For anyone who owns the set, could you tell me if Caesar Giovannini's wonderful piano solos are included in the isolated music? I know that you can listen to Jerry Goldsmith's but is the piano solos included?
Thanks,
Rachel
Rachel, "Teakwood" is among this box set's episodes with an isolated score, where ALL music is heard dialogue-free. (This isn't done for all 67 episodes.) But before you shell out the money for this pricy set, let me make sure you understand that these are only the music-and-effects tracks isolated and not the original, music-only audio masters -- so it won't be like listening to a soundtrack album.
If you have no experience with this, know that the THRILLER set's isolated tracks will let you enjoy the music without spoken dialogue; but all sound effects will still be present (including the occasional full-throated scream). The nature of a music-and-effects track also means that the music periodically will dip in volume as it was mixed to accommodate dialogue within the composite master track (dialogue/music/sound effects).
In case this is a dealbreaker for you, in this set you'll get to hear the lengthiest instance of the "'Teakwood' Nocturne" (the onstage rehearsal) without dialogue -- but at a lower volume level, as it was mixed to make sure we could hear the half-whispered dialogue between Hazel Court and Charles Aidman.
But if one of the current labels which issue authorized, limited-edition CDs of older film-and-TV soundtracks releases a THRILLER package, I'll return to notify you in this thread!
Thank you!
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