QBVII  Jerry Goldsmith Prometheus XPCD175   The days when impressively written orchestral film scores were granted a meagre thirty minutes or so of representation on LP — or, even worse, were not preserved apart from on the sprockets of the film the score was written for — thankfully seem more and more remote these days. And the current recognition of (and more importantly, restoration, reconstruction and recording of) the very best scores by such composers as Jerry Goldsmith is due to the indefatigable work of such producers as James Fitzpatrick, who here provides a generously filled two-CD set (in wide-ranging and detailed sound) containing one of Goldsmith’s most impressive scores, written for a solid Leon Uris TV drama. The latter went in for some tendentious pleading for the state of Israel, but such issues are unimportant in the context of this beautiful, Hebraic-sounding score, mostly in meditative vein (apart from a striking fanfare or two), with the missing pages of the score painstakingly restored by composer/orchestrator Aaron Purvis. There is one caveat, and it’s a small one: the CDs link the often-short cues, showcasing Goldsmith’s conception in organic fashion, but include one cue which is in fact ‘God Save the Queen’, followed by an undistinguished, source-music waltz. But this is nevertheless nearly two hours of vintage Goldsmith; aficionados of the composer will be in seventh heaven.