The chart-topping movie soundtrack to Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music can be reissued on Dec. 1 in an array of recent expanded, remixed and remastered codecs. Amongst them: a lavish Tremendous Deluxe Version boasting over 40 previously-unreleased tracks – 11 of that are never-before-heard alternate takes from the 1965 blockbuster film.
A type of alternate takes is an unreleased rendition of the movie’s opening quantity “Prelude / The Sound of Music,” by the movie’s star Julie Andrews, and solid. The music is now out there to stream and obtain (Sept. 27) — hear beneath.
And, for the primary time, all the Academy Award-winning movie’s music – together with each musical component from the film – can be included on the Tremendous Deluxe Version of the album. Amongst these basic songs: “My Favourite Issues,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Edelweiss,” “Sixteen Happening Seventeen” and “Climb Ev’ry Mountain.”
The Sound of Music soundtrack spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1965 and was a near-constant presence within the high 10 from the spring of 1965 via the spring of 1967. It spent a staggering 109 weeks within the high 10 – probably the most of any soundtrack within the chart’s historical past. In 2015, Billboard ranked The Sound of Music as probably the most profitable soundtrack of all time on the chart.
The Tremendous Deluxe Version of The Sound of Music can be out there as both as a four-CD/one-Blu-ray audio boxed set or as a digital obtain album. The Blu-Ray audio disc incorporates the movie’s full rating in hi-resolution audio, in addition to a brand new Dolby Atmos mixture of the unique 16-track soundtrack launched in 1965.
The boxed set options new liner notes written by movie historian and preservationist Mike Matessino, who remixed and remastered the album from the unique multi-track tapes.
The Tremendous Deluxe Version is one in all a number of new iterations of The Sound of Music that Craft Recordings will launch on Dec. 1. (Craft is the catalog label for Harmony.) The Sound of Music may also be reintroduced in a Deluxe Version (on two-CDs) and a three-LP vinyl assortment (together with a “Picnic Meadow Inexperienced”-colored vinyl urgent restricted to 500 copies worldwide). An ordinary version of the album may also be refreshed, the place the unique 16-track 1965 soundtrack can be reissued digitally in commonplace digital, HD digital and in a Dolby Atmos combine. (The usual digital album may also be out there in a number of non-English-language editions, together with Spanish, German, French and Italian).
“It’s been great to collaborate throughout all of Harmony’s divisions to assist carry this historic and culturally vital reissue to mild,” says Sig Sigworth, president, Craft Recordings and chief catalog officer, Harmony, in an announcement. “This deluxe version has been years within the making, with Craft Recordings working in live performance with Harmony Publishing and Harmony Theatricals (residence of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Group). We’re delighted that The Sound of Music followers around the globe, previous and new, will be capable of benefit from the iconic soundtrack in a model new listening expertise, greater than a half century after its unique launch.”
Imogen Lloyd Webber, SVP at Harmony Theatricals on behalf of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Group provides: “This reissue of The Sound of Music, lovingly—and painstakingly—curated by the group at Craft with collaboration from so many at Harmony, alongside Mike Matessino, is a landmark second within the historical past of the title. It’s a actually becoming tribute to the final of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals and one we hope followers the world over will treasure for years to return.”
For a full recap of the tracklists for every variant of the album, go to the Craft Recordings web site. A abstract of the brand new iterations is beneath:
The Sound of Music Soundtrack 2023 Reissues:
Tremendous Deluxe Version (4-CD/1 Blu-Ray boxed set)
100 tracks on the CDs, 62 tracks on the Blu-Ray audio disc.
Tremendous Deluxe Version (Digital Obtain Album)
84 tracks
Deluxe Version (2-CD)
46 tracks
Deluxe Version (3 vinyl LPs, plus a “Picnic Meadow Inexperienced” shade variant triple LP restricted to 500 copies worldwide)
46 tracks
Authentic 1965 Launch (Commonplace Digital [inclusive of multiple international language versions such as Spanish, German, French and Italian] & HD Digital)
16 tracks
Authentic 1965 Launch (Dolby Atmos)
16 tracks (all in 2023 Stereo Mixes)
