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INTRADA Announces:
SHOGUN
Composed and Conducted by MAURICE JARRE
INTRADA Special Collection 394
Intrada presents a 3-CD set encompassing Maurice Jarre's massive work for the 9-hour miniseries Shogun (1980). In 2008, Intrada re-issued the original RSO LP program on CD, which featured 37 minutes of highlights, focusing on the more exotic aspects of the score. Much of the larger, orchestral score was not included. All three discs are newly mixed from first generation 2? 16-track multitracks, allowing the listener to hear a level of detail and crispness simply not present on the original LP master. In order to showcase Jarre’s expansive score in a coherent and musically balanced fashion, CD 1 presents Parts I and II with some abridgments. CD 2 is devoted to Parts III, IV and V, with minor trims. Many of the cues wound up edited and reused across multiple parts, but they are presented here in their original slated order. The final series mix added wild overlays to certain cues; these have been left as Jarre originally wrote them. CD 3 recreates the 1980 RSO album assembly—including alternate takes and some novel edits and cue combinations— followed by a selection of bumpers, alternates, source music, and all the cues that were abridged from the main program.
Both epic and international, Shogun was from the very beginning a project crying out for Maurice Jarre’s particular blend of talents. Jarre specialized in percussion, and that is never more apparent than on this score. The role of music in Shogun was made even more important as a consequence of Clavell’s decision to shoot the film mostly in Japanese, without subtitles and only with sparse narration. Furthermore, the exotic setting and clash of cultures had to be convincingly and authentically addressed. Jarre’s main theme features both a swashbuckling setting for uptempo action sequences as well as a romantic theme assuming a gentler, more yearning persona. In stark contrast to the romance and adventure is some powerful music featuring Japanese instruments mixed with orchestra, giving a weighty presence to the feuding warlords. It's all here musically - 17th Century Japan with clashing cultures and feuding warlords.
Loosely inspired by the life of Will Adams (fictionalized as John Blackthorne), the story tells of an English shipbuilder who sailed to “the Japans” at the dawn of the 17th Century and became a samurai. Shogun, written by James Clavell and third in his Asian saga, was one of the most successful novels of 1975. Producers were daunted by the scope it would take to film the extensive story, but with the proven success of the miniseries Roots in 1977, they found the confidence to proceed and thus was born the age of the miniseries. Starring Richard Chamberlain in the title role, Shogun proved a hit with viewers.
INTRADA Special Collection 394
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Retail Price: $39.99
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CD 1
01. Main Title (2:01)
PART I
02. Erasmus (2:11)
03. Reef (2:04)
04. Wakening in the Japans (2:20)
05. In the Village (1:14)
06. Yabu's Arrival (1:22)
07. One of You Is to Die (0:51)
08. I'm Not the One to Go (2:47)
09. Boiling Torture (0:52)
10. A Slave Ship (1:18)
11. Do It, Ingles (1:13)
12. Men Make Mistakes (2:17)
13. After the Rescue (0:46)
14. I Got Drunk Last Night (0:39)
15. Naga (1:21)
16. On the Way to Meet Toranaga (4:47)
17. Sent to Prison (2:35)
18. In the Cellblock (3:41)
19. Anjin-San (1:46)
Total Time: 34:38
PART II
20. Put Them On (2:45)
21. Blackthorne and Mariko (0:56)
22. Alvito (0:59)
23. Something Unexpected (0:35)
24. Amida Tong (3:18)
25. Kasiji Yabuka (1:00)
26. You Will Burn in Hell* (2:31)
27. A Big-Hatted Person (1:41)
28. Ishido's Letter* (3:34)
29. A Honeyed Tongue (1:46)
30. The Ambush (5:21)
31. To the Galley! (4:42)
32. An Easy Target (1:46)
33. Come Aboard (2:10)
34. A Nice Deal (3:50)
35. Coming Back to Anjiro (1:24)
36. Only Japanese Ways (0:41)
Total Time: 39:25
37. End Credits (alternate) (0:53)
Total CD Time: 77:07
CD 2
01. Mariko's Theme (3:04)
PART III
02. Challenging Omi (2:47)
03. Seppuku (2:57)
04. Tonight (1:24)
05. Training (0:58)
06. Nocturne (2:08)
07. Confrontation (2:37)
08. Wife Beating (2:39)
09. Please Don't Do This (2:13)
10. Punishment (0:56)
11. Elegy (1:04)
12. Earthquake (2:18)
13. A Casualty (1:09)
14. Toranaga's Camp (1:44)
15. Samurai (3:07)
Total Time: 28:18
PART IV
16. Kiku (1:20)
17. To Yedo (4:25)
18. Before the Ceremony (0:34)
19. Tea Ceremony (5:29)
20. Swear to Me (3:25)
21. Unhappy Lovers (0:46)
22. Learning Japanese (1:32)
23. Kinjiru (1:30)
Total Time: 19:15
PART V
24. Blackthorne and Fujiko (1:36)
25. Samurai's Oath (1:13)
26. Erasmus Towed (1:52)
27. Preparing for Mariko's Suicide (2:19)
28. Yabu Trapped (1:10)
29. Yabu's Betrayal (1:07)
30. Yabu and Ninja (2:07)
31. Mariko's Funeral (1:13)
32. Christian Samurai (1:47)
33. Vinck's Madness (3:06)
34. Mariko (unused) (3:04)
35. Finale (3:53)
Total Time: 24:42
36. End Credits (0:53)
Total CD Time: 76:24
CD 3
THE ALBUM
01. Shogun (2:38)
02. The Japans (2:23)
03. Tea and Jealousy (5:29)
04. Nocturne (2:07)
05. Toranaga (2:15)
06. To the Galley! (3:08)
07. Mariko (3:04)
08. Ceremonial (2:11)
09. Despair and Madness (3:06)
10. Anjiro (2:16)
11. Blackthorne (2:57)
12. Escape From Osaka* (3:34)
13. Finale (2:38)
Total Time: 38:05
THE EXTRAS
14. Bumpers (0:26)
15. Wakening in the Japans (original version) (2:12)
16. Decapitation (0:49)
17. Blackthorne Taken in the Pit (0:28)
18. The Shortest Straw (1:26)
19. Pieterzoon's Death (0:40)
20. After the Night of Screams (0:37)
21. Cleaning Humiliation (1:18)
22. A Good Bath (0:46)
23. Kiku-San (2:50)
24. Do It, Ingles (original version) (1:12)
25. Do It, Ingles (pickup A) (0:09)
26. Do It, Ingles (pickup B) (0:09)
27. Blackthorne at the Wheel (original version) (0:56)
28. So I Owe You My Life, Ingles (0:35)
29. I Got Drunk Last Night (original version) (0:46)
30. Blackthorne Obeys Naga (0:26)
31. Sake to Me (2:46)
32. Stripped (0:16)
33. Put Them On (pickup) (0:14)
34. Moon Over Osaka (3:30)
35. Melancholy Shamisen and Shakuhachi (2:53)
36. Shamisen Source (2:16)
37. Tono (0:42)
38. Blackthorne's Dance (unused)* (0:46)
39. You Will Burn in Hell (alternate A) (0:15)
40. You Will Burn in Hell (alternate B) (0:13)
41. Night March (0:18)
42. To the Galley! (original version) (3:09)
43. Any Closer, And… (0:26)
44. Now! (0:57)
45. Elegy (alternate) (1:06)
46. To Yedo II (short version) (1:19)
47. An Empty Cup (1:36)
Total Time: 39:15
Total CD Time: 77:28
*Contains “Blackthorne's Shanty” by Eric Bercovici
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Edwin and I are so looking forward to this one, wow wow wow!
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Joy of joys AND I can even dump the old lp cd program? My storage space thanks you.
As a poster above said, best news of a day I'd soon forget. I pray when this lands at Casa Sean it's a happier time....pity for my household, but they've been warned, gonna be eating SHOGUN for breakfast, lunch & dinner for awhile here....
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I KNEW IT WOULD HAPP-... I mean, thanks Intrada.
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Wonderful.
Thank you, Intrada. This is so needed!
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This release makes me very happy. I'm very glad to be getting some of the more epic music from the mini-series, but with the super-clear remaster, I'm also glad they gave the familiar album a facelift.
Starring Richard Chamberlain in the title role…
The pedant in me is grimacing because the shogun the title is referring to is the Toshirô Mifune character.
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Essential Jarre. Well done Doug, Roger, Lukas, John and all the other production personnel.
No samples from the original album, though. Tricky, but I trust you enough to order it anyway.
Thanks!
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Mine's been dispatched already and is on it's way to sunny Lancashire.
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I love the three covers that are flipping on the Intrada site. I wish the third one, the yellow one, was posted hi-res like the other two.
Um, it didn't prevent me from buying the thing - even though I've only ever seen part one of the series. It took about 4 minutes worth of samples and I'm sold!
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May be time to re-watch the series on blu-ray as well.
-Adam
I knew the series from the 1980-s and loved it as a teenager. I re-watched it on DVD two years ago and was surprised how well it stood the test of time. Very entertaining series. Since then I bought it on blu-ray and this would be a good time to watch it again.
Absolutely agreed! I watched it on blu ray and thought at first that it could not thrill me as much as it did in the 80´s, due to all the progress television series have made.
But "Shogun" is so wonderfully realized, it can easily rank with the best of television today.
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