Album

The complete 1940 English release of Warner Brothers' The Sea Hawk is 126 minutes long. The complete 2005 Naxos recording of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score for The Sea Hawk is 114 minutes long, which means that all but 12 minutes of the film was accompanied by music. And if you think for a minute that there's a dull second anywhere in that 114 minutes of music, you are entirely mistaken. If anything, Korngold's score is almost too exciting: the thrills, the chills, and the virtuoso brilliance never stop. Indeed, the score is nearly more exciting than the movie it accompanies: one almost needs the image of Errol Flynn dueling to reduce the score to merely heroic dimensions. But the color, drama, adventure, exhilaration, and amazing coherence of Korngold's work stand out as nothing short of amazing. Performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under William T. Stromberg and coupled with Korngold's more modernist but no less romantic score for Warner Brothers' 1946 Deception, this two-disc set should appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in film music. It should be added that the sound is rich and warm, and that the liner notes are a fascinating read.

© James Leonard, Rovi

CD 1 of 2
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Composer The Sea Hawk Work 1:54:30 Moscow Symphony Orchestra Orchestra, William T. Stromberg Conductor, Irina Romishevskaya Soprano
1	Main Title	2:07			$0.99
2	Spain: King and Alvarez - Doña Maria - Alvarez-Lopez - The Slaves	2:02			$0.99
3	The Big Drum	4:29			$0.99
4	The Albatross - Battle - Duel - Thanks for Convincing the Trumpeter	8:59			$1.49
5	Slaves Release	7:06			$1.49
6	Night Banquet	2:13			$0.99
7	Love Scene on the Boat - The Throne Room	7:57			$1.49
8	The Sea Hawks - The Monkey - Captain Thorpe's Entrance - Exit - Elizabeth and Thorpe	6:25			$0.99
9	Map of Panama	2:03			$0.99
10	Rose Garden	4:34			$0.99
11	Albatross-Kroner - Chart Maker - Astronomer	3:20			$0.99
12	The Chess Game - Farewell - Panana Montage - The Orchid	7:00			$1.49
13	Thorpe's Men Hiding - Gold Caravan	2:30			$0.99
14	Attack - You Know My Name - March - The Fight - In the Jungle - Relax - Thorpe cuts through Jungle	13:29			$2.49
15	Maria's Song - After Maria's Song - Maria Faints - Elizabeth Against Philip	3:49			$0.99

CD 2 of 2
1	After the Council - Maria's bedroom - Spanish Boat - I am Abbott - Rebellion - Cadiz	9:22			$1.49
2	The Slaves Liberate Themselves - The Murder	3:01			$0.99
3	The Fight with the Guard	2:37			$0.99
4	Knife Fight	0:42			$0.99
5	Happy Sailing	1:26			$0.99
6	The Arrival	1:18			$0.99
7	Reunion - New Difficulties	5:18			$0.99
8	Thorpe enters into Castle - Duel	5:04			$0.99
9	Finale - End Cast	3:38			$0.99
10	Original Theatrical Trailer	4:01			$0.99
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Composer Deception, film score Work 23:02 Moscow Symphony Orchestra Orchestra, William T. Stromberg Conductor
11	Main Title	1:38			$0.99
12	Mysterioso	1:54			$0.99
13	Jealousy - Tenderness	2:40			$0.99
14	After the Party	2:52			$0.99
15	A Pity	0:51			$0.99
16	Preparation	1:06			$0.99
17	Paraphrase	0:46			$0.99
18	Newspaper	0:43			$0.99
19	Mirror	1:33			$0.99
20	Murder	1:50			$0.99
21	Alibi	1:15			$0.99
22	If	1:09			$0.99
23	The End - The Cast	1:09			$0.99
24	Original Theatrical Trailer	3:36			$0.99
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Composer Cello Concerto in C, Op.37 (from the film Deception, 1946) Work Moscow Symphony Orchestra Orchestra, William T. Stromberg Conductor, Alexander Zagorinsky Cello
25	Cello Concerto in C, Op.37 (from the film Deception, 1946)	7:23			$1.49