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Viva Zapata! (VARESE SARABANDE)

This latest addition to the RSNO's growing catalogue of film score recordings is a particularly important one. It is the band's first contribution to the Los Angeles label's collection of scores by the seminally-influential Alex North, and is the first complete recording of North's moody, atmospheric, stunningly-written score to the 1952 Elia Kazan movie starring Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn. The music - complex, sultry, dissonant and heat-drenched - is glorious. Jerry Goldsmith conducts.