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Today, from the Bond on Vinyl archives, we’re still listening to music featured in The Living Daylights!
Though The Living Daylights features a lot of classical music over its two-hour runtime, this next piece of source music is the easiest to find. It’s the first music you hear after the main titles fade out around 10:22 into the film. While the scene takes place in Czechoslovakia, you’re actually hearing the Berlin Symphony Orchestra play Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor.
My vinyl copy of this music, recorded a decade earlier by the Vienna Philharmonic, features another Austrian composer from the 1700s on the B-side to complement Mozart – Joseph Haydn. Haydn’s final symphony, Symphony 104, is included in full, is also heavy on the cello. Likely Hayden’s most famous work since premiering in 1795, it’s just not in any movies that I know.
I was pretty stoked to find this 1965 recording of the Philadelphia Orchestra featuring both pieces on cello.
60. Mozart / Haydn – Vienna Philharmonic – Mozart Symphony No. 40 In G Minor / Haydn Symphony No. 104 In D Major
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