I also have to add how I've loved the Lionheart score, ever since those two Varèse CDs were released. At the time, it was quite a marketing coup from Varèse to release this score as two separate volumes. And it looked at the time like the Goldsmith score was the main attraction in there !
Although the performance - as Paul rightfully pointed out - is sometimes embarassing (the brass, in particular hit quite a few wrong notes and intonation errors), it has much more variety than First Knight. Oddly enough, the Hungarian State Symphony seemed to perform better on Islands in the Stream. And I've really never been able to quite figure out why...
But... First Knight - as simplistic or streamlined as it may sound sometimes - has a certain grandeur and panache Lionheart sometimes lack, I feel. It's more claustrophobic than the open space sound of First Knight.
Camelot Lives is still quite an impressive epilogue.
It all boils down to a matter of tastes, I guess...
NP: SWEENEY TODD