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  1. That's odd, I'm in the UK and Presto has tonnes of Sony and DG (plus other Universal) stuff available for download, including hi-res, and including this Gathering of Friends album. Also, the issue you mention with the couple of quid might be a VAT issue - have you maybe changed your country location on their site, possibly? As you can see from my screenshots, if you set Guernsey as your country then the CD costs £11.25, but in the UK with VAT it changes to £13.50.
  2. I see this is now available for pre-order at https://neumation-music.com/. I would love to be able to purchase this score, but unfortunately I live in Europe, and therefore cannot! I don't suppose there is some kind soul on here with a non-European address who might be willing to acquire one and then send it on to me in the UK? Obviously I don't know any of you personally but I would of course be happy to pay you for it in advance. Or does anyone else in the UK who wishes to buy this have a better idea? On Facebook they said they hoped that future scores from them would not have similar restrictions. Hopefully their forthcoming Poltergeist score will not have the same issues...
  3. By the time I got round to ordering this I had just missed out on the first print run, so I was relieved and delighted to be notified of a second batch becoming available. Received it a couple of weeks ago and have been enjoying following along to the recording! I have a slight issue with the binding in that the pages have come unstuck from the spine at the bottom, but it's nothing major and the score is holding together for now! I have also spotted a couple of tiny mistakes, but again it's only very minor things such as a missing accidental here and there. Overall the quality is great and I look forward to further scores, including hopefully the original Alien if that's possible. Have also just ordered ST:TMP from Omni, so I'm excited for that to arrive. My next task is to work out how I'm going to get hold of the forthcoming Day the Earth Stood Still score from Neumation next month, as their promotional image says that it will be available everywhere except Europe... Had to go without Willow and BTTF for the same reason, which is annoying, although I understand the licensing issues involved.
  4. Yes, I did wonder that, as in the Prologue it seems to coincide with the change of synth texture at 00:20. It still sounds to me more like hiss rather than a synth sound, though. Having said that, I notice the synth parts in the sketch for "What Happened" ask for "awe" and "haze", so perhaps one man's hiss is another man's haze...
  5. I wasn't listening through headphones, so I don't think it is that, although when I did switch to headphones it seemed worse! I have listened to the sound clip of track 1 on the Intrada website and notice the same kind of hiss, and so on reflection maybe it isn't a problem with either my ripped file or my copy; I guess it is just there in the source.
  6. Have just received this CD, and I must admit I'm finding some tracks are so hissy that it's incredibly distracting, and is making the whole experience a bit of a let-down. It seems to come and go, but notable examples come very early on, e.g. suddenly from 00:22 in CD1, Track 1 (Prologue), stopping around 00:41 but then coming back between 01:18-01:28. Similarly, track 4 (What happened?) is almost unlistenable, with very loud hiss from 02:27, dropping off a bit around 02:33 but then coming back at 02:46. I haven't got much further than this as it's somewhat spoiling the experience. As nobody else seems to have commented on it, I wonder if it means I have one of the defective discs that some have mentioned, although I can't see any particularly obvious scratches. Anybody else hearing this hiss? No doubt I'm not allowed to post my ripped FLAC file here, but if there were some permitted way for someone to listen to my ripped file, that would be much appreciated...
  7. Ah, that's interesting. I hadn't heard the Prague version, so wasn't aware there was another B flat version out there! Quite probably a misprint, then, and not altogether surprising. It's by far from the only printing error I've noticed, both in some of the piano reductions and also occasionally in a Signature Edition. (I'm still convinced the much-discussed E flat in cellos and basses at the beginning of Dartmoor 1912 is actually a misprint, and it should be an E natural as in the OST... )
  8. Sorry to disappoint but the CD in the deluxe edition is the same as the stand-alone CD, i.e. only 13 tracks (I know because I have a copy!). I agree it is ambiguously worded, though. The blu-ray has six extra tracks but only as part of the live concert video (it also has the 13 tracks from the CD in blu-ray audio format). The six extra tracks are all with A-SM and are all present on her Across the Stars disc, which I presume is why DG didn't include them on the CD (I realise they are different performances, but I guess they didn't feel the need to double up on the repertoire). The six are Hedwig's Theme, Sabrina, Donnybrook Fair, Cinderella Liberty, Duel from Tintin, and Remembrances. Anything referring to a "2-disc" release simply means one CD plus one blu-ray. The tracklist you've given is the running order for the blu-ray (including the video conversation between A-SM and JW). It looks like Universal have run out of the deluxe edition (UK Amazon is saying despatched within 1-2 months, which would sort of tally with US Amazon saying it's not out until October). There also seems to be a further product coming in December with catalogue number 4839156, which as far as I can tell is just a jewel-case version of the current digipak single CD release.
  9. It's definitely meant to be F sharp (i.e. concert B natural, not B flat) for fourth horn in the score (at least, in the manuscript; I haven't seen the published Adventures on Earth Hal Leonard score). So I'm assuming it's just a mistake that wasn't spotted (I think I read somewhere that they only had two rehearsals, which might explain some of the other small ensemble issues here and there given the Vienna Phil's unfamiliarity with this repertoire). Speaking of errors in E.T., I'm pretty sure the timpanist also cocks up by coming in two bars early at 7:37 - it doesn't quite fit what's going on, and then he does it again, correctly, two bars later at 7:42. He also very slightly anticipates the final chord at 9:47. But, I realise I'm being very picky...
  10. No, it doesn't seem to be from this. i listened to the whole thing.. Right composer, wrong opera! It's Je veux vivre, from Gounod's Romeo et Juliette
  11. Where? I believe the main similarity is the cue in The Lost World where the team is walking through the long grass and gets eaten by raptors, the first minute or so of which sounds very much like a slightly slowed down version of the cue called 'The Island' from King Kong (beginning of Track 3 on the Stromberg CD).
  12. Sorry, but there is DEFINITELY a sax at the beginning of Irina's theme, doubling the stopped horn all the way through. You can hear its distinctive timbre most prominently on the G#-A at the very beginning (ie the second and third notes of the theme) and especially the two B flats at 00:22. After that latter moment, the horn becomes more prominent, but it's certainly there still.
  13. Funnily enough, the opening sort of reminded me a little bit of the beginning of John Adams's El Dorado, albeit a much faster and more frenetic version of the latter. I suppose that connection is appropriate for this film...
  14. I must also strongly disagree about Secret Doors and Scorpions being boring; I think it's a fantastic track! 00:32 to 00:43 especially is one of the few bits that sounds to me as if it could have come straight out of The Last Crusade, and then there's some great bass clarinet/bassoon writing just after it. But my favourite bit of the whole track is the amazing horn bit at 01:24, underscoring the opening of the secret door; that's just a great moment that I enjoy playing over and over again! I really, really like those few seconds!
  15. Well, I'm listening to the CD as I type this (I work in a music shop, and our copies arrived today, so I stayed behind to have a listen...), and hearing the whole thing is just fantastic. The sound clips only really give a glimpse of how good this is. "Spell of the Skull" and "Ants!" are my particular favourites; they're just extraordinary tracks. "Jungle Chase" and "Grave Robbers" are both pretty good, too. Also, "A Whirl Through Academe" has a highly amusing quotation from Brahms's "Academic Festival Overture" (for obvious reasons...). And, yes, there is some rather bizarre Mariachi music in "The Journey to Akator", which I can only assume is source music. The transition still seems quite abrupt, though. "Hidden Treasure and the City of Gold" does have a section that sounds to my ears to be exactly the same as a bit from War of the Worlds, but it's only a very brief 'borrowing'... Anyway, all in all, a tremendous soundtrack. Right, back to my listening...
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