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This new 2-CD edition is the official tie-in soundtrack to the forthcoming STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE: THE DIRECTOR’S EDITION, premiering this year on the Paramount Plus streaming service. Post-Production Supervisor/Associate Producer Mike Matessino co-produces the album with Bruce Botnick, handling restoration, editing and assembly of the music.
This edition definitively presents the full film score on CD1, continuing through the start of CD2. The program now begins with the long version of the “Overture,” reflective of “The Director’s Edition,” with the short version heard in 1979 now kicking off a section of “Alternates” on CD2, which feature early versions of major score cues that were later reworked. Closing out the presentation is the enduring 1979 soundtrack album program, now re-created from the remixed first generation master material for consistent and superior sound quality throughout the set.
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"inner Workings" is the updated version, of course. I don't see this as a "pruned" release, but rather as the new official soundtrack, with a previous version containing numerous tracks geared toward collectors. It shouldn't be hard to figure out what those are.
So, I'm going to guess that the "alternate score cues" have been dropped from this 2CD.
EDIT: Ah, no, per LLL's post above, looks like the early score cues and album presentation is there, and it's the other alternates that have been dropped.
Yes, like all of those alternate incorrect takes that we included for no reason other than because they were on the 1999 release.... wrong takes expanded by a company that didn't have the rights to the album at the time and who basically told off the director of the movie. But at least it padded out a third CD and allowed us to include the beam and synth material, false starts with chit-chat and the two cover recordings. We made lemonade and the set certainly remains collectable for those tracks.
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The notes in the 3CD set say the late and much-respected arranger/pianist, Ian Fraser, created the long and short versions of the Overture, with the short version selected for the original release for no better reason than it fitted Reel 1 without any cutting required.
I prefer the performance and pacing of the shorter version, which sounds to me more in keeping with the feel of the score, rather than the more concert-like longer version.
Non sequitur. Your facts are uncoordinated.
The original album track, "Ilia's Theme," which features Ian Fraser on piano, is not the same as the Overture. The 1999 release moved it to the start of the CD because they didn't know the difference. It's 100% a track recorded for album.
The long version of the "Overture" features a French horn rather than piano. The second half of it is identical to the short version, which they used in 1979 to keep the reel running time down, yes. The 2012 LLL set had both but started with the short version; now we start with the long one.
As for "Ilia's Theme" -- it has ONLY been heard sourced from the live stereo mix off the 1630 digital master. Until now.
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Feb 15, 2022 - 6:01 PM
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The notes in the 3CD set say the late and much-respected arranger/pianist, Ian Fraser, created the long and short versions of the Overture, with the short version selected for the original release for no better reason than it fitted Reel 1 without any cutting required.
I prefer the performance and pacing of the shorter version, which sounds to me more in keeping with the feel of the score, rather than the more concert-like longer version.
Non sequitur. Your facts are uncoordinated.
The original album track, "Ilia's Theme," which features Ian Fraser on piano, is not the same as the Overture. The 1999 release moved it to the start of the CD because they didn't know the difference. It's 100% a track recorded for album.
The long version of the "Overture" features a French horn rather than piano. The second half of it is identical to the short version, which they used in 1979 to keep the reel running time down, yes. The 2012 LLL set had both but started with the short version; now we start with the long one.
As for "Ilia's Theme" -- it has ONLY been heard sourced from the live stereo mix off the 1630 digital master. Until now.
I understand that. When I said, "...with the short version selected for the original release" I was (misleadingly) referring to my 3CD release as the original versus the new version. I should have said previous edition. Whatever, your answer was clear, thanks.
So here's another question...
Now we are about to get Ilia's theme in sound quality exactly matching the excellent full score presentation (having previously been of slightly lesser album sound quality), where in the full score would be the best place to program it, if one so wanted? Within the score at some particular point? Or to replace the Overture?
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