D_J,
I'm PMing you a Flac sample of the begining until the snowspeeders cue synchronized to your PCM track. If you have time to check against the picture what it gives that would be great. I'm in PAL region, so I can't it check over my GOUT version - that I finally found btw.
D. Malwalker, thanks for the link. Very nteresting thread. ANH has only 90 min of score, against 117 min for Empire. There will be very few silent passages in the end, and as I mentionned before the photography for this film is exceptionnal, so just we would have to open our eyes when the ears will be at rest. ;)
Thanks for the infos Hairy_Hen, so the SE doesn't suck on every point...! I enjoyed very much the restored bits of music in Ady's version. I have the SE but I'm not mad enough to watch or study it. Funny then, cause my previous film cut edit of the score was all made after the GOUT, and I now think such editing is pointless as a soundtrack or an isolated score.
In the other hand, I tested "Departure Of Boba Fett" on the film mix and that was incredible and funny in the same time: as the duel in the Carbon Freeze chamber is - unscored - in the film with the dialogues, it is perfect. As it is with the music and the sfx's clashing it is awesome and there's a big tension underneath... But as I listened with the dialogues + the music, it had something "too much": too heroic, what really gave me a feeling of "commercial" stuff or something for children.
PS: so I retrieved my 2004 DVD and the alt mix I was searching for the March, if it's this one, is too short for the edit I thought (not for the DVD). And anyway, everybody talks about this alt mix, when all the film mix unique, as is the Anthology, or the album, or the... No, forget that one...