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| Supplier : Brotherhood Of Satan Release Date : 02/23/2005 |
| Ripper : Brotherhood Of Satan Record Label : Silva Screen |
| Genre : Soundtrack Quality : VBR/APS/44,1kHz |
| Tracks : 24 Tracks Channels : Joint Stereo |
| Year : 2003 Size : 141 MB |
| Language : English Rating : 70% of 100% |
_| Grabber : EAC v0.95 Prebeta 5 Encoder : LAME v3.90.3 |_
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The Star Trek Album: (The City of Prague Philharmonic) It has been
several years since the Silva family of labels released their last
major, critically acclaimed sci-fi collection of film music. After the
success of their "Space and Beyond" album in 1997, they produced two
sequel albums in the series (in 1998 and 2000). Over the course of
those three albums, the City of Prague Philharmonic performed nearly
every major piece of Star Trek music available at the time, and while
most of it appeared on the first album in that series, there were
additional piece sprinkled throughout the two follow-up albums. All of
these double-CD sets offered interesting performances of the
selections, and while some of them were better performed than others,
the overwhelming magnitude of available re-recordings from Prague
remains staggering. Other labels that have recorded Star Trek music on
their various compilations, including the Telarc releases of Kunzel
and the Cincinnati Pops and VarΦse Sarabande releases of the Royal
Scottish National Orchestra, have condensed their Star Trek recordings
onto single 'final frontier' album offerings. It was only a matter of
time before Silva did the same with their own recordings from the
franchise, but unlike the other two labels, Silva had released so many
recordings of Star Trek music that two-CDs are now required to feature
all of it. Their 2003 "Star Trek Album" contains all of Prague's
previous recordings, most of their sound effects, and adds a couple of
new cues to round out the selection from all ten feature films. The
inherent problem with this kind of release, of course, is the same
problem that exists when VarΦse Sarabande or any other label shuffles
around their re-recorded selections and releases them again; people
who already own the previous releases of these recordings are left
wondering if the price of the new set is worth having the minimal
extra, new material. In the case of this "Star Trek Album," Prague
offers two new performances.
On the "Space and Beyond" albums, Prague had offered identical
performances of all of the other tracks, although it should be noted
that there are some gems in that collection. The Prague recordings of
the opening titles from Goldsmith's Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the
overture from Horner's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the end titles
from Goldsmith's Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and end titles from
Eidelman's Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (which, unlike other
groups' arranged suites, does include the rolling Klingon motif) are
all superior and highly enjoyable, and most off the other selections
are without major mistakes. If a criticism is to be had with the
addition of performances of the more recent Goldsmith scores in the
film franchise, it revolves around the fact that all of the suites
from the last three films, as well as the fifth, feature the same
suite structure for their end credits; thus, you end up hearing the
Goldsmith's original film theme over and over and over again. For this
new album set, Nic Raine (who regularly does a spectacular job
arranging and conducting John Barry material) personally arranged his
own suite of themes and noteworthy cues from Star Trek: Nemesis. Not
only does this solve the problem of repeat performances of Goldsmith's
original end credit suite format, but Raine's arrangement presents the
best thematic and action music heard in Star Trek: Nemesis. From
hearing the eight-minute suite of this score (including the opening
title, Shinzon's theme, the duel between ships at the end, and a
sensitive burst of the emotional sub-theme for the crew's break-up),
you'd think that the original score is a masterpiece in the series,
and despite the shortcomings of Goldsmith's original recording, the
Prague performers whip surprising life into it here. Likewise, the
other new recording is also lively. The percussion section brought
their silverware to bang on pots and pans (Horner's theme sounds like
a Klingon religious feast day, doesn't it?) for the Klingon attack
sequence in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, a score that had
previously been omitted from Prague's Star Trek selections. The
addition of these two cues completes the Silva and Prague presentation
of Star Trek music, and makes for one fine set (unless you're
disgruntled about the situation because you already own most of these
performances). The sound effects are negligible, never as interesting
or true to the shows as Kunzel's similar attempts. The greatest fault
of the album is that the cues are not in chronological order (of the
films and shows) for some reason. Otherwise, it's a noteworthy set
with two fantastic new performances thrown into the mix.
Tracks:
CD #1
01. Star Trek The TV Series Theme (2:23)
02. Star Trek The Motion Picture End Titles (3:53)
03. Star Trek The Motion Picture Klingon Attack (5:23)
04. Sound Effect-Warp Drive (0:46)
05. Star Trek II The Wrath Of Khan Overture (6:35)
06. Star Trek III The Search For Spock Bird Of Prey Decloaks (3:36)
07. Star Trek IV The Voyage Home End Titles (3:35)
08. Sound Effect-Away Team (0:54)
09. Star Trek First Contact End Titles (5:11)
10. Star Trek The Next Generation- Tasha's Farewell (9:14)
11. Star Trek Deep Space Nine Theme (3:54)
12. Star Trek Deep Space Nine He's Toast (3:40)
13. Star Trek V The Final Frontier End Titles (4:07)
CD #2
01. Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country End Titles (6:31)
02. Star Trek Voyager Theme (2:00)
03. Sound Effect-Battle Stations (0:31)
04. Star Trek Generations Overture (4:41)
05. Star Trek Deep Space Nine One Last Visit (3:11)
06. Star Trek Insurrection End Titles (5:06)
07. Sound Effect-Dogfight In Space (1:29)
08. Star Trek The TV Series The Menagerie (8:29)
09. Star Fleet Academy Opening (4:03)
10. Sound Effect-Crash Landing (0:47)
11. Star Trek Nemesis Suite (7:43)
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