Joe Brausam

He sounded great in this interview, it was a fantastic piece!

I enjoyed it. I understand what people didn’t enjoy here, not saying they’re wrong or the criticism isn’t valid. But I couldn’t help but enjoy it the whole time. To each their own!

It is probably my favorite post-2005 Williams score, though for me it has some very strong competition from Lincoln - they both do a lot for me. I do consider War Horse to be masterpiece level from Williams, and I think it is one of his greatest original soundtrack albums as well. It's so well arranged and tells a complete story on its own. In that sense I feel like the score is practically a tone poem and works as a self contained piece of programmatic music.

It's up there for me too - love this musical. I also love the idea of having an updated version that will stand up better in my classroom when I show this to kids. As great as the original film is, it LOOKS dated to their eyes.

I’m surprised people seem “eh” about the David Newman announcement. Nobody mentioned, but he has conducted the vast majority of the live to film performances of the original WSS film - he’s actually a perfect choice and should know the score very intimately at this point.

That's actually a beautiful cover.

Yes

My mistake, thanks! I thought I remembered the London Symphony being involved.

Tracks 5 and 6 on this album are credited only to Horner rather than Horner/Franglen, which is interesting. I wonder if it's something original he wrote? I don't know how long the Pandora project would have been in development.

There shouldn't be any new union fees for Avatar though, right? It was recorded in London as far as I know. And does Disney own the score now?

Out for delivery, one day ahead of schedule!

My set shipped yesterday and should be arriving on Saturday, along with Schindler's list. Very exciting!

Order 167300, and received my confirmation at 3:07 (12:07 LLL time) that day. I’ve been in awaiting shipment since December 1st, maybe it’ll make it out of there this week!

So what I wonder is this - with Ross conducting the LSO, do we think it’s possible Williams was originally intended to record this himself in London while on tour in Europe?

Thanks!