Victory at Sea
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Free Music Review: Victory at Sea
Hit: 5 Stars
Just like the TV series. At my age I still remember the series and WWII.Free Music Review: One of the great musical scores in TV history.
Hit: 4 Stars
I have read the previous comments about this recording and I am somewhat confused. I own an older RCA CD #6660-2-RC with a copyright of 1987. It's an ADD recording with a total playing time of 72:24 that includes 14 tracks. The order is different from the CD showcased on Amazon.com which only shows 13 tracks.
One previous reviewer stated that the original vinyl recordings featured the NBC Symphony Orchestra rather than the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. That well may be but the vinyl recording that I have now was recorded in 1959 and features the RCA Orchestra and sounds identical to the tracks on the CD that I own.
I used to have all three VAS records but have long since lost track of them so I can't compare the originals with the versions currently on CD. I do remember that the 3rd LP had a lot of sound effects on it besides the music and I wonder if that is the case on the second CD that is now available. I would hope that RCA would release in the future a double CD that includes the original recordings from all three LPs. Then I would be able to award the full 5 stars.
The Victory At Sea recordings were the first LPs that I ever owned and were instrumental in leading me into an appreciation of music. Before I heard this score, my only contact with music had been through top 40 radio (AM) and the Richard Rodgers score enticed me to listen to works by Tchaikovsky and Beethoven. From there I moved on to Mozart, Bach, Prokofiev, and Wagner. Later on, I rediscovered Richard Rodgers while listening to the great jazz reditions of his collaborations with Lorenz Hart.
So, I have a fondness for this great score and still listen to it after almost 50 years. I hope that others will take the time to listen to it as well.
Free Music Review: Not the original soundtrack but still good
Hit: 4 Stars
Very good rendition of the music from Victory at Sea but it is not from the original soundtrack. I have it on vinyl and there are subtle differences in the performance, but it's good enough for me :-)Free Music Review: Yes, but....
Hit: 3 Stars
In addition to this release, purists might want to hunt for RCA Red Seal CD #6660-2. This earlier CD of Victory at Sea boasts a different printed insert, 14 tracks instead of the 13 on #60963 (some different) and in different order. They are: 1)Song of the High Seas 2)The Pacific Boils Over 3)Fire on the Waters 4)Guadacanal March 5)Peleliu 6)Theme of the Fast Carriers 7)Hard Work and Horseplay 8)Mare Nostrum 9)Beneath the Southern Cross 10)Mediterranean March 11)Allies on the March 12D-Day...and finishing more appropriately with 13)The Sound of Victory 14)Victory at Sea.This CD says "Recorded in December 1957 and February 1959 in Manhattan Center", "Reissue editon" and "Digitally remastered"...but goes on to state "The analog recording for this compact disc was made before noise-reduction methods such as Dolby were available. In the digital remastering, some effort to minimize the inherent tape hiss was made; RADICAL METHODS HAVE NOT BEEN USED IN ORDER TO PRESERVE THE FULL-FREQUENCY CONTENT OF THE ORIGINAL RECORDINGS (caps. mine).
Good luck, all, finding a copy.
Free Music Review: Disappointing Performance
Hit: 3 Stars
Victory at Sea has to be one of the greatest sound tracks ever written. I've owned the original NBC Symphony Orchestra LP since the 1950s and have listened to it over and over again, although not for about 20 years since I no longer have working turntable. I recall the performance on the LP as being lush, spirited, and inspiring.
Sadly, the the performance on this CD by the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra strikes me as being none of those. Bland and boring were two terms that came to mind listening to it. The arrangements also seem to be somewhat different, thinner and less interesting, than what I remember, but perhaps my muscial memory is playing tricks with me.
Overall, though, I was hugely disappointed; four stars for the music as arranged here, two for the performance.