UK_Tubist

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...

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...

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. 

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... )

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. 

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...