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FYI, Mutter wrote on her Facebook/Instagram that she will soon record the Violin Concerto No.2 in Boston with JW, along with "more film themes". https://www.facebook.com/annesophiemutter/posts/407386110752051

Doug Adams would love to show you his analysis of the Hobbit themes!

I get that there are definitely issues with the set, but I don't think that swearing all the time and describing it as 'trash' is the most productive response.

https://landing.studiocdn.com/studiocdn-web/201210/parcels/48d37579-8a1d-47e2-a36d-0b4731b3d799 Final Ascent is my favourite, will prolly end up on a loop in the coming days.

I'm not intending to do either of those, just merely respond to them in a more justified way. Mistakes happen, and creative decisions disagreed with, and most other people here are happy with the 'that's really unfortunate... wonder if it can be fixed?'. You just go straight to swearing and caling something worthless. I just don't think that approach helps the situation, sorry. (as for why I may seem 'apologist' about it... I'm just thankful that some of these releases happen, and things can be patched/tweaked, but then I like tweaking things anyway. I agree it's not an excuse for propery shoddy work though.)

Interview from 2012 with the late Arthur B. Rubinstein (a very fine film composer) mostly about JW:

Newman’s is considerable better, more memorable and varied than the Desplat. Having said that I did enjoy Desplat’s effort plenty. But Newman’s is one of his very best and that’s hard to beat.

I'm just gonna leave this here:

Uhhh... no. I didn't even mention all the unseparable crossfades. In fact, a lot of the problems are the existence of gaps between cues making for a jarring sudden pop-in of a noise level before the next one starts. What? Which one out of the 10 or so? The left channel dropping out which is fine on the OST? Well then use the source that isn't fucking dropping out! Is it all the pop-ins? Just give them a fade-in and/or leave less silence. Have you listened to all those pop-ins and shit? This set is unfinished. Oh come the fuck on The missing portion is at 1:38-end of the OST track, it should start right when the LC track ends.

!!!!!! https://deadline.com/2021/09/the-lord-of-the-rings-composer-howard-shore-score-amazon-tv-series-middle-earth-jrr-tolkien-1234839274/

It's his hand cannon, just like Megaman's:

I also wanted to comment on how I feel about the 2016 Paper Mill House Recording. As great as the film's score is, I like the direction of the musical much more. I like how it's darker and more nuanced. Also, I thought all the performances on the CD were really excellent. I will admit that at first when I saw the show I wasn't sure what to make of Arden's Quasi, but when I realized he was supposed to be death, I quickly understood. And he does bring a lot of emotional passion to the role, which is absolutely great. Patrick Page obviously is no Tony Jay (of course), but his Frollo is still really impressive, his reindition of "Hellfire" especially bringing out his range. Jay will always be immortal, but Page is just as good for different reasons IMO. Oh, need I mention that this is probably my favorite of Menken's works?

Nah The Abyss is better than all of them

A store in Taiwan has the OST CD for sale early Also, an early review from the FSM thread https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?forumID=1&threadID=130493&archive=0 And another review from a Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/TheBondBulletin/posts/2038226773007209

From what I posted at the discography thread:

Agreed, both @Tom Guernsey, and @crocodile. OSCAR AND LUCINDA is a lovely score, from a great little film.

Agreed. Oscar and Lucinda is probably my favourite Newman score overall. Almost every track is a delight and the house of glass is perhaps the greatest single cue he’s ever written. Absolutely gorgeous. Beautifully produced album too.

Ok, I finaly got one ticket for Saturday. I couldnt sleep..and casually checking the site at 2 pm...there it was. I got a little anxious because my wife was asleep and i couldnt check if she was ok with it... although a few days ago she told me that I should go or i would regret it my whole life. She probably was not going to be able to travel at that time. So, i have been a little lost lately...is there going to be a meet up before the concert? I'll probably will stay the weekend there, but in Potsdam where some friends live. I hope underground and trains are ok after the concert...as they dont have a car to give me a lift :/...

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Hello everyone, we have some reprises today (lots of Chamber of Secrets again) in Cue No. 24: The Christmas Party and Cue No. 25: Snape and Malfoy! Hope you enjoy!

A few years ago I built my own slipcases for both trilogies, and until some REALLY ultimate edition comes out, these will continue to do nicely on the shelf. I'll just have to swap-out the movie discs for the UHD-ones (I got the barebones sets). A little bit of a "making of", if you're interested how these were built: https://imgur.com/a/brfa4

Sure, when we get zero effort trash, we should just eat it up. Oh dear, I'm so sad we didn't get a bunch of awfully hacked up TPM material officially released alongside all the stuff that leaked in other places anyway. Good riddance to that moronic UE idea.

That's not true actually. The woman being name-dropped constantly is only an additional dialogue writer. There are several credited writers already, and the lead writer is someone else entirely. No idea why these clickbait extremists keep singling her out and making it out to seem that she's in charge of the whole project or something dumb like that, when in reality her job is extremely miniscule. Just one of those Mike Zeroh clickbait "theories" that will disappear in time as usual, created because small minded man children like to be angry at everything nowadays... and of course as we all know, outrage = views = YouTube revenue ($$$).

Went to the Philharmonie yesterday, for the first time. The venue is amazing - you can clearly hear everything from the tiniest touch of the violin string and conductor's breathing to the ground-shaking orchestral explosions. They played Hartmann's Concerto funebre and Stravinsky's Firebird. I've never imagined that those pieces could be performed so perfectly. I've heard the latter performed three times by three different orchestras before, and I thought I had heard everything there is to hear about it, but its performance at Berlin totally blew me away. It was like hearing the piece for the first time, like I've never experienced it before. I can't wait for Johnny to take the stage. I think we're all in for a very beautiful concert. 20210917_204517_1.mp4

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What else are you going to do in that hut? I don’t think he even had a TV.

J'aime les deux!

I've chosen digital ticket, received it automatically, but at the same day asked for the physical one through e-mail and they have posted it from Germany to Poland free of cost.

Now THAT's the productive response.

They wouldn't, or certainly not on the scale and in the numbers as on this set if the people given the honor to do justice to these pieces of art would put some fucking pride into their work and have any sort of basic fucking standards. Even our beloved specialty labels, how many replacements are in progress right now? Is it really that hard to just give it a listen before asking 30-50 dollars for it? And then comes "are you sure those are mistakes", "oh you're just complaining" and "don't call out those faults, I want more sets with faults" and I just can't help but try and express honestly enough how goddamn frustrated I am with this pile of situations. And I'm still holding back. Certainly tried to keep the actual fault breakdown and fix guide cool enough.

Yeah, until you forget about all that. Then the ticket is all you remember... if you've got it.

Sorry, I read some older posts of JWFAN a moment ago, and now I think I truly found the origins of horror!

Aye, can't wait to hear this one

The Goldsmith Gold Rush..!!

I'm wouldn't be against this at all, as long as it wasn't just rotated between RC folks. Desplat, Pemberton, Powell...gimmie! I've a fondness for Arnold because he's been consistently reliable.

James Island (Restored) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sx8i3wBYYH0MINdGrhVJY3Fh5FbJnpkJ/view?usp=sharing Promise Me (Restored) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YjlAtlQqy7d2rkn80lIphE6cEAtAbRaD/view?usp=sharing

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I am now at peace. It's beautiful. What's the legacy collection?

Stop the Legacy Collection series until this is sorted out!

i genuinely think Elfman’s Batman theme can’t be improved upon. It’s futile to try.

Simply shawmful!

If you didn`t know it yet. John Williams was also session pianist along with Bill Miller on three tracks of the amazing Sinatra album "Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely"! https://sinatraology.com/person/view/870

It should be known by now that JWFan will not stop predicting the cancellation of an event until the last encore on the last concert is performed.

It's kinda weird I know, but while the harpsichord is maybe one of my least favorite instruments of all time, in general (I usually avoid it like the plague in any "classical music")... I absolutely ADORE how Williams has used the harpsichord throughout his career. Jane Eyre, Family Plot, THIS? HELL YES, that's my jam. Yavar

Whoa. I started with the OST and like it! Sounds great (not familiar enough with the varese so not sure by how much - I hear by a lot), good performances, a healthy representative mix of jazz, classical inspirations and good old film music, arranged not badly. The Eiger is a pretty meh finale, I like it better with the extra tracks put after it, works out great. Source music is okay, kind of just generic 70s background music, not especially fun or interesting to me - hot take, if these are the best ones JW approved out of the 7, he can keep the rest as far as I'm concerned. Though I wouldn't say no to a Superman situation where they are released, but somewhere else. And then the film score - holy moly. The performances are better, the cues themselves are better, the sound is INCREDIBLE, this 46 year old 3-track mono source sounds like it was recorded yesterday! I don't know how much Mike had to do but the end result is mindblowing. The first half is about what one expects, a varied damn good score for a mediocre movie. Felicity introduces the classicalesque element early so the Montage is more like a return, I like that. Also a lot of jazzy cues, i love that. Also lots of great main theme renditions, I love that. Also early on it can feel more like a small Morricone-esque, europeany sounding score almost blending into source, then the film scory film score grows out of it gradually. Cue combinations don't stand out at all, executed perfectly, even nonchrono ones like Top of the World. But then comes the latter half. An utterly gorgeous whole different kind of score the music grows into. A blend of cold icy textures, relentless unforgiving snowy soundscapes and emotional or melancholy main theme statements, this section is incredible. I don't know what goddamn movie JW was watching, it sure as hell wasn't the same one I did! Or he scored the movie he wanted it to be, drawing on the core ideas and possibilities, not the execution - hell, rather than scoring 4 spies or whoever going up a mountain but then coming down but then dying, with a cloudy motivation for the hero that's 100% abandoned and unexplored until it's over, to me this felt more like JW closing the book on this chapter of his life with Barbara's death and everything, right before the watershed moment was coming with Jaws, as if he knew. Absolutely fantastic. The credits is over a bit too quickly to put a proper cap on it, but then I rolled over into disc 2 and the main title started - which is a perfect finale, actually! So overall it ends up being somewhat of a blend of Long Goodbye, a tiny bit of Images, Earthquake (so I'm told) and Black Sunday - but ends up growing past them in the latter act into something greater than all of them. People. BUY THIS. I won't ask for a replacement disc for this kind of mistake, if I ever listen to the disc, it's unnoticeable, just the master playing through as intended, and I fixed my rip in literally a minute. Unfortunate but of a better kind.

The sound on Eiger is outstanding!

Yes we actually talk about that MCA Filmworks compilation during the Legacy podcast. It introduced me to do many unheard Williams gems back then, including Eiger and the Midway Yorktown March.