As with Never On Sunday, Dassin turned to Manos Hadjidakis to provide the score, and Hadjidakis delivered the goods - a score filled with wonderful melodies and orchestral colors that matched perfectly the bright candy-colored images on the screen.  It's one of those scores that just makes you smile and one that keeps the movie flying along at a wonderful clip.  At the time of the film's release, United Artists released a soundtrack album, both stereo and mono, but like its release of Tom Jones, the stereo album was really mono - the score was recorded in mono and there were never any stereo masters.  For this CD release, Kritzerland had both the album masters and a set of 15ips session masters - since the latter were a generation better and cleaner than the album masters, they used those to create the CD.  The original LP ran about thirty-two minutes - this new CD runs over forty-five minutes, and the score has been put into film order, which makes for a terrific listening experience.  Additionally, Kritzerland found four cues that weren't used in the film and have included them as bonus tracks.

Topkapi is a colorful, tuneful, exciting, and delightful score by one of Greece's greatest composers.  As the ad copy says - "It's where the jewels are."

Limited to 1000 copies.

Packaging & Liner Notes
Standard jewel case.