Marian Schedenig

"Good-a-night, a ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding!"

"The palindrome of Bolton would be Notlob!" (That one always bothers me, because both words are anagrams of each other, but neither is a palindrome)

I thought the score worked very well as sound design for the film. It became weaker when it came closer to being music - the Elgar stuff was rather cringy as I recall. I've no interest in listening to it on CD.

The original recordings, actually.

I like Einstein, but it's not everyday listening. On the other hand, I can hardly get enough of the other two operas from the portrait trilogy.

I haven't seen many, and I'm rather wary of the genre myself. But the Carl Davis scored Ben-Hur and the Huppertz Metropolis are both stunning and perfectly watchable, so I'm very much looking forward to this.

The almost only Delerue album I own is The London Sessions Vol. 1. And I think there was not one track that didn't excite me. I later picked up Les rois maudits/Lancelot du lac from Quartet, and it was nice, but didn't grab my attention much. I still want to explore more of his music, but never know where to start, especially because most of his score releases seem to be long out of print. (I keep forgetting that I also have a few Delerue tracks on the Amazing Stories albums, which I never listen to)

I saw Dunkirk at the IMAX. I've had the Blu for years, but I haven't watched it yet, because it's really designed as a merciless audiovisual assault, which means I have to watch it during the day if I don't want to have the neighbours call the police because of the noise.

Possibly. Certainly the score - Forever, I'm not familiar with Goldenthal's second. On the other hand, Elfman's second Batman score never did anything for me. No. I'm not big on Elfman in general, but Batman is one of his best (of those I'm familiar with). The theme is catchy and fits the film perfectly, and Elfman gets a lot of mileage out of it, even if (like most of his scores) all I remember in the end is lots of densely orchestrated not too different repetitions of the theme. But the theme itself is good, and that's just how the score as a whole sounds to me; with Spider-Man, that's what the theme itself sounds like to me.

Batman has an iconic theme. Perhaps the score is at the top of whatever league it is in, but even if it were to ascend to the next league, it still wouldn't be in the same one as TLC.

The Imperial March: Honorable mentions: (the variations throughout) Best spotting: (0:47 & 1:21 - perhaps the best spotted moments in all of film history)

Found this, which I didn't know existed, with Janowitz and Berry (who also featured on Karajan's recording 6 years earlier): It's not as good as Cleveland. Some of the playing is rather shoddy, and generally Szell doesn't seem to be able to keep his ensemble (instrumental & vocal) in sync.

Careful with that album, it may be disintegrating, along with Presumed Innocent. I checked by discs, the Williams looks fine, but the Goldsmith has a notable spot (hard to see, only visible if I shine a torch on it). I've got both of them FLACed anyway.