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The Wild West: Essential Western Film Music Collection ()

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  1. The Alamo (Overture)
  2. The Big Country (Main Title Theme)
  3. Buffalo Girls (Main Theme)
  4. The Cowboys (Main Theme)
  5. The John Dunbar Theme
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  1. The Alamo (Overture)
  2. The Big Country (Main Title Theme)
  3. Buffalo Girls (Main Theme)
  4. The Cowboys (Main Theme)
  5. The John Dunbar Theme
  6. A Distant Trumpet (Main Title)
  7. El Condor (Main Title Theme)
  8. A Fistful of Dollars (Main Theme)
  9. Gettysburg (Main Theme)
  10. Charging Fort Wagner
  11. Sweet Breeze
  12. High Plains Drifter (Main Theme)
  13. Prelude from How the West Was Won
  14. The Last of the Mohicans (Main Theme)
  15. Lonesome Dove (Main Themes)
  16. The Magnificent Seven (Main Themes)
  17. Run Over By a Stagecoach
  18. The Good Times Are Comin'
  19. Once Upon a Time in the West (Main Theme)
  20. Overture from The Professionals
  21. The War Is Over
  22. Pastorale
  23. The Cross Breed/End Title
  24. Red Sun (Main Title)
  25. The Searchers (Opening Theme)
  26. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Main Theme)
  27. Silverado (Main Themes)
  28. The Sons of Katie Elder (Main Theme)
  29. Stagecoach (Opening and Closing Titles)
  30. Rooster Cogburn
  31. Two Mules for Sister Sara (Main Theme)
  32. Claudia's Theme
  33. Villa Rides (Main Theme)
  34. Wagon Train (Main Theme)
  35. Train Montage
  36. Bronco Bustin'
  37. Wyatt Earp (Prelude)
  38. The Wild Wild West (Theme)
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This is the first of two double-disc collections from Silva Screen devoted to Western movie and television theme music, all played by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra under Paul Bateman. Ranging across the history of the genre from the 1930s to the 1990s, the results are generally impressive, if occasionally a little weighty -- "A Fistful of Dollars" seems rather elephantine here compared with Ennio Morricone's own rendition, but self-conscious "big tunes" such as John Barry's "The John Dunbar Theme" from Dances ...

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The Wild West: Essential Western Film Music Collection 1999, Silva America

UPC: 738572109929

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