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Does that mean that a lot of the Simpson material on this four disc set will probably be re-recordings? (Almost all the Tom Baker stories from Robot to The Horns of Nimoy were scored by Simpson.)
Well, looking at the track listing at Silva's site there's a fair few sound effects tracks. Not my cup of tea I'm afraid. But Simpson is definitely there. There's music from the Troughton story Fury From the Deep and Seeds of Death. The latter has “Ice Warrior Music” and from the serial's episode titles, the latter I know quite well. Nice eerie female wailing!
Then Jon Pertwee era has Mind of Evil (Simpson at the Radiophonic Workshop!) with it's classic Master's Theme, and Frontier in Space.
From the Tom Baker period we get The Android Invasion and Invasion of Time. Hope the latter includes the church organ style music for the crowning of the Doctor with the Matrix, and the low register stuff for the Sontarans.And that's yer lot from dear old Dudley! Such a shame that most of his stuff is lost.
With such a small amount I suspect it's all soundtrack. One day we might see a good rerecording of Simpson's best work. One of them, City of Death, was performed at the recent Prom of course. A few years ago Silva released a cd of early Tom Baker stuff of Dudley's but it was done with electronics, and was most unsatisfactory despite the great effort. My first choices for electronic re-recordings would be the stuff HE did with electronics! Apart from his Pertwees there's more church organ music for The Deadly Assassin, Invasion of Time and The Ribos Operation. Any good musician could recreate those with synths.
The other pre-Radiophonics stuff is, as I suspected, from Geoffrey Burgon and Carey Blyton. I'm happy about the latter especially Death to the Daleks, which has some great atmospheric music and a natty little theme for the Daleks. His Revenge of the Cybermen is on there too from the Tom Bakers.
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New info about 11 CD-set - release date will be early 2014.
And another news - Blogtor Who & Silva started series of articles about this box-set.
Part 1 - "composer's notes" about Brian Hodgson, Mark Ayres, and front and back covers for The First Doctor disc.
http://blogtorwho.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/exclusive-artwork-notes-from-11.html
The back cover photo shows that the First Doctor disc will contain "music and special sounds by Ron Grainer, Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson, Tristram Cary and Dudley Simpson" from An Unearthly Child, The Daleks, The Edge Of Destruction, The Keys Of Marinus, The Sensorites, The Chase, Galaxy 4, The Daleks' Master Plan, The Gunfighters, The Savages and The Tenth Planet.
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There was a cracking good, almost John Williamsesque brass fanfare in the Paul McGann minisode, was that tracked from somewhere else of specially composed for it? I'd love to have that.
Looking forward to the score for The Day Of The Doctor. Hoping for some good new renditions of The Doctor Forever!
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I wonder if the TARDIS is being constructed by the same company that constructed the Elfman/Burton box?
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A few years ago Silva released a cd of early Tom Baker stuff of Dudley's but it was done with electronics, and was most unsatisfactory despite the great effort.
Quite right. I should know. I produced it. Ah well, that was then, this is now. Electronics and sample libraries have come a long long way since. BTW, it wasn't a few years ago, but twenty. Oh my god!
Anyway, I'm looking forward to these collections. The 11 disc-er seems particularly comprehensive.
Wow. So, are you the Heathcliffe Blair credited with that cd?
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A few years ago Silva released a cd of early Tom Baker stuff of Dudley's but it was done with electronics, and was most unsatisfactory despite the great effort.
Quite right. I should know. I produced it. Ah well, that was then, this is now. Electronics and sample libraries have come a long long way since. BTW, it wasn't a few years ago, but twenty. Oh my god!
Anyway, I'm looking forward to these collections. The 11 disc-er seems particularly comprehensive.
Wow. So, are you the Heathcliffe Blair credited with that cd?
Yes, but with a little less hair these days.
Yes, I too have that cd, and it did get quite a lot of play back in the day.
I wonder, if you ever considered recording Dudley's music that didn't have orchestral instruments? My theory being that both his Radiophonic work for the Pertwees and the organ music he used for Time Lord based stories most notably Deadly Assassin, would suit your own electronic facilities more perhaps than stuff that was originally done by the string quartets etc?
Obviously I realise that the purpose of the released disc was to showcase the Tom Baker/Philip Hinchcliffe period, but then Deadly Assassin falls into that category. My own wishlist would have been The Three Doctors, Deadly Assassin, Invasion of Time and The Ribos Operation. The Pertwee one there is for me the best of the scores Dudley did for the Pertwee period, and all the others have that church organ sound so well duplicated in your selection from Pyramids of Mars.
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