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I'm pretty sure that on this occasion the album (Cleopatra) is the original recording, which used to happen, like The Sand Pebbles album is also the original recording. I can tell you that with my terrible hi-fi kit the LP wouldn't have sounded anywhere near as good as the CD. It's funny that any CD more than ten years old is in urgent need of a re-master according to some posters, what once sounded great is now awful. I don't get it, I think most of the time it's the other way round, the older CD's don't have the sound jacked right up.
I have the 2CD and a very good Japanese pressing (well, it WAS, until the static...) of the LP.
They sound so similar they may well be from the same sessions, probably are. There are some differences though. Both Cleo's Barge and the Entry into Rome part 2 on the LP have a continuation of their very complex ostinatos to fade after the pieces would end abruptly on the OSTs.
This could be overlay work, but I did note that Cliff Eidelman's Varese Seattle reperformance of the march also has this continuation of the bass ostinato, so I reckon some MS of the sheets has this written in.
The cue, 'Caesar to Alexandria' is tacked onto the 'Fire Burns' cue. That might be an attempt to edit it into a more interesting piece ... or a 'Part 2' labelling mistake on a mix tape.
I could check with an A/B channel comparison on software to see if they're the same performance. Just off the top, I'd guess that they were recorded (like Rozsa's 1951 Quo Vadis? album) at the same time as the OST, but as album versions. The LP may also contain alternative takes.
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