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Dream come true. the missing music for Foxes has been a major obsession.
is the new music also multi track stereo?
Yep!
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Seems that I already know, what Santa will bring me this year 
ps bit stupid (?) question - but why Kritzerland's edition of Captain from Castile (disc 1) contain only 9 tracks, while previous edition had 11? Do you simply combined some tracks to longer one?
CD 1 of Castile has eleven tracks - I just mis-typed the list for the site - it happens at my age. The booklet and tray are correct and all the music is there.
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Expanded and remastered PRINCE OF FOXES! Great golden age news!
YES INDEED!! HALLELUJAH!
Dream come true. the missing music for Foxes has been a major obsession.
is the new music also multi track stereo?
Yep!
EVEN BETTER!
CD 1 of Castile has eleven tracks - I just mis-typed the list for the site - it happens at my age. The booklet and tray are correct and all the music is there.
Whew that's a relief...I was starting to worry what had happened was an excising of the Vicente Gomez solo guitar stuff, or something. Like how Varese weirdly excised all of Alfred Newman's cues on The Egyptian from their Herrmann box set because Herrmann didn't pen them...like, it's part of the integral fabric of the score, ya know!
Yes. Shame on me for expecting something other than just a box full of reissues with only single interesting disc after more than a year since the last interesting Kritzerland release. Maybe I'll just wait until someone reissues it on its own.
Again, I hear your frustration at having to re-buy stuff with sound improvements for the single disc you want. And I know Kritzerland has cut back on their film music releases over the past year or two, and that's disappointing...
but are you *really* going to stand by that blanket statement and overlook Kritzerland's recent release of Dementia, by George Antheil -- a total 100% premiere, and only the second ever Antheil film score to get a release after The Pride and the Passion half a century ago?
Yavar
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Considering how few Golden Age box sets get a release, and how much of a genius Alfred Newman was, this is a great release. I may have to sell a kidney.
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Thank you very much for re-releasing all those wonderful Alfred Newman's scores in better sound quality!
Is there any chance for re-releases of another amazing Alfred Newman's scores from Henry King's movies The Song of Bernadette and Wilson in better sound quality?
A few months ago, I would have told you that Bernadette could only happen though Varese, but then LLL collaborated with them for their recent POTA box set, so I guess it could be possible. The only problem is that unless one of the labels managed to get one or both of them approved before the Disney-Fox merger, it may be a while, if at all, as Disney put a “pause” on the licensing of Fox soundtracks.
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Considering how few Golden Age box sets get a release, and how much of a genius Alfred Newman was, this is a great release. I may have to sell a kidney.
It's good you point this out -- I think in some ways it's the third in a recent Golden Age box trilogy: the astounding 4CD Waxman box set from Intrada, followed by the 3CD "Dark Side of Max Steiner" box set from BYU, and now finishing with this great 5CD Alfred Newman set from Kritzerland! Of course I hope this ends up being as much of a "trilogy" as Alien...or The Matrix...or the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books...or better yet Star Wars, haha!
Is there any chance for re-releases of another amazing Alfred Newman's scores from Henry King's movies The Song of Bernadette and Wilson in better sound quality?
I don't know about Wilson's prospects for a remastered re-release (another SAE King/Newman title that could be revisited is Twelve O'Clock High), but The Song of Bernadette is controlled by Varese Sarabande in perpetuity thanks to their two disc wide release of it in the 90s (similar to Raksin's magnum opus Forever Amber, and a bunch of Herrmann titles including scores he wrote for Henry King like King of the Khyber Rifles and Tender Is the Night). Only they have the rights to do it and they seem less interested in the Golden Age than they used to be, sadly. Their last Golden Age release was the mammoth Herrmann at Fox box set over half a decade ago, if I'm not mistaken.
I suppose it's possible Bruce/Kritzerland might be able to sub-license some of those from Varese like LLL did with Planet of the Apes...but with the sales potential of most Golden Age scores now, it seems unlikely that Bruce or anyone would tackle a project with the added costs of licensing from Varese. I hope I'm wrong.
Yavar
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Considering how few Golden Age box sets get a release, and how much of a genius Alfred Newman was, this is a great release. I may have to sell a kidney.
It's good you point this out -- I think in some ways it's the third in a recent Golden Age box trilogy: the astounding 4CD Waxman box set from Intrada, followed by the 3CD "Dark Side of Max Steiner" box set from BYU, and now finishing with this great 5CD Alfred Newman set from Kritzerland! Of course I hope this ends up being as much of a "trilogy" as Alien...or The Matrix...or the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books...or better yet Star Wars, haha!
Is there any chance for re-releases of another amazing Alfred Newman's scores from Henry King's movies The Song of Bernadette and Wilson in better sound quality?
I don't know about Wilson's prospects for a remastered re-release (another SAE King/Newman title that could be revisited is Twelve O'Clock High), but The Song of Bernadette is controlled by Varese Sarabande in perpetuity thanks to their two disc wide release of it in the 90s (similar to Raksin's magnum opus Forever Amber, and a bunch of Herrmann titles including scores he wrote for Henry King like The Snows of Kilimanjaro, King of the Khyber Rifles, and Tender Is the Night). Only they have the rights to do it and they seem less interested in the Golden Age than they used to be, sadly. Their last Golden Age release was the mammoth Herrmann at Fox box set over half a decade ago, if I'm not mistaken.
I suppose it's possible Bruce/Kritzerland might be able to sub-license some of those from Varese like LLL did with Planet of the Apes...but with the sales potential of most Golden Age scores now, it seems unlikely that Bruce or anyone would tackle a project with the added costs of licensing from Varese. I hope I'm wrong.
Yavar
If Kilamanjaro was owned in perpetuity by Varese, I doubt Kritzerland would have been able to reissue it, which they did (besides, I thought the only time Varese released it was in that massive box set).
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I'll buy this just on Newman's bonafides from The Robe.
If the quality of this is anywhere near that one, we're in for a treat.
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If Kilamanjaro was owned in perpetuity by Varese, I doubt Kritzerland would have been able to reissue it, which they did (besides, I thought the only time Varese released it was in that massive box set).
You are quite right; I goofed by including that because my memory was hazy. Fixed. The half of the Herrmann at Fox scores which Varese did *not* originally release in the 90s, Kritzerland was thankfully able to reissue (and in one case expand) after their massive box set...and Kilimanjaro was among those.
Yavar
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If Kilamanjaro was owned in perpetuity by Varese, I doubt Kritzerland would have been able to reissue it, which they did (besides, I thought the only time Varese released it was in that massive box set).
You are quite right; I goofed by including that because my memory was hazy. Fixed. The half of the Herrmann at Fox scores which Varese did *not* originally release in the 90s, Kritzerland was thankfully able to reissue (and in one case expand) after their massive box set...and Kilimanjaro was among those.
Yavar
I would ‘love’ Bruce to be able to get his hands on Herrmann’s The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
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but are you *really* going to stand by that blanket statement and overlook Kritzerland's recent release of Dementia, by George Antheil -- a total 100% premiere, and only the second ever Antheil film score to get a release after The Pride and the Passion half a century ago?
Yavar
Also ironic to question Lokutus' pissy atititude when you yourself continue to mention your distaste for "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" whenever it's discussed (ie the missing music recently). I don't get it.
I don't see the similarity resulting in irony. My attitude wasn't pissy (or even remotely negative about LLL's fantastic Apes box set release, which I have happily ordered), though I can understand I annoyed you with my predilection to repeat my opinions.
It seems like you're saying "It's ironic that you're annoyed by Lokutus's pissy attitude because *I'm* annoyed by your repeatedly mentioning your distaste for Beneath the Planet of the Apes!"
But I'm not actually even annoyed by what Lokutus wrote; I'm more surprised/confused by it considering the recent important film music premiere Kritzerland put out, which maybe he missed (or he just doesn't care at all about Antheil I guess?)
Yavar
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I can't recommend this set highly enough to those who don't have these scores yet. But as one who's been collecting for 50 years, I'm increasingly finding that everything old is new again. Except for my aged ears, which more often than not are failing to discern the improvements brought by re-mastering. For us there is DEMENTIA. 
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