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Hello everybody,
Excuse my ignorance, but I have been listening to this version of Rózsa's Ben-Hur fanfare and overture during the last couple of days and I have no idea what recording/album it belongs to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcZg8nt3J-4
Anybody know where to get this recording? It is truly fantastic.
Thanks a bunch!
Alex
Fantastic, indeed. It's from his 1977 re-recording with the National Philharmonic Orchestra. Glad you like it, Alex. One place to get it is here: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=490266
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Sorry, hardly the BEST rerecording of Ben Hur and certainly, it is NOT in suite form, but individual tracks and pieces.
It's the best RE-recording and conducted by MR himself.
It's also technically a suite, that's what a suite is, as in Holst's 'Planets' suite.
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The old mind's ear says naw hway. I played that Decca album for decades and that ain't how it sounds. Slower tempo, for starters. Someone has mentioned another and that must be the one. Still, I like the Decca better!
The old mind's ear's playing tricks on you again. It's the Decca NPO from either the Dutton/Vocalion release, or the Decca Eloquence.
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By that definition, pretty much every release of a film score that isn't "C&C" is a 'suite'.
No. Rozsa adapted the pieces specially for album. Some are revisions of the previous pieces he adapted for the MGM albums, others are taken from the OST scores. The 'Miracle and Finale' is taken from a rejected version of the finale which was composed and is on the sheets, but was never recorded.
The terminology is from the concert hall. It has nothing to do with film score buff terminology.
The album is an effective sixth disc to accompany the FSM, given that it has new alternatives. Those present at the sessions report that another cue, the 'Anno Domini' was to start the album, but was left off for some reason. It was recorded though.
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