Film (movie) Music

[relm1]

A brand new interview with John Williams.  "I have to write every day for an hour or two at least, to feel like my breathing is right and things are balanced in life. What a gift to be able to have that joy in music."
https://symphony.org/features/an-interview-with-john-williams/

[Roy Bland]

Chandos could do it in a modern recording Salzedo IMHO excellent composer

[Roasted Swan]

Chandos could do it in a modern recording Salzedo IMHO excellent composer

Big agreement - Salzedo's utter neglect (some chamber music aside) is unfathomable

[W.A. Mozart]

The film "A Beautiful Mind" (2001) was nominated for the Oscar "Best Original Score" in 2002. The soundtrack has been composed by James Horner.

The video, which contains a selection of the best parts of the suite, is structured as follows:
00:00 Of One Heart, Of One Mind [main theme]
06:22 Cracking The Russian Codes
09:44 End Credits [final reprise of the main theme with climax]

[vandermolen]

I find it annoying that, increasingly, soundtracks are only available as downloads or on (very expensive) vinyl rather than as CDs. The Crown (Series 6) and 'One Life' come immediately to mind.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I find it annoying that, increasingly, soundtracks are only available as downloads or on (very expensive) vinyl rather than as CDs. The Crown (Series 6) and 'One Life' come immediately to mind.

Interesting!  I would have thought that if a company was going to bother to put a soundtrack out on vinyl that they would also put it out on CD? 

PD

[vandermolen]

Interesting!  I would have thought that if a company was going to bother to put a soundtrack out on vinyl that they would also put it out on CD? 

PD

That's exactly what I thought PD!

[Roasted Swan]

Chandos could do it in a modern recording Salzedo IMHO excellent composer

I bought a copy of this from Spain.  AWFUL quality - really really bad - low level transfer of what sounds like poor quality LP's.  So bad I've complained and asked for a refund.  I was so hoping that this would be a good transfer of the Witch Boy at least - the old CFP LP was one of my favourites decades ago........

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I bought a copy of this from Spain.  AWFUL quality - really really bad - low level transfer of what sounds like poor quality LP's.  So bad I've complained and asked for a refund.  I was so hoping that this would be a good transfer of the Witch Boy at least - the old CFP LP was one of my favourites decades ago........

What label was it (the CD) on?

PD

[Roasted Swan]

What label was it (the CD) on?

PD

Now I've got the hard copy - it doesn't appear to be a label at all - more a home-produced low-grade rip from LP's.  The "Artwork" - I use the " " advisedly! is clearly just bashed together on a PC too.  No notes / no performer details - I was done!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Now I've got the hard copy - it doesn't appear to be a label at all - more a home-produced low-grade rip from LP's.  The "Artwork" - I use the " " advisedly! is clearly just bashed together on a PC too.  No notes / no performer details - I was done!

  I don't blame you.

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

@Roasted Swan Discogs has a number of copies of this album for sale and (unsurprisingly) a number of the sellers are located in the UK.  If you have a turntable, you might try contacting one of them.  The shipping prices shown at my end are high, but I'm located in the US.

https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/3149523?ev=rb

PD

[Roasted Swan]

@Roasted Swan Discogs has a number of copies of this album for sale and (unsurprisingly) a number of the sellers are located in the UK.  If you have a turntable, you might try contacting one of them.  The shipping prices shown at my end are high, but I'm located in the US.

https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/3149523?ev=rb

PD

Thankyou PD - I actually have that LP - bought new when CFP records cost just under £1 (99p)!  Its very good - decent 1970's anaolgue sound and coupled with a very fine version (bright and vivacious) of the Ibert Divertissement played by the "correct" number of players - effectively a pretty small pit band.  My hope was that this 'new' CD transfer was at least going to be from a pristine LP or better still the master tapes.  Instead it is the murkiest/dullest ever LP rip as I said

EDIT/UPDATE:  the guy in Spain who shipped this CD has agreed to a refund (of course I'll have to cover the postage back) but decided to treat my complaint with thinly veiled sarcasm;  to quote "The music is from the 50s, what did you expect. It is a bootleg, it indicates it in the description" [it did not indicate it was a bootleg and the Witch Boy is a  70's recording] and "I'm not going to argue with you, besides, it seems like you know everything".  The internet is so good at allowing folk to be rude to people they neither know nor can directly engage with......

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Thankyou PD - I actually have that LP - bought new when CFP records cost just under £1 (99p)!  Its very good - decent 1970's anaolgue sound and coupled with a very fine version (bright and vivacious) of the Ibert Divertissement played by the "correct" number of players - effectively a pretty small pit band.  My hope was that this 'new' CD transfer was at least going to be from a pristine LP or better still the master tapes.  Instead it is the murkiest/dullest ever LP rip as I said

Ah, I was thinking that you had gotten rid of it.

Perhaps Warner or Disky might release some compilation (trying to make sense of the Wiki entry here)?: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_Pleasure_(record_label)

PD

[Roasted Swan]

Chandos could do it in a modern recording Salzedo IMHO excellent composer

Avoid this disc and this supplier at all costs - see other messages below

[vandermolen]

I listened to this CD about four times today with much pleasure. I bought these Marco Polo Honegger Film Music releases when they first came out and haven't listened to them in ages. I can honestly say that I was impressed by all of these scores and moved at times:

[Karl Henning]

I think I became a Classicist because I saw this movie on the BIG screen (Filmed in 70 mm) in 1959!

And I also developed my interest in Classical Music because of Rozsa's evocative score!


I happened to crank this up today on the old "Victrola":


David Shire: Return to Oz

Nice! I'm a fan of Return to Oz.

[relm1]

This looks like a great concert of film music from the London Symphony Orchestra.

Featuring music by composers from Sir Arthur Bliss to Patrick Doyle, and from Bernard Herrmann to John Williams, from films including Things to Come, Henry V, Notting Hill, Braveheart, Harry Potter, Cinderella and Final Fantasy.

https://www.lso.co.uk/whats-on/lights-camera-action-the-lso-on-film/

[Roasted Swan]

Some time ago I bought this disc after the sad death of Carl Davis;



For some reason I did not listen to it straight away and it rather slipped down the "must listen to" pile.  Well more fool me - this is just amazing.  Out-Rozsaing Rozsa, more epic than an epicurist(??) - just very very extraordinary.  The first few cues sound like Bruckner-at-the-movies (with organ added) but after that it is a parade (geddit) of just stunning cues.  Of course one of Davis' great attributes as a film score composer is his ability to pastiche a wide range of musical styles and genres very effectively.  For this score it seems to be the German Romantics - so as well as Bruckner and Mahler there's Wagner (Parsifal) and quite a lot of Strauss - a bit of a shameless Salome's Dance of the 7 Veils at one point.  Perhaps most remarkable is the sustained energy and excitement in the 9 minute cue of the famous Chariot Race.  Here a pair of stereophonic timpanists (shades of Nielsen Inextinguishable) have an absolute ball;

All of this is helped considerably by the virtuosity of the entire RLPO and the glorious recording which captures the Liverpool brass in fine form.  This goes from a "must listen to" to "must not miss and listen again very soon" pile.  I've not enjoyed an unfamiliar film score complete in a long time.  Not to be missed I reckon.

[Roy Bland]

Benedetto Ghiglia (1921-2012) never obtained popularity but IMHO here he he composed a functional and interesting score