Maglorfin

According to Wikipedia, Watkins has also played key roles in many film scores, including Mission Impossible, The Mummy, Basic Instinct, Indiana Jones, Gladiator, Johnny English, Superman 1 & 2, Bridget Jones Diary and Chicago, where his trumpet solo opens the movie.

Maybe this has already been discussed, but I'm really curious whether anybody else has noticed the quite obvious trumpet glitch in Superman The Movie End Title March. It's on original (LSO) soundtrack, if you own Rhino's 2 CD version, it's on CD 2, track 12 (Finale And End Title March) at approx. 4:45. It sounds to me like the 1st trumpet got that note quite to the sharp side. Interesting, I think it's perhaps the most obvious musical glitch I've heard on any JW CD. One more thing, who plays those first five notes of CD 1, track 1 (Prelude And Main Title March), is it Maurice Murphy or perhaps Derek Watkins?

Haha, I guess I'd do the same if I were him.

Horner "only" won two Oscars for Titanic, if I remember correctly. But check this out ... In his youth Horner once dated Carrie Goldsmith, daughter of revered composer Jerry Goldsmith. (Carrie Goldsmith, Deconstructing Dad: The Unfinished Life and Times of Jerry Goldsmith, "Chapter 1" (excerpt) Hot damn, I didn't know that!

I own this CD and actually really like it (I even wrote the as of this moment only review on Amazon ). I was kinda sceptical at first, but after a few listens it really grew on me. I think that the band in a way also showed their respect and admiration for Williams and his work with doing this project. It probably helps to be a jazz fan(atic) to be able to fully appreciate this CD, but that's just my humble opinion. I also thin that Williams would appreciate this project, had he known about it (maybe he does), taking into consideration his jazz beginnings and background.

I hope you followed Greg1138's advice and checked out both HMV and Virgin, which is where I left an enormous amount of money in February 2005, when I went to London to JW film music concert. BTW, is anybody considering going to this concert? I'll try my best to go, gotta check those CD stores and come close to bankruptcy once again ...

I sure do, Grandest Master.

Hm, not to me, but hey, let's have open minds and respect each other's opinions.

Personally, I admire Horner and his work. Yes, he has been unoriginal and copied his own scores and themes on many occassions, but some of his work is truly great film music and I like the man for that. IMHO, his absolute masterpiece, which he (or anybody else) will probably never surpass, is Aliens (especially since the Deluxe Edition has been published). Also Braveheart, Legends of the Fall, Zorro and Star Trek music. All in all, Horner is a good composer, and I respect him for it, and keep looking forward to each new soundtrack that he writes.

I don't know for the rest of you, but I sure as hell am one. And proud of it, yeah!

I'm not a big fan of his work, but I like the guy, listen to some of his CDs I own on a regular basis and admire some magnificent themes he composed, most of which have already been mentioned here. I also like his non-soundtrack work. In my opinion, he is good at what he does (synth work etc.).

Definitely the Prologue. The Prophecy has its own advantages to be sure, but the Prologue is just so ... I don't know, fascinating and magnificent piece of music that it's insurpassable in its own way. It's of course but a tip of the iceberg of all the great LotR music which follows it.

I voted for one with my reasons being similar to those of Josh500 and Farawyn.

Superman The Movie and both currently available LotR (FotR, TTT) Complete Recordings.

My avatar says it all.

The one playing the guitar. He's just John Williams (no Towner). Yes indeed.

The Omen (Deluxe Edition), Aliens (also Deluxe) and Scott of the Antarctic.

Thanks, Marc!

Yeah, I adore that guy. He's also already been to Slovenia a couple of times and I've had the luck to have several of my de Meij CDs signed, as well as my LotR symphony study score autographed. I've quite a few of his CDs (many different performances of LotR symphony and more) and I've also already had the luck of playing his music with a symphonic winds I'm a member of. He's a fantastic composer and a very nice and friendly person. But I'd also like to point out another great composer, Jan Van der Roost. He's from Belgium and we've played (with symph. winds) his Sinfonietta, suito-sketches for symphonic band (incredibly difficult, but also incredibly beautiful piece) and Spartacus, symphonic tone poem. Wonderful, wonderful music, so check him out. Maglorfin & Jan Van der Roost at a concert band competition in Krsko, Slovenia in 2006. P. S.: Saxbabe, nice pic of you & Johan!

Right you are. Look Down, Lord (Reprise and Finale) is magnificent.

Yup. A good point.

I'm pretty much sure we all like all, but some (in not all) of us like some decades a wee bit more that the others.

And now we can start the countdown to the beginning of November, when the new batch will be announced.

In my humble opinion, AKG's studio headphones models are the best in the world. I'm also a proud owner of the K 240 Studio model, I've had them for several years now and excellent is all I can say. What a fantastic sound clarity and audio quality! I'd certainly recommend AKG to all audiophiles, but also to everyone else, you'll never believe how the music can be heard with such good headphones. The only minor "drawback", if I can call it so, of my headphones is their high impendance (600 ohms). That is of course not such a problem until you try them with your, say, portable CD or MP3 player.

Speaking of JW's underrated work(s), how about Rosewood or Angela's Ashes?