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 Posted:   Jun 23, 2023 - 9:56 AM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)



Expected to ship the week of July 7, 2023.

City Hall was a well-regarded 1996 suspense drama exploring crime and corruption in New York City. After a child is killed by a stray bullet, the city’s idealistic deputy mayor (John Cusack) is determined to find out how the criminal involved was still on the streets. But his investigation unearths a web of sleaze and payoffs that leaves no part of the city untouched—including his boss, the mayor (Al Pacino).

Features:

Varèse Sarabande’s long-awaited Deluxe Edition debuts a 16-track, 34-minute program of the score as heard in the film itself; a 6-track, 10-minute selection of previously unreleased alternates; and the 12-track, 30-minute sequence of the original 1996 Varèse Sarabande CD.

Tracklist:


SCORE PRESENTATION:
1 The Bridge (Film Version)
2 The Meet (Film Version)
3 The Hospital
4 Find Vinnie
5 The Funeral
6 When I Was A Kid (Film Version)
7 The Cabin
8 The King Maker (Film Version)
9 Call Me / Dead In The Water
10 Schwartz Is Dead (Film Version)
11 Old Friends (Film Version)
12 Think About It
13 The Report
14 About The Mayor
15 Take A Vacation (Film Version)
16 Count On It / End Credits Suite


ADDITIONAL MUSIC:

17 The Hospital (Alternate)
18 The Funeral (Alternate)
19 The Cabin (Alternate)
20 The King Maker (Alternate)
21 Take A Vacation (Alternate)
22 Count On It (Alternate)


ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK ALBUM:

23 The Bridge
24 The Meet
25 The Hospital
26 When I Was A Kid
27 The Cabin
28 The King Maker
29 Old Friends
30 Swartz Is Dead
31 Think About It
32 The Report
33 Take A Vacation
34 Count On It


https://varesesarabande.com/collections/cd-club/products/city-hall-deluxe-edition-cd

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 23, 2023 - 10:00 AM   
 By:   CCOJOE   (Member)

Outstanding!! I'm in!!

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 23, 2023 - 10:14 AM   
 By:   Peter Greenhill   (Member)

Is there a download?

 
 Posted:   Jun 23, 2023 - 10:21 AM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

WHOA! Judging from that tracklist, with seven cues in the main film program marked "(Film Version)" to distinguish from the original album versions later on the CD... PLUS 10 minutes worth of *other* alternates... seems like Goldsmith was rewriting a lot of cues for this project. This tracklist makes me think Neil S. Bulk worked on the release, making sure it had all the unique versions. I wish Varese would share details of who worked on these, in their product descriptions...

Yavar

 
 Posted:   Jun 23, 2023 - 10:28 AM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

In case anyone else was looking for the "complete score" breakdown.

https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=110759&forumID=1&archive=0

 
 Posted:   Jun 23, 2023 - 10:40 AM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

Yeah, I'm super grateful to DeputyRiley for doing that breakdown, but it sounds like there's a lot more to this story because he counted 28 minutes of music in the film proper, and only two alternates in the film, while the film program on this new release is 34 minutes including a whopping seven alternates. DeputyRiley also missed that the highlight "unreleased" cue he called "Stern's Regrets" was just a cut-down version of "Schwartz Is Dead" from the album...so I'm wondering if the film program here is going to include that cut, or present Jerry's full composition. If the former, I'm going to have to do some editing to this release to get a complete-as-composed presentation of Jerry's work.

Yavar

 
 Posted:   Jun 23, 2023 - 10:46 AM   
 By:   The Mutant   (Member)

Very much ordered

 
 Posted:   Jun 23, 2023 - 11:01 AM   
 By:   NSBulk   (Member)

Mike Matessino and I produced this release for Varese Sarabande. Scoring went on for awhile which led to numerous rescoring. Bruce Botnick had all of the material so we could make sense of it.

Neil

 
 Posted:   Jun 23, 2023 - 11:03 AM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

AWESOME. Two names that guarantee quality!

Yavar

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 23, 2023 - 11:04 AM   
 By:   Kevin Costigan   (Member)

Mike Matessino and I produced this release for Varese Sarabande. Scoring went on for awhile which led to numerous rescoring. Bruce Botnick had all of the material so we could make sense of it.

Neil


Thanks to all of you involved. So happy for this one!

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 23, 2023 - 11:13 AM   
 By:   Chris Avis   (Member)

Sweet,
I finally guessed a club title correctly! This is one of those 90s Goldsmith titles that I never got around to picking up and I'm loving what I'm hearing from the original album on Spotify so this is going in the cart!

Chris

 
 Posted:   Jun 23, 2023 - 11:34 AM   
 By:   NSBulk   (Member)

We worked on this one awhile ago, so I had to refresh my memory. They recorded three versions of "The Bridge." Two of them wound up on the OST, but the third version which was used in the film, wasn't one of them. The original album misspelled "Schwartz" and we've retained that for the album presentation. It also swapped the titles for "Old Friends" and "Swartz [sic] Is Dead" which we've maintained only in the album presentation. The "End Credits Suite" was fun to assemble because even though it repeats some earlier cues they also recorded inserts specifically for the end titles.

Neil

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 23, 2023 - 11:42 AM   
 By:   Thgil   (Member)

It's so odd that they're not including audio samples for the Club releases today.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 23, 2023 - 1:20 PM   
 By:   chriscoyle   (Member)

It says Deluxe but not how limited it is, pulling an Intrada on us?

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 23, 2023 - 2:55 PM   
 By:   connorb93   (Member)

If the trend continues, this should be on spotify soon!

 
 Posted:   Jun 23, 2023 - 4:47 PM   
 By:   breakbadnm   (Member)

are the CD Club releases no longer limited editions? I see no mention of it in the announcement or on the website.

 
 Posted:   Jun 23, 2023 - 5:09 PM   
 By:   Spinmeister   (Member)

Looking forward to this. A very good (concise) score which also happens to make for a good stand-alone listen. Pity 90's Goldsmith didn't have the opportunity to score more (unsentimental) adult-oriented dramas.

 
 
 Posted:   Jun 24, 2023 - 12:37 AM   
 By:   Spymaster   (Member)

We worked on this one awhile ago, so I had to refresh my memory. They recorded three versions of "The Bridge." Two of them wound up on the OST, but the third version which was used in the film, wasn't one of them. The original album misspelled "Schwartz" and we've retained that for the album presentation. It also swapped the titles for "Old Friends" and "Swartz [sic] Is Dead" which we've maintained only in the album presentation. The "End Credits Suite" was fun to assemble because even though it repeats some earlier cues they also recorded inserts specifically for the end titles.

Neil


I was always puzzled / frustrated by the flipping of these track titles (the wrong titles, and then also spelled wrong for "bonus lack-of-attention to detail"). Basically an error by somebody similar to the final two tracks on the First Knight album. I seem to recall something weird with Timeline titles too vs the complete version...

I kind of get why the error has been retained. But I'd have been equally fine if it had been fixed. I will likely fix it when I rip. The obvious difference in the content of these tracks will play havoc once isolated from the physical CD.

 
 Posted:   Jun 24, 2023 - 2:23 PM   
 By:   ST-321   (Member)

It's so odd that they're not including audio samples for the Club releases today.

I agree. I've never seen the movie, nor heard any of the score, so some samples there would be nice. I guess I'll need to look elsewhere to find out what this is like.

 
 Posted:   Jun 24, 2023 - 2:53 PM   
 By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member)

It's a very good movie and Goldsmith's score is excellent. Not sure I will get this simply because it's one of the "30 minute Varèse albums" that actually presented the film score well. But if you like Jerry Goldsmith's music but have not seen the movie or not listened to the score, you should do both.

 
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