Reply To: Different versions of the same work?
I am not really into rerecordings for film and television scores. Unless there are issues with the original – then I like having a new version that is faithful to the original. Unless the new version is specifically reinterpreting the original in some fundamental way. And the new version is advertised as such.
BUT. I have a number of examples – from purchases early in my film music listening “career” where rerecordings were all that was available and I came to love those. Much more than the subsequent original releases.
Classical recordings are different. There is no “right way” so multiple versions are fine.