Joel McNeely conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
1. Prelude (02:59)
2. Rain (1:27)
3. Litany (1:15)
4. Manuscript Reading And Snow Picture (1:36)
5. Mother's Sacrifice (0:50)
6. Charles Meets Thatcher (0:45)
7. Galop (0:46)
8. Dissolve (0:14)
9. Second Manuscript (0:59)
10. Thanks (0:08)
11. Bernstein's Narration (0:37)
12. Kane's New Office (0:48)
13. Hornpipe Polka (0:45)
14. Carter's Exit (0:39)
15. Chronicle Scherzo (1:03)
16. Bernstein's Presto (0:19)
17. Kane's Return (0:26)
18. Valse Presentation (0:55)
19. Sunset Narration (2:47)
20. Theme And Variations (3:02)
21. Kane And Susan (0:28
22. Susan's Room (2:14)
23. Mother Memory (0:31)
24. The Trip (1:13)
25. Getty's Departure (0:32)
26. Kane Marries (0:55)
27. Salaambo's Aria (4:10) Featuring Janice Watson (Soprano)
28. Leland's Dismissal (0:55)
29. New Dawn Music (0:47)
30. Xanadu (1:36)
31. Jigsaws (0:59)
32. Second Xanadu (1:14)
33. Kane's Picnic (0:35)
34. Susan Leaves (1:06)
35. El Rancho (0:30)
36. The Glass Ball (1:32)
37. Finale (2:33)
38. The Night (3:06)
39. Xanadu Music (2:27)
40. Dawn (0:57)
Orson Welles first feature film - which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title
role - proved to be his most important and influential work, a ground-breaking drama loosely based on the
life of William Randolph Hearst which is frequently cited as the finest American film ever made. Aging
newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) dies in his sprawling Florida estate after uttering a
single, enigmatic final word - "Rosebud" - and newsreel producer Rawlston (Phil Van Zandt) sends reporter
Jerry Thompson (William Alland) out with the assignment of uncovering the meaning behind the great man's
dying thought. As Thompson interviews Kane's friends, family, and associates, we learn the facts of Kane's
eventful and ultimately tragic life: his abandonment by his parents (Agnes Moorehead and Harry Shannon) after
he becomes the heir to a fortune in gold; his angry conflicts with his guardian, master financier Walter
Parks Thatcher (George Coulouris); his impulsive decision that "it would be fun to run a newspaper" with the
help of school chum Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten) and loyal assistant Mr. Bernstein (Everett Sloane); his
rise from scandal sheet publisher to the owner of America's largest and most influential newspaper chain; his
marriage to socially prominent Emily Norton (Ruth Warrick), whose uncle is the President of the United
States; Kane's ambitious bid for public office, which is dashed along with his marriage when his opponent,
corrupt political boss Jim Gettys (Ray Collins), reveals that Kane is having an affair with aspiring vocalist
Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore); Kane's vain attempts to promote second wife Alexander as an opera star;
and his final, self-imposed exile to a massive and never-completed pleasure palace called Xanadu. While
"Citizen Kane" was a film full of distinguished debuts - along with Welles, it was the first feature for
Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, and Ruth Warrick - the only Academy Award it
received was for Best Original Screenplay, for which Welles shared credit with veteran screenwriter Herman
Mankiewicz. 1941