Music Box Records has announced a new soundtrack album featuring two newly remastered scores composed and conducted by Academy Award winner Georges Delerue (Platoon, Steel Magnolias, A Little Romance, Twins, The Day of the Dolphin, Beaches, Joe Versus the Volcano). The album includes the composer’s music from the 1983 French drama One Deadly Summer (L’été meurtrier) directed by Jean Becker, based on Sébastien Japrisot’s novel and starring Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon & Maria Machado, as well as his score for 1991’s The White Queen (La reine blanche) written and directed by Jean-Loup Hubert and starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Carmet, Bernard Giraudeau & Richard Bohringer. The CD, which is being released as part of the 100th anniversary celebration of Delerue’s birth and is limited to 750 copies, is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples.
The label has also announced the tenth volume of the collection Great Television Soundtracks dedicated to three original television soundtracks composed and conducted by Delerue: 1981’s Histoires extraordinaires, 1970’s Les Cousins de la Constance and 1973’s Là-haut, les quatre saisons. Click here for the full album details and to order the limited edition CD.
