tangotreats
12-06-2013, 11:13 PM
JOHN SCOTT
Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by
John Scott
HOW TO GET THE DOWNLOAD LINKS: This album is thirty years and this transfer was made from a pressing from another label, but the initial release in 1985 was by Varese Sarabande... so the usual embargo applies. PLEASE SEND ME A PERSONAL MESSAGE if you would like this. Requests in thread will receive no response. Once you have it, please feel free to circulate it - if you want to make torrents, put it on forums, give it to your mates, go right ahead! My only requests are a) no recodes, and b) don't circulate my links - re-upload it yourself. Thank you.
New CD artwork (featuring rescanned and restored photography) designed in the style and spirit of the original Vinyl LP cover included. New programme notes included. FLAC at Level 8.
John Scott�s �Mountbatten � The Last Viceroy� is arguably one of his finest works� and it has waited for an official CD release for almost thirty years � and it�s still waiting. Varese Sarabande released the score on LP and Cassette in 1985, and a number of bootleg CDs (with varying sound quality) entered the market about a decade ago.
Sadly, the most frequently circulated transfer was produced on a malfunctioning turntable from a worn LP, and is absolutely to be avoided. I produced a cassette transfer of my own in 2009 which was overall respectable but not as good as it should have been due to improper azimuth adjustment on the transfer deck. The 2001 bootleg by Movietrack Classics (manufactured in the Czech Republic but actually produced in Great Britain � rumours persist that Scott himself was responsible) is probably the best so far (a surprisingly competent mixture of cassette and vinyl transfer) although it does have its shortcomings.
No release to date has attempted to ameliorate basic issues with the source material � noise and pilot hum (Cassette and LP), hiss (Cassette), and harsh equalisation (Predominantly Cassette; the LP suffers to a lesser extent).
This new release is, I believe, the best of the lot and probably as good as we�ll ever get until the master tapes are uncovered and an official CD release is finally produced.
I have used as source material, an unplayed, factory sealed LP (the Canadian pressing) which I have transferred to the digital domain with audiophile equipment. It has received a careful restoration and remastering; the transfer and subsequent processing took place at 96,000hz 24-bit, before a final downsampling to 44100hz 16-bit for distribution and release. Minimal, non-invasive de-clicking, de-rumbling, and de-hissing was employed. Re-equalisation was employed, using the Cassette release, other commercially-released Scott scores as a reference. The result is a restoration of tonal balance, permitting this score to be heard, for the first time, in natural and realistic. Hum and pilot tones have been forensically filtered.
I have retained the track naming scheme from the Movietrack Classics bootleg; I believe the original, official release to be in error in this regard. PLEASE NOTE that despite the appearance of an additional track ("Aftermath") there is no additional music on either the Movietrack Classics bootleg or this edition. The extra track exists because of a re-ordering of the existing material.
Enjoy! :)
TT
Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by
John Scott
HOW TO GET THE DOWNLOAD LINKS: This album is thirty years and this transfer was made from a pressing from another label, but the initial release in 1985 was by Varese Sarabande... so the usual embargo applies. PLEASE SEND ME A PERSONAL MESSAGE if you would like this. Requests in thread will receive no response. Once you have it, please feel free to circulate it - if you want to make torrents, put it on forums, give it to your mates, go right ahead! My only requests are a) no recodes, and b) don't circulate my links - re-upload it yourself. Thank you.
New CD artwork (featuring rescanned and restored photography) designed in the style and spirit of the original Vinyl LP cover included. New programme notes included. FLAC at Level 8.
John Scott�s �Mountbatten � The Last Viceroy� is arguably one of his finest works� and it has waited for an official CD release for almost thirty years � and it�s still waiting. Varese Sarabande released the score on LP and Cassette in 1985, and a number of bootleg CDs (with varying sound quality) entered the market about a decade ago.
Sadly, the most frequently circulated transfer was produced on a malfunctioning turntable from a worn LP, and is absolutely to be avoided. I produced a cassette transfer of my own in 2009 which was overall respectable but not as good as it should have been due to improper azimuth adjustment on the transfer deck. The 2001 bootleg by Movietrack Classics (manufactured in the Czech Republic but actually produced in Great Britain � rumours persist that Scott himself was responsible) is probably the best so far (a surprisingly competent mixture of cassette and vinyl transfer) although it does have its shortcomings.
No release to date has attempted to ameliorate basic issues with the source material � noise and pilot hum (Cassette and LP), hiss (Cassette), and harsh equalisation (Predominantly Cassette; the LP suffers to a lesser extent).
This new release is, I believe, the best of the lot and probably as good as we�ll ever get until the master tapes are uncovered and an official CD release is finally produced.
I have used as source material, an unplayed, factory sealed LP (the Canadian pressing) which I have transferred to the digital domain with audiophile equipment. It has received a careful restoration and remastering; the transfer and subsequent processing took place at 96,000hz 24-bit, before a final downsampling to 44100hz 16-bit for distribution and release. Minimal, non-invasive de-clicking, de-rumbling, and de-hissing was employed. Re-equalisation was employed, using the Cassette release, other commercially-released Scott scores as a reference. The result is a restoration of tonal balance, permitting this score to be heard, for the first time, in natural and realistic. Hum and pilot tones have been forensically filtered.
I have retained the track naming scheme from the Movietrack Classics bootleg; I believe the original, official release to be in error in this regard. PLEASE NOTE that despite the appearance of an additional track ("Aftermath") there is no additional music on either the Movietrack Classics bootleg or this edition. The extra track exists because of a re-ordering of the existing material.
Enjoy! :)
TT