Last Soundtrack You Bought Or Listened To?

Re-listen through after a while of just cherrypicking tracks, Arthur B. Rubenstein's Blue Thunder. Suspect Adios JAFO had a big thing of Stern's death at the hands of the 'bad guys' when I saw it as a kid.

Delieverd yesterday

Brad Fiedel - Terminator 2 Score

Today:

Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell - Shrek Score
Thomas Newman - Finding Nemo
Alan Silvestri - Night At The Museum 2
Michael Giacchino - The Incredibles
James newton Howard - Treasure Planet

Soul-stirring. My favourite cue from the score.

Love those Lydian fourths.

bought:

Brad Fiedel - Terminator 2
Elliot Goldenthal - Interview with the Vampire
John Frizzel - Alien Resurrection

waiting for

Star Trek the motion picture ext. OST

listening: Dark Knight Rises

in anticipation of the forthcoming purchase [most likely]. Why Do We Fall? jumps to the fore more often than not.

listening Star Trek - The wrath of Khan

in anticipation of forthcoming purchase - The Hobbit (the lim ed version) :cheers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ZgPVt1lmk

brilliant

saint mark wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ZgPVt1lmk

brilliant

Currently at An Ancient Enemy. Very much a continuation of the Dwarven Moria music from FELLOWSHIP. My favourite cue so far.

Time to dig out Tinker Tailor's OST, that is to say...buy

Ian Rich orchestra apparently.

someone has the 'complete/extended TSWLM' OST on youTube but I'd imagine it's bootleg (of course)

something...kinda funky...

SHADO -Variations on a Theme

Went out and listened to some Goldsmith, in this case GREMLINS.

16 January 2013, first Soundtrack buy of 2013


George Fenton - Anna and The King (1999)

Got my Tinker Tailor and Jaws: Collector's Edition discs the other day and gave them a whirl. Though I quite like Iglesias' score (and wonder what a Bond score of his would be like) the Jaws score got the pulses going. But then I suppose such is its nature. Never fails to set the heart-a-thumping with the dramatic music such as Shark Attack or Man Versus Beast and then calmly brought back to earth with the end titles.

John Williams said on Radio 3 this week that he'd love to come back if he were able in fifty years to see what film scores were like with the tech available. A quieter world for sure in 2063 (one way or the other).

Here's hoping for a WIlliams score for Episode VII.

John Williams's most powerful theme.

A John Wayne docu last week played some Barry at the end and I went a searching as I couldn't place it. Turns out it was Walkabout and I've become hooked. It's "JB Tune of the week"



to quote Agutter from an article last week:

Quote :

John Barry’s score evokes perfectly a sense of childhood yearning, a time gone for ever.

Terminator 2 - Brad Fiedel



Always liked this particular track. All done on two heavily loaded Fairlight CMI IIIs. One for percussive sounds, the other for everything else.

The Godfather Theme in Major.

Dangerously close to getting Doctor Zhivago and Taxi Driver before HMV goes the way of the Dodo.

Never really listened to Herrman for my sins. Not outside of watching the movies in question anyway.

Took hold of Doctor Zhivago. Quite like the sound of it, Lara's Theme is something else. The CD curiously, to me at any rate, has three versions of Lara's Theme. Jazz, Rock n' roll and swing versions.

Now, if John Williams or someone could do versions of that type for Battle of the Heroes or some such, I'll be made.

a classy, swinging Airport '75

Listening to the remastered and complete 2 CD album of Frank Cordell's CROMWELL (1970) - released in January this year. The film itself is a pompous bore with a hammy and crass central performance by Richard Harris, but the cinematography is stunning (Geoffrey Unsworth before the diffusion years) and Cordell's score is one of my personal favourites. Stirring and deeply haunting. It has a strong influence from both Alex North in SHOES OF A FISHERMAN mode and Aaron Copeland's Portrait of Lincoln, but also very English in the post-Britten sense.

The chorus singing in English might take getting used to for some - most film scores feature either wordless choirs, or text in Latin or Sanskrit.



I had the pleasure of visiting the Jerwood Library at Trinity Laban Conservatoire down in Greenwich twice last summer to study handwritten manuscripts of several cues from this score. I must say I learned a lot.