If the holidays are a time to release the biggest archival film scores on CD, Intrada certainly got the memo! Among their last reissues of 2024 include an expanded version of an Oscar winner by John Barry, a premiere release of a Maurice Jarre favorite, a reissue of a stalwart album by Jerry Goldsmith and a new recording of a beloved work from Dimitri Tiomkin - plus a soundtrack to a documentary on one of the better-known songwriters/scorers of the '70s.

While Barry certainly gets accolades for his work with the James Bond series (three scores of which have been reissued this year!), the late British composer was no stranger to prestigious fare that could clean up at the Academy Awards. He earned his fourth of five Oscars for his moving score to 1985's Out of Africa, that year's Best Picture winner. Loosely based on the life and writings of Danish author Karen Blixen (writing under the pen name Isak Disenen), the Syndey Pollack-directed drama starred Meryl Streep as Blixen, living and working in British-occupied East Africa (now Nairobi, the capital of Kenya) and romancing a dashing, game-hunting aristocrat portrayed by Robert Redford.

For all its popularity - released on a gold-certified album by MCA Records and named by the American Film Institute as one of the 25 greatest film scores of all time - Barry's stirring work on the film only takes up just over 40 minutes of the film's two-and-a-half-hour runtime. The orchestral themes are balanced out with Barry-supervised recordings of source material that includes African traditional works and compositions by Mozart and Gilbert & Sullivan, and this 2CD expansion offers all that material plus a baker's dozen alternate cues and mixes plus a fresh remaster of the original soundtrack LP. It was mastered for disc by Chris Malone and Douglass Fake (one of the Intrada head's final credits before his passing earlier this year) from the original 1/2" master three-channel stereo tapes and features liner notes by Jon Burlingame.

Intrada next premieres one of the most requested works of Maurice Jarre: his affecting score to the 1980 drama Resurrection. In it, a woman played by Ellen Burstyn (in an Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated performance) develops the unexplained ability to heal herself and others after a near-death experience. Jarre's fan favorite work, released for the first time, combines full orchestral ideas with Southern and bluegrass touches, offerin ga unique sense of place as well as emotional undercurrent. Produced, mastered and mixed by Chris Malone from the original 24-track session tapes, this release features new liner notes by John Takis analyzing the score's themes and cues as well as their use in the film (or in some cases, lack thereof).

For not just Jerry Goldsmith fans but the composer himself, one of his treasured works was the  score to 1977's Islands in the Stream, an adaptation of the posthumous Ernest Hemingway novel by director Franklin J. Schaffner, featuring George C. Scott in the lead role. (Schaffner and Goldsmith were constant collaborators, working on films like Patton, Planet of the Apes, Papillon and The Boys from Brazil.) Disappointed by the film's lack of soundtrack upon release, Goldsmith approached the then-new Intrada label in 1986 to release a new recording done with an orchestra in Hungary. This release offers a significant remastering of that album from producers Fake and Malone, complete with new liner notes by Frank K. DeWald.

While the label doesn't often venture outside the lines of traditional film scoring, they've made an exception for a physical release of the soundtrack to the winning documentary Charles Fox: Killing Me Softly with His Songs. Known equally in the pop and soundtrack worlds, Fox is an incredible musical journeyman: the Bronx-born son of a Jewish immigrant from Poland, he studied under the legendary French music teacher Nadia Boulanger and built a strong career in the '70s as a film and TV composer and songwriter. Among his credits are the themes to shows like Wonder Woman, Happy Days and The Love Boat; and both original pop songs and ones based on scores he composed, including the Grammy-winning "Killing Me Softly with His Song" (a multi-generational hit for Roberta Flack and the Fugees), the stirring "I Got a Name," recorded by Jim Croce for the film The Last American Hero and issued as a single just a day after his tragic passing; and Barry Manilow's "Ready to Take a Chance Again" (from the just-reissued score to Foul Play). Those songs and much more are celebrated in the film and soundtrack, including performances by Croce's son A.J., pop-rockers Barenaked Ladies, actors Rita Wilson and Jason Alexander, plus ensembles led by Fox in Paris and Havana, Cuba.

Finally, as they often do through Kickstarter campaigns, Intrada's got a new recording of a film score for fans of Golden Age triumphs: Dimitri Tiomkin's work for John Sturges' adaptation of The Old Man and the Sea, starring Spencer Tracy as Ernest Hemingway's titular hero. With little dialogue in the film, Tiomkin's ambitious themes and cues drove the emotional engine of the film, and thanks to immaculately preserved manuscripts in the Warner Bros. archives, a recording of the complete score clocking in at nearly 80 minutes, plus a selection of alternate arrangements, has been undertaken by Intrada, performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under the command of Richard Kaufman. The set features new liner notes by Frank K. DeWald, Warren M. Sherk and Patrick Russ, as well as terrific original cover art by Stéphane Coedel.

John Barry, Out of Africa (Expanded Original Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Intrada ISC 500, 2024 - original film released 1985)

Disc 1: Film score (1-34) and alternates (35-47)

1. I Had a Farm in Africa (Main Title)
2. Alone on the Farm (Karen's Theme)
3. The Farm
4. Have You Got a Story for Me?
5. Bror Returns (Karen's Theme)
6. W.W. I.
7. Short Wait
8. I'm Better At Hello (Karen's Theme)
9. Cuckoo Clock
10. Karen's Journey Starts (Revised)
11. Karen's Journey - Masai (Mix with Percussion)
12. Karen's Journey Ends
13. Karen Returns from Border - III
14. Syphilis
15. I Had a Compass from Denys
16. Karen Builds a School
17. Harvest (Karen's Theme)
18. Safari - Part I
19. Safari - Part II
20. Safari - Part III
21. Return from Safari
22. Strange Love
23. Flight Over Africa
24. Don't Move
25. She Said Yes
26. Meeting on the Porch
27. Beach At Night
28. The Dam Breaks
29. I Think God is Coming
30. Trying to Get Land (Detached Strings)
31. You'll Keep Me Then
32. If I Know a Song of Africa
33. You Are Karen M' Sabu
34. Out of Africa - End Credits
35. W.W. I. (Alternate)
36. Karen's Journey Starts (Mix with Percussion)
37. Karen's Journey Starts (Mix without Percussion)
38. Karen's Journey - Masai (Alternate Mix with Percussion)
39. Karen's Journey - Masai (Mix without Percussion)
40. Safari - Part III (Alternate Opening Bar)
41. Flight Over Africa (Alternate)
42. Trying to Get Land (Alternate)
43. Trying to Get Land (Revised)
44. If I Know a Song of Africa (Alternate - W.W. & Harp Opening)
45. Out of Africa - End Credits (Wild)
46. Theme No. 1 on Oboe
47. Theme No. 2 on Oboe

Disc 2: Source music (1-8) and original soundtrack album (9-20 - released as MCA Records 6158, 1985)

1. Siyawe (African Traditional)
2. Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A (K. 622) - 2nd Movement (Mozart)
3. Sinfonia Concertante - Andante (Mozart)
4. Divertimento in D (K. 136) (Mozart)
5. Piano Sonata in A - 1st Movement (Mozart)
6. The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring (W.S. Gilbert/Arthur Sullivan)
7. Duet - from The Mikado (W.S. Gilbert/Arthur Sullivan)
8. Let the Rest of the World Go By (Ernest R. Ball/J. Keirn Brennan)
9. Main Title (I Had a Farm in Africa)
10. I'm Better At Hello (Karen's Theme)
11. Have You Got a Story for Me?
12. Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A (K. 622) - 2nd Movement (Mozart)
13. Safari
14. Karen's Journey/Siyawe (African Traditional)
15. Flying Over Africa
16. I Had a Compass from Denys (Karen's Theme II)
17. Alone on the Farm
18. Let the Rest of the World Go By (Ernest R. Ball/J. Keirn Brennan)
19. If I Know a Song of Africa (Karen's Theme III)
20. End Title (You Are Karen)

Maurice Jarre, Resurrection (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Intrada ISC 515, 2024 - original film released 1980. All tracks previously unreleased)

The Score

1. Resurrection
2. Sad News
3. Esco
4. Faith
5. You'll Be Leaving Again
6. Healing Cal
7. What Else Can You Feel in Me?
8. Another Miracle
9. Father's Death
10. Chasing the Devil
11. Abandoned House

The Extras

12. The Tunnel
13. Sad News (Alternate - Violin, Viola and Flute)
14. Healing Cal (Film Version)
15. Laser Beam
16. Resurrection - End Title (Alternate)
17. Picnic Bluegrass
18. Drought Bluegrass
19. Resurrection - Theme (Bluegrass Version)
20. Reunited
21. California Dreamin'
22. If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me
23. Resurrection - Theme (Pop Version)

Jerry Goldsmith, Islands in the Stream (Music from the Motion Picture) (originally released as Intrada RVF-6003, 1986 - reissued Intrada ISC 516, 2024; original film released 1977)

1. Main Title
2. The Boys Arrive
3. Pillow Fight
4. Is Ten Too Old?
5. Night Attack
6. The Marlin
7. The Boys Leave
8. The Letter
9. How Long Can You Stay?
10. I Can't Have Him
11. The Refugees
12. Eddy's Death
13. It is All True

Charles Fox: Killing Me Softly with His Song (Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Intrada INT 7180, 2024)

1. Sing a Brand New Song - Donald Webber Jr.
2. Viene Acabando - Charles Fox with Cuba All Star Band feat. Orquesta Aragón
3. At the Movies - Rita Wilson & Jason Alexander
4. Wonder Woman - Christian Alejandro
5. I Got a Name - A.J. Croce
6. Night Life - Charles Fox Paris Sextette
7. On N'aime Qu'une Fois Comme Ça - Anne Sila
8. Sin Tu Amor - Cristian Alejandro
9. Ballade - Charles Fox with Cuba All Star Band feat. Orquesta Aragón
10. Elle Chantait Ma Vie En Musique - Anne Sila
11. Blue Pachanga - Charles Fox Paris Sextette feat. Alexandre Desplat
12. Happy Days - Barenaked Ladies
13. A Day Our Love Has Put Together - Charles Fox with Cuba All Star Band feat. Orquesta Aragón
14. Salsa Suite - Charles Fox Paris Sextette feat. Alexandre Desplat
15. Killing Me Softly with His Song - Charles Fox

Richard Kaufman & The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, The Old Man and the Sea (New Recording of the 1958 Movie Score by Dimitri Tiomkin) (Intrada INT 7182, 2024)

Disc 1

1. Cojimar Harbor and the Old Man
2. Fisherman's Cantina
3. Boy Feeds Old Man
4. The Boy
5. Wake Up, Old Man
6. The Old Man Loved The Boy
7. The Early Dawn
8. Coffee Chat/Mar Bravio
9. And the Old Man Rowed Out to the Ocean
10. Waiting for Luck
11. The Old Man Catches His Bait, Part 1
12. The Old Man Catches His Bait, Part 2
13. Fish Finally Hooked
14. Sunset and Red Clouds
15. The Long Night
16. A Small Bird
17. Fish is Coming to the Surface, Part 1
18. Fish is Coming to the Surface, Part 2

Disc 2

1. Taverna At Casa Blanca
2. Just Before It Was Dark
3. Porpoises
4. Duel with the Fish
5. Monster Fish
6. Going Southwest
7. The Shark Fight
8. Second Shark Attack
9. The Lost Fight
10. Last Shark Attack
11. Lights of Havana
12. Defeat Return
13. Same Old Hut
14. Old Friends
15. Cubana
16. The Last Dream/Finale
17. I Am Your Dream (Violin Solo and Orchestra, arranged by Maurice de Packh)
18. The Old Man and the Sea Theme (arranged by Pete King)
19. The Old Man and the Sea Theme (Orchestra Version arranged by George Parrish)
20. Tiomkin on The Old Man and the Sea