That_Bloke

There might have been some thought about it, but there's no real evidence. Often it has been assumed this was a confusion with the Sinfonietta for wind ensemble.
Nevertheless there is an interview from 1978, recorded in London, talking mostly about Star Wars, if memory serves, were he is asked about the Symphony No. 1, having been performed by the LSO in the early 70's and the interviewer mentions a second one, which Williams does not corrects. So either Williams assumed it was the Sinfonietta that was being referred to (being and instance of the confusion between pieces), or was in fact some thought of writing a second one, despite the first one being out of his catalogue for revision.
In fact, a revised version of the Symphony was programmed in 1988, but removed from the program in short notice. If during that decade he had plans to revise the Symphony and get it in a shape he found worthy of being performed, maybe he did toyed with the idea of (or even started work on) a second one.

Forwarded to my daughter’s boyfriend who is a professional cathedral organist. He’s very polite about my John Williams fanboy-ness, but this might be too much for him…

Enjoy
 
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C---V3lgqha/

I finished my first listen a little while ago.  I LOVED IT!  This is a really good album!
 
The great performance across all these compositions, from across decades of one composer's ouvre, really unify them to showcase just how versatile and prolific Williams has been.
 
The arrangements felt carefully organized and placed, too.  I found the whole thing had a nice flow.  Like somehow opening with Princess Leia's Theme, going into Jane Eyre, then Memoirs of a Geisha just worked out beautifully as a fun opener!
 
What I liked most was when about 2/3 of the way through the album, we got a bunch of Prisoner Azkaban music that aren't even concert arrangements John has published, just pieces from the OST album.  And it sounded great!  It really made me think that Williams should have published a big like 8-movement suite from this score with some of this stuff in it.  Hagrid The Professor might be my favorite track on this thing!
 
The Witches of Eastwick stuff at the end was super fun too.  Heck, everything was fun.  I really liked this whole album a lot!    Maybe the only track that doesn't really need to be here is the Elegy concert piece.  That one track maybe doesn't fit in with everything else as much.  But overall, this is a real winner!

Samples of every track
 
https://music.apple.com/nz/album/john-williams-reimagined/1745608962

They got JW there, standing next to a piano, and he didn't play on a single track? Missed oportunity.
 
More important, whose kitchen are they in?

SP: We need a greater pianist for this.
JW: I know, but they're either dead or waiting for me to compose a piano concerto.

I have finally made a YouTube upload of John Williams's Concerto for Clarinet [and Orchestra] (1991) featuring clarinet soloist John Bruce Yeh and the Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA) Symphony Orchestra, Emanuele Andrizzi conducting. All of the information surrounding the recording can be found in the video description, but I also have it pasted below:
 
Video description:
John Bruce Yeh, longtime assistant principal clarinetist and E-flat clarinetist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, performs John Williams's Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra with the Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA) Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Emanuele Andrizzi. The Midwest première occurred on Monday, 5 February 2024, at 7:30 pm (DST) at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University.
 
Yeh's performance marks the concerto's first performance outside its original première with then-Los Angeles Philharmonic principal clarinetist Michele Zukovsky and the Riverside County Philharmonic, Williams conducting. The initial première occurred at 8 pm (EDT) on Saturday, 13 April, at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium. Richard S. Ginell, then Los Angeles Times chief music critic, gave a less-than-satisfactory review of the initial première, causing Williams to keep the work unpublished and unperformed until both Zukovsky and Yeh made a concerted effort to revive it. Ginell's original review can be found below:
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Riverside—Somehow, the Riverside County Philharmonic found itself with a John Williams world premiere on its hands Saturday night in Municipal Auditorium. Not on that, the Boston Pops maestro was around to conduct his new work, a Concerto for Clarinet written for the much-admired principal clarinetist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Michele Zukovsky. For all the attention that this concert might bring Riverside, the work doesn't do much for Williams' own reputation. About 21 minutes long, the concerto rumbles and meanders about in a generic never-never land between tonality and dissonance. Whatever one may think of them, at least Williams' ubiquitous film scores have a distinctly grandiose personality and flair, whereas this faceless concerto seems to go out of its way to avoid its creator's imprint. The piece did give Zukovsky a good workout with its skittery, showy solo flights over the routine orchestral sheen—and she delivered the goods with agile strength and liquid tone. However, the Riverside orchestra's own contributions were compromised by truly wretched amplification. As bookends for his concerto, Williams hauled out two of his infinitely memorable crowd-pleasers, the March from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Adventures on Earth" from "E.T.," which the orchestra executed with overall cohesion despite some very rough edges. After intermission, the orchestra's music director, Patrick Flynn, too over the baton with a Dvořák "New World" Symphony that settled in vigorously after some misshapen wallowing in the first movement.
 
Ginell, Richard S. "John Williams Unveils Premiere in Riverside." Los Angeles Times, Monday, 15 April 1991, p. 63. https://www.newspapers.com/image/175909221.
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CCPA Symphony Orchestra. “CCPA Symphony Orchestra - February 5, 2024.” Conducted by Emanuele Andrizzi. Percussion Soloists: Ed Harrison and Vadim Karpinos. Clarinet Soloist: John Bruce Yeh. Recorded and streamed live from the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL. February 5, 2024. Accessed August 25, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/live/Z2NaXuPU2Zk.
 
The audio is an excerpt from the original concert live stream.
 
Photo by Chad Batka / NYT / Redux, found in Ross, Alex. "The Force Is Still Strong with John Williams." The New Yorker. August 19, 2024. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-force-is-still-strong-with-john-williams.

"Spielberg acquires Thomas and the King just to retroactively declare it a Spielberg/Williams collaboration, sources say that Spielberg could be heard on the phone saying 'it's done Jurassic Shark, now stop calling me, we're done'"

Worse.  The 2000 Decca version of the film recordings.  A strange choice considering UMG controls the album recording too.  Did he not do the Jaws theme at any of the concerts that DG released?

Looks like a playlist.
 
 
They could have done more. 
 
Oh wait 

John Williams albums for noobies. Good for them, I suppose, but mostly all evergreens here that hold little interest to most of us.

Anything new here?  Anything?  When are we going to get recordings of some of the awesome new concert works that he has written over the past 10 years?  Ever??

Release date August 23rd 2024, meaning it's already available in Australia, New Zealand, etc.
 
50 tracks totalling 4 1/2 hours
 

 
https://music.apple.com/nz/album/john-williams-the-classics/1764259908
 

Makes perfect sense when you realize that Warner Bros. hasn't been authorizing any new expansions since 2020 (the only exception being Varese because they have perpetuity album rights on a lot of things). Let's just be glad the three Williams scores got expanded before WB stopped playing ball.
 
Yavar

His Buffy ones are superior.

"very unique"
 
Grrrrr.
 
Civilization's end keeps progressing when a label like DG resorts to destroying the English language. 

You really have to be passionate about vinyl to purchase this box set of 7 LPs for 199 euros! It brings to mind the classical music box sets our grandfathers had!

here you go
 
 

From: https://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?/topic/33860-find-a-thread-information-catalog

I only just heard about the LOTR score book (not a score that I like) and instantly thought there must be one for John Williams. Nope. How on Earth can this be?

Just skip the Zimmer part.

SOLD OUT

It has the best shouting in a soundtrack.

That looks like bad indigestion alright.
 
Take a spoonful of E.T. OST and go straight to bed. Doctor's orders.