? To Ryan, about the recording of the “Prelude and Outer Space”

[Anonymous]

Hi Ryan, if you mentioned these you must understand the following:
As i know the score to The Day the Earth Stood Still was recorded in 1951, ofcourse the quality of the track Prelude and outerspace is poor. But when you saw those diors 05 fashion show, at the end of the show you heared prelude and outer space theme, this piano theme repeated, but did noticed that the tempo of this track in this show was a little bit slower than the original 1951 version, and it was performed without those theremins. I mean do you where i could find or download those re-recorded version, i mean the quality of prelude and outersp…is a higher that the original, i think it sounds as if it was rerecorded in the end of the 90s or at the 2000s….. What i want to say: Maybe it is on the album of Mcneely which he like to rearrange, maybe its compilation, or like Brain in a Box The Science Fiction Collection Music. Does anybody know from what album this track is? The only thing i know that it was rerecord.
Thanks

[Ryan Keaveney]

There are probably a dozen re-recordings of the piece, from Herrmann himself to Erich Kunzel to Silva Screen. I’m sorry but I really don’t know what recording it is.

Ryan

[KWashi]

I am almost 100% sure that it is from “Citizen Kane: The Essential Bernard Herrmann” . You can’t find the track as a stand alone on iTunes, but I think it might be included in the suite on the “Bernard Herrmann – The Essential Film Music Collection” by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
The McNeely version is a lot faster, so I know it’s not that (or the original).

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