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Sep 20, 2011 - 5:20 PM
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manderley
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The FSM is a very satisfying version, as is the excellent Stromberg-Morgan recreation, for those who are not obsessive.
For those of us who are, we can never have enough, so, even though we bought those, we also now have bought the new Varese, too. This version meets our exceptional needs and we can go to sleep at nights knowing we have it all. 
Of course, even with this release we might wake up in the middle of the night with the nagging feeling that there are some "alternate takes" which are performed slightly differently than those released, and therefore, since we don't have THEM, we then DON'T have it all, so we are left, once again, with an incomplete feeling. This never goes away for any score you love---if you are obsessive.
Thor is probably the only person who sleeps quietly at night.
I suggest, Montana Dave, that you also buy the Twilight Time DVD version of the film currently being offered by SAE.
What a bargain at $20!:
Not only do you get the complete film to watch---one that you've never seen---in a beautiful transfer in CinemaScope and Stereo---but you also get an "extra" of the synced music-only soundtrack to listen to, in stereo, for the entire picture as well.
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Well, when it comes to THE EGYPTIAN, I'm a completist; so I have all the recordings, and I have to say the Varese Club version is my favorite.
JoeCaps is right, though, in that the DVD, costing $20, has a music-only track that is quite fine for listening.
But, if you feel that dire need to have the original Varese Club release, I found it on Amazon, if you're interested, though I haven't checked for it lately.
The DVD also has a beautuifully rendered visual of the film, though I don't particularly agree with the commentators, who regard it as an exercise in depression, a kind "film noir" in Color by De Luxe.
Seeing it for the first time, in pan&scan and black&white, on the old NBC "Saturday Night at the Movies" program, back in October of 1962, introduced me to that whole period of Egyptian history, and the heretical pharaoh, Akhnaton, and for that I've always been grateful. I even ended up traveling to Egypt, in the spring of 2008, where, as I went up and down along the fabled Nile, I listened to THE EGYPTIAN on earphones, as I read the novel yet again, all the while occasionally gazing out the window at whatever monuments I was passing.
But that, as they say, is another story....
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Sep 22, 2011 - 5:59 PM
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Rozsaphile
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on the dvd. there , the music is edited together correctly, which it is not on the Varese CD, which has a bad stop-start quality. I.E. pieces of music that should be one piece and flow together, frequently do not.
Yes, I was wondering what people thought of the pauses in, for example, the opening narrative. The smooth flow of original Decca LP is naturally imprinted on my memory, and I imagine that that album's continuity reflects Newman's intentions. But the pauses are a small fault in the essential 2011 release. The earlier FSM nevertheless remains essential, if only for the (naturally!) superior annotation by Bill Whittaker and Lukas Kendall.
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to montana dave: you can still find the vs deluxe version by going on to the moviemusic.com website store.
Like many-an-out-of-print title that has been on their website, it is listed as "out of stock" when we press "order now".
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to montana dave: you can still find the vs deluxe version by going on to the moviemusic.com website store.
Like many-an-out-of-print title that has been on their website, it is listed as "out of stock" when we press "order now".
I suppose that's a clinical way of saying "Sold Out".
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Sep 23, 2011 - 7:24 PM
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manderley
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.....rCA got complete stereo tapes of Raintree County and partially used them for the LP, The two disc lp was mono and the highlights disc, whichcame out later was full stereo.....
It's interesting you bring this up Joe.
When RAINTREE COUNTY premiered in LA in 1957, there was a lot of promo for the film and the score.
On one Sunday afternoon, one of the local radio stations held an interview with Johnny Green talking about the score.....and then the complete full-version of the score was presented, on the radio, IN STEREO!
But, since this was the days before multiplex stereo availability on radio, they used another system where the FM station and the AM sister station each ran one channel of the 2-channel mix to achieve the stereo sound. I can remember scouring the house for an extra AM radio to put a few feet away from our bigger radio-TV system which had the FM component in it. The stereo sound was quite good, and I was thrilled.
Then, I guess it was about 2 years later, Disney did a similar thing (at least in the LA market) when SLEEPING BEAUTY was released. This time it tied into the Disneyland TV show and, I think, an episode about the life of Tschaikovsky.
For this presentation, you left your TV on to watch the episode, and this utilized the sound from the show on the center channel. Then you brought in an FM-tuned radio for the left channel, and an AM-tuned radio for the right channel. Voila! Three-Channel Stereo---mechanically clunky but still fairly impressive home sound for the fifties, when combined with the show's visuals.
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