Mr. Who

This is a really strong score that is full of beautiful orchestration and melodies. It reminds in some ways of some of his earlier work and also in some ways invokes Desplat. The woodwind writing is a real standout.
 
We're in for a lot of exiting Silvestri scores in the coming years with the Electric State and Avengers 5 & 6!

This is a really strong score that is full of beautiful orchestration and melodies. It reminds in some ways of some of his earlier work and also in some ways invokes Desplat. The woodwind writing is a real standout.
 
We're in for a lot of exiting Silvestri scores in the coming years with the Electric State and Avengers 5 & 6!

I really wanted to go myself but I have very little annual leave left for the year after my week in Ghent.
 
Nice to read good feedback on it though. I did speak to Franglen about it in the pub after the awards ceremony and he did mention that the ensemble was going to be huge. Here’s hoping they do one for The Way Of Water.
 
 

Concert was great. I was sat at the side stalls, so right next to the orchestra. Nice to see Eric Rigler on the woodwind solos. The singer was also fantastic. 
 
I was at the Stranger Things play in the afternoon, and had to rush to make the concert, so I missed the pre-concert talk! Ahhh! It was announced after I already arranged to see the play in the afternoon.
 
I hope someone somewhere recorded it. 
 
 
P.s. lovely to see Cameron, Franglen AND Sigourney on stage at the end. At least I managed to see them in person for a moment.

Because it's a rule that is just a few years old.
 
But it's such a strange rule and to me always felt like a way to rule out even more thematic scores from being nominated. They act like thematic scores are bad.

The local philharmonic held an awesome "Hollywood classics" concert last night with expected classics and some welcome surprises. The talking guy was a professional organ player (he sat in and played organ for some of the pieces) and clearly a fan, said that people crying about where the Verdis and Wagners and Vivaldis are today should only look to Hollywood where the greatest composers are clearly going, and stuff like that.
 
Part 1
Gone with the Wind Star Trek medley (TOS main titles, Voyager main titles, TMP (The Enterprise excerpt), ST4 (main tite excerpt), something from the Goldsmith TNG movies, something from Gia) - was not expecting this, loved it Out of Africa Forrest Gump (feather theme only) Jaws - theme, S/W I version with the loud ending Raiders March Jurassic Park Top Gun (some mostly orchestral rendition of Top Gun Anthem but still had the guitar and drum kit) Avengers theme Davy Jones (film organ then demo orchestral) + The Kraken (demo's final minutes) - really was not expecting this, it was awesome, the organist "messed up" by playing Bach's D Minor Toccata and Fugue to point out the similarities (and promote an upcoming concert lol)  
Part 2
Elfman's Batman theme Kamen's Robin Hood theme (the guy just said Robin Hood and I forgot this movie existed so I was really hoping for Korngold instead of something from that 2010s dark thing, was so relieved when this started!) Gladiator suite with a cello soloist standing in for Lisa Gerrard Hedwig's Theme Titanic (excerpt from the LSO 20 minute Suite covering the Southampton/adventure portion, then an arrangement of the love theme, then an orchestral arrangement of the song) Interstellar suite - was REALLY not expecting this, the organist was on fire, it included an action cue and ended with Stay, it was hypnotic Throne Room and End Title concert piece (shortened)  
Encores
Imperial March He's a Pirate  
The orchestra's great so no performance issues, sound was as good/alright as can be expected from a university sports hall, production was pretty nice, almost all the pieces had footage playing under them (better or worse edits, Avengers only had poster photo stills because Marvel's stingy), they played with the lights too, for example the orchestra was blue for Jaws and Titanic, golden yellow for HP and Gone with the Wind, red for JP, and they shone a single spotlight around a bit for Batman to suggest the Batsignal. Overall nice and crowdpleasing with some pleasant surprises.

Yes exactly this. In this case it’s quite funny how the Atreides/Love theme was used twice (bagpipes arrival and and for a few seconds in the Armada cue) in the first movie but is the main theme of the second movie, thus disqualifying the score.
 
Most of the new themes in Dune Part Two were already released on the Sketchbook (even if they were written for part two and never used in part one) so I guess the rules are the rules. It’s still interesting how Indy 5 was able to be nominated given the amount of re used material in that score.
 
One of my favorite aspects of film music is thematic storytelling which means that themes are reused in new ways and contexts in sequels and future seasons (for TV scores). I think the rules for TV are different so this analogy is probably inaccurate, but for the sake of argument it would be very odd for S2 of ROP or S8 of GOT not being eligible for awards because they develop and rearrange existing themes for story purposes.

Zimmer released the Dune Sketchbook which includes themes from both part 1 and part 2 (some of the sketchbook material was written after the first movie was finished). I don’t know if they count the sketchbook album as re use but there are very few actual reused cues in the score. It just uses themes from the first score in new ways. I think the rule is a bit ridiculous but it is what it is. I want composers to find new ways to use themes with continuity.

Me too!
 
But the finest examples tend to involve as much change in the musical content of the themes as in the contexts in which they are used. So this becomes this (notes 5-7 of the arpeggio turned into vocal calls) which becomes this (Donner lords over the storm-clouds just as Alberich lords his Nibelung subjects, affecting a change to the major) which becomes this (literal lightning, same motif sequenced downward by semitones) which transforms wholesale into this...
 
To the best of my knowledge, there's not a lot of this to be found in the Dune scores, but then I wasn't paying that much attention...

Zimmer released the Dune Sketchbook which includes themes from both part 1 and part 2 (some of the sketchbook material was written after the first movie was finished). I don’t know if they count the sketchbook album as re use but there are very few actual reused cues in the score. It just uses themes from the first score in new ways. I think the rule is a bit ridiculous but it is what it is. I want composers to find new ways to use themes with continuity.

Leave the World Behind (Mac Quayle)
I love this horror music and its mixture of ominous and unsettling vibes. Removed the insufferable Netflix patch from the official cover and created a second version to put forth the actual main character of the movie.
 
Note: The red in these covers seems to be perfectly incompatible with the image compression of this forum.
 

 

I think they’re incomparable; far too many differences in style at almost every level. They happen to both be in my pool of favorites.

Moonraker and Golden Gun are two of my favorite Bond scores so I really hope they happen soon and that the recordings are intact.
 
Honestly I would take bad sounding unreleased music in the bonus disc over no unreleased music though I understand that this is not something an album producer would like to do😂

Shame that it doesn’t seem to include much new Barry music but nice sound upgrade nonetheless!

I’ll just leave that there…
 

wow Lorum Ipsum sure did a lot of work on that movie!

Franglen has a unique canvas to explore. The fact that Cameron is exploring all across Pandora now, going between strikingly different settings and peoples and ways of life, he has such a fresh new angle to take the scores each time. 
 
I'm so damn excited for his dark ideas for the upcoming 'enemy Na'vi' and the feeling he can create with such fire related imagery. 
 
I envision a heavy brass and pounding choir chanting flavour for the new clan.

After having read about Cameron's next non avatar film and thinking about who will score it, I listened to the deluxe edition of Avatar 2 again for the first time in about a year! It was one of my favorite scores of 2022 and after having listen to it again, it's as great as ever. I was originally a bit annoyed that Franglen got the scoring job on the Avatar sequels as I thought a new voice would be better but I was completely wrong.
 
The score uses themes in a great way, while also setting up thematic material for future films and the new themes are all amazing, especially the family theme Kiri's theme, payakan, the way of water theme etc. What's extra impressive is that Franglen, together with Cameron have taken Horner's score which was full of thematic ideas which were not really anchored to specific locations, characters or storylines and utilized and adapted them for the full 5 movie Avatar franchise. For instance the rising brass harmonies, heard in Destruction of Hometree has become a theme for Quaritch, who also got a B theme by Franglen himself.
 
The score is both emotional and exiting and cues like Navi Attack really show the power of the music together with the visuals. Like the cheeky major trumpet statement before Payakan crashes the RDA ship and it goes up into the air, accompanied by Franglen's brilliant music!
 
I can't wait to hear what Franglen does with the next scores but based on how good the second one is, I have no doubt that he'll deliver! Wish the wait wasn't this long between the Avatar movies though...

After having read about Cameron's next non avatar film and thinking about who will score it, I listened to the deluxe edition of Avatar 2 again for the first time in about a year! It was one of my favorite scores of 2022 and after having listen to it again, it's as great as ever. I was originally a bit annoyed that Franglen got the scoring job on the Avatar sequels as I thought a new voice would be better but I was completely wrong.
 
The score uses themes in a great way, while also setting up thematic material for future films and the new themes are all amazing, especially the family theme Kiri's theme, payakan, the way of water theme etc. What's extra impressive is that Franglen, together with Cameron have taken Horner's score which was full of thematic ideas which were not really anchored to specific locations, characters or storylines and utilized and adapted them for the full 5 movie Avatar franchise. For instance the rising brass harmonies, heard in Destruction of Hometree has become a theme for Quaritch, who also got a B theme by Franglen himself.
 
The score is both emotional and exiting and cues like Navi Attack really show the power of the music together with the visuals. Like the cheeky major trumpet statement before Payakan crashes the RDA ship and it goes up into the air, accompanied by Franglen's brilliant music!
 
I can't wait to hear what Franglen does with the next scores but based on how good the second one is, I have no doubt that he'll deliver! Wish the wait wasn't this long between the Avatar movies though...

Let’s hope so!

After having read about Cameron's next non avatar film and thinking about who will score it, I listened to the deluxe edition of Avatar 2 again for the first time in about a year! It was one of my favorite scores of 2022 and after having listen to it again, it's as great as ever. I was originally a bit annoyed that Franglen got the scoring job on the Avatar sequels as I thought a new voice would be better but I was completely wrong.
 
The score uses themes in a great way, while also setting up thematic material for future films and the new themes are all amazing, especially the family theme Kiri's theme, payakan, the way of water theme etc. What's extra impressive is that Franglen, together with Cameron have taken Horner's score which was full of thematic ideas which were not really anchored to specific locations, characters or storylines and utilized and adapted them for the full 5 movie Avatar franchise. For instance the rising brass harmonies, heard in Destruction of Hometree has become a theme for Quaritch, who also got a B theme by Franglen himself.
 
The score is both emotional and exiting and cues like Navi Attack really show the power of the music together with the visuals. Like the cheeky major trumpet statement before Payakan crashes the RDA ship and it goes up into the air, accompanied by Franglen's brilliant music!
 
I can't wait to hear what Franglen does with the next scores but based on how good the second one is, I have no doubt that he'll deliver! Wish the wait wasn't this long between the Avatar movies though...

After having read about Cameron's next non avatar film and thinking about who will score it, I listened to the deluxe edition of Avatar 2 again for the first time in about a year! It was one of my favorite scores of 2022 and after having listen to it again, it's as great as ever. I was originally a bit annoyed that Franglen got the scoring job on the Avatar sequels as I thought a new voice would be better but I was completely wrong.
 
The score uses themes in a great way, while also setting up thematic material for future films and the new themes are all amazing, especially the family theme Kiri's theme, payakan, the way of water theme etc. What's extra impressive is that Franglen, together with Cameron have taken Horner's score which was full of thematic ideas which were not really anchored to specific locations, characters or storylines and utilized and adapted them for the full 5 movie Avatar franchise. For instance the rising brass harmonies, heard in Destruction of Hometree has become a theme for Quaritch, who also got a B theme by Franglen himself.
 
The score is both emotional and exiting and cues like Navi Attack really show the power of the music together with the visuals. Like the cheeky major trumpet statement before Payakan crashes the RDA ship and it goes up into the air, accompanied by Franglen's brilliant music!
 
I can't wait to hear what Franglen does with the next scores but based on how good the second one is, I have no doubt that he'll deliver! Wish the wait wasn't this long between the Avatar movies though...

Ant Man 3 covers:

After having read about Cameron's next non avatar film and thinking about who will score it, I listened to the deluxe edition of Avatar 2 again for the first time in about a year! It was one of my favorite scores of 2022 and after having listen to it again, it's as great as ever. I was originally a bit annoyed that Franglen got the scoring job on the Avatar sequels as I thought a new voice would be better but I was completely wrong.
 
The score uses themes in a great way, while also setting up thematic material for future films and the new themes are all amazing, especially the family theme Kiri's theme, payakan, the way of water theme etc. What's extra impressive is that Franglen, together with Cameron have taken Horner's score which was full of thematic ideas which were not really anchored to specific locations, characters or storylines and utilized and adapted them for the full 5 movie Avatar franchise. For instance the rising brass harmonies, heard in Destruction of Hometree has become a theme for Quaritch, who also got a B theme by Franglen himself.
 
The score is both emotional and exiting and cues like Navi Attack really show the power of the music together with the visuals. Like the cheeky major trumpet statement before Payakan crashes the RDA ship and it goes up into the air, accompanied by Franglen's brilliant music!
 
I can't wait to hear what Franglen does with the next scores but based on how good the second one is, I have no doubt that he'll deliver! Wish the wait wasn't this long between the Avatar movies though...

After having read about Cameron's next non avatar film and thinking about who will score it, I listened to the deluxe edition of Avatar 2 again for the first time in about a year! It was one of my favorite scores of 2022 and after having listen to it again, it's as great as ever. I was originally a bit annoyed that Franglen got the scoring job on the Avatar sequels as I thought a new voice would be better but I was completely wrong.
 
The score uses themes in a great way, while also setting up thematic material for future films and the new themes are all amazing, especially the family theme Kiri's theme, payakan, the way of water theme etc. What's extra impressive is that Franglen, together with Cameron have taken Horner's score which was full of thematic ideas which were not really anchored to specific locations, characters or storylines and utilized and adapted them for the full 5 movie Avatar franchise. For instance the rising brass harmonies, heard in Destruction of Hometree has become a theme for Quaritch, who also got a B theme by Franglen himself.
 
The score is both emotional and exiting and cues like Navi Attack really show the power of the music together with the visuals. Like the cheeky major trumpet statement before Payakan crashes the RDA ship and it goes up into the air, accompanied by Franglen's brilliant music!
 
I can't wait to hear what Franglen does with the next scores but based on how good the second one is, I have no doubt that he'll deliver! Wish the wait wasn't this long between the Avatar movies though...