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Miklós Rózsa’s score for the 1951 epic Quo Vadis is one of the biggest "holy grails" for soundtrack collectors, but the loss of the original music tracks has meant that the complete score, unencumbered by effects and/or archival sound quality, has been unavailable – UNTIL NOW!
Very promising release, but I found the above to be just a bit misleading. As written, it sounds as if the original tracks were unearthed.
Great samples though. 
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This truly will be like hearing the QUO VADIS score as it has never before been heard.
Thank you again, James (and Nic and Frank).
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Clips sound wonderful, even better than the Rozsa-conducted recordings.
I always loved that old Capitol recording of the 4 movements; it was paired with a suite from THE RED HOUSE. Glad to see it's finally getting a stereo recording.
But my favorite piece is still the Triumphal March as it is in the film, all braying brass, so Roman!
And I love the main title too. Really looking forward to hearing both of these in the new recording, not to mention all the added and expanded sections.
Wonderful score! Getting the recording it has so long deserved!
Kudos to all!
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Clips sound wonderful, even better than the Rozsa-conducted recordings.
No, they don't. Rózsa's own recording from the 1970s cannot be bettered for precision of playing nor resplendence of sound. The Prague versions sound perfectly adequate though, and it's the complete score. I'll certainly buy it.
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Ithought it had mentioned in an earlier thread that rozsa really did not write an Overture from the film. That the first piece reallly and truly is the Intermission Music.
So, I was surprised to see it listed as the first piece on the cd at all.
Any info?
Apparently following the order of the Blu-ray and dvd in which the intermezzo is played as an overture prior to the film proper. Also, it appears that the roadshow full version is lost forever including the intermission break.
Well, there are at least a few moments from the soundtrack of the original roadshow that linger. The 10-inch album has the music leading up to the Intermission, and there's a speech by Finlay Currie on the "Dramatic Highlights from QUO VADIS," in which he exhorts the Christians in their cell, which is no longer in the film, though it appears the last shot of it is, with Peter standing 'midst the prisoners, with both his arms upraised.
There's also a short sequence between Nero and Poppaea, around the time when he hears about the suicide of Petronius, which I seem to remember seeing the very first time I saw QV, in a re-release at, of all places, the Forum Theatre in Times Square, during Thanksgiving weekend of 1964, where it was a "Sneak Preview," after the regular showing of, of all things, Elvis Presley in ROUSTABOUT.
And I have an original pressbook for the film, with a complete rundown of each scene, but, as it came out after the roadshow release, does not include anything other than what we're familiar with.
Back in the mid-sixties, a friend of mine at prep school, who lived in Lake Forest, outside of Chicago, said he was friends with Mervyn Leroy's son back in Lake Forest, and that he had the complete soundtrack to QUO VADIS on lp's, as 16 rpm speed, the entire thing, dialogue, music, effects, and that he would try to get a copy for me. But what he eventually brought was the dialogue highlights album. Oh well. It was nice of him to try, at least.
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