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| Author: | Roger Feigelson [ Mon Nov 12, 2012 5:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | INTRADA Announces Stu Phillip's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Vol. 4 |
INTRADA Announces: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - VOLUME 4 Composed and Conducted by STU PHILLIPS INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 222 For the concluding volume in Intrada's series of Battlestar Galactica soundtracks, the focus is on the epic two-parters The Living Legend and War of the Gods. In The Living Legend, Captain Apollo (Richard Hatch) and Lieutenant Starbuck ( Dirk Benedict) discover the lost battlestar Pegasus—long thought destroyed, but saved thanks to the military genius of Commander Cain (Lloyd Bridges). But Cain quickly finds himself at loggerheads with Commander Adama (Lorne Greene) over the Cylon threat: Adama only seeks to hijack enough fuel to move the fleet to safety, while Cain wants to use their combined forces to attack the nearby vassal world of Gamoray. Composer Stu Philips uses two principal ideas to characterize Cain. The first is a jaunty military motif that emphasizes the commander’s never-say-die attitude. The second is a melody based around ascending lines for Cain’s romantic history with Cassiopeia (Laurette Spang), who is now entangled with Starbuck and working as a medic aboard the Galactica. For the two-parter’s exciting action sequences, Phillips incorporates several of his space battle themes from the pilot, as well as the iconic Battlestar Galactica main fanfare and theme. Phillips wrote a complete score for Part 1 of the story, but as with all prior episodes of the series (except the premiere movie), the elements retained by Universal are in the monaural format. Part 2, however, marks the point at which the music appears to have been vaulted in a “split mono” configuration that grouped sections of the orchestra onto separate tracks to facilitate minor balancing adjustments during the mixing process. War of the Gods opens with another startling discovery when Apollo, Starbuck and Sheba find a strange planet with a crashed vessel and a lone survivor calling himself Count Iblis (English actor Patrick Macnee). The stranger rapidly seduces Sheba and positions himself as the fleet’s savior. Soon it becomes the devil vs. angels in a battle of good over evil. The interjection of angels and demons into the Galactica mythos enabled Phillips to draw on historic traditions. Iblis’ main ideas—a creeping line and a more extended, spidery theme—are cloaked in dissonant harmonies and eerie tone colors. Electronics, contrabassoon and contrabass clarinet dominate. By contrast, pleasant harmonies abound, treating the mysterious light ships with a degree of ambiguity, in the form of darting minor-key arpeggios. But these are superseded by a theme of symphonic exaltation, later joined by a women’s choir and finally appearing utilizing harps and strings to enhance the empyrean atmosphere. As an added bonus, this volume includes Mission Galactica, which combined the two-part Living Legend with the next one-hour episode, Fire in Space. As part of the complex editorial process to put Mission Galactica together, a decision was made to re-record music for it. As most of it consists of cues from Part 1 of The Living Legend, presenting it on disc 1 after the complete original score offers the opportunity to hear a slightly different approach to the compositions—this time derived from split-mono-to-stereo elements. INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 222 Retail Price: $24.99 Available Now For track listing and sound samples, please visit http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7851/.f |
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| Author: | OneBuckFilms [ Mon Nov 12, 2012 5:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Stu Phillip's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Vol |
Ordered, of course. I love the artwork on this. Ship of Lights front-and-center !!!! |
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| Author: | OneBuckFilms [ Mon Nov 12, 2012 5:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Stu Phillip's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Vol |
BTW, do we happen to know if CD 2 is in stereo? I know the episode order indicates it, I'm just curious if they jumped back-and-fourth betweent he spit-mono and mono material. Interesting that they seem to have transitioned to split-mono for Living Legend part 2. 
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| Author: | Neil [ Mon Nov 12, 2012 5:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Stu Phillip's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Vol |
| Author: | SpaceMind [ Mon Nov 12, 2012 11:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Stu Phillip's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Vol |
Ordered. Original BSG Collection complete!
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| Author: | Ed [ Mon Nov 12, 2012 11:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Stu Phillip's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Vol |
Well done, Team Intrada! I noticed two cues from "The Young Lords" have been added as a bonus. Were these also recorded for "Mission Galactica"? I suppose I'll know when my copy arrives. |
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| Author: | H TRAIN [ Tue Nov 13, 2012 1:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Stu Phillip's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Vol |
BSG 4 is so ORDERED. Congratulations to Doug, Roger & everyone at team INTRADA for these wonderful releases. And of course to the fantastic Mr Phillip's fo his music. |
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| Author: | Siq [ Tue Nov 13, 2012 6:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Stu Phillip's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Vol |
WOW! This came as a bit of a surprise - ordered and now the series is complete. Cover artwork is OUTSTANDING, again, could have been a cheap and easy option to Photshop something together but we get brand new bespoke artwork especially for this release - great work Intrada. Looking forward to receiving my copies. I hope we got more Of Mr Phillips work on Buck Rogers, Quincy and of course - KNIGHT RIDER! Congratulations all round for what has been a fantastic series and a joy to collect and listen to, many, many times... 
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| Author: | mxmx [ Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Stu Phillip's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Vol |
| Author: | Curious_Goods [ Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Stu Phillip's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Vol |
I haven't seen a single episode of Battlestar Galactica but bought the volumes purely on the merit of the sound samples; I love the action cues, the themes, ... great stuff! Look forward to hearing vol 4. 
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| Author: | T. Newman Fan [ Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Stu Phillip's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Vol |
| Author: | H TRAIN [ Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:39 am ] |
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| Author: | chriss [ Tue Nov 13, 2012 11:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Stu Phillip's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Vol |
I would have never thought to have all this music on CD. And it's amazing that all this has survived in such a great quality. I think the only important cue missing from the masters is that short choral version of the Exploration fanfare. |
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| Author: | Ed [ Tue Nov 13, 2012 1:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Stu Phillip's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Vol |
| Author: | Dodonna [ Tue Nov 13, 2012 8:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Stu Phillip's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Vol |
Ordered, but I have a question. Comparing the track list to the old Stu Phillips Anthology, it looks as if this release is missing the music cue from the climactic battle between Cain and the trio of Cylon Base Ships. Was that tracked from another episode, or otherwise unavailable? |
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