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Mar 4, 2013 - 4:51 PM
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Senn555
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INTRADA
Announces:
OZ - THE GREAT AND POWERFUL
Composed by DANNY ELFMAN
INTRADA/DISNEY D001809202
Intrada and Walt Disney Records announce the release Danny Elfman's score to Oz - The Great and Powerful. Elfman composed a score as colorful and adventurous as Oz itself. Rich in themes, energy, magic, and mystery, the score features Elfman's trademark style, including the striking use of chorus. The score has it's tender, heart-felt side as well, resulting in a varied musical journey through Oz that will compel the listener from start to finish. Combined with beautiful artwork, the soundtrack to Oz one of the most elegant soundtrack releases of the year.
When Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he's hit the jackpot, until he meets three witches who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone's been expecting. Relucantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and whjo is evil before it is too late. Directed by Sam Raimi, Oz - The Great and Powerful opens March 8.
INTRADA/DISNEY D001809202
Retail Price: $19.99
Available Now
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.8018/.f
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Just ordered the CD. The samples sound fantastic, and I'm really looking forward to seeing the movie.
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Mar 5, 2013 - 9:02 AM
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SchiffyM
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My understanding (and this is second-hand information) is that the full score is about 75 minutes, though I have no idea if that means the CD is missing thirty 15-second pieces or one 8-minute piece or (likely) something in between.
Setting aside the usual debate here about the automatic superiority or inferiority of complete releases (we've heard all the arguments, no need to rehash them again), there are many reasons why a CD contains the program it contains and costs what it costs. Scores for new films almost never contain the complete score, because they are marketed toward fans of the film who might like a souvenir and not toward rabid soundtrack nerds (like me). So a listening experience is more important than an obsessive archive of every note recorded for the film (which increasingly includes alternates that barely differ from the final version and even rehearsal takes with the conductor yelling out directions). Disney (and this is a Walt Disney Records/Intrada release, remember) has no interest in that particular game.
The $20 price we've come to expect is not due to completeness, though of course the costs associated with making that happen can be high. CDs cost what they cost for a variety of reasons, but essentially, they cost what they cost so that the label can try to make a profit on them. Nobody's making a mint on any score CD. Yes, Amazon prices some general interest CDs at the $12 or even $10 mark, but these CDs are not coming from Intrada, which cannot make the bulk deals that a major label that puts out all genres of music can. Also, Amazon is the 800-pound gorilla that typically demands lower prices from labels (and publishers, etc.) than they can often afford.
In any event, $20 is the price of this CD. If you don't choose to pay it, that's your right. You can legally own the music for $9.49 is you're okay with an MP3 download.
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