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INTRADA Announces:



RIO CONCHOS
Music Composed and Conducted by JERRY GOLDSMITH
Performed by the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
INTRADA MAF 7126


For this re-issue of Intrada's 1989 re-recording of Jerry Goldsmith's Rio Concho, Intrada has refreshed the packaging entirely, remastered from the original '89 masters, and added a few additional features. Now part of Intrada’s Excalibur Collection, this new album premieres the brief but powerful “End Cast” that Goldsmith originally chose to omit, preferring to end the album with the impact of "Special Delivery" at the time. As a bonus, Intrada also includes the first take of the virtuoso action cue “Wall Of Fire.” This initial take features piercing upper trumpets and dynamic trombone accents that Goldsmith toned down considerably for the final album take. Hearing the brass playing fortissimo in this initial effort lends considerable additional intensity to the cue, in marked contrast to the more subdued brass of the 1989 album version.

Naturally this release still includes Goldsmith's The Agony and the Ecstasy Prologue, "The Artist Who Did Not Want to Paint." When this digital recording of Rio Conchos was made on August 15 & 16, 1989, it was only the second time Goldsmith had taken an in-depth look at one of his earlier film scores. This exciting trip back in history followed the 1986 re-recording of his favorite work, the 1977 score for Islands in the Stream, also made for the Intrada label and available in the Excalibur Collection as MAF 7095. Marking another debut of sorts, this new recording of 1964’s Rio Conchos also brought Goldsmith face-to-face with the famous London Symphony Orchestra for the first time, a fortuitous encounter that launched the composer’s subsequent series of live concert performances.

With Rio Conchos (1964) Goldsmith hit a landmark in his early career, fashioning a challenging score that was difficult to perform, and creating musical devices that would later become Goldsmith “trademarks.” It was with this score that the composer developed his complex action writing. He also wrote virtuoso percussion material featuring, in particular, the snare and bass drum. The scoring called for large orchestra, augmented by guitars, banjos, harp and accordion. The large percussion section included such unusual instruments as bass marimba, crotales, jawbone and lujons.

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Good to see this one "overhauled"!

I was wondering if this any background (hi)story to the involvement of the LSO for this re-recording. Was it "just" a thought that, let's say, Doug Fake had and acted on? A suggestion by Goldsmith himself?

The quality of this score and re-recording kinda makes me wish Goldsmith had been able to use the LSO for an actual film score recording (which, to my knowledge, was never the case) and Intrada to use them again for another re-recording.

Anyways, if there are anecdotes that can be shared, that would be great. If I'm sticking my nose out too far, feel free to give it a whack.

CK

thanks for bringing this classic back

i own the original release and like to know something about the remastering - is worth to buy it again ?the orgiginal release sound fine to me

thanks

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Andy

Rio Conchos and Inchon... Yeah! Two releases I missed the first time around. Just ordered them. Really looking forward to both.

Douglass Fake said: "This was a particularly important event all the way around because Jerry was newly conducting an early score of his with its kinetic and aggressive action material literally at a time when he was saying 'farewell' to that very style of writing. It was quite enjoyable to watch him revisit that sound... something he never did again, even when he did other re-recordings later on."

Interestingly, as much as I love Jerry Goldsmith's music, I have always wondered about how he sometimes thought about his own music. I mean, he was rather dismissive about the revised Main Title for ALIEN (a great cue.. I know Jerry preferred his original take, but I do like both and can't really say which one I like better), or -- according to the liner notes of CONGO ("play Rambo instead") -- about some of the action music in CONGO... lots of other examples here and there. (Yet he released practically the entire score for RUSSIA HOUSE, which is a nice but far less meatier score.)

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Andy

Thanks Doug.

I have been rather anxiously awaiting this old promised re-release along with the requist 'nuggets' Sampling the bits online I can see obvious upgrade in the overall sound quality. And nice artwork too! Infact I love it right away.
Ordering this with my next batch!

Great to see this album again. I remember the excitement back in 1989 in London with the two concerts, the Goldsmith society event where I got see JG talk to fans for the first time and the news Intrada were recording Rio Conchos. Incredible period.

PS was the Drag Race opening to the Corral ever recorded or did JG decide not to bother?

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Jason Needs
Webmaster, Jerry Goldsmith Online

I'm usually not thrilled about the "concert" sound on film music re-recordings i.e. in 'TAWDNWTP" at about the 1:51 point the percussion(Tambourine?) is missing in both the original and remastered version, whereas in the OST it is very evident and loud????????? Here I go again.

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Robert M Eastman

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Robert M Eastman