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I tried to find more information about this in past threads, but it is just used as an example.
I have always liked this score, but what do other people think when comparing it to Kamen's
other works. Are the rights still locked by his family?
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I don't think it's so much of a rights thing as just that the album went out of print. Like Brazil his previous score for Terry Gilliam, it's a strange mishmash of idioms but Kamen brings it together with with and style. The "Munchausen Waltz" is delightful. The album also has the full recital of the Sultan's opera (co-written by Eric Idle), complete with agony sounds.
If there is one complaint I have about the album, it's that individual cues are lined up into suites four or five at a time, but unlike most other Kamen discs, there are no index markers for each.
American prints of the film had a fanfare at the beginning under the Columbia Pictures logo that does not appear on the record.
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One of my favorite scores of all time (and films), and it's the only Kamen score that I can't live without.
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I think it is one of Kamen's best scores, and remarkably, he wrote it in two weeks. It is sometimes frenetic, sometimes goofy (particularly the cues for the Moon sequence) but also breathtakingly lyrical ("The Munchausen Waltz"), while the music for early the scenes at the Sultan's court have fun "Arabian Nights" quality. I'd agree it is a close cousin to Brazil, but is more stylistically varied.
Most of the score was recorded by the Gruanke (now Munich) Symphony, but the CD credits "Additional music performed by the National Philharmonic" but doesn't specify which cues.
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Double post. 
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I've always wanted to check out this score, but I have been unable to find it for all the years I've been a film score fan.
Well I can certainly find copies of the CD except they cost upwards of £70 or more on Amazon marketplace and considerably higher elsewhere. There are some available there right now if you're feeling particularly rich at the moment.
I love the score but i've only ever heard it in the film. It doesn't really sound like anything else he's done but that may be because I haven't heard the score seperately.
What's this rights thing mentioned earlier? Is there a legal problem that prevents a potential re-release?
By sheer coincedence, this cd is available for sale in one of my threads in the trading post. It's far less than 70 pnds. Sterling. There is one small drawback however - Paypal.
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An FSM Member has bought this cd off of me so I thought I'd listen to it one more time before it's boxed up to the land down under. It's THE score that (I don't think) anyone would guess was composed by Michael Kamen if they heard it for the first time without knowing who'd written it. Lovely score I haven't listened to in many years, but it's extremely 'fresh' sounding this morning as it played.
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American prints of the film had a fanfare at the beginning under the Columbia Pictures logo that does not appear on the record.
I think the fanfare is at the end of the last cue on the album if I'm not mistaken.
The one at the end is a different version than the one that opens the film.
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