[Graham Watt]

Doesn’t it say in the liner notes that the album was split that way to maintain the “geography” of the score? Something like that?

I still think BEN-HUR is an absolute masterpiece. I love SODOM AND GOMORRAH but find that the the re-recording is taken far too slowly (in the non-action cues). EL CID is splendid. IVANHOE… I’m a sucker for that Golden Age pageantry. Oh, KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. LUST FOR LIFE, even late-career stuff like THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD. I’ve no idea how many I’ve listed, but I’m not sure I could whittle it down to five.