But, as I listen to the original version... I can't help but want more. Regardless of the Horner haters out there... I think this is one of his finest. Playing now... It has lost none of it's power. Elegant and emotionally charged.
This one lingers in sentimental memory as the very first compact disc (at least the first soundtrack) I bought after acquiring a player in the 1980s. I remember being impressed by the sound quality and surprised by the debt to, of all things, IVAN THE TERRIBLE. Haven't played this in years and never acquired any more Horner on disc. Which says . . .
The film is now in its 30th Anniversary phase. Really hoping one of our labels has a lovely expanded/remastered version of this in their 'ready to go' pile.
Isn't the film version of the score completely different from a choral standpoint? The Boys Choir Of Harlem isn't in the film, right? Just the CD.
Hmm, does anyone have an answer for this? Avatarded?
Well there's no version of a cue in the film that removes the choir but is heard only on the album.
Every cue with the Harlem choir in it on CD is heard in the film. There's only one cue with the choir in the film that didn't make the CD, the cue I like to call 'Scars of War', the short piece during the Shaw family's house party.
A Call to Arms After Antietam The Year of Jubilee Preparations for Battle An Epitaph to War Charging Fort Wagner Closing Credits
All have the boy's choir on CD, and all have the boy's choir in the film.
One just has to watch the film to know that....because it's worth watching!
I think Shaun's question was more about the HBC versus the somewhat infamously rumored use of LA session choir, not the removal of the choir between versions.
I think Shaun's question was more about the HBC versus the somewhat infamously rumored use of LA session choir, not the removal of the choir between versions.
Regardless, it's the same cue (only "Charging Fort Wagner") and the same choir in both.
The Philip Glass-like opening of the End Credits sure sounds very different between film and CD versions. I wonder if Shaun means the Harlem Boys Choir only performed on the album and the actual film score used Hollywood session singers? Was the CD a Jaws-like re-recording?
The Philip Glass-like opening of the End Credits sure sounds very different between film and CD versions. I wonder if Shaun means the Harlem Boys Choir only performed on the album and the actual film score used Hollywood session singers? Was the CD a Jaws-like re-recording?
There is no difference between the film and album versions of that cue 'Charging Fort Wagner'.
As for the end credits, it's only different sounding because the film uses that Dolby Surround 4.0 Left-Center-Right for the front channels where the snare drums are a bit louder in the film than the softer, wider spread of the album's mixing. Also the film version dials out some of the brass - a french horn line and a trumpet line are removed during the bass-driven opening of the credits.
