Ed Beach wrote:

>I am wondering, have the composers and/or arrangers ever taken a film
>score and retructured it in symphonic or sonata form, thereby allowing
>it to stand on its own.  If so, do you agree with such restructuring and
>are there any recordings of such music you can recommend?

I'd like to recomend you the Alexander Nevski oratorio by Prokofiev, that
is a version of the music composed for the same title film by Einsestein.
There is a good english version with Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra and Rosalind Elias (RCA - AGL1-1966, LP).

Pablo Gamba
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