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Originally posted by Lou Goldberg:
Interesting mix of music we already have and pieces we don't. I think Rumon Gamba is hit and miss but he seems to be Chandos's wonder boy. It would have been nice to have more of The Black Rose and less of pieces that Kenneth Alwyn already recorded for other labels, but I'll take any more Addinsell the recording world wants to give me. Now go back and record the RVW Vol. 2 and let me hear 49th Parallel already. Then prove your salt and put out an Easdale CD already!

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I adore all of the stuff Gamba has recorded so far, and he is getting better and better, IMO.

The Addinsell CD is a good mixture of stuff already out and never recorded suites.

And, even if Gumba wants to record it or Chandos wants to make their Addinsell disc some kind of "definitive" compilation, do we really need yet another Warsaw Concerto?

Likewise, we already have good suites from Tom Brown's Schooldays and Goodbye Mr. Chips. And my attitude is that, once you know this music is out there already, unless those versions suck or you think you can top them, you should be aiming your sights at other stuff that hasn't been done.

Of course, it's film titles and not scores that seem to sell these discs, so to do an Addinsell without Warsaw or Chips supposedly hurts sales. And that's sad--people should be buying this stuff for the quality of the music, not because it's some film they remember. That attitude is what's keeping Chandos from recording Africa Texas Style or some of the other Arnold scores that exist for no-name films and it's crap they aren't doing this.

Good news about Easdale but talk is one thing and recording and issuing are another. This is so long overdue everyone involved should be hanging their heads low and be unable to sleep at night that this hasn't been done already.

Chandos really doesn't care (much) what other labels have recorded or not. They didn't have a version of the Warsaw Concerto in their catalogue, now they have one. I would propably have done the same.

But, I know what you mean.

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Originally posted by Lou Goldberg:
Yes, I had heard that Easdale had sold his music to someone who no one could find. I guess he turned up.

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The person in question was a good friend of Easdale. If I got it right, the actual copyrights belong to the Easdale heirs...

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Originally posted by Lou Goldberg:
GK--So is Chandos or someone planning to do an Easdale CD and what are they thinking of recording. Probably another Red Shoes Ballet knowing my luck when we need everything but that.

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Originally posted by Lou Goldberg:
If Chandos or whoever is going to do a few VOLUMES of Easdale then sure re-record the ballet. But if you have any say over there, tell them to cut out this suite nonsense and record complete scores like they did with SCOTT. Just what manuscripts have shown up and does this mean we'll see recordings of Easdale concert works as well?

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Well as most (if not all) of Esdales manuscripts survive... Simple maths

BTW, a Frankel OST will come from Chelsearialtostudios.com

NIGHT IN THE CITY

with the US score in stereo by Waxman: http://chelsearialtostudios.com/nightcity.mp3

and the UK score in mono by Frankel: http://chelsearialtostudios.com/nightfra.mp3

Just the main titles... So far 1:0 for Frankel.