Quartet’s Ipcress File
- Lukas Kendall
- Jun 5
- 1 min read
This is the first chance I am having to lavish well-deserved praise on Quartet’s new recording of The Ipcress File, the John Barry spy classic.
The soundtrack album is a classic but much of the original score as heard in the film has never been released—and with both recordings and written scores long lost, the only way we’d ever hear it is through a painstaking reconstruction and new performance.
This is exactly what Quartet’s team has done—Leigh Phillips for the reconstruction, Adam Klemens conducting the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra—and if I didn’t know better I’d assume it was the original performance conducted by John Barry.
Check it out, please! These new recordings are expensive and the only way to get more of them is if the audience is large enough. Thanks!
Yes, a superb release, which replicates the original sound, but improved upon with twenty-first century recording technology. Unlike many re-recordings of Barry classics that use large orchestras, this opts for the smaller orchestra used in the original film, which allows the separate instruments to shine. The sound is crisp and beautiful. Superb!