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There's a lack of love for EL Cid in this thread? What! Never heard the like! EL CID is of course one of Rozsa's very greatest achievements, a huge piece in the astonishing musical mosaic he created that began with Quo Vadis and ended with Sodom & Gomorrah. I would rank it up there with Ben-Hur, perhaps lacking a little of the spiritual and emotional depth of that masterpiece but making it up in sheer burnished brass exuberance. Lack of love indeed!
El Cid is fantastic. Just because it's not showing up on the thread that often doesn't mean it doesn't kick ass.
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There's a lack of love for EL Cid in this thread? What! Never heard the like! EL CID is of course one of Rozsa's very greatest achievements, a huge piece in the astonishing musical mosaic he created that began with Quo Vadis and ended with Sodom & Gomorrah. I would rank it up there with Ben-Hur, perhaps lacking a little of the spiritual and emotional depth of that masterpiece but making it up in sheer burnished brass exuberance. Lack of love indeed!
You're preaching to the choir! I love that score so much I'm looking to add the original recording to my Tadlow.
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There's a lack of love for EL Cid in this thread? What! Never heard the like! EL CID is of course one of Rozsa's very greatest achievements, a huge piece in the astonishing musical mosaic he created that began with Quo Vadis and ended with Sodom & Gomorrah. I would rank it up there with Ben-Hur, perhaps lacking a little of the spiritual and emotional depth of that masterpiece but making it up in sheer burnished brass exuberance. Lack of love indeed!
You're preaching to the choir! I love that score so much I'm looking to add the original recording to my Tadlow.
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, El Cid is tied with Ben Hur for my favorite score from Rozsa's vast repertoire.
As far as the original recording, Wagner, the actual recording heard in the film is sadly MIA, while the album recording Rozsa made in Germany can be found in the Treasury set.
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There's a lack of love for EL Cid in this thread? What! Never heard the like! EL CID is of course one of Rozsa's very greatest achievements, a huge piece in the astonishing musical mosaic he created that began with Quo Vadis and ended with Sodom & Gomorrah. I would rank it up there with Ben-Hur, perhaps lacking a little of the spiritual and emotional depth of that masterpiece but making it up in sheer burnished brass exuberance. Lack of love indeed!
You're preaching to the choir! I love that score so much I'm looking to add the original recording to my Tadlow.
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, El Cid is tied with Ben Hur for my favorite score from Rozsa's vast repertoire.
As far as the original recording, Wagner, the actual recording heard in the film is sadly MIA, while the album recording Rozsa made in Germany can be found in the Treasury set.
Argh! I keep spending so much cash on individual soundtracks there's none left for that Treasury. Well, income tax refund where are you? 
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El Cid was recorded in Italy, but the azimuth alignment was cocked-up and it had to be redone in London, probably the Sinfonia. Then it disappeared. Dave Wishart of CNR released a CD with four OST bits from the non-SFX blackscreen bits.
You can pick up four legit albums, the Prague Tadlow, the Koch from Sedares in NZ, the Munich LP recording with Rozsa (most recently in the FSM box) and Philip Pelster's organ transcription for the Leon Cathedral organ.
Hunting out the Cantigas is fun.
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El Cid was recorded in Italy, but the azimuth alignment was cocked-up and it had to be redone in London, probably the Sinfonia. Then it disappeared. Dave Wishart of CNR released a CD with four OST bits from the non-SFX blackscreen bits.
David Wishart was the one who discovered at Shepperton that the original music tapes had accidently been thrown away, having been wrongly labelled as the music and effects tracks. The music and effects tapes survived, having been wrongly labelled as the music tracks.
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El Cid was recorded in Italy, but the azimuth alignment was cocked-up and it had to be redone in London, probably the Sinfonia. Then it disappeared. Dave Wishart of CNR released a CD with four OST bits from the non-SFX blackscreen bits.
You can pick up four legit albums, the Prague Tadlow, the Koch from Sedares in NZ, the Munich LP recording with Rozsa (most recently in the FSM box) and Philip Pelster's organ transcription for the Leon Cathedral organ.
Hunting out the Cantigas is fun.
This is a big help, many thanks! But I probably need to just take my income tax refund and get that darn treasury.
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This is a big help, many thanks! But I probably need to just take my income tax refund and get that darn treasury.
Yes. Yes you do. Even if it means you have to stop buying Goldsmith scores for a while!
Yavar
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This is a big help, many thanks! But I probably need to just take my income tax refund and get that darn treasury.
Yes. Yes you do. Even if it means you have to stop buying Goldsmith scores for a while!
Yavar
ARRRGH, a pain worse than death!
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The pain worse than death would be finally putting together enough money to purchase the Rozsa Treasury and then finding out all copies of it are $600 and up.
Yavar
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Went off Rozsa about 10-12 years ago, but got back into him a year or so ago after watching The Red House. Am wondering if anyone out there has heard the Lost Weekend/Blood on the sun CD release by Tsunami, and can tell me what the sound quality is please ? I notice that the Blood on the sun score on that CD is shy a couple of tracks on the Membran release - is that a big loss ? In short, should I buy the Tsunami release or go for the Membran CD and another version of Lost Weekend ?
Please don't make the same mistake I did and buy anything Tsunami.
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Went off Rozsa about 10-12 years ago, but got back into him a year or so ago after watching The Red House. Am wondering if anyone out there has heard the Lost Weekend/Blood on the sun CD release by Tsunami, and can tell me what the sound quality is please ? I notice that the Blood on the sun score on that CD is shy a couple of tracks on the Membran release - is that a big loss ? In short, should I buy the Tsunami release or go for the Membran CD and another version of Lost Weekend ?
The sound quality of LOST WEEKEND and BLLOD ON THE SUN on the Tsunami CD is horrible. Of course, the much better choice nowadays is to buy the official Intrada CD of THE LOST WEEKEND which has also much improved sound quality and is even longer. The CD is in the meantime sold out at Intrada, but you can still get it for example here:
http://www.soundtrackcorner.de/the-lost-weekend-p6814.htm
Tsunami did only rip the old Tony Thomas and Citadel LPs of LOST WEEKEND and BLOOD ON THE SUN from ca. 1980 for their CD during the mid 90s. The same goes for the later Membran CD. Just forget them.
Citadel themeselves issued a CD version of theit old LP in 2006 which is still available at SAE:
http://www4.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/5937/BLOOD-ON-THE-SUN/
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I always love when this thread gets resurrected.
I was just coming off a huge Bernard Herrmann jag (as many scores as I could buy, film score books and guides, biography, everything) when I first heard, REALLY HEARD the overture to Ben Hur. From there investigating the maestro's music was itself a blessing...I couldn't believe how many great scores Rozsa wrote. I still can't believe it...and that's not even counting his uniformly excellent concert music.
Desert Fury...folks it's a no-brainer, and we might not see this kind of thing for this film for awhile after this.
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