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Alfred Newman - Diary Of Anne Frank (Original Soundtrack) - Amazon.com Music
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I own the older "Remastered" versions of this score, and they don't come close to this 2 CD set. The Excellent packaging number 1. The sonics are superb for this recording from 1958-59. I can even hear the lows on my subwoofer! The Bells heard throughout some of the tracks are clear and sharp. Hats off to La La Land for the first time for proving the Complete score, unused cues, and demo's. Bravo!
The initial product for The Diary of Anne Frank from '59 featured a nice, basic music summarization of what Alfred Newman wrote for the film; when it was remastered in both 2009 and 2015, it was updated to also include the Main Titles, Intermission, and two Exit Music suites heard in the film -- but this product, compliments of La-La Land Records, features every cue heard in the film that Alfred Newman wrote for it, in addition to remastering the initial product from 1959, as well as also introducing some previously unreleased alternate cues. Finally, enthusiasts of Alfred Newman and those of us who strive to keep Anne's memory alive have gotten the kind of soundtrack album for the film that we've all been waiting for!
The problem that most other, and subsequent, adaptations of Anne's diary and biography have struggled with over the years is the music. Music is one of the most important factors in not only enhancing and enunciating the emotions that the cast display when portraying the characters (or real-life people in actual events) on screen. But more often than not, the scores that those productions' composers have offered have been more in-line with the bleakness of their predicament and all the horrors and desolation of both the war and the Holocaust. Despite how hopeless their situation was, Anne and everyone with whom she hid still had hearts, and Alfred Newman was the only composer who actually seemed to musically find their pulses and see how they managed to fit into what they had to face back then.
Overall, those of us out there who strive to keep Anne's memory alive and enthusiasts of Alfred Newman should definitely seek out this album. Not only is it one of the man's greatest scores ever, but it also musically captured Anne's heart and her optimistic personality the best.
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