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No doubt a great score by Miklos Rozsa. You would think that the month of December would be a time for a premiere release. I guess that's not the case. It’s possible we might get another batch before the year’s end. While this is one of my favorite Rózsa scores, I much prefer Rózsa’s original recording. Like with Julius Caesar, there’s a certain dramatic intensity to Rózsa’s original recording that I find lacking in Broughton’s interpretation.
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Per Frank DeWald over at the Rózsa forum: Next week, Intrada Records will be re-releasing their classic recording of IVANHOE, with Bruce Broughton conducting the City of London Sinfonia. The audio has been remixed and remastered from the original multi-track masters, the artwork has been updated to match Intrada's current style, and Douglass Fake has added a Tech Talk for the booklet. He has also added about ten seconds of additional drumming to one of the tracks. But most exciting of all is the news that the audio will be available for the first time in high-res format, available from various download retailers. If you have the equipment to do them justice, these high-res files may well be worth the upgrade. Don't wait if you want to buy the physical CD -- it is a limited run available only for 45 days or until the supply is exhausted. https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/miklosrozsa/ivanhoe-redux-t1980.html?sid=e3f74d9025494729d0c35e0901bde42d
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The HD option certainly sounds intriguing. I would not have purchased it again just for the drum sound. Let's see if Tadlow goes a similar route. With a LOT of luck we could download both titles by Tuesday morning.
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He has also added about ten seconds of additional drumming to one of the tracks. Is that the drumming during the final duel? A single repetitive beat of a drum that goes on and on and on? It's ok during the film as a background sound of course, but for listening only, it's a monotonous, featureless sound begging to be cut in length to just a handful of beats. I'm not sure it even counts as music. Is this what another ten seconds has now been added to? That’s the only place I can think of that they would put the extra drumbeats, which I agree is rather redundant on disc. If they wanted to add something to make it different from the previous version, they should have put some of the additional fanfares on the disc, supposing they were actually recorded, of course.
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Roger and Doug’s respective press releases: IVANHOE Music Composed by MIKLÓS RÓZSA Conducted by BRUCE BROUGHTON Performed by the SINFONIA OF LONDON INTRADA INT 7160 Intrada announces a new set of releases focused on high-resolution (hi-res) masters available for digital streaming and downloading. With the advent of hi-res distribution, Intrada can now offer several of its Excalibur recordings in this format. The 24-bit, 96kHz hi-res format allows for a dramatic improvement in detail and depth in the quality of music over what one can hear with the the more common 16-bit, 44.1kHz CD format. Ivanhoe, Intrada's first Excalibur release under the baton of Bruce Broughton and recorded in 1994 with the Sinfonia of London, is the first release in this new digital series. Intrada has produced the album from the unedited digital session masters made by Mike Ross-Trevor. To commemorate this release, Intrada is also making Ivanhoe available for a limited time in a newly packaged CD. Since every release is being completely remastered with new editing, level adjustments and EQ, Intrada will also make a limited number of CDs available. While the physical discs can't exploit all the benefits of hi-res technology, listeners will still notice a marked difference between this new edition and the previous release. This CD release will only be available for 45 days and goes off sale 1/15/2021 or when supplies run out. After that, the title will live on in the hi-res digital format. Ivanhoe is one of Rózsa's most heroic scores, composed for large orchestra, expanded percussion and brass sections and features a plethora of themes. The siege segment was such an ambitious composition that he had to record it in nine sections, all designed to be assembled into a final, two-part massive action sequence. It is perhaps one of his most complex compositions. As noted in the liner notes by author Tony Thomas: The screenplay follows the outlines of the Sir Walter Scott novel. It begins with Wilfred of Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor) making his way home to England after serving with King Richard in the Third Crusade. Richard has been held captive by the Austrians and Ivanhoe discovers in which castle Richard is held. In England he vows to uphold Richard’s cause in the face of a Norman plot to put his treacherous brother Prince John on the throne. INTRADA INT 7160 Barcode: 720258716002 Retail Price: $19.99 Starts Shipping 12/1/2020 Note: Due to local restrictions related to the pandemic, shipping time may be slower than usual For track listing and sound samples, please visit http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.12306/.f Newly-remastered presentation of our celebrated recording of Miklos Rozsa’s Ivanhoe, played by Sinfonia of London under Bruce Broughton! First released in 1995, this spectacular score served to introduce our Excalibur brand which continues to the day. It was fully constructed and prepared for performance from Miklos Rozsa’s own sketches and conductor scores by Rozsa authority (and close friend) Daniel Robbins with Rozsa assisting the reconstruction and enthusiastically approving of the results. Award-winning film composer Bruce Broughton was engaged to conduct the Sinfonia of London, the legendary orchestra that recorded such esteemed original soundtracks as Herrmann’s Vertigo, Tiomkin’s The Guns Of Navarone and The Fall Of The Roman Empire, Broughton’s Tombstone, Arnold’s Stargate, Elfman’s Batman and countless others. Sessions were held over three days in October 1994 at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London with Mike Ross engineering. Author Tony Thomas provided liner notes on the film and composer with producer Douglass Fake contributing musical notes. Rozsa’s magnificent 63-minute score came to vibrant, spectacular life! MGM’s 1952 film was lavishly directed by Richard Thorpe from Sir Walter Scott’s novel about chivalry and knights in joust and battle during the reign of King Richard following the 3rd Crusade and featured Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Fontaine. So well received at the time, Ivanhoe was an Academy Award nominee for “Best Picture of 1952” amongst other awards. Rozsa launched his score with a powerful fanfare, introducing Ivanhoe’s (Robert Taylor) rousing and masculine, angular main theme in triumphant trumpets. For the Saxon knight’s beloved Rowena (Joan Fontaine), Rozsa scored a gorgeous melody with an emphasis on flowing, diatonic lines. In haunting contrast was a darker, tragedy-imbued theme for Rebecca (Elizabeth Taylor), a saddened figure of the oppressed Jews and touching rival for Ivanhoe’s love. In what is surely one of the greatest marriages of two dramatically different themes, Rozsa masterfully welds Rowena’s theme in horns under Rebecca’s tragic theme for strings for the "Finale" before leading to resounding fanfares for both King Richard and Ivanhoe to wrap in triumphant conclusion. Spotlight goes to the central siege of Torquilstone Castle that required 15 minutes of incredibly dense, energetic music scored in two massive parts, amongst Rozsa’s most exciting and difficult action cues of his career. Originally recorded in 24-bit digital audio, the entire sessions were newly edited and mastered in 24bit 96kHz digital format for the hi-res digital download marketplace. Pressings of the CD with new packaging (also fully re-mastered but still locked into the CD’s 16bit format) are being made available for 45 days only as this (and other upcoming Excalibur titles) is moved into the digital download world. Miklos Rozsa composes and supervises, Bruce Broughton conducts the Sinfonia of London. I have bolded the specific section of Roger’s press release so that those considering picking up this new edition like Moss can act on sooner rather than later.
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