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Hi, I am a longtime lurker and reader of this board. I enjoy mostly the music of Herrmann, Desplat, Morricone, Korngold and Delerue. I really like re-recordings of very old scores, especially Herrmann & Korngold which seem well served in that regards.
However, I always wondered why there are so few re-recordings of Delerue? For example the music for "Le Mepris/Camille", one of the most iconic theme of the 20th century, only exists in that same old mono recording, I have searched everywhere and the only "new" version I can find is by Desplat's Traffic Quintet (great job).
Delerue wrote some truly amazing themes, yet his music is never heard in the concert hall or recorded (unlike Korngold, Williams, Herrmann, etc), does anyone know WHY? Are the scores missing?
Imagine Le Mepris/Camille recorded by a world class symphony or chamber orchestra...It seems such a no-brainer, yet no-one has done it, not even the specialists in re-recordings (unless I am wrong).
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Most Delerue scores that are available on albums are in decent sound already.
Delerue himself did some nice re-recordings released as The London Sessions.
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lack of demand?
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Quincy Jones re-recorded a theme by Delerue. Re-named it, too. 
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You can't compare Delerue to Auric and Honegger: They were both members of the important Les Six, and thus, influential concert composers (Honegger more so than Auric). They wrote classical music, and THAT is getting more re-recordings, not their film music (again, Honegger's more than Auric's).
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Jun 8, 2015 - 8:00 PM
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Essankay
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Not too much film score recordings for either of them though anyway.
Not too much, perhaps, but not so little, either. There's four Marco Polo albums of Auric's film music under the baton of Adriano, and one on Chandos conducted by Gamba. The Silva Ealing film music album conducted by Kenneth Alwyn has selections from three of Auric's scores. Whether any of his albums released concurrent with the films - like BONJOUR TRISTESSE or GOODBYE AGAIN - were re-recordings I don't know, but the main theme to MOULIN ROUGE must surely be one of the most-covered film themes of all time.
Honegger has at least four albums of film music on Marco Polo, again under Adriano. There's also an album of his film music on a label called Solstice, conducted by Henri Vachey, and lengthy selections from REGAIN and MERMOZ can be found on two other albums in my collection.
All in all, not too bad compared to some composers (even Aaron Copland!), but still lagging behind Delerue I see now.
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