Topkapi is a colorful, tuneful, exciting, and delightful score by one of Greece's greatest composers. It's a score filled with wonderful melodies and orchestral colors that matched perfectly the bright candy-colored images on the screen. It's one of those scores that just makes you smile and one that keeps the movie flying along at a wonderful clip. At the time of the film's release, United Artists released a soundtrack album, both stereo and mono, but like its release of Tom Jones, the stereo album was really mono - the score was recorded in mono and there were never any stereo masters. For this CD release, we had both the album masters and a set of 15ips session masters - since the latter were a generation better and cleaner than the album masters, we used those to create the CD. The original LP ran about thirty-two minutes - this new CD runs over forty-five minutes, and the score has been put into film order, which makes for a terrific listening experience. Additionally, we found four cues that weren't used in the film and we've included them as bonus tracks. (thanks to Weirdo) add more info