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Only a JW Fanatic could like BFG!😝
JNH 's DEFIANCE is better than SCHINDLERS*
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*JUST KIDDING!😆

This was announced in the Vienna thread, but I am guessing that is not regularly checked by many.  The piece is extremely good--so why not give it its own thread. Here you go:
 
 
DG has now released a video of the performance:
 

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A two-hour violin concerto that is so grating, unpleasant, and harsh that even the most snobbish critics will have to credit his composing abilities.  Perhaps a third movement of 30 minutes of silence and in a 6/8 time-signature.  

Searching for E.T. (Alternate)  I love the opening 10 seconds.
 
 

I did that years ago... and yes, "The First Car in Town" and "The Horse Race" are great standalone pieces and unlike anything on the OST. 

NEW!!!
 
3rd Video - Flight to Bagghar a.k.a astonishingly fast-paced and "drunk" action music
 
 
We've seen highlights of the Unicorn theme and Tintin's theme. Now comes the chance for Haddock's theme to shine. In this standout action cue, a drunk out of his mind, Captain Haddock saves the day with some extremely inebriated heroics. Williams scores from a psychological point of view, as there is all the fast-paced frenzy of a perilous flight through a storm but also the music itself seems to get "drunk" as Haddock gets drunk. Haddock's theme assumes center stage and goes through several variations as the cue progresses.
 
This cue is chopped up in the film. The magnificent "swaying sea shanty" motif for Haddock actually drinking the alcohol at 0;50 is dialed out in the film for sound effects! Also the film version has an extended insert that ruins the propulsion of the cue which is very tightly constructed.
 
Editing wise I have matched the film to Williams' original cue length so some editing was required. I have pulled off one major coup in editing. I hope someone notices it!
 
Syncing wise, Williams outdoes himself. People might call it mickey-mousing but the music is so perfectly matched to the picture that even without dialog and sound effects, you can completely follow the scene only by listening to the music. It literally reflects every single thing that happens on screen! A very entertaining a thrilling action cue.

I think people have speculated about this, but it hadn‘t been confirmed yet (as far as I know). Now, ASM has confirmed in an interview with Bavarian television that JW is indeed writing a new „big“ violin concerto for her. She says it will be premiered „next summer“ (likely meaning summer 2021), even though she also talks about taking a sabbatical next year ( I guess she will make an exception for the premiere?).
Here‘s the interview (in German). The relevant part starts at 13:13:
 
I’m hoping that the premiere will bring JW back to central Europe. 😁

I wish I could find that really funny without realising it might well be the truth.

I’m still listening to Irving Fine’s Music for Piano a lot.  It’s quite an addictive piece!
 
Stravinsky wrote Fine a letter in 1948 praising the piece as “graceful.... [and] so elegant in its writing” so I’m in good company  
 
 

Oh yeah, baby! Even though I personally believe that RotS has one of the better SW OSTs, hearing the final act in full always reminds me that no album arrangement can do justice to the grand and dramatic opera that unfolds in the last hour or so. 
 
I think the stretch that includes the cues I Am The Senate, Lament, Swimming, Droids and Yoda Farewell, Moving Things Along, Anakin's Dark Deeds and It Can't Be is one of the strongest in all of SW, uncontested by all save perhaps ESB. And that's before we even get into all the Battle of the Heroes materials and The Immolation Scene. Plus there are dozens of golden nuggets in the first half too!
 
As for AotC, it gets a bad rap but it has some of the highest heights in the prequels IMO (The Meadow Scene, Finding Kamino, Yoda and the Younglings, Chase Through Coruscant, Finale). I don't often listen to the full score though, as the OST is a perfect presentation for my taste.

ROTS may not be my favorite SW score, but the movie’s opening sequence blows every other SW entry out of the water. The ominous drums leading to the badass rendition of the force theme... glorious. The camera chasing Obi-Wan and Anakin over the edge of the ship and revealing a massive battle taking place at like half a dozen different altitudes in the upper atmosphere... miraculous.
 
Seeing that reveal on the big screen in 2005 was astonishing. It was a blissful visual overload and one of my fondest moviegoing memories.

We just wanted to celebrate Johnnys 88th birthday and decided to watch something he scored, ended up with BFG which was perfect for our youngest, 7 year old. The dubbed version was so great, Dahl's brilliant language worked perfectly, or even better in this finnish version. 
I loved this music when it came out (and it was a highlight in Chicago and London live) but now after seeing this again, I have to say it is one of his best in 2010' right after The Book Thief. 
I read Incanus' rewiev and he said JW has done this many times, NO. This is something special.That woodwind writing when they were catching the dreams😍😍 Works wonderfully with the movie. So much underrated. No surprise here. 
 

JW's score for The Adventures of Tintin is a stone cold masterpiece - an enormously propulsive work with over a dozen themes and motifs that power a very busy, nimble and complex score. I was disappointed to see the ambivalence people seem to have towards JW's Tintin score. That stops now. 
 
I think the score in the movie is well represented by still somewhat marred by sound effects.
 
Here is a score only version of a riotous sea battle that Haddock recounts.
 
 
Watch this to marvel at the intricacy of Williams' composition - individual punches, hits, sword moves, gunshots are synced to the music along with syncing to several cuts. Well, the syncing is done by me but to honor Williams' original intentions. I have taken the OST cue and and fit the picture to it. Only in two places did I microedit the music. Otherwise the music fits the scene remarkably well and you can see the enormous effort Williams has put into the cue for it to be still be entertaining while being so closely matched to the picture.
 
This also represents some of Williams best action music last decade. It is completely melodic and uses two primary themes - the Unicorn theme representing the ship and Red Rakham's Pirate theme (and no this is not the dueling theme from The Adventures Continues) receive several explosive enormous statements as the furious pirate battle unfolds over the high seas.
 
I am starting a thread here because I intend to create several videos for the numerous action scenes in the film, each intricately scored by Williams.

"In Loving Mamory of King Mork."

Maybe he simply found the Golden Hall to be the pinnacle of dense. Every single image has so many things going on...

After leaving Lucasfilm, Rick learned to play violin and became the head of the VPO just so he could have Williams perform in the Musikverein. Brilliant plan! 😂

The beautiful harp reading of the main theme from The Fury in Hester's Theme and the House on the OST, 1:53-2:15 (Before Dinner in the film score, 0:37-0:58). There is some ghostly tenderness there that gets me every time.

2:08 - 2:10
The orchestral equivalent of dragging your nails down a chalkboard.
3:05 - 3:11
Simply 'WTF'.

One of many I enjoy from TLW - 6:51 to 7:05

0:00-0:34  Sounds like the playful pieces in The Book Thief.
 
 

0:48 Powerful drop. The violins scream "No!" and the horns point at the killer. Instruments start repeating the news like a crowd. 
Have you ever heard a better scored dramatic death?

Since the Indy 5 thread was bumped, I decided to revist KOTCS OST, which I haven't heard in a long time. I really like this track from 3:21 to the end, it sounds like a mix between War of the Worlds and The Patriot!
 
 

Absolutely, it's those trademark flourishes where you instantly have a smile on your face upon first hearing it, just because it's such a distillation of Williams in this writing mode. Same with that great opening brass flourish in The Last Jedi, and the first Kylo Ren arrival in TFA.

0:41 - 0:42
 
It's crazy to me how you can have even just a single second of music like this such that, were you to hear it completely out of context, you'd still know exactly who the composer was and for what set of movies that moment was from. It's undeniably Williams doing his undeniably Star Wars sound. Love it.