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Well, I assume you did notice the post from TxIrish just a little bit above? But you probably want a physical CD with the complete Lionheart in chronological order. Me too!
I will also note that while you can supposedly get the "complete" score between Varese's two Lionheart volumes, there is at least one cue which is crossfaded into the finale cue ("The Future" -- the finale cue it is combined with is repeated on both Volumes, and the redundancy must be removed anyway in order to fit everything under 80 minutes). It would be great to get a clean ending to this cue on a true Deluxe Edition...
Yavar
They are still designing the digipack box covered in chainmail for this release, so it is virtually indestructible.
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Agreed -- and if there are any alternates or unused cues, go a head and bump it to a second disc to include them Varese! I just adore this score.
Yavar
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I'll be happy if it comes out, just so I can hear whether it was worth all the fuss. It's a Goldsmith score that has always underwhelmed me as a paint-by-numbers action effort with little unique about it. But I'll be so glad to be proven wrong with a complete release, which almost always does wonders for any Goldsmith score.
For me...
Small Soldiers - complete!!!
Mom and Dad Save the World - complete!!
The Other - complete!
Yavar
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The Other
McCarthur
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at this point anything
One of my favorites!
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at this point anything
LOL...I'm kinda right there with ya. 
WagnerAlmighty -- just FYI Varese only licensed the MCA album for MacArthur...they don't control that title in perpetuity so supposedly Intrada, LLL, or even some other label could release it.
Yavar
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Supergirl.
It was 100% confirmed recently by MV (in the LLL Questions thread I think) that this title is held in perpetuity by Silva, not Varese. (Varese released their album of the score in the 80s before they were regularly getting perpetuity rights.)
Yavar
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Haha...speaking of most obscure work Mutant, stay tuned for the next episode of The Goldsmith Odyssey (we did the podcast recording just a couple days ago) -- it don't get any more obscure than that!
Yavar
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Anniversaries aren't a totally foolproof thing to go by of course...it's not like Varese waited until 2019 to put out a 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of The Haunting.
But they *did* do a 40th Anniversary complete release of The Omen, so I wondered if it might be beneficial to look at what Varese-controlled scores are on a big anniversary this year:
15th Anniversary:
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Timeline
20th Anniversary:
Small Soldiers
US Marshals
25th Anniversary:
Rudy
Matinee
Malice
The Vanishing
30th Anniversary:
Criminal Law (haha)
It's pretty cool that all three remaining unexpanded Joe Dante scores are on a big anniversary year. Maybe we'll get one of those! (And I know which of the three folks want the most! I'm tellin' ya though...people are going to reassess Matinee when they hear it in complete form with great sound.)
Yavar
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No "reassessing"... I've ALWAYS thought Matinee was wonderful!
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I would like to see a reissue of Raggedy Man too.
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You forgot about 50th Anniversary of POTA.
I hope they will do some kind of box-set with whole classic Apes soundtracks...
You're right -- it would be awesome to get a Mattesino 50th Anniversary restoration for the original Planet of the Apes!
Also, I should add that my #1 want for a Varese Deluxe Edition has completely changed since I started this thread, and is now something that no one else ever voted for here!
Have a gander over at this Love Field thread at the Intrada forum:
http://www.intrada.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7704
Roger: I just finished revisiting this film, and I admit having completely forgotten what this film was about. The score is what I imagine Goldsmith would have written had he scored To Kill a Mocking Bird. It's full of tenderness, pain and human warmth. Something you don't hear much these days. Interestingly, I infer the film was partially rescored, as throughout the film there is a piano score that is clearly not Goldsmith. Turns out it was written by Bill Payne. Some very nice piano music, in fact. It was used over the end credits instead of what Goldsmith wrote. There's some pretty stuff there and I imagine if you were an average Joe picking up the soundtrack after seeing the film and not hearing Payne's work on the album you'd be mighty disappointed. Naturally the CD has a lot of the Goldsmith music cut from the film. There are some wonderful Goldsmith cues in the film not on the album. Given the album is only 29 minutes long...there was definitely room to include them, but probably another victim of AFM fees at the time. Not knowing how much music was recorded and not in the film or CD, it's hard to say how long the score really is. But an expanded edition would be great, including a separate section for the Payne score. Should all fit on one CD. I checked...it's still controlled by Varese. But everyone is clamoring for expanded issues of Air Force One, Small Soldiers, The Mummy, US Marshalls (as am I), but let's not forget this small gem. It's every much as worthy.
Doug: It's also worthy of note that much of the score in the film - which uses a larger orchestra including brass and actually features suspense and action material - is missing from the album, which is mostly the quiet and sedate pieces which may not even appear in the film. I didn't scrutinize too deeply but much of the Goldsmith score seemed to be re-scored later with a larger orchestra. I was very disappointed when I first listened to the album and discovered so much of the bigger music from the film was missing and only the smaller cues were included - with no explanation. Had the full orchestral Goldsmith score heard in the film been what was released, I imagine this score (and album) would be held in higher regard.
Me again: HOLY COW!
Yavar
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