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McNeely is a well crafted man who happens to write only for direct-to-DVD movies. John Scott is an orthodox composer that nevertheless has written some fine scores (Antony and Cleopatra, Greystock, Shogun Mayeda, come to mind first), in any case better than the movies they were written for. Same happens to Broughton, whose chops are well beyond more in-demand composers like Arnold or Doyle, yet... More names: Roque Baños, Alberto Iglesias, Michiru Oshima, David Newman

Top 3 composers, at the peak of their respective careers John Williams (KOTCS, Duo Concertante, WOTW, horn concerto...) John Adams (Doctor Atomic, Flowering Tree, My Father Knew Charles Ives...) John Corigliano (Red Violin concerto, Mr. Tambourine Man, Circus Maximus...) UPDATE: As of film composers (just noticed what the thread is about), I would pick: -George Fenton (Planet Earth has some of the best music ever written for a documentary) -Carles Cases (one of his latest works, Oviedo Express, is one of the best film scores in recent years) -Joe Hisaishi (Ponyo is an stimulating experience from beginning to end)

What a long eclipse, I must admit.

Others' arrangement most of the time, unless it's his own music (or even some other very specific pieces).

Total Recall, the music is so much better written.

This is one of the very few questions on the board that will get an unanimous response.

Taken on the highway.

It will be sooner or later back in stock, and you will feel bad anew.

It's out of stock now. Damn all of you who bought it so quick!

Fantastic news! It's finally coming out (and good to see Williams in the front cover). The sound clips sound really great. If only they were a little longer... :-)

Sure.

Leonard Slatkin & the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, probably the best version of the imperial march I've ever heard.

Yeah, old news, I've been enjoying those for so long now. Doctor Atomic has been one of the most successful operas in recent years. No plans for a recording anytime soon (the Symphony has been recorded by St. Louis SO though, along with Guide to Strange Places, to be released by next year). By the way, my libretto of "A Flowering Tree" is faulty, it has Act 1 repeated over again right where Act 2 should be. I have e-mailed Nonesuch but no response so far. P.S. The John Adams self-biography just came out too, titled "Hallelujah Junction". I can't wait to get my hands on it.

I wonder why they used that cheap midi version of such beautiful theme. The notes in the strings passage were all overlayed.

Elfman has been in good shape for the last few years (starting with Serenada Schizofrana). I've loved every single score, including The Kingdom (considering that's his lesser from this new period), and especially Wanted.

I didn't say it was a perfect recording, but it's far from being bad or "atrocious". The reverb makes it sound worse though, I agree.

Huh, atrocious. So categorical. Excuse me, what is so atrocious about it? Whatever that doesn't equal an LSO performance? I bet you have to be so let down with any live concert that you got to... Funnily I was listening to Rawsthorne's Symphonic Studies yesterday, and I found the Royal Scottish recording much better than LSO's But, well, back to the topic, Debney's direction of the music in this theme in particular has some good dynamics, I don't hear anything bad at all...

I don't think so, but you know how busy the schedules of first class musicians can get. I'm sure we'll end up having this recording.

That's why I tend to listen to Debney's recording of the theme.

Because SW, JP, HP and IJ outshine any other score. Even if they have all that funky underscore, only for their main themes the disaster scores of JW deserve more recognition, brilliantly constructed (a construction that would only but expand to mastery levels in the decades to come) and showing some of the earlier examples in film scoring of his own musical voice.

Really well done transcription. I don't know how you can figure out all the harmony. I agree, this is some of the best music JW's ever written. Please keep up the good work!

I don't think that it will contain any new music apart from the End credits that are already circulating in the trading lists.. Well, the end credits theme differs from the concert arrangement (as heard in "Music from Stage and Screen").

The "music" sounds horrible. I wonder what kind of audience these releases have.

Ran (Toru Takemitsu) The Red Violin (John Corigliano) Minority Report (John Williams)