Raiders of the SoundtrArk

Arrived today:
 

 
Karol 

QUARTET RECORDS ANNOUNCES

UNCOMMON VALOR-EXPANDED
Music Composed and Conducted by JAMES HORNER

Quartet Records, in collaboration with Paramount Pictures, presents a remastered, slightly expanded reissue of James Horner’s classic war score for UNCOMMON VALOR (1983), directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Gene Hackman, Robert Stack and young up-and-comers Patrick Swayze and Fred Ward.

The film is a dramatic action picture centered on retired U.S. Marine Colonel Jason Rhodes, who recruits a motley crew of soldiers and leads them on a clandestine operation in Laos. Their mission is the rescue of unacknowledged U.S. prisoners of war (POWs) left behind after the withdrawal from Vietnam, including Rhodes’ son, officially declared missing in action (MIA). The possible existence of such POWs was a topic of considerable interest during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The messy conclusion of the Vietnam War, coupled with the scandals of the Nixon era, had left many Americans alienated from their government and deeply skeptical of official claims that there was no evidence of living POWs in the former war zone.

James Horner was only 30 years old when he was hired to compose UNCOMMON VALOR, but he was already a seasoned composer with such successful films in his career as STAR TREK II, KRULL, BRAINSTORM and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, and he was about to enter the A-list of composers in Hollywood with his upcoming hit scores for ALIENS, AN AMERICAN TAIL and COCOON. Horner provides an inventive and effective score, robustly orchestral while endowed with exciting electronic rhythms and Vietnamese textures.

Intrada Records issued the premiere release of UNCOMMON VALOR in 2014 and it quickly sold out. This new, remastered edition adds about 10 minutes of alternate takes. Produced by Dan Goldwasser and mastered by Chris Malone, it features in-depth liner notes by film music writer John Takis.


Tracklist:

1. Vietnamese Solo / Main Title (7:31)
2. Airport (2:21)
3. Tag (2:49)
4. A Lot of us Have Been Killed (1:26)
5. Steal the Sucker (1:44)
6. First trek / Yellow Rain (2:45)
7. Pan Over Hill / Wilkes in Tunnel (7:35)
8. Attack Airbase (3:14)
9. Escape Airbase (3:22)
10. Copters Over Hill (2:51)
11. Final Escape (2:21)
12. End Credits (3:42)
13. Brothers in the Night* (4:48)

Bonus Tracks

14. Main Title (Alternate Mix) (7:15)
15. Main Title Extension (Expanded) (3:08)
16. Parade Ground (3:58)
17. Main Title Extension Vietnamese Overlay (Alternate) (3:15)


Total Disc Time: 64:14

*Performed by Ray Kennedy • Written by Ray Kennedy, Kevin Dukes and David Ritz

https://quartetrecords.com/product/uncommon-valor/
 

Thanks a lot, glad you're enjoying these !
Next one will be 1M4a ("Get' em R2!") and I'll have covered the whole Battle Over Coruscant Sequence 

Simply the best war picture ever made. As for the score, it fits the film perfectly and Hymn to the Fallen is definitly among the top 10 best cues Williams ever wrote (if you excludes SW and Indy)

Simply the best war picture ever made. As for the score, it fits the film perfectly and Hymn to the Fallen is definitly among the top 10 best cues Williams ever wrote (if you excludes SW and Indy)

It's back online for those who want to get one
https://store.deutschegrammophon.com/p51-i0602465150292/john-williams-stephane-deneve-saito-kinen-orchestra/john-williams-in-tokyo/index.html

It's back online for those who want to get one
https://store.deutschegrammophon.com/p51-i0602465150292/john-williams-stephane-deneve-saito-kinen-orchestra/john-williams-in-tokyo/index.html

Another great performance, thanks for sharing this

Enemy at the Gates is far from Horner's most beloved score, but I personally love the doom-laden. gloomy melodrama and tragic choir in it, especially in the final three tracks.
 
 

Another beloved 80s blockbuster with a classic John Williams score is celebrating 4 decades of existence this year: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which was released in the US on May 23, 1984.
 
If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones
 

 
 
I love the classic Indy movies!
 
How will you celebrate ToD's 40th birthday? Re-watching it? Listening to the epic John Williams score? Doing all of those things? 

1M4
 

Alan Silvestri – What Lies Beneath (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Deluxe Edition CD)
UPC: 888072574021
Release Date: May 3, 2024
Regular price$ 20.00
Expected to ship the week of May 3, 2024.
 
What Lies Beneath (2000) was a first for filmmaker Robert Zemeckis: a serious, adult-minded ghost story starring Michelle Pfeiffer and, in a rare turn (and twist) as the villain, Harrison Ford. Originally developed for Steven Spielberg, the film was a Hitchcockian throwback of slow-burn suspense, with gorgeous Vermont locations supporting the A-list talent.
 
Scoring What Lies Beneath was, as always for Zemeckis, his long-time collaborator, Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump). Silvestri conjured up a dark, moody soundscape of suspense, orchestral violence and eerie beauty for the supernatural hauntings and real-life threat that is closer than the heroine realizes—ably recalling the spirit of the classic Hitchcock–Herrmann partnership, with Silvestri’s own vernacular and modern dramatic sense.
 
Varèse Sarabande released What Lies Beneath as a 9-track, 30-minute program at the time of the film. This long-awaited Deluxe Edition premieres the complete score in a 25-track, 60-minute program, with new liner notes by Daniel Schweiger interviewing screenwriter Clark Gregg.
 
Track List:
1. ImageMovers Logo
2. Main Title
3. Panic Attack
4. Sobbing Neighbor
5. Claire Visits Feur House / I Thought I Saw / Watery What?
6. Broken Photo
7. Binocular Spy
8. Discover Key / Full Bath
9. Ouija Board
10. You Know
11. Newspaper Clipping
12. Madison’s Room
13. Forbidden Fruit
14. Jody Fesses Up / Electrocuted
15. I Opened The Door
16. Claire's Drive
17. Key Decision
18. Norman Attacks
19. Passive Aggressive Masterpiece / Norman Falls / Bloody Hand
20. Norman's Gone / Claire Steps In Blood / Hand Moves Sting
21. The Getaway
22. Reunited / Peace At Last
23. End Credits
24. Restaurant Source
25. The Four Seasons: Autumn

https://varesesarabande.com/products/what-lies-beneath-cd

So this is now official, the releases are listed on the Deutsche Grammophon website, to be released on July 12!
 
CD: https://store.deutschegrammophon.com/p51-i0602465572568/ Blu-Ray: https://store.deutschegrammophon.com/p51-i0602465112085/ 2xCD + Blu-Ray: https://store.deutschegrammophon.com/p51-i0602465150292/ 2xLP : https://store.deutschegrammophon.com/p51-i0602465112108/ Exclusive Gold 2xLP: https://store.deutschegrammophon.com/p51-i0602465572575/

From the print edition of the 2024/2025 Berlin Philharmoniker season book
 

 
Found on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/904229429654872/posts/7527258017351947/
 
I'll add links to the official website here when it gets added there.

OMG! A video of Seth directly confirming that more Orville is coming!
 
(start at 17:26, the play button should bring you right there)
 
Hopefully it's a season 4, and not a followup movie, but I'll take either!

Watched this last night. It was really great, beautifully directed and quite gripping. Blanchett was magnificent. Might be her best performance actually.
 

 
Karol

Steven Spielberg will be making a UFO movie based on an original idea with a David Koepp script. (Variety)
 
Will this bring Johnny back to the scoring stage?
 
 

I did buy it yesterday!!  Alright it was last month, but still I haven’t even spun it yet, so if it’s Starship Troopers, you’re all welcome. 

For his part, Spielberg, 77, is also staying busy. He will likely make his next project a UFO film based on his own original idea. David Koepp is writing the screenplay, sources say.  
 
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/martin-scorsese-frank-sinatra-biopic-dicaprio-jennifer-lawrence-1235973769/

And here I was hoping they'd be incompetent enough to dump the complete recording sessions on CD by mistake.

It looks like Robert Townson's post about this album isn't here yet:
 
John Williams Reimagined   Sara Andon, flute; Cecilia Tsan, cello; Simone Pedroni, piano   Produced by Robert Townson   So proud to announce this 2-CD set that will be released by Warner Classics on August 23, 2024.   Star Wars. Memoirs of a Geisha. Schindler’s List. Far and Away. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The list goes on and on. Legendary film composer John Williams has for decades reigned as the most celebrated film composer of all time. But John Williams Reimagined is Williams like you’ve never heard him before.   John Williams’ themes and orchestrations have resonated in moviegoers’ minds for generations. Steven Spielberg called him “the greatest of all maestros.” George Lucas once told him, “You brought my stories to life beyond my wildest dreams.” For film score producer par excellence Robert Townson, it was the “extraordinary flute solos John has featured in so many of his film scores” that triggered the idea of “a John Williams album…unlike any other.”   But could the album Townson imagined—scored for chamber trio of flute, cello, and piano—become reality? With a long career of film score productions to his credit, the producer knew that Williams seldom approves new arrangements of music from his iconic scores.   Townson had more than a dream, though. He had a dream ensemble in mind: flutist Sara Andon, cellist Cécilia Tsan, and pianist Simone Pedroni. So, with no guarantee they’d ever see the light of day, he enlisted Pedroni to create three sample transcriptions; record them with the three musicians; and sent them to the composer. Much to their delight, Williams approved Townson’s full track list and sanctioned the trio to exclusively record and perform the full set.   Pedroni, for his part, describes the orchestral color of John Williams’ film scores as “always masterful—which made me think that it is impossible to do better.” Yet as the pianist worked on the transcriptions he realized that “Williams’ compositional genius…pure, deep, and great in itself” was precisely what would enable him to reimagine the selections—some iconic, some relatively obscure—for the chamber trio Townson had in mind.   The result is a revelation.   Familiar themes pepper the track list, intermingling with lesser-known music. “Princess Leia’s Theme” from Star Wars made a lasting impression on Sara Andon when she first heard it as a child. The score for Memoirs of a Geisha features cello solos that Williams wrote for his friend Yo-Yo Ma, and that translate perfectly for Cécilia Tsan, who is a childhood friend of Ma. The trio premiered their John Williams Reimagined concert recital at the Rome Film Music Festival in 2023.   The selections cover more than half a century—from Williams’ Emmy-winning score for the 1970 telefilm Jane Eyre—Townson’s original inspiration for the album—to the main theme of 2022’s The Fabelmans, one of over two dozen collaborations between Williams and Spielberg, which affords the brilliant Pedroni a solo piano spotlight. From the canon of iconic Williams scores over this timespan, the two-CD set includes selections from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, The Witches of Eastwick, Jurassic Park, The Accidental Tourist, Dracula, The Sugarland Express, Jane Eyre, War Horse, Hook, The Patriot, and more, not to mention the Star Wars saga, Schindler’s List, and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.   During the recording sessions in Los Angeles, John Williams invited the trio to perform a selection of the new arrangements for him privately in his writing studio at Amblin. This was in 2022, during Williams’ 90th birthday year, and he was being celebrated all over the world. Following the performance of “The Face of Pan” from Hook, the composer was very moved. He warmly remarked, "This is one of my best birthday gifts," and gave each of the musicians a hug. Sara, Cécilia and Simone will remember this moment with immense joy and heartfelt gratitude for the rest of their lives.   Film music producer Robert Townson founded his first record label in 1985 and has produced nearly 1,500 film music recordings over the past four decades. He has worked with a galaxy of eminent composers, from Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein and Alexandre Desplat to Hans Zimmer, Lalo Schifrin, Danny Elfman, and of course John Williams.   Flutist Sara Andon is a versatile international soloist and recording artist equally at home with symphonic and chamber music, opera, ballet, new music, jazz, and Broadway. She has performed with top-tier orchestras and is heard on countless film, TV and video game scores. She has recorded with such composers as Brian Tyler, John Debney, Marco Beltrami, and Jeff Russo and for labels Sony Classical and Varèse Sarabande.   Cellist Cécilia Tsan, winner of the Debussy Prize at the Paris International Competition, performs as a soloist and chamber musician in her home country of France and abroad. She has recorded hundreds of movie soundtracks in Los Angeles by composers such as John Williams, Randy Newman, James Horner, and Alan Silvestri.   Pianist, conductor and arranger Simone Pedroni launched his solo career winning the gold medal at the Van Cliburn Competition in 1993. He has performed in sold-out concerts throughout the world, working with artists such as Yehudi Menuhin, Zubin Mehta, and Leonard Slatkin, and recorded for labels including Sony Classical and Decca Records.   JOHN WILLIAMS REIMAGINED - TRACKLIST   CD 1   1. Star Wars: Princess Leia’s Theme Jane Eyre 2. To Thornfield 3. Reunion Memoirs of A Geisha 4. Sayuri's Theme 5. A Dream Discarded 6. Going to School 7. Images: In Search of Unicorns The River 8. Growing Up 9. The Pony Ride 10. Love Theme 11. Young Friend’s Farewell 12. The Sugarland Express: Theme 13. Elegy for Cello and Piano 14. A.I.: The Reunion 15. The Empire Strikes Back: Han Solo and the Princess 16. Far and Away: County Galway, Joseph and Shannon, Blowing Off Steam, Finale   CD 2   1. The Fabelmans 2. Seven Years in Tibet 3. Jurassic Park: A Tree for My Bed 4. Hook: The Face of Pan 5. The Accidental Tourist 6. Schindler’s List: Theme Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 7. Double Trouble 8. A Window to the Past 9. Hagrid the Professor 10. Chasing Scabbers/Hagrid’s Friendly Bird and The Snowball Fight 11. Dracula: End Credits 12. War Horse: Dartmoor 1912, Bringing Joey Home and Bonding, The Death of Topthorn, Finale and The Homecoming 13. The Patriot 14. Sabrina: How Can I Remember? The Witches of Eastwick 15. The Tennis Game 16. The Seduction of Suki and The Ballroom Sequence 17. Devil’s Dance 18. E.T.: Over the Moon   Recorded and Mixed by Gabe Burch   Mastered by Patricia Sullivan at Bernie Grundman Mastering   https://www.facebook.com/100007586280737/posts/3571911583071683/

Purchased direct from Intrada:
 
 
 
Couldn't order MacArthur because it's already Out Of Stock.  That happened to me last year with Hollow Man which is why I didn't have that yet.

Trailer
 
 
The trailer makes it look like Powell's music will be mostly something for in between the songs.
The video description has a link the pre-order the soundtrack with songs performed by Brittany Howard.
Nothing on the score.
 
 
Edit..
In this Instagram post Powell is talking about 40 minutes of score!
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5yYUirR9kJ/?igsh=MTNqdmM0cm13N2ZtZA==
 
"Coming soon: Thelma the Unicorn🦄
On @Netflix May 17th.
Just wait till you hear Brittany Howard’s songs and about 40 minutes of underscore for this amazingly heartfelt film!"