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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3      General Discussion: NEW INTRADA- THE MAN IN HALF MOON STREET- ROZSA    FIRST   PRIOR   1 2 3    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Apr 2, 2014 - 9:34 PM     By:   PFK   (Member) This is a great Rozsa CD and a must-buy for me. A few people thought it's a little short in time, we are very lucky to get mostly new Rozsa scores from 1940s films that are now mostly forgotten. It is indeed like a volume 4 in the wonderful Polydor series. I hope everyone who can will purchase this CD as Doug mentioned he hopes to do more 40s Rozsa! Thanks Intrada for having the courage to record these (mostly) unknown Rozsa scores from the 40s. ............ Chandos, take note! It's already ordered of course! I'd love to see Intrada recording a suite from The Macomber Affair(1947)! Hey Niall, glad to see this CD did not escape your sharp eye!    Posted:   Apr 2, 2014 - 9:38 PM     By:   PFK   (Member) A re-recording of BLOOD ON THE SUN is something I would like to see happen. What's available on CD now is of poor quality. I would be the first in line to buy such a CD, if Niall is not already there first! Desert Fury, the complete film, is on youtube. A film noir in the desert and in color? In any event, a fine noir score by Rozsa.    Posted:   Apr 7, 2014 - 9:42 PM     By:   PFK   (Member) This Rozsa CD is number 3 in sales at SAE!    Posted:   Apr 7, 2014 - 9:46 PM     By:   Josh   (Member) I've already listened to this four or five times since it arrived on Saturday. Just can't get enough. Great selections and performances. Aces all around.    Posted:   Apr 7, 2014 - 10:04 PM     By:   PFK   (Member) I've already listened to this four or five times since it arrived on Saturday. Just can't get enough. Great selections and performances. Aces all around. Glad to read this Josh. Hope to get my copy soon now.    Posted:   Apr 7, 2014 - 10:24 PM     By:   Ag^Janus   (Member) I've already listened to this four or five times since it arrived on Saturday. Just can't get enough. Great selections and performances. Aces all around. Me too, a lot of people where crying foul over the previous Spellbound, but I thoroughly enjoy that also.    Posted:   Apr 9, 2014 - 11:35 AM     By:   Doug Raynes   (Member) Received my copy today and had a quick first listen. It's certainly good to have another Rozsa collection, which we haven't had for many years, and this is a worthy successor to the Polydor recordings where the unfamiliar held sway. Indeed, the unfamiliarity of THE MAN IN HALF MOON STREET makes that the highlight of the disc and it's certainly one of Rozsa's more atmospheric, mysterioso scores. The Prelude from JACARE provides a tantalising glimpse of what is a small excerpt from a very lengthy score for another seldom seen film. Conductor Allan Wilson brings out the full-blown romanticism of THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS, in a more lengthy suite than that recorded by Elmer Bernstein many years ago. As with Intrada's THE RED HOUSE. the recording has a concert hall ambience - not surprising of course since the recordings shared the same Glasgow hall. Congratulations and thanks to all concerned in making this happen!    Posted:   Apr 9, 2014 - 6:41 PM     By:   pp312   (Member) I've already listened to this four or five times since it arrived on Saturday. Just can't get enough. Great selections and performances. Aces all around. Me too, a lot of people where crying foul over the previous Spellbound, but I thoroughly enjoy that also. I don't think they were crying foul. I think they were crying, "Crank it up a bit, Allan!"    Posted:   Apr 10, 2014 - 6:14 PM     By:   .   (Member) I find the sound quality of this one seems unusually dependent on playback level. At lower than my usual listening levels, it sounds excellent. At higher levels I find the brass resonance becomes quite excitable and over-emphasized, especially through headphones. It's like there is a narrower "sweet spot" than usual volume-wise, where everything gels together beautifully. The recording seems to have a lot of energy about it and maintains plenty of body at lower sound levels, so for me at least, some volume control restraint makes a big difference for the better. The performances are very good. No lack of passion or power with this one.    Posted:   Apr 10, 2014 - 9:14 PM     By:   dan the man   (Member) Love the ending of the film, he tells her, don't look back, look forward, just broke me up.    Posted:   Apr 10, 2014 - 9:53 PM     By:   pp312   (Member) Love the ending of the film, he tells her, don't look back, look forward, just broke me up. Funny, that's the same ending as Sodom & Gomorrah. But in that case it broke her up.    Posted:   Apr 11, 2014 - 1:37 PM     By:   .   (Member) I checked the sound of this against The Red House and they are much the same. Not surprising, as the new CD was recorded over three years ago, at the very same time as the 2CD Red House (some actually on the same day as the other, with a total of just three days recording for both projects). Interestingly, the second CD of Red House is only 24 minutes long. The new CD of recordings from the same sessions is about 46 minutes. So all the music recorded at the same time was in fact of a length to perfectly fit 2CDs (the second disc would have been an ideal 70 minutes). So... instead of having one properly filled 2CD set for a typical $24.95 or $29.95. we have bought three CDs for $40 (2x $19.95), including one disc of a mere 24 minutes, and another of just 46 minutes. Just saying.    Posted:   Apr 11, 2014 - 4:19 PM     By:   PFK   (Member) I checked the sound of this against The Red House and they are much the same. Not surprising, as the new CD was recorded over three years ago, at the very same time as the 2CD Red House (some actually on the same day as the other, with a total of just three days recording for both projects). Interestingly, the second CD of Red House is only 24 minutes long. The new CD of recordings from the same sessions is about 46 minutes. So all the music recorded at the same time was in fact of a length to perfectly fit 2CDs (the second disc would have been an ideal 70 minutes). So... instead of having one properly filled 2CD set for a typical $24.95 or $29.95. we have bought three CDs for $40 (2x $19.95), including one disc of a mere 24 minutes, and another of just 46 minutes. Just saying. Ah Basil, and I thought I was the ultimate penny pincher!    Posted:   Apr 11, 2014 - 5:02 PM     By:   SchiffyM   (Member) So... instead of having one properly filled 2CD set for a typical $24.95 or $29.95. we have bought three CDs for $40 (2x $19.95), including one disc of a mere 24 minutes, and another of just 46 minutes. Honestly, I find this offensive. "The Red House" in total is 82 minutes… just too long to fit onto one CD. Had that score happened to be 79 minutes long, it would have just been one CD, and the 24 minute CD that offends you so much would not exist. (Alternately, they could have recorded it not-quite-complete.) But that single CD would have cost you the same $19.95 that Intrada sold the 2CD set for. Had they done so, would you have complained that they should have released the single "Red House" CD with this new CD and sold it to you for $24.95? If so, why shouldn't we demand they double (or triple!) up every release and sell them to us for bargain prices? These things cost money to produce. Buy them or don't. But please spare me your inane terms like "properly filled 2CD set." Because that is utter nonsense.    Posted:   Apr 11, 2014 - 5:19 PM     By:   PFK   (Member) So... instead of having one properly filled 2CD set for a typical $24.95 or $29.95. we have bought three CDs for $40 (2x $19.95), including one disc of a mere 24 minutes, and another of just 46 minutes. Honestly, I find this offensive. "The Red House" in total is 82 minutes… just too long to fit onto one CD. Had that score happened to be 79 minutes long, it would have just been one CD, and the 24 minute CD that offends you so much would not exist. (Alternately, they could have recorded it not-quite-complete.) But that single CD would have cost you the same $19.95 that Intrada sold the 2CD set for. Had they done so, would you have complained that they should have released the single "Red House" CD with this new CD and sold it to you for $24.95? If so, why shouldn't we demand they double (or triple!) up every release and sell them to us for bargain prices? These things cost money to produce. Buy them or don't. But please spare me your inane terms like "properly filled 2CD set." Because that is utter nonsense. I agree Schiffy, we are darn lucky to get these CDs at any length.    Posted:   Apr 11, 2014 - 5:20 PM     By:   Sean Nethery   (Member) I for one am delighted with a 47-minute CD (and a CD of suites! at that) - it's a great length for a single listening session, and really gives the chance for each element of music to shine.    Posted:   Apr 11, 2014 - 5:50 PM     By:   .   (Member) ...and the 24 minute CD that offends you so much would not exist. I'm not offended by that at all. Nor about the cost. I couldn't care less – 50% of my CDs are edited down to a lot less than 46 minutes. My comment was in response to Intrada's own ludicrous "explanation" for releasing a short CD. Instead of simply saying that was all the material they happen to have from their old recordings of three years ago (or saying nothing at all because it's no big deal), they come out with a lot of absolute rubbish suggesting the new CD was limited to 46 minutes on purpose, by design, because they wanted it to be the same length of an old Polydor LP. If anyone is making "inane" comments about the length of the CD, it is Intrada themselves. But if you lap up such nonsense, go ahead. In the meantime, I think I'll attempt to make my next posting more meaningful by cleverly matching the word count to the length of one of Shakespeare's Sonnets.    Posted:   Apr 11, 2014 - 6:06 PM     By:   Last Child   (Member) I still wish they'd made a complete recording of the title piece - it hasnt been done before, and probably would have fit on the disc.    Posted:   Apr 11, 2014 - 6:07 PM     By:   waxmanman35   (Member) In the meantime, I think I'll attempt to make my next posting more meaningful by cleverly matching the word count to the length of one of Shakespeare's Odes. It will have to be clever indeed to find any Shakespearean odes.    Posted:   Apr 11, 2014 - 6:10 PM     By:   .   (Member) In the meantime, I think I'll attempt to make my next posting more meaningful by cleverly matching the word count to the length of one of Shakespeare's Odes. It will have to be clever indeed to find any Shakespearean odes. Indeed :-)     General Discussion: NEW INTRADA- THE MAN IN HALF MOON STREET- ROZSA    << < 1 2 3  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3

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