ABCsaid:

As you can read in my notes, the SE track for "Mynock Cave" have each channel isolated from the other: the instruments from the left sound only on the left and the right ones on the right, what the RSO surely doesn't do. If you sit in a concert hall it would be weird that a wall separe the musicians and so you can't hear the instruments sound melting...

Sorry for the late reply. You're right! forgive my ignorance. I can't believe I've never noticed that, its sounds very artificial, weird...

ABC said:

According to the listing you've posted it's funny to notice how much is left from his work on the OE:

Ice planet bits: about 20 sec

Jedi Master Revealed (layered!): 2 min

... And perhaps the missing bits from Mynock Cave: about 10 sec

... Tomlinson rules by K.O. in the first round !

Yes, but two of them you cannot get anywhere else ;) and you've done some great improvements on them.

ABC said:

Do you think he's responsible of both the Sountrack and Film versions? Well, that's something I don't quite well unserstand... (If there's a difference I mean)

What I observe is that...

the original RSO soundtrack gives a strong relief to some instruments that are unheard or spoiled on the Anthology. (ringing instruments, percussions, flutes etc...) and a completely different touch to the sound... So are they still to be called "Tomlinson mixes" on the Anthology ?

That the SE uses the exact same mixes from the Anthology for the non-Risner tracks (Lucasfilm politics (?): the sheapest, the best).

But I haven't listened the film mixes too carefuly to compare I must say, excepted perhaps the End Titles, wich sounds quite close to the Anthology track (I mean CD2 version, wich sounds different from the other tracks... ).

Conclusion (imo): the RSO version rules.

Well, Tomlinson was the recording engineer for the score, and the original recording of the orchestra is what I think is the blueprint of its sound, so "film mixes" is perhaps a bad description of what I meant, (when all film scores is recorded for a film), when released on album they are of course adjusted for home equipment and Tomlinson's recording mix is the basis for it, no matter how you transfer (remix) it. It just wasn't transfered correctly -96 when they had the opportunity, (Star Wars was great imo.) -93 they hadn't and -80 they released one of the most sophisticated scores ever made at that time. But like the most things related to Star Wars lately it's easier to make $$ instead of showing it proper respect like you do :)