Varese Sarabande single-CD release of all the surviving original stereo track masters of Alex North's 1960 soundtrack, plus some bonus tracks, of the Stanley Kubrick-directed Kirk Douglas epic.
Unlike North's later notorious "collaboration" with the same director on
2001: A Space Odyssey, this one went reasonably well. i.e., without Kubrick going out of his way to blindside the composer.
The North-conducted score is well-performed. The recroded acoustic is somewhat dry, not atypical of any number of that era's soundtracks, though it may to some degree also reflect the aging of the master tapes.