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  1. On 22/02/2024 at 6:20 PM, Jim Ware said:

    True. Archival and re-recording are in no way analogous.

    Indeed. I also suspect there should be enough re-recordings (and concert albums) each year to spotlight them in their own category.

     

    16 hours ago, Jon Broxton said:

    So, at that point, it simply comes down to the personal taste of the voters. And more people liked the Herrmann set than Hook. That's really all there is to it.

    Although personally I believe it maybe shouldn't have won due to the technical issues, it's a great album!

     

    By the way, that's twice a Herrmann album wins this category in the last three years:

     

    BEST NEW ARCHIVAL RELEASE 2021 – COMPILATION

    • The Film Scores of Bernard Herrmann, music by Bernard Herrmann; album produced by Tony d’Amato, Gavin Barratt, Raymond Few, and Tim McDonald; liner notes by Tom Schneller; album art direction by Matt Read (Phase 4/Deutsche Grammophon)
    • Gabriel Yared: Music For Film, music by Gabriel Yared; the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra and Vlaams Radiokoor, conducted by Dirk Brossé; album produced by Thomas Van Parys and Marijke Vandeburie; liner notes by Thomas Van Parys; album art direction by Stuart Ford (Silva Screen/Film Fest Gent)
    • Pedro Almodóvar & Alberto Iglesias Film Music Collection, music by Alberto Iglesias; album produced by José M. Benitez and Alberto Iglesias; liner notes by Pedro Almodóvar, Alberto Iglesias, and Manuel J. Lombardo; album art direction by Nacho B. Govantes and Luca Barcellona (Quartet)
    • The Pink Panther Final Chapters Collection (Trail of the Pink Panther/Curse of the Pink Panther/Son of the Pink Panther), music by Henry Mancini; album produced by Chris Malone; liner notes by John Takis; album art direction by Nacho B. Govantes (Quartet)
    • Spotlight On John Williams, music by John Williams; the City Light Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kevin Griffiths; album produced by Pirmin Zängerle and Martin Korn; liner notes by Basil Böhni; album art direction by Roger Krütli (Prospero Classical)
  2. 7 hours ago, Jay said:

    It's amazing how the songs strengthen the score and the score strengthens the songs. It's like a continually rewarding experience for a long while after you get it. I've never experienced anything quite like it in all my years of film music collecting. I hope everyone finds it as rewarding as I do.

    Not even when you first heard Thomas and the King???

  3. The BruPhil/Dirk Brossé performance and concert were indeed terrific. Certainly one of the best L2P concerts I've been to. The balance between film sound and the orchestra was also really well done.

    Although the one score restore was great to see, I do wish they would experiment more with reinstating the score here and there rather than just follow film edits (esp. the end credits). Or they could have added that short piece in the prologue that was composed additionally. Anyway, it was still an amazing experience.

    It would be amazing to see all Indiana Jones films with live orchestra.

  4. On 08/09/2023 at 11:47 PM, JNHFan2000 said:

    The lyrics I'm not a fan of and Bardem can't sing, but the orchestrations and flow of the melody in the first part is pretty great.

    Still wish we'd get instrumental versions of the songs like with 2019's Aladdin. Because the arrangements of the songs were very good.

     

     

    Does anyone know where to place this song outtake chronologically, where it was meant to go?

  5. Williams has been nominated for the 2023 World Soundtrack Award "Film Composer of the Year":

    https://www.worldsoundtrackawards.com/news/discover-the-first-wave-of-2023-world-soundtrack-awards-nominees

     

    Until 21 August, you can also vote on the World Soundtrack Public Choice Award:

    https://www.worldsoundtrackawards.com/news/vote-for-the-public-choice-award-2023

    The Fabelmans is longlisted for this award.

  6. On 21/07/2023 at 8:52 PM, Davide Leo said:

    Hi! I'm assembling an album based on your corrections. Can you please specify what do you mean with last part in Saving Willie and Water!; at which playing time do I have to start the speed change? I'm also wandering if with "The OId Priest's Tale" and British Relief" correction you mean the corrections of the whole tracks from the concord album "Indy and the villagers" and "The Broken Bridge / British Relief". Thank you very much in advantage for your help.

    This was an attempt to try and pitchcorrect some of the cues but bear in mind that this was far from perfect; the method certainly wasn't flawless as you can see from a number of the tracks.

     

    Ideally, somebody with pitchperfect hearing (which I haven't) would post the correct pitch change corrections!

  7. On 28/07/2023 at 2:07 AM, Marian Schedenig said:

     

    Yes, that's exactly what seems to be happening to me. The shipping fee was paid with the original order, of course. So was a "tax", that seems to amount to pretty much 20% of the total amount of CD prices and shipping costs - i.e. very much looks like it's suppose to be the EU's VAT.

     

    Yet it apparently wasn't declared as already taxed, hence customs again charged 20% VAT for the amount declared on the first package (and will probably do so again for the amount on the other package).

     

    I.e. it looks very much like I've been charged the EU taxes by Disney, who then failed to declare the package as such, so I had to pay them again to the customs office. And while it doesn't matter for the VAT amount whether the order is shipped in one package or ten packages (20% of the total sum will be the same either way), each individual package means extra handling fees for me.

    This is exactly what will undoubtedly happen to my packages as well, as my order was also split over two packages. I'm rather sure local customs will make me pay the already paid taxes again, and then I'll have to pay the handling twice now too.

  8. The film was still more than entertaining, but it's definitely the weakest entry since 2.

     

    Why did they feel the need to repeat the exact same exposition every ten minutes? Cruise, usually very reliable, is somewhat overdoing the American patriot thing with his character. Atwell is good as always but her character is somehow underdeveloped; in fact, all characters (including Ethan Hunt, with the vague background hints) seem to be underdeveloped even though this is almost three hours. Even more than with the previous McQuarrie entries, the script seems to have been written around the stunts. The score is unfortunately not better than the previous installment's.

     

    And the worst thing story-wise:

    Spoiler

    why did they kill off the soul of the last few films? If they did it in order to invest the story with some urgency and stakes, it failed, as it completely rips away any care you might have. It was also very badly done; in fact, it was either a fake death (which they've kind of already set up in the beginning of the film) or it was very, very badly handled.

     

    Still worth your time seeing this on the big screen for all the obvious reasons, but my expectations were higher. Maybe I should not have watched Ghost Protocol and Rogue Nation again before this screening.

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