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Indecent Proposal by John Barry Empire of the Sun (LLL) by John Williams

Yes, the pattern seems to be that she performs three pieces and then goes for a break. I think you're right that all the above mentioned pieces will be the standard versions. The only one which could be adapted as a violin piece is the Devil's Dance (which was already adapted by JW for violin and piano for Gil Shaham). As for the pieces recorded that will not end up on the album, who knows... it could be for a wide variety of reasons. I think Markings could appear on a separate release together with other concert pieces performed by ASM. I certainly won't expect a Volume 2 anytime soon.

I can understand if, say, 2 or 3 tracks were dropped that they just decided some things weren't worth releasing on the CD. But the sheer amount of missing music screams "being held back for a 2nd release!" to me. Why bother asking Williams to write so many new arrangements, then spending the money to record them professionally with an orchestra, only to drop them entirely?

Well better now then never, I just got my copy of "The music of The Lord of the Rings films". Loking forward to reading it.

There's nothing wrong with a label head giving out clues for an upcoming title, forum members guessing what title the clues could be for, and responding to each other about why guesses fit or don't fit the clues provided. If you don't want to participate... then don't!

Ewww, it's you again! The Anti-Thor!

I’m sure that Theme from “Jurassic Park”, Harry’s Wondrous World from “Harry Potter”, The Devil’s Dance from “Witches of Eastwick”, Superman March and The Flying Theme from “E.T.” will be performed as regular arrangements we’ve known and love for years. Also Just Down West Street... Anne Sophie will need breaks between the performances, this is normal. We''ll definitely hear Princess Leia’s Theme, which will not be on the album. That's good news. I still hope that the concert in Tanglewood will be recorded in HD, like many others that took place there.

HS & the Princess, Remembrances, Prayer for Piece, Yoda's Theme and Markings aren't included in the Tanglewood or Munich programs (which are nearly identical). But they might be performed as encores. Just Down West Street (Tanglewood) / "Star Wars" Main Theme (Munich) Theme from “Jurassic Park” Rey’s Theme from “Star Wars Episode VII” Across the Stars from "Star Wars Episode II" Donnybrook Fair from “Far & Away” Harry’s Wondrous World from “Harry Potter” Night Journeys from “Dracula” Sayuri’s Theme from “Memoirs of a Geisha” The Devil’s Dance from “Witches of Eastwick” Superman March Theme from “Sabrina” Princess Leia’s Theme from “Star Wars Episode IV” The Duel from “The Adventures of Tintin” The Flying Theme from “E.T.” The Chairman’s Waltz from “Memoirs of a Geisha” Love Theme from “Cinderella Liberty” Hedwig's Theme from "Harry Potter" Leia's Theme will be performed live. So if they actually recorded it along with the other aforementioned pieces, a second volume might include the following (*): Just Down West Street Theme from “Jurassic Park” Harry’s Wondrous World from “Harry Potter” The Devil’s Dance from “Witches of Eastwick” Princess Leia’s Theme from “Star Wars Episode IV” The Flying Theme from “E.T.” The Chairman’s Waltz from “Memoirs of a Geisha” Remembrances from "Munich" A Prayer for Piece from "Munich" Han Solo and the Princess from "Star Wars Episode V" "Markings" (*) I don't think the Star Wars and Superman themes will be performed live as violin arrangements.

Interesting concert of an orchestra of Kazakh folk instruments arranged in an European fashion. Truly unique sound. Pity I have no idea how to determine what pieces are they playing. I only know it includes "musical pieces by renowned Kazakhstani composers such as Kurmangazy Sagyrbayev, Akhmet Zhubanov, Karshygi Akhmediyarov, and Nurgissa Tlendiyeva". I find the unison of all these dombras surprisingly pleasant for plucked strings, and the piece at 56:33 especially beautiful.

Any self respecting JWfan would already have downloaded a pirated rip ages ago

Here you go...She mentioned it on Instagram..

Let's make a poll!

On a serious note - yes, LLL has more clarity, which I like. But I guess it’s possible to be conditioned to like the older versions and then you’ll reject any new version just because it sounds different.

I find it just depends on the specific score in question rather than the composer in general. Some films are structured in a way that allows the composer to keep the music interesting in complete form, sometimes not and it's just the theme repeated over and over, making a complete listen a slog. Bruce Broughton's Baby's Day Out is one of my favorites, top-tier for me as far as 90's comedy scoring goes. But good lord, the 80-minute complete listening that Intrada put out was not ideal (my 49-minute playlist, based somewhat off the promo release's tracklist, is where it's at). There's also cases where I actually enjoy the album and complete score equally, and sometimes go with the former playlist when I want to hear the score but don't have time for the whole thing (The Lost World, Gremlins 2). And often, I enjoy a complete score being released so that I have the power to decide for myself what music I want to include or exclude from my own playlist. But in general, more often that not, I find the composer had it right with what music to include or exclude from their original album (Christopher Young is practically the king of well-put together albums, and I'm usually fine with Goldsmith's and Horner's, with rare exceptions).

Whatever man, whatever...

Sounds more like you're bored and have nothing else to do?

Jay's not proposing to do anything against it, far as I can see. But if you're free to post your uninformed guesses about what it could be which ignore the actual statements/evidence from the label in question, we are also more than free to post and correct you and tell you why you are wrong. And you can reply and make fun of our "profound knowledge on a comparably trivial topic". And we can say, "thanks for complimenting us by calling our knowledge profound...and if you find the topic so trivial, why are you here still arguing with us"? Yavar

Godzilla's Akira Ikufube in Williams Tree Mode (he worked as ranger during WWII and later wrote this nature tone poem later). A very soothing work (with some busy passages).

Of course you do!

Yes!

If it is truly a great score, it should usually play well in complete form. Yavar

Yes including WWII. The American civil war was violent and cruel.

Seriously, why will no one hire that guy (except Chazelle)? Such a talent.

I would bet it's a continuation of their series of MCA expansions since they've been on such a roll with those over the past year (*batteries not included, Balto, Apollo 13, An American Tail were all MCA titles...to say nothing of the other Universal Music Group titles they've been expanding by other composers, like Goldsmith's The Lonely Guy and The Mummy, and Silvestri's Mummy Returns). So here's a list of the remaining unexpanded MCA Horner titles: The Land Before Time (this seems most likely due to the general popularity of the score and amounts it's selling for on the secondhand market; only a little over 10 min of missing music) Dad (anyone know how much unreleased music there is for this score?) An American Tail: Feivel Goes West (also seems extremely likely that Intrada would expand the sequel score like they did the first) We're Back! A Dinosaurs Story Casper Those five are I think the most likely, with the two animated titles topping my guess list. The Man Without A Face is on the Phillips label and A Beautiful Mind is on the Decca label, which are both UMG-owned, and there's also The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper which had a soundtrack release on Polydor (a UMG-owned label which originally released Cocoon, already longer ago expanded by Intrada) including a couple of score cues. EMI (which owned the Angel and Virgin labels) was also absorbed by Universal Music Group a couple years ago, which could potentially add other possibilities to Intrada's Horner UMG licensing, like Courage Under Fire, The Name of the Rose, Red Heat, Glory, and Willow (additional cues for the latter would have to be licensed from Disney now that they bought Lucasfilm). Of course, at any point Intrada might also do an expansion of a Disney-owned Horner (which now includes Willow thanks to the Lucasfilm purchase, but even might be one which they previously released but in incomplete form, like Honey I Shrunk the Kids, The Journey of Natty Gann, or Something Wicked This Way Comes). It *won't* likely be Field of Dreams, since that's a Sony Music-owned album, unless it's one of the two Roger already had in the works before the moratorium. Jumanji, The Spitfire Grill, The Devil's Own, Deep Impact, Bicentennial Man, Freedom Song, Enemy At the Gates, Iris, Sneakers, Legends of the Fall, A Perfect Storm, The Four Feathers, Windtalkers, The Missing, the two Zorro scores, The Amazing Spiderman, Southpaw, The Magnificent Seven, and To Gillian on her 37th Birthday are in the same Sony boat. It also probably won't be an expansion of Another 48 Hrs., because that was a Scotti Bros. album, owned by Volcano, now owned by Epic (a division of Sony Music...Wikipedia is helpful when it comes to tracking down label ownership). It also probably won't be an expansion of My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, the original album of which had two Horner score cues...Sony again: https://www.discogs.com/Various-My-Heroes-Have-Always-Been-Cowboys/release/4810728 Personally if I'm hoping Intrada has one Horner in the works already licensed from Sony Music...it's Sneakers. That one really needs an expansion. Ditto A Perfect Storm. But I'm not holding my breath. There is also Legends of the Fall, but at least for that there was a complete isolated score track so we Horner fans have recourse... One entry at SoundtrackCollector has me confused: http://soundtrackcollector.com/title/7626/Once+Upon+A+Forest Is Once Upon a Forest Fox Records, or RCA (which would make it another Sony Music title)? If expansions of Bopha! or The Pelican Brief ever come out, I would expect them more from LLL, as they previous expanded the other Big Screen Records Horner. And of course there's a batch of Varese-controlled Horner titles as well, starting with Brainstorm and going through the 2010s... Yavar P.S. Now watch me get egg on my face when Intrada suddenly announces something out of left field like an expansion of their Thunderheart album, lol!

Yes, Copland had this amazing ability to write music that feels beautifully still, the kind where you suddenly realize that you've been holding your breath, like the entire world just stopped except for the music you were hearing. For more of that quality, I highly recommend the 3rd movement of his Piano Sonata, which is a masterpiece!

The Piano Fantasy is probably the single least approachable, most challenging piece of music Copland ever wrote. Something like "Connotations" at least has the varying timbres of orchestration to engage the listener, where as the Fantasy is a half-hour of hard-hitting solo piano. I'm an obsessive devotee of his music and I feel I haven't even begun to scratch the surface of it. It will probably be the last of his music that I will ever feel I've mastered just listening to, understanding and following from beginning to end, if I ever get there. That said, this section is Copland at his most joyously introverted. Clangorous and moody, but in that way where you almost enjoy being alone and melancholy if that makes sense. (5:51 - 6:23)

You shouldn't be wasting your time with that superhero rubbish Richard, apparently it leads to you being unaware that the sex thriller is not dead and seemingly that's important or some shite.

That's an A, Yavar.

Spielberg will finish making this film this year; Disney is just choosing not to release it until next year

https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=111632&forumID=1&archive=0 Scroll on down that same post and you’ll even see that the reason James Fitzpatrick did not have someone reconstruct this score by ear from the film: some cues are dialed out in it...not everything Goldsmith wrote/recorded made it in. —Jeff Bond, here: https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=84276&forumID=1&archive=0 —Jeff Bond again, here: https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=27161&forumID=1&archive=1 Thus ends my thesis, publicist! I think I’ll trust Goldsmith expert Jeff Bond (who counts this as one of his favorite Goldsmith scores and has no doubt seen the film repeatedly) over your distant memory of having seen the film once...to say nothing of the Herrick Library written cue contents which certainly seem to indicate a lot more music than the short 32 minute album, even though it provides page numbers of written score rather than timings of recorded score (and I concede we don’t know how it matches up with the album exactly due to some title differences). Yavar P.S. A ray of hope appears for Bernstein fans! http://www.intrada.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8195&sid=34b091f7ba2c46cf7dc2cf48b6fbc6a0

Those all sound like dreadful choices for 4k. Lost Horizon however... I would like to see Columbia seperate from Sony. The Japanese who runs sony is a horrible person who has no love or appreciation for film, he just is in it for money and control.

You touch my junk and I'll have you arrested!

Then scram! I’m working this side of the street!

JFK by John Williams The Post by John Williams

No Markings is very unfortunate.

The sheet music in that "TROS photo" said Leia's Theme too. Didn't hear about this? Was there an article on it?

I like the frequencies on this thing

I'd say the guy who hired Zimmer paid too much.

I love it!!

It's perfectly watchable, something i can't say for recent Marvel or DC movies.

I like it

The nice thing about expanded releases is, they don't come into your house and take away your OSTs when you buy them

The Complete Saga. It sure is.

This is surely one of his most beautiful scores in terms of its uniquely bittersweet quality - getting to hear the film presentation in all its sonic radiance, I appreciate it in a new way. I've never seen the film and enjoy the musical narrative with only a brief outline, yet like all great Williams it succeeds as absolute music with its own internal logic and thematic profundity. The Gloria is certainly him at his most grandiose! Those rich, dissonant, spacey sonorities fighting against the "pure light" of C major are impressive. (Wonderful "cheat" getting to sneak in yet another big C major finale in a diegetic context.) There are moments of great poignance, like I've rarely heard elsewhere (although the religioso material seems familiar enough in effect). The theme is clever, melodically inventive given its resemblance to Godfather and harmonically quite dark. Harpsichord is familiar from Family Plot, the disaster scores and elsewhere... but enough already with it (the theme), it doesn't appear to see much if any variation, just a first response on my part though. Reunion in Italy is perfection - he just banged this whole thing out in a few weeks one summer?! Near total stylistic switchover from E.T. but a suitable warmup for RotJ. Is that a prominent cor anglais near the end of Santoni's Compassion?

What a waste of everybody's time.

Interesting. To me, the issue of this film is that its much more overtly a "Batman" film: there's much less of Bruce - without the suit - in this film. As a result, one of the most meaningful relationships of this trilogy - that of Bruce and Alfred - is sidelined. Speaking of character relationship: strangely enough, the one that feels most authentic in this film is the one between Rachel and Harvey - not her and Bruce. I will give it a ***** out of *****, but (unlike what the IMDB list would have you believe) I'll say there are a lot of much better films to have earned that grade from me.

There's nothing quite like hearing the music live!