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William Stromberg, Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Marco Polo 8.225169.
Stromberg and his Moscow forces have been doing a whole series of famous movie scores for Marco Polo over the years, and it was only a couple of months before this one arrived that I became so enthusiastic about their rendering of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. That recording had captured all of the color and excitement of the old Bogart film, plus it had been reproduced in some of the most robust and vivid sound I had heard in ages. Needless to say, I was anxious to put The Maltese Falcon on the jukebox and crank it up.
I was not disappointed, except in one crucial regard. Yes, the music brought back all the memories of Hammett's famous detective, and, yes, the sound was just as good this time around as it had been for Sierra Madre. The snag: there wasn't enough of The ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Deutsch: The Maltese Falcon and Other Classic Film Scores.