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Nov 18, 2015 - 2:48 AM
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Jim Doherty
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The Sepia label has released a really reasonably priced 2-CD set of music from the 1963 film THE BEST OF CINERAMA. That film compiled scenes from the first five Cinerama travelogues into one film.
This 2-CD set from Sepia offers many fantastic cuts. Probably the most important cuts (included in the bonus section), are rehearsal or early takes of several Steiner cues from THIS IS CINERAMA. These are in full, beautiful stereo. They still have the slate numbers at the beginning, and most importantly, they have are devoid of any narration that intrudes upon this music in previous releases. Admittedly, the orchestra is not as tight as should be, and there are a few performer flubs here and there, but at least we can now hear this music without the dialogue or musical edits that have shown up on previous LP/CD releases.
Also, there is some wonderful Jerome Moross music from THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD. There is about 9:30 of his music for "The Holy Land" sequence which did not appear on on the standalone Sepia CD of THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD. It is great to hear the original 1955 recording of this music.
And there are some wonderful portions of Tiomkin's SEARCH FOR PARADISE, re-edidted and remixed for THE BEST OF CINERAMA.
A wonderful CD release.
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Nov 18, 2015 - 3:38 PM
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roadshowfan
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The Sepia label has released a really reasonably priced 2-CD set of music from the 1963 film THE BEST OF CINERAMA. That film compiled scenes from the first five Cinerama travelogues into one film.
This 2-CD set from Sepia offers many fantastic cuts. Probably the most important cuts (included in the bonus section), are rehearsal or early takes of several Steiner cues from THIS IS CINERAMA. These are in full, beautiful stereo. They still have the slate numbers at the beginning, and most importantly, they have are devoid of any narration that intrudes upon this music in previous releases. Admittedly, the orchestra is not as tight as should be, and there are a few performer flubs here and there, but at least we can now hear this music without the dialogue or musical edits that have shown up on previous LP/CD releases.
Also, there is some wonderful Jerome Moross music from THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD. There is about 9:30 of his music for "The Holy Land" sequence which did not appear on on the standalone Sepia CD of THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD. It is great to hear the original 1955 recording of this music.
And there are some wonderful portions of Tiomkin's SEARCH FOR PARADISE, re-edidted and remixed for THE BEST OF CINERAMA.
A wonderful CD release.
This is indeed a very welcome release. Unfortunately though, track 2 disc 2 is not the Exit Music from Search for Paradise; it's actually the Exit Music from Seven Wonders of the World.
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