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Schuberts follow-up quartet in G major which also was his last, is even longer. And possibly even better. Schuberts later work often tend to be long, see the C-major symphony or the late piano sonatas. Also, several Beethoven Quartets clock in at around 40 min, so it is not that unusual.

Please compare his first with one of his last symphonies. The difference between the attempt to get out of the baroque style and a highlight of the Vienna classic period. Also, Williams cites Haydn as one of his favorite composers. You know that Williams used this as a template for several of the early scenes of the first Star Wars, right? :-)

Having the most influence on younger colleagues than any other single composer?

I am a big fan of Williams an love his music, but that is ridiculous. There is nothing in his oeuvre that artistically rivals works like Mahlers 9th Symphony, Richard Strauss Salome, Sacre du Printemps by Stravinsky, let alone composers like Shostakovich or Britten, just to name a few that could be justly called greater composers. What he in fact might be, is the greatest living composer. And the most influential composer of the last 50 years.

It is in principle similar to Audyssey which is offered by many receivers, but much more precise. Similar to the Anthem System ARC, which I have and which was the biggest improvement to my system prior to buying Ohm Walsh speakers.

I hope for an adaptation on the level of the "His dark materials" series, which do the books justice while taking some narrative freedom and partially even expand on them.

I recognize its historic value, but after listening to the samples this is not an album I would listen to repeatedly. Maybe the end titles, if it would further develop this nice string sound at the end of the sample. The rest is just musically not interesting enough for me. And he did an improved version of that kind of music later on with Missouri Breaks.

Thank you for the accolades, but I must respectfully disagree with your opinion. In no way I wanted to say that Indy 5 is a bad score, just that its few imperfections show the massive strain of such a work load on a 90+ year old composer. On the contrary I find many of Williams scores of the last 20 years to be among my favorites. I just wanted to impart my opinion that it would be too much to expect another 2h plus big score from Williams at his age.

Anakin´s Theme

I would love another big Williams score, but when I look at the Indy 5 soundtrack, for which he had to resort to copying old works to fill in the blanks despite having lots of time due to the constant delay of release, I don't think that he has a big action wall to wall score in him any more. Once you get that old, the energy level just goes down and everything takes much more time. But on the other hand if this movie is more of a kind like Fabelmans or the Post, requiring no wall to wall scoring, he might still be able to pull it off, if he really wants to do it and it really happens in the next 1-2 years. By the way, what I would really like is him writing another Tintin score, but I think that window of opportunity is passed, even if another Tintin movie will be made one day.

Somehow I fail to connect the thread title with the first post. Perhaps somebody can spell it out for me?

I would include the songs from the main program, if I were fiddling with disc 3: We don't want to grow up, Pick them up and When you're alone. And if I would attempt a "Songs and other non-orchestral Material" album, what your inclusion of Concertina Medley suggests, I would also include Banning back home here. Saying that, perhaps I will do that now; could be a neat idea.

Yes, with it me it was similar; I was giddy with joy when I discovered this box. It was expensive for a student like me, but for this I treated myself. It was during some free weeks between my diploma and the beginning of my doctorate, so I had plenty of time to listen to it. I also discovered some of the flaws like the suddenly reversed channels in the Boba Fett sequence in Empire, but did not mind much.

Played violin since I was 8; from time to time also viola. Do so regularly in chamber music formations and sometimes amateur orchestra. Had also some piano lessens. And tried a bit of composing, but lacking currently the time to pursue this more. If you are interested in one of my works, just click on the signature :-)

After listening to it a few times I start to like even the first 1944 part which contains lots of great action music. I am especially happy that it splits the New York 1969 track, so I can order the end credit tracks in reverse order which I prefer musically and narratively (Nazis->Helena->Indy is back!)