Star Trek IV: TVH expanded score is out!

[ScottDS]

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STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME
Music Composed and Conducted by LEONARD ROSENMAN
INTRADA Special Collection MAF 7114

Intrada ends 2011 with one last major release - the complete Leonard Rosenman score to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The second film in the series under the helm of director Leonard Nimoy, Nimoy choose a lighter approach to this outing and injected liberal amounts of well-placed humor. For this fourth entry, Nimoy introduced another element he had wanted to bring on board earlier in the series: the music of Leonard Rosenman. Rosenman's Star Trek IV music bears the hallmarks of the composer’s distinctive style: vaulting brass figures, complex textural passages, thumping suspense motives. The main theme—and also Kirk’s theme—is upbeat, heraldic and heroic, its optimistic flavor cutting a different path than the other scores in the series.

For this release, Intrada worked from the original session masters housed at Paramount, reassembling the complete score in film order. This presentation also includes numerous bonus tracks, including alternates and the song "I Hate You." A stand-out is an alternate version of the "Main Title." Rosenman created this stately arrangement of Alexander Courage’s classic Star Trek theme to accompany the first part of the opening credits, which appear against a background of deep space.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) became one of the most popular and enthusiastically reviewed films to feature the original cast and the first to play primarily as a comedy. The film ties up the loose ends from The Search for Spock: Spock reunites with Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) and his friends from the now-destroyed U.S.S. Enterprise. Star Trek IV provides an adventure that restores Spock to his role as a sage science officer while rehabilitating the reputation of Kirk and his crew in the eyes of the Federation as they save earth -- again -- from certain destruction.

INTRADA MAF 7114
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[Brikar99]

I dunno... I'm all up for more Trek music, but I'm simply not a fan of Leonard Rosenman or this score.

 

[Indysolo]

This rocks!

Neil

 

[doubleohfive]

Dammit, ScottDS! You beat me by two minutes!



I am quite thrilled about this release. What a great time to be a Trek music fan! TNG, Wrath of Khan, Search for Spock, Final Frontier, and now Voyage Home. Magnificent!

It may not make the front page news on this BBS (a fact which still puzzles me) but its still pretty damn good news!

 

[Tosk]

I dunno... I'm all up for more Trek music, but I'm simply not a fan of Leonard Rosenman or this score.

Same. I'll probably end up buying it just 'cause I'm a pathetic completist, but Rosenman is one of my least liked film composers ever. He rarely comes up with a theme that doesn't sound like everything else he's ever done, or he manages to make it sound different but terrible. (The shorrible screams of "Ro-bo-copppp!" during Robocop 2's end credits make me die just a little more each time I watch it.)


...That said, I'm all for all the Trek scores getting complete releases.

 

[ScottDS]

This CD also includes the complete version of "I Hate You" from the bus scene. I guess there's a profanity or two somewhere in the song since Intrada's track listing features an "explicit lyrics" tag for this track (a Star Trek first!).

 

[Christopher]

^Wasn't there some profanity in the song that young Jimmy Kirk played on the stolen sportscar's radio in the 2009 movie? Although I guess that wasn't included on the soundtrack album... was it?

 

[ScottDS]

^Wasn't there some profanity in the song that young Jimmy Kirk played on the stolen sportscar's radio in the 2009 movie? Although I guess that wasn't included on the soundtrack album... was it?

I don't know. And no, it wasn't included on the soundtrack album (it probably would've cost too much).

 

[Brikar99]

I dunno... I'm all up for more Trek music, but I'm simply not a fan of Leonard Rosenman or this score.

Same. I'll probably end up buying it just 'cause I'm a pathetic completist, but Rosenman is one of my least liked film composers ever. He rarely comes up with a theme that doesn't sound like everything else he's ever done, or he manages to make it sound different but terrible. (The shorrible screams of "Ro-bo-copppp!" during Robocop 2's end credits make me die just a little more each time I watch it.)


...That said, I'm all for all the Trek scores getting complete releases.

Indeed, complete or expanded releases are welcome as a trend.

At least when James Horner recycles his own material over and over again I like it to begin with, so I don't mind hearing again. Rosenman... mreh.

 

[doubleohfive]

^Wasn't there some profanity in the song that young Jimmy Kirk played on the stolen sportscar's radio in the 2009 movie? Although I guess that wasn't included on the soundtrack album... was it?

I don't know. And no, it wasn't included on the soundtrack album (it probably would've cost too much).

It was "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys, and yeah there's profanity in it. Though I wonder how much a difference it would have been, cost-wise to include that song on the album? They already had it in the movie; then again, the album itself was marketed as the "score" so that probably had something to do with it.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I love the score. I can't imagine watching this great film without it. there is so much spirit.

 

[22 Stars]

Great holiday movie, and fitting music.

 

[Basill]

Yeah, the opening does sound a lot like a bombastic Christmas tune to me. I think that association might have been reinforced by the fact that I got that soundtrack for Christmas of '86. (Although I opened it half a month early and listened to it before putting it back in it's wrapped state. Shhhh. Don't tell Santa. )

Not sure I need some completed version of it though. I'm not even sure what is missing from the original release.

 

[Indysolo]

I'm not even sure what is missing from the original release.

This release doubles the running time of the original album. It features alternate versions of cues than what wound up in the movie (including Rosenman's adaptation of Courage's TV theme, intended for the main titles), completely unused cues written for the film, all of the music heard in the film (including the punk song "I Hate You") entirely re-mastered from the original tapes. Everything from the original album is here and more, plus all new liner notes. It is a complete upgrade from the original release, which was one of my favorite soundtrack albums when I first got it 25 years ago.

Here's the track list:

01. Logo/Main Title† 2:52
02. Starfleet Command/On Vulcan/
Spock/Ten Seconds of Tension 1:40
03. The Probe 1:16
04. The Probe—Transition/The Take-Off/
Menace of the Probe/Clouds and Water/Crew Stunned 3:08
05. Time Travel 1:28
06. Market Street* 4:38
07. In San Francisco 2:01
08. Chekov’s Run 1:21
09. Gillian Seeks Kirk 2:42
10. Hospital Chase 1:14
11. The Whaler 2:00
12. Crash/Whale Fugue 8:38
13. Kirk Freed 0:44
14. Home Again†/End Credits 5:39
Total Score Time: 40:06

THE EXTRAS
15. Ballad of the Whale* 4:59
16. Main Title† (alternate) 2:56
17. Time Travel (alternate) 1:29
18. Chekov’s Run (album ending) 1:19
19. The Whaler (alternate) 2:05
20. Crash/Whale Fugue (album track) 8:15
21. Home Again† and End Credits (alternate) 5:16
22. Main Title† (album track) 2:40
23. Whale Fugue (alternate) 1:05
24. I Hate You** (contains explicit lyrics) 1:59
Total Extras Time: 32:32

*Performed by The Yellowjackets, Composed by Leonard Rosenman, Russell Ferrante and Jimmy Haslip.
**Performed by Edge of Etiquette, Written by Kirk Thatcher, Arranged by Mark Mangini.
†Contains “Theme From Star Trek (TV Series)” by Alexander Courage

Neil

 

[ScottDS]

I was especially pleased by this line in Intrada's description:

"... is part of current ongoing CD restoration series of complete STAR TREK film soundtracks..."

I suppose it's only a matter of time before Intrada releases STVI and La-La Land releases ST:TMP. Maybe Varese Sarabande will release a Deluxe Edition of Star Trek: Nemesis but GEN, FC, and INS are the big question mark. They're owned by GNP Crescendo and I'm not even sure if that label exists anymore.

 

[Christopher]

Here's the track list:

01. Logo/Main Title† 2:52
02. Starfleet Command/On Vulcan/
Spock/Ten Seconds of Tension 1:40
03. The Probe 1:16
04. The Probe—Transition/The Take-Off/
Menace of the Probe/Clouds and Water/Crew Stunned 3:08
05. Time Travel 1:28
06. Market Street* 4:38
07. In San Francisco 2:01
08. Chekov’s Run 1:21
09. Gillian Seeks Kirk 2:42
10. Hospital Chase 1:14
11. The Whaler 2:00
12. Crash/Whale Fugue 8:38
13. Kirk Freed 0:44
14. Home Again†/End Credits 5:39
Total Score Time: 40:06

THE EXTRAS
15. Ballad of the Whale* 4:59
16. Main Title† (alternate) 2:56
17. Time Travel (alternate) 1:29
18. Chekov’s Run (album ending) 1:19
19. The Whaler (alternate) 2:05
20. Crash/Whale Fugue (album track) 8:15
21. Home Again† and End Credits (alternate) 5:16
22. Main Title† (album track) 2:40
23. Whale Fugue (alternate) 1:05
24. I Hate You** (contains explicit lyrics) 1:59
Total Extras Time: 32:32

So aside from the alternate/unused cues and "I Hate You," the actual cues from the film that weren't on the original soundtrack would be tracks 2, 4, 7, and 13, adding up to 7:33 of new music, while "Chekov's Run" and "Crash/Whale Fugue" used different arrangements in the film than on the album and run about 25 seconds longer combined. So that's about 8 minutes or so of material from the film proper that wasn't on the initial release -- 10 minutes if you count the song -- plus a bunch of alternate takes.

Given how short the TVH album ran, it's surprising that it was only missing 8 minutes of orchestral scoring. They could've easily included the whole score. It's surprising that there was so little music in the film.

 

[doubleohfive]

Just ordered my copy. Can't wait to listen to it!

 

[Indysolo]

Here's the track list:

01. Logo/Main Title† 2:52
02. Starfleet Command/On Vulcan/
Spock/Ten Seconds of Tension 1:40
03. The Probe 1:16
04. The Probe—Transition/The Take-Off/
Menace of the Probe/Clouds and Water/Crew Stunned 3:08
05. Time Travel 1:28
06. Market Street* 4:38
07. In San Francisco 2:01
08. Chekov’s Run 1:21
09. Gillian Seeks Kirk 2:42
10. Hospital Chase 1:14
11. The Whaler 2:00
12. Crash/Whale Fugue 8:38
13. Kirk Freed 0:44
14. Home Again†/End Credits 5:39
Total Score Time: 40:06

THE EXTRAS
15. Ballad of the Whale* 4:59
16. Main Title† (alternate) 2:56
17. Time Travel (alternate) 1:29
18. Chekov’s Run (album ending) 1:19
19. The Whaler (alternate) 2:05
20. Crash/Whale Fugue (album track) 8:15
21. Home Again† and End Credits (alternate) 5:16
22. Main Title† (album track) 2:40
23. Whale Fugue (alternate) 1:05
24. I Hate You** (contains explicit lyrics) 1:59
Total Extras Time: 32:32

So aside from the alternate/unused cues and "I Hate You," the actual cues from the film that weren't on the original soundtrack would be tracks 2, 4, 7, and 13, adding up to 7:33 of new music, while "Chekov's Run" and "Crash/Whale Fugue" used different arrangements in the film than on the album and run about 25 seconds longer combined. So that's about 8 minutes or so of material from the film proper that wasn't on the initial release -- 10 minutes if you count the song -- plus a bunch of alternate takes.

Given how short the TVH album ran, it's surprising that it was only missing 8 minutes of orchestral scoring. They could've easily included the whole score. It's surprising that there was so little music in the film.

You left off the "Logo" music heard in track 1. The very first thing you'll hear on this CD was previously unreleased!

There wasn't a lot of score written for this movie, but what's there is effective. And for a movie with about 40 minutes of composed score (not all of it was used), this is still a 72 minute album because of all of the alternate versions. I think the alternate of "The Whaler" is a better performance (where applicable) than the final version heard in the film and the original album.

Neil

 

[milo bloom]

Awesome, one of my favorite scores. I probably wore out the tape.

 

[Mooch]

I suppose it's only a matter of time before Intrada releases STVI and La-La Land releases ST:TMP.

How did you determine that? I've never been able to figure out why each restored soundtrack is on a different label.

GEN, FC, and INS are the big question mark. They're owned by GNP Crescendo and I'm not even sure if that label exists anymore.

Didn't they also publish ST II and III originally? So there is still hope.