First off its a 2 CD set, and each CD runs only about 50 mins each! There are alot of selections that could have been added to fill over 40 mins of empty space. Or why didn't they expand on some of the suites of the harder to find scores such as adding 2 or 3 more selections from King of Kings,Quo Vadis, or more music from Providence?

The second thing is if you already own Silva's Warriors of the Silver Screen compliation. Then you already have 30 mins of music from this 100 min compliation. making only 1 disc useful since it would be only 70 mins. The selections taken from the WOTSS compliation are exactly the same as on this new Rosza compliation! If they had to use the same scores why didn't they use other cues from it??
Now I feel ripped off.

NP- Medal of Honor II

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Originally posted by Wedge:
Just how hard to find are "King of Kings," "Quo Vadis" and "Providence," respectively?

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Kings of Kings exist only in short re-recordings of suites. The original recording on a special Sony release is 75 min, but the sound is mono and terrible. It also sells for around $70 on eBay since its long OOP.

Quo Vadis exist as a 15min concert arranged suite.
Also a German bootleg is out there.

To quote Jack Smith:

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...the mammoth, last word release of KING OF
KINGS from Rhino will blow everything off the map.

Miklos Rozsa lives...

BlkJK

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Providence is readily available on CD from CAM I think.
http://www.moviemusic.com/title.asp?id=providence

that'll give you an idea of tracks.

Quo Vadis is only available on an transfer from the original LP, as I am told by Jack Smith (IIRC) the tapes were lost.
there is a nice CDR floating around with a re-recording plus the LP transfer.

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Originally posted by TimT:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=1 face=arial>quote:</font><HR size=1>Originally posted by Wedge:
[b]Just how hard to find are "King of Kings," "Quo Vadis" and "Providence," respectively?<HR size=1></BLOCKQUOTE>

Kings of Kings exist only in short re-recordings of suites. The original recording on a special Sony release is 75 min, but the sound is mono and terrible. It also sells for around $70 on eBay since its long OOP.

Quo Vadis exist as a 15min concert arranged suite.
Also a German bootleg is out there.

I'm not sure about Providence but I've never seen it.[/B]

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Rozsa made excellent rerecordings of Quo Vadis and Ben Hur in the '70s. They were issued on CD but of course are OOP. If London/Decca/Universal had a clue, they would reissue them.

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Originally posted by TimT:
Though all the music is top quality, I'd just like to say how disappointed I am in this recent compliation from Silva.

First off its a 2 CD set, and each CD runs only about 50 mins each! There are alot of selections that could have been added to fill over 40 more mins of music. Or why didn't they expand on some of the suites of the harder to find scores such as adding 2 or 3 more selections from [b]King of Kings,Quo Vadis, or more music from Providence?

The second thing is if you already own Silva's Warriors of the Silver Screen compliation. Then you already have 30 mins of music from this 100 min compliation. making only 1 disc useful since it would be only 70 mins. The selections taken from the WOTSS compliation are exactly the same as on this new Rosza compliation! If they had to use the same scores why didn't they use other cues from it??
Now I feel ripped off.

NP- Medal of Honor II[/B]

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I think the idea of having a CD that covers the highlights of Rozsa's scores is a great one. This CD may be offered as a one set Rozsa's Greatest Hits for the layman, but I could see buying other Rozsa CDs that would carry as much weight as this collection.

BMJ--IMHO I think you'd serve Rozsa's cause just as well by suggesting the Rhino 2 CD Rozsa at MGM set, the Angel Film Music by Miklos Rozsa with early re-records of The Red House and Quo Vadis, and the Gerhardt Spellbound CD.

Although there are boot versions out there, the real shame is not having legit CDs of the Rozsa's DGR 3 LP set that touched on just about everything.

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BMikeJ said:

Tim, I don't think these types of compilations are aimed at us. They are aimed more at people who aren't necessarily into film music. start.

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I beleive that. I don't think any normal sound track released even if its score, is aimed at us. But only exist to promote the movie or in this case the composer. The releases specifically aimed at us are the overly price "Collectors Edition with Deluxe Packaging" scemes.

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Originally posted by Lou Goldberg:

BMJ--IMHO I think you'd serve Rozsa's cause just as well by suggesting the Rhino 2 CD Rozsa at MGM set, the Angel Film Music by Miklos Rozsa with early re-records of The Red House and Quo Vadis, and the Gerhardt Spellbound CD.

Although there are boot versions out there, the real shame is not having legit CDs of the Rozsa's DGR 3 LP set that touched on just about everything.

NP: Promenade (Carlo Martelli)

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