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Hello folks
Yes you do have a right to dislike this album.
However as far as getting newbies in, Geoff Love is testimony to the fact that combining popular, often recorded, well known themes with rare items works. How many people on this board started with Big War Movie themes?
Regards
CC
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It is amazing to find somebody who is "not thrilled" that a record producer has decided to devote an entire album to Rozsa given how few new film music recordings there are recently.
I'm glad to see "The Jungle Book" recorded again. All I have from Varese's recording are the few tracks they put on their centenary compilation. I do own a copy of the FMS release from the acetates, but I don't listen to it very often because the sound quality is not satisfying.
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I'm surprised how many veteran Rozsa fans are excited about this CD.
And why shouldn't we? You and Joe are perfectly at liberty in declining to purchase it, but I'm always excited to hear this music in a fresh performance, as if I'm hearing it for the first time, or in anticipation of hearing something different in it that will make me fall in love with the music all over again. The CDs in the Chandos series are all very well done.
And I can guarantee that, should this release sell as well as Chandos anticipates, there will be no Ben-Hur, Thief of Bagdad or Jungle Book on a Volume 2. Yes, I very much look forward to a Volume 2; the alternative is no more Rozsa film music from Chandos.
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Feb 24, 2014 - 7:29 PM
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pp312
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I'm surprised how many film music fans are not excited by the prospect of a different recording of the same music. A different orchestra, conductor, and recording can be significantly different. Most fans of classical music have multiple versions of the same symphony and never complain that it is duplicated. There are differences in the music that come from different interpretations.
Yes, you got in before me. There's no universal law that says that once there's a re-recording, there must never be another. Plus there's an assumption that every Rozsa fan must have every Rozsa recording. People cite various recordings here that I've never heard of, never knew existed, and I've been a Rozsa fan since 1961. Often certain recordings just aren't available in certain countries, or the sound or performances are lousy. Here we have a major label distributed everywhere, with top sound and, from what I've sampled, excellent performances. No, I don't need another Ben-Hur, but if people hear this and think, "Wow, this's pretty good! I thought Ben-Hur was all high school marching band stuff!" then the recording wll be worthwhile.
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