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Studio Davout in France (since demolished).
 
It is my understanding the Moonraker tapes are not lost at all. They were brought back to the UK for additional mixing during post production.
 
They just weren’t stored with other tapes available for the 2003 expansions (as was A View to a Kill). That has since led to the whole missing tapes myth.

Studio Davout in France (since demolished).
 
It is my understanding the Moonraker tapes are not lost at all. They were brought back to the UK for additional mixing during post production.
 
They just weren’t stored with other tapes available for the 2003 expansions (as was A View to a Kill). That has since led to the whole missing tapes myth.

Studio Davout in France (since demolished).
 
It is my understanding the Moonraker tapes are not lost at all. They were brought back to the UK for additional mixing during post production.
 
They just weren’t stored with other tapes available for the 2003 expansions (as was A View to a Kill). That has since led to the whole missing tapes myth.

Studio Davout in France (since demolished).
 
It is my understanding the Moonraker tapes are not lost at all. They were brought back to the UK for additional mixing during post production.
 
They just weren’t stored with other tapes available for the 2003 expansions (as was A View to a Kill). That has since led to the whole missing tapes myth.

Barry's OST program was a good but feel like a complete chronological sequence would fair better. The original album would be very easy to recreate anyway providing cues are not combined.
 
The sequencing of the Rykodisc & 2003 remasters was terrible having the OST first and bonus tracks after. Same goes for LTK, not really that impressed with the OST sequence.

Here is a recreation of the Prisoner of Azkaban Japanese CD cover for anyone interested. Couldn't find a high res version of this online and find it much better than the standard faces cover. Only difference is I changed the 'Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture'.
 

 
I've also created custom covers for other Harry Potter soundtracks 
 
Harry Potter Custom Covers

Is that a joke? Seriously? Must be the most pointless release ever. 

Fiddler on the roof 3 discs
 

Fiddler on the roof 3 discs
 

Well MV can think what he wants, but there sure seems to be a demand for these tracks on this forum at least.

A couple more suggestions to check out:
Peggy Sue Got Married - the deluxe edition is quite expensive now but there was a song/score album which has the main Barry themes on. Peggy Sue's Homecoming is definitely worth checking out.
Chaplin - the opening sequence to this film and Barry's main theme fit so perfectly together.
Howard the Duck - the score is no where near as lame as the movie and is quite a fun score. Has a Bond feel to it.
The Dove - a really nice score that captures the essence of the film very well. Sail the Summer Wind is a nice song and also worth checking out.
 

I believe a 5 box set is coming out later in the year with all 4 Indy films remastered in 4K and 5.1 audio to mark the 40th anniversary of Raiders. Perhaps the music has been newly remastered for this? Seems Paramount still have rights to the 4 films so must have the rights to the music.

I really like how that cue and the original waltz segue so perfectly while the revised version and waltz also sound so great together. The fact that they were switched around in the movie is weird.

Disc 2, Divination Class, Trelawney's Crystal Ball.
 
 

Which menu on the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD can 1M4X Marge Points the Finger be heard?

Which menu on the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD can 1M4X Marge Points the Finger be heard?

I vastly prefer The Last Valley score to LitW, though it's of course a rather inferior movie.

I can understand that. And they are pretty much sister scores. But there's a simplicity, a lack of ornament, a deprieve to Lion in Winter that makes it a wonderful evocation of the period

For me that was Potter. One of the happiest days of my life.

Based on other rerecordings I have listened to for other film scores. Not that all rerecordings are bad but I don't think they are as good as when the composer originally recorded the score for a film. When I listen to the Gerhardt albums, I'll make a judgement whether I prefer the original recording or the rerecording.

I like them a lot. ESB includes concert version of Han Solo and the Princess as was written by JW
 

It seems so pointless having the sessions when a definitive edition has been prepared and released just to have a cue with so many takes with probably little or no variation. If there was anything substantially different, I am sure it would have been on the La-La Land set.

Babe: The Deluxe Edition (CD)
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Nigel Westlake
UPC: 888072198562
Release Date: 1/8/2021
Limited Edition Of 1500
$ 19.98
 
Babe was a massive surprise hit in 1995. A children’s film starring a talking pig seemed to be the last thing anybody expected from visionary filmmaker George Miller (Mad Max), but writer-producer Miller, adapting a 1983 book with director and cowriter Chris Noonan, created a universally praised, moving film about a farm pig (a combination of animatronics and computer graphics) who longs to be a sheepdog. With a memorable lead performance by James Cromwell as Babe’s farmer-owner, Babe received glowing reviews and seven Oscar nominations, winning for Best Visual Effects.
 
A major part of Babe’s exquisite, perfectly pitched storybook tone is the charming, resonant symphonic score by Australian composer Nigel Westlake. Westlake interpolated a tapestry of classical works, most notably the maestoso section of Saint-Saëns’ third (Organ) symphony, to perfectly capture the human emotions of the film’s animal characters, while ironically treating the humans with an animal-like comedy and whimsy. (The Saint-Saëns melody had been adapted into the British reggae pop hit, “If I Had Words,” by Scott Fitzgerald & Yvonne Kelley; a sped-up version is used in Babe’s end credits.)
 
Babe was released as a music-and-dialogue album at the time of the film. This CD Club edition features the expanded score as music only, packaged with a new essay by Tim Greiving featuring insights from Miller, Noonan, Cromwell and Westlake.
 
1. Opening Titles (From the Motion Picture Babe) – Piggery (4:02)
2. Fairground (Extended Version) (3:16)
3. I Want My Mum / The Way Things Are (4:40)
4. Fly Would Never / Crime And Punishment (3:50)
5. Anorexic Duck Pizzicati (Extended Version) (3:21)
6. Repercussions / Into The Knackery (2:23)
7. Pig, Pig, Piggy / Mother And Son (2:28)
8. Pork Is A Nice Sweet Meat (3:26)
9. Christmas Morning (Extended Version) (5:08)
10. Separate The Chickens / Round Up (2:37)
11. Babe’s Round Up (Extended Version) (3:59)
12. Mad Dog Rex (1:14)
13. The Sheep Pig (Extended Version) (1:47)
14. Dog Tragedy (1:36)
15. Hoggett Shows Babe / Maa’s Death (2:58)
16. Home Pig / Hoggett With Gun (2:48)
17. Pig Of Destiny / Up To Trouble (3:29)
18. The Cat / What Are Pigs For (2:26)
19. Where’s Babe / Hoggett’s Song (3:23)
20. Babe In The Kitchen / Help For Babe (4:32)
21. Baa Ram Ewe / Rex On Truck (1:46)
22. The Gauntlet / Moment Of Truth (Extended Version) (1:45)
23. Finale - That’ll Do, Pig, That’ll Do (1:39)
 
24. If I Had Words (2:54)
25. Toreador Aria (Excerpt) (:22)
26. Pork Is A Nice Sweet Meat (With Vocals) (3:51)
27. Blue Moon (Excerpt) (:40)
28. Cantique de Jean Racine (Excerpt) (:41)
29. If I Had Words (Hoggett’s Song) (1:52)
 
Music Composed and Produced by Nigel Westlake
Performed by the Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra
 
https://www.varesesarabande.com/collections/all/products/babe-the-deluxe-edition-cd

Jerry Goldsmith's rejected score to Star Wars.

2001: A Space Odyssey