Film (movie) Music

[aligreto]

If you type his name and 'classic film scores' into Amazon a lot come up. They were reissued on CD a while back but some are now over-priced. The one that I'd especially recommend is entitled 'Sunset Boulevard - the music of Franz Waxman' especially for the extraordinary 'making of the Female Monster' from Bride of Frankenstein. There's also a section from 'A Place in the Sun' which is identical to a part of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony but was composed before the Shostakovich! No way  that Dmitri S could have seen the movie and even more ironically Waxman conducted the West Coast premiere of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony.

I think that the clip below is very interesting and also plays a clip of the Fugue from Porgy and Bess, earlier than both, which has a similar theme.

https://youtu.be/Tzti-u2yd3o

Thank you for that. I am listening as I type. Much obliged 

[vandermolen]

Thank you for that. I am listening as I type. Much obliged 

You are most welcome!

[tjguitar]

Intrada Records is doing a KickStarter for a new recording of Dimitri Tiomkin's Dial M For Murder:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/129145902/dial-m-for-murder-film-score-recording

[pjme]

Thank you for that information; I was not aware of that.

This is my favorite from that collection



Especially "Lost horizon" I find a great score . The last movements  "Funeral Cortège of the High Lama – Escape from Shangri-La – Return to Shangri-La" (plenty of bells and tuned gongs, wordless chorus) make for a thrilling experience.

[vandermolen]

This is my favorite from that collection



Especially "Lost horizon" I find a great score . The last movements  "Funeral Cortège of the High Lama – Escape from Shangri-La – Return to Shangri-La" (plenty of bells and tuned gongs, wordless chorus) make for a thrilling experience.

Right, must track this one! Recently reissued on Dutton I think.

[Karl Henning]

This is my favorite from that collection



Especially "Lost horizon" I find a great score . The last movements  "Funeral Cortège of the High Lama – Escape from Shangri-La – Return to Shangri-La" (plenty of bells and tuned gongs, wordless chorus) make for a thrilling experience.

Cool.

[vandermolen]

Enjoying this very much - more than expected. I always thought highly of the original score:
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[aligreto]

Preisner: Three Colours Blue Soundtrack





Relistening to this haunting music. Two or three pieces are very good standalone works in their own right.

[aligreto]

Three Colours White

[vandermolen]

Preisner: Three Colours Blue Soundtrack





Relistening to this haunting music. Two or three pieces are very good standalone works in their own right.

I like his 'Requiem for My Friend' very much.

[aligreto]

Preisner: Three Colours Red, soundtrack





There are a number of things that appeal to me in the soundtracks of the Three Colours films namely the scoring, the tone/mood of the music and the apparent simplicity of the music.

[aligreto]

I like his 'Requiem for My Friend' very much.

Yes, I played and posted that recently and I got a very positive response to it.

[aligreto]

Preisner: La Double Vie de Veronique soundtrack





This is once more wonderful music. It has a simple beauty to it. The vocal element can also be quite haunting.

[pjme]

Maybe for Xmas...(and be a teenager again).

https://www.youtube.com/v/RWSxzEZkkYE

[TheGSMoeller]

Currently listening to this 2008 re-recording of Michael Nyman's score from the 1982 Peter Greenaway film The Draughtman's Contract. I really enjoy the work that Nyman did for Greenaway's earlier films.

[vandermolen]

Currently listening to this 2008 re-recording of Michael Nyman's score from the 1982 Peter Greenaway film The Draughtman's Contract. I really enjoy the work that Nyman did for Greenaway's earlier films.

Yes, I rather liked 'Prospero's Books' as well.

[TheGSMoeller]

Yes, I rather liked 'Prospero's Books' as well.

Good one, vandermolen, Prospero's has some excellent music! There's a 12-minute piece near the end called The Masque, which features three female vocalists including Ute Lemper. I've always loved that piece.

[vandermolen]

Good one, vandermolen, Prospero's has some excellent music! There's a 12-minute piece near the end called The Masque, which features three female vocalists including Ute Lemper. I've always loved that piece.

Thank you! Just seen this.

This might be more 'low brow' but I'm enjoying it:

I like the end titles music song 'Changes'.

Makes a change from Miaskovsky.
 

And here it is:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tn1H3xeHqxU

[Mirror Image]

Once I receive The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Complete Recordings box set, I'll definitely start digging into these massive scores. Howard Shore did a remarkable job with this series. I own The Hobbit complete sets as well, but I'll listen to those after The Lord of the Rings.

[vandermolen]

Once I receive The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Complete Recordings box set, I'll definitely start digging into these massive scores. Howard Shore did a remarkable job with this series. I own The Hobbit complete sets as well, but I'll listen to those after The Lord of the Rings.

I have that 'Return of the King' CD which is very nicely produced. I'm not 100% sure about Howard Shore's score for LOR and I once read a review which referred to it as 'barely adequate'. I certainly don't agree with that and have loads of permutations of the score 'LOR Symphony' etc. There are moments I think very highly of 'The White Tree' or the music got the Mines of Moria but, as a whole, I prefer works like Basil Poledouris's score for 'Conan the Barbarian' which I (seriously) rate alongside Prokofiev's 'Alexander Nevsky'.