Korngold was the best movie score composer of all time. There is no argument here. You can try and give one, but you’d be wrong. Korngold reigns supreme.
9:37 Pull on the oars! Freedom is yours! Strike for the shores of Dover! Over the sea, Hearty & free, Troubles will soon be over - Sing as you row! Here we go - For we know that we row For home, sweet home ... Pull on the oars! Freedom is yours! Strike for the shores of Dover! Over the sea, Hearty and free, Troubles will soon be over - Here we go - For we know that we row for Home! Sailing for Home! Home!
One of the greatest film scores ever written and played at the right tempo, too. This is why I love good film music, Watch the whole movie and just try to keep in your seat. I dare you.
Korngold was truly "Das Lichte Wunderkind" (the last prodigy). He was the master of chromaticism first introduced by Bela Bartok. Both were way before their time and both composers received negative reception. Bartok's first opera was rejected in 1911. But Korngold received even worse treatment in 1917 with the performance of his first work which he later used many parts for the first movie in the US. He later received much well deserved acclaim. Very enjoyable--thanks!
@@jamesalexander5623 Its a personal choice i freaking love Casablanca but The Sea Hawk/Robin Hood were the best for me...honestly though there's a lot more we could add anyway like Angels With Dirty Faces/Captain Blood etc...
"Spain is an old country with a very rich culture. In fact, there is much in Spain that we English could profit by." - "We'll we're certainly doing the best we can!"
"Perhaps you won't be so lucky here as you were in Panama" - 'Lord Wolfingham' (Henri Danielle) Wolfinghams last words before being skewered by Capt. Thorp. Always liked that line as delivered by Danielle who was always wonderful in his villain roles.
But in fairness, Wolfingham beat the hell out of Thorpe during their fight and only lost by pure chance. Thorpe may have won, but he took a ton of abuse and very nearly got killed.
Rachel Andelman Robin Hood is a better movie and I love that score as well but I think the sea hawk score is a tad more brilliant, a grand mix of Strauss, Mahler, and the late expressionist German idiom, and epitomizing the “Hollywood performance” style of the era. I’m a classical musician and I studied with a principal performer from the Hollywood orchestra scene in the 1950s, so I got many stories about this golden era, not to mention his lush, romantic, “Hollywood” style of playing (lots of vibrato, slides everywhere, always passionate, always intense”).
@@irvingsteinberg This i agree with 100%...i love both films and have watched them dozens of times and like you said Robin Hood is the better movie but the score for The Sea Hawk is the better score,mind thats like comparing genius over epic genius
I've enjoyed listening to your post, Soundtrack Fred, for years now. No ads, best quality sound, perfect selection. Great work, sir. Much obliged for it, too. Thanks!
Hello Stewart and thank you very much! It's an "old mix" and now I could do much better mixing it and I got a new, better sounding source. Thoughts are there to "redo" that one. But I am so happy you like it. Regarding the ads... Please don't get annoyed by them anyway, because uploaders (as I) can't always decide where and how many ads should be placed. We only upload the video and UA-cam does the rest and we might look bad "spamming". I am sorry for that and recommend an adblocker anyway. However, thank you very much again and all the best! Fred
Another exceptional recording of The Sea Hawk music was made by James DePriest conducting the Oregon Symphony on Delos. It has some touching rubato and let's us hear the lucious harmonies. Brilliantly energetic. I was floored the first time I heard this music, bringing to life those great movie palaces. The CD includes the late Symphony in F#. Korngold was a marvel. Thank you for making this available.
@9.36 Pull on the oars Freedom is yours Strike for the shores of Dover Over the sea Hearty & free Troubles will soon be over Sing as you row Here we go For we know that we row For home, sweet home... Pull on the oars Freedom is yours Strike for the shores of Dover Over the sea Hearty and free, Troubles will soon be over Here we go For we know that we row for Home! Sailing for Home! Home!
Korngold (I'm told) wrote this score in 3 weeks!!!! I know he was a prodigy, but that's close to the physical limits of possibility. I still prefer 'Adventures of Robin Hood', because that was a once in a life-time combination of film and score, but 'The Sea Hawk' allows Korngold to develop a more focused and 'single-time-period' sound. The score is truly brilliant and thrilling and the love theme is my single favourite of any score.
No offense intended, but it took him *seven* weeks to produce the roughly hour and a half of music in this film. Hugo Friedhoffer assisted in producing the orchestrations.
@@TheStockwell Korngold had about three weeks to score *Captain Blood,* which is probably what the original poster was thinking of. And the timetable was so tight that he had to use excerpts from Franz Liszt to fill out the score, which is why he doesn't have a composer credit on that film. He's listed as "musical arrangements by" at his own request.
Pull on the oars Freedom is yours Strike for the shores of Dover Over the sea Hearty & free Troubles will soon be over Sing as you row Here we go For we know that we row For home, sweet home... Pull on the oars Freedom is yours Strike for the shores of Dover Over the sea Hearty and free, Troubles will soon be over Here we go For we know that we row for Home! Sailing for Home! Home!
Wow. This is even more exciting than the exciting Charles Gerhardt recording. Thrilling. This movie features one of the most beautiful woman of that time, Brenda Marshall. Just absolutely ravishing just like the music.
May I suggest the best score of any movie was Max Steiner. His score for King Kong was absolutely sensational !!! Korngold was second; the Errol Flynn movie The Sea Hawk was also sensational. May I also suggest to add Ferde Grofe. His soundtrack for Rocketship XM was great. The last of the great soundtrack composers was Bernard Herrmann. However after Herrmann died in came John Williams.
Right behind Robin Hood is this score for Errol. The trumpets and harp rule! What if Flynn died suddenly (like James Dean) after 1940? We would have been left with Flynn's best. Would not have suffered through Istanbul, Mara Maru or Crossed Swords.
One theme I wish they had on here was the return to the ship/capture of Thorpe’s crew, that sad piece where the crewman dies and the ship is not the warm home they know, but an imposing thing.
Shelley Booth-Bishop > Errol Flynn. jk. The main title was partially redone by a full orchestra, as are most musical parodies in Family Guy. Family Guy - Pirate Chase
why do you have to attack rap like that? I'm someone who really enjoys rap music but also really likes older classics such as this. When you close your mind off like that to other people's opinions/likes/dislikes etc. you are the one who is missing out and is revealed to be ignorant.
I can appreciate rap for what it is, poetry or spoken word with rhythm. But it is not music. Don't believe me? Pick any rap song and try to hum the melody. There isn't one. I'm glad you have such wide tastes in music, so do I. Just not including anything without a melody or talent. (not saying rappers aren't talented, thinking more about some singers who need auto tune to sound good.)
It almost makes to grab a sword and run through a couple of traitors.Great swashbuckling sword fight. I believe Henri Danielle was the villian/victim here instead of Bail Rathbone.
Yeah, Basil Rathbone was offered the role of Lord Wolfingham but he turned it down because he felt he was starting to get Typecast, Olivia de Havilland was also offered the part of Dona Maria but she turned it down because she'd gotten tired of Swashbucklers. So Henry Daniell and Brenda Marshall got the roles respectively.
Excellent! Question: is this music recorded from the original optical ("Selenaphone") system? I believe magnetic sound tracks didn't come in until the 1950s.
You know something also has to be said for Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra. I know ... Korngold was conducting... but the orchestra responded with tremendous elan and attack!!! Even with the great Gerhardt remakes in hi-fi stereo as good as those are... they don't out do the originals!!!
SOBERBIO KORNGOLD , GENIOOOOOOO, DESDE QUE OI ESTA MUSICA , ME TRANSPORTO A LAS AGUAS DEL CARIBE , CON LOS PIRATAS Y SUS AVENTURAS , EXTRAORDINARIO ¡¡¡¡¡¡
combining and editing the rest costs about an hour or two. i try to put the most memorable cues into a suite but try to make 'a bow' from main theme, over love-themes, other incidental music, to the finale / end music. all the best! :-) Fred
One theme that I don’t usually here is when they are rowing back to the ship after their escape in the America’s. That piece is so somber compared to the rest of the soundtrack, but hangs with me every time I hear it.
How timely this film and music for today. When all that stood in 1940 between Invasion of Britain and the disaster of Fascist Totalitarianism in Nazi Europe was the resolve of Little Britain supported by like minded freedom loving faithful cousins from across the Seas in USA. Now faced with the twin evils of another form of political totalitarianism in Europe and the twisted beliefs of Revolutionary Islam. Well Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Spartaculus Jones no way! There are scenes in this movie that are sepia toned to denote the climate. Something Michael Curtiz took from the silent days and movies like Greed. Colorisation would ruin the atmospherics and the character of the movies. All black and white movies should be left exactly how they are.
One of the greatest movie soundtracks ever created for one of greatest action movies. This movie is 85 YEARS OLD and still rocks.
Korngold was the best movie score composer of all time. There is no argument here. You can try and give one, but you’d be wrong. Korngold reigns supreme.
9:37
Pull on the oars!
Freedom is yours!
Strike for the shores of Dover!
Over the sea,
Hearty & free,
Troubles will soon be over -
Sing as you row!
Here we go -
For we know that we row
For home, sweet home ...
Pull on the oars!
Freedom is yours!
Strike for the shores of Dover!
Over the sea,
Hearty and free,
Troubles will soon be over -
Here we go -
For we know that we row for Home!
Sailing for Home!
Home!
I just hope Disney never tries to make a remake of this type of classic film.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold was a musical genius. Bravo!!
Greatest film music composer
@@raymondgood6555 I am a huge fan of Korngold, but John Williams is hand down the greatest film composer of all time. There is no close second.
@@LACAarchitect korngold is the greatest film composer there is no close second
One of the greatest film scores ever written and played at the right tempo, too. This is why I love good film music, Watch the whole movie and just try to keep in your seat. I dare you.
this is the original recording.
FOR SOME REASON THEY NEVER PUT THIS FORWARD FOR AN ACADEMY AWARD, BUT IT WAS VOTED BY CINEMAGOERS AS THE BEST FILM MUSIC OF THE YEAR
In fact, the score WAS nominated for "Best Music, Score." However, it lost to "Tin Pan Alley." Don't ask me how -- or why!
Korngold was truly "Das Lichte Wunderkind" (the last prodigy). He was the master of chromaticism first introduced by Bela Bartok. Both were way before their time and both composers received negative reception. Bartok's first opera was rejected in 1911. But Korngold received even worse treatment in 1917 with the performance of his first work which he later used many parts for the first movie in the US. He later received much well deserved acclaim. Very enjoyable--thanks!
Korngold and Flynn at the peak of their powers. Magnificent
And Curtiz ...he directed other great films but this and Robin Hood were him at his peak...
@@wildfire160 COULD NOT AGREE MORE
@@wildfire160 Let's not forget he Directed "Casablanca"!
@@jamesalexander5623 Its a personal choice i freaking love Casablanca but The Sea Hawk/Robin Hood were the best for me...honestly though there's a lot more we could add anyway like Angels With Dirty Faces/Captain Blood etc...
Beautiful and exciting. Yes, Korngold was the best at Warner Bros. What luck they had !
Anything by Korngold is superb! The guy wrote the book on film themes.
Strauss and Wagner did. But Korngold was an excellent student of both! Arguably the best and most influential film composer ever.
Great score for one of those classic movies that will live forever. The Great days of Hollywood.
"Spain is an old country with a very rich culture. In fact, there is much in Spain that we English could profit by." - "We'll we're certainly doing the best we can!"
And thus, the action adventure film score was born...
Totally Awesome! The music is the voice of any film and oh boy did Korngold have a lot to say!
high adventure they dont make movies like this anymore.romance, action adventure.
Except Star Wars...
They had good scripts then, not just swearing.
"Perhaps you won't be so lucky here as you were in Panama" - 'Lord Wolfingham' (Henri Danielle)
Wolfinghams last words before being skewered by Capt. Thorp. Always liked that line as delivered by Danielle who was always wonderful in his villain roles.
But in fairness, Wolfingham beat the hell out of Thorpe during their fight and only lost by pure chance. Thorpe may have won, but he took a ton of abuse and very nearly got killed.
Sublime score from Korngold the master musical story teller
A Masterpiece of Korngold, a real Master-Composer! And the way how his wonderful music fits to the movie, to Errol Flynn - unbeatable!
That's what you call a fanfare opening Brilliant
Where's Errol, Alan Hale, Claude Rains and Henry Danielle. Unquestionably the best musical score ever written. Korngold rules!
I love this but my vote still with the Adventures of Robin Hood.
@@rachelandelman4877 It's like color | b/w. Can't beat Olivia either way, but do the pirates matter or not?
You left out another important member of the team director Michael Curtiz
Rachel Andelman Robin Hood is a better movie and I love that score as well but I think the sea hawk score is a tad more brilliant, a grand mix of Strauss, Mahler, and the late expressionist German idiom, and epitomizing the “Hollywood performance” style of the era. I’m a classical musician and I studied with a principal performer from the Hollywood orchestra scene in the 1950s, so I got many stories about this golden era, not to mention his lush, romantic, “Hollywood” style of playing (lots of vibrato, slides everywhere, always passionate, always intense”).
@@irvingsteinberg This i agree with 100%...i love both films and have watched them dozens of times and like you said Robin Hood is the better movie but the score for The Sea Hawk is the better score,mind thats like comparing genius over epic genius
Such a great piece of Music, A masterpiece.
Thank you so, so much. I've always loved this score. Wish that "ships in the Night" from Captain Blood had been part of it.
Perhaps the greatest musical score for film ever written. But I would like to get a good cd performance of the entire work.
You are looking at the cd cover , I’ve had it for years!
The apex of swashbuckling music for the most dashing swashbuckler in movie history.
Such an incredible piece of music!
Ow! What quality! The Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra! Good 'ol times! Will they come back some day?
Overwhelming!
Queen: Then take with you the affection of Elizabeth. Thorpe: Then I take with me that which I prize above all things.
+Spartaculus Jones Love your pic. One of K.Douglas's finest, one of my fav. Agree with your comments.
---U.S. Mil Mom
I agree - love the pic of Kirk Douglas ❤️
Yes, Thorpe’s response was when duty to queen/king and country was amongst the highest honors.
I've enjoyed listening to your post, Soundtrack Fred, for years now. No ads, best quality sound, perfect selection. Great work, sir. Much obliged for it, too. Thanks!
Hello Stewart and thank you very much! It's an "old mix" and now I could do much better mixing it and I got a new, better sounding source. Thoughts are there to "redo" that one. But I am so happy you like it.
Regarding the ads... Please don't get annoyed by them anyway, because uploaders (as I) can't always decide where and how many ads should be placed. We only upload the video and UA-cam does the rest and we might look bad "spamming". I am sorry for that and recommend an adblocker anyway.
However, thank you very much again and all the best!
Fred
Another exceptional recording of The Sea Hawk music was made by James DePriest conducting the Oregon Symphony on Delos. It has some touching rubato and let's us hear the lucious harmonies. Brilliantly energetic. I was floored the first time I heard this music, bringing to life those great movie palaces. The CD includes the late Symphony in F#. Korngold was a marvel. Thank you for making this available.
Love your taste in music. Thank you for creating and uploading all these
"Perfectly possible Mr. Pitt!"
What a resplendent feast to the senses🤩❤️💥
Großartige Filmmusik! Eine Art spätromantischer Klassik.
Ja. Mein Lieblings-Soundtrack von Korngold! Wobei ich ihn erst so richtig kennengelernt habe, als ich die Sea Hawk Suite mal live gehört habe.
@9.36
Pull on the oars
Freedom is yours
Strike for the shores of Dover
Over the sea
Hearty & free
Troubles will soon be over
Sing as you row
Here we go
For we know that we row
For home, sweet home...
Pull on the oars
Freedom is yours
Strike for the shores of Dover
Over the sea
Hearty and free,
Troubles will soon be over
Here we go
For we know that we row for Home!
Sailing for Home!
Home!
My favourite movie score composer!
Me too
Korngold (I'm told) wrote this score in 3 weeks!!!! I know he was a prodigy, but that's close to the physical limits of possibility. I still prefer 'Adventures of Robin Hood', because that was a once in a life-time combination of film and score, but 'The Sea Hawk' allows Korngold to develop a more focused and 'single-time-period' sound. The score is truly brilliant and thrilling and the love theme is my single favourite of any score.
Numinous20111 , who told you this ?
No offense intended, but it took him *seven* weeks to produce the roughly hour and a half of music in this film. Hugo Friedhoffer assisted in producing the orchestrations.
@@TheStockwell Korngold had about three weeks to score *Captain Blood,* which is probably what the original poster was thinking of. And the timetable was so tight that he had to use excerpts from Franz Liszt to fill out the score, which is why he doesn't have a composer credit on that film. He's listed as "musical arrangements by" at his own request.
Pull on the oars
Freedom is yours
Strike for the shores of Dover
Over the sea
Hearty & free
Troubles will soon be over
Sing as you row
Here we go
For we know that we row
For home, sweet home...
Pull on the oars
Freedom is yours
Strike for the shores of Dover
Over the sea
Hearty and free,
Troubles will soon be over
Here we go
For we know that we row for Home!
Sailing for Home!
Home!
Wow. This is even more exciting than the exciting Charles Gerhardt recording. Thrilling. This movie features one of the most beautiful woman of that time, Brenda Marshall. Just absolutely ravishing just like the music.
Holden should of held on to her
May I suggest the best score of any movie was Max Steiner. His score for King Kong was absolutely sensational !!! Korngold was second; the Errol Flynn movie The Sea Hawk was also sensational. May I also suggest to add Ferde Grofe. His soundtrack for Rocketship XM was great. The last of the great soundtrack composers was Bernard Herrmann. However after Herrmann died in came John Williams.
Right behind Robin Hood is this score for Errol. The trumpets and harp rule! What if Flynn died suddenly (like James Dean) after 1940? We would have been left with Flynn's best. Would not have suffered through Istanbul, Mara Maru or Crossed Swords.
I first heard of Erich Wolfgang korngold on music from the shows on CBC 740 Toronto about 40 years ago
One theme I wish they had on here was the return to the ship/capture of Thorpe’s crew, that sad piece where the crewman dies and the ship is not the warm home they know, but an imposing thing.
i saw this years ago and loved it!
Shelley Booth-Bishop > Errol Flynn. jk. The main title was partially redone by a full orchestra, as are most musical parodies in Family Guy.
Family Guy - Pirate Chase
2 Dislikes ? How can anyone not like this music ?
their brain cells have been fried by listening to rap.
why do you have to attack rap like that? I'm someone who really enjoys rap music but also really likes older classics such as this. When you close your mind off like that to other people's opinions/likes/dislikes etc. you are the one who is missing out and is revealed to be ignorant.
I can appreciate rap for what it is, poetry or spoken word with rhythm. But it is not music. Don't believe me? Pick any rap song and try to hum the melody. There isn't one.
I'm glad you have such wide tastes in music, so do I. Just not including anything without a melody or talent. (not saying rappers aren't talented, thinking more about some singers who need auto tune to sound good.)
They were rooting for Phillip II?
Perhaps people who like more rock and roll kinds of music. Not everyone likes the classical sound.
He sure does! The rest of the cast participates through the Spirit!
It almost makes to grab a sword and run through a couple of traitors.Great swashbuckling sword fight. I believe Henri Danielle was the villian/victim here instead of Bail Rathbone.
Yeah, Basil Rathbone was offered the role of Lord Wolfingham but he turned it down because he felt he was starting to get Typecast, Olivia de Havilland was also offered the part of Dona Maria but she turned it down because she'd gotten tired of Swashbucklers. So Henry Daniell and Brenda Marshall got the roles respectively.
+john dates Traitors.........hummmmmmmmmmmm. Don't tempt me. ;)
--- U.S. Mil Mom
it's a pity because the movie could have been even better with those two. but we should be happy with what we have
probably doing The Mark of Zorro that same time
Rathbone’s brother worked in Saudi Arabia in the early sixties. He told me that his brother was quite a swordsman
Still the best version
Nice compilation, but I would have liked the Queen's throne room fanfare after they arrive on English shores. Maybe next time.
Wrath of khan; starships in the twenty third century treated as 17th century ships at sea. De Havilland was and is so beautiful.
Rip olvia
12:25 Ah, Flora Robson
The Last Empress ...... Tzi Hsi
At 9:04 we hear the most Triumphant music: Strike For The Shores of Dover!!!
Marvelous!
Heard this today on the classical station
And so the Crimson Permanent Assurance sailed on...
Excellent! Question: is this music recorded from the original optical ("Selenaphone") system? I believe magnetic sound tracks didn't come in until the 1950s.
i had forgotten what movie, that memorable score was to, that i saw as a 5yr old
You know something also has to be said for Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra. I know ... Korngold was conducting... but the orchestra responded with tremendous elan and attack!!! Even with the great Gerhardt remakes in hi-fi stereo as good as those are... they don't out do the originals!!!
Hear, hear. A number of the players were expatriates from the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, and it shows.
@@hendriphile Thanks for the info but my ears should have told me what you informed me!!! I must be getting old!!!
Korngold evidently was no stranger to Wagner
At 9:35 we hear the triumphant music Strike For The Shores Of Dover
SOBERBIO KORNGOLD , GENIOOOOOOO, DESDE QUE OI ESTA MUSICA , ME TRANSPORTO A LAS AGUAS DEL CARIBE , CON LOS PIRATAS Y SUS AVENTURAS , EXTRAORDINARIO ¡¡¡¡¡¡
And your not the only one who ever thought that it has some similarities when he is sliding down the sail
How long does it take you to combine a suite and are the tracks favorites or random selection
combining and editing the rest costs about an hour or two.
i try to put the most memorable cues into a suite but try to make 'a bow' from main theme, over love-themes, other incidental music, to the finale / end music.
all the best! :-)
Fred
One theme that I don’t usually here is when they are rowing back to the ship after their escape in the America’s. That piece is so somber compared to the rest of the soundtrack, but hangs with me every time I hear it.
"Aloft There! Clear your leach lines."
+Dakers11 Aloft there! Clear you leech lines . . . clear away your
mizzen banks . . . heave tuck your halyards . . . take away your true lines.”
: )Let us strike for the shores of Dover. . I knew I spelled "Leech" wrong.
I thought it was "Heave taught your halyards. O well, what the he#% do I know?"
Gavião do mar bom filmei
ERROL. FLYNN ..!!!!!!!!!!
Greatness from 84 years ago. Alas, there is nothing but garbage today by comparison.
очень хорошо
I always thought that the theme from Goonies had a bit of Korngold's Sea Hawk in it but after hearing this piece I guess I was mistaken.
That was "The adventures of Don Juan" - music by Max Steiner.
Family Guy brought me here. Thanks, 20th Century-Fox.
91.5 brought me here =D !!!
seems like they borrowed this for Peter Pan and the pirates theme.
Yup, pretty much...
only problem is this movie came out before peter pan.
@@stevebesch2368 Why is that a problem?
How? "Cast not ye pearls before swine!"
How timely this film and music for today. When all that stood in 1940 between Invasion of Britain and the disaster of Fascist Totalitarianism in Nazi Europe was the resolve of Little Britain supported by like minded freedom loving faithful cousins from across the Seas in USA. Now faced with the twin evils of another form of political totalitarianism in Europe and the twisted beliefs of Revolutionary Islam. Well Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
oh fuck off
Shuddup
Peter Telford , just enjoy the music.
Give it a rest, Mr. History. 🙄
@@TheStockwell nah
7:26 Rebel Fanfare Star Wars (1977) ?
flashgamer1275 , here we go with the F-in Star Wars again.
@@Michaelbos just having fun.
Korngold did inspire Williams, but I doubt that in this case.
9:00
Shoot it again....😅
This movie needs to be colorized.
Spartaculus Jones no way! There are scenes in this movie that are sepia toned to denote the climate. Something Michael Curtiz took from the silent days and movies like Greed. Colorisation would ruin the atmospherics and the character of the movies. All black and white movies should be left exactly how they are.
Spartaculus Jones I'll let Ted Turner know
Spartaculus Jones , NO
No offense intended, but: Yuck! 😬