Elmer Bernstein's The 10 Commandments (Intrada 6CD 60th Anniversary Collection)

[Skelly 260]

On 8/26/2016 at 1:59 PM, Jay said:

Looks like the complete score is so long, it fills up Disc 1 and 2 and then ends 4 tracks into disc 3.  The rest of disc 3 is bonus tracks, and then

disc 4 = 1956 mono 2LP
disc 5 = 1959 stereo 2LP
disc 6 = 1966 United Artists LP

 

I can understand preserving a previous program on your re-release, but three? A bit much...

[Wojo 2,453]

Intrada is on pace to be the co-biggest disappointment of 2016 along with No Man's Sky. 

[MedigoScan 324]

well there goes my birthday present

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

3 hours ago, WojinPA said:

Intrada is on pace to be the co-biggest disappointment of 2016 along with No Man's Sky. 

 

Whats that?

[Skelly 260]

28 minutes ago, Stefancos said:

Whats that?

 

Some video game that was advertised for many years before release, and turned out to be garbage.

[Wojo 2,453]

I'm sad because I'll be on travel soon after the 20th so I probably won't get it until after I come back. Though I don't believe it will be released in October. I've lost faith in the label. They can shove their gold leaf lettering. 

[Faleel 5,340]

8 hours ago, Skelly said:

 

I can understand preserving a previous program on your re-release, but three? A bit much...

They are different recordings.

 

FSM did this with their Ben-Hur release

[Skelly 260]

18 minutes ago, Fennel Ka said:

They are different recordings.

 

FSM did this with their Ben-Hur release

 

I might be in the minority but I prefer to listen to the score as it was recorded for the film. I don't know if Bernstein presided over the re-recordings at all, though. I can't say the last three discs interest me at all...

[Wojo 2,453]

The three Ben Hur rerecording albums are interesting. This is really the only opportunity for those smaller albums to be sold, even though the perception is that they unnecessarily inflate the price for the rest of your. Sucks. 

[Faleel 5,340]

12 hours ago, Skelly said:

 

I might be in the minority but I prefer to listen to the score as it was recorded for the film. I don't know if Bernstein presided over the re-recordings at all, though. I can't say the last three discs interest me at all...

I have heard some of the stereo cues in the film as it is now are re-recordings as well.

[Skelly 260]

Well I clearly know nothing about the history of this score! 

[Jay 37,287]

Roger says

 

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I'm told this ships on the 8th, so should be good in time for the 20th. Naturally I withhold letting out my breath until I see a shipping notice. Thanks for all your patience.

 

http://www.intrada.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=7195

[Naïve Old Fart 9,498]

On 05/09/2016 at 6:02 PM, Skelly said:

Well I clearly know nothing about the history of this score! 

 

Well...the score was written by a gentleman by the name of Elmer Bernstein, for a film called THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. Now you're up to date. Happy to oblige 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

On 5 september 2016 at 7:02 PM, Skelly said:

Well I clearly know nothing about the history of this score! 

 

Didnt you ever go to Sunday school?

[Skelly 260]

6 hours ago, Stefancos said:

Didnt you ever go to Sunday school?

 

I must have played hooky on the day we talked about Moses's adventures as told through music...

[Wojo 2,453]

I went to catechism before I reached the age of reason and they never discussed the making of Hollywood movies in the course lectures. The only video we ever watched was a fascinating study on whether Noah's Ark could have been real. 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,498]

13 hours ago, Stefancos said:

 

Didnt you ever go to Sunday school?

 

I did, and, contrary to what IJ says, they did not put the broken pieces of The Ten Commandments, in The Ark.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Of course they didn't. None of it ever happened!

[Naïve Old Fart 9,498]

So certain, are you.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Richard!

[Jay 37,287]

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And it shipped! Hopefully they don't arrive and we find the logo printed upside down. Or the discs are all missing. Or they [sic] cases are filled with cheese.

 

 

http://www.intrada.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=76063#p76063

[Faleel 5,340]

"[sic]" so it was written, so it was done?

[Wojo 2,453]

Holy shit this might happen. 

[Marian Schedenig 8,173]

2 hours ago, Jay said:

And it shipped! Hopefully they don't arrive and we find the logo printed upside down. Or the discs are all missing. Or they [sic] cases are filled with cheese.

 

 

Is it wise to look into the cases?

 

[Wojo 2,453]

Is that man the melted cheese? 

[Jay 37,287]

Roger says

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I wonder what these could be that just showed up? 

 

 

http://www.intrada.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=76079#p76079

[Wojo 2,453]

Where's that April Fool's video from about six years ago, where boxes of this soundtrack appeared in the FSM office? I know I saved the file but I haven't found it online. 

[Jay 37,287]

Looks like it was removed from youtube.  It was here:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpH3WeIdigY

 

per http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=67490&forumID=1&archive=0

[Faleel 5,340]

Doug's Corner:

 

 17/2016

 

It’s here! Years in the making! Casts of thousands! Biggest undertaking in our history! Well, something like this anyway. A lot of hands put in a lot of years to make this release of The Ten Commandments possible: Paramount, Universal Music Group, MGM, Intrada. Six CDs, three premiering the entire original two and a half hour soundtrack for the first time ever - much of it in stereo, also for the first time ever! Every cue appears, including all of the myriad fanfares, processions, court dances, authentic shofars (eight of them!), percussion tracks, harp sequences, Theremin and Novachord overlays… everything right down to the tiniest tiple, a rare member of the guitar family. All of Elmer Bernstein’s magnificent and justifiably famous masterpiece intact and uncut including the premiere of numerous sequences edited from the finished film! And after the complete score, another 40 minutes of never-before-heard alternates and unused music! Trailer cues! And if all of this doesn’t make the first three CDs ample proof of Bernstein’s genius, enjoy Bernstein himself introducing and playing his major themes in an ultra-rare, recently unearthed 12-minute piano demo prepared for Cecil B. Demille at the start of the scoring process!

 

CD 4 presents the original one hour soundtrack as released by Dot Records in mono in 1957, CD 5 gives you the then-newly re-recorded 1960 album issued by Dot to meet the growing demand for a stereo performance - this version being newly conducted by Bernstein to closely approximate the original 1957 album - while CD 6 offers the CD premiere of the 1966 United Artists stereo album recorded by Bernstein using new arrangements made by his long-time orchestrators Leo Shuken and Jack Hayes… all of the above three discs are presented from the original album master tapes vaulted in pristine condition in various archives. Re-productions of the original cover designs, a lavishly illustrated 60-page booklet, authoritative notes about the production and score including session dates on the various releases, musician rosters, cue assemblies, pre-production artwork and more are all packaged inside a handsome deluxe slipcase!

 

Yes, fans of those glorious epic-era “roadshow” movies with their majestic and opulent scores and even just plain ordinary music lovers of all types - now you can rejoice. Elmer Bernstein's complete soundtrack arrives this coming Tuesday, September 20th!

 

The Ten Commandments

 

“So let it be written… so let it be done!”

[Wojo 2,453]

My collection will be complete! 

[crocodile 7,984]

Does it mean you'll have no purpose in life after this?

 

Karol

[Wojo 2,453]

Um... 

[Faleel 5,340]

I just assume he will withdraw from JWfan and just listen to this for the rest of his life.

[Wojo 2,453]

Sounds like a plan. 

[Jay 37,287]

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INTRADA Announces:

 

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Composed and Conducted by ELMER BERNSTEIN
INTRADA INT 7147

I would say that the work on The Ten Commandments was singularly the most exciting project of my entire life.
-- Elmer Bernstein, 2002

The value of Elmer Bernstein’s score is almost impossible to measure. It’s absolutely perfect for the film,
guiding and shaping the emotional weight of each scene with mature mastery.
-- Charlton Heston


The 1956 Paramount biblical epic The Ten Commandments is one of those rare films to become an annual event in homes around the world. It is one of the few films left that network television (at least in the United States) continues to air annually, in spring around the Passover holiday. Its crisp, colorful retelling of the Jewish story of Exodus remains compelling to this day, portraying the escape from slavery in Egypt, the relentless obstinance of and doomed pursuit by Pharaoh, and Moses' eventual receipt of the Ten Commandments. 

Cecil B. DeMille chose a fresh voice to score his spectacle -- Elmer Bernstein. Bernstein's score is pure epic and a thrilling experience whether in film or on its own. Bernstein's score itself has an interesting history on record. It was first issued in 1957 on DOT records as a 2-LP set in mono from the film's soundtrack recording. With home stereo recordings increasing in popularity, Bernstein rerecorded those same selections in stereo also for DOT records three years later in 1960, although with some alterations to enhance the stand-alone listening experience. On the film's 10th anniversary Bernstein rerecorded selections again for the United Artists label. Discs 4 through 6 of this 6-CD set contain these recordings, each in packaging that recreates their original LP packaging. And yet with all these recordings, the original stereo sessions from the original soundtrack had yet to be released. Until now.

Discs 1 through 3 contain every single orchestral cue, in their complete versions, plus all of the myriad fanfares, court pieces, dances, processions, Egyptian and Hebrew source music, shofar cues and various Novachord and Theremin overlays, all assembled and sequenced as Elmer Bernstein intended. Most of the massive two-and-a-half hour score appears in stereo, meticulously compiled and restored by Chris Malone from all available Paramount vault source elements including the three-channel scoring session masters, mono safeties, a variety of 35mm elements, DAT audio transfers made by the studio for their internal digital storage purposes, music stems and the composer’s personal ¼″ tape copies. In addition to the entire score as heard in the film, this presentation includes over a half hour of never-before-heard alternates and unused cues as well as another nine minutes of various scoring session outtakes and early, unused versions. Crowning this mountain-top experience is over twelve minutes of original piano demos made by the composer, including his voice and piano playing all the themes in his home studio for DeMille to audition prior to scoring. These are an incredibly rare pre-record treat that amazingly survived these 60 years.

This presentation of Elmer Bernstein's score to The Ten Commandments is an epic unto itself, providing the last word on one of his most significant and enduring works.

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Elmer Bernstein
Label: Intrada 7147
Date: 1956
Time: 357:36
Tracks: 135
World premiere 6-CD release of complete Elmer Bernstein soundtrack for Cecil B. DeMille’s all-time greatest epic!

 

It’s here! World premiere release of the complete soundtrack by Elmer Bernstein for Cecil B. DeMille’s all-time greatest epic and box-office champion! Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Edward G. Robinson, Anne Baxter, John Derek, Vincent Price and many others bring powerful and inspiring story of Moses to vivid life. A lot of hands put in several years to make this release possible: Paramount, Universal Music Group, MGM, Intrada. Six CDs, three premiering the entire original two and a half hour soundtrack for the first time ever - much of it in stereo, also for the first time ever! Every cue appears, including all of the myriad fanfares, processions, court dances, authentic shofars (eight of them!), percussion tracks, harp sequences, Theremin and Novachord overlays… everything right down to the tiniest tiple, a rare member of the guitar family. All of Bernstein’s magnificent and justifiably famous masterpiece appears intact and uncut, including numerous sequences edited from the finished film! And after the complete score, another 40 minutes of never-before-heard alternates and unused music! Trailer cues! And if all of this doesn’t make the first three CDs ample proof of Bernstein’s genius, enjoy Bernstein himself introducing and playing his major themes in an ultra-rare, recently unearthed 12-minute piano demo prepared for DeMille at the start of the scoring process.

CD 4 presents the original one hour soundtrack as released by Dot Records in mono in 1957, CD 5 gives you the then-newly re-recorded 1960 album issued by Dot to meet the growing demand for a stereo performance - this version being newly conducted by Bernstein to closely approximate the original 1957 album - and CD 6 offers the CD premiere of the 1966 United Artists stereo album recorded by Bernstein using new arrangements made by his long-time orchestrators Leo Shaken and Jack Hayes… all of the last three discs are presented from the original album master tapes stored in pristine condition in several studio vaults. Lavishly illustrated 60-page booklet includes full color reproductions of various album cover designs, authoritative notes by Frank K. DeWald about the production and scoring sessions including dates on the various releases, musician rosters, cue assemblies, pre-production artwork and more. Expert audio restoration work done by Chris Malone.

Yes, fans of those glorious epic-era “roadshow” movies with their majestic and opulent scores and just plain ordinary music lovers of all types - rejoice! Elmer Bernstein conducts all 6 CDs.

 “So let it be written… so let it be done!”

 

 

CECIL B. DeMILLE’s THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE)

COMPOSED AND CONDUCTED By Elmer Bernstein
CD 1 – Part 1
01. Introduction (1:37)
02. Prelude – Part 1/Prelude – Part 2 (5:44)
03. Slaughter Of The Newborn/In The Bulrushes/Bithia’s Bathing Float (3:46)
04. Moses (Long Version) (0:41)
05. Nefretiri/Fanfares/Return Of The Conqueror/Drums And Percussion/Fanfare (1:40)
06. Ethiopians/Drums (0:45)
07. Fanfare/Moses And Nefretiri/New City Underway (4:00)
08. The Advancing Keystone/Mercy And A Tomb Of Rock (3:26)
09. Temple Grain (Final Film Version) (1:13)
10. Hounds And Jackals (2:42)
11. Moses The Builder – Part 1/Fanfare/Moses The Builder – Part 2 (1:52)
12. Obelisk (0:20)
13. The Glory Of Goshen (2:33)
14. Harp For Nefretiri (1:05)
15. Memnet’s Murder (2:15)
16. The Brick Pits (2:12)
17. Death In The Brick Pits (4:01)
18. Intro To Royal Barge/The Royal Barge (3:18)
19. The Die Is Cast – Part 1/The Die Is Cast – Part 2 (5:23)
20. Court Dance (2:47)
21. Take Him Away (2:16)
22. Drums/The Dungeon (2:30)
23. Dathan’s Garden (1:14)
24. Lilia’s Harp/Dathan Bribes Lilia (1:23)
25. Egyptian Border/Moses Crosses Desert (5:33)
      CD1 Total Time: 64:49

 

CD 2 – Part 2
01. Song For Jethro’s Daughters (0:35)
02. Defending The Well (0:52)
03. Mountain Of God (3:30)
04. Jethro’s Daughters’ Dance (1:33)
05. Moses Chooses Sephora (3:23)
06. Sethi’s Death Chant/Royal Falcon (3:02)
07. Burning Bush (1:39)
08. Organ (I Am That I Am) (2:26)
09. Word Of God (End Act 1) (2:17)
10. Overture – Act 2 (Part A)/Overture – Act 2 (Part B) (2:16)
11. The Power Of God – Part 1/The Power Of God – Part 2 (4:08)
12. Well Of Strangers/Royal Barge (Revised) (2:23)
13. Joshua And Lilia/The Shrine Of The River Gods (1:49)
14. The Red River (1:28)
15. God Of Slaves (1:51)
16. Lilia’s Song/Lilia’s Song (Harp Chord) (0:27)
17. Pestilence (1:00)
18. Shadow Of Death (1:16)
19. The Dying Boy (3:02)
20. Lord Of The Underworld (2:21)
21. Shofars/Exodus – Part 1/Dathan’s House/Nubian Drums/Exodus – Part 2 (7:31)
22. Fanfare (Alternate No. 1) (0:15)
23. Fanfare (Alternate No. 2) (0:16)
24. Fanfare (0:10)
25. Exodus – Part 3 (3:10)
26. Death Gongs (0:28)
27. A Hardened Heart/Fanfare/Chariot Assembly/Ready For Battle Fanfares (2:39)
28. Mission Of Vengeance (0:59)
29. Shofars & Fanfares (0:37)
30. Pillar Of Fire/The Red Sea – Parts 1, 2 & 3 (7:40)
31. The Red Sea – Part 4 (0:59)
      CD2 Total Time: 66:45

 

CD 3 – Part 3
01. Mount Sinai (0:35)
02. Spoils Of Egypt/Idolators (Bacchanali)/Forming Of Golden Idol (0:49)
03. The Finger Of God/Golden Idol/Idol Sacrifice/Idolators (Bacchanali)/Bacchanal/Shofar (8:46)
04. The Lord’s Side/End Title (3:46)
05. Exit Music – Part 1/Exit Music – Part 2 (5:16)
      Time: 19:19
      Total Score Time: 2:30:53

 

CD 3 The Extras – Alternates And Unused Cues
06. Moses (Alternate) (0:23)
07. Moses And Nefretiri (Alternate)/New City Underway (Alternate) (3:55)
08. Temple Grain (Alternate) (1:12)
09. Memnet’s Murder (Alternate) (3:22)
10. Memnet’s Murder (Revised) (2:16)
11. The Royal Barge (Alternate) (3:23)
12. Court Dance (Alternate) (2:22)
13. Baccha’s Garden No. 1 (2:16)
14. Baccha’s Garden No. 2 (2:15)
15. Baccha’s Garden No. 3 (2:01)
16. Song For Jethro’s Daughters (Alternate) (0:31)
17. Defending The Well (Alternate – Long) (2:17)
18. Jethro’s Daughters’ Dance (Alternate) (1:57)
19. Exodus – Part 3 (Short Version) (1:37)
20. Shofars & Fanfares (Alternates) (0:56)
21. Exit Music – Part 2 (Alternate) (1:45)
      Alternates and Unused Cues Time: 32:54

 

Additional Cues
22. The Red Sea – Part 3/Song Of Joseph (Film Edit) (2:00)
23. The Red Sea – Part 4 (Early Version) (1:34)
24. Exodus (Early Version) (3:12)
25. The Lord’s Side (Brass) (0:15)
26. The Royal Barge (Short Source Alternate) (0:16)
27. Tiple (Wild) (0:31)
28. Drums No. 1 (Wild) (0:26)
29. Drums No. 2 (Wild) (0:30)
30. The Finger Of God – Part 1 (Early Version) (0:37)
31. Trailer No. 1 (0:57)
32. Trailer No. 2 (0:30)
      Additional Cues Time: 11:01

 

Elmer Bernstein ’s Original Piano Theme Demos
33. Theme Of Egypt/Nefretiri’s Theme/Bithia’s Theme/Hebrew Theme/
Theme Of Moses/Possible Short Identifying Themes For Moses/
Sephora-Bedouin Theme/Song Of Joseph – Exodus Anthem/
Joshua-Lilia Love Theme/Joshua-Lilia Love Theme In A Major Key/
Theme Of God/Theme Of Evil (12:36)
      Extras Total: 54:40

      CD3 Total Time: 76:01

 

CECIL B. DeMILLE’s THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (Original 1957 Dot Soundtrack Album (Mono)

COMPOSED AND CONDUCTED By Elmer Bernstein
01. Prelude (5:43)
02. In The Bulrushes (3:23)
03. The Bitter Life (2:09)
04. Love And Ambition (3:53)
05. The Hard Bondage (2:12)
06. Egyptian Dance (2:47)
07. The Crucible Of God (3:15)
08. And Moses Watered Jethro’s Flock (2:17)
09. Bedouin Dance (1:57)
10. I Am That I Am (3:52)
11. Overture (2:13)
12. Thus Says The Lord (3:45)
13. The Plagues (2:11)
14. The Exodus (6:40)
15. The Pillar Of Fire (2:45)
16. The Red Sea (2:35)
17. The Ten Commandments (5:22)
18. Go, Proclaim Liberty! (3:20)
      CD Total Time: 60:44

 

CECIL B. DeMILLE’s THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (Original 1960 Dot Soundtrack Album (STEREO)

COMPOSED AND CONDUCTED By Elmer Bernstein
01. Prelude (5:07)
02. In The Bulrushes (4:01)
03. The Bitter Life (2:05)
04. Love And Ambition (4:03)
05. The Hard Bondage (2:03)
06. Egyptian Dance (2:52)
07. The Crucible Of God (3:07)
08. And Moses Watered Jethro’s Flock (2:13)
09. Bedouin Dance (1:56)
10. I Am That I Am (3:13)
11. Overture (2:06)
12. Thus Says The Lord (3:39)
13. The Plagues (2:51)
14. The Exodus (6:00)
15. The Pillar Of Fire (2:45)
16. The Red Sea (2:30)
17. The Ten Commandments (5:40)
18. Go, Proclaim Liberty! (3:20)
      CD Total Time: 59:56

 

CECIL B. DeMILLE’s THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Original 1966 United Artists Re-Recorded Album (Stereo)

COMPOSED AND CONDUCTED By Elmer Bernstein
01. Overture Act I (4:15)
02. Nefretiri (2:36)
03. Court Dance (3:03)
04. Sephora (2:10)
05. The Burning Bush (3:44)
06. Overture Act II (2:06)
07. The Exodus (3:04)
08. Dance Of Jethro’s Daughters (2:02)
09. The Red Sea (2:36)
10. Finale (3:29)
      CD Total Time: 29:14

 

 

 

Samples and direct order: 

 

http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.10415/.f

 

 

Additional places to order:

 

http://www4.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/32205/

 

http://www.moviemusic.com/soundtrack/M10640/ten-commandments-box/

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Wojo 2,453]

I've been waiting for this since I first bought one of the rerecordings in 1999 and didn't realize it was incomplete. I'm really excited to be on the verge of having this. 

[Faleel 5,340]

Ordered! !!!

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

5 hours ago, Jay said:

 

 

 

 

That is a very ugly and inappropriate typeface!

[Faleel 5,340]

I believe it is the same Typeface as used in the film, and is based on an illuminated book look.

 

 

Oh and Joe Sikoryak

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I know, but the colouring and shading is completely off and make it look like a photoshop job done in circa 2001 for a fanmade bootleg.

[Bespin 8,480]

I'm not a fan, but I must admit it seems to be a very interesting collection object!  6 CD for a single movie, it's not anything.

[Wojo 2,453]

It's not as big or expensive as the Spartacus box set, but it's a lot more accessible. 

[Jay 37,287]

Just a fun tidbit. Technically, this score has never really been out of print. It started out in mono on Dot in 1957, went the rounds as a bestseller, saw a Dot stereo re-recording in 1960, found a detour with newly recorded highlights on United Artists, then Dot's re-recording moved over to the Paramount label, then still later onto MCA Records and still later on MCA CD's with a budget-price single disc that may still be in the catalog. That makes The Ten Commandments quite possibly the longest running soundtrack available to the public in history... or something like that anyway. Wow! And now finally every note of it in one little box. And it all still fits on your shelf!

--Doug

 

Is that final sentence a dig at the Spartacus box?

[Wojo 2,453]

Or the Star Trek VS expansion. 

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Ordered!  So happy to finally be getting the complete score. One of my Holy Grails.

[crocodile 7,984]

Wrong font. I'm boycotting this!

 

 

Karol

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Indeed!

[Koray Savas 2,251]

15 hours ago, Jay said:

Is that final sentence a dig at the Spartacus box?

 

15 hours ago, WojinPA said:

Or the Star Trek VS expansion. 

 

Both of those fit on my shelf just fine.

[Faleel 5,340]

Spartacus fits fine one my shelf, almost right next to my Star Trek TOS LLL box

[crocodile 7,984]

The only disappointing thing about Spartacus is that they didn't have all the score in stereo. But their mono mix is very goid indeed. The score itself is probably too much of a good thing, and not exactly tge easiest to casually enjoy (Cleopatra is better in that respect). But an impressive feat still, and masterclass in bold orchestration techniques. The love theme variations are hit-and-miss but they're worth it for some jewels. Like Desplat's sexy woodwind-only take. The DVD and book (cause you can't really call it a booklet) are bit too sugar-coated but worth it for some insightful info (Williams, Desplat and Schifrin segments are interesting). 

 

Oh did I mention North's piano and percussion demo recordings? Cool stuff, they should perform this stuff in concert.

 

This set looks great too. I can't afford it now but will probably get it soon-ish.

 

Karol