SPAIN MY BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY. I CLOSED MY EYES LISTENING TO THIS WONDERFUL MUSIC HERE IN NEW YORK AND I SEE MY COUNTRY ITS MOUNTAINS ITS CASTLES MY BULLFIGHTS THE HISTORY THE FOOD THE CUSTOMS. I MISS IT VERY MUCH ARRIBA ESPANA
My grandparents were from the Santander area, but I have never been to Spain, and I am ashamed I did not learn the beautiful language of Espana. But I did look up my family surname in Tel Aviv, and found that it is of Sephardic, as well as Christian origin.
@@yaffayafo82 of course shepardic jew do u speak latino? The old castilian. R u from israel? If u r I would like to meet u. As soon this corona shit is over I want to travel. Dying to go to Israel tell Aviv Aviv Haifa eilat Jerusalem keep in touch I am from the canary islands
Spain was a country that was a mixture of cultures and a land at constant warfare among many factions and one religion against another. Castillian Spain was named Castille because of the sheer amounts of castles built to defend against the Muslim Taifas and also against other Christian factions like Aragon and Navarre. Some of the greatest dark age to medieval battles were in Spain, in a 700 year long "reconquista". The Spanish were already fighting the crusades long before the Franco Norman crusde of 1099 launched by the Pope. El Cid was this giant of a figure that stood out amongst the martial nations of Spain. He was not a sovereign. But he was this master tactician, courageous and highly skilled mounted knight that no one could defeat in battle. His name is even more famous and more prestigious than the kings of Castille and Leon, and the Kings of Aragon, Kings of Asturias and the Kings of Navarre. Goes to show how much of a legend he was in combat and his great popularity. I would even go on to say that he is the best European knight of all time since the dark ages to the end of the medieval period. His track record, the validation given to him by both his allies and enemies as El "Campeador", single handedly besting the Kingdom of Aragon's best knight in single combat at the Battle of Graus 1063 AD seals it.
Wonderful! ...Very vibrant & stirring...I was eight years old when this movie came out.... Great chemistry between Sophia Koren & Charlton Heston! ........ A great movie!!!. Thanks for posting it 🙏😃
I was 14 when this movie was released in 1961. I met Charlton Heston in 1986, and have an autographed photo with both their autographs, of Heston and Sophia Loren embracing in a color publicity portrait from the movie hanging on my wall. I have several autographed photos of Charlton Heston, including a color photo of him on horseback as Don Rodrigo de Bivar, aka: EL CID, as the Moors called him. Also as Judah Ben-Hur and Moses.
I am Cuban of Spanish ancestry, on my mother's side is from Galicia, and my father's side from Catalunia. Every time I hear Flamenco, and the theme for this movie. I feel proud of my ancestry. Viva Espana.
They Don't write Music like this anymore in Hollywood. This is truly one of Rozsa great scores. All we have today in Hollywood writing Film scores are copycats and Hacks. All the great film composers are dead and took their yet to be composed great music with them. Thanks for the great upload Fred.
Every generation has its own definitive composers. No doubt in my mind the generation of Stravinsky, Rossini, and Ravel would not have enjoyed the upstart Korngold, Steiner, Newman and Rozas as they did their own. The next generation will have their own too, and on it goes. Just sit back and enjoy and stop comparing.
@@garymussell6543 Excellent Comment but I won't be around for the next generation of Film Composers and neither will you I suppose. I can't enjoy a bunch of hacks led by Hans Zimmer and enjoy that crap which they compose for music.. I'll stick with the old masters of film music and let you enjoy the new sound of crap music coming out of Hollywood. Thanks much for your very enlighting comment. Out.
……first saw this film in 1962, & loved it, bc it had horses’ in it! Still do. Thoroughly enjoyed Charlton Heston’s titular performance in it. Four years’ later, I met him, & his family. Biggest thrill of my life! Lovely down-to-earth people, & a pleasure to be in conversation with. R I P Mr & Mrs Heston………
Breathtaking score. My favorite portion is the music associated with the joust for the ownership of two cities. The music is simply genius, epitomizes Spain, her glory, her contribution to western culture and the heroes who defended liberty and justice.
When I first saw EL CID, I was surprised at what a tremendous film it was. Charlton Heston should have his second Oscar for his performance. Miklos Rozsas' score is really original and you can tell that it was a bit of a departure from his previous scores. This music is fresh and gorgeous and ranks in the top 10 of the best written for the screen.
I agree with u, this movie was a great experience to watch and learn about the past history of Spain and the music is wonderful and I listen to the music all the time.
This wonderful movie and soundtrack dealt with the struggle of the Spanish to repel Islamic aggression. This music serves to remind us that the Muslim hordes are again at the gates of Europe. Where is El Cid now, when we need him most?
Absolutely amazing performance and beautiful music and movie, ever since I saw the film it has been with me as long as I have lived and I'll be 74 soon.
If only we had a glassfull of his courage to quell the evil that is around us today ...... thank you Don Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar..... El Cid for your bravado when it was needed the most during Spain's historic stand vs the Moors .....God bless his memory
Simply superb! The music perfectly captures the plot of the movie and the soul of Spain. As a child I was overwhelmed by the legend and the portrait that the movie painted of the noblest knight of all.
Yes.Rosa was great.I think it is past time that all of these "movie music" composers take their place alongside the "classical masters".I for one feel fortunate to have lived at the time of Steiner,Tiomikin,Friedhoffer,Williams,Horner,Polidaris,Morricone...and the list goes on.These people made great music.
A wonderful film ----truly one of the very best historical dramas of the early 60's & late 50's. Dr. Rozsa's score is masterful; beautiful, haunting, unforgettable! -----Wolfsky9
Thank you for presenting the soundtrack score from El Cid. Lovely melodic symphony. From an era best remembered in Hollywood history. Even if one lives in a different time, it's always good to know that recorded classics will always be around, passed on from one generation to the next. I go back to the historic movie score period as a child, and when movies like El Cid appeared on TV, I always took notice of the score, and how it defined the film.
Love Miklos Rozsa, he also did King of Kings, Knights of the Round table, Quo Vadis, Ben Hur, and the Green Berets. He's one of my favorites along with Max Steiner, Jerry Goldsmith, and James Honer.
I sure hope Bernard Herrmann at least gets a special mention in your list. Truly soulful and adventurous music here in EL CID. Check Rozsa's early masterpieces, too: SPELLBOUND, JUNGLE BOOK, and THIEF OF BAGDAD.
@@melaniebruno4632 Nice pun! Any composer who starts his film credits with CITIZEN KANE and ends with TAXI DRIVER has my vote for the pantheon. Under pressure from Universal, HItchcock rejected Herrmann's TORN CURTAIN score. Not wise for a genius to reject a fellow genius.
Unlike Ben Hur and King of Kings I have no childhood memory of El Cid, coming to it as an adult - probably because it was not a religiously-themed movie like the other two, which were guaranteed Christmas and Easter viewing in the 1970s. By the time I watched it in the 1990s, it chimed well with my Medieval history studies. Nevertheless, Miklós Rózsa’s El Cid score demonstrate what a prodigious talent he was. It completely captures the essence of medieval Spain (Castille), the tranquility of the serene scenes, and the dramatic energy of the battle scenes. There is a magic of Miklós Rózsa’s scores; that is they have the effect of exuding the mood of the time(s) they portray. If you could transport back in time and play one of his scores, you would be forgiven to think that they would not be out of place to the people of that time. 🎼❤
Awesome movie and iconic poster art! With a soundtrack score to match! Miklos Rozsa should have won two Academy Awards for Best Score of 1961 - the other being KING OF KINGS.
Unquestionably, all three - Bernstein, Mancini and Rozsa - were extraodinarily gifted and skilled composers. Each film is quite different from the others and their scores are not only appropriate for their genres, but serve as ideal creative underpinnings for the films themselves. However, Miklos Rozsa's majestic original score for the epic El Cid is at once stirring and has a hugely broad sweep which aurally depicts epic battles, the menacing threat of the moorish horde that swept over Spain, and simultaenously, provided wonderfully nuanced and delicate background for love scenes, as well as the tumultuous relationships between Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, his wife and the kings he served. It never fails to amaze me that this monumental musical achievement failed to receive the Oscar in 1961.
+Walter Sperr Mr. Sperr, " El Cid" was nominated for 3 Oscars in 1962. As you may recall, '61 was totally dominated by " West Side Story", & " Judgment At Nuremburg". Miklos R. should have won the Oscar for his stirring score,& that was an Academy error. My own take is that by this time his grand , Ultra-Operatic approach to scoring was seen as dated & predictable. I disagree, but I do see how that conclusion could have been reached. Recall, in the '62 Oscars, " Days Of Wine & Roses' won best song. At least The Academy did right in THAT category. Wolfsky9
Mr. Sperr : Allow sir, another observation re : this obvious error on the part of the " Academy " : Dr. Rozsa had by this time, already won 3 Oscars in this category, so , being the political organization it is, the bar for victory went up to an impossibly high standard for this great composer ! --Now for me, he STILL should have won, hands-down, but that's how standards go for " The Oscars", as opposed to " The Golden Globes" ! -----------Wolfsky9, 70 y/o
The Oscar year was 1962 (for films of 1961) ... the winner was Henry Mancini for Breakfast at Tiffany's ... other nominees included Dimitri Tiomkin for The Guns of Navarone and Elmer Bernstein for Summer and Smoke. I have been collecting recordings of Rozsa films since the 50's and personally believe El Cid was his finest score.
"Hele davran, Bizans kargası..." The "Prelude" was used in the 1971 Turkish action-adventure movie "Battal Gazi Destanı" in such an extent that hearing the music instantly makes one remember the movie and its star Cüneyt Arkın.
I remember going to the premier of this epic picture in 1961 I believe in downtown Dallas, and out front of the foyer they were selling booklets, soundtracks and other items to the movie goers. Just wish I had purchased the original soundtrack that night.
I have the original stringmail tunic worn by Mr. Heston in this film. We have re-plated it in gunmetal finish. Originally from Bermans & Nathans. Love the music and film.
……mine, too! Met him, & his wife, Lydia, many, many times’ between 1966-1996. Lovely people, & a joy to be in conversation with. They’re both gone now R I P
There are three movies that have this incredibly lush, creative, upbeat, sweet, romantic, tragic, dynamic and picturesque soundtrack, and each soundtrack is a masterpiece. 1. El Cid (1961) 2. Antony and Cleopatra (1972) 3. Conan the Barbarian (1982) Highly recommended for all lovers of movie scores. 😍
The greatest of all the film composers was Miklos Rozsa in my opinion. His film scores soared, with beautiful melodies and tone poems which many film composers tried to emulate. My favorite soundtrack of all time is "The Thief of Bagdad". A perfect film and film score! Long live Miklos Rozsa!
Great Music, I grew up listening to this, I have the original vinyl from "62, but the script sucked. but the story is great, I spent my youth studying Rodrigo Bivar, and this music, it is Perfect!
GREAT.. Amazing soundtrack by Milkós Ròzsa .. even better than movie A masterpiece .. Greetings Ahmad Ali Ahmad Thanks "Soundtrack fred" Sunday .. extremely early morning 8.10.2017 1:25 am
12 Academy Awards PERIOD. FEEL THE LOVE. THE POWER OF GOD BESTOWED TO EL CID. THE CID HAS RETURNED. IN THE 21ST. CENTURY. AMERICA ARE YOU READY. YOUR PAGE...GEORGE.
Charles Hill Another Miklos Rozsa written with such passion and full of life and glory! His next best Score after Ben-Hur,, composed with such verve and action, you can hear the whole story through the Music. It's filled with love and compassion, it's full of such excitement!
Amigos : otra de las grandes superproducciones de aquellas épocas y que nunca volverán era el gran cine espectacular y grandioso dificil de olvidar . Películas de colección y que la t.v. NO PASAN lastima .
Музыка замечательная, как и фильм о выдающейся исторической личности. А актёры- выше всех похвал. Музыка поистине передала ту эпоху. Молодец венгерский композитор
This is one off the greatest film scores ever composed, from one of the greatest adventure films ever made. It was a travesty that this film music didn't win the Oscar For Best Film Score in 1961 for Miklos Rozsa. It was also a travesty that Alfred Newman didn't win the Oscar for his film score for "Captain From Castile" in 1947.
Recuerdo que con esta pelicula se estreno y fue la apertura del cine M aria Teresa Montoya exibiendose por primera vez aqui en Monterrey,N.L.,MEXICO en el novedoso sistema de proyeccion 70mm.,eso fue en Mayo de 1963.
I love this score Fred..... while its billed as the Soundtrack. , Its a studio rerecording that Rozsa conducted. Its my understanding that half of the actual soundtrack was recorded either in Spain or Rome and the other half in London. But Samuel Bronston messed over Rozsa allowing so much amazing music to be cut!
This masterpiece is far more greater then movie itself. besides that movie is not deserve this soundtrack. Miklos, what an artist are you.... One of the best ever made.
I am impelled to correct the above information: This performance is from the MGM Record Album SE 3977 ST - and, therefore, is neither the MGM Studio Orchestra nor even an original soundtrack recording. Sadly, with extremely-few exceptions, there were NO original soundtrack recordings whatsoever issued from MGM Records during the supervision of producer Jesse Kaye. This performance is by Miklós Rózsa conducting “The Symphony Orchestra Graunke of Munich.”
The orchestra you mentioned is known today as the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Its original name (Symphonie-Orchester Graunke in German) was for its founder, Kurt Graunke.
You can blame the AFM for this. Outrageous 're-use' fees for soundtracks released in any commercial format. Later, after Max Herman, their president, retired, the new leadership at Local 47 realised the potential of royalties from soundtrack re-issues in limited editions, thus paving the way for small, independent record labels to take the initiative.
Comic book writer and artist Walt Simonson once said that "You can get away with almost anything in a story if you keep a straight face." This movie put the "camp" in "El Campeador", but everyone involved plays so it earnestly straight that I can't help but love it. And while I do enjoy some parts of El Cid in a "look how dated this is" sort of way, other parts send genuine chills down my spine, no irony or smug cynicism. "Can a man live without honor?" "Your colors are no longer black" "Say Amen", "There can be no hidden place for a man like you" "Valencia for Alphonso BY THE GRACE OF GOD, THE KING OF SPAIN!" "I am king of NOTHING- I'm no king at all!"
Esta composición describe España, inspirada en Sevilla de Isaac Albeniz, El Amor Brujo de Manuel de Falla y Danzas fantásticas de Turina. Recomiendo su audición.
If you're loving Miklos Rosza's score, you might want to seek out a symphony he wrote early in his career (unrelated to his film scores), and which gathered dust for most of his life. I have a CD recording of it, but couldn't find it, just now, in a couple of quick Amazon and RUclips searches. I hope it's not out of print!
i believe it is Gerard Schwartz and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra on the Delos label, i had it once, before losing all of my stuff in a storage unit decades ago. 😥
Saw itwhen it first came out. After seven times of viewing I noticed something I never saw before..toward the end of the movie when El Cid liberates the castel of Castile and says "we bring you bread" his army comes marvhing through the gstes and sandwiched between two buildings watching the entire production is a little man in his sports coat and cap watching the whole thing. It was never, to my knowledge edited out. Its probaby still there. You'll probably have to find an OLD copy...not a new copy of El Cid. A new one has probably been edited. If you find it, then copy that scene and upload it on RUclips...share it with everyone.
Great recording for the time in it was recorded, I always admired to Miklos Rozsa , what A Great Hungarian composer . I consider him the father of the sound tracks and a mentor of the great, John William. Also Jerry Goldsmith. Nothing to do with the present composers, Most of them with the use and libraries on MIDI tracks.
SPAIN MY BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY. I CLOSED MY EYES LISTENING TO THIS WONDERFUL MUSIC HERE IN NEW YORK AND I SEE MY COUNTRY ITS MOUNTAINS ITS CASTLES MY BULLFIGHTS THE HISTORY THE FOOD THE CUSTOMS. I MISS IT VERY MUCH ARRIBA ESPANA
My grandparents were from the Santander area, but I have never been to Spain, and I am ashamed I did not learn the beautiful language of Espana. But I did look up my family surname in Tel Aviv, and found that it is of Sephardic, as well as Christian origin.
@@yaffayafo82 of course shepardic jew do u speak latino? The old castilian. R u from israel? If u r I would like to meet u. As soon this corona shit is over I want to travel. Dying to go to Israel tell Aviv Aviv Haifa eilat Jerusalem keep in touch I am from the canary islands
Sorry ladino
No wait
Spain was a country that was a mixture of cultures and a land at constant warfare among many factions and one religion against another. Castillian Spain was named Castille because of the sheer amounts of castles built to defend against the Muslim Taifas and also against other Christian factions like Aragon and Navarre.
Some of the greatest dark age to medieval battles were in Spain, in a 700 year long "reconquista". The Spanish were already fighting the crusades long before the Franco Norman crusde of 1099 launched by the Pope.
El Cid was this giant of a figure that stood out amongst the martial nations of Spain. He was not a sovereign. But he was this master tactician, courageous and highly skilled mounted knight that no one could defeat in battle. His name is even more famous and more prestigious than the kings of Castille and Leon, and the Kings of Aragon, Kings of Asturias and the Kings of Navarre. Goes to show how much of a legend he was in combat and his great popularity.
I would even go on to say that he is the best European knight of all time since the dark ages to the end of the medieval period. His track record, the validation given to him by both his allies and enemies as El "Campeador", single handedly besting the Kingdom of Aragon's best knight in single combat at the Battle of Graus 1063 AD seals it.
Wonderful! ...Very vibrant & stirring...I was eight years old when this movie came out....
Great chemistry between
Sophia Koren & Charlton Heston! ........
A great movie!!!.
Thanks for posting it 🙏😃
Sophia loren
I was 14 when this movie was released in 1961. I met Charlton Heston in 1986, and have an autographed photo with both their autographs, of Heston and Sophia Loren embracing in a color publicity portrait from the movie hanging on my wall. I have several autographed photos of Charlton Heston, including a color photo of him on horseback as Don Rodrigo de Bivar, aka: EL CID, as the Moors called him. Also as Judah Ben-Hur and Moses.
I am Cuban of Spanish ancestry, on my mother's side is from Galicia, and my father's side from Catalunia. Every time I hear Flamenco, and the theme for this movie. I feel proud of my ancestry. Viva Espana.
It is so beautiful and I agree with you.
They Don't write Music like this anymore in Hollywood. This is truly one of Rozsa great scores. All we have today in Hollywood writing Film scores are copycats and Hacks. All the great film composers are dead and took their yet to be composed great music with them. Thanks for the great upload Fred.
How sad, how true. We have composers (?) who can't even read music [HZ, for example]. All they can do is produce noise in e-minor.
Even John Williams ? Ennio ?
@@takedatsubasa227 Williams is the exception, why? 'Cause he was Rozsa's pupil
Every generation has its own definitive composers. No doubt in my mind the generation of Stravinsky, Rossini, and Ravel would not have enjoyed the upstart Korngold, Steiner, Newman and Rozas as they did their own. The next generation will have their own too, and on it goes. Just sit back and enjoy and stop comparing.
@@garymussell6543 Excellent Comment but I won't be around for the next generation of Film Composers and neither will you I suppose. I can't enjoy a bunch of hacks led by Hans Zimmer and enjoy that crap which they compose for music.. I'll stick with the old masters of film music and let you enjoy the new sound of crap music coming out of Hollywood. Thanks much for your very enlighting comment. Out.
As I listen to this extraordinary score, I'm compelled to consider how far the quality of modern film music has plummeted.
no body does historical symphony.
whether it has plummeted or risen is purely an individual point of view. Time space continuum ultimately dictates the taste and the trend.
@@prasannakumar7394 The time-space continuum condemns your statement as garbage.
what about John Williams?
@@nstix2009xitsn indeed it does!
This small suite has one of the most unbelievably beautiful themes in all of the repertoire.
Man Miklos Rosza went ALL OUT on this score. The "Love Theme" omg ❤️
……first saw this film in 1962, & loved it, bc it had horses’ in it! Still do. Thoroughly enjoyed Charlton Heston’s titular performance in it. Four years’ later, I met him, & his family. Biggest thrill of my life! Lovely down-to-earth people, & a pleasure to be in conversation with. R I P Mr & Mrs Heston………
Breathtaking score. My favorite portion is the music associated with the joust for the ownership of two cities. The music is simply genius, epitomizes Spain, her glory, her contribution to western culture and the heroes who defended liberty and justice.
Couldn't agree more with you..Happy memories from my childhood..And of course Ben Hur..
If you have the opportunity, visit the Silos Monastery (Burgos) will transport you to the Middle Ages, with the chants of the cirterciences monks.
Una obra maestra y la música una genialidad
Underrated Film and Underrated Score! .... I don't know why this Film is not shown more often?
When I first saw EL CID, I was surprised at what a tremendous film it was. Charlton Heston should have his second Oscar for his performance. Miklos Rozsas' score is really original and you can tell that it was a bit of a departure from his previous scores. This music is fresh and gorgeous and ranks in the top 10 of the best written for the screen.
You nailed it. In some ways, it was one of the greatest movies ever made.
I agree with u, this movie was a great experience to watch and learn about the past history of Spain and the music is wonderful and I listen to the music all the time.
Totally agree
This is my favorite of Maestro Miklos' scores, so robust, romantic and remarkable!
It is rare that the score for a movie so perfectly matches the theme and adds context and depth to the plot. Simply genius.
Great composer Miklos Rozsa...
Amazing soundtrack, no one has reached this level in epic music !
No one like Charlton Heston to portrait a warrior. He is superb as Don Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (CID Campeador), the greatest hero of SPAIN
This wonderful movie and soundtrack dealt with the struggle of the Spanish to repel Islamic aggression. This music serves to remind us that the Muslim hordes are again at the gates of Europe. Where is El Cid now, when we need him most?
captebbtide he is dormant within esch of us. Look into yourself and you will hear his voice calling you to defend our Europe from the unvasion.
Absolutely amazing performance and beautiful music and movie, ever since I saw the film it has been with me as long as I have lived and I'll be 74 soon.
@@josephcavaliere9772 same here and I will be 66 in a few months
If only we had a glassfull of his courage to quell the evil that is around us today ...... thank you Don Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar..... El Cid for your bravado when it was needed the most during Spain's historic stand vs the Moors .....God bless his memory
Simply superb! The music perfectly captures the plot of the movie and the soul of Spain. As a child I was overwhelmed by the legend and the portrait that the movie painted of the noblest knight of all.
Greatest spiritual realm of life it portrays, a great jousting fight for all us to c. Beautifully crafted and done right.
The Cid! What every man should aspire to be.
Good analogy for what its worth, can u visualize that we r a rare exception for not having any more wars. That we are equal together as of one.
The best movie tracks ever by the Maestro Miklos Rozsa- El Cid, Ben Hur, King of Kings and Quo Vadis. They still give me chills.
One of the greatest soundtracks ever made for a movie.
Yes.Rosa was great.I think it is past time that all of these "movie music" composers take their place alongside the "classical masters".I for one feel fortunate to have lived at the time of Steiner,Tiomikin,Friedhoffer,Williams,Horner,Polidaris,Morricone...and the list goes on.These people made great music.
back when we had movies and music
Without a doubt El Cid is my favorite movie of all time.
Nice. Charlton Heston, Anthony Mann, Sophia Loren and yes Miklos Rossa.
i tremble when i hear this work of genius.
The Maestro of EPICS! Thank you so much for this!
A wonderful film ----truly one of the very best historical dramas of the early 60's & late 50's. Dr. Rozsa's score is masterful; beautiful, haunting, unforgettable! -----Wolfsky9
Thank you for presenting the soundtrack score from El Cid. Lovely melodic symphony. From an era best remembered in Hollywood history. Even if one lives in a different time, it's always good to know that recorded classics will always be around, passed on from one generation to the next. I go back to the historic movie score period as a child, and when movies like El Cid appeared on TV, I always took notice of the score, and how it defined the film.
Love Miklos Rozsa, he also did King of Kings, Knights of the Round table, Quo Vadis, Ben Hur, and the Green Berets. He's one of my favorites along with Max Steiner, Jerry Goldsmith, and James Honer.
Johnny Guitar
I sure hope Bernard Herrmann at least gets a special mention in your list. Truly soulful and adventurous music here in EL CID. Check Rozsa's early masterpieces, too: SPELLBOUND, JUNGLE BOOK, and THIEF OF BAGDAD.
@@shoegeezr I think Bernard Herrmann was the absolute best movie score composer. His Vertigo score was spellbinding.
@@melaniebruno4632 Nice pun! Any composer who starts his film credits with CITIZEN KANE and ends with TAXI DRIVER has my vote for the pantheon. Under pressure from Universal, HItchcock rejected Herrmann's TORN CURTAIN score. Not wise for a genius to reject a fellow genius.
Unlike Ben Hur and King of Kings I have no childhood memory of El Cid, coming to it as an adult - probably because it was not a religiously-themed movie like the other two, which were guaranteed Christmas and Easter viewing in the 1970s. By the time I watched it in the 1990s, it chimed well with my Medieval history studies. Nevertheless, Miklós Rózsa’s El Cid score demonstrate what a prodigious talent he was. It completely captures the essence of medieval Spain (Castille), the tranquility of the serene scenes, and the dramatic energy of the battle scenes.
There is a magic of Miklós Rózsa’s scores; that is they have the effect of exuding the mood of the time(s) they portray. If you could transport back in time and play one of his scores, you would be forgiven to think that they would not be out of place to the people of that time. 🎼❤
Awesome movie and iconic poster art! With a soundtrack score to match! Miklos Rozsa should have won two Academy Awards for Best Score of 1961 - the other being KING OF KINGS.
Unquestionably, all three - Bernstein, Mancini and Rozsa - were extraodinarily gifted and skilled composers. Each film is quite different from the others and their scores are not only appropriate for their genres, but serve as ideal creative underpinnings for the films themselves. However, Miklos Rozsa's majestic original score for the epic El Cid is at once stirring and has a hugely broad sweep which aurally depicts epic battles, the menacing threat of the moorish horde that swept over Spain, and simultaenously, provided wonderfully nuanced and delicate background for love scenes, as well as the tumultuous relationships between Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, his wife and the kings he served. It never fails to amaze me that this monumental musical achievement failed to receive the Oscar in 1961.
Walter Sperr Very eloquent
+Walter Sperr Mr. Sperr, " El Cid" was nominated for 3 Oscars in 1962. As you may recall, '61 was totally dominated by " West Side Story", & " Judgment At Nuremburg". Miklos R. should have won the Oscar for his stirring score,& that was an Academy error. My own take is that by this time his grand , Ultra-Operatic approach to scoring was seen as dated & predictable. I disagree, but I do see how that conclusion could have been reached. Recall, in the '62 Oscars, " Days Of Wine & Roses' won best song. At least The Academy did right in THAT category. Wolfsky9
Mr. Sperr : Allow sir, another observation re : this obvious error on the part of the " Academy " : Dr. Rozsa had by this time, already won 3 Oscars in this category, so , being the political organization it is, the bar for victory went up to an impossibly high standard for this great composer ! --Now for me, he STILL should have won, hands-down, but that's how standards go for " The Oscars", as opposed to " The Golden Globes" ! -----------Wolfsky9, 70 y/o
The Oscar year was 1962 (for films of 1961) ... the winner was Henry Mancini for Breakfast at Tiffany's ... other nominees included Dimitri Tiomkin for The Guns of Navarone and Elmer Bernstein for Summer and Smoke. I have been collecting recordings of Rozsa films since the 50's and personally believe El Cid was his finest score.
I wouldn't put Bernstein - if you mean Leonard Bernstein - in the same category as Mancini and Rozsa. Now if you meant Elmer Bernstein then I would.
"Hele davran, Bizans kargası..." The "Prelude" was used in the 1971 Turkish action-adventure movie "Battal Gazi Destanı" in such an extent that hearing the music instantly makes one remember the movie and its star Cüneyt Arkın.
"Heavenly Father, open your arms to receive the soul of one who lived and died the purest knight of all." The last words spoken in the movie El CID!
When the gates of Valencia open and the the organ music plays as El Cid rides out, always made my hair on my neck stand!
It is lovely,indeed.
Chuck Heston forever ❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🎵🎵 The best actor to all this historical parts of movies 📖🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️
I remember going to the premier of this epic picture in 1961 I believe in downtown Dallas, and out front of the foyer they were selling booklets, soundtracks and other items to the movie goers. Just wish I had purchased the original soundtrack that night.
Me too! It is very hard to find, being out of print and all, but at least RUclips gives us some excerpts! 👍
Epic movie great actors,and a hell of a soundtrack 👍
WONDERFULL AND ETERNAL SOUNDTRACK
I have the original stringmail tunic worn by Mr. Heston in this film. We have re-plated it in gunmetal finish. Originally from Bermans & Nathans. Love the music and film.
This should have won best musical score. Miklos Rosza is genius
Gracias es una de mis películas favoritas y la música de Miklós Rózcas me gusta mucho.
With out the film no music. Without the cid this wouldn't have happened. So to the the people who made it happen thanx
Yo Tambien!!
And thus the Cid rode out of the gates of history into legend.
This incredible music sounds as if the music of Ben Hur, Cleopatra, The Robe, and The Ten Commandments all got together and made an El Cid baby!
Miklos outstanding And amazing hugarian conposer !!!!
heroic epic soundrack music
4 de octubre de 2023. Se cumple un Centenario. Un Siglo del Nacimiento del Gran Charlton Heston. Mi Actor Favorito. Por Siempre.
……mine, too! Met him, & his wife, Lydia, many, many times’ between 1966-1996. Lovely people, & a joy to be in conversation with. They’re both gone now R I P
One of my favourites. My chainmail was used in this film.
Bravo!
Seul commentaire que je trouve en français 😄
One Of The Finest Movie Scores Of All Time!
Perfect soundtrack !
Súper Beatifull Soundtrack of a Great Epic!!!!.
There are three movies that have this incredibly lush, creative, upbeat, sweet, romantic, tragic, dynamic and picturesque soundtrack, and each soundtrack is a masterpiece.
1. El Cid (1961)
2. Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
3. Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Highly recommended for all lovers of movie scores. 😍
The greatest of all the film composers was Miklos Rozsa in my opinion. His film scores soared, with beautiful melodies and tone poems which many film composers tried to emulate. My favorite soundtrack of all time is "The Thief of Bagdad". A perfect film and film score! Long live Miklos Rozsa!
Zowie! Great film, great soundtrack!
Great Music, I grew up listening to this, I have the original vinyl from "62, but the script sucked. but the story is great, I spent my youth studying Rodrigo Bivar, and this music, it is Perfect!
The stereo sound is beautiful separated !!!
Q. estraordinario tremenda banda😘gracias lindos recuerdos👋😩💓😃👋👋👋💓
GREAT..
Amazing soundtrack by Milkós Ròzsa .. even better than movie
A masterpiece ..
Greetings
Ahmad Ali Ahmad
Thanks "Soundtrack fred"
Sunday .. extremely early morning
8.10.2017 1:25 am
12 Academy Awards PERIOD.
FEEL THE LOVE. THE POWER OF GOD BESTOWED TO EL CID.
THE CID HAS RETURNED.
IN THE 21ST. CENTURY.
AMERICA ARE YOU READY.
YOUR PAGE...GEORGE.
That sound track is a love letter to Spain.
"MIKLOS ROSA"....The Quintessential "" إل سيد " of Cinematic Music ....there ARE NO ARGUMENTS....EVER ! VIVA MAESTRO !
Stunning , timeless🤗
The best soundtrack ever
I can only remember with this our Battal Gazi (Cuneyt Arkin). It is a masterpiece ! Many Thanks!
Charles Hill Another Miklos Rozsa written with such passion and full of life and glory! His next best Score after Ben-Hur,, composed with such verve and action, you can hear the whole story through the Music. It's filled with love and compassion, it's full of such excitement!
Großartige Filmmusik, die die goldene Epoche der US-amerikanischen Filme repräsentiert.
Amigos : otra de las grandes superproducciones de aquellas épocas y que nunca volverán era el gran cine espectacular y grandioso dificil de olvidar .
Películas de colección y que la t.v. NO PASAN lastima .
Tienes razon. Peliculas asi. Ya no se hacen. Y no por falta de dinero. Ahora hacen otro tipo de cine pir desgracia.
Por desgracia
A long movie full of action and a great soundtrack!
Impecável Filme Todos de Admirável Talento 👏👏👏👏👏😇❤️Linda trilha Sonora☺️🙏👏👏🌻
Fantastic! and thank you!
Музыка замечательная, как и фильм о выдающейся исторической личности. А актёры- выше всех похвал. Музыка поистине передала ту эпоху. Молодец венгерский композитор
MARAVILLOSA MUSICA,MARAVILLOSA PELICULA.GRAN MIKLOS
EL CID um dos grandes filmes que levou milhões de pessoas ao cinema. A Trilha é de MIKLOS ROZSA.
This is one off the greatest film scores ever composed, from one of the greatest adventure films ever made. It was a travesty that this film music didn't win the Oscar For Best Film Score in 1961 for Miklos Rozsa. It was also a travesty that Alfred Newman didn't win the Oscar for his film score for "Captain From Castile" in 1947.
GLORIOUS ANDAR IMORTAL MIKLOS ANGELES ROZSA!!!
Epic movies are no more...along with the epic scores.
From the same man who composed the fantastic music for film ‘Ben-Hur’.
-Şimdi seni balık gibi yakalayacağım!
-Balıkçı olsaydın açlıktan ölürdün Kombo!
Recuerdo que con esta pelicula se estreno y fue la apertura del cine M aria Teresa Montoya exibiendose por primera vez aqui en Monterrey,N.L.,MEXICO en el novedoso sistema de proyeccion 70mm.,eso fue en Mayo de 1963.
Maravilloso compositor de estupenda peliculas cuando oigo su música se me aceleran mis sentiments Unico Miklos Rozsa
I love this score Fred..... while its billed as the Soundtrack.
, Its a studio rerecording that Rozsa conducted. Its my understanding that half of the actual soundtrack was recorded either in Spain or Rome and the other half in London. But Samuel Bronston messed over Rozsa allowing so much amazing music to be cut!
This masterpiece is far more greater then movie itself. besides that movie is not deserve this soundtrack. Miklos, what an artist are you.... One of the best ever made.
You stupid it has all the sounds of Spain.
amazing content great job my friend
I am impelled to correct the above information: This performance is from the MGM Record Album SE 3977 ST - and, therefore, is neither the MGM Studio Orchestra nor even an original soundtrack recording. Sadly, with extremely-few exceptions, there were NO original soundtrack recordings whatsoever issued from MGM Records during the supervision of producer Jesse Kaye. This performance is by Miklós Rózsa conducting “The Symphony Orchestra Graunke of Munich.”
The orchestra you mentioned is known today as the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Its original name (Symphonie-Orchester Graunke in German) was for its founder, Kurt Graunke.
You can blame the AFM for this. Outrageous 're-use' fees for soundtracks released in any commercial format. Later, after Max Herman, their president, retired, the new leadership at Local 47 realised the potential of royalties from soundtrack re-issues in limited editions, thus paving the way for small, independent record labels to take the initiative.
Correct. Thanks for pointing this out.
Comic book writer and artist Walt Simonson once said that "You can get away with almost anything in a story if you keep a straight face." This movie put the "camp" in "El Campeador", but everyone involved plays so it earnestly straight that I can't help but love it. And while I do enjoy some parts of El Cid in a "look how dated this is" sort of way, other parts send genuine chills down my spine, no irony or smug cynicism.
"Can a man live without honor?"
"Your colors are no longer black"
"Say Amen",
"There can be no hidden place for a man like you"
"Valencia for Alphonso BY THE GRACE OF GOD, THE KING OF SPAIN!"
"I am king of NOTHING- I'm no king at all!"
Back when Hollywood knew how to make movies. Sadly actors like Charlton Heston are gone and so are the great directors.
The film of my life!
Very nice❤
Epic. In every sense of the word.
Esta composición describe España, inspirada en Sevilla de Isaac Albeniz,
El Amor Brujo de Manuel de Falla y Danzas fantásticas de Turina. Recomiendo su audición.
Great song
If you're loving Miklos Rosza's score, you might want to seek out a symphony he wrote early in his career (unrelated to his film scores), and which gathered dust for most of his life. I have a CD recording of it, but couldn't find it, just now, in a couple of quick Amazon and RUclips searches. I hope it's not out of print!
i believe it is Gerard Schwartz and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra on the Delos label, i had it once, before losing all of my stuff in a storage unit decades ago. 😥
Et vive Miklos Rocha , auteur de musiques...comment dire...monumentales.
Fantastic
Me han gustado las grandes producciones cinematográficas. Como esta del El Cid con su épica historia, música, y actuación.
El Cid garnered 3 oscar nominations for the 1962 Oscars, not the 1961 Oscars.
Rozsa repeats his motifs over and over, for instance, double indemnity sounds like Ben hur, but it doesn't matter, because it all sounds great.
The glory goes to the USA for creating this masterpiece.
@cyrusavesta223; Correction; Miklos Rozsa was hungarian...
Saw itwhen it first came out. After seven times of viewing I noticed something I never saw before..toward the end of the movie when El Cid liberates the castel of Castile and says "we bring you bread" his army comes marvhing through the gstes and sandwiched between two buildings watching the entire production is a little man in his sports coat and cap watching the whole thing. It was never, to my knowledge edited out. Its probaby still there. You'll probably have to find an OLD copy...not a new copy of El Cid. A new one has probably been edited. If you find it, then copy that scene and upload it on RUclips...share it with everyone.
The songs take you to medieval Spain when the struggle was real.
GRANDIOSA PELICULA ESPECTACULAR MUSICA
Must of been some score to beat this to an oscar
Great recording for the time in it was recorded, I always admired to Miklos Rozsa , what A Great Hungarian composer . I consider him the father of the sound tracks and a mentor of the great, John William. Also Jerry Goldsmith. Nothing to do with the present composers, Most of them with the use and libraries on MIDI tracks.
*EPIC*EPIC*EPIC*EPIC*EPIC /Miklós Rózsa\