Maglorfin

OK, so these are albums which definitely had a strong influence on my life, maybe mostly because of having listened to them so many times! - Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory - John Williams - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Miles Davis - Kind of Blue and Bitches Brew - The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, White Album and Abbey Road - Howard Shore - The Lord of the Rings Complete Recordings (all three) - Richard Strauss - Eine Alpensifonie (Karajan & Berliner Philharmoniker recording) - Trevor Jones - Cliffhanger - Bill Conti - For Your Eyes Only - Morten Lauridsen - Lux aeterna - John Rutter - Mass of the Children - James Horner - Aliens - Jerry Goldsmith - Alien - David Maslanka - Symphony No. 5 - Ennio Morricone - The Thing - Gustav Holst - The Planets - Johan de Meij - Symphony No. 1 'The Lord of the Rings' - Ludwing van Beethoven - Symphony No. 7 - John Williams - Superman - Richard Bellis - Stephen King's IT - Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy It's absolutely impossible to pick just five!

Ordered this baby today: I ordered it from HMV because as a Hmv Exclusive, a set of artcards is supposed to come with the boxset. Man, lucky whoever can be in London this coming Monday ... Check this out: The James Bond Blu-ray arrives at HMV Oxford Street, London. hmv Oxford Circus, London - Mon 24 September at 10.07pm Iconic Bond girl Britt Ekland (Mary Goodnight, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN) will arrive in style at HMV in the Aston Martin DBS from QUANTUM OF SOLACE, followed by classic villain Richard Kiel (Jaws, MOONRAKER, SPY WHO LOVED ME), who will meet visitors and present one lucky Bond fan with a signed golden briefcase, containing all of the films.

Bought today for 5 EUR each: - Alexandre Desplat - The King's Speech - Dave Grusin - Best of the GRP Years

I have a little problem and I hope maybe somebody will be able to offer some opinion and/or advice. Since I installed CoD: MW2 last week, I got the infamous BSOD when starting the PC the next day, first only once and again two or three days later. I'm using Windows 7 64-bit which later was kind enough to let me know that "Your version of Call of Duty isn't compatible with this version of Windows." I find this incredible since I've been playing CoD 2, MW1 and MW3 perfectly normally for almost a year and I've never had any problems. My PC is less than a year old, it's a pretty fast machine (Intel quad core i7 2600, 16 GB RAM ...), I have never played with overclocking my video card (it's a Sapphire Radeon HD 6770) and all my software (W7 and all games) is legal. As far as I know, all my video drivers are updated on a regular basis (I use AMD Catalyst Control Center). Does anybody have any advice on what to do and where might the problem be? The stop message I seem to be getting is SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION 0X0000003B. I've done some googling on that but haven't come up with anything particularly helpful so far. Thanks in advance for any help!

I actually pondered ordering this (although I already have the boxset) just to get Manfredini's autograph but in the end decided against it. I might regret it later but what the hell, I'm going to London in two months and I'll need all the money I can save for HMV and similar stores ...

Jesus H. Christ, you made me turn green with envy! Cliffhanger is definitely one of my all-time favourite soundtracks, especially after Intrada's awesome 2 CD release, and I've always dreamed of hearing the main theme performed live! Hope somebody's uploading something to YouTube, I'm dying to hear this!

And there are no recordings from any of these concerts, video or audio, are there?

Neither have I. These Spanish people probably don't give a shit about something as unnecessary as an e-mail confirmation to put the fanboys' worries to rest.

A great recommendation! Also Alexander Nevsky by the same composer!

Yay! I wonder how many recordings there are by Kubelik. Probably dozens. I have two, but not the one you mentioned. I'd love to hear this live sometime. The Prague Spring Festival recording is pretty famous, I guess - to the point that it made it into The Gramophone Classical Music Guide (which I often rely on and trust) where it has a great review as "an outstanding performance". Sure, Kubelík must've done a lot of recordings of Má vlast but the only one I myself know is the one I've got. The GCMG also mentions a recording with the Bavarian RSO which is also supposed to be great. Is this maybe one of the two you've got? Unfortunately, until now I have not yet had a chance to hear the whole thing live, but I have of course heard Vltava several times - and even played it!

That depends on the tempo and the "amount and duration of notes" in the particular measure. The duration of one measure is never measured in seconds, it is measured in how many beats are in it. But if you really want to know about the seconds, one 4/4 measure is e.g. 4 seconds long at tempo 60 (which means there are 60 quarter notes in one minute, hence one note per second) and 2 seconds long at tempo 120.

I haven't bought a game since 1998 or so, until I bought MW3 and FSX last December, to be followed by several others in the following months. Talk about a record!

Totally agreed mate!

Isn't it in 3/4+5/4?

Bedřich Smetana - Má vlast Lots of great music in this cycle of symphonic poems - not only the endlessly popular Vltava. I'm glad I also have a great performance of the entire cycle, recorded live on Prague Spring Festival in 1990 and conducted by no other than Rafael Kubelík!

Same for me, but for all you Trekkies out there (Trent & Co.), this must be a dream come true!

A MacGyver box!

Try a direct link.

That sheet does actually exist, believe it or not! The "John Williams: Greatest Hits 1969-1999" album has an officially released piano book to accompany the CD, with the Rosewood piece included. You can buy it here! Wow, thank you for this, I'll be ordering it sooner or later!

I have a big wish: the beautiful Look Down, Lord (Reprise and Finale) from Rosewood! So if you ever find some spare time ...

Manfredini's first Friday the 13th score (LLL box). Man, is this great music! I remember how it used to scare the shit out of me when I was a kid. It's absolutely perfect for the film. He didn't nail all the sequels as much (well Part VI sure is awesome) but the first one is definitely a classic and a quintessential horror score. They just don't make 'em like that anymore!

Which model do you have?

Wow, I didn't know that! Now I gotta see this too!

Wow, this sure looks exciting! The description says that "as a true sequel to James Cameron's film, the story of Aliens: Colonial Marines takes place after the events of the third film, Alien 3." Well, then this is the sequel to Alien 3 and not to Aliens, right? "The story is told through the eyes of Corporal Christopher Winter, a Colonial Marine who is part of a SAR team sent to investigate the U.S.S. Sulaco in search of Ripley, Corporal Hicks, and the rest of the missing marines who were dispatched to LV-426. The Sulaco, and the derelict alien spacecraft from Alien as well as LV-426 itself will all serve as environments in the game, as well as other locations yet to be detailed." Sounds great! I think I may end up buying this game. Maybe they'll even use some original score(s), there's some Horner in above trailer.