Ollie 1,375 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 A sneak peek at Tadlow's upcoming recording of Taras Bulba - Franz Waxman with Nic Raine and the City of Prague PhilharmonicI can't wait.
Maurizio 6,913 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 After the wonderful re-recordings of The Private Lives of Sherlock Holmes, True Grit, The Alamo, The Guns of Navarone, Lawrence of Arabia and Conan the Barbarian, Tadlow Music has recorded the complete score of Taras Bulba, the great Franz Waxman's score for the (not-so-great) 1962 film directed by J. Lee Thompson starring Tony Curtis and Yul Brinner.The complete score has already been recorded, with Nic Raine conducting the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. No release date has been announced yet.Here's a tasty, exihilarating preview that James Fitzpatrick shared today on YouTube: the adrenaline-pumping piéce de resistance "Ride to Dubno".
Joe Brausam 234 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 You forgot to mention my favorite, El Cid! I'm really excited for this recording, I own all their recordings except for Navarone and True Grit (this one being especially surprising, considering how much I love Bernstein) - maybe I should pick those up to help the wait for this one!
Maurizio 6,913 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 Ah, yes, Tadlow's El Cid knocks everyone's socks off!
Wojo 2,458 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 I wish I were interested, but after buying Kritzerland's release last year....
Naïve Old Fart 13,020 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 This is great news, and I'm sure that it will be up to Tadlow's high standard.Thanks, Maurizio.
Maurizio 6,913 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 I wish I were interested, but after buying Kritzerland's release last year....Just fyi, the Kritzerland's is a straight reissue of the OST album (with a couple of bonus tracks), which was a re-recording done by Waxman with a smaller orchestra.
Romão 2,473 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 A much smaller orchestra, I might add. Can't wait for this one
Joe Brausam 234 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 It never fails for me to get excited for a Tadlow release. I love every recording of theirs that I own. James Fitzpatrick has some great taste in film music!
Ollie 1,375 Posted March 8, 2011 Author Posted March 8, 2011 I posted a link in the upcoming soundtracks thread last night as well. I wouldn't mind having a Tadlow thread but because of the time it takes to record and release it would get buried.
Wojo 2,458 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 Aren't the official label threads pointed to in the thread express sticky? If not, make it so.
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,383 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 Hmmm...has anyone investigated a Wave file of this new recording? How is the cut-off?
Wojo 2,458 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 I wouldn't put any stock into over-analyzing a YouTube video for acoustic fidelity. Let the experts at FSM rip this a new one when it debuts.But that was exhilirating! I may have to re-evaluate buying this. I do really enjoy the score, though I've never seen the film, and the Tadlow folks know what they're doing.
Jay 46,241 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 Hmmm...has anyone investigated a Wave file of this new recording? How is the cut-off? A separate thread for each Tadlow release is fine by me. They only do 1-2 a year
Romão 2,473 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 James Fitzpatrick has hinted that the next Tadlow re-recording would be the "less subtle score ever written". Lack of subtlety always reminds somehow of Tiomkin, and bearing in mind Tadlow has already recored two Tiomkin scores, could we we expect next something like The Fall of the Roman Empire? I know James is not particularly fond of that score, but it might be a popular release.I know things are all tangled up with the Roza estate, but Quo Vadis is crying for the Tadlow treatment.
Ollie 1,375 Posted March 8, 2011 Author Posted March 8, 2011 Part of me wonders, and I know joey225 has suggested it first, if Varese isn't doing a recording of Quo Vadis with Joel McNeely.
Joe Brausam 234 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 It makes sense to me, considering it won the poll on McNeely's site a few years back. But we'll see!
crocodile 9,724 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra seems to be better with older repertoire. The clip sounds really good.Karol
Joe Brausam 234 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 They really excel with these reconstructions under Nic Raine. I don't know if they give it more effort, if they have more rehearsal time or what, but their work with Raine and Fitzpatrick on these recordings is just pure magic.
MovieMusicMaestro 77 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 I am surprised how acceptable the orchestra sounds despite of this untalented, ridiculous "conductor".
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,383 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 That is a rather rude thing to say.
Jay 46,241 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 I am surprised how acceptable the orchestra sounds despite of this untalented, ridiculous "conductor".
Joe Brausam 234 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 What are you expecting from him? He conducts for a living, and he's not conducting a concert here! He is providing a VERY CLEAR pattern to keep the orchestra in line with a specific tempo that they try not to deviate from. This isn't the kind of recording for "expressive" conducting, this is for precise delineation of the beats and tempo. You watch him and you can clearly see what beat he is on what the tempo is. That is what he's going for. So don't throw words like that around, he knows what he's doing and he does it well.
Maurizio 6,913 Posted June 13, 2011 Posted June 13, 2011 Tadlow's new recording of Waxman's complete Taras Bulba finally available to order!http://www.tadlowmusic.com/2011/06/taras-bulba/The preview clips sound amazingly good.
Joe Brausam 234 Posted June 13, 2011 Posted June 13, 2011 It'll be a hard wait for this and Villa Rides. Both sound excellent.
ManofDestiny 104 Posted June 14, 2011 Posted June 14, 2011 Never heard any of these titles. Are they really that great?I've brought everything Tadlow released last year, by the way.So if they are as good as El Cid or Lawrence of Arabia, I will buy they without hesitate.
Wojo 2,458 Posted June 14, 2011 Posted June 14, 2011 Hmmm. I really enjoy the Kritzerland album. I'm torn between just keeping that and buying this one.I'm still waiting for Steiner's Don Juan to be released...and I'm really bad. I was waiting for Lawrence of Arabia to come out for so long, and I haven't touched it yet. It's been a frikkin year almost.
Sharkissimo 1,978 Posted June 14, 2011 Posted June 14, 2011 I am surprised how acceptable the orchestra sounds despite of this untalented, ridiculous "conductor".Raine's technique is alright, but the often sloppy performances he gets from his orchestra, weak acoustics of the hall, lazy production, along with several inaccurate arrangements, results in him and the COPP to getting a lot of flack from some film score collectors/enthusiasts.
Joe Brausam 234 Posted July 21, 2011 Posted July 21, 2011 Well the new Tadlow recordings are announced!!Fall of the Roman Empire (Tiomkin)Conan the Destroyer (Poledouris)And for next year? Quo Vadis!!
Ollie 1,375 Posted July 21, 2011 Author Posted July 21, 2011 Ooh, I forgot that they were going to make an announcement today.Unless LaLaLand is behind this recording we'll have two versions of Empire. I'll buy both. One of my grails. Great news on Quo Vadis! Oh yeah, it will be nice to hear Conan The Destroyer done properly with a good performance.
Jay 46,241 Posted July 21, 2011 Posted July 21, 2011 Weird that they would re-record FOTRE when LLL is releasing the original tracks this yearConan The Destroyer makes sense since they did Barbarian. I wonder if they will adapt the written score back to a full size orchestra, since Poledouris condensed it for the orchestra he had to use
Joe Brausam 234 Posted July 21, 2011 Posted July 21, 2011 It's possible that LLL had no knowledge of Tadlow's plans to record the complete score. No matter though, I'll buy both anyway, they'll be nice complementary albums.I'm really happy for Conan the Destroyer - I had assumed they would record it as it was in even more dire need of that than the first score was. And Quo Vadis? I'm just beyond words with that one. I love that score, and James Fitzpatrick must have gone through hell and back with the rights to record this and obtaining the music. Really with this score being rerecorded and FotRE all my grails have been fulfilled. All I really want now is a complete Hook and whatever FSM may be working on for Ben-Hur.
Ollie 1,375 Posted July 21, 2011 Author Posted July 21, 2011 I still want The High And The Mighty, although I do have the "unofficial" version.
Joe Brausam 234 Posted July 21, 2011 Posted July 21, 2011 I haven't heard that outside of the short recording in the FSM Bernstein box, is it that good?
Ollie 1,375 Posted July 21, 2011 Author Posted July 21, 2011 the theme is the highlight but yes the rest of the score holds up. I think most here would find it too golden age sounding for them but I like it.
Delorean90 47 Posted July 21, 2011 Posted July 21, 2011 I caught part of the film when AMC aired it in widescreen (following the DVD release), and The High and the Mighty would be a must buy for me.
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,383 Posted July 21, 2011 Posted July 21, 2011 Oh yeah, it will be nice to hear Conan The Destroyer done properly with a good performance.looking forward. But i hope they will make a new recording of Crystal Palace instead of using the one on their Conan Re-recording.
fommes 165 Posted July 21, 2011 Posted July 21, 2011 Weird that they would re-record FOTRE when LLL is releasing the original tracks this yearWait - what? We're getting two versions of this this year?Nice!
Jay 46,241 Posted July 21, 2011 Posted July 21, 2011 Tadlow's new recording of Waxman's complete Taras Bulba finally available to order!http://www.tadlowmus...06/taras-bulba/The preview clips sound amazingly good.It's available from all the usual American retailers too:http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/15551/TARAS-BULBA-2-CD-PRE-ORDER/http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7200/.fhttp://www.moviemusic.com/soundtrack/M08010/tarasbulba-tadlow/
Romão 2,473 Posted July 21, 2011 Posted July 21, 2011 Wow, what great news! I've been greatly enjoying Taras Bulba, but Quo Vadis might be the iconic score most in need of a complete re-recording. What wonderful news
Joe Brausam 234 Posted July 22, 2011 Posted July 22, 2011 From James Fitzpatrick:"Yes it is confirmed next release with the City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus will be on Prometheus Records, produced for them by Tadlow Music:The complete 140 epic score to FALL OF THE ROMAN. Every bit of the score has been recorded from the original scores and parts used 1964 including music not used in the film. Olivia Tiomkin Douglas and Volta music were gracious enough to make this music available and grant first recording rights for the music that did not appear on the OST LP.This production has probably been the biggest and most expensive in the history of re-recordings of classic film scores as the main title alone features an orchestra of 130 musicians including 80 strings,6 horns, 6 trumpets, 6 trombones etc...While still not having a great liking for the film, once I had recorded all the music without reference to the images, I realised it is one of the greatest, and certainly the most difficult to play and record, of all film scores and certainly stands by itself as a massive piece of virtuoso composition.Then next on the Prometheus/Tadlow agenda is the complete CONAN THE DESTROYER. This fulfils Basil's wish, and that of his family who lent their support to this project, that a good recording is made of this score as the composer is on record as saying how appalling the original recording and performance were. The original orchestra could not even play his main title music ... so the version in the film is an edit of various other cues.And yes, plans are in final stages to record the complete QUO VADIS with the permission of EMI Music ...the publishers of the score"Many thanksJamesSent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
ManofDestiny 104 Posted July 22, 2011 Posted July 22, 2011 I will order both of they. In the day they release.
Jay 46,241 Posted September 27, 2011 Posted September 27, 2011 Fall Of The Roman Empire is now up for orderinghttp://www.tadlowmusic.com/2011/09/the-fall-of-the-roman-empire
Joe Brausam 234 Posted September 27, 2011 Posted September 27, 2011 Ordered mine right away, I can't wait for this one!
Koray Savas 2,260 Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 Did Intrada ever give a time frame for the Conan scores?
Matt C 605 Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 Did Intrada ever give a time frame for the Conan scores?No, not really.
Joe Brausam 234 Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 Destroyer was just recorded in the past week or two, so I'd expect to see it released around May.
ManofDestiny 104 Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 Ordered. Waiting this for pretty long time.
fommes 165 Posted September 28, 2011 Posted September 28, 2011 Yay, my third favourite Tiomkin score! Rerecorded to boot!
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