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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?
Every spot that has it seems to have this exact version, 1600 x 1600. For now, this is the best I can find.
Whoops! 'Booklet', not CD case.
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Doing my first listen, and I am enjoying the Morton Stevens tracks more than I remembered.
Is it because of the improved sound? Am I just more receptive?
Dunno, but track by track I'm ever more glad I picked this up. Always adored the Goldsmith tracks, but defo digging M. Stevens' work more than I recall.
Such good stuff. And the mini series is very much worth watching. I enjoyed the novel it was based on as well, The Antagonists by Ernest K. Gann.
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I received my copy yesterday - so prompt getting here. Can't believe I've actually started buying film music again. There's so much out there now! Loving it.
It's an ideal time to get (back) in. A little over 25 years ago, soundtrack releases entered the Criterion Collection phase. If it started in earnest with FSM, our other loved labels quickly followed, and it became this (very high) standard we're all used to, and I still appreciate.
And they've only gotten better. Look at Fiddler - two booklets? And what a great one is the research focused book. Listen to the (as usual) wonderful conversation Mike Mattesino had with Maurizio and Tim on the Legacy podcast. At around 1:27:20, they amble into the subject of The Documentation, things they discovered (Mike had help from the Legacy team and our own Saul Pincus) and pulled together - it's probably as definitive as it is fascinating.
https://thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com/2021/12/03/fiddler-on-the-roof-podcast-pt1/
Then on top of that, most of the time the new releases sound better than they did before, and they probably already sounded great. Missing music is found. Beatles Anthology style tracks are included.
If physical media is dying, it is dying so gracefully.
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I received my copy yesterday - so prompt getting here. Can't believe I've actually started buying film music again. There's so much out there now! Loving it.
It's an ideal time to get (back) in. A little over 25 years ago, soundtrack releases entered the Criterion Collection phase. If it started in earnest with FSM, our other loved labels quickly followed, and it became this (very high) standard we're all used to, and I still appreciate.
And they've only gotten better. Look at Fiddler - two booklets? And what a great one is the research focused book. Listen to the (as usual) wonderful conversation Mike Mattesino had with Maurizio and Tim on the Legacy podcast. At around 1:27:20, they amble into the subject of The Documentation, things they discovered (Mike had help from the Legacy team and our own Saul Pincus) and pulled together - it's probably as definitive as it is fascinating.
https://thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com/2021/12/03/fiddler-on-the-roof-podcast-pt1/
Then on top of that, most of the time the new releases sound better than they did before, and they probably already sounded great. Missing music is found. Beatles Anthology style tracks are included.
If physical media is dying, it is dying so gracefully.
Great examples - couldn't have provided better.
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I thought Disc 1 was all supposed to be Goldsmith only, but it has the MCA logo music at the end now too…
Yavar
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My copy has arrived as well, very impressed with the sound quality and presentation.
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cannot understand why 4 cds: the tracklist of cd 3 and cd 4 does fit on a single disc...
CDs 1 and 2 of Intrada’s Patton release also fit on a single disc. As with Patton, the film and album recordings have different owners (Universal Music Group — different entity from Universal Pictures — owns the Masada album recording just as they do Patton). UMG I think also usually handles manufacturing in-house of the discs they license out. So that’s likely why it had to be on its own disc. We’ve seen this many times before really.
Yavar
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This new set has an arrangement of the familiar television MCA Logo (in a slightly different arrangement) that the notes say Stevens conducted. I don't believe it says who composed that logo theme. Was it also Stevens? Certainly quite possible, but if that's in the notes, I missed it.
I'd also like to know who composed the MCA Logo music. I don't see it mentioned in the booklet notes either.
Marvelous set. Very happy that it arrived just in time for Christmas.
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Very interesting, thank you.
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, where other parts or track by track infos of this set where very elaborated, first thought there were some missing pages in my booklet. 
