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BTW, I found the Paris Concerts CDs vary variable as a listening experience: some cues went into my “favourites” playlist, and some tracks I just couldn’t listen to. A lot of the more “quirky” scores just didn’t feel there was much life to them.
This 2-CD set just confirms to me that I am VERY picky about re-recordings or concert performances. The performances have to be either really faithful to the original OST versions, or they have to be completely different and trying something different (e.g., I may like something like STAR WARS done by a penny whistle sextet).
But, anything that’s trying to be faithful to the original but there’s something different from the OST – like a instrument solo that’s not quite there, or a vocalist that doesn’t quite match the original – then I don’t tend to like it. Even if an album that I have grown to love is rereleased with “improved mastering” that plays about with the mix of the instruments, then that turns me off too.