Romão

Kilar will always be my favourite polish composer who also wrote for cinema. 'King of the Last Days' is a historical 1993 drama about the rise and gruesome fall of the anabaptists in Münster and shines with the distinctive, powerful sounds typical of Kilar. The floating, unearthly choirs & mix of orchestra and discreetly backgrounded period instruments alternates between sacred, hymn-like melodies that move incredibly pulsating and dramatic, and gloomy, elegiac dirges with an exalted Morricone feel to them. It's one of the great resurrections of Middle Age, next to Morricone's (countless) similar examples, i. e. El Greco or La Venexiana,  and Barry's Last Valley.

I wish JW had been asked to do more scores like this!
MR drew heavily from it.
 
I'm sure the fans who love HP and BFG don't like it.

I understand that. I would say the Goldsmith equivalent to your example would be something like The Mummy. Incredibly fun and entertaining score, to which I return very often, but that presents a clear example of a favorite not being perhaps one of the great works.
 
But I do think Masada is one of Goldsmith's greatest works (perfectly served by the LP re-recording, though, as others have said).
 
 

It's in my top 5 Goldsmith scores, which would make it, by default, one of the greatest scores of all time in my book

It's in my top 5 Goldsmith scores, which would make it, by default, one of the greatest scores of all time in my book

I'm also very fond of his score dor Dracula: Dead and Loving It, which plays it completely straight and is therefore a pretty great Dracula score.

Vader meeting Obi-Wan between ROTS and ANH is a lousy, money grabbing idea. And it robs the impact of their meeting in ANH.
 
"I sense something, a presence I have not felt since two weeks ago"

Vader meeting Obi-Wan between ROTS and ANH is a lousy, money grabbing idea. And it robs the impact of their meeting in ANH.
 
"I sense something, a presence I have not felt since two weeks ago"

Vader meeting Obi-Wan between ROTS and ANH is a lousy, money grabbing idea. And it robs the impact of their meeting in ANH.
 
"I sense something, a presence I have not felt since two weeks ago"

Vader meeting Obi-Wan between ROTS and ANH is a lousy, money grabbing idea. And it robs the impact of their meeting in ANH.
 
"I sense something, a presence I have not felt since two weeks ago"

Pretty damn close to being my favourite Young, and that's saying something given his excellent track record. Could be something with the Scandinavian/Gaelic folk music flavour that makes it strike close to home.

Start with this:

I am really fond of Munich, Lincoln, Tintin and Bridge of Spies

It's no fight, at all.
When it comes to the music, Harry Potter wipes the floor with LOTR.

This is awesome!
 
 
Karol

I think this is the JW passage that gives me the biggest jolt of joy:
 
 

Thank you for this recommendation, I managed to snag it for 3 pounds. I'm particularly interested in the Waterloo suite, it's not so common to find music from that score

It was the best possible canvas for Burton's rather limited aesthetic sensibilities. It's easily one of his best, although, like in most of his movies, the third act clearly the worst part

Sleepy Hollow
 
One of Burton's best movies. It has great cinematography from Emmanuel Lubezski, a suitably creepy atmosphere, lots of gore and a great score from Elfman.

Thank you for this recommendation, I managed to snag it for 3 pounds. I'm particularly interested in the Waterloo suite, it's not so common to find music from that score

Essential, but apparently hard to get these days:
 

https://www.amazon.com/Filmmusik-Gianluigi-Gelmetti/dp/B00005V6JV/
 
The MP3 version has the track list:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DUSVWC8/

I adore that album. And the summation of the Petronius related material in Petronius Banquet, Meditation And Death is an absolute highlight that I always miss when listening to the Tadlow re-recording.
 
 
 

I think this is the JW passage that gives me the biggest jolt of joy:
 
 

I think this is the JW passage that gives me the biggest jolt of joy:
 
 

Yes, in all seriousness, it's disgusting how poorly JW's final Star Wars score... potentially final film score... was treated by Abrams and his sound editors. Not only hacked up like newspaper headlines for a ransom note, but burying it so deep in the mix they might as well have kept the temp track.
 
Basically, an embarrassment of a film that soured all the goodwill achieved up to that point. How I wish they'd just delayed the damn thing two years and done it properly, so Williams could have scored an actual movie and not some under-cooked rotisserie of incomprehensible sequences.
 
Certainly makes Mike's task in the future all the more crucial; to afford that score the respect and dignity it deserves... because Abrams certainly didn't.