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Excellent show! Very enjoyable, I re-listened to the Conrad Pope and Sandy De Crescent editions straight afterwards, whilst lying in bed with headphones during the night 🎧 . *apologies for that image!

This is exactly why we had the ejector seat installed at the NBC screening room for our 2018 London gathering. Shame we never got to use it! :-)

No such thing existed! ;-)

Thanks! Maurizio (TownerFan) is responsible for the final package with music. Glad you enjoy.

If you look closely, on the bookshelf behind him there are miniature Cantina Band figures. Doug Adams pointed this out after the Summon the Heroes video was posted online. It’s a lovely video message, thanks for the heads up.

Hello and welcome! You’re right, harking back to the pivotal connection between fife and drum etc. We did actually mention The Patriot, also referencing a similarity to its finale, however we had to edit things down a bit.

I would say different, not necessarily better ;-) Let’s hope this does happen and Williams remains healthy. I wonder was Sarah Willis about to say “..... but he doesn’t like to fly long distance.” as that’s the line that the LSO communicated for years.

I think the Kunzel recordings are of very high quality and Williams himself would often acknowledge this. The Spielberg Tribute album is solid, yes, but cues like Empire of the Sun don’t suit the bombastic finishes Kunzel used to favour in the bespoke arrangements. The Sugarland Express performance is superb though and improves upon the OST for me. Some of the 80s albums (Fantastic Journey / Star Tracks / Time Warp) featured outstanding performances. E.T. & The Last Starfighter in particular. The 90s albums became obsessed with hi-if speaker destroying (!) sound effects and weird surround sound gimmicks, however some selections were very good.

Here’s the link which is live now. A very enjoyable watch and plenty for us JW fans to relish. Such legends gathered together:

Hi! Nobody was misinformed. The Classic FM programming team were given the option of “The Big Match”, “Into the Bath” or “The Land Race”. The former 2 are fantastic and give more unreleased material, however “The Land Race (alternate)” is more radio friendly and is the perfect JW showcase of his craft. As Jay has rightly pointed out, it clearly features unreleased material. If the Classic FM presenter oversold it then so be it, I didn’t write her script and I make no apologies. Remember, we all want this to be a successful release and the fact that this lesser known John Williams score is reaching a wider audience is to be celebrated not dissected.

Yes, the whole timeline journey and back story of Williams recording in London makes for a very enjoyable reading experience. They are probably the most engaging liner notes I’ve read in recent times. Hearing from the musicians and Isobel Griffiths is also unique and the archive JW interviews all make it so comprehensive.

Very enjoyable read, Jason and glad to see Justin credit John Goberman. He was really the first to start the live to picture presentations.

Ah yes, good point.

He means The Imperial March at the end of AOTC 😉

I overcooked Dobby the Elf, this is true. What a theme though! Yes, completely new material as opposed to COS being a mixture of old and new.

The second part is now available to hear and I hope you enjoy the special JW HP montage: https://soundcloud.com/timburden/the-musical-wizardry-of-john-williams-mike-matessino-on-harry-potter/s-suS7I

Thanks! 🙂

As Mike said, "heightened antenna!" 🙂 Yes, well spotted - I thought it was quite seamless for the Hedwig and Wondrous World overlays, but Fluffy was a bit trickier to sync up . Sorry about that, I just thought it appropriate to insert JW talking about the Children's Suite movements considering the subject matter. Here's the source material if anyone is interested:

No, unless you're mixing me up with Nightscape94 who was also a Tim.

Thanks all for the kind feedback, glad you enjoyed listening. I'm just finishing off the final part which focuses on COS & Azkaban over the next few days. Hi @Josh500, still here! 😉

I was just about to post a reminder about LyricFM's show which is on today at 1pm GMT (so, just over 3 hours from now). Mike will introduce cues from COS and Azkaban.

Tune in tomorrow and Saturday 1st December for radio premieres and the second part of my London focused interview with Mike will also be posted next week. "Mischief managed"! 🙂 https://www.rte.ie/culture/2018/1122/1012644-unheard-harry-potter-music-to-premiere-on-rte-lyric-fm/

Thanks all. Glad you’re enjoying and there’s much more to come as I said. I’ll make the audio file downloadable if it helps some of you, no problem.

The Land Race is a phenomenal scene and cue. Then there's the final cue, The Big Match, Joseph's Dream, Leaving Home. It's always been a personal favourite, not that I'm at all Irish biased 🙂

Sorry for any confusion, it's a confirmation that there's no confirmed Far & Away or Fiddler on the Roof release. Hopefully this confirms the confirmation! 🙂