Lawrence of Arabia — film score

Maurice Jarre, then little known outside France, wrote the score for David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia in about six weeks, after Lean rejected themes by Richard Rodgers and asked Jarre to score the whole film; the film premiered in London on 10 December 1962. The London Philharmonic Orchestra recorded it at Shepperton Studios with 60 strings, 11 percussionists, two pianos, two harps and three ondes Martenots, with Jarre conducting although Sir Adrian Boult is credited in the film, and the score also uses Kenneth J. Alford's march "The Voice of the Guns". It won the Academy Award for Best Music Score (Substantially Original) and ranked third on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest film scores. The original album held only about half an hour of music; the first complete recording was made in Prague in 2010 by the City of Prague Philharmonic under Nic Raine for Tadlow.