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Yes, the sound is very good.
You can paint James Nelson, a digital outline for working his magic on this one.
This is yet one of those little treasures that can be in a composer's catalog that gets almost completely forgot, I'm glad we were able to help get this—wanted to see the light of day at Long last.
Ford A. Thaxton
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Wish we could get THE MASK OF SHEBA some day.
Point well made 
I've ordered the Schifrin and the Frontiere (downloading Mask of Sheba now). The cost of shipping to the UK really precludes me buying any others at this point - I know there's nothing retailers can do about this of course.
It really is nice to see new releases from these two composers, especially with so much previously unreleased material included.
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I take it that's a typo at the BSX site, where it says that this title is expected to start shipping the week of "JULY" 23rd (?)
The download email I had says HAMMERSMITH download is "...expected June 16th"
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Regarding unreleased stuff like ESCAPE TO ATHENA and LOVE AND BULLETS, these two were films from Lord Grade's ITC company so I assume the rights are vested with ITV Studios these days. They do licence things out (expensive I believe) but the trouble is that with ATV and ITC having been through several ownerships over the years lots of paperwork seems to have disappeared into corporate holes. They also probably have no idea as to the location of tapes which have probably gone anyway. (ATHENA was recorded at CTS in London, no idea about the other one.)
The best bet would be Lalo himself, but if he did have those stored somewhere you might have thought he'd have issued them himself on Aleph. I've no idea what the Bronson film is like, but ATHENA certainly isn't a top drawer film or even (IMO) a top drawer Lalo score and maybe he felt the same 
Anyway, looking forward to giving MASK OF SHEBA a listen when I've got time!
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SCHIFRIN ...is always a buy!
Has anyone who has purchased a CD and received the digital download had a chance to play it? We would love to hear your opinions!
Ford A. Thaxton
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Has anyone who has purchased a CD and received the digital download had a chance to play it? We would love to hear your opinions!
Ford A. Thaxton
Lalo probably wrote a better score than the film warranted (I’ve never seen the film, or even heard of it before), and I imagine a 40 piece orchestra was quite generous on a TV budget. It sounds good anyway
It’s clearly a Lalo score from the beginning, employing his usual ethnic percussion, high strings, and cimbalom flavours. A lot of the music is for suspense scenes I would guess, and for atmosphere and ‘sneaking around’, since there is little out and out action here (even ‘The Big Chase’ cue isn’t what you typically might expect for a chase cue, although that’s good really in some ways…). The Schifrin brass sound is still clearly on display too though.
Some of the music reminds me a bit of his score to Escape to Athena, and possibly a bit of SkyRiders too.
It’s so good to be able to hear new Lalo Schifrin music at a time when he’s not actually being best served on CD. It’s not top drawer Schifrin by any means, but he provides the necessary colour, rhythm and dramatic backup to what’s going on in the movie – and it’s not the droning sound design you get from a lot of today’s TV scores.
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I'm glad you enjoyed it. While it is definitely a product of its era, it's much more enjoyable to listen to you than to many contemporary scores I can think of.
Ford A. Thaxton
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Posted: |
Jun 15, 2025 - 3:04 PM
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By: |
Sartoris
(Member)
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Dear Ford,
Yes this release is terrific and was so much unexpected.
The now typical combo CD+digital DD offer is great in the way you can listen to the whole thing within the minute of its purchase, way before the physical disc appears in one's postbox.
Do you have any other Lalo Schifrin scores you are about to release or would consider anytime soon?
May we consider this triple Schifrin batch (THE RISE AND FALL OF THE 3rd REICH, RETURN TO RIVER KWAI and MASK OF SHEBA) as a new "composer series" as you launched with composers Gerald Fried, Jerrold Immel, Gil Mellé, Morton Stevens, Peter Bernstein, Joël Goldsmith, Brian May, Ken Thorne and Bruce Broughton?
Thanks for any feedback.
Greetings,
Thierry (from Belgium)
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