Listen & tracks
4 works
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Sebastian’s Greatest AdventureGeorge Dreyfus 5 movements
- 1 Theme Song
- 2 The Sausages
- 3 The Showman
- 4 The Doll’s House
- 5 The Animal Catcher
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The Adventures of Sebastian the FoxGeorge Dreyfus 9 movements
- 6 Theme Song
- 7 The Doll’s House
- 8 Playtime
- 9 The Potter’s Wheel
- 10 The Pieman
- 11 The Jinker Ride
- 12 Lullaby
- 13 The Chase
- 14 Theme Song (reprise)
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Sebastian the Fox 7 movements
- 501 The Sausages (new soundtrack)
- 502 The Showman (new soundtrack)
- 503 The Doll’s House (new soundtrack)
- 504 The Animal Catcher (new soundtrack)
- 505 The Pirates (original soundtrack)
- 506 The Sleepwalkers (original soundtrack)
- 507 The Painter [feat. Barry Humphries] (original soundtrack)
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508 Documentary with interviews
Sebastian the Fox (1963) was an ABC children’s series made by Australian film-maker Tim Burstall, later known for films including Alvin Purple. Across thirteen episodes the marionette fox Sebastian, operated by Peter Scriven, tumbles through outlandish adventures.
Burstall asked George Dreyfus to score the whole series. The result is a quirky neo-classical soundtrack and a catchy theme song, written a decade before Dreyfus’s celebrated Theme from Rush.
Four episodes have been restored from original negatives, with the music newly recorded by the Staatskapelle Berlin under Jonathan Dreyfus. A 45-minute documentary gathers interviews with people who worked on the original series, opening a window on a formative chapter in the Australian film industry.
The DVD holds four complete ten-minute episodes with the new soundtrack (The Sausages, The Showman, The Doll's House, The Animal Catcher); three further episodes with the original tracks (The Pirates, The Sleepwalkers, and The Painter starring Barry Humphries); and the documentary.
Artists
George Dreyfus
composer
One of Australia's best-known composers, especially for the theme from the television series Rush, George Dreyfus was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany at Victorian Parliament House for services to music.
Performers
- Staatskapelle Berlin · orchestra · tracks 1–5
- Jonathan Dreyfus · conductor · tracks 1–5
- New Monash Orchestra · orchestra · tracks 6–14
- André de Quadros · conductor · tracks 6–14
- Barry Humphries ·
Details
- List price
- $29.00 AUD
- Release date
- Dec 2010
- Categories
- Australian, Orchestral, Soundtrack
- Musical work copyright
- © 2010 Move Records and 1963 Eltham Films
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 2010 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3346
- EAN
- 9314574334623
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