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The conductor Ludwig Wicki helmed 21st Century Orchestra from Lucerne Switzerland has been for years been performing various film scores (notably the Lord of the Rings Trilogy) live to the picture. This year they have several of these "Live" performances including Back to the Future, Ratatouille and Titanic. It seems they are also doing a 10 concert run of John Williams's Raiders of the Lost Ark in December 2015. More info here! P.S. My Deutsch is a bit rusty so I would appreciate if someone could verify this. The info page is a bit scant on the specifics but it looks like one of those Live! concerts the orchestra has been doing for some time now.

Disco Inferno!

Bespin included those on the list above, but curiously set the date to when the albums were released just a few years ago, not when the films were released. So I can see why you missed them!

He plays piano on two early Jerry Goldsmith scores: City of Fear and Studs Lonigan. I seem to remember he was also session pianist in some of Herrmann's Twilight Zone scores.

Jessye, not Jessie.

Added thanks! Is he credited on the album? Do you have a source for that please.

He plays on one Track of the Boston-Pops-Album "With A Song In My Heart".

Williams was one of the pianists in the orchestra on the original soundtrack of Jerome Moross's classic western score for The Big Country.

He plays the Piano on this Album and he is the only musician on this CD!

I know you have your own way of doing things that doesn't always make sense to me, bu it might makes more sense for everyone else if you put the actual year of the film first and then maybe the album reissue in parentheses at the end. Just sayin'. As for favourites, it's hard to say. The Prokofiev album is fascinating because it's the only time he's recorded an album of classical music as pianist. But I love the jazz stuff. You're missing quite a few things, though, like the LUCKY TO BE ME album he did with Jessye Norman.

Yeah...

Now that I think about it, don't we both agree on the mediocrity of Spielberg's War Of The Worlds too? I do like Jeff Wayne's War Of The Words!

To Kill a Mockingbird and Breakfast at Tiffany's are favorites. Why is Breakfast at Tiffany's listed as 2013 instead of 1961?

I don't think Jackson's Kong drags at all. Sure, there's a lot of secondary stuff going on, but it never hinders the flow of the main narrative. Perfect 3-act structure.

I know a bloke named John Scott who used to be the music director at St. Paul's in London, now he's at St. Thomas in NYC. Was disappointed that they're not the same person.

I did the same thing this weekend. And I agree with you on III, it's a pretty good direct sequel to Khan. The end is particularly emotional for me. And Horner knocked it out of the ballpark IMO. By the time the whole main cast will have died, these movies (even the so-called inferior ones) will have reached classic status for me.

Now we're talking. "Splash the Zeroes, I say again, splash the Zeroes."

And a wonderful axe!

"He said that if they dug his father's body up, it would be gone. They planted a seed over his grave. The seed became a tree. Moses said his father became a part of that tree. He grew into the wood, into the bloom. And when a sparrow ate the tree's fruit, his father flew with the birds. He said... death was his father's road to awe. That's what he called it. The road to awe. Now, I've been trying to write the last chapter and I haven't been able to get that out of my head!" God what a gorgeous piece of music.