In this case, it is "The Red House." Disc 1 is an hour; disc 2 is 24 minutes. It is a strange choice.
It's like this. Someone puts in a disc, burns the content, then a window comes up saying disc full put in another disc... Well that's how it used to work back in my Windows days!
In this case, it is "The Red House." Disc 1 is an hour; disc 2 is 24 minutes. It is a strange choice.
It's like this. Someone puts in a disc, burns the content, then a window comes up saying disc full put in another disc... Well that's how it used to work back in my Windows days!
Or you can just edit the master to 79 minutes and you have a single CD.
If you are going to go over by that few minutes, that a reasonable approach I'm my view.
I don't have the score, nor seen the film, but does the third act of the film perhaps start at the second disc?
I don't know. I've never seen the film. Other than the 2-CD set, I had only a short suite that was on a Capitol Records 10" LP from the early 1950s,. If the act divisions were the rationale, it seems like a strange choice. I will probably end up either burning 2 CDs of semi-equal length, or cutting out 5 minutes and fitting 80 minutes onto 1 CD.
Most labels are quite clever when it comes to splitting content.
LLL on the other hand... oomph! I will never understand the rationale behind Masters Of The Universe and Patriot Games. Neither score had to be split at all! Just crazy thinking. Thankfully Intrada rectified MOTU.
In this case, it is "The Red House." Disc 1 is an hour; disc 2 is 24 minutes. It is a strange choice.
Here is the rationale on the Intrada product page:
Note: complete score would not fit on one CD and we refused to cut precious bars down to fit. As such, musically appropriate spot to change discs was made with Rozsa's musical architecture in mind. (In other words, CD 1 is considerably longer than CD 2.)
Note: complete score would not fit on one CD and we refused to cut precious bars down to fit. As such, musically appropriate spot to change discs was made with Rozsa's musical architecture in mind. (In other words, CD 1 is considerably longer than CD 2.)
Well that is interesting. I have both discs uploaded onto the computer on a single playlist. I will have to pay more attention to the musical shift at that point.
Wasn't there also speculation a while back that the 47-minute Man in Half Moon Street disc was recorded at the same time as Red House and may have been intended to fill up the second disc?
May I ask why in the world anyone would prefer their double discs to be of roughly equivalent lengths?
Seems to me, unless both discs are near full (in which case you'd have no choice but to break at the halfway point), you'd try to find a logical "intermission" to give a break while the listener switches discs. Of course, many people have multi disc players that switch automatically with very little break, and a lot of people just rip them into the computer, at which point the disks are only a data delivery system. But for those people who are still listening on a single disc player, you might as well make it the best listening experience.
