Faleel 5,346 Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 1 minute ago, Jay said: OK I listened to the suite here and it's pretty good! Doesn't cover all the major highlights, but does cover a lot of the NEW material very well. The choral work is fantastic, which is something that I should have mentioned before. It's fantastic on the whole album. One of the things I'm really appreciating about Powell is the way he uses the choir! He's very good with it! IIRC correctly, he brought in Eric Whitacre in for some of the choral stuff, and you can hear it IMO. Not diminishing Powell at all of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 yup! The CD book says the choir is the "Eric Whitacre Singers", and Whitacre is listed as the conductor of the choir. And Gavin Greenaway is listed as conducted of the orchestra. Oh! Another thing I learned from the booklet is that the bagpipes in the score are performed by the Red Hot Chili Pipers, which is a band I've seen performed live a few times at the Highland Games. This is why I love physical releases, these digital albums have no (standard, consistent) way of relaying this information Gabriel Bezerra and Yavar Moradi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,346 Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 Just now, Jay said: yup! The CD book says the choir is the "Eric Whitacre Singers", and Whitacre is listed as the conductor of the choir. Oh! Another thing I learned is that the bagpipes in the score are performed by the Red Hot Chili Pipers, which is a band I've seen performed live a few times at the Highland Games. Also Edward Ross is listed as the penultimate name under the Tenor section. Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Ah, there he is! I completely missed it when I look at it the first time. Good eyes! Another question. I've never seen the movie, but the CD booklet contains many pictures of Hiccup, and he's beardless in all of them. Why did he have a beard in this image Powell posted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,346 Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 2 minutes ago, Jay said: Ah, there he is! I completely missed it when I look at it the first time. Good eyes! Another question. I've never seen the movie, but the CD booklet contains many pictures of Hiccup, and he's beardless in all of them. Why does he have a beard on the Deluxe Edition cover? It's sort of a spoiler. Spoiler The end of the movie has an epilogue of several years later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,684 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 I played the 'The Hidden World' track during a car journey back in 2019 and there was a remark from someone who's not even the slightest bit into scores or instrumental music that it was really beautiful. The second score will always remind me of Scotland because it came out around the time I was planning a trip to Skye. Tracks like Off To Valhalla take on a somewhat remarkable meaning when you're looking at some beautiful countryside. Whereas the third just has a great adventure feel to it, and is incredibly evocative despite my not having seen the movie. Stuff like this makes me think Powell would be great at a nice medieval sort of film. Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,384 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 9 minutes ago, Jay said: Oh! Another thing I learned from the booklet is that the bagpipes in the score are performed by the Red Hot Chili Pipers, which is a band I've seen performed live a few times at the Highland Games. We saw them here in Akron this year. Awesome! Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,519 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 11 minutes ago, Jay said: Why did he have a beard in 2 but not 3? He doesn't have a beard in 2 either, at most some minor stubbles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Sorry, I fixed my post. I was thinking of the image Powell posted that isn't the actual cover, which I've added to my post above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Richard Penna 3,684 Posted January 12 Popular Post Share Posted January 12 I'm listening to a track from #3 that had always passed me by a bit, Killer Dragons and it again struck me, that given what is probably some music under some dialogue with something happening at the end, Powell can compose 5 minutes of music that gives his baddie theme a complete workout with some other theme going on undernearth, and then build up to magnificently end the cue with another couple of themes, switching tempos the entire time, and in this cue, even bits of different themes popping in. You can barely keep up! By the time the cue switches at 4:15 I was practically cheering inside for the quote at 4:30 to do a full statement because it feels like we've earned it at the end of 5 minutes of building Grimmel music. There are times with Williams when I see you guys gushing over something I don't really get (usually his older stuff) but this is one franchise where I'm in awe at how much musical inspiration and sheer thematic detail one composer can achieve. bored, Jay, Bofur01 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bored 309 Posted January 12 Popular Post Share Posted January 12 Absolutely the best score in the trilogy for me. Yeah, it misses 1 or 2 prominent themes from the first 2 scores, but that doesn't matter in the slightest to me as the new material that replaces it is well worth it! You can really tell Powell grew as a composer after Solo and his "Hubris" album through this score, as every track has superb writing, both orchestral and choral, and great attention to detail. Every theme that returns is used exactly where it should be, and some of the most satisfying thematic payoffs of the trilogy are here! Some themes only return once, such as the heroic viking theme from the first film that returns in "Once There Were Dragons" played on piano, and it's perfect to capture the nostalgia of Hiccup's youth and how far he's grown. The aforementioned track plus the ending "The Hidden World Suite" really come together to help make this score feel like a Return of the King level musical ending. I'm not saying it's just as good, but they really elevate the scores to another level IMO. It's almost operatic in this score. I could be wrong, but I also remember seeing a Twitter/X post showing that the choir was singing actual lyrics in this one too, which if true, again elevates this score to something really special in my eyes. Yavar Moradi, Jay, Tom Guernsey and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,384 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 5 minutes ago, Richard Penna said: There are times with Williams when I see you guys gushing over something I don't really get (usually his older stuff) but this is one franchise where I'm in awe at how much musical inspiration and sheer thematic detail one composer can achieve. On the Settling the Score podcast they made the comment about how for people of a certain age "this is their Star Wars". And they sounded a little... Disbelieving? that someone could get that involved with these scores. Well, Star Wars is my Star Wars and these scores are the closest thing I've heard in about as long as I can think of. Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Richard Penna 3,684 Posted January 12 Popular Post Share Posted January 12 My Star Wars is LotR, unquestionably. But this franchise is the next best thing. Other franchises miss the mark because of either composer changes or the composer doing massive tonal shifts resulting in dumping an entire thematic basis. There aren't many where one composer builds a thematic and cinematic world over three films. Bofur01, Gabriel Bezerra, Yavar Moradi and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 17 minutes ago, bored said: I could be wrong, but I also remember seeing a Twitter/X post showing that the choir was singing actual lyrics in this one too, which if true, again elevates this score to something really special in my eyes. Yup! On 19/02/2019 at 4:04 AM, PrayodiBA said: This is interesting. Bringing more appreciation into the track: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt03uMvl6bN/ On 19/02/2019 at 4:36 AM, Incanus said: Novam domum, novam domum novam dona nobis pacem pacem petimus pacem domi domi (Give us) A new home, a new home give us a new peace peace, we seek/ask for peace at home at home bored and Pieter Boelen 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,519 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 I was kind of lukewarm on this one when it came out, my disappointment in the movie probably soured it a bit. I wasn't too impressed by some of the new stuff, especially the Exodus theme, and it almost seems to me like the sound started moving away from HTTYD and towards his other animation scores which I couldn't really get into. I of course loved the obvious highlight tracks but haven't listened to it all that much, and didn't even try after we learned 1 would be expanded. So I'm looking forward to rediscovering and hopefully reevaluating it now! MaxTheHouseelf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fargo 297 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 On 27/11/2019 at 5:12 PM, Arpy said: According to 5 Cat Studio's Facebook page the score is mixed by Traunwiesser and scored by Anthony Willis. I apparently never listened to this a few years ago when it came out. Finally started today and it's pretty damn good. Lots of reprisals of the themes from the movies which I wasn't expecting (I don't think the other Netflix series quoted actual music from Powell) I'm definitely stoked for the new album for #3 to come out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieter Boelen 740 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 12 hours ago, Fargo said: I don't think the other Netflix series quoted actual music from Powell Riders/Defenders of Berk/Race to the Edge? Thought those did contain some Powell themes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,384 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 58 minutes ago, Pieter Boelen said: Riders/Defenders of Berk/Race to the Edge? Thought those did contain some Powell themes? Lots. Pieter Boelen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fargo 297 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Then I’ll have to go back and revisit it. I could have sworn when I listened to the album or briefly skimmed the show, it was just generic filler music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieter Boelen 740 Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 22 hours ago, Fargo said: Then I’ll have to go back and revisit it. I could have sworn when I listened to the album or briefly skimmed the show, it was just generic filler music. There was an album? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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