NAPOLEON & JOSEPHINE: A LOVE STORY Gerald Fried, Bill Conti IMPROVED VERSION (FLAC)

First of all, a huge thanks to sadsack and his generous source for giving us this in the first place. I’ve liked this score since I first saw the miniseries and I was thrilled when it appeared here. Sadly, and this is not meant as a criticism, there are lots of issues with the sound quality, including extremely low volume levels and – most significantly – a heavily muffled left channel on some of the tracks. I decided to try and fix these problems as much as I could.

The biggest challenge was the muffled channels. This is something that happens on a few of the other Fried scores. It seems that the left channel has been deliberately muddied and the right deliberately brightened. I’ve talked to sadsack about this and we think it’s a tactic employed at some point with mono recordings to make them sound "less mono." The muffled left channel provides all the bass while the bright right provides all the detail. Played together, the ear is tricked into hearing a "normal" recording. It’s only when you take a look at the waveform and play the channels separately that you realise what’s been done. (And the music is always biased towards the right speaker).

But the tracks on Napoleon and Josephine are in stereo. I can’t understand why a trick to make something sound less mono should be employed when the original recording is already stereo. It makes no sense. It’s like taking the entire left half of the orchestra and isolating them in a room full of cotton wool. Anyway, I did my best to raise the higher frequencies in the muffled channels, but this created a new problem: hiss. If you hate hiss, you’ll hate some of my work on this. I tried noise reduction to get rid of it, but I wasn’t satisfied with the sound. Personally I can live with the hiss, but if anyone wants to have a go at eliminating it, please feel free.

I decided to re-sequence the tracks with all the score cues first and the source music last. I dropped all the military trumpet source cues (does anyone really listen to them?) and I included just a couple of snippets of the ominous guillotine drum beats in tracks 2 & 3. I combined some of the shorter tracks, but I let most of them stand alone.

If anyone wants to leave rep points for me, that’s always appreciated – but please visit sadsack’s original thread (Thread 207013) and give him rep points too. None of this would have been possible without his efforts.

These are the tracks:

1. Main Titles
2. Napoleon At The Guillotine / Victims Of The Revolution *
3. Napoleon Arrested * / Robespierre At Gunpoint **
4. The Terror Has Ended
5. Josephine’s New Admirer
6. Napoleon Leads The Charge *
7. Napoleon First Sees Josephine
8. Corsica / Napoleon On Horseback
9. Napoleon And The Boy
10. Josephine Visits Napoleon
11. Napoleon’s Brother Leaves Home
12. Invitation To Supper
13. Napoleon Proposes Marriage
14. The Love Scene
15. Napoleon’s Seizure *
16. Consider The Children’s Future
17. The Wedding
18. Mother Bonaparte’s Fury
19. Napoleon Leaves For Italy
20. Army On The March
21. Napoleon’s Speech
22. French Victory
23. The Wounded
24. Letter To Josephine
25. Italy Is Ours
26. Guillotine Memories * / Wicked Sister *
27. The Messenger
28. The Handsome Captain
29. Tears And Temptation
30. Napoleon’s Torment
31. End Titles

Source Cues:
32. Music For The Condemned **
33. The Prisoners Are Set Free
34. Ballroom Source 1
35. Ballroom Source 2
36. Ballroom Source 3
37. Ballroom Source 4
38. Cafe Source
39. Victory Fever

* unused
** partly used

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Also available:

NAPOLEON & JOSEPHINE – PART 2 (Thread 215372 ld+fried)

NAPOLEON & JOSEPHINE – PART 3 (Thread 215373 ld+fried)

thank you for this version feedthecats, and thank to all previous contributors to this scores performance.
thank you L

Much appreciated all the way around! 🙂

Thank you both for your great contributions.

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Thank you for your work

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Many thanks.

Just finished listening to the "tweaked" version…and you’ve done a bloody brilliant job! Your efforts are highly appreciated!

Many thanks!

Thank you, feedthecats, for your work on this. As ikitbeni says above, it sounds great! You’ve done a lovely job. Many, many thanks again 🙂

Thanks much for your kind share. 🙂

Thank you, feedthecats, for your work on this. As ikitbeni says above, it sounds great! You’ve done a lovely job. Many, many thanks again 🙂

I appreciate you and ikitbeni taking the time to say this 🙂

Link received.
The sound is excellent!
Thank you so much for your efforts!

Thank you for the link

Link received, thanks!

Just bumping this one because the scores from Part Two (Thread 215372) and Part Three (Thread 215373) are now available.

I also added some missing battle music to Part One – a longer version of “Italy Is Ours.” It’s included in the Part One download, and also in a separate folder if you download Parts 2 or 3.

A new stereo version of the Main & End Titles has now replaced the mono DVD versions.

I also modified the art to match the other two and make it feel like part of a set.

PM sent. Thanks for all your hard work.

May I receive link, please? Thank you.

PM sent!

Awesome & please send me the link with your new version.

Received link lightning fast! Many thanks feedthecats (and sadsacks) for sharing your new improved version of NAPOLEON & JOSEPHINE: A LOVE STORY – Gerald Fried, Bill Conti Part I 😉 I gave you a rep. Rated thread: excellent as always! 😉

Thank you very much. Links received.

Links received. Thank you very much!

would appreciate a link (for all 3 parts)

Link received.
Thank you so much for the improved version!

received it, thank you

Would greatly appreciate the link to all 3 parts as well ….and thank you all for the contributions of these wonderful music scores.

I received too!!!… Many thanks!!!… 🙂

Link received with many thanks.

I’d love to get a link. Thanks in advance !!

Many thanks for the link & extremely fast response!!!

Many thanks for the links & extremely fast response!!!

Link received and reputation added. Many thanks for Part 1!

Link received, thank you!!!
(By the way, I LOVE Jacqueline Bisset)

(By the way, I LOVE Jacqueline Bisset)

Who doesn’t? 🙂

And she’s very good in this.

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Link received, much apprecated!

Thank you very much for sharing your considerable efforts to assemble this!

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amazing post THANK YOU

Link received! Many thanks for the links & extremely fast response.

links received THANKS A LOT!

Links received many thanks for sharing !

Received. Thanks again for sharing this excellent set!

Thanks for the link…great work!

Could I have links to all 3 parts, please?
Thank you!

Links received. Thank you very much !!

Link received. Thanks for the share!!

Please send me the links. Many thanks.

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Hi Feedthecats can you send the link please,thank you.

Please, can you send me a link ?
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May I have a link please? Thanks

Hi there, I would love the links! Thank you so much in advance!

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May I please have the link to this? Thank you 🙂

Thank you for the links!
Wonderfull score!

Hi Feedthecata,
I’m new here on this Forum and till now and don’t no excactly how it works PM for download Link, i hope you can give me some direction on how to do that?
I’m a huge fan of Gerald Fried and Napoleon And Josephine: A Love Story is one of my favorite score by Gerry.
Is there any change that i can have this wonderful music, i certainly appreciated it if you do!
Sincerly yours,

Jurgen 1965.

Hi Feedthecata,
I’m new here on this Forum and till now and don’t no excactly how it works PM for download Link, i hope you can give me some direction on how to do that?
I’m a huge fan of Gerald Fried and Napoleon And Josephine: A Love Story is one of my favorite score by Gerry.
Is there any change that i can have this wonderful music, i certainly appreciated it if you do!
Sincerly yours,

Jurgen 1965.

I’ve sent you the links via Private Message 🙂

Thank you gor the links and your help!

Have a great weekend!

Greetings.

I would love to get this link!
Thank you in advance
Bocoi

Many thanks!