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Let's hope 2016 the labels will finally issue a Steiner CD or two. The labels have neglected Steiner for whatever reasons. Also at WB there is Waxman, Tiomkin, Roemheld, Deutsch etc. yet to be issued.
As it is well-known that Warners had junked almost all of their pre 1954 scores and as Waxman, Deutsch and Roemheld worked there mainly during the 40s, certainly nothing by them from that decade has survived.
I suppose that even the original tracks of Tiomkin 's I CONFESS, HIS MAJESTY O'KEEFE or THE COMMAND are long gone, but something like THE SUNDOWNERS from 1960 will probably have survived (even though only in mono) and there formerly was also a Cinema bootleg LP of this score.
All the Steiner WB material is only there because the composer himself had preserved acetates of many of his scores. But if you had to rely just on WB themselves, you could probably forget about all those scores from the 30s, 40s and even early 50s anyway.
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Helen of Troy is particularly deserving of a re-recording. I'm surprised this isn't currently high on Tadlow's list, seeing as Mr. Fitzpatrick has in the past expressed high regard for the score and dissatisfaction with the re-recorded suite from Silva.
Nowadays there certainly isn't a really large fanbase for most Steiner scores anymore. A famous older score by Rozsa or Goldsmith will have probably a much larger appeal worldwide. And as you can also see on this board there are fewer and fewer people still interested in Steiner. In principle, it's onlys a handful of people who are still posting in those threads about Steiner and stating their wishes. Add to this the fact that the original recording of HELEN OF TROY has very easily been available on CD for people living here in Europe for now about 20 years. So how much interest would these collectors have in such a re-recording?
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I don't see many people stating their wishes here for the film music of Richard Addinsell or Stanley Black, but that hasn't stopped Chandos giving us CDs devoted entirely to re-recordings of their film music. And I suspect that those CDs have far outsold any individual Goldsmith CD releases from our specialist labels over the same period.
But as you may also have noticed Chandos has more or less stopped their series devoted to British film composers during the last 2-3 years. So I am quite sure that unfortunately times have also changed even for such a major CD label. It certainly has become too costly to restore and release suites from such old British scores which in most cases had never been available before.
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Even all the Shostakovich releases or the Korngold CD happened almost 10 years ago. I think that was a different time period compared with nowadays. And the Rozsa CD contains almost only pieces which had already been recorded by other orchestras before and was therefore a bit disappointing. But even that Rozsa CD is now two years old.
So I don't have high hopes that there will be many more such Chandos releases in the future.
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I'm tired of screaming "CAGED, CAGED, CAGED!!" at every film score cd producer that drops by my place here in Berkeley. 
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