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I know it's Star Trek-Untouchables-Die Hard 3 mania out there, but I can't believe anyone has yet to post about the magnificent remastering of the Lawrence soundtrack included with the 50th Anniversary Blu-Ray box set. Well, here goes. It's my understanding the session masters for the music were "lost" and these tracks are taken from the old Colpix Records dub masters, plus the cleanest of the slates reclaimed for the 1988 restoration from foreign-release audio stems. Please correct me if I'm wrong, FSM Community.
As I write, I'm into track seven, "Sun's Anvil" and though the recording's age is evident, the CD has expanded presence enough to properly reveal all the delicate woodwind work and the masterful mid-range string composition that sonically made the menace of the desert all the more theatrical. More thoughts after. Anyone else?
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Of course you've got to have a big TV to truly make this sixty-five-dollar-plus set worthwile. Even if you don't have one, though, the eighty-eight page hardcover book in the dimensions of an LP album cover is a nice premium. The really covetable extras for me are the CD Soundtrack (This is FSM's message board, after all.), the exclusive-to-the-set second disc of video features including all the old trailers (also restored!), and, just to make the set really natty, a real celluloid 70 millimeter film frame mounted in a paper sleeve and sealed in a mylar bag! The real bliss, however, is the soundtrack.
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If you like the "Lawrence" soundtrack that much, you should treat yourself to the Tadlow recording. "Lawrence" has been one of my favourite scores since I first heard it in 1962, I wasn't sure Tadlow could pull off the re-recording (the Silva Screen re-recording was awful) but they did. and as far as I'm concerned it's note perfect through the entire score, I know this music off by heart and there is no better recording out there than the Tadlow. It stands head and shoulders above the original soundtrack.
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"If you like the "Lawrence" soundtrack that much, you should treat yourself to the Tadlow recording"-Chris Rimmer
Already done, Chris. I thought the high points of the Raine/City of Prague re-recording were some of my favorite parts of the score: the "desert disorientation and danger" cues, "That is the Desert", "Mirage/Sun's Anvil", and best of all "Adulation", which is serendipitous since that track isn't on the OST. Hard to figure why that is since its sound on the Blu-Ray seems as good as the best of the rest of the cues.
Where Raine falls short is on the really operatic stuff, like the Overture, and especially the retard with the staccato french horns just before the cymbal crash statements of the "Desert Theme" at the end of the Main Title (where the hell are they?), and the missing five-note coronet cadence that finishes it off in the OST. "Bummer!", as we say in The States.
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I shall keep this thread alive until some fellow Lawrence score-ite responds! This single disc means as much to me as the entire Star Trek TOS set. You know who you are. Listen and respond!
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The only essential difference between the Varese CD and the new Sony remaster is the upgraded transfer. Same tracks except for the "Exit Music" that plays after the End Title. To my knowledge, Varese didn't have access to the earliest-generation music stems the audio team at Sony does. So, except for the Exit Music, it is essentially the same program.
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