my mind just hearing it! Using 3/4 time for a steam engine getting under way is a stroke of inspiration!
@Kinopanorama18 жыл бұрын
+Coparroch o Your spelling is awful. That's a D -.
@lawrencekeesler73698 жыл бұрын
***** And you are rude. That's an F. I'm graciously omitting the last three letters.
@lawrencekeesler73698 жыл бұрын
***** I hope you'll ignore the post immediately following yours. Now, getting down to what you wrote, the gorgeous loco used on Murder… simply could do nothing else but waltz. Elegance personified. But before I saw that, most steam locos had "I-think-I-can-I-think-I-can" rhythms closely based on the chuff pattern that certain [double-compound?] stacks produced. Yet when I first heard MotOE's waltz I was immediately converted! It's been years since I watched Silver Streak. I'll watch it again with your comments in mind. Considering that the ending of that movie was before computer generated graphics could produce anything and do it totally believably, that is one fantastic crash that completes the movie! Have you seen photos of the runaway GG1 that sailed into Washington Union Station and fell through the floor just prior to Eisenhower's inauguration? I believe they built a false floor over it to get it out of sight and deal with it later.
@Kinopanorama18 жыл бұрын
Lawrence Keesler My Aunt was living in DC at the time of the PRR crash. She remembered it well.
@Organgrinder10108 жыл бұрын
+Coparroch o Your English is far and away better than my Spanish. There is a running joke: "Trilingual" - fluent in three languages; "Bilingual" - fluent in two languages; "Monolingual" - American. ;)
@tikaratano23406 жыл бұрын
taste like a good old film music. Albert Finney, he is my eternal Hercule Poirot.
@DavidA-ps1qr10 жыл бұрын
Listen to his Oboe concerto... then this. What a composer!!! One of the most underestimated since Walton. Richard Rodney Bennett deserves a revival... big time.
@geoffwalker93926 жыл бұрын
Apparently Walton was the contemporary that RRB admired most. The Walton Viola Concerto was one of his Desert Island Disks and he wrote diversions on a Theme by William Walton.
@boomerang90510 жыл бұрын
This stirs up so many feelings and images, all beautiful.
@luigipirandello59192 жыл бұрын
I watched this film (1974, Sidney Lumet) several times. It is my favourite Agatha Christie’s book.
@arnoldarrefilms10 жыл бұрын
8:21 beautifully captures the emotion and spectacle of the film, I would say even the world created by Agatha Christie. Thanks for posting this. :)
@perpieta6 жыл бұрын
Yes, that was such a poignant, and satisfying, sequence in the film.
@alexs.12426 жыл бұрын
Love, love, love Richard Rodney Bennett's film music - had rather thought it lost in time, until I stumbled across this, quite by accident, while browsing KZbin. Thanks for posting! Only wish it could've been in 1080p HD, as an extended version, But as the philosopher Mick Jagger once said, you can't always get what you want.
@barbarasquyres95632 жыл бұрын
I agree with the guy below. I love this music. I play it over and over and hum it when I’m alone. I love the train music going slowly then faster.
@lucienbandet25686 жыл бұрын
Richard Rodney Bennet is a genius. And Sidney Lumet too
@unowen-nh9ov4 жыл бұрын
Lumet began as a child actor in Yiddish theatre, believe he went on to work in live television. The theatricality he brought to this single set movie is virtuoso (apparently Finney was starring in a stage production when he filmed this, he would sleep on the ride out & while make-up was applied & then deliver pages of dialogue). The closing curtain call as the stars say good bye & congratulations to one another always makes me cry, in no small part because of this beautiful score. Lumet wanted Bergman to play the Princess, she chose a smaller part, when it came time for her scene he shot it in uninterrupted close-up, when he called cut, she gave him a kiss & took home the Oscar for it. Wonderful movie.
@unowen-nh9ov4 жыл бұрын
There's also a story of Bergman stealing the lead role from Bacall in the movie version of Cactus Flower (Bacall starred in the Broadway production & hoped to do the same in the movie). Eventually, Bacall was starring in another one of her Tony Winners (she had 2, a decade apart), Bergman went backstage to visit & announced her arrival with, "It's the person you hate most in the world!" Obviously, they both got over it, as both Bogey's babies did MOTOE together. Lumet said the 1st table read the room was silent, as old Hollywood & London theatre royalty assessed one another, they got over it to have fabulous, tale swapping lunches together.
@sumanthbhat104111 ай бұрын
really masterpiece wonderful❤music
@rickstromberg60798 жыл бұрын
Simply Wonderful!
@peterfranks62433 жыл бұрын
Classic tracks from the quintessential original AND only movie version of Agatha Christie's novel ...bravo
@Victor19307 жыл бұрын
Wow. What a treat discover this after loving this movie and its score since it's release. Just wonder why he didn't include the creepy flashback music. I love that, too!
@marielaurencegonzalez24008 жыл бұрын
magnifique j'aime énormément !! MERCI
@emilianoelhalem16269 жыл бұрын
2nd movement's beginning reminds me La Valse from Maurice Ravel. Wonderful score frome wonderful film!
@Organgrinder10108 жыл бұрын
+emiliano elhalem - La Valse is a longtime favorite. But it's so full of angst as everything seems to begin to fly apart, rather like the approaching political crisis. One of the world's greatest pieces of program music IMHO.
@mrjohnstgeorge6 жыл бұрын
This is what the latest remake lacks. When the train first leaves and makes its moves through the amazing landscape, the new version music is quite weak. THIS, original version brings chills and tears to your eyes. Way to go Mr Composer. You got it buddy. The new one doesn't come near your work.
@unowen-nh9ov6 жыл бұрын
John St George Love the original, new one uses CGI in the television promos - pass.
@danielpaulgaddis Жыл бұрын
a new one? Pass! 😉😁
@dougmorris76934 жыл бұрын
Outstanding music from the pen of RRB! Moving, exciting....
@alexkije7 жыл бұрын
GREAT! In the musical style where the film takes place! Thanks for sharing!
@unowen-nh9ov6 жыл бұрын
Hugh Jones Doesn't the soundtrack break out into On the Good Ship Lollipop when Poirot is in the dining room? Do funny, & contemporary.
@Port71210 жыл бұрын
My favourite film of all time...
@unowen-nh9ov6 жыл бұрын
Port712 Total escapism! Hollywood & Christie. Perfect.
@bazzaworat38566 жыл бұрын
Remember a radio programme on BBC radio Four on how the film's producers searched for a musical theme. They auditioned a lot, including an steam engine impersonator until they heard RRB's music and unanimously dumped everything that gone before.
@phillipmcgough62823 жыл бұрын
i love hearing the movement of the train, not the train. it asks 'where are we going?'. perfect composition. the recent movie forgot [at the least soundtrack-wise] that, even the rich & famous of the time, were in awe of making this journey. Trivia note: OE has never offered in-suite bathroom facilities!
@robinrubendunst8693 жыл бұрын
I had the sheet music to this back in the 70s. There were lyrics, the song was called “Silky.”
@kandisofia10 жыл бұрын
Thank you for.sharing. I love this very much.
@NickelPlateDave3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely marvelous spot on
@syoutyuueveryday201211 жыл бұрын
thank you,great movie music!!
@igobraum51944 жыл бұрын
Muy buena pieza musical. Muy lograda y deliciosa.
@alexkije7 жыл бұрын
Sensational camera work!
@detectivefiction37015 жыл бұрын
I own the soundtrack but had never heard of it being performed in concert before.
@AtheistOrphan4 жыл бұрын
Detectivefiction - Was part of the proms. A rare chance.
@Digistring20106 жыл бұрын
it also reminds me the film music of Sir Ron Goodwin.........i found a tiny similarity in between these two composer. Both are GREAT.
@danielpaulgaddis Жыл бұрын
any details on production? I click on "more" & get nada.... Beautiful !!!
@christopherheath73404 жыл бұрын
I just wish they would re-release it on CD once more.
@samwriter11 ай бұрын
You can buy the 1974 DVD. I own it. In my top ten list.
@XeniaFive4 жыл бұрын
2019!
@SylvesterFox0076 ай бұрын
Confession: I actually prefer Kenneth Branagh's Murder On The Orient Express to Sidney Lumet's in almost every regard... except the soundtrack. This music perfectly fits the vibe of not just MOTOE but Agatha Christie's mysteries in general.
@ewaf882 жыл бұрын
I think even Strauss would have approved
@sbsumanth8 жыл бұрын
great symphony even film
@hsbrz9 жыл бұрын
magnifico!
@jslasher19 жыл бұрын
I became acquainted with the late Sir Richard when he was visiting Denver, Colorado in the early '70s. He was there to 'soak up the atmosphere' before composing a symphony, which had been commissioned by Brian Priestman, the DSO conductor.
@nellyhoccarzh60832 жыл бұрын
Чудесная музыка и оркестр и дирижер
@sidneyfrederickson39418 жыл бұрын
That's Keith Lockhart conducting. He tends to have a more sprightly approach to pace and tempo
@aurahyel47008 жыл бұрын
+Sidney Frederickson Dreadful, pedantic conductor. He needs a baton.
@hryk208 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@elesemau11 жыл бұрын
me gusta las variaciones que hicieron.
@missyoneill87217 жыл бұрын
simply,,,,, over-the-top!
@hegzansiaani92135 жыл бұрын
Lovely
@Jeffybonbon7 жыл бұрын
when i hear this I think of Alan Whicker rip
@tosherification10 жыл бұрын
I only wish this suite had the 1:08 Princess Dragomiroff theme. It is so lovely, and the scene is so poignant.
@unowen-nh9ov6 жыл бұрын
Bill McIntosh Wendy Hiller seems to be having so much fun with role, love her performance - & the wardrobe & make-up, cadaverous in black feathers.
@richard1694 жыл бұрын
I've loved this music for decades. But isn't it funny you can sing the title, in the big musical catch phrase? "Murder... on the Orient Express! (It's a fancy train)... Murder... on the Orient Express... please let me explain: Big stars, Vanessa Redgrave... big stars, like Wendy Hiller..." And on and on. ;-)
@ExAnimoPortugal8 жыл бұрын
Not my favorite "Murder on the Orient Express" adaption, but with no doubt the one with the best music. It's the one which better captures the atmosphere of that time.
@alexkije7 жыл бұрын
You betcha! The music is lots better than the movie.
@unowen-nh9ov6 жыл бұрын
Tom Birke Completely! Across the board a quality production.
@federicodelia5126 жыл бұрын
Just for curiosity, what's your favourite adaptation of the novel? There aren't so many
@alantrahan246016 жыл бұрын
Federico D'Elia The only one I've seen was the most recent one with Johnny Depp, but I assume they're all really good. Agatha Christie is one of my favorite writers.
@sylvajablonska6 жыл бұрын
Does anybody know who the piano player is??? He is awesome!!!
@alejandrovargasmelo9 жыл бұрын
C'est magnifique
@user-we8ve7jw5u10 жыл бұрын
My favorite part is 10:10
@unowen-nh9ov3 жыл бұрын
More dramatic than Mrs. Hubbard!
@happydappyman8 жыл бұрын
is there a good quality version of this on youtube?
@johnhowe508 жыл бұрын
+happydappyman What is wrong with this one?
@timgarden.65576 жыл бұрын
sorry for my good ears but why didn't Jule Styne consider speaking to RRB about his having borrowed note for note the first 5 bars of "I had a dream" from 'Gypsy'. "I had a -dream,a-dream a-bout you baby...."
@samsnimalelf9 жыл бұрын
9:54 false
@jslasher19 жыл бұрын
Oh, it's that pedantic baton less conductor from Boston. Sir Richard would not have approved of the performance, I wager.