Nelson Au
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Thought I’d post about the 1960 score for George Pal’s production of H.G. Welles The Time Machine.
I tried to do a search, but didn’t find anything. Tow or three years ago I picked up the GNP Crescendo release of The Time Machine score, but it turns out it is a re-recording done in 1987. But it was conducted by the original composer Russell Garcia. Then almost right away, I discovered from Film Score Monthly the release of the actual film score recording that came out in 2005 so I have both copies.
I guess I’m posting because I’m having one of those obsessed periods of listening. I’m only listening to the actual theatrical score from 1960. I’ve sampled some of the 1987 recording. But I always prefer the original when I can get it. They are both in my iPhone and a piece of melody from the score popped in my head out of the blue so i’ve been listening while at work. I’ll have to listen on the home system, especially the newer recording as I bet it’s better in terms of range. But I could be wrong. What could be Interesting are more embellished versions of the Philby theme which isn’t very long on the original and the Weena love theme. But I still prefer the originals.
What’s got me also fascinated is that GNP was pretty busy doing scores for films that didn’t have any releases at the time including Vertigo. Then later, the original recording was released too. I have both of those too.
I don’t know if there’s more to say, just having some fun and maybe because it’s almost the holidays and I usually watch The Time Machine this time of year, so maybe that was why it was on my subconscious mind.
I tried to do a search, but didn’t find anything. Tow or three years ago I picked up the GNP Crescendo release of The Time Machine score, but it turns out it is a re-recording done in 1987. But it was conducted by the original composer Russell Garcia. Then almost right away, I discovered from Film Score Monthly the release of the actual film score recording that came out in 2005 so I have both copies.
I guess I’m posting because I’m having one of those obsessed periods of listening. I’m only listening to the actual theatrical score from 1960. I’ve sampled some of the 1987 recording. But I always prefer the original when I can get it. They are both in my iPhone and a piece of melody from the score popped in my head out of the blue so i’ve been listening while at work. I’ll have to listen on the home system, especially the newer recording as I bet it’s better in terms of range. But I could be wrong. What could be Interesting are more embellished versions of the Philby theme which isn’t very long on the original and the Weena love theme. But I still prefer the originals.
What’s got me also fascinated is that GNP was pretty busy doing scores for films that didn’t have any releases at the time including Vertigo. Then later, the original recording was released too. I have both of those too.
I don’t know if there’s more to say, just having some fun and maybe because it’s almost the holidays and I usually watch The Time Machine this time of year, so maybe that was why it was on my subconscious mind.
