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It woulldn't play on Apple music. but VLC plays just fine
Oh, good! Glad it worked for you. My VLC wasn't any happier with the downloaded m3u than was Itunes. I'll try again.
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The Baron of Wrathbone is right.
Rich Man, Poor Man by Alex North deserves this kind of release.
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Basil Wrathbone: So why weren't Discs 3 and 4 combined for a 3CD set instead of 4?J Just wondering. The price is very reasonable either way.
I'd propose that the final disc, I'm presuming the London album, is chock full of the type of music (lots of legato string phrasing, sustained notes) that is sensitive to wow-and-flutter issues on all lower-tier disc players, and that isolating it on its own disc reduces that phenomenon, which would be more pronounced on the outer, later portion of the disc.
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...which would be more pronounced on the outer, later portion of the disc.
The bits are the bits whether they are at the edge of the disc or the inner part of the disc. If a player can't read the disc correctly there is error correction to help, and then the sound gets either choppy or very digitally noisy.
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So why weren't Discs 3 and 4 combined for a 3CD set instead of 4?
Just wondering. The price is very reasonable either way.
I speak from ignorance, but perhaps licensing reasons? Disc 4 is an entirely different recording, after all, and I note that it appears to have its own chunk of legalese on the back cover. But whether it was that or just aesthetics, the price is indeed very reasonable -- only $5 more than the old 2-CD version, I believe!
I agree with you both that the price is fantastic! I was hoping for $40 but considering this was released more than a decade after their previous edition, I'll bet that mere $5 extra barely covers inflation -- this is practically the same price. It's also nice, for folks like TerraEpon and myself who worry about shelf space, that a 4 CD set doesn't take up any extra space compared with a 3 CD set.
This is actually a very similar situation to their 2 CD Patton release from years back -- that one was a 2 CD set in a slimline package (taking up the same space on the shelf as a 1 CD case), for the same price as 1 CD too:
https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.6806/.f
You'll notice the total play time is 77:45 -- it could have easily fit on that one CD, including both album and film recordings and all of the neat extras. But it was on separate CDs because the unique album recording was owned by UMG (just as with Masada), and I believe when things are sub-licensed from UMG, they handle the disc manufacturing themselves. Therefore, whether it's a required licensing issue or more of a manufacturing issue resulting from ownership, it makes sense in both cases that the UMG-owned album recording gets its own disc.
If Varese didn't control the film recordings of the two Flint scores in perpetuity, no doubt Intrada would have released the film and UMG-owned album recordings of each of those together, and the UMG-owned album recordings would have been put on their own disc. But since Varese has perpetuity dibs on the film recordings, Intrada only could release the album recordings, which they were able to pair because they were both UMG and therefore could be licensed and manufactured together on the same disc.
Yavar
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This could be our release of the year, assuming the London album is as praised, and the Mort Stevens stuff is also as praised.
You get jittery in anticipation of certain drops in your mailbox, this is one of them.
I always got the impression that this was Jerry Goldsmith "doing" Miklos Rozsa in high-historical mode. Jerry could lift idioms just like Rozsa, and incorporate them into his modernist style.
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Nice to see the LP art on the back of the booklet. Does anyone have a lead on a high-res jpg of that album art?
This is the best quality of the LP cover I've been able to find:
But if anyone has a better version it would be great if they could share it here.
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