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Congratulations Doug, Nick and all involved in making this CD possible. It was disheartening to think that this historic recording would not see publication due to the destruction of the original tapes. As a wider comment, thanks to all persons who continue to discover and preserve these important recordings for future generations to enjoy and learn from. Bravo!
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At last, find a real ambitious release filed with fascinating ideas. I listened to the four audio clips and ordered 2001. A real must have! The music leaning is hotter than the Kubrick version.
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3000 units for this release with music in mono only? Amazing. According to a text by Alex North about his work on 2001, he states that he composed over 40 minutes of music for the movie (see details in the liner notes of the Goldsmith recording). Intrada releases less than 40 minutes including alternate takes. How come?
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My relationship to this announcement: I did own the Goldsmith recording of the North score once, but didn't like it very much. I traded it away. So I'm afraid I won't be buying this release, especially as it apparently also has poorer sound quality than the Goldsmith one. HOWEVER, Intrada - like FSM - is to be applauded for their investment in this HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT recording (it IS the one that was thrown out, after all, in legendary Hollywood lore). While musical pleasure comes first for me, I will not undermine the value of important archival activity for such an underrated artform as film music. NP: THE MUMMY RETURNS (Silvestri) Hello über Thor, Please read this: "I think both versions (North's and Goldsmith's) have something to offer: even in the mono mixdown made by Eric Tomlinson, our original has timbres and colors not present on the re-recording. The expanded low brass section seems more vibrant, more ferocious, so to speak. You'll also now be getting several important bars of music that were omitted from the re-recording. However, the re-recording has stunning sonics and certainly offers a dynamite listening experience! I think there's room to appreciate both." --Doug Fake http://www.intrada.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=968&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15
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At first, I was disappointed that the release was of a North score already available in a re-recording (by Jerry Goldsmith, of course), as opposed, for example, to the COMPLETE "Spartacus," which is not available in a form legal in the United States. (I beg FSM, Intrada, SAE, Varese, or anyone else who will listen and to all the gods that be, let us have a three-CD set of all of the final score for "Spartacus", plus all the alternates and outtakes. In the immortal words of Spike Lee in "She's Gotta Have It," "Please, Baby, Baby, please, please.") Then, I was further disappointed that the surviving "2001" tapes are mono, rather than stereo. However, I got over all of this because of my experience with Goldsmith's performance of North's theme for ABC's "Africa" TV presentation that Varese accidentally included with their "2001" re-recording. This made it possible to compare a fantastic new Varese CD with the old LP original of "Africa" conducted by either the composer or Henry Brant, who is also the conductor on North's "2001" original tracks. On first listen, I couldn't help preferring Varese's shiny new recording of the "Africa" theme to decades-old sound for TV. Then, Prometheus put out its transfer to CD of the original "Africa" LP, and I listened more closely to it. Even though the Prometheus appears also to be only mono, the more I listened to it the more I realized that Brant's (or North's) conducting had even greater drive and revealed even greater detail and a better balance of the different facets in the orchestration than the conducting of the great Jerry. It should have come as no surprise that Brant, who worked so intimately with North on both "Africa" and "2001," or the composer himself could come up with a better performance because of greater familiarity with the score than even the legendary Goldsmith. In other words, and particularly in the case of North, there is never a substitute for the original. By the way, the original notes for the "Africa" LP say that Brant and North shared conducting duties on "Africa," and I'm not sure which one of them, the composer or Brant, actually conducted the "Africa" theme track. Can anyone clear this up? Anyway, Intrada's release deserves the utmost support and should sell out right away, though I suppose it won't because it is mono, because many collectors already have the Varese, and because North's music is just too advanced for some listeners. I bought it within seconds of its appearance last night on the Intrada web site. Thanks, Intrada.
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Sorry, double post.
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