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Mine has just arrived. Smiles all over.
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Well what can I say. I received one of my copies this morning. Ripped it to my ipod and went to the gymn. On the treadmill and wham! My socks were blown off from the start. incredible. I can't believe it is so different to the Decca recording which now sounds ponderous.
This is an incredible achievement for all involved.
I was labouring at a fast pace on a 2% incline during a quiet cue and then another thunderous martial cue like I have never heard played before erupted in my ears. Simply brilliant! On I marched!
I'm now listening to it as I type in front of my stereo speakers. The singer on 'The Burning of Troy" has nailed it.
As to another Rozsa. I have long thought that 'Thief of Bagdad' was an important work in need of the Tadlow treatment.
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Well what can I say. I received one of my copies this morning. Ripped it to my ipod and went to the gymn. On the treadmill and wham! My socks were blown off from the start. incredible. I can't believe it is so different to the Decca recording which now sounds ponderous.
Yes. There may be repercussions but I was never that sold on the Decca recording; I always felt that Rozsa over-sanitised the music, as he was inclined to do in order--I guess--to reach a larger audience. To me it always sounded like an extended concert suite for non-filmmusic types.
Yes. The perceived wisdom in those days seemed to be that film music rerecordings needed to be arranged into more of a concert suite style to make the music more accessible to listeners outside of its relevance to the original film. At the time I thought the Decca QUO VADIS splendidly recorded but it didn't remind much me of the film. Similarly the Polydor ROZSA CONDUCTS ROZSA LPs were great recordings with wonderful music and did much to introduce me to Rozsa but the music was nothing like that as heard in the films.
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This is indeed an incredible recording. Since it landed on the mat on Monday, I've played it through about six times. I just can't get enough of it. There's one serious downside though. During the last two days or so, I've found myself bursting into very loud and increasingly demented sounding renditions of "The Burning Of Troy" in the house. It's the "Oh..lambent flames!" and the "omnivorous power: hail!" bits that I tend to focus on. I'm sure that this isn't healthy.
Hah! That's exactly what I have been doing. I am humming that tune all over the place. I can't get it out of my head, such is the powerhouse inspired performance of the singer and James Fitz et al!
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Well what can I say. I received one of my copies this morning. Ripped it to my ipod and went to the gymn. On the treadmill and wham! My socks were blown off from the start. incredible. I can't believe it is so different to the Decca recording which now sounds ponderous.
Yes. There may be repercussions but I was never that sold on the Decca recording; I always felt that Rozsa over-sanitised the music, as he was inclined to do in order--I guess--to reach a larger audience. To me it always sounded like an extended concert suite for non-filmmusic types.
Incidentally, you should watch it on those treadmills with no socks! 
Well, you know, as I remarked above about The Burning of Troy 'lament', I might just stand on that treadmill at its highest incline, in my bare feet, and burst forth into song for the rest of the folk in there!
That aside, I too have played the score through about 7 or 8 times already and marvel at how rich the performance sounds, particularly from my high end speakers.
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