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I confess that I don’t own version of this score(aside from a suite recorded by the COPP) as I’m stubbornly waiting for a legal release of the original recording if it survives. I can’t answer for the second album, but the McNeely recording is pretty good from what I’ve heard of it.
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Get the Elfman recording from 1999.
Short, but covers most of the score and the Sonics, reading, are top shelf.
The Herrmann recording you have is among his last and eerie as hell. Between the slow tempi and
sound quality it's like listening to his ghost, conducting.
The McNeely is good, kind of in between all of these, and it's complete.
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Get the Elfman recording from 1999.
Short, but covers most of the score and the Sonics, reading, are top shelf.
The Herrmann recording you have is among his last and eerie as hell. Between the slow tempi and
sound quality it's like listening to his ghost, conducting.
The McNeely is good, kind of in between all of these, and it's complete.
Minor quibbles aside the Elfman is my go to. He tried to recreate the recording quality of the time and the detail is amazing and tempo spot on
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Agreed with Roger. The Elfman version is closest to the original.
The only pity is that the released album isn't the complete score. I hope it can be expanded.
Is the market big enough for a Stromberg attempt for the best version yet?
Cheers
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Or.....you might simply contact a collector who's already done all that and figure out how to arrange for a copy
to be sent to you.
Ron Burbella
Pending some official release that I'd snap up in a minute, I'd certainly like to do that.
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I have the Stylotone 45rpm single. The only authorised release of the original score with Prelude and The Murder. Sound quality is very good. The complete score was due to be the label's next release but unfortunately that didn't happen.
I don't get the hate. I purchased Twisted Nerve - a beautiful package all around - gave the LP and extras away and kept the CD and the downloads. Everybody wins.
And, very happily, I was gifted Marnie of which I've kept everything.
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I just compared the Elfman recording to the McNeely recording (just a cursory comparison, I would admit), and I cannot say that the Elfman is the preferable recording at all. Not talking about completeness, that is obvious, but simply performance-wise and for acoustical reasons. The McNeely sounds more natural (and bigger) to me, with more room around the instruments. If you want a more "miked and mixed" recording, you may prefer the Elfman version, but if you prefer a more "natural" sounding one, it's the McNeely.
Mind you, I have them all (and I like them all), and I am not "pushing" any recording on you, but I just want to add that the Elfman recording -- as great as it was in the movie -- may not be the one to prefer for purely musical reasons. At least I don't. (But then again, I also really like Herrmann's forceful 70s re-recording of the score.)
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