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It’s January, isn’t this being recorded soon?
The last I heard was that the 17th and 18th were the prospective recording dates. So, a little over a week before they start recording.
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Jan 10, 2023 - 4:59 AM
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chriss
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Doug Fake:
"01/09/2023
It’s really exciting to be only days away from newly recording two incredible Bernard Herrmann film scores from the fifties, On Dangerous Ground which has never been recorded in stereo and, for myself, of particular interest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, which has simply never been released in any format. We have assembled a very large number of players, expanding the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and again have William T. Stromberg on the podium. I have been studying Herrmann’s complete printed scores for a spell now and am downright anxious to hear all these notes come to life. Our recording engineer on all of this is going to be our friend Mike Ross-Trevor, veteran of countless Jerry Goldsmith scores and happily several of our previous Excalibur releases, including Ivanhoe, Julius Caesar and Jason And The Argonauts. With this team, I’m confident we’ll be making some truly exciting music next week. It may seem like a small tidbit but we’re even recording the VistaVision logo by Nathan Van Cleave that opens the Hitchcock score. Now there’s an under-represented composer who deserves his day. Maybe these few seconds will help move the needle!"
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No red carpet? No popping flashbulbs? 
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Second clip's been deleted. What could've happened to it? Well...
I had to remove them because they were posted on FSM and we’re not allowed to share publicly. It was supposed to be private just for the Kickstarter contributors.
- Roger Feigelson
So...thanks for that.
I think something similar happened with the rehearsals for Dial M. I believe the RSNO requested videos of the rehearsal for that recording deleted as they wanted it to be judged by the finished product or something along those lines.
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01/22/2023
Success! We’re back from Glasgow! And I’m already at work with the session masters, helmed by Mike Ross-Trevor, the extraordinary engineer we’ve had on our Excalibur team dating all the way back to our 1986 re-recording of Jerry Goldsmith’s Islands In The Stream, when we were still in our infancy. We had not yet given the Excalibur brand to our re-recordings, mainly because we had no idea that the series - or even our label - would ever survive. But it did! And now we have our new recordings of Bernard Herrmann’s The Man Who Knew Too Much and On Dangerous Ground “in the can” and ready for assembly. Some 90 players of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra brought these two truly classic Herrmann film scores to life, both under the peerless direction of William T. Stromberg. Mike Ross was also with us when we did Ivanhoe and Julius Caesar in London. And in particular, he gave us that crisp, clean sound for Jason And The Argonauts, our first Herrmann release, under the baton of our dear friend Bruce Broughton. So it be that we again went for the crisp and detailed sound that Herrmann’s music begs for… and we got it! The “Prologue” from The Man Who Knew Too Much is a powerhouse piece, led by Nathan Van Cleave’s “VistaVision” logo. And the action music for On Dangerous Ground is legendary amongst Herrmann aficionados, understandable given the virtuoso writing for the massive French horn section. Balance this with the haunting viola d’amore solos that weave in and out of the score and you get the textbook definition of a classic!
http://www.intrada.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9009
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My recent trip to Glasgow with Intrada to record a pair of Herrmann scores was too epic for a single post, so here’s part 2 of 3:
https://www.joesikoryak.com/post/the-most-profound-silence
As always, my soundtrack memoirs include a playlist as well. Thanks for reading (and listening)—hope you have a great weekend ahead!
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