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Also, the fanfares surrounding the Parade of the Charioteers sound crystal clear. Surely the fanfares are what Rozsa wanted to sound like source music, not the parade. According to the online notes, the version I'm talking about (disc 2, track 16) is the full version, not the highly edited version that ended up in the film. It's the edited version that's on the Rhino set, I think. That's fine, and I'm very happy to have it. However, it's such a difference in sound quality that I think I'd rather have had the good-quality edited version in the body of the soundtrack on disc 2, and the full version as an extra on one of the other discs. As it stands, it's very jarring.

Ok, so why does the Parade of the Charioteers (Disc 2, track 16) sound like crap compared to the surrounding tracks? It really sounds bad! Is it taken from a different source??? What a disappointment. It's one of the most famous moments in the score, and sounds really poor in comparison to the bright, full-sounding tracks surrounding it. The Parade of the Charioteers on the Rhino set sounds much better, but then it seems to be a different take.

I started with disc 1. The only beef I have with the packaging is that the booklet doesn't contain all the track details. I had to go to the website and download pdf files of all the info. I'd far rather have had all this physically in a bigger booklet included with the set. However, the sound is gorgeous.

Faleel, seriously?

Funniest moment: Christopher Guest's troupe as test audience for Wizard of Oz. Most uncomfortable moment: The painfully unfunny "documentary-style" bit with Robert Downey Jr. Moment when I actually punched the air: Christopher Plummer finally getting an Oscar. Moment when I turned off and went to bed: After the music awards were announced.

The artist score was actually very effective. Shame that the most important moment in the film actually uses Herrmann's love theme from Vertigo, though.

It's a hand I've shaken myself, you know

Bollocks. Yet another winner with no formal training in music. This is not a good trend.

Care to enter the Ben Hur track details into iTunes while listening to the Herrmann? EDIT: Never mind, the tracks names have now been added to iTunes! Someone's been busy since getting their CDs!

Got it! It looks gorgeous. Won't get a chance to listen to it until tomorrow as we're throwing a party tonight and have much preparing to do. I tried to upload the CDs to iTunes. The track names haven't been uploaded onto iTunes yet. I really can't be bothered to type them all out myself this time (especially for a 5-disc set). If anyone else uploads the track names I'll be very grateful!

It's not out until March, unless you're talking about the animated series.

This Dance Macabre collection: http://www.audiophil...=1&kw=Classical (what great music for a 6-year old with a good imagination! Great cover, too!) The Reader's Digest Festival of Light Classical Music (12 records): http://www.discogs.c...release/1469012 (I played these records to death as a kid) This Delius collection: http://eil.com/shop/...atalogid=525691 (The first composer whose music I fell in love with) Kraftwerk: Autobahn http://www.discogs.c...n/release/63961 (Still one of my favourite synth albums. Beautiful!) Vaughan Williams Choral Music (7 records): http://www.cdandlp.c...oral-music.html These five records/box-sets were hugely important to me as a child. My Nana and Grandad gave me the top two in the late 70s. My parents gave me the next two (the Kraftwerk for Christmas 1975 and the Delius for Christmas 1980. The Vaughan Williams I saved up for and bought myself (at great cost) somewhere around 1985. These records were all influential in my development of a love for music. If I could add a 6th to the list it would be the original 2-lp set of The Empire Strikes Back from 1980. I still wish someone would release that on CD. I know the complete scores are better to own, but I grew to love the edited versions of the cues on the 2-record set! The Star Wars 2-record set was released on CD, why not the Empire set?

"Your order with ScreenArch​ives.com has shipped" Oh yes!

Very exciting news! Finally I can get rid of that Concorde set that I foolishly paid a bloody fortune for on e-bay.

V.I. Lenin! Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!

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I don't think the size of the work makes any difference. You should be consistant. In my dissertation I italicized all actual titles. A generic title like symphony, study, or prelude etc, should not be italicized as it is not really an actual title. When referencing Rautavaara's seventh symphony in my dissertation I would use the following format: Rautavaara, Symphony No.7, Angel of Light. If no generic title is part of the overall title, italics should suffice. For instance, Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue.

Ordered! I already have the phenomenal Rhino set, but this just looks too good to miss.

I don't think they're actually legal or have the "blessing" of the BBC. I think the BBC turns a blind eye to them, if anything. I'm pretty sure the BBC have mentioned these productions on the extras on one of their DVD releases. So long as they are only made available on VHS format, and so long as Loose Cannon doesn't charge for them, the BBC is ok with it. Trouble is, I want an AVI because I haven't got a VHS player.

Wow. I can't believe they are actually doing it. It's plain to any Dr Who fan that the Borg are a bit of a rip off of the Cybermen. This comic kind of acknowledges that fact by having the two villains together in the same adventure. On a different note: Does anyone know where I can download the Loose Cannon recons of the missing 60s Dr Who adventures? These are legal, and created with the blessing of the BBC. Currently the only way to get them is to send a VHS tape to Loose Cannon for them to copy the episodes onto. They then return it for free, minus the cost of the stamped addressed envelope. As I don't have a VHS player I really want to get these episodes on my computer. Can any Who fan point me in the right direction?

Logan's Run really looks silly now. Did it ever look good? I think the opening model shot from Logan's Run still looks amazing.

True art is rarely created by an artist putting exactly what's in his head onto the page/canvas/tape/film or whatever. True art STARTS that way, but then develops an identity of its own, shaped by the limitations of technology, the influence of the outside world, input from collaborators etc. Why is Kind of Blue an almost perfect jazz album? Because Miles' trumpet is influenced by the piano work of Bill Evans, and vice versa. Because both players creativity is grounded by the technical limitations of their ability and the equipment they had at their disposal. Because it feels fresh, slightly rough, real. In 2003, Mike Oldfield completely re-recorded his 1973 album Tubular Bells. He wanted it to sound perfect. He wanted to fix the technical issues on the original. He wanted it to sound more polished so it fitted a little better alongside the sequel albums Tubular Bells II (1992) and Tubular Bells III (1998). The problem was, that the new performance, while certainly sounding cleaner, lacked the immediacy, the roughness, the youthfulness, and the spirit of the original. What was in Oldfield's head in 2003 was not the same youthful spirit and motivation that was in his head back in 1973, when he was a young man with his whole life ahead of him, nothing to live up to, and absolutely nothing to prove to anyone. The original is a masterpiece. The 2003 version is an old man's attempt to recreate youth. It's rather sad, actually. What is in Lucas's head now is NOT what was in his head in 1977, when he had absolutely nothing to lose, and everything to gain. Star Wars is a young man's film. It needs to stay that way.

And 8??

He doesn't sing on Opera Sauvage (unless there's something I'm forgetting). I really love the whole See You Later album. It is all very obviously Vangelis, and yet the overall style is something he has never done before or since. It's a unique album. Have you heard the out-take tracks from that album? One of them (called Fertilization) is wonderful stuff. You can find it on You Tube with a rather interesting video someone created for it.