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[Incanus 5,795]

 

 

 

[Jurassic Shark 12,985]

23 minutes ago, Incanus said:

 

 

 

Looks fun.

[Incanus 5,795]

As brass players would say: It's a hoot!.

 

Also contains selections from Williams' An Unfinished Journey, which was the main draw of the album.

[Jurassic Shark 12,985]

17 minutes ago, Incanus said:

As brass players would say: It's a hoot!.

 

Also contains selections from Williams' An Unfinished Journey, which was the main draw of the album.

 

Wouldn't the full orchestra version be preferable?

[Incanus 5,795]

1 hour ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

Wouldn't the full orchestra version be preferable?

There is of course the Williams conducted version of the American Journey that is available on the Call of the Champions album, which I do own, but as far as I know, there isn't any full orchestra version of the certain revised versions of these pieces (e.g. Williams revised the ending of the Civil Rights and the Women's Movement) available on any other recording.

[bespinGPT 8,683]

I declare that the used CDs for sale on the platforms are overpriced. It's a market that's closing for me.

[Amer 2,213]

Finally arrived!!

[Jay 39,247]

On 21/08/2024 at 2:33 PM, Jay said:

Purchased directly from LLL:

 

These arrived yesteday!

[Amer 2,213]

FSM Batch is here...

 

Excited about the TINTIN Promo

[Jay 39,247]

Capturing The Plane is a highlight of the FYC that wasn't on the OST (shame the ending is missing though)

[Jurassic Shark 12,985]

[Andy 5,110]

Most of these aren’t recent purchases.  It’s almost a year’s worth of buying. Since last November I decided to try out some French composers from my formative era.  So here are my Phillipe Sarde and Georges Delerue collections.  Sarde for me is more provocative, maybe more diverse in his scores.  Delerue I find more accessible in general. You sort of know what you’re gonna get, but it’s like comfort food.  I’ve enjoyed this deep dive and am open to suggestions for other favorites. 
 

 

[GerateWohl 4,996]

7 hours ago, Andy said:

I’ve enjoyed this deep dive and am open to suggestions for other favorites.

I can warmly recommend these two.

 

You find samples on disk 6 of the anthology. Especially Le Petit Garçon is great with that wonderful 25 minutes piece "La Guerre À 9 Ans".

[Andy 5,110]

Thank you.  Yes, Le Petit Garçon is on my list.  I'll check out the other one.

[Marian Schedenig 8,936]

[Jurassic Shark 12,985]

[Naïve Old Fart 10,356]

Easily my second favourite Jarre score.

A brilliant score, from a quietly brilliant film.

 

[Jurassic Shark 12,985]

In too many of Jarre's scores I feel like he's trying to subvert expectations, or to take an unnecessary ironic approach, or scoring against the picture. I haven't seen this film but my impression is it also to some degree falls in the subversion category. Anyway, it's nice music. 

[GerateWohl 4,996]

I must admit, the Jarre album that I enjoy the most is disk 2 of the Prague Lawrence of Arabia re-recording. 

 

Apart from that I always think, each score I own contains good music, but a shorter selection of highlights would be better. Whole albums are often an uneven collection of the highlights, source music, repetition and stuff I don't mind.

[Naïve Old Fart 10,356]

3 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

In too many of Jarre's scores I feel like he's trying to subvert expectations, or to take an unnecessary ironic approach, or scoring against the picture. I haven't seen this film but my impression is it also to some degree falls in the subversion category. Anyway, it's nice music. 

 

It falls into "subversion", because the novel is subversive. The film is not as explicit as the novel, but it's still a very good watch.

The novel, by the way, is the finest novel written in the English language.

[Jurassic Shark 12,985]

1 minute ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

The novel, by the way, is the finest novel written in the English language.

 

I had no idea. Is it good?

 

[Tom Guernsey 2,625]

On 9/9/2024 at 6:48 AM, Jurassic Shark said:

I love this set. It’s a shame it took so long for these recordings to get released. Performances and recordings are uniformly great. Only real complaint is that some of the selections could be a bit longer. 

[Jurassic Shark 12,985]

4 hours ago, GerateWohl said:

I must admit, the Jarre album that I enjoy the most is disk 2 of the Prague Lawrence of Arabia re-recording. 

 

I prefer disk 1.

 

11 minutes ago, Tom Guernsey said:

I love this set. It’s a shame it took so long for these recordings to get released. Performances and recordings are uniformly great. Only real complaint is that some of the selections could be a bit longer. 

 

And it's a shame they haven't been released again after the box went OOP!

[Naïve Old Fart 10,356]

5 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

I had no idea. Is it good?

 

 

Yes... but don't take my word for it. Read it yourself, and learn how anti-colonialism Forster was. He writes for the underdog.

[bespinGPT 8,683]

Had 'evaluation' copies of these two... just ordering them on the official website.

 

We can never have too many Howard Shore scores in a CD collection.

 

So finally, I managed to get all the seven volumes.

[bespinGPT 8,683]

I guess I'm late to the Party, as usual... but I just discovered these two re-recordings conducted by James Seymour Brett for the Television Special...

 

[Jay 39,247]

Yes they even got their own thread 

 

https://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?/topic/34583-music-from-hbo-max’s-‘harry-potter-20th-anniversary-return-to-hogwarts’-special-released/

[Incanus 5,795]

 

[Naïve Old Fart 10,356]

Both fine scores, @Incanus, but neither is JNH's magnum opus, which we all know is 

Spoiler

GRAND CANYON 

 

[Marian Schedenig 8,936]

2 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Both fine scores, @Incanus, but neither is JNH's magnum opus, which we all know is 

Spoiler

The Lady in the Water

 

[Jurassic Shark 12,985]

2 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Both fine scores, @Incanus, but neither is JNH's magnum opus, which we all know is 

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Signs 

 

[Tom Guernsey 2,625]

I must clearly have missed something on Grand Canyon as, apart from the end credits fanfare piece, I remember the rest as just being twangy guitar music. Not bad exactly... but not quite magnum opus stuff.

[Edmilson 8,805]

I'm usually not a fan of JNH's 90s urban drama/thriller scores like Grand Canyon, The Saint of Fort Washington, etc. The synths make it all sound terribly dated and cheesy, like pop music from the time. But GC at least had the Fanfare at the end that was quite cool.

[Tom Guernsey 2,625]

50 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

I'm usually not a fan of JNH's 90s urban drama/thriller scores like Grand Canyon, The Saint of Fort Washington, etc. The synths make it all sound terribly dated and cheesy, like pop music from the time. But GC at least had the Fanfare at the end that was quite cool.

That was kinda my take. I didn't think twice about not picking up the expanded edition and JNH is a composer whose scores I'd generally look to acquire when expanded (can't wait for Dinosaur!).

[bespinGPT 8,683]

Just bought two digital albums from the Québécois wind ensemble OVMF.

 

The live albums feature their own arrangements, and the selections are quite nice. There are a few flubs here and there, but overall, they’re good!

https://ovmf.qc.ca/boutique/categorie/albums-numeriques/

 

 

[Richard Penna 4,122]

On 19/09/2024 at 7:35 PM, Tom Guernsey said:

I must clearly have missed something on Grand Canyon as, apart from the end credits fanfare piece, I remember the rest as just being twangy guitar music. Not bad exactly... but not quite magnum opus stuff.

 

You're not alone. The fanfare piece is nice, and there was one other track that I sort of liked for its atmosphere, but I really don't get the rest of the score at all. It's very dated.

 

The stars finally aligned at Intrada, as I thought it would probably take a few days after LLL got Sugarland back in stock.

 

[Tom Guernsey 2,625]

11 hours ago, Richard Penna said:

 

You're not alone. The fanfare piece is nice, and there was one other track that I sort of liked for its atmosphere, but I really don't get the rest of the score at all. It's very dated.

Glad it's not just me on Grand Canyon - I remember when I had a minidisc player, I cut out the rest of the end credits and just had the Grand Canyon fanfare as a stand alone cue as it was the only bit I liked! I think I'd appreciate the rest a bit more now but not over and above his orchestral stuff.

11 hours ago, Richard Penna said:

The stars finally aligned at Intrada, as I thought it would probably take a few days after LLL got Sugarland back in stock.

 

Excellent!

[Naïve Old Fart 10,356]

On 19/09/2024 at 7:35 PM, Tom Guernsey said:

I must clearly have missed something on Grand Canyon as, apart from the end credits fanfare piece, I remember the rest as just being twangy guitar music. Not bad exactly... but not quite magnum opus stuff.

 

On 19/09/2024 at 8:16 PM, Edmilson said:

I'm usually not a fan of JNH's 90s urban drama/thriller scores like Grand Canyon, The Saint of Fort Washington, etc. The synths make it all sound terribly dated and cheesy, like pop music from the time. But GC at least had the Fanfare at the end that was quite cool.

 

(sigh) Pearls before 

[Jurassic Shark 12,985]

20 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

(signs)

 

Fixed.

[Naïve Old Fart 10,356]

1 hour ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

F**k you, a-hole.

 

Fixed 

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,474]

Just received a copy of The Post (FYC) thanks to the FSM sell. Listening to it again and what a lovely score this is. I don't know which presentation I prefer between OST and FYC though

 

[Amer 2,213]

10 hours ago, Raiders of the SoundtrArk said:

Just received a copy of The Post (FYC) thanks to the FSM sell. Listening to it again and what a lovely score this is. I don't know which presentation I prefer between OST and FYC though

 

I still havent heard it even though the cd is with me. So is the FYC containing any or minute unreleased material or is it the sequencing you are refering to?

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,474]

The sequencing is not the same and there's some unreleased material too. See @Jay's spreadsheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQLZ9GK1jqCkwB3L9jVxzvOnCistwVfbC_XDmn7I_qrqh8DEyZ3yYXNynFYD4UiY_zx-XMTlO6_t9iy/pubhtml

[Jurassic Shark 12,985]

11 hours ago, Raiders of the SoundtrArk said:

Just received a copy of The Post (FYC) thanks to the FSM sell. Listening to it again and what a lovely score this is. I don't know which presentation I prefer between OST and FYC though

 

 

It's such a great and varied score. May I ask how much you had to pay for this?

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,474]

With all the import fees it costed $43.3 which is basically like a 2CD set from a speciality label

[Naïve Old Fart 10,356]

So... you got THE POST, through the post 

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,474]

14 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

So... you got THE POST, through the post 

[Bilbo 3,797]

I ordered the LLL expanded Godfather 

[John Dutton 7,302]

[John Dutton 7,302]