This is the "Dramatic Highlights" LP of QUO VADIS. Presumably, MCA couldn't re-release the Rozsa music LP when they did their 1986 MGM re-issue series because, even then, the masters were lost. It took until 2009 and FSM's "Miklos Rozsa Treasury" for someone to re-issue that LP on CD, from a vinyl transfer.
Checking out Elmer Bernstein's conducting Land of the Pharaohs. I was never really wild over this score (and count myself as a Tiomkin fan), but I do really like this performance. It's changed my mind some.
One thing I'm sure on: I really enjoy Bernstein's conducting. Him and the "other" Bernstein are pretty amazing imo.
The soundtrack for 1959's PORGY AND BESS has not had a U.S. CD release, although CBS released one in Germany in 1989. More recently, several "gray market" labels have copied that release to produce their own CDs under Europe's 50-year copyright rule.
