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Thank you again, LLL, a great score getting your special treatment.
Ordered!
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When I first looked I thought track 23 was an in joke misprint. 
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Ordered!
Err, but it's not even available to order yet.
Perhaps you meant, "Will be ordered!" 
Cheers
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Ordered!
Err, but it's not even available to order yet.
Perhaps you meant, "Will be ordered!"
Cheers
I already ordered from chrissoundtrackclub here in Germany.
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I'm in.
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Looking so much forward to this special edition!
Unfortunately, this score - while one I always enjoyed a lot - had been relegated to the back of my collection.
The news of this expanded release made me listen to the album again - and, wow, what an enchanting delight. The main theme is, IMO, one of the most haunting melodies Barry has ever written.
Pure score magic.
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Those Epic CDs in the 1990s sounded flat to me, and Barry had a penchant for over-emphasising the melancholy selections from his scores on those CDs.
Although the 1992 Chaplin CD did actually do quite a good job of including some of the more updeat and comedic elements.
I believe the remastering, and the airing of the whole score, not just part of it, will reveal the score to be more dynamic and varied than people remember from the 1992 CD.
It really is a lovely blend of, yes, introspection and melancholy, but also levity, comedy, hope and triumph.
Introspection and melancholy are, of course, a John Barry forté, and he does it here as well as he ever did it.
But mixing that with comedy, hope, and triumph, lifts it above other Barry scores from the same period.
I love Barry as much as anyone — you guessed, right? — but you'd have to be a sycophant to not concede that Barry's musical range became frustratingly smaller and more predictable in those post-Dances years.
This, though, has that variety, and particularly evokes his delightful 1974 score, THE DAY OF THE LOCUST.
I hope people really discover this score again.
Cheers
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Post Dances, I feel Barry came up with some really lovely work. As well as Chaplin we had The Specialist, Across the Sea Of Time, Playing By Heart, Cry the Beloved Country, Enigma, Swept From The Sea. + the non soundtrack works.The Beyondness Of Things and Eternal Echoes. Ruby Cairo is an awful film but Barry gave it a strong score.
Inevitably he didn't show the range of work that he did in the 60s, but Barry had changed as we all do over 30 years.
We are e so fortunate to have got the 90s scores. Barry came close to death in 1988 when his oesophagus ruptured. Masquerade could have been his final score.
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Jan 16, 2023 - 6:34 PM
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Amer Zahid
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Those Epic CDs in the 1990s sounded flat to me, and Barry had a penchant for over-emphasising the melancholy selections from his scores on those CDs.
Although the 1992 Chaplin CD did actually do quite a good job of including some of the more updeat and comedic elements.
I believe the remastering, and the airing of the whole score, not just part of it, will reveal the score to be more dynamic and varied than people remember from the 1992 CD.
It really is a lovely blend of, yes, introspection and melancholy, but also levity, comedy, hope and triumph.
Introspection and melancholy are, of course, a John Barry forté, and he does it here as well as he ever did it.
But mixing that with comedy, hope, and triumph, lifts it above other Barry scores from the same period.
I love Barry as much as anyone — you guessed, right? — but you'd have to be a sycophant to not concede that Barry's musical range became frustratingly smaller and more predictable in those post-Dances years.
This, though, has that variety, and particularly evokes his delightful 1974 score, THE DAY OF THE LOCUST.
I hope people really discover this score again.
Cheers
I’m so looking forward to it. The 30+ minutes of Unreleased music will be a joy. It’s my favourite film score of his post DWW period.
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Can you imagine what The Specialist could sound like?
One of my favourite Barry's. A pleasure to listen to at last.
Agreed, owning a sonorously remastered edition of THE SPECIALIST is one of my few remaining holy grails.
Maybe one day it will happen. We can only hope.......
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The Specialist is his last great Bond like score.
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