Maglorfin

Anybody got any idea which spider is it from under the clock and if it's poisonous?

It's not necessarily superior, just different. (Although I've heard or read from a number of serious and respected critics that LSO is possibly the best symphony orchestra in the world.) I don't know about you guys, but I myself am a musician, I've heard LSO perform live twice so far and I can easily say that sonically, they sound vastly different (in a very positive way) than e. g. our Slovenian philharmonic, which is also a very good orchestra. But LSO is nevertheless very different and much, much better. It's hard to precisely and painstakingly elaborate on how or why, some stuff here is very subtle and could also be perceived differently by a musician than by a non-musician. Of all JW's recordings, I personally prefer the LSO ones, but of course, there's also a lot of great and inspired playing from American orchestras (I particularly like e. g. Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Jurassic Park, Hook etc.).

It is when working under Williams. OK, guys, you got the better of me, shouldn't've said anything.

The only weakness of the first HP sountrack is (IMHO) that LSO didn't perform and record it. It's still very good, inspired playing of course, but with LSO, it would've undoubtedly been even better. And, who knows what HWW would have sounded like ...

Exactly, "uplifting music" should be synonymous with Forrest Gump soundtrack. Especially the "running" tracks.

Thanks.

Thanks, indy4. Guys, those pics are disgusting, I guess I'll save the money for my lunch today.

Can you report what the Main Title (The Streets of Metropolis) sounds like?

Yep, de Meij's first symphony is so far definitely his best. That's not to say that the other two are weak, of course, but the first one is definitely The One so far. (Well, there's an ever so slight possibility that I also say some of this because I'm also a bit of a Tolkien/LotR fan. ) Saxbabe, too bad we don't play in the same band or at least live in the same country, I think we'd spend hours discussing concert band music! As you said, there's so much great stuff out there, too much to keep track of ... Which is also good in a way, 'cause it means there's a lot more to be discovered. I kind of envy you for meeting de Meij (I remember seeing a photo of you with him somewhere on these very forums) which I haven't yet had the chance for, however, I had a friend of mine from Slovene Police Band, who de Meij's been working with, take to de Meij my copy of his LotR symphony study score to sign, which he was happy to do. However, I did manage to meet Jan Van der Roost after a competition here in Slovenia (he was head of jury and marveled over our performance of his Spartacus ) and he autographed two of his CDs for me. Also a great guy. Saxbabe, you probably also have LSO's recording of de Meij's LotR, what do you think of it?

Were that true, I seriously doubt you'd have the time to visit this board or even turn the computer on.

Sit ei terra levis.

No, I haven't yet heard of Holsinger, but thank you for mentioning him, I'll certainly check him out.

Classical composers and their compositions I enjoy the most (in no particular order): - Rimski-Korsakov - Scheherazade - Holst - The Planets (also for two pianos), Egdon Heath - Orff - Carmina Burana - Vaughan Williams - symphonies, most of all Symphony No. 7 'Sinfonia Antartica' - Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man, Billy the Kid - Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris - Say - Black Earth - Dukas - L'apprenti sorcier - Beethoven - piano sonatas - Mozart - pretty much everything - Bach - pretty much everything - Dvořák - Symphony No. 9 'From the New World' - Smetana - My Country - Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - Ravel - Bolero, Pavane pour une infante defunte - Strauss - The Alpine Symphony, Thus Spake Zarathustra - Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez - Lizst - symphonic poems - Bax - symphonic poems - Mussorgski - Pictures at an Exhibition - Chopin - piano music - Shostakovich - jazz music - Verdi - Requiem - Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique - Barber - Adagio for strings - Jenkins - Palladio, Requiem, Mass For Peace - Addinsell - Warsaw Concerto Concert band music (I've been a percussionist in a concert band since 1998): - de Meij - symphonies, esp. No. 1 'The Lord of the Rings' and Aquarium - Van der Roost - Sinfonietta, Spartacus, Sinfonia Hungarica and pretty much everything else - Vlak - Las playas de Rio, Western Rhapsody - Picqueur - Symphony No. 0 - Maslanka - Symphony No. 4 - Reed - Symphony No. 4, Armenian Dances, El Camino Real - W. Smith - Africa, The Great Locomotive Chase, symphonies - Whitacre - Godzilla Eats Las Vegas, Ghost Train - Sparke - The Land of the Long White Cloud 'Aotearoa' - Ticheli - Vesuvius, symphonies - Staněk - Die große Seefahrt 1492 'Kolumbus' - Nicolas - En ecoutant Paris - van Cleemput - Arachne - Barberán - Symphony No. 1 'Asgard' Of course, there's more, but that's what I could remember "on short notice".

Great, thanks very much for that! I already looked at all the pics and am now positively drooling ... Man, it looks so awesome! I also just checked out my order status at SAE and it says "shipped, February 28th", which means it'll probably arrive sometime between March 8th and 12th ...

LOL I'm the next in line! What the hell is on that Streisand album anyway?!

LOL I can't hold back roaring with laughter only imagining you painstaikingly doing that ... Man, do I envy all you guys who have already received your treasures ... Living in Slovenia does have some disadvantages after all ... Well, I have some futile hope that it might arrive tomorrow, Wednesday seems like such a great day for great boxsets to arrive ... Anyone wanna post some more pics for us miserable waiting people?

Are you sure? Not JP?

For me personally, Hisaishi's symphonic poem Nausicäa (from the anime Nausicäa of the Valley of the Wind) is one of the greatest symphonic compositions of all time. Its magnificence and sheer beauty are far beyond words. You have to check it out!

Yeah, I think that by returning to his action roots such as Predator, he'd sometimes succeed better than he does. Because Predator is one of the greatest action scores of all times (for me, that is).

Exactly. And AzOutcast also expressed my own opinion by saying: I have many fond memories of that score, also immediately hearing in the cinema what a great score it is back in 1996, and listen to it to this day on regular basis.

That makes two of us, if there's any consolation in that.

Cliffhanger. Planning Jurassic Park for this evening and Sweeney Todd for this week.

What a coincidence, I'm listening to L'apprenti sorcier at this very moment. I remember back in 2001 when I heard HWW for the first time (before I saw the movie) it immediately sprang to my mind that Williams hadn't done anything that good since the 1970s ... Man, I really hope he does The Deathly Hallows, I'm so curious what he would do with , , and everything else ...

You lucky S.O.B.

So very true.