“Can you put on Paul Mauriat?”, my mum would ask. And when she said “Paul Mauriat”, she referred to one of two vinyls we had or to the audio recording of the television show in Ostankino we taped in 1978. The LP called «Музыка из кинофильмов» (“Music from the movies”) was her favourite though.
According to Russian Wikipedia, this album (the “original” 1973 compilation) was pirated by Melodiya and was distinguished by its poor sound quality. Maybe. Compared with that flexidisc I described a few days ago and its kind, «Музыка из кинофильмов» was very Hi, very Fi. Given that a lot of Mauriat’s music was used in Soviet TV programmes (В мире животных, Время, Кинопанорама) without any acknowledgement, it’s amazing how much information was there on this LP’s cover.
In the 1970s, we did not see any of these films. So what? OK, the names of inconvenient movies were “skillfully” lost in translation. So the theme from then-X-rated Last Tango in Paris was christened «Встреча» (Encounter), while La Chanson de Lara (Lara’s Theme) from Doctor Zhivago became simply «Мелодия» (Melody). This did not prevent us, or anybody else really, from enjoying the music.
What’s more, for me this LP contained the definitive arrangements of those film themes. I remember my disappointment upon first hearing the opening tango of Last Tango in Paris without that piano chord. Or The Godfather after growing up on the Mauriat version of Parle plus bas — another case of the original sounding a pale imitation of its cover. After all, it was this latter that the alien of Контакт encountered on the planet Earth.
| Les Grandes Musiques de Films par l’Orchestre de Paul Mauriat | Оркестр Поля Мориа Музыка из кинофильмов |
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