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Disc 3: my thoughts. Opening with the children's suite is a great idea. Hearing the entire thing as a whole for the first time in ages was really refreshing. Though I don't like Fluffy's harp, those violins in Diagon Alley are such a delight, Quidditch is wonderful and Harry's Wondrous World at the end works so well, especially because it references previous movements. I do think that including HWW on disc 2 was a bit superfluous/overkill: I know that's how it is in the credits, but now it's a little repetitive and we have HWW in Chamber of Secrets again too. I would also have preferred the pub music to come first, because that flute solo is Hedwig's theme yet again. The vocal Hogwarts forever versions is great, Hedwig's theme for harp is a little weird but great fun, the coke ad is as magical as ever, but the teaser music is rather redundant. The trailer is interesting because it was seemingly recorded in a smaller studio or by a small/inexperienced orchestra and given the short running time of this disc, I think it would have been nice to have Owl's Flight at the end of a Dumbledore's Advice reprise. It would have given Hedwig's theme a well-deserved break and casual listeners might have had a better idea about where the cue belonged.

Went to see PoA live yesterday: as I said in the LTP thread, apart from a few minor glitches it was an incredible experience. Anyway, I probably was the only one feeling sad during the Discussing Black scene. We miss you, 30" shawm cue ❤️ (sorry for the vertical video — ugh — and the Italian dubbing) IMG_9144.mp4 By the way, I also snatched a certain tambourine/Cadogan cue IMG_9145_TRIM.mp4

Geez! It's Vangelis!

Damn! Isn't this thread supposed to be about the music? Some of you guys are obsessed with the tiniest flaws and mistakes and imperfections. Really! I swear, some of you guys didn't even buy this set to enjoy the music buy to find mistakes and flaws....

Ni!

I'm sure @The Illustrious Jerry will play it on his mighty organ for you.

Of course. That is why I responded initially, “John Williams.” I had to edit my response after I realized he was referring to the final track. Regardless of that, all of the Maestro’s music is presented, and I really enjoy this phenomenal set.

Mine is still sitting underneath the tree unlistened to. I'm enjoying my 4K player visually rather than aurally. Got Poltergeist in right now. The great Goldsmith score is a very emotional score.

Apparently, LLL wants me to appreciate them packaging the order well, because on the invoice, they circled my comment to "please please please package well" with a pen So I hereby announce that I appreciate LLL's packaging.

Like mine earlier today?

That’s interesting. Weird, though. It just seems odd to include music by a trailer house group that had nothing to do with the Maestro, apart from segueing into the end of Reunion of Friends. Anyway, I just ended up replacing it with the track “Finale” from the original soundtrack album. I just felt the track is not only a unique album track, but ending the entire set with that triumphant version of A Window to the Past is a perfect way to cap the entire set. Aside from doing that, this entire set is phenomenal; just perfect. Thanks again to Mike Matessino and all involved with this set, especially Maestro John Williams. Looking forward with much anticipation to what 2019 has to offer.

Yes, there are differences between the two versions on this HP1 set: number one is the uncut version that was truncated (only like two seconds missing for the OST, number two is the 'cut' version, but with the suite ending, e.g. the one supposedly recorded for COS. Teaser might be the first ever recorded cue, but that doesn't make it less redundant for my listening experience. I'm not saying it's historically unnecessary, it just doesn't add anything to my enjoyment after the entire score.

Excellent! I will definitely purchase the set now! I bought the 20th anniversary edition of Saving Private Ryan a couple of months ago, and it’s the same way. The film version of “The Last Battle” is well worth the purchase alone! Thanks a lot!

I could arrange it for you if you’d like!

Nice 4th post.

I just received the new Harry Portter set the other day so I’ve been listening to those scores off and on. Someday soon I will sit down and listen to them all in their glory! I’m very happy to see that the new set includes the children’s suite, I’m a huge fan of Williams’s chamber works. I can’t get enough of the wonderful counterpoint and his rich harmonies in the Quidditch piece! Also, I’ve been really into Hook lately. The arrival of tink track (specifically in the extended release edition) always manages to bring a beaming smile to my face!

The best one is Indiana Jones and the Holy Gourd of Jerusalem.

Well, just a hunch, but could have something to do with the soundtrack Deadline being somewhere around October/November, while Shore was rewriting and recording up until literally hours before the premiere in December. Did you also get your knickers in a knot when the LOTR OSTs featured a plethora of alternates because of schedules? Be thankful we got so many alternates on CD, because going by the LOTR CR and Rarities situation, we would never get so many Hobbit alternates any other way.

Because his sleep cycle is ideal for the timing of the purge!

I'll see what I can do!

INDIANA JONES AND MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL? Now, that's worth watching!

Since 2018 they have been using very cheap cases. Someone should inform them about the general discontentment about their new packaging (emphasizing that it is just the packaging).

Albeit intentionally so; and I'm saying this as someone who isn't necessarily the biggest fan of that film.

5 years today. He was a quintessentially Polish composer. His music really captures what this country is about. No one else could quite evoke its soul with as much ease and elegance. Karol

Hello everyone! I am new to this community and am thrilled to be here. My short question is, does anyone know if there are plans for an independent release of the score from the short film "Dear Basketball"? Thanks in advance and sorry if this has already been discussed, I did a quick search to see if this has been covered before and found nothing!

Especially for those men who are made to sit through it.

PBS will be airing the Bernstein centennial tonight.

I just bought a ticket for the LSO and Rattle playing Bruckner's 6th in Vienna in February.

As a huge fan of the maestro, you should be able to tell immediately that the trailer music is modern trailer house fare and not Johnny Dubs.

Train to Hogwarts V1 Dumbledore's Warning Double Trouble March Train to Hogwarts V2 Some trailer house, seguing to the ending of Reunion of Friends from COS

If JW is ever "retiring," it's either from scoring films or conducting concerts (not that the latter has been much of a thing for him for many years anyway). Nothing would stop him from working from home, at his own pace, on new concert pieces, adapting existing works, fulfilling commissions, and supporting Mike Matessino in producing proper expansions of all the scores that haven't received the golden treatment. I indeed imagine he looks forward to doing exactly that after Ep. IX. And, considering how long-lived many of history's great artists are and have been, what would JW do with all his remaining time if he actually were to full-out retire from music? There's only so much golf a man can play.

The Executioner from PoA is such a cool little cue. Love the low harp, drums and contrabassoon. John Williams puts such interesting and subtle detail into even the smallest cue.

Didn’t arrive for Christmas, but the ordeal is over after terrible service from all parties involved. All in all, not a bad holiday haul though, now just need time to listen to it all!

In post-war Yorkshire, food rationing leads a married couple (Michael Palin & Maggie Smith) to become involved in the flourishing bacon black market, to be precise, when the local pillars of society fatten a pig for a secret banquet, Palin steals it and hilarity ensues. It's a piffle but so wicked and unruly it's great fun.

Why...yes. Karol

I found this wonderfully detailed (and sourced) answer about the potential reasons why Williams did not end up scoring Deathly Hallows. It even references JWFan as a source: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/28761 Then there's a quote from Williams himself (in 2007): https://www.chronicle.com/article/Conversations-With-John/4906 he explained: “It was a schedule problem; … of course I would have done it if I could, but it overlapped pretty exactly with Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and War of the Worlds. The Lucas-Spielberg relationship took precedence on my schedule, and I had commitments to both those films earlier on. I must say I miss doing [Potter].” So, straight from the horse's mouth, it was nothing but scheduling conflict for Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix. As for Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows, director David Yates might also have had a slight bias for Alexandre Desplat, who by 2010 had already scored Half-Blood Prince with Yates, meaning they had a good working relationship going into the final film(s).

And now let's add James Horner and Jerry Goldsmith scores! James Horner 1983 - Krull 1983 - Gorky Park 1985 - Cocoon 1988 - Willow 1989 - Glory 1991 - The Rocketeer 1993 - Searching for Bobby Fischer 1995 - Braveheart 1995 - Apollo 13 1997 - Titanic 2003 - Radio 2004 - Troy 2005 - The New World Jerry Goldsmith 1966 - The Blue Max 1968 - Planet of the Apes 1973 - Papillon 1976 - The Omen 1978 - Capricorn One 1982 - The Secret of NIMH 1996 - Chain Reaction 1996 - The Ghost and the Darkness

Akira Ifukube scored 11 Godzilla films, a 12th film featured a score entirely comprised of his music from previous films. 6 other films used his music at various points. Plus he scored 11 films that featured possible tie ins to the Godzilla universe.

JW finishing at 8 of 9 Star Wars films is basically my worst nightmare, especially considering his likely successor. Yuck.

This makes complete sense. I know the score is filled with unconventional scoring decisions (that work brilliantly!) but pizzicato strings underscoring an intense werewolf chase through a forest does stick out as a little... "bold." 😎 Even choosing a string overlay to beef it up seems a restrained addition, so he must have really liked his original idea (he saw fit to include it on the OST after all).

I have a hard time collecting my thoughts. So far, I have nothing but praise for this box set. The sound quality is amazing, it feels like the orchestra is playing in my living room. Some random thoughts so far; – I am insanely familiar with the score for Philosopher's Stone. It is, along with Azkaban, probably the movie I've seen most times in my life. I can hum along to every cue. Yet somehow the score feels completely new! It's breathtaking stuff. – Surprisingly I prefer the original version of the "Diagon Alley" cue. It's so wonderfully strange. Was completely taken aback by the new opening too. – I absolutely adore the "Hogwarts Forever!" theme. It seems like many statements were removed from the film. – "Cast a Christmas Spell" is a highlight for me. Ever since the set was announced I've been wondering if the synthesize (?) would be included or not. Where is that from? Was it recorded for the song? The music box reprisal is also great. This track is pure Harry Potter to me. – "Filch's Fond Remembrance" is another lightlight. It really foreshadows Azkaban's medieval sound. The same is true for the last 35 seconds of "House Selection". Love the flute. – "Fluffy's Harp Lullaby". Wow. The source music really blends well together with the score in PS. – The Children's Suite! I'm gonna return to this suite many times. "Voldemort", "Family Portrait" and "Diagon Alley" are my favorites based on my first listen. – "Hedwig's Theme for Harp" blew me away. Where did that come from? Williams should utilize harp more often. – I still can't believe the "Teaser" recording is included. 😍 It's unreal. – I really like "Hogwarts Forever (Vocal Version)". I can't get over how inspired Williams must have been writing this score and all the source music, theme suits and songs. Somehow almost every cue feels like a highlight. I guess I have a tendency to prefer the smaller scaled stuff, don't know why ("Owl's Flight" is my favourite statement of the Nimbus 2000 theme). After listening to these first three discs I'm not only lamenting the fact that Williams didn't score film 4-8 - now I wish he had scored the books as well! I haven't even opened the liner notes yet. I've just been listening with my eyes closed. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was my very first film score album. My aunt noticed I kept humming the music from Harry Potter, and so she gave me the soundtrack for Christmas 2001. I was 7 years old and it changed my life and opened up my love for orchestral music. Listening to this expanded edition feels like a monumental moment in my life. A big thank you to @Jay, Mike Matessino, LaLaLand and everyone else involved in this amazing release.

MM must have one of the best and worst jobs for any film score enthuasiast. It must be awesome discovering unreleased music, working with JW etc but I imagine he must be totally sick of Harry Potter by now! If it was me, the mere first few notes of Hedwig’s Theme would make me break into a cold sweat.

Made a sheet music video for the 1st Part of the tribute

Classic Star Wars style for Solo: A Star Wars Story. One with JW credit and one without. Continuing the idea of simplistic covers for Spielberg-Williams films.

Doppio, doppio, fatica e problemi Bolla di fuoco e calderone Doppio, doppio, fatica e problemi Sta per accadere qualcosa di spiacevole! Occhio di tritone e punta di rana Lana di pipistrello e lingua di cane La forchetta e la puntura del verme cieco La gamba e l'ala civetta di Lucertola Doppio, doppio, fatica e problemi Bolla di fuoco e calderone Doppio, doppio, fatica e problemi Sta per accadere qualcosa di spiacevole! Nel calderone, fai bollire e infornare Filetto di un serpente fenny Scala del drago, dente del lupo Streghe mamme, fauci e golfo Doppio, doppio, fatica e problemi Bolla di fuoco e calderone Doppio, doppio, fatica e problemi Bolla di fuoco e calderone Doppio, doppio, fatica e problemi Bolla di fuoco e calderone Sta per accadere qualcosa di spiacevole!

Annnd here's another one