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John Williams (Guitarist): The Complete Album Collection (Sony - 59 discs) (11/9/2015)


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WOW!

I can't think who would purchase this (except for starting soundtrack fans) since most people would have some albums and they would have to double dip..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/John-Williams-Complete-Album-Collection/dp/B00UOFCG94

(saw the news at FSM)

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Every John Williams OS album released by Sony (Classical)? Every Star Wars album, Home Alone, Memoirs of a Geisha, Hook, etc.? Are there even so many released by Sony?

I wonder whether the Boston Pops albums are included as well.

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Every John Williams OS album released by Sony (Classical)? Every Star Wars album, Home Alone, Memoirs of a Geisha, Hook, etc.? Are there even so many released by Sony?

I wonder whether the Boston Pops albums are included as well.

Well, someone at FSM listed the compilations too..

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I guess that's for libraries and so on.

But I wonder who at Sony Music Entertainment (owned and operated by Sony Corporation of America) had this brilliant idea!

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Maybe it will include a bonus disc filled with unreleased music!

Actually that would be a very smart move, because then all of us that own most albums, would rush to buy that expensive box just for that disc!! :P

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This is gonna be Bespin's wet dream :D

Sony is well-known for this kind of repackaging releases, hence I suspect it will be mostly straight reissues of several stuff (both OSTs and Pops albums), but it'll be nice to have them in print again.

There will be likely some unreleased material exclusive to this set, so better start save your pennies... I hope there will be some kind of book with nice pictures and liner notes attached, though.

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There will be likely some unreleased material exclusive to this set, so better start save your pennies... I hope there will be some kind of book with nice pictures and liner notes attached, though.

Maybe that's why La-laland waited so long for approval?

because Williams had to approve that release and THIS one too? :D

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This is gonna be Bespin's wet dream :D

Sony is well-known for this kind of repackaging releases, hence I suspect it will be mostly straight reissues of several stuff (both OSTs and Pops albums), but it'll be nice to have them in print again.

There will be likely some unreleased material exclusive to this set, so better start save your pennies... I hope there will be some kind of book with nice pictures and liner notes attached, though.

At last.

Hoping for HD remastered recordings!

I wonder how they come with 59 CD.

In this topic, I've enumerated all his Soundtracks original albums: http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=25057&st=0&p=1089942

But if we stricly take the CBS & Sony albums, I count 39 CD :

1990 Boston Pops: Music of the Night

1990 John Williams conducts John Williams – The Star Wars Trilogy

1990 Home Alone [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

1991 Boston Pops: The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration

1991 Boston Pops: I Love A Parade

1992 Boston Pops: The Green Album

1992 Boston Pops: Joy To The World

1993 Boston Pops: Night and Day – Celebrate Sinatra

1993 Boston Pops: Unforgettable

1994 Boston Pops: Music For Stage And Screen

1994 Boston Pops: Swing

1995 Boston Pops: Williams on Williams – Classic Spielberg Scores

1996 Boston Pops: Summon the Heroes

1997 Rosewood [Music From The Motion Picture]

1997 The Hollywood Sound

1997 The Five Sacred Trees

1997 The Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition: A New Hope [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2-CD)

1997 The Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition: Return of the Jedi [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2-CD)

1997 The Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition: The Empire Strikes Back [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2-CD)

1997 Cinema Serenade

1998 Stepmom

1998 Gershwin Fantasy

1999 Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (the 1 or 2 CD edition?)

1999 Angela's Ashes [Music From The Motion Picture]

1999 Cinema Serenade 2: The Golden Age

2002 Star Wars – Episode II: Attack of the Clones [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

2002 American Journey: Winter Olympics 2002

2002 Yo-Yo Ma Plays the Music of John Williams

2005 Star Wars – Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

2005 Memoirs Of A Geisha [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

2011 The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn [Music From The Motion Picture]

2011 War Horse [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

2012 Lincoln [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

2013 The Book Thief [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

Can we count these 5 Columbia ones too?

1958 Bigs Hits from Columbia Pictures

1960 Checkmate [Original Music from The CBS-TV Show]

1961 Rhythm in Motion

1969 The Reivers [Original Score]

1981 Raiders Of The Lost Ark [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

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It will be funny if they meant the other John Williams, and amazon mislabeled it as soundtrack! :P

http://plum.cream.org/williams/records.htm

There are quite a lot Sony releases from what i see.

(i've counted 43 discs)

I always forget this guitar guy.

I would use the DeLorean to return in the past to make his mom and dad change his name to James...

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I wouldn't be surprised if Sony got a license from other labels like Warner and Universal to include stuff like Harry Potter, Superman, E.T, Jaws, Jurassic Park and Schindler's List

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No, they will include the isolated scores of AOTC and ROTS + dialogue versions of Across the Stars and Battle of the Heroes. That's the definitive presentation ;)

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I know nothing about this release - just found out about it when I saw this thread - but there's no chance this will contain any unreleased music. Of course, I hope to be proven wrong!

£164.18 seems dirt cheap for 59 CDs, too! That's £2.78 per CD

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It will be funny if they meant the other John Williams, and amazon mislabeled it as soundtrack! :P

No it would be funny if Sony mixed them up and came to 59 CDs in this way.

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No, they will include the isolated scores of AOTC and ROTS + dialogue versions of Across the Stars and Battle of the Heroes. That's the definitive presentation ;)

Would still be better than nothing!

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The more I think about it, the more likely I think it is that this is a compilation of that guitar guy, and Amazon put it in the wrong section.

Who knows.

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Williams switched labels from Philips to Sony over the years - not to mention all his film scores from the decades could be on any of a variety of different labels

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The guitar guy would have more Sony CD releases than our own JW? Wow!

The guitar man has 55 albums on Sony/CBS, some may be 2 CDs...

This thread seems to be more and more a false alert :-)

1964 CBS [Columbia] Records Presents John Williams (CBS)
1965 Virtuoso Music For Guitar (CBS)
1965 Two Guitar Concertos (Rodrigo and Castelnuovo-Tedesco) (CBS)
1967 More Virtuoso Music for Guitar (CBS)
1968 Two Guitar Concertos (Rodrigo and Dodgson) (CBS)
1968 Haydn and Paganini (CBS)
1969 Virtuoso Variations for Guitar (CBS)
1969 Concertos by Vivaldi and Giuliani (CBS)
1969 Songs for Voice and Guitar (CBS)
1970 John Williams Plays Spanish Music (CBS)
1970 Webern: Complete Works (CBS/Philips)
1971 Songs of Freedom – Theodorakis with Maria Farantouri (CBS)
1971 Music for Guitar and Harpsichord (CBS)
1972 Gowers Chamber Concerto, Scarlatti Sonatas (CBS)
1972 Previn and Ponce Concertos (CBS)
1973 Music from England, Japan, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina and Mexico (CBS)
1974 Rhapsody (CBS)
1974 Rodrigo & Villa-Lobos (CBS)
1976 Duos (CBS)
1976 John Williams and Friends (CBS)
1977 Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Arnold and Dodgson Concertos (CBS)
1977 John Williams ~ Barrios (CBS)
1978 Malcolm Arnold and Leo Brouwer Concertos (CBS)
1978 Stevie (CBS)
1978 Manuel Ponce (CBS)
1980 Guitar Quintets (CBS)
1981 Echoes of Spain – Albeniz (CBS)
1982 John Williams and Peter Hurford Play Bach (CBS)
1982 Just Guitars: A Concert in Aid of The Samaritans (CBS)
1982 Portrait of John Williams (CBS/Sony)
1983 The Guitar is the Song: A Folksong Collectio (CBS/Sony)
1985 Bach, Handel, Marcello: Concertos (CBS/Sony)
1986 Classic Aid: Concert in Aid of The UNHCR (CBS)
1987 Paul Hart Concerto for Guitar and Jazz Orchestra (CBS/Sony)
1987 Fragments of a Dream CBS/ (Sony)
1989 Spirit of the Guitar: Music of the Americas (CBS/Sony)
1990 Leyenda (CBS)
1990 Vivaldi Concertos (Sony)
1992 Takemitsu (Sony)
1992 Iberia (Sony)
1993 The Seville Concert (Sony)
1994 From Australia (Sony)
1994 The Great Paraguayan (From The Jungles of Paraguay) (Sony)
1996 The Mantis & the Moon (Sony)
1996 Guitar Concertos by Richard Harvey (Concerto Antico) and Steve Gray (Sony)
1996 John Williams Plays the Movies (and The World of John Williams) (Sony)
1997 The Black Decameron (Sony)
1998 The Guitarist (Sony)
1999 Schubert and Giuliani (Sony)
1999 The Prayer Cycle (Sony)
1999 When Night Falls (Sony)
2001 The Magic Box (Sony)
2001 Perpetual Motion (Sony)
2003 El Diablo Suelto – Guitar Music of Venezuela (with Alfonso Montes) (Sony)
2006 John Williams & John Etheridge: Places Between (Sony)
NOTE: on all the labels, our John Williams has currently 134 original studio albums in his disco, according to my Wiki article. That's tremendous.
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Every John Williams OS album released by Sony (Classical)? Every Star Wars album, Home Alone, Memoirs of a Geisha, Hook, etc.? Are there even so many released by Sony?

I wonder whether the Boston Pops albums are included as well.

We need a poll!
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This is gonna be Bespin's wet dream :D

Sony is well-known for this kind of repackaging releases, hence I suspect it will be mostly straight reissues of several stuff (both OSTs and Pops albums), but it'll be nice to have them in print again.

There will be likely some unreleased material exclusive to this set, so better start save your pennies... I hope there will be some kind of book with nice pictures and liner notes attached, though.

At last.

Hoping for HD remastered recordings!

I wonder how they come with 59 CD.

In this topic, I've enumerated all his Soundtracks original albums: http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=25057&st=0&p=1089942

But if we stricly take the CBS & Sony albums, I count 39 CD :

1981 Raiders Of The Lost Ark [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

1990 Boston Pops: Music of the Night

1990 John Williams conducts John Williams – The Star Wars Trilogy

1990 Home Alone [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

1991 Boston Pops: The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration

1991 Boston Pops: I Love A Parade

1992 Boston Pops: The Green Album

1992 Boston Pops: Joy To The World

1993 Boston Pops: Night and Day – Celebrate Sinatra

1993 Boston Pops: Unforgettable

1994 Boston Pops: Music For Stage And Screen

1994 Boston Pops: Swing

1995 Boston Pops: Williams on Williams – Classic Spielberg Scores

1996 Boston Pops: Summon the Heroes

1997 Rosewood [Music From The Motion Picture]

1997 The Hollywood Sound

1997 The Five Sacred Trees

1997 The Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition: A New Hope [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2-CD)

1997 The Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition: Return of the Jedi [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2-CD)

1997 The Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition: The Empire Strikes Back [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2-CD)

1997 Cinema Serenade

1998 Stepmom

1998 Gershwin Fantasy

1999 Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (the 1 or 2 CD edition?)

1999 Angela's Ashes [Music From The Motion Picture]

1999 Cinema Serenade 2: The Golden Age

2002 Star Wars – Episode II: Attack of the Clones [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

2002 American Journey: Winter Olympics 2002

2002 Yo-Yo Ma Plays the Music of John Williams

2005 Star Wars – Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

2005 Memoirs Of A Geisha [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

2011 The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn [Music From The Motion Picture]

2011 War Horse [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

2012 Lincoln [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

2013 The Book Thief [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]

Can we count these 4 Columbia ones too?

1958 Bigs Hits from Columbia Pictures

1960 Checkmate [Original Music from The CBS-TV Show]

1961 Rhythm in Motion

1969 The Reivers [Original Score]

Raiders of the lost Ark... Was it ever released by Sony?

I own all but 2 of the albums you mentioned above (Parade and Gershwin). Darn, now I have to get this. ;)

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Raiders of the lost Ark... Was it ever released by Sony?

The original LP, that's Columbia, not CBS (list corrected).

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99.99% sure this compilation is for the guitarist.

Yep, and to make matters even more complicated, JW the guitarist routinely records random film music compilations as well!

For example...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0000029W8/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1431527540&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SY200_QL40&keywords=john+williams+guitar+soundtrack&dpPl=1&dpID=51Bpp-mz5RL&ref=plSrch

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  • 3 weeks later...

Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks for the confirmation, Stempel. Not that it would have been interesting to me, since I basically own everything Williams ever did, film and concert-wise, but still.

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