Malte Müller
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I have a lot Goldsmiths and Williams which is surely extensive but not complete. I think Goldenthal I have indeed more or less complete including concert works but that’s a little easier as he doesn’t have that much releases 😉 But I am not a completist for completism’s sake anyway.
Or leave out five minutes to be able to put everything on one disc.
But imagine the uproar then! 😉 I only have the score digitally where CD splitting is no problem naturally.
DOUBLE INDEMNITY, THE LOST WEEKEND, THE KILLERS / Sedares: NZSO (Koch)
I do have that as well (and all the Koch Rozsa concert ones, too). It’s great but sometimes I feel the recording could use a little more live or drama. If you understand what I mean…
There’s already two 30-minute suites from The Jungle Book in modern sound. One from early 80s on the Colosseum label, and the other one from Chandos:
I only have and know the Coloseeum one which is great. The Chandos is the same suite, right? According to the album tracks of the original score release (which I never heard) probably 25-30 min missing. I think some dramatic material (but as mentioned Rozsa’s ostinatos can be a bit too much). Might be the only Rosza I would love to have a complete re-recording of.
I have the 80s one. Alas, it starts to skip in the JUNGLE BOOK suite. CDs do get old and die, it seems.
It must not always be the CD itself. CD players/drives age as well. Or the laser could also be dirty from dust. Last time my copy played fine as far as I remember. Good occasion to play it again to check…
I remember that Sam Brown song and her name but that’s really all. Think I never heard anything else by here.
I do like the Beatles, Alan Parsons Project and lots of 70s things. Electronic music like Jarre, Tangerine Dreams non score things or occasionally Vangelis, too.
But I really can name much pop artists I am a clear fan of otherwise currently. It’s really bits and pieces and the odd Of course I know all you all named by at least a few songs but I rarely listened to a full album or explored their work. Not doing them justice at all but always scores get in the way 😉
Good list. Five only is hard 😉
– Ben-Hur (2CD Rhino, the Tadlow re-recording is also great)
– Invanhoe (Re-recording)
– Quo Vadis (Can’t decide if I like Rozsa’s own re-recording more or Tadlow’s)
– El Cid (re-recording)
– Thief Of Bagdad/Jungle Book (The Colosseum album with the suites – one of my first Rozsas)And the Thief of Bagdad re-recording is great, but I am not a big fan of the songs, that actually didn’t appear in the movie.
Might be that the German version removed them but on the Englisch original version they are there. Beside they do disturb the flow a little and probably would better fit as extra tracks.
I’ve noticed the editor sometimes restores what you’ve written after reloading.
It’s not so much the editor as probably the browser cache.
There’s a site called JWFan where this is the case.
Well, as mentioned somewhere else jwfan uses as commercial forum software. I could possibly try to install a so called progressive webapp plugin that might help with local storing. But there is no guarantee either and it might have other side effects as it may very persistently cache things…
According to my records:
37,85 Euros CD + shipping
2,16 Euros Customs
7,50 Euros DHL service fee
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47,51 EurosEven given that the regular CD for the Abbott & Costello kickstarter costs expensive 36,95 Euros at Soundtrack Corner the actual price is “okay”, it’s the customs + especially DHL that push this beyond.
NOSFERATU actually was way more off:
47,16 Euros (2CD + Shipping)
3,60 Euros Customs
6,00 Euros DHL Service fee
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53,76 EurosGiven that you regulary could buy the CD for under 20,– that’s really off…
I just got my CD from Leigh Phillips’ CRAWLSPACE/PURSUIT kickstarter. Despite the huge shipping costs, custom was just 2,16 Euro but DHL has put 7,50 Euros service fee on top! Well, and I didn’t learn from NOSFERATU and again choose the CD for CHAIRMAN (Thought was if I contribute to it I want the “real thing”). All good things come in threes 😉
A KNIGHT’S TALE
Ah, thanks, that was indeed the movie title I didn’t remember! If we refer to Pemberton’s KING ARTHUR – LEGEND OF THE SWORD and not the Zimmer one it also had songs and modern elements in the score which somehow didn’t bother me.
In that context Highlander might be worth mentioning as well even though the rock songs are here reserved rather for the modern times scenes.
Yes, that exactly that makes the difference here to me. The only song in the “past” scenes is “Who wants to live forever” and that was not that much arranged as a pop/rock song. Although probably that would have fitted here for me because of the different times.
Interessting is that I knew the Ladyhawke score years before I actually saw the movie. Maybe I paid more atention to the music here than I would have done the other way round. In King Arthur the songs didn’t bother me that much. There was another knight movie which also used lots of rock songs. Can’t remember the name but that to me had a bit of a parody effect if I recall right.
