I received the latest batch of Varese Sarabande club releases - which includes a rerecording of Herrmann's North By Northwest, thankfully not recorded in the awful washy hall that the previous Herrmann and other rerecordings were done in in Scotland - this was done in a studio in Slovakia. Of what I've heard, some is very good, some is too dry acoustically making for a harsh sound, and some of the playing in the early fast cues is decidedly not up to snuff. But, I'm enjoying it - I do hope that someone puts out the original film tracks at some point. When Rhino put out the CD soundtrack many years ago, it was from inferior sources and sounds quite bad in many cues. They have since found pristine elements on the score (it's what's heard in that Scorsese short film) and they would sound amazing on CD.
