Blu-ray players and Blu-ray films are producing a number of pleasure. The Beatles weren’t the first band to commit great music to the large display screen – just consider the evocative scores for the likes of Gone With The Wind, Psycho, The Magnificent Seven et al. Nevertheless they had been the first band to create an album you’d need to listen to from start to finish, and which could possibly be played with out necessarily having seen the movie.

However a greater place to start out is with the movie, in which the tale of singing sibs and their remarkably musical governess in Nazi Austria discovered its voice in Julie Andrews. This gloriously OTT soundtrack from the equally vibrant film is ideal for such requirements.

The album released three days earlier than the broadcast contained studio pre-recordings of all the songs used in the special, carried out by the unique forged therefrom, but as a result of only the orchestral portion of the material from the album is similar as that used within the special, (i.e. the vocals were sung reside over a prerecorded observe), this creates an identical technicality as a result of though the instrumental music mattress from …