Justine

JUSTINE, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. (1969). Music by Jerry Goldsmith. Jerry Goldsmith's score for George Cukor's 1969 film Justine, titled after book one of the four Lawrence Durrell novels known jointly as The Alexandria Quartet. The score is extremely exotic and exceptionally flavourful. Goldsmith's mystical melodies were spiced with recorder, auto harp and sitar and he succeeded well in producing an intoxicating work that stands proudly as a highly unique and individual opus among his other truly extraordinary and more famous work of the time. As was not uncommon at the time, the release of a soundtrack album brought about an entirely new recording of the music. For the new recording, the composer relocated to London and...