Can't believe I don't have this title.
Thanks team Intrada for changing that
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| Author: | Roger Feigelson [ Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | INTRADA Announces Jerry Goldsmith's THE SECRET OF NIMH |
INTRADA Announces: THE SECRET OF NIMH Composed and Conducted by JERRY GOLDSMITH INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 332 The original album composer Jerry Goldsmith prepared for The Secret of NIMH in 1982 featured 12 tracks and ran a generous 48 minutes, covering almost all of the score’s major sequences. When Intrada set out to do an expanded and remastered edition, the complete recording sessions proved to be allusive. Missing elements are not uncommon in this business of soundtrack archaeology, but this one was a painful near miss. A deep search uncovered the first-generation, DBX-encoded 1982 album master assembled by Goldsmith and engineer Len Engel, as well as three rolls of 1″ 8-channel and one of three ½″ 3-channel tapes. While these didn’t reveal every sequence of Goldsmith’s magnificent score, they did contain one missing cue -- “At Your Service.” If only one cue of the unreleased material was to surface, this is the one to have. It accompanies the sequence when Mrs. Brisby first journeys into the lair of the intelligent rats. Additionally the elements revealed a complete “demo” version of the end-credit song performed by Sally Stevens and the orchestra. The latter is identical to the film recording with the exception of the temporary orchestra mix and levels, which largely yielded to the vocal for later balancing purposes. Goldsmith took the scoring assignment under the condition that he could score it like a live-action film. “As I told the producers, if they wanted a Disney-like, synchronize-every-cut type of score I couldn’t do it. I wanted to score it as a live-action film, and they agreed.” The score features as many as eight different themes for the film’s major characters and situations. As the composer described it: “They go from pure romanticism to impressionism, everything. It’s sort of an animated Peter and the Wolf, but it all hangs together cohesively. It’s a much more conservative score than, say, Omen or Outland or Alien or even Poltergeist, but it’s still diversely styled, musically, and it all seems to tie together very well.” In the film, two stories run in parallel. Mrs. Brisby is a widow, and one of her four children, Timothy, is sick with pneumonia. She is desperate to move her home away from the farmer’s fields, where it will soon be destroyed by plowing, but her family can’t move while her son is ill. The second story involves a group of rodents—rats and mice—being held at a facility run by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). After experimental drug treatments alter the rodents’ DNA and render them intelligent they escape—with the help of Mrs. Brisby’s husband—and form a colony underneath the farmer’s lawn. Because Mr. Brisby is killed while drugging the farmer’s cat, Dragon, he is a revered figure to the rats, who eventually help Mrs. Brisby and her family move their home. INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 332 Retail Price: $19.99 SHIPPING NOW For track listing and sound samples, please visit: http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.9739/.f |
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| Author: | Frank [ Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Jerry Goldsmith's THE SECRET OF NIMH |
Ordered. Can't wait. |
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| Author: | krankyboy [ Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Jerry Goldsmith's THE SECRET OF NIMH |
I am buying two copies. One to listen to the soundtrack, and another in case anything happens to the first one. |
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| Author: | T. Newman Fan [ Mon Aug 17, 2015 9:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Jerry Goldsmith's THE SECRET OF NIMH |
It's interesting to read some disappointment elsewhere over the less than 10 minutes of missing music even though nothing can be done about it due to lost elements. I can slightly understand if it's one's favorite score ever, but it's even coming from some who do not even know what is missing. Between that and the concerns over track chronology, soundtrack collectors have really become spoiled rotten. |
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| Author: | John Takis [ Mon Aug 17, 2015 10:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Jerry Goldsmith's THE SECRET OF NIMH |
I'm incredibly jazzed about this new release! A cherished animation classic, one of my all-time favorite Jerry Goldsmith scores, and I'm simply thrilled that Intrada was able to rescue and preserve the longest and most substantial unreleased cue! The album program chosen here looks fine, and it's easy enough to re-sequence for those who wish to do so. One of the top releases of 2015 in my book! |
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| Author: | krankyboy [ Tue Aug 18, 2015 1:40 am ] |
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| Author: | H TRAIN [ Tue Aug 18, 2015 3:47 am ] |
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Can't believe I don't have this title. Thanks team Intrada for changing that
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| Author: | Jay [ Tue Aug 18, 2015 6:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Jerry Goldsmith's THE SECRET OF NIMH |
"illusive", not "allusive"  Ordered! |
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| Author: | Eh Tar [ Tue Aug 18, 2015 7:53 am ] |
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The sound quality, from the samples, seems incredibly increased -- and what a fantastic track "At your Service" is! Thanks a lot, ORDERED! |
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| Author: | Roger Feigelson [ Tue Aug 18, 2015 8:51 am ] |
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| Author: | Sean Nethery [ Tue Aug 18, 2015 9:35 am ] |
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Almost - the correct word is "elusive" - as in to elude the intrepid Intradans. Though, of course, it's fair to say that the score is allusive in the sense that it alludes to many different forebears in music, and is illusive as it creates the illusion of super-smart rats. 
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| Author: | Jay [ Tue Aug 18, 2015 11:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Jerry Goldsmith's THE SECRET OF NIMH |
OMG, you're right! I can't believe I made that mistake! Arg! |
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| Author: | Anakin McFly [ Tue Aug 18, 2015 11:42 am ] |
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I have SO ordered this baby.  Bravo for this excellent discovery ! |
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| Author: | JGOnline [ Tue Aug 18, 2015 3:05 pm ] |
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More wonderful Goldsmith getting the Intrada treatment. Thank you all for your efforts to restore this one. A full score did seem too much to ask so an expanded presentation is fantastic news. A lovely period for Goldsmith. The good old days of the NPO, Eric Tomlinson recordings and Goldsmith in a class of his own. A complete joy. |
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| Author: | Douglass Fake [ Wed Aug 19, 2015 3:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Jerry Goldsmith's THE SECRET OF NIMH |
Another big improvement is in our finding the actual dbx-encoded album master. That allowed me to not only remaster Jerry's original album assembly - and retain it - but to remove several dropouts that appeared in every previous release including that classic 1982 record itself. Given how many complaints soundtrack fans have about those kinds of things I was always surprised the dropouts on NIMH didn't get more attention. But they're happily gone now. --Doug |
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