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| This is a comments thread about FSM CD: Ben-Hur |
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IT IS NOW DOWN TO LESS THAN 100 COPIES!
93 to be specific.
PANIC! PANIC!! ALL SPECULATORS COME FORTH AND BUY WHAT IS LEFT SO SOMEONE CAN RE-RELEASE IT!
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I'm sure another label would license the title after it sells out, though I feel like most of the alternates and all the LP's may remain exclusive to this set.
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Having just received this, I am in the process of digesting it. I've only listened to the first two discs, and, while I absolutely love the improved sound quality, one thing did bother me: the poor quality of the cue "Parade of the Charioteers". What's up with that? It seems to sound even worse than my Rhino set...
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one thing did bother me: the poor quality of the cue "Parade of the Charioteers". What's up with that? It seems to sound even worse than my Rhino set...
Does anyone know why the quality of this track is in poorer condition than the rest of the tracks. It's a great piece. Would have been nice if it were the same great quality as the others.
I really shouldn't be here as I didn't buy the box, but I understand that the recordings done in Rome arn't anywhere near as good as the recording at MGM (nearly all of the score), maybe that's one of the Rome tracks.
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Indeed, I wouldn't surprised if they are down to the last 100....of the first 1000.
Bingo. The shopping cart game doesn't always work because occasionally it's based on what they actually have in stock, which may not be the full run.
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one thing did bother me: the poor quality of the cue "Parade of the Charioteers". What's up with that? It seems to sound even worse than my Rhino set...
I must say I was surprised by that too, after the big sound improvements everywhere else. Though all the Rome-recorded cues are of lesser sound quality than the magnificent Culver City recordings, this set seems to do a good job of making the differences less noticeable than before. But Parade of the Charioteers seems to be an exception.
The complete recording of "Parade of the Charioteers" was discovered and is released here for the first time. It was important to include it in spite of the quality as compared to the MGM material. Up to now the only surviving recording was edited to match the film and that version is presented among the alternates.
Mike
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The complete recording of "Parade of the Charioteers" was discovered and is released here for the first time. It was important to include it in spite of the quality as compared to the MGM material. Up to now the only surviving recording was edited to match the film and that version is presented among the alternates.
Mike
And it's wonderful, a big improvement over the edited version on the Rhino and I for one am ever so glad to find it included here.
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The complete recording of "Parade of the Charioteers" was discovered and is released here for the first time. It was important to include it in spite of the quality as compared to the MGM material. Up to now the only surviving recording was edited to match the film and that version is presented among the alternates.
Mike
And it's wonderful, a big improvement over the edited version on the Rhino and I for one am ever so glad to find it included here.
For my personal playlist, I'll insert the re-recorded Parade of the Charioteers (Disc 5 Track 9) which is very well played and performed. It's sound is also a better match with the Culver City cues to my ears.
I'm also swapping the re-recorded "Gratus' Entry into Jerusalem" from (Disc 5 Track 3) which is complete and therefore doesn't have the rather abrupt ending the film version does.
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