I listened to the samples. I am quite pleased to see this series of re-recordings spring up, and I`m glad of course folks can snag this eventually, but I must admit that with the exception of Masada and select themes from The Sum Of All Fears, I find myself not gravitating to Goldsmith`s Israeli overtures. Maybe in the aforementioned there was more theatrical 'stuff' to chew on, rather than simply focussing (?) on Israeli`ishness.
This is great news! The City of Prague PHO and Chorus recorded 5 tracks of this score for their 2005 Goldsmith 40 years of film music release but it appears they started fresh for this release and didn't include the 2005 recordings. Look forward to hearing the complete score finally.
The only question I have about this release is whether it includes the commercial "bumpers"--basically that opening fanfare just done with timpani if I remember correctly. I remember watching the original miniseries and of course given the abundance of commercials, I got to hear that element of the score repeated many times. I hope it's included somewhere in the rerecording.
I've just put the first disc on with the opening titles and accompanying narration. I'm not sure what you mean there, Jeff?
But you got me thinking about that opening brass cascade. It always reminded me of something - I couldn't quite put my finger on it. I think JG was attempting to capture the distinctive sound of english parish church bells ringing. What that has to do with the scales of justice I don't really know. Maybe the clue is in the narration - the bit where mention is made of the confrontation being constrained to take part in medieval court buildings.
The existence of this entire superb and important score on physical media in such a terrific package will no doubt inspire current and future artists and hopefully help to increase both the impression and the reality that Jerry Goldsmith is a great composer worthy of recordings and ongoing promotion.
The only question I have about this release is whether it includes the commercial "bumpers"--basically that opening fanfare just done with timpani if I remember correctly. I remember watching the original miniseries and of course given the abundance of commercials, I got to hear that element of the score repeated many times. I hope it's included somewhere in the rerecording.
Those 1970's TV bumpers are Wonderful! So glad Lukas K. included the "Homecoming: A Christmas Story" bumpers in the CD (What a Treasure that one is!). They were so iconic for those who viewed the TV movie the first several times around. And they do not appear in the last home video release.
Perhaps this release means there Might be hope for a Jerry Goldsmith CD of all his music for "The Waltons"?
Amazing, tremendous release, the one I have been waiting for.!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, this was my #1 want from this fantastic new series, not only a great score or one of Goldsmith's greatest, it's a good candidate for the most powerful thing he ever wrote and most powerful music ever written for television (yes, his own Masada gives it quite a run for its money).
It's just that great, and so little of it was available before, with over an hour missing! That's actually more unreleased Goldsmith music than we've gotten from this series before, as Hour of the Gun featured about 25 minutes of "new" music and The Salamander, though totally unreleased, was a 47 minute long score (hey, it's about quality rather than quantity and that score is awesome, but QBVII has BOTH!)
I assume many of the Prague musicians who had played on the earlier suite recording were very happy to revisit the complete work. I'd be really curious if James has any players' comments (or any anecdotes) he can relay about this one...
I bet UK Royal Mail will get it to me faster than Screen Archives' terrible UPS Innovations nonsense.
That's no exaggeration. I received Witchfinder General from Amazon UK in five days from receiving shipping notice. My domestic deliveries from SAE are actually slower. And the shipping of Witchfinder all the way from the UK was cheaper than SAE's local shipping for this new Goldsmith title.
