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The soundtrack CD included with the Blu-Ray box set.
I understand this is a bitch of a situation, but it really is the best pure audio production featuring the original tracks.
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The Tadlow recording is one of the best re-creations of a score ever. It sounds better than any other version, and has a performance that is very close to the original tracks. I've had the original soundtrack and the Silva recording, this the only Lawrence of Arabia I listen to anymore.
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I've got the original soundtrack recording, the Tony Bremner recording, and the Tadlow recording, and if you get only one, the Tadlow should be the first choice. Excellent recording.
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Check out the other threads on this.
Varese issued two versions of this, the second with more cues than the old album but sound on the OST was always compromised. Sometimes this 'five overhead mikes' technique produced serendipitous results, suggestive of echoes and desert vistas etc., and smoothed over the orchestra/synth interfaces on the electronic parts. But generally it's just bad sound.
The Silva had a reduced string section and too upfront percussion. The performance and sound were amazing, but Chris Palmer totally reorchestrated many parts and rearranged some, destroying for example the 'Bringing Gasim into Camp' cue. Jarre was very pointed about this in his later notes for the Varese expanded OST release. For some reason, probably to fill up space, 'On to Akaba' was repeated twice!
Tadlow got it right. Every cue is complete, and even the choral bit and the ululating women were in there. James can get women ululating.
It's just a pity MJ died shortly before its release.
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Sep 1, 2014 - 11:53 AM
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Mr Hand
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You probably will throw rocks at me, but my preferred version remains the Bremner recording, out of habit I guess. Maybe not 100% faithful, but musically rewarding.
Why? Contrarian opinions are always welcome, but reasons need to be advanced.
Well, I find the Bremner recording more dynamic, more aggressive in its sound, it constantly moves forward, it's edgier, with less of a "concert" feel. I noticed some orchestrations are missing or different, and the Raine recording is certainly richer and more ample in this regard, but nonetheless I still prefer the Bremner one. But, again, I grew up with this one, and I'm totally accustomed to it, even more so than the original music heard in the movie. When I want to hear Lawrence, I go for it instinctively.
Don't get me wrong, the Raine recording is a great one, complete and probably more faithful to the movie score, and I will keep it; but, as we have now both readings offered to the world, I feel less ashamed to prefer the "artistic choices" made on the Bremner one and vilified by James Fitzpatrick.
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