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Indeed. As nice as it was to have some of the additional music from Phantom Menace, the presentation is frustrating. Of course, the prequels in general had a lot more tracking and re-editing of the music going on than the original trilogy, too.

Not to mention that in the updated versions, it's interrupted by a section from an earlier cue for that stupid scene of Vader arriving on his Star Destroyer (which itself is very obviously an outtake from the opening scene of ROTJ). Another interesting track is "The Imperial Probe / Aboard the...

You're right; that section wasn't on the original album's track "Hyperspace," but they were all combined into one track for the later 2-CD releases. I remember the notes, but not always the arrangements. :)

No problem; I've immersed myself in these scores quite a bit over the years. :) Another part of the "Hyperspace" cue was reused at the end of Return of the Jedi, right when Lando and Wedge reach the main reactor of the Death Star. It replaced the opening of the cue Williams had written for the...

It's a reused and re-edited portion of the track "Hyperspace" from the climax of the movie. They seem to have looped some of that low-string ostinato to fit the earlier scene.

I've only heard clips, but apparently the mixing is a little weird on these new Disney remasters, particularly on EMPIRE, where the L-R balance is also a little uneven.

Was there an announcement of this somewhere? Those original album presentations have been available digitally for about a year now, and the ones on iTunes are still labeled as being from Lucasfilm, "under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment."

The marketing hasn't really made it clear, but the contents of the new "Ultimate Collections" are different from one another. From what I can tell, the prequel scores are the same across the board; they are the original CD presentations. For the original trilogy, the CD collection contains...