The Horsemen / Georges Delerue
Also included: The Cousteau Odyssey (The Nile / Blind Prophets of Easter Island)

Released in December 2008, the sumptuous boxed-set Le Cinéma de Georges Delerue contained two excerpts from a rare score, The Horsemen (Delerue's only collaboration with American filmmaker John Frankenheimer) for a movie based on an adaptation of Joseph Kessel's famous novel. Those excerpts were a foretaste of the present album, which now features the original soundtrack from The Horsemen in its complete version for the first time. For this epic fresco filmed in Afghanistan, a movie-spectacular combined with a psychological drama, Georges Delerue let the cavalry loose inside his imagination and wrote a grandiose score for orchestra and chorus with occasional forays into Afghan folk-music. You can hear the composer's taste for wide-open spaces inside each bar, together with rollicking stagecoach-rides, infinite lyricism... and also his taste for expressing torment, brutality and barbarity. In addition to the soundtrack you can hear two complete scores that have never been released on record before, scores composed by Delerue for Jacques-Yves Cousteau's documentaries The Nile and Blind Prophets of Easter Island. Here again, these works evoke distant lands, primitive civilizations and the notion of escape. Another cornerstone in the Georges Delerue edifice inside the Universal’s Ecoutez le cinéma! series, with a new album that sounds like a call to adventure."

Booklet (French and English language) containing movie stills and background info.

1. Main title (02:57)
2. Just as you are, I love you (version 1) (02:38)
3. Savage game for a king (04:07)
4. At the bazaar (02:59)
5. Frustration (02:41)
6. Hills of Afghanistan (02:41)
7. Just as you are, I love you (version 2) (02:31)
8. The fair (01:57)
9. It must come off, master (02:35)
10. An old man rides (02:10)
11. Just as you are, I love you (version 3) (01:36)
12. Man of great riches (03:57)
13. End title
1-13 from "The Horsemen/Les Cavaliers"

14. Statues (03:02)
15. L'océan et l'infini (02:52)
16. Valses de Pâques (02:08)
17. Final (03:11)
14-17 from "Le Testament de l'île de Pâques / Blind Prophets of Easter Island (TV)"

18. Ouverture (04:51)
19. Ramsès II (03:22)
20. Oasis (03:35)
21. Souvenirs antiques (03:07)
22. Assouan (03:41)
23. Gizeh (02:37)
24. L'adieu au Nil (02:30)
18-24 from "Le Nil / the Nile (TV)"

Total Duration: 01:07:45