A new super-deluxe edition of ‘The Sound of Music’ soundtrack will be released on Dec. 1, 2023.Photo:20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
The hills are alive withThe Sound of Musicagain!
Nearly 60 years after the beloved musical first debuted in theaters, a new super-deluxe edition of the movie’s soundtrack is being released later this year.
The ‘Sound of Music’ movie premiered in 1965.Mary Evans/AF Archive/Everett Collection
Mary Evans/AF Archive/Everett Collection
The set also includes new, in-depth liner notes from director Robert Wise’s associate Mike Matessino, who remastered the soundtrack from the original multi-track tapes. Matessino also wrote a lengthy essay for fans, colorfully recounting the making of the film and its timeless music.
“You will hear what you’ve heard before — famous songs with the mellifluous tones of Dame Julie Andrews leading the way — but the experience has been transformed beyond what the 1965 soundtrack album offered with extensions to the songs, a brilliantly arranged underscore, and even some segments not used in the completed version of the film," Matessino explained in the essay.
The album also will be available in deluxe two-CD and three-LP triple-gatefold formats featuring the movie’s full score. In addition to the wide vinyl release, a special “Picnic Meadow Green” color pressing — limited to just 500 worldwide — will be sold online exclusively atCraftRecordings.com.
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The 40-plus unreleased tracks on the super-deluxe album include “The Little Dears,” which combines “I Have Confidence” and “My Favorite Things”; “New Governess"; and “The Gazebo,” an extended piece of underscore.
Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews led the cast of ‘The Sound of Music.'.Bettmann/Getty
Bettmann/Getty
AsThe Sound of Musicapproaches its milestone 60th anniversary in 2025, members of the movie’s castenjoyed a touching reunionlast year. Five of the actors who played the Von Trapp children joined Andrews, 87, onstage at the AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony in June 2022.
“We do keep in touch, but not on a really regular basis,” she said during an appearance on the NBC morning show. “I mean, Christmases, maybe birthdays and certainly get-togethers, but we just bonded so hard that I think we’re family anyway.”
She also spoke about herSound of Musicleading man, Plummer, whodied in February 2021at 91.
“I adored [him],” Andrews said. “We were friends for years.”
source: people.com
