Franz Waxman, Joel McNeely, Royal Scottish National Orchestra : Sunset Boulevard (Original Motion Picture Score) (CD, Album)Franz Waxman, Joel McNeely, Royal Scottish National Orchestra : Sunset Boulevard (Original Motion Picture Score) (CD, Album)Franz Waxman, Joel McNeely, Royal Scottish National Orchestra : Sunset Boulevard (Original Motion Picture Score) (CD, Album)Franz Waxman, Joel McNeely, Royal Scottish National Orchestra : Sunset Boulevard (Original Motion Picture Score) (CD, Album)
Franz Waxman, Joel McNeely, Royal Scottish National Orchestra : Sunset Boulevard (Original Motion Picture Score) (CD, Album)
Franz Waxman, Joel McNeely, Royal Scottish National Orchestra : Sunset Boulevard (Original Motion Picture Score) (CD, Album)
Franz Waxman, Joel McNeely, Royal Scottish National Orchestra : Sunset Boulevard (Original Motion Picture Score) (CD, Album)
Franz Waxman, Joel McNeely, Royal Scottish National Orchestra : Sunset Boulevard (Original Motion Picture Score) (CD, Album)
Franz Waxman, Joel McNeely, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Sunset Boulevard (Original Motion Picture Score)

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Franz Waxman's score for Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard is one of cinema's masterpieces, a darkly romantic work that perfectly captures the paranoia and faded glamour of Hollywood's underbelly. Waxman combines lush strings with jaded jazz elements, creating an atmosphere simultaneously seductive and menacing. The music tracks the protagonist's psychological unraveling through increasingly unstable orchestrations—elegant on the surface, disturbing underneath. This reissue features a fresh re-recording by Joel McNeely conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, bringing clarity and precision to Waxman's often complex orchestration. The result is immediately accessible yet deeply satisfying. Whether you're a film music devotee, drawn to noir aesthetics, or interested in how a composer uses music to explore dark psychology, this is unmissable—a cornerstone of postwar film scoring.

Item Details+
Genre Stage and Screen
Style Score
Media Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Near Mint (NM or M-)
Description NM copy all around.
Label Varèse Sarabande
Year 2002
Country US
Format CD
Tracklist+

Sunset Boulevard

1. Sunset Boulevard Prelude

2. Paramount Studio

3. Chase And Mansion

4. Norma Desmond

5. An Aging Actress

6. Reading The Script

7. The Strange Garden

8. Norma's Gallery

9. The Waxworks And The Bridge Game

10. Afternoon Outings

11. Sacrifice Of Self-respect

12. The Old Bathing Beauty

13. Parading To Paramount

14. Old Friends

15. Demille's Compassion

16. Norma's Suspicions

17. New Interest And The Studio Stroll

18. Her First Husband

19. The Showdown

20. Farewell

21. Joe Walks Out

22. The Corpse

23. The Comeback

24. Sunset Boulevard Cast

Bonus Track

25. Prelude And Conversing Corpses

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