The one coupled with "Planet Of The Apes" is a suite from the film. And a damned good one at that! Lots of Wah Wah guitar work and other far out early 70's Goldmithery.

The other, I have no idea what it is. Looks like an el-cheapo, someone on this site will come along with word on it I'm sure.

victoravalentine, June 23, 2007; 11:23 AM

Hello Bellfoosh.

The CD coupling THE MEPHISTO WALTZ and ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES is a bootleg from a label named "Pony Express". The sound quality is dreadful. If you compare this CD to the Varèse Sarabande release, MEPHISTO is 3 minutes shorter in the Pony Express CD, but ESCAPE is 9 minutes longer than Varèse's. Anyway, my recommendation is that you purchase the official CD with the complete PLANET OF THE APES (51 minutes of great music) and the 16' 30'' suite from ESCAPE.

Greetings,
Angel

angeldibujo, June 23, 2007; 4:53 PM

The Pony Express CD is in mono, yet not the worst in sound. So if you're a real collector of
Goldsmith stuff you probably would want it.

chris, June 23, 2007; 5:34 PM

Does anyone know why a suite from such a film as "Escape From The Planet Of The Apes" was recording at or around the original release year of the film yet never released commercially?

The Varese Sarabande CD of Planet Of/ Escape From, does not include info on the origin of the suite from the second film.

victoravalentine, June 23, 2007; 6:02 PM

Hi Knives!

The music from ESCAPE... was never released in any format until the appearance of "bootlegs". I suppose that the suite was assembled for the Varèse release from the original tracks. So it is possible that someday Varèse itself (or any other soundtrack label) would release a complete ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES with all the music separated in tracks.

They also did a suite with the music of THE OTHER, which is a really delightful score, and I hope someday it will appear in its entirety divided into different tracks. I think that the reason for making these suites instead of presenting all the cues in its original form is no other than giving a more enjoyable listening experience to the aficionado. It's a good idea indeed, but sometimes I prefer to listen to a concrete track with its beginning and its end clearly defined. In my humble opinion, a better idea would be including all the individual tracks and, at the end of the disc, the same music presented in a suite form (if there is enough room in the CD).

Regards,
Angel

angeldibujo, June 24, 2007; 2:54 PM

Why Varese? Why not FSM? They've released a lot of Fox scores, and seemingly from original tracks used in the films themselves. The APES films all got remixed into Dolby Stereo years ago, so to do that they had to have access to original multi-track masters (at least separated music/fx tracks), so a series of complete soundtrack releases from ALL the APES films isn't too farfetched.

kriegerg69, June 25, 2007; 3:08 AM

JULY 2nd!

Could it be?

serifiot, June 25, 2007; 7:00 PM

Could it be.....what?? More information, please.

kriegerg69, June 27, 2007; 12:02 AM

What is happening on July 2nd???

serifiot, June 27, 2007; 11:39 AM

Don't play games, please....YOU were the one who said "JULY 2nd! Could it be?" What did you mean by that?

kriegerg69, June 28, 2007; 2:49 AM