I had a request for Miklos Rózsa's original soundtrack LP from Quo Vadis from Gil, who wants to hear the original Roman instruments that Rózsa apparently used for some parts of this recording.
Sure enough, in the liner notes it says that "Dr. Rózsa included in the orchestra many of the ancient instruments that were heard by the Romans during the reign of Nero." (But presumably not Nero's fiddle.)
Roman instruments or not, parts of this score raise quite a racket. And some of it is tender and contemplative. I am inclined toward the latter, myself, but whatever your own preference, you'll probably find something to like.
The sonics are fair, a bit of peak distortion and overloading here and there, but not too bad.
Note (April 2026): this has now been remastered and has improved sound.
7 comments:
Wooow! Thanks! Today, it'll be Rozsa day! And the foobar2000 works fine!
Fantastic!
Please keep up sharing these extremely hard-to-find recordings. I had heard of this one.. thought I'd never be able to find it.
Thanx!!!
Once more , let me feel happy...re-up this, too !
Denys P.R.
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Remastered version (Apple lossless):
https://mega.nz/#!KANjHABD!yCoyE_yB_74vHmtC6DLQr_QpcuZsju4N-uUYkVhcaHM
thank you again. -a.v.
Hey there, THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing this. By any chance do you own (or know of) the version of this which includes the "dramatic highlights" as well? I have been searching for both for years.
Marc - I don't believe I have that one, sorry!
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