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Alright guys, if you don't want to drop all the dough for the full album, at the very least check out "The Ways of Man" from The Jungle Book and treat yourself to the glorious Chandos sound with a luscious performance by the BBC Philharmonic. When Gerhardt added his "Daphnis et Chloe"-like chorus to this cue it mostly obscured the beautiful harp, orchestral bells, and the massive organ-like low brass that we've got on display here. I think I'm going to go to bed with my ears ringing, I've been listening to it so loud.
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Feb 24, 2014 - 11:22 PM
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Disappointment, opportunity missed for something audacious.
Something audacious? This is a grand opportunity, if successful, to start a series, like the 3 VW discs, into which can be slipped slightly more obscure and, to the diehard Rozsa fan, more interesting material, but there was never any question of starting off audacious. It may seem vaguely crass to us, but Chandos hope to make money off this venture.
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Saw the listing today of the new Chandos Rozsa album
First - it pretty much duplicates the Colissseum cd of many years ago with a dupe of the Thief of Baghdad music followed by a dupe of the same Jungle book music.
then we get completely unneeded Ben Hur music. only interesting thing is the suite from Sahara.
If the music is any good to begin with, then it's certainly worth being performed and recorded. Just because music has been released in some form does not render any subsequent recordings useless.
No "serious" listener of Beethoven would say that owning a single recording of each of the nine symphonies is sufficient. Now it can be argued that a Rozsa film score is not a Beethoven symphony, quite true, but if the music has any worth, it sure is worth being performed and recorded, and not relegated the mere archival status of being released once in the original soundtrack recording. I am looking forward to this Chandos release.
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These people don't have the . . . 31-year-old Varèse recording of much of this material.
You must mean the Somerset "Wide Screen Spectaculars" that Varese picked up for CD. It's actually more than fifty years old and somewhat eccentric in its rearrangements. The first record I ever owned!
I actually think he was referring to the Varese Sarabande release of Jungle Book and Thief of Bagdad, which is 31 years old.
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A handful of consumers will buy this, and then in a short time, it will end up selling on Amazon for 3 or 4 bucks, just like so many others.
Yes, but the Chandos "handful" will number in the tens of thousands, whereas the folks around here who desire more exotic fare can barely support a release in four digits.
Chandos is unlikely to sell "tens of thousand" of such a recording, but a few thousand would already be nice.
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But that opportunity didn't exist. Some here seem to feel like there was a block of money set aside to record anything by Rózsa, and somebody said "I have an idea! The same stuff that's already available!"
Obviously insider knowledge. ;-)
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