Black Patch / The Man Original Soundtrack CD - Western Film Score Music for Movies, TV Shows & Gaming Soundtracks

Intrada announces its latest Excalibur release – the Kickstarter-funded new recordings of Jerry Goldsmith's Black Patch and The Man. Performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under the baton of William Stromberg, this album features two rarities from Goldsmith's catalog. Black Patch is a 1957 western and is Goldsmith's first big-screen theatrical score. Nonetheless, Goldsmith had seven years of scoring television experience and brought to this premiere of sorts a musically sophisticated, dramatically assured and expertly crafted style, showing emotional restraint in a complex musical framework. And this recording even includes the fully restored opening, which was edited down in the film. For The Man, Goldsmith reconstructionist Leigh Phillips restored the score entirely by ear, as no written score or parts were accessible. Unlike the darker sound of Black Patch, this score starts with glorious trumpets, horns and trombones. It's a brassy, Americana pronouncement of a new era for the United States – when, for the first time, a black man becomes president (James Earl Jones) due to an alignment of unusual circumstances. The score is a lean one, both in its lack of violins as well as its running time, Goldsmith packs a lot into the complete 16-minute score.