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One has to differentiate. Those were Dolby Surround albums, if I remember correctly. Those just used a Dolby encoder to make sure, that you got the correct stereo panorama when playing through a Dolby decoder at home: Instruments left, center, right, and ambiance in the surround. Like in a real concert hall. With Quad and modern surround sound like Blu-ray and SACD it depends on the aim of the producer or engineer. Most have only ambience in the surround, so NOT the situation as if one is in the orchestra. And the concept is NOT bad. Just different tastes. I personally like those "middle in the orchestra" recordings very much, since they remind me of the soundscape when I am playing myself in an orchestra or chamber group. And concerning this album: I have it on CD since around 1990 and like it very much, although some pieces like asteroid field sound a bit hurried and slightly chaotic.

I do not think one should call a track underrated that was chosen as the title for a Deutsche Grammophone Anne Sophie Mutter CD.

In recent years no, that has not backfired on me, since all major Williams releases I was interested in were available long enough. If something I want nears OOP stage, I tend to buy it earlier, of course. A least partially thanks to your availability thread I was never surprised when some title was OOP. In the beginning of my collecting days it happened e.g. with Spacecamp, but this got available again. Until then I had my old cassette recording from the 80s to tend me over. About classical music: I personally come from the classical world, playing violin and so, and only discovered JW as an extension of late romantic music like Richard Strauß oder The Planets. So I am surprised when somebody loves orchestral symphonic film music, but has no connection to this similar kind of classical music. Just an observation, I know that your remark was an answer to a different post.

You realize, that you will get answers in this thread only from people, whose interest has not waned so much that they do not visit this forum any more? :-) For me, a big No. Simply because I do not have that much free time on my hand which is divided between several interests and hobbies, so I often buy a new expansion years after it got released (because only then I managed to properly listen to the expansions I bought before). That makes me independent from the release schedule. Also I take the opportunity of a release lull to explore other composers that I do not know half as much as they deserve.

This is what I tried to convey earlier in this thread. The multichannel mix is a recording marvel, one of the best and realistic recordings I have ever experienced. It conveys the acoustical picture from the live concert perfectly, where any technical flubs were not very noticeable and vanished in the glorious whole experience. The stereo mix is thick, narrow and not very pleasing. Some flubs seem to stand out there much more. Ah, so this was a joke, not a criticism. Understood.

I found this the one concert with the least amount of annoying public sounds I ever experienced (hundreds). The concentration and dedication of the listeners was palpable. I do not remember any coughs or other noises except the clapping at the beginning of Imperial march.

Oops, I thought they were all coming from the same source, but now I realize that this is not Omnipublishing. Sorry!

Those shipping charges to Europe are really prohibitive. I am interested at Star Trek, Train your Dragon and Aliens, but will wait in the hope for more reasonable shipping. Of course, should Something like Star Wars be announced, I might reconsider :-)

That is not correct. Several pre-Jaws scores have no pop music elements, e.g. None but the Brave, Images or Jane Eyre.

I was listening to Lost in Space and Time Tunnel recently and was surprised how much of the musical language of Star Wars, especially the first one, is already there. Much more than in the film scores of this time. Another key score for me is Tintin. It started the renaissance of Golden Era Williams sound in the 2010s.

In my experience cassette desks are the hifi equipment most consistently prone to breakdown. My own and my dad's died all after about 10-20 years (Onkyo, Yamaha, Pioneer). There are a lot of mechanical things that can break.

The interview is clearly a bad translation into German, so everything has to be taken with a gram of salt. Example: Calling Yoda‘s Theme „vermindertes B-Dur“ makes no sense. It is probably a verbatim translation of „B flat major“, where the flat is being translated as „vermindert“. But B flat is just „B-Dur“ in German. So, obviously a translation hack job which is not worthy to be translated back into English. I would love to get my hands on the English original.

Spielberg is still involved, right? So I would hope that he would prevent that. That would be the absolute dream! Still hoping.

I am surprised, are those real? A lot of puns and name dropping in this list, who thought of those titles? Did they invite Giacchino?

Tintin for me. Crystal Skull is very good, but Tintin is brillant

I would got, but the best of both worlds would be WITH film but WITHOUT audio (maybe subtitles instead). Kind of silent movie experience. I can dream...

Some interesting tidbits: - The new violin concerto is finished and lies with Mutter with whom he is now discussing small changes - he does not have the time to "tell a story through music" with his scores; he composes very close to the pictures and cuts. - if he had stayed in classical composing, he would have developed further in the direction of Edgar Varese, more percussive. Now he describes himself as "more polystylistic" with his concert compositions - he does not tell, for which movie he would have liked to compose the music; nor does he tell his opinion about modern film scoring :-)

Tar Wars

In 1984, Temple of Doom in the cinema was the first time I took notice of the music and learned the name of the composer, John Williams. Later that year I saw Empire Strikes back for the first time in a rerun and stayed as the only person in the cinema over the whole end credits because I loved the music and wanted to listen until the end. Those 2 scores defined my Soundtrack hobby and are still among my favorites.

Nobody? I changed the topic title to make it clearer. I am curious of other opinions.

Anybody heard of him? He is a young German composer known especially for his music for Europa-Park, the largest Theme Park in Germany (and many say, the best in the world…). He obviously is very influenced by Hollywood soundtrack from the last 20 or so years, from Williams over Desplat to Powell (I think). Here the complete soundtrack for an animated short movie made by Europa-Park for its 4D cinema: Happy Family 4D short film And here music for one of the larger coasters, themed to nordic saga and vikings: Wodan Playlist on Spotify: And here are some samples of the music he wrote for the park itself (did not find it on Apple Music): https://shop.europapark.de/en/Europa-Park+Classic+2016+-+Download.htm What do you think of it? I like a lot of his music, although it is often very similar to Hollywood sound.

I don´t understand why they made the SACD stereo only. They had already excellent multichannel tracks from the Blu-ray, which sound much better then the stereo tracks. Why not slap then on the SACD, too? Technically this is no problem. Stereo only this is not interesting for me; with a Multichannel track I would consider buying it in addition to the BD.

Unfortunately i find that in most cases electronics ARE used or seem to be used in place of real instruments. Or to get a sound that is almost like an instrument, just slightly changed. When they are used for really new sounds that cannot be achieved otherwise, I find them more interesting. On the other hand it is surprising how many sounds CAN be achieved by instruments. For a long time I thought that the Vger Sound in Star Trek 1 was electronic (and was surprised how good and non-cheap it sounded!), just to learn that they build a special instrument for that.

That is because they mostly still sound cheap! Real instruments just are better.

1 year ago at this time I sat in the first row in the Golden hall watching John Williams conducting the Vienna Philharmonic! It was a once in a lifetime experience I will not forget.