FSM Board: PR: 100 Greatest Western Themes (2024)

*An International Silva Screen release
*SILCD 1325

On 23rd August Silva Screen will be releasing 100 Greatest Western Themes, the sixth release in Silva Screen’s ‘100’ series.

This six CD set features the very best of close to 70 years of Western music from both the cinema and TV screen and includes music from the greatest screen composers such as Ennio Morricone, John Barry, Elmer Bernstein, John Williams, Dimitri Tiomkin, Maurice Jarre and many more.

Featuring iconic and easily recognisable themes from spaghetti westerns (A Fistful Of Dollars) and modern-day (Brokeback Mountain), to TV (The Lone Ranger) and epic (The Alamo), this Silva Screen release is one of the most comprehensive collections of Western music ever released.

Performed by The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, The Westminster Philharmonic and Crouch End Festival Chorus

Conducted by Paul Bateman, Nic Raine, Kenneth Alwyn, James Fitzpatrick, Derek Wadsworth

Tracklisting:

CD 1:

1.THE ALAMO – Overture / Main Title (Dimtri Tiomkin) 5:11
2.THE ALAMO – The Green Leaves of Summer (Dimitri Tiomkin / Paul Francis Webster) 3:29
3.THE BIG COUNTRY – Main Theme (Jerome Moross) 2:53
4.THE BIG VALLEY – Main Theme (George Duning) 3:01
5.BIG JAKE – Concert Suite (Elmer Bernstein) 6:45
6.BLAZING SADDLES – Blazing Saddles (John Morris) 5:06
7.BLUE – Blue’s Solitude / The River (Manos Hadjidakis) 4:06
8.BONANZA – TV Theme (Livingston / Evans) 1:39
9.BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN – Brokeback Mountain (Gustavo Santoalalla)
10.BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN – The Wings (Gustavo Santoalalla)
11.BUFFALO GIRLS – Suite (Lee Holdridge) 7:29
12.BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID – Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head (Burt Bacharach / Hal David) 3:11
13.CAHILL: UINITED STATES MARSHAL – Necktie Party (Elmer Bernstein) 4:04
14.THE COMANCHEROS – McBain / Main Title (Elmer Bernstein) 2:39
15.THE COWBOYS – Overture (John Williams) 9:44
16.DANCES WITH WOLVES – The John Dunbar Theme (John Barry) 2:36
17.DANCES WITH WOLVES – The Buffalo Hunt (John Barry) 4:14

TT: 71:00

CD 2

1.A DISTANT TRUMPET – Main Title (Max Steiner) 1:25
2.DUEL IN THE SUN – Entr’acte (Dimitri Tiomkin) 12:53
3.EL CONDOR – Main Title (Maurice Jarre) 3:21
4.A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS – A Fistful of Dollars (Ennio Morricone) 3:28
5.A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE – Duck You Sucker (Ennio Morricone) 4:10
6.THE FIVE MAN ARMY – The Five Man Army (Ennio Morricone) 2:49
7.FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE – For a Few Dollars More (Ennio Morricone) 3:24
8.FRIENDLY PERSUASION – Thee I Love (Dimitri Tiomkin) 3:43
9.GETTYSBURG – Main Title / Fife and Gun (Randy Edelman) 7:00
10.GETTYSBURG – The Gettysburg Address / Reunion and Finale (Randy Edelman) 7:00
11.GIANT – Giant (Dimitri Tiomkin) 2:09
12.GIANT – The Jett Rink Theme (Dimitri Tiomkin) 2:53
13.GONE WITH THE WIND – Overture (Max Steiner) 4:30
14.THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Ennio Morricone) 2:51
15.THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY – The Ecstasy of Gold (Ennio Morricone) 3:10
16.GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL – Suite (Dimitri Tiomkin) 8:47

TT: 72:00

CD 3

1.GUNS FOR SANS SEBASTIAN – Overture (Ennio Morricone) 3:52
2.THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL – Suite (Elmer Bernstein) 6:15
3.HANG ‘EM HIGH – Main Theme (Dominic Frontiere) 2:43
4.THE HANGING TREE – Suite (Max Steiner) 7:05
5.HEAVEN’S GATE – Sweet Breeze (David Mansfield) 4:08
6.HEAVEN’S GATE – Mamou Two-Step (Doug Kershaw) 1:49
7.THE HIGH CHAPARRAL – The High Chaparral (David Rose) 1:13
8.HIGH NOON – Do Not Forsake Me (Dimitri Tiomkin) 2:33
9.HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER – High Plains Drifter (Dee Barton) 4:13
10.HOW THE WEST WAS WON – Overture (Alfred Newman) 7:11
11.THE JAYHAWKERS – Suite (Jerome Moross) 6:02
12.JOHNNY BELINDA – Suite (Max Steiner) 7:43
13.LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE – Little House on the Prairie (David Rose) 2:55
14.THE LONE RANGER – Main Theme: William Tell Overture (Rossini) 3:29
15.LONESOME DOVE – Suite (Basil Poledouris) 9:49

TT: 71:00

CD 4

1.THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN – The Magnificent Seven (Elmer Bernstein) 4:52
2.MAVERICK – Run Over by a Stagecoach (Randy Newman) 3:47
3.THE MEN FROM SHILOH – Main Theme (Ennio Morricone) 3:02
4.THE MISSOURI BREAKS – Love Theme (John Williams) 2:35
5.MONTE WALSH – The Good Times are Comin’ (John Barry) 3:00
6.MONTE WALSH – Suite (John Barry) 8:12
7.MY NAME IS NOBODY – My Name is Nobody (Ennio Morricone) 3:10
8.NEVADA SMITH – Nevada Smith (Alfred Newman) 2:29
9.NIGHT PASSAGE – Follow the River (Dimitri Tiomkin) 2:08
10.NORTH AND SOUTH – North and South (Bill Conti) 1:55
11.OLD GRINGO – Old Gringo (Lee Holdridge) 5:05
12.ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST – The Man with the Harmonica (Ennio Morricone) 3:53
13.ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST – Jill’s Theme (Ennio Morricone) 6:06
14.ONE-EYED JACKS – One-Eyed Jacks (Hugo Friedhofer) 2:43
15.THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES – The War is Over (Jerry Fielding) 4:27
16.THE PROFESSIONALS – Overture (Maurice Jarre) 5:26
17.THE PROUD REBEL – The Proud Rebel (Jerome Moross) 2:51
18.THE QUICK AND THE DEAD – The Quick and the Dead (Alan Silvestri) 3:38
19.QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER – End Titles (Basil Poledouris) 4:23

TT 74:00

CD 5

1.THE RARE BREED – Suite (John Williams) 8:35
2.RAWHIDE – Rawhide (Dimitri Tiomkin) 2:18
3.RED RIVER – River Crossing (Dimitri Tiomkin) 3:29
4.RED SUN – Main Theme (Maurice Jarre) 2:39
5.RIO BRAVO – Rio Bravo and De Guello (Dimitri Tiomkin) 5:05
6.THE SCALPHUNTERS – Main Titles (Elmer Bernstein) 2:54
7.THE SEARCHERS – Suite (Max Steiner) 7:21
8.SHANE – The Call of the Faraway Hills (Victor Young) 2:38
9.SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON – Suite (Richard Hageman) 7:33
10.THE SHOOTIST – Main Titles (Elmer Bersnstein) 3:12
11.SILVERADO – Silverado (Bruce Broughton) 4:06
12.THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER – Concert Suite (Elmer Bernstein) 4:18
13.STAGECOACH – Narrative for Orchestra (Richard Hageman) 6:39
14.TENSION AT TABLE ROCK – Suite (Dimitri Tiomkin) 4:44
15.TRUE GRIT – Rooster and Le Boeuf / Warm Wrap-Up (Elmer Bernstein) 4:40
16.TRUE GRIT – True Grit (Elmer Bernstein) 1:49

TT: 70:00

CD 6

1.TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA – Two Mules for Sister Sara (Ennio Morricone) 5:22
2.UNFORGIVEN – Claudia’s Theme (Clint Eastwood) 6:19
3.THE UNFORGIVEN – Across the Texas Panhandle (Dimitri Tiomkin) 2:28
4.THE UNFORGIVEN – The Need for Love (Dimitri Tiomkin) 3:08
5.THE UNFORGIVEN – Horse Ballet (Dimitri Tiomkin) 2:13
6.VILLA RIDES – Villa Rides (Maurice Jarre) 3:31
7.THE VIRGINIAN – The Virginian (Percy Faith) 1:34
8.VIVA ZAPATA – The Gathering Storm (Alex North) 3:29
9.WAGON TRAIN – Wagon Train (Jerome Moross) 3:09
10.THE WAR WAGON – Suite (Dimitri Tiomkin) 5:05
11.THE WILD BUNCH – Train Montage/ All Fall Down (Jerry Fielding) 10:31
12.THE WILD ROVERS – Bronco Bustin’ (Jerry Goldsmith) 2:10
13.THE WILD WILD WEST – The Wild, Wild West (Richard Markowitz) 5:00
14.THE WILD WILD WEST – The Wild Wild West (Dimitri Tiomkin) 2:54
15.WYATT EARP – Main Titles (James Newton Howard) 4:50
16.THE YOUNG LAND – The Young Land (Dimitri Tiomkin) 2:38
17.THE YOUNG RIDERS – The Young Riders (John Debney) 2:51

TT: 66:00

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