"Chinatown" (by Jerry Goldsmith on Varese Sarabande)
"L.A. Confidential" (by Goldsmith on Varese Sarabande)
"Sneakers" (by James Horner on Columbia)
The next one's not "original" in the sense that it was a wholly new recording, but it contains all the original tracks in order and is much better sonically than the original:
"Vertigo" (by Bernard Herrmann, conducted by Joel McNeely with the Royal National Scottish Orchestra on Varese Sarabande)
If "original" is not necessary and you don't mind suites rather than a track-by-track, whole-score recording, there's the film score series released by RCA in the 1970s. Charles Gerhardt conducts the National Philharmonic Orchestra in suites by the "golden age" composers Korngold, Steiner, Waxman, Friedhofer, and Rosza. Don't let the recordings' age fool you. The series was engineered by Decca's legendary Kenneth Wilkinson and exhibits excellent and spacious sonics in its CD reincarnation. If I were to pick one of the series to start with, it would be "Captain Blood", devoted to scores written for a number of Errol Flynn films ("The Adventures of Robin Hood", "The Adventures of Don Juan", "The Sea Hawk", etc.).
One other such suite release I use as a demo as well as listening evaluation tool is a two-CD compilation of scores by Jerome Moross, "The Cardinal" on Silva. He's best known for "The Big Country", but that's not included here. However, "The Jayhawkers" is--and while the film's crappy, the score's excellent in conveying the wild West.
Speaking of the West, virtually the full score of Elmer Bernstein's "The Magnificent Seven" is recreated in an excellent Koch CD with James Sedares leading the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra.
Finally, if you don't mind an "ancient" (but outstanding) TV documentary score, Richard Rodgers' "Victory at Sea" lives in an RCA CD set (with the core of it in Volume 1). The recording was made by the Living Stereo producing/engineering team of Richard Mohr and Lewis Layton.
Have fun.
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Jim
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