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David & Bathsheba - Newman - Intrada CD
I recently bought this CD, and the liner notes suggest that masters for the "entire score" were found. However, having now watched the film, I note that there are a number of cues (amounting to around 20 minutes of music) that are not included. The notes actually mention "Palace Dance", and show a still of the scene, but ... no cue. Were these missing cues damaged in some way? Or, despite the notes, had they simply not survived at all?
In addition, I note that two cues are wrongly titled: track 5 is given as partly "A Shepherd". But the music is actually for a scene before the shepherd appears. The music for the scene of David & Bathsheba in the countryside is not on the CD. Similarly, track 15 is described as "Walk to Tabernacle". But the old soundstage recording gives it its more correct title: "Flashback". The actual cue for the walk to the tabernacle is, again, not included in either CD. (Actually the Intrada CD doesn't have any music that wasn't already on the Soundstage version.) This mistitling strikes me as unusually lazy - unless there is some other explanation.
Does anyone know anything about all of this?
david, December 9, 2005; 12:49 PM
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Can I suggest you write to Intrada? They are pretty easy going and I have not a had a problem with them.
TheSaint.786, December 9, 2005; 8:40 PM
I posed "David's" question to Intrada and received the following response:
Upon mastering the album - and after most of the notes were commissioned - we found some cues to be too severely damaged to be able to salvage them. Regarding the "Palace Dance", I think the liner notes actually indicate these selections weren't available so there is nothing misleading here. As to the cue titles - they are not "wrongly titled" and we stand by our listings. We have used the titles as printed on the actual Fox cue sheets. This is not the case with the "Soundstage" issue which is a low quality bootleg - and something in which we don't give a damn about. It was made by profiteers, not preservationists. Our CD offers the best possible sound quality available and is officially licensed from 20th Century Fox.
To identify anything about this project as being "unusually lazy" - especially coming from a listener that champions a low quality bootleg - strikes me as an opinion with without merit. To claim our cue titles are incorrect when it's the bootleg that uses none of the actual Fox published titles is offensive to say the least.
This foul opinion is neither warranted nor is it shared by us. We stand by our preservation work and don't consider our efforts to be lazy.
Finally, we would gladly enjoy having the offended listener stop "supporting" our label and leave us with one more copy for a listener far more deserving.
hammon, December 9, 2005; 9:26 PM
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