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RE-SCORING THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: THE 1980 FILM VERSION EDIT (Released)
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12-Oct-2009, 7:48 AM

RE-SCORING THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK:
 

THE 1980 FILM VERSION edit

The Empire Strikes Back score edited for the film is slightly different to what it is on the releases, everybody knows that. But in what is it different, what was really used and was not and for what reason ?… Hard to know with such a complex score. I always thought it was just full of simple cuts, and I was wrong.

The music has been sometime cut and faded, but also some scenes have been sometime re-scored through editing for a very efficient and enjoyable rendering of the scene.

The film version avoids repetitions of alternate segments you have put together on the entire score presented on the SE’s. Indeed, the score may appear quite heavy in its complete form compared to what you hear in the movie.
 

The present set has been edited from the OT Soundracks Salvage & Restoration (except for the new concert versions), and most of the volumes have been revised and so the whole of it has been now fully equilibrated from this point of view. Some tracks has been once more, but slightly, re-equalized.

… Note that what you’ll find here is not a complete score though there’s very few missing, but I guess if anyone wished to make a real complete score, there’s no doubt he’ll find here the last missing pieces to his collection !
 

Anyway, there’s no better experience than listening for yourself to make your own idea.

Before you ask any question, you’ll find some more infos by playing this new game: that’s called “hit the smiley !”… It’s quite a little hidden but it’s here.

 

CD 1 (74’40"):

  1. 20TH CENTURY FOX FANFARE 0:22

  2. MAIN TITLES / HOTH SYSTEM 3:59

film version edit

  1. HAN SOLO’S DEPARTURE 1:33

film version cut

  1. THE WAMPA’S LAIR / OBI-WAN’S VISION 4:10

film versions cut but edited as a single track

  1. SNOWSPEEDERS 1:03

film version edit

  1. ABOARD THE EXECUTOR 1:48

film version edit

  1. DRAWING THE BATTLE LINES 4:02

original - stereo channels corrected

  1. BATTLE IN THE SNOW 3:13

film version cut - remastered from ot soundtracks salvage

  1. LUKE’S FIRST CRASH 4:08

  2. THE REBELS ESCAPE AGAIN 2:59

  3. THE ASTEROID FIELD 4:12

remastered from the RSO CD release (sounds less corrupted and more natural than any other versions)

  1. CRASH LANDING ON DAGOBAH 3:38

remastered from ot soundtracks salvage

  1. A FAMILIAR PLACE 1:22

remastered from ot soundtracks salvage

  1. LUKE’S NOCTURNAL VISITOR 0:42

film version cut - remastered from ot soundtracks salvage

  1. HAN SOLO AND THE PRINCESS / VADER AND THE EMPEROR 3:25

  2. JEDI MASTER REVEALED 2:10

film version cut

  1. MYNOCK CAVE 2:27

film version cut + remastered

  1. THE MAGIC TREE 3:32

film version edit - added the missing synth (RSO LP)

  1. ATTACKING A STAR DESTROYER / YODA’S TEACHINGS 3:03

  2. YODA AND THE FORCE 4:02

original version (not the raw film version ending)

  1. IMPERIAL STARFLEET DEPLOYED 0:52

film version cut

  1. THE CITY IN THE CLOUDS 4:05

film version cut - last part replaced with 7FN RSO LP

  1. LANDO’S PALACE / LUKE’S PROMISE 3:51

  2. LEIA’S WORRIES 1:00

  3. LANDO AND HAN 0:40

  4. BETRAYAL AT BESPIN 1:03

  5. TORTURE 0:59

  6. DEAL WITH THE DARK LORD 2:34

  7. CARBON FREEZE 2:39

 

CD 2 (77’37") :

  1. LUKE PURSUES THE CAPTIVES 3:34

film version cut + remastered

  1. DEPARTURE OF BOBA FETT 1:51

film version edit + light mixing with the RSO for the flutes

  1. THE CLASH OF LIGHTSABERS 4:15

  2. LOSING A HAND 5:20

  3. HYPERSPACE 4:02

  4. FINALE / END CREDITS 6:49

film version beginning, but extented with the RSO missing part, so not the exact film version which is cut
 

UNUSED & ALTERNATE MUSIC:
 

  1. THE IMPERIAL MARCH (DARTH VADER’S THEME) 3:00

  2. THE ICE PLANET (COMPLETE) 8:15

completed with the missing bit

  1. LOST IN THE SNOW / SEARCH FOR LUKE 3:01

two unused cues edited as one track

  1. SNOWSPEEDERS 1:46

added the RSO percussions

  1. THE IMPERIAL FLEET / VADER FANFARE 2:27

two unused parts edited as one track

  1. LUKE’S NOCTURNAL VISITOR / MYNOCKS 3:01

two unused parts edited as one track

  1. THE TRAINING OF A JEDI NIGHT

  2. HIDDEN FALCJN 0:27

  3. BAD FEELING 0:36

  4. TRAPPED IN CARBONITE 0:42

  5. DARTH VADER’S TRAP / DEPARTURE OF BOBA FETT

two unused cues edited as one track.
 

CONCERT VERSIONS:
 

THE SKYWALKER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by JOHN WILLIAMS

  1. YODA’S THEME 3:16

  2. THE IMPERIAL MARCH 3:05
     

THE NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA - C. GERHARDT RECORDINGS

Entirely remastered

  1. HAN AND LEIA’S THEME 4:26

  2. THE ASTEROID FIELD 4:12

  3. LANDO’S PALACE 1:32

  4. LUKE’S FIRST CRASH 2:29

  5. THE MAGIC TREE 3:38

  6. “MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU” 0:50

 

… That’s what I was about to wish you !

 

As always, feedbacks will help this set not to disappear too fast.