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- Release Date: June 13, 2006
- Type: Soundtrack
- Genre: Soundtrack
Review
This mammoth two-disc set from Metro Doubles is generous, expansive, and mostly irrelevant. The 40 tracks that populate Western Film Themes: The Essential Album cover a lot of ground, and the always reliable Prague Philharmonic Orchestra does its best to replicate the majesty of the Old West on both the small screen ("Bonanza," "Wagon Train," "Lone Ranger") and the big screen ("Once Upon a Time in the West," "Silverado," "Hang 'Em High"), but these are not the original recordings. Had the packaging featured that fact more prominently (not just in small red print on the back cover), then this would be a fine and competent rendering of classic Westerns themes instead of a whole lot of snake oil. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| The Big Country (Main Title) | Jerome Moross | (3:16) | |
| The Magnificent Seven (Main Title) | (5:51) | ||
| The Cowboys (Main Theme) | (3:29) | ||
| The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Main Title) | (2:55) | ||
| A Fistful of Dollars (Main Title) | (3:29) | ||
| Leaving the Fort (Main Theme) | (2:47) | ||
| The Good Times Are Comin' (Main Theme) | (2:16) | ||
| Overture | (3:24) | ||
| Prelude | (3:20) | ||
| Overture | Leonard Bernstein | (6:15) | |
| The John Dunbar Theme | (2:35) | ||
| Man with the Harmonica | (3:54) | ||
| Main Theme | (6:17) | ||
| The War Is Over | (4:28) | ||
| Pastoral | Jerome Moross | (3:41) | |
| Main Theme | (4:06) | ||
| Main Theme | (2:16) | ||
| Opening and Closing Titles | (2:36) | ||
| Main Theme | (5:20) | ||
| Main Theme | (4:09) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Main Theme | (1:16) | ||
| Bonanza/TV Theme | (1:41) | ||
| The Lone Ranger (William Tell Overture): Finale | (3:30) | ||
| Main Theme | Jerome Moross | (3:10) | |
| Main Title | (3:25) | ||
| Main Title | (4:10) | ||
| Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head | (3:12) | ||
| McBain (Main Title) | (2:40) | ||
| Main Title | Hugo Friedhofer | (2:44) | |
| The Need for Love | (3:11) | ||
| Main Theme | (3:30) | ||
| Prelude | (4:48) | ||
| Main Title | (6:05) | ||
| The Big Valley/TV Theme | George Duning | (3:03) | |
| Main Theme | (2:45) | ||
| End Titles | (3:40) | ||
| Rio Bravo/De Guella | (5:07) | ||
| Main Title | (2:55) | ||
| Main Title | (3:23) | ||
| The Wild Wild West/TV Theme | (4:45) |
