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Limited edition of 3000 copies.
In 1982, shortly after moving to Los Angeles, Georges Delerue met up with British filmmaker Jack Clayton again, this time for a great Walt Disney production: the screen-adaptation of Ray Bradbury's novel Something Wicked This Way Comes. The subject of Something Wicked — a diabolical carnival coming to a small town in Illinois — provided Delerue with all he needed to let his imagination soar into the distance: sorcery, fantasy and childhood fears. In a mere two weeks, the composer wrote a vast score filled with tormented lyricism, at once flamboyant and terrifying, which conjured fear from merry-go-round waltzes. For (complex) reasons, however, Delerue's work wasn't included in the final version of the film, much to the composer's despair: "It was extremely painful," confessed Delerue, "because it was probably the most ambitious score I wrote in the United-States." At last, some thirty years later, the Disney Studios have exceptionally authorized the release of this complete version of that dark diamond, a jewel long considered to be Georges Delerue's "unknown" masterpiece. Coupled with another non-used original soundtrack — written for Mike Nichol's Regarding Henry, more romantically inspired — the music for Something Wicked forms the centre of gravity for this new album. Georges Delerue, Unused Scores illuminates another aspect of this extraordinary musician. This is also the first CD in the Universal's Ecoutez le cinéma! collection to be issued as a Limited Edition (3000 copies).
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