Intrada Soundtrack Forum

Over the last few years we've been blessed with a number of scores for 1960's Otto Preminger films being re-issued, expanded and newly recorded (e.g. ADVISE AND CONSENT by Jerry Fielding, BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING by Paul Glass and HURRY SUNDOWN by Hugo Montenegro). Yet Moross' magnificent (even if brief) score for THE CARDINAL, as originally incarnated on RCA, hasn't been available here for some three decades. (Interestingly in Spain, RCA issued a slightly longer album, but the additional materials consists of less than 2 minutes of Mozart's "Alleluia" and a 5 minute medley called "The Cardinal Themes". This was re-issued on CD there in 1999, but I suspect it may have been mastered straight off the LP!) As excellent as Silva's re-recorded suite was, I'd still be hankering for a Sony remastering of the original album.

Bless Bruce Kimmel for bringing out a remastered version next month! Now if only we could have an Expanded version of THE WAR LORD.

You're welcome. There's no shame in not having information on ancient releases (or reissues) we knew nothing about.

In fact, I'll mention I'm right along with you in hoping for an expansion of Moross' THE WAR LORD someday, whether as one of the Varese "perpetuity" titles or under La La Land's Universal partnership.

I believe what fooled me was the difference in the playing times of the Preamble CD and the 1999 Spanish RCA edition. The latter is almost 5 minutes longer, and the extra tracks consist of the Mozart excerpt and the track "The Monks at Casamari". Both editions share the themes medley.) Looking closely at the track listing, I see that Kritzerland uses the program of the Spanish RCA CD, plus one bonus track.