Intrada presents an updated edition of one of its most popular titles this week – Bruce Broughton's score to the 1985 Paramount Pictures film Young Sherlock Holmes.This refresh updates and addresses some anomalies in the prior release, overseen by Chris Malone. As with the prior release, the album is sourced from the film mix created by Eric Tomlinson as well as the original LP master. The 3-CD package includes the complete score from the Tomlinson mixes as well as additional extras and of course the complete LP program as originally assembled by Broughton in 1985.

Broughton was relatively new to the theatrical side of the business when he was tapped to score Young Sherlock Holmes, having worked mostly in television for the first decade of his career. Director Barry Levinson’s kinetic film, with its fluid pace and wide variety of tones, presented him with a fresh, yet daunting challenge. Broughton responded with a stunning, wall-to-wall symphonic work that made a deep impression on soundtrack fans and industry professionals alike, earning a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Composition and winning a Saturn Award for Best Music from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.

The original MCA Records album, released on LP and cassette, received high marks in Billboard, who praised it as “a traditional orchestral score, which Broughton infuses with both dash and sweetness.” Remarkably, the MCA album never made the transition to a commercial CD at the time until Intrada licensed it.

Young Sherlock Holmes was the brainchild of three primary parents: writer Chris Columbus, executive producer Steven Spielberg and director Barry Levinson.The central premise of Young Sherlock Holmes suggests that Holmes and Watson did not first meet as adults in a chemical laboratory at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, but as adolescents. In the story, a series of baffling murders puts young Holmes on the trail of an Egyptian cult practicing human sacrifice in the bowels of London. Dismissed by the police and maligned by his peers, the budding detective sets out with only a few close allies to unravel the plot—culminating in a fiery confrontation with an evil mastermind, bent on revenge.

CD 1
01. The First Victim (2:59)
02. The Old Hat Trick (1:45)
03. Main Title (2:03)
04. Watson’s Arrival (1:03)
05. The Bear Riddle (0:47)
06. Library Love/Waxflatter’s First Flight (2:54)
07. Fencing With Rathe (1:08)
08. The Glass Soldier (3:24)
09. Solving The Crime (4:56)
10. Second Attempt (1:11)
11. Cold Revenge (4:09)
12. Waxflatter’s Death (3:41)
13. The Hat (1:22)
14. Holmes And Elizabeth – Love Theme (1:59)
15. Getting The Point (6:21)
CD 1 Total Time: 40:16

CD 2
01. Rame Tep (3:08)
02. Pastries And Crypts (6:48)
03. Discovered By Rathe (4:56)
04. To Cragwitch’s (1:35)
05. The Explanation (1:49)
06. Cragwitch Goes Again (1:24)
07. It’s You! (6:19)
08. Waxing Elizabeth (3:40)
09. Temple Fire (3:25)
10. Ehtar’s Escape (Revised Version) (4:06)
11. Duel And Final Farewell (5:42)
12. The Riddles Solved And End Credits (6:32)
13. Ytrairom Spelled Backwards (0:50)
CD 2 Total Time: 50:33

CD 3
The Extras
01. Main Title (Film Version) (1:46)
02. Waxflatter’s Death (Original) (2:47)
03. Belly Dancer (1:02)
04. Rame Tep (Orchestra) (3:08)
05. Rame Tep (Chorus) (3:02)
06. It’s You! (Alternate) (6:18)
07. Waxing Elizabeth (Orchestra) (3:40)
08. Ehtar’s Escape (Original Version) (4:06)
09. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (arr. Bruce Broughton) (1:08)
Total Extras Time: 26:57

Original 1985 MCA Soundtrack Album
10. Main Title (2:03)
11. Solving The Crime (4:57)
12. Library Love/Waxflatter’s First Flight (2:28)
13. Pastries & Crypts (5:49)
14. Waxing Elizabeth (3:40)
15. Holmes And Elizabeth – Love Theme (2:00)
16. Ehtar’s Escape (4:06)
17. The Final Duel (3:54)
18. Final Farewell (1:58)
19. The Riddles Solved/End Credits (6:30)
Total Album Time: 37:25
CD 3 Total Time: 65:10

TOTAL DISCS TIME: 155:50