On today’s program, Jason Drury interviews with one of film music’s most renowned mastering engineers, Chris Malone.
His list of album projects includes BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, CASINO ROYALE, TRUE GRIT, the 6 disc La La Land Records set of music from the TV Series MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS for Intrada Records, the mammoth 15 disc set of music from STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES and many more.
In 2019 Chris Malone was part of the team who helped restore John Williams’ score to THE TOWERING INFERNO to its former glory and also worked on the restorations of THE ITALIAN JOB by Quincy Jones and Ron Goodwin’s score for MONTE CARLO OR BUST.
In September 2019, for Cinematic Sound Radio, Jason Drury talked to Chris via Skype in Perth, Australia. In this first episode of this two-part series, Chris talks about his interest in recording and restoring film music, his relationship with the legendary recording engineer Eric Tomlinson and what exactly does a mastering engineer do.
And throughout the show, you’ll hear musical selections from the wide catalogue of projects that have been expertly restored by Chris Malone, including music by Earle Hagen, Sol Kaplan and Henry Mancini.
In part two, Jason and Chris talk about more of Chris’s favourite projects, setting up his company, MALONE DIGITAL and his working relationship with Quartet Records.
Throughout this second part, you’ll hear more music restored by Chris Malone, including works from Nelson Riddle, Burt Bacharach, Alexander Courage, Fred Steiner, Arthur B Rubinstein, George Dunning and John Barry.
When you are done with the show please head over to www.malonedigital.com to discover more about Chris including his extensive articles, analyses and commentary of restoring classic film and tv music including a loving tribute to Eric Tomlinson and a details look back at the recording of the original STAR WARS TRILOGY which was recorded by Eric Tomlinson and performed by The London Symphony Orchestra.
Enjoy!
