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INTRADA Announces:

MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
Composed and Conducted by JOHN BARRY
INTRADA Special Collection Volume 59

John Barry was working overtime in 1971, demonstrating his versatile range in that one year alone: He moved from the grim Thirty Year's War tale The Last Valley to the haunting music of Walkabout, then to Mary, Queen of Scots and finally to James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever. While It was Barry's powerful score to The Lion in Winter that persuaded producer Hall Wallis and director Charles Jarrott to hire Barry, his approach to Mary, Queen of Scots was substantially different. Here the emphasis was on intimacy. As Barry describes, "It was much more feminine. Lion in Winter had it's soft spots, but it was very forceful. Last Valley was a war story, a lot of fighting and killing. Mary, Queen of Scots was almost like a chamber piece compared with the others."

"Alternately dignified and regal, romantic and bittersweet, John Barry's music for Mary, Queen of Scots evokes the period, enhances the atmosphere and underlines the emotions," writes Jon Burlingame in his liner notes. Composing the music for this film was a true joy for Barry, and resulted in an Academy Award nomination.

The film stars Glenda Jackson and Vanessa Redgrave about rival cousins, one Queen of Scotland, the other Queen of England and their romances, treachery, and the ultimate downfall of one Queen.

This release features the premiere presentation of the original Mary, Queen of Scots LP program on compact disc, in excellent stereo sound from the original master elements and is limited to 3000 copies.

INTRADA Special Collection - Volume 59
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Also released by Intrada in 2008:

CHATO'S LAND (Jerry Fielding)
http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.ACC ... id.5669/.f

I didn't realize the DVD was mono only. This stereo release looks fantastic. Thanks guys!

Is there anymore story behind the original recording tapes for MARY?

Could it be Universal doesn't allow them to be published or has lost them?

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I don't know whether they're lost or merely unavailable for licensing, however if they were available, you'd have to ask why the producers of the isolated score track used a post-edited mono mixdown, with it's volume variations and harsh cuts.

My guess is that it's all that survives of the complete score.

Cheers

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Music composed, arranged and conducted by JOHN BARRY

Thanks Intrada, I'll be ordering this.

Many thanks for making this great re-issue reality! This fills a major gap in any John Barry collection. Keep the good things coming

Best regards,

Stefan

That sure is one strange thread about this title at FSM. I'll be the first one to bitch and moan when I think something is "overpriced".....but I just don't understand the complaining at all.

Barry's a popular composer....it's never before been released on disc...what gives?


I can't say I'm that interested in the title---but an unreleased score by one of the most popular composers among the 'fandom'....something just doesn't add up here.

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I guess it was only a small few people at fsm, but also at http://www.andyfilm.netfirms.com//phpbb ... um.php?f=3

Crazy.

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"If music doesn`t sing, or dance, or have an interesting harmonic concept, then it shouldn`t be there at all. A film score should burn with its own fire, not merely glow in the dark like a pretty charcoal." – John Barry, 1972