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Well, this recording confirms Rozsa's intention, as reported in Soundtrack magazine Vol. 5/ No.17/1993, to record a suite of VALLEY OF THE KINGS for Polydor 4 (along with ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT, which we can suppose will appear on a future Intrada Rozsa album).
A most welcome addition to the Rozsa canon of great recordings. Thank you, Intrada, for continuing the Polydor tradition.
For all those who were reluctant to purchase the new Chandos compilation simply because it premiered only one new work, "SAHARA," it is available here as the climax of the album. There are no "warhorses" on this collection.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but OMG OMG OMG! FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC!
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Havent seen the film so I'm not familiar with the music, but I wonder why they didnt record a complete "Man in Half Moon Street"?
Because this album is intended to be a follow-up to Rózsa's Polydor LPs, in which the scores were presented as excerpts and suites, much like the Charles Gerhardt recordings.
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I'm really eager to get this album. I hope they continue the “series” as well, it presents a nice cross-section of the composer's work.
Hopefully we'll see the original Polydor albums on CD someday.
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Well, this recording confirms Rozsa's intention, as reported in Soundtrack magazine Vol. 5/ No.17/1993, to record a suite of VALLEY OF THE KINGS for Polydor 4 (along with ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT, which we can suppose will appear on a future Intrada Rozsa album).
I suspect we might have had the 'Valiant' suite on Silva already.
This is a really great addition to the recorded legacy.
This might sound nerdish and silly, but there was always a certain 'kick' back in the vinyl/early digital era, when a new Rozsa compilation emerged, and you yelled, 'Aha... a new cue from such and such ...' It was like a box of chocolates, what would come next? You tend not to get that 'kick' with full recordings where there are less surprises.
Very good, Intrada.
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Doug Fake's post from the Intrada forum deserves reporting here:
I learned about the Chandos download a few weeks ago. The music world can certainly use a couple of versions. But we had put our program together over two years ago, and we really locked everything down when Dan Robbins pulled the manuscripts together for the Valley Of The Kings piece that was arranged for the fourth Polydor record that never happened. The suite from Sahara was also prepared way back when. So we decided to record those and assemble some additional rare material like Jacare and a longer suite from Strange Love Of Martha Ivers to balance things out. Then we wanted to anchor the album with a generous look at something really rare, which turned out to be the Man In Half Moon Street, and still keep the album running around 40-45 minutes or so, which is what the three previous Polydor albums did. We really wanted to make this whole disc feel like a continuation of that wonderful series.
--Doug
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Hopefully we'll see the original Polydor albums on CD someday.
Actually, I'm confused about this. Did or did not Intrada say they will eventually release these Polydor albums in the future ?
Roger said something about, they were working on it, but there was a few problems, something like that, I can't find the quote. I wouldn't expect anything for a couple of years...but you never know!
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