I'd love to have the cues with Mia Sara's vocals on CD. What's on the album is nice, but not nearly as good as her performances.
Then who the heck is it? The liner notes don't give credit to a vocalist, at all (or a chorus for that matter, but I assume it's contracted the same as the orchestra).
Given this is easily in my top five Goldsmith scores I'd love to see anything in the way of a release, be it a rerecording or a complete release (if there is actually more...)
All I know is it isn't her. Listen to the album tracks, then listen to the movie. Beyond that, I know nothin'.
The 76 minute CD I prepared for Silva Screen has every last note of music that was on the tapes stored for safety by engineer Mike Ross....no other tapes exist. Can't you be happy with 76 minutes of score?????
As I said, on the whole I am satisfied with the Silva release.
The point of my comment is that there is more score in the film, and if it could be made available, that would be great, but if not, what we have now is still one of my favorite albums (and booklets — the liner notes in this package were exhaustive). I suppose I worded it incorrectly to emphasize what we don't have over what we do.
I'm happy with Silva Screen issue. Though it could use better cover art. How bout that cover peeps?
It has been confirmed beyond doubt, that the Silva Screen album contains the only exisiting recordings that came out of the Goldsmith sessions. And I am happy with that. Mr Paul MacLean and James Fitzpatrick, and I believe Ford Thaxton, have all chimed in on the matter and put this to rest. The exisiting album is fantastic and worthy, and definitive as far as it goes.
But what would be the possibility of a complete re-recording with all of the music? As far as I understand, there may be various cues that were recorded but not even heard in the film itself! "Hall of Columns," and I think I read somewhere that there was some music composed for Jack's final battle with Darkness that isn't on the CD. Maybe something called "Pan Fight." Who knows. David Newman conducted some of these cues during a Goldsmith tribute back in 2011. (Anyone know where I could hear that?? It hasn't surfaced online for some reason, arggh!)
The synthesizers are numerous and quite complex on this one, which would seem to make a new recording a daunting one. City of Prague has proven quite capable. I am all for them recording Legend anew! Let's all Sing the Wee hope this happens!
I was also just thinking yesterday if it were possible for a new recording of the score. If it ever happens and they decide to use vocalists for the tracks that featured them, it would also be nice to have bonus tracks of just the score only. :-)
Regarding the films original audio I always wished that somehow that David Bennents voice survived on audio somewhere because I think his accent in the film would have given the film another layer of strangeness. In a great way. I just think the movies that were being made in the 80's always had an edge to them, that nowadays very few do. Some examples like The Goonies, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth just to name a few and they all contained elements of pushing the boundaries of danger.
It has been confirmed beyond doubt, that the Silva Screen album contains the only exisiting recordings that came out of the Goldsmith sessions. And I am happy with that. Mr Paul MacLean and James Fitzpatrick, and I believe Ford Thaxton, have all chimed in on the matter and put this to rest. The exisiting album is fantastic and worthy, and definitive as far as it goes.
But what would be the possibility of a complete re-recording with all of the music? As far as I understand, there may be various cues that were recorded but not even heard in the film itself! "Hall of Columns," and I think I read somewhere that there was some music composed for Jack's final battle with Darkness that isn't on the CD. Maybe something called "Pan Fight." Who knows. David Newman conducted some of these cues during a Goldsmith tribute back in 2011. (Anyone know where I could hear that?? It hasn't surfaced online for some reason, arggh!)
The synthesizers are numerous and quite complex on this one, which would seem to make a new recording a daunting one. City of Prague has proven quite capable. I am all for them recording Legend anew! Let's all Sing the Wee hope this happens!
-Rick O.
Not quite true, at least in two instances. First, the Silva release cuts out the fanfare at the beginning of the Unicorns. This was on previous CD and LP releases. Compare these two:
It has been confirmed beyond doubt, that the Silva Screen album contains the only exisiting recordings that came out of the Goldsmith sessions. And I am happy with that. Mr Paul MacLean and James Fitzpatrick, and I believe Ford Thaxton, have all chimed in on the matter and put this to rest. The exisiting album is fantastic and worthy, and definitive as far as it goes.
But what would be the possibility of a complete re-recording with all of the music? As far as I understand, there may be various cues that were recorded but not even heard in the film itself! "Hall of Columns," and I think I read somewhere that there was some music composed for Jack's final battle with Darkness that isn't on the CD. Maybe something called "Pan Fight." Who knows. David Newman conducted some of these cues during a Goldsmith tribute back in 2011. (Anyone know where I could hear that?? It hasn't surfaced online for some reason, arggh!)
The synthesizers are numerous and quite complex on this one, which would seem to make a new recording a daunting one. City of Prague has proven quite capable. I am all for them recording Legend anew! Let's all Sing the Wee hope this happens!
-Rick O.
If you would like to send me $75,000 I can record LEGEND all over again if you really want it so much...
It has been confirmed beyond doubt, that the Silva Screen album contains the only exisiting recordings that came out of the Goldsmith sessions. And I am happy with that. Mr Paul MacLean and James Fitzpatrick, and I believe Ford Thaxton, have all chimed in on the matter and put this to rest. The exisiting album is fantastic and worthy, and definitive as far as it goes.
But what would be the possibility of a complete re-recording with all of the music? As far as I understand, there may be various cues that were recorded but not even heard in the film itself! "Hall of Columns," and I think I read somewhere that there was some music composed for Jack's final battle with Darkness that isn't on the CD. Maybe something called "Pan Fight." Who knows. David Newman conducted some of these cues during a Goldsmith tribute back in 2011. (Anyone know where I could hear that?? It hasn't surfaced online for some reason, arggh!)
The synthesizers are numerous and quite complex on this one, which would seem to make a new recording a daunting one. City of Prague has proven quite capable. I am all for them recording Legend anew! Let's all Sing the Wee hope this happens!
-Rick O.
If you would like to send me $75,000 I can record LEGEND all over again if you really want it so much...
To be honest, I thought that a project like Legend would cost more than that to do a re-recording. If I had the money to back it, I would be doing that for a living, trust me. And I would buy half of them back just to see it succeed. It's a glorious piece of music. But all joking about my bank account set aside, I hope this happens someday. I would support it and sing it's praises.
It has been confirmed beyond doubt, that the Silva Screen album contains the only exisiting recordings that came out of the Goldsmith sessions. And I am happy with that. Mr Paul MacLean and James Fitzpatrick, and I believe Ford Thaxton, have all chimed in on the matter and put this to rest. The exisiting album is fantastic and worthy, and definitive as far as it goes.
But what would be the possibility of a complete re-recording with all of the music? As far as I understand, there may be various cues that were recorded but not even heard in the film itself! "Hall of Columns," and I think I read somewhere that there was some music composed for Jack's final battle with Darkness that isn't on the CD. Maybe something called "Pan Fight." Who knows. David Newman conducted some of these cues during a Goldsmith tribute back in 2011. (Anyone know where I could hear that?? It hasn't surfaced online for some reason, arggh!)
The synthesizers are numerous and quite complex on this one, which would seem to make a new recording a daunting one. City of Prague has proven quite capable. I am all for them recording Legend anew! Let's all Sing the Wee hope this happens!
-Rick O.
Not quite true, at least in two instances. First, the Silva release cuts out the fanfare at the beginning of the Unicorns. This was on previous CD and LP releases. Compare these two:
There is also a brief 45 second cue called Darkness Arisen that is missing. Not major though.
Thanks for the post, Roger. You should do more youtube videos, how cool is that. I suspect that there could be more Legend music out there in the universe; just because it's deemed "lost" doesn't mean it's missing for all eternity. Things crop up all the time. Conan was "lost" forever and we got that one.
As far as I understand, there may be various cues that were recorded but not even heard in the film itself! "Hall of Columns," and I think I read somewhere that there was some music composed for Jack's final battle with Darkness that isn't on the CD. Maybe something called "Pan Fight." Who knows.
"Halls of Columns" is the music Goldsmith wrote for the sequence where Lili wanders lost in the dark fortress (sadly, this wonderfully atmospheric cue was not used in the film; it was replaced with excerpts from the main title).
"Pan Fight" would be the music Goldsmith wrote for the scene where Brown Ton attempts to ward-off the goblins' arrows with a frying pan (this likewise was not used in the film; excerpts from "Darkness Fails" were tracked into that scene instead).
The synthesizers are numerous and quite complex on this one, which would seem to make a new recording a daunting one.
Goldsmith used the Yamaha DX7 for a lot of Legend's synth work, which was an immensely popular keyboard in the 80s, and there are many of these still around to this day. You can find used ones on Ebay for under $500.
Personally -- call me a crackpot -- but I always thought it would be cool to re-record Legend with medieval instruments taking the place of some of the synth solo lines. Imagine the goblin theme played on a crumhorn...
It has been confirmed beyond doubt, that the Silva Screen album contains the only exisiting recordings that came out of the Goldsmith sessions. And I am happy with that. Mr Paul MacLean and James Fitzpatrick, and I believe Ford Thaxton, have all chimed in on the matter and put this to rest. The exisiting album is fantastic and worthy, and definitive as far as it goes.
But what would be the possibility of a complete re-recording with all of the music? As far as I understand, there may be various cues that were recorded but not even heard in the film itself! "Hall of Columns," and I think I read somewhere that there was some music composed for Jack's final battle with Darkness that isn't on the CD. Maybe something called "Pan Fight." Who knows. David Newman conducted some of these cues during a Goldsmith tribute back in 2011. (Anyone know where I could hear that?? It hasn't surfaced online for some reason, arggh!)
The synthesizers are numerous and quite complex on this one, which would seem to make a new recording a daunting one. City of Prague has proven quite capable. I am all for them recording Legend anew! Let's all Sing the Wee hope this happens!
-Rick O.
If you would like to send me $75,000 I can record LEGEND all over again if you really want it so much...
That budget might need to be revised upwards, as I recall the written scores and parts were lost as well.
You'd have to go back to Jerry Sketches and recreate everything from that as well.
It has been confirmed beyond doubt, that the Silva Screen album contains the only exisiting recordings that came out of the Goldsmith sessions. And I am happy with that. Mr Paul MacLean and James Fitzpatrick, and I believe Ford Thaxton, have all chimed in on the matter and put this to rest. The exisiting album is fantastic and worthy, and definitive as far as it goes.
But what would be the possibility of a complete re-recording with all of the music? As far as I understand, there may be various cues that were recorded but not even heard in the film itself! "Hall of Columns," and I think I read somewhere that there was some music composed for Jack's final battle with Darkness that isn't on the CD. Maybe something called "Pan Fight." Who knows. David Newman conducted some of these cues during a Goldsmith tribute back in 2011. (Anyone know where I could hear that?? It hasn't surfaced online for some reason, arggh!)
The synthesizers are numerous and quite complex on this one, which would seem to make a new recording a daunting one. City of Prague has proven quite capable. I am all for them recording Legend anew! Let's all Sing the Wee hope this happens!
-Rick O.
If you would like to send me $75,000 I can record LEGEND all over again if you really want it so much...
That budget might need to be revised upwards, as I recall the written scores and parts were lost as well.
You'd have to go back to Jerry Sketches and recreate everything from that as well.
Ford A. Thaxton
Put it this way there is absolutely no way in my lifetime that Tadlow Music or Prometheus Records will ever spend a penny of a new recording of LEGEND ....mostly because I am more than happy with the CD and double LP I produced for Silva. But as I akways say if some people want it bad enough I can send them my bank details so that they can deposit the $75,000 plus to get such a recording done....
It has been confirmed beyond doubt, that the Silva Screen album contains the only exisiting recordings that came out of the Goldsmith sessions. And I am happy with that. Mr Paul MacLean and James Fitzpatrick, and I believe Ford Thaxton, have all chimed in on the matter and put this to rest. The exisiting album is fantastic and worthy, and definitive as far as it goes.
But what would be the possibility of a complete re-recording with all of the music? As far as I understand, there may be various cues that were recorded but not even heard in the film itself! "Hall of Columns," and I think I read somewhere that there was some music composed for Jack's final battle with Darkness that isn't on the CD. Maybe something called "Pan Fight." Who knows. David Newman conducted some of these cues during a Goldsmith tribute back in 2011. (Anyone know where I could hear that?? It hasn't surfaced online for some reason, arggh!)
The synthesizers are numerous and quite complex on this one, which would seem to make a new recording a daunting one. City of Prague has proven quite capable. I am all for them recording Legend anew! Let's all Sing the Wee hope this happens!
-Rick O.
If you would like to send me $75,000 I can record LEGEND all over again if you really want it so much...
That budget might need to be revised upwards, as I recall the written scores and parts were lost as well.
You'd have to go back to Jerry Sketches and recreate everything from that as well.
Ford A. Thaxton
Put it this way there is absolutely no way in my lifetime that Tadlow Music or Prometheus Records will ever spend a penny of a new recording of LEGEND ....mostly because I am more than happy with the CD and double LP I produced for Silva. But as I always say if some people want it bad enough I can send them my bank details so that they can deposit the $75,000 plus to get such a recording done....
However, there is the suite that David Newman conducted a few years back. That suite would mean that there exists the possibility of doing a new recording of Legend with your orchestra. Would it be possible to record that suite as part of any upcoming Goldsmith recordings? The Blue Max had a ton of suites and themes (albeit, ones that were part of your library). I would like to see it represented someday; maybe part of a "Goldsmith Fantasy and Horror Collection".
It has been confirmed beyond doubt, that the Silva Screen album contains the only exisiting recordings that came out of the Goldsmith sessions. And I am happy with that. Mr Paul MacLean and James Fitzpatrick, and I believe Ford Thaxton, have all chimed in on the matter and put this to rest. The exisiting album is fantastic and worthy, and definitive as far as it goes.
But what would be the possibility of a complete re-recording with all of the music? As far as I understand, there may be various cues that were recorded but not even heard in the film itself! "Hall of Columns," and I think I read somewhere that there was some music composed for Jack's final battle with Darkness that isn't on the CD. Maybe something called "Pan Fight." Who knows. David Newman conducted some of these cues during a Goldsmith tribute back in 2011. (Anyone know where I could hear that?? It hasn't surfaced online for some reason, arggh!)
The synthesizers are numerous and quite complex on this one, which would seem to make a new recording a daunting one. City of Prague has proven quite capable. I am all for them recording Legend anew! Let's all Sing the Wee hope this happens!
-Rick O.
If you would like to send me $75,000 I can record LEGEND all over again if you really want it so much...
That budget might need to be revised upwards, as I recall the written scores and parts were lost as well.
You'd have to go back to Jerry Sketches and recreate everything from that as well.
Ford A. Thaxton
Put it this way there is absolutely no way in my lifetime that Tadlow Music or Prometheus Records will ever spend a penny of a new recording of LEGEND ....mostly because I am more than happy with the CD and double LP I produced for Silva. But as I always say if some people want it bad enough I can send them my bank details so that they can deposit the $75,000 plus to get such a recording done....
However, there is the suite that David Newman conducted a few years back. That suite would mean that there exists the possibility of doing a new recording of Legend with your orchestra. Would it be possible to record that suite as part of any upcoming Goldsmith recordings? The Blue Max had a ton of suites and themes (albeit, ones that were part of your library). I would like to see it represented someday; maybe part of a "Goldsmith Fantasy and Horror Collection".
-Rick O.
Then maybe petition David Newman to do a recording....I am sure he is rather more wealthy then me ?
