The Egyptian [Limited edition]

1954年影片《The Egyptian》原声。限量发行3000张。 by Bruce Eder Renowned as a virtually unheard of collaboration between two film music giants -- Alfred Newman and Bernard Herrmann -- the score for The Egyptian received a perfectly good re-recording several years ago on the Marco Polo label, but comes to us now in this limited-edition (3000 copies pressed) from Film Score Monthly's Golden Age Classics series from its surviving original master recordings -- because of tape damage, "only" 72 minutes of the original 100 minutes or so of original music from those recordings is present here, so the re-recording is still valid and, indeed, essential. But there's nothing like the bracing attack of the original film tracks, or the warm, gentle delicacy of some of the more lyrical passages, to bring forth the power of the music the way it was all meant to be heard, and so for fans of Herrmann especially and Newman to a slightly lesser degree, this disc is essential listening. The annotation, as is usually the case in this series of releases, is extremely thorough and informative, not only about the score but the unusual film project behind it.