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The new CDs have arrived and we are starting with the shipments.
Quantity alert for some titles:
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes: Less than 100 units
The Beastmaster: Less than 210 units
FX2: Less than 130 units
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The new CDs have arrived and we are starting with the shipments.
Quantity alert for some titles:
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes: Less than 100 units
The Beastmaster: Less than 210 units
FX2: Less than 130 units
Update:
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes: SOLD OUT
The Beastmaster: Less than 140 units
FX2: Less than 100 units
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Nos. 1 & 3 are instant purchases, but since I already have the fine Silva-Rózsa and the suite the composer himself conducted for Polydor, I'll pass on No.2
Holdridge provides an incredibly powerful and exciting score dominated by an epic main theme.
Stu Phillips and Glen A. Larson thought so, too. Nevertheless a fine Holdridge adventure score.
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We regret to inform you that we have received the CD of "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" from the plant with a failure in the booklet, and we are in the process of repeating all the printing. These things happen, but we apologize.
The CD should arrive within 48/72 hours and we will send all the orders immediately.
Sorry for the incovenience.
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No problem at all, these things happen, it's great to have these wonderful CDs to look forward to! Thanks Quartet!
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The Beastmaster: SOLD OUT
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No surprise there, congrats!
Thanks for all the great releases this year
Looking forward to more of the same in 2014 
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Okay, I have not only been listening to The Beastmaster since I received it on Friday, but yesterday I pulled my DVD of the movie off the shelf and watched it for the first time in years.
The movie itself was actually a pleasant surprise. Yes, it has its limitations, but it tells a decent story with some nifty flourishes, has an ambitious scope, and often looks much more expensive than it was. The music is definitely one of the film's greatest assets, and it is treated thus in the sound mix.
While I have, in general, enjoyed the original album presentation, this has always been one of those operatic scores that suffered from being reduced to LP-length proportions. CD releases of this score have alleviated that problem somewhat by including “The Battle On the Pyramid,” but it still wasn't enough to capture the sweep and scope of this score. The original LP was about 40 minutes. The complete score on this new set nearly doubles that, running over an hour and a half, and yet it breezes by in about the same amount of time, subjectively speaking, making up for in breadth and dimension what it lacks in brevity.
While there are unfortunately a few moments where the elements were missing (the encounter with the bear and immediate aftermath, and the synth line missing from the cue I mentioned in a previous Beastmaster thread http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=83579&forumID=1&archive=0 are the two most apparent), this is in all ways a much better presentation of this score. The themes are given more room to develop and flourish at a more deliberate pace — many of them are much more versatile than was apparent on the original release.
It was very interesting to hear the original version of “The Battle On the Pyramid,” and I will be syncing it up to the film at some point to check out how it works, but I prefer the re-scored version that emphasizes the heroics; clearly Holdridge himself must agree as he included the revision on the expansions of the score. Nevertheless, what an interesting new facet of the score.
This was an extremely satisfying presentation.
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