Nobody's upset and definitely not with you, mate! :)

Weren't you after Heavy Metal? It was posted two pages ago, I think...

Yes, but I can't seem to download the music if I have to pay on any website because I am using the computer of a library and I don't have my own yet with internet and they havesome things restricted. The only way I can get it is if somebody sends it to me on my email address. Thanks for trying to help me out.

is anyone making any moire action battle packs thoose were great

Just passing by very quickly to thank the recent posters for their contributions and to announce that I'll answer to all recent topics and posts tomorrow (and there's a lot to answer!).

I just came home and I need some SLEEP! Good night and see you folks. :)

HEy, ZIMMEAR IZ GAWD!

Release the hounds.

A conductor exists to bring out the very best he can from a score. To achieve that is the pinnacle of his artistic desires. If what he wants to do is create new art then he's chosen the wrong career! A good conductor is always mindful of the fact that the music is king - and he is just a messenger; a translator, if you will. His job is to deliver the message clearly and accurately - and communicate its exact meaning as best he can.

OK I'm probably going to expose myself as a complete dunce here, but how does a conductor interpret a score? Coming from a rock/jazz background I'll be the first to admit my ignorance on this subject. On the surface, it seems that the conductor controls the tempo and the dynamics of some of the sections as they are performed. Does he also usually re-orchestrate or change score elements as well? All I know is that Charles Gerhard's recordings for RCA kick ass but I wonder if that is because of his solid tempo or clarity of communication with the orchestra? Exactly how does Herrmann or Stokowski mis-interpret the Planets? Thanks!

OK I'm probably going to expose myself as a complete dunce here, but how does a conductor interpret a score? Coming from a rock/jazz background I'll be the first to admit my ignorance on this subject. On the surface, it seems that the conductor controls the tempo and the dynamics of some of the sections as they are performed. Does he also usually re-orchestrate or change score elements as well? All I know is that Charles Gerhard's recordings for RCA kick ass but I wonder if that is because of his solid tempo or clarity of communication with the orchestra? Exactly how does Herrmann or Stokowski mis-interpret the Planets? Thanks!

A score has nothing concrete in it beyond who should play what notes in what order. The rest is vagueness. It tells you to slow down and speed up in the right places, play louder, play softer, etc - but there's no concrete way to represent these things with 100% accuracy.

Sometimes a conductor will mess with the score - there are a number of reasons why he might; some are more justified than others in my opinion. Perhaps the conductor is preparing a piece for performance and he has more or fewer musicians than the score calls for - he might make some minor changes here and there to suit the orchestra. (IE, for Superman II, Ken Thorne made minor changes to the orchestration of the march because his orchestra has two flutes and two clarinets - and Williams' had three.) Maybe the score calls for a particularly esoteric instrument that you can't get or nobody can play - so you improvise and give the part to another instrument, simplify it, or get rid of it all together.

Sometimes he corrects mistakes - published scores have errors, awkward notation, etc. Once again - fair enough.

Where I begin to object - and a lot of other people do as well - is when the conductor actually starts to put stuff in, or take stuff out, for no real purpose other than to do something - to give the Stokowski example - he actually changed the harmonies of chords in The Planets - ie, changed the notes. He gave certain melodies to different instruments, and added various little details here and there that were simply not necessary. He re-composed the ending of Neptune - it is supposed to be a female choir undulating between two chords, fading out gradually until you can't hear them any more. Stokowski made the undultating gradually slow down and the choir then sings the chord in a more final way - it spoils the intention of the music; instead of drifting away into nothingness, it actually ends. This is a clear perversion of what the composer intended.

I don't like Herrmann's Planets personally because I think it's too slow, and too lifeless - but at the same time, that's just a matter of taste and an interpretational thing. As far as I know, he didn't bugger with the score - he just interpreted it in a way I don't particularly enjoy.

Deciding what is unnecessary meddling, and what is simply filling in the missing information you can't get from the score - that's hard work. Sometimes it's harder than others - it depends on what's been done and how much it affects the tone and character of the piece.

If you have a particularly egotistical conductor - or maybe the conductor doesn't like the piece - then all sorts of things can happen. Conductors who also compose tend to be big offenders because they've always got their composition hat on - just like if you're a novellist and you're reading somebody else's story, you can't help but subconsciously re-write it in your head the way you would've done it. Frustrated conductors who want to be composers as well - I know a few; they just won't leave well alone. They're pissed off that all they get to do is interpret somebody else's music and they want their personality to be felt. A good conductor's personality will be felt of course, but one hopes not to the detriment of the music. (I have some personal preferences for conductors - for instance, I like Karajan for Wagner, but I hate him for Beethoven. I prefer Gardiner for Beethoven. They're cases where I think the conductor's personality suits him to the music of a particular composer.)

The conductor creates the balance - it's all well and good to have a score written out for eighty musicians but when they're actually sitting down and starting to play, you realise how hard it is to make sure that everything that should be heard is heard. Orchestration technique creates very different, unique sounds by careful blending of different instruments and if you get the balance wrong, you wreck the colour. For some composers' music this is more important than others - it depends on what emphassis they have in their style.

A score will say, for instance, "Allegro" (fast) and then there will be markers all over it saying when tempo should change. But it will usually just say "slow down" or "go faster" - and give a rough indication of the spread of bars needed to make the change. Does the tempo in/decrease gradually over a period of time, or does it change suddenly?

A similar situation arises with dynamics - a score will give various graduations of "loudness" but the conductor has to decide what that actually means in the real world.

Also, sitting inside the orchestra you get a very bad sense of balance and it's often hard to know how "loud" you're actually playing in comparison to how "loud" everybody else is playing. You hear your own instrument at incredible volume, the people immediately near to you pretty damn loud, and the folk further away very quiet. The conductor will hear who is getting it wrong and ask them (either individually or as a section) to modify their performance.

Gerhardt was a great conductor - and those recordings he made with RCA were just unique - a case of right conductor, right orchestra, right music, right hall, and right engineer. Definitely "in the right place at the right time".

Anyway - those are my views; I do hope that other people will add to this, and that arthierr will forgive me for (once again) dragging the thread off topic... :-[ :-[ :-[

John Williaims - Superman The Movie (2cd)
Conducted by John Debney - Performed by the Scottish National Orchestra
|MP3|VBR256|139MB|1:23:44|
Thanks to esclad for posting LOSSLESS version :333


http://rapidshare.com/files/256681088/JW_JD-STM.rar
PSW: smile
OOPS guys, I tagged the track numbers wrong. The true numbers should be
1. Prologue and Main Title (05:31)
2. The Planet Krypton (04:35)
3. The Destruction of Krypton (05:27)
4. Trip to Earth (02:38)
5. Growing Up (02:05)
6. Jonathan's Death (04:09)
7. Leaving Home (04:46)
8. The Fortress of Solitude (08:22)

CD2

1. The Helicopter Sequence (06:16)
2. The Penthouse (01:50)
3. The Flying Sequence (04:16)
4. The Truck Convoy (01:54)
5. To the Lair (03:56)
6. March of the Villains (03:56)
7. Chasing Rockets (05:12)
8. Pushing Boulders (02:24)
9. Flying to Lois (02:58)
10. Turning Back the World (02:01)
11. The Prison Yard and End title (06:27)
12. Love Theme from Superman (05:01)

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Wow Danny. I think you have won this thread several times over. I think we should change the title to "DannyFrench's Big Orchestral Music Lecture Thread and Thread Where People Share Soundtracks On a Frequent Basis".

Anyway - those are my views; I do hope that other people will add to this, and that arthierr will forgive me for (once again) dragging the thread off topic... :-[ :-[ :-[

Thanks for the lengthy reply Danny! I'm sure there is alot to discuss in this area. I also assume a conductor in a studio recording situation would have some influence over the recording and miking techniques as well?

I agree in any case that re-orchestration to the extent that chords are inverted or durations that are obviously going against the intent of the composer are "bad". Any kind of substitution of real intruments with synths is definitely bad.

In the case of Herrmann (of whom I'm a huge fan) there are widely varying reviews of his conducting. His re-recording of Psycho in the 70s is somewhat "lethargic", yet the original film score is conducted as if he held a riding crop in one hand and a flamethrower in the other. Many people assume his later conducting suffered from declining health, yet in interviews (such as the one in "An Unvarnished Chat with BH") he goes on at length about how each performance is a representation of "living music" and fiercely defends a conductor's option to make drastic changes in tempo. Of course, there's no conductor who will admit "ehh, I was kinda tired that day, whaddya expect"....so who knows. Coincidentally Herrmann worshipped Stokowski, so there you go...

Hey guys, sorta off topic but I just ordered a huge haul of anime soundtracks for cheap.
Doggy Poo Soundtrack CD (yes this is an actual soundtrack)
Fafner Original CD Soundtrack 1: No Where
Fafner Original CD Soundtrack 2: Now Here
Gunparade March CD Soundtrack: Spirit of Samurai
Hanaukyo Maid Team La Verite CD Soundtrack
Hand Maid May CD Soundtrack
His and Her Circumstances CD Soundtrack Act 1.0
His and Her Circumstances CD Soundtrack Act 2.0
Kamichu! CD Soundtrack
Kimera CD Soundtrack
Petite Cossette, Le Portrait de CD Soundtrack
Stellvia Original Soundtrack CD: Sound Wave of Stellvia
I will upload the awesome ones after they arrive :3

herbaciak: Thanks for this new and rare score. I wanted to hear more from polish composers since Garcia posted the fantastic With Fire & Sword (Ogniem I Mieczem) by Krzesimir Dębski. So, why not make some thematic posts this weekend? I'll try to repost here some other polish scores I spotted in the board in the last weeks. Special polish composers posts coming soon!



There's no need to take it personally if someone forgets to type please in their post, especially when they do do it with other requests (this is directed at everybody reading this, not just you). Anyway thanks for the heads-up on the active link.

Where in the world did you see that I took it personally? I was just expressing a basic principle of politeness, and an obvious fact: saying "please" actually increases your chances of having an uploader granting you the favor of a reupload, and saying "thanks" actually increases your chances of having the same uploader granting you again the same favor. Uploading isn't something easy: it takes time, it monopolize bandwidth thus preventing from doing other online tasks, and some people even have slow connection or monthly limited transfer. So when one ask for this kind of service, it's better to show a little consideration for the uploader's efforts.



Please is just a word. Are we to say that just ONE word, alone, has the power to make someone rude/polite?

Personally, I find that idea just a tad bit foolish. It is rather the tone of the sentence that will make the difference, and not the existence of just a single word.

If it's your vision of politeness, and if you consider saying "thanks" or "please" as superfluous, then I see why you didn't thank me when I answered your requests long ago in this thread (Yes, I have an EXCELLENT memory ;)). No need to tell you that people don't even replying after I answered their requests generally go straight into my ignore list.

And yes "Please" is an important word. Between these 2 sentences, which one sounds the more polite and for which one are you willing to make some efforts?

"Narnia's link is down, reupload it"

"Narnia's link is down, please reupload it"

Don't you have the impression that the former sounds (intentionally or not) like an indelicate order? That's why "please" is so important, as Danny said it's a quick and effective shortcut to express the exact tone of your sentence, moreover it's a mark of humbleness and respect towards people from who you expect favors.



Dude sorry but I ain't saying it in a bad way even though I don't even
think there is a bad way to say it rudely but, I just want to get the
song I'm not trying to get people upset or anything.Well if you could
reupload it for me I would appreciate it if not then that's fine too.
But sorry for any problems.

This discussion about politeness wasn't directed at you! It started with a request from another member and my answer to that request. Now about your song, I don't see the problem: Megaupload is free to use, so
you should be able to download it. If it's a bit too heavy, I can repost this
particular song on MU or another host. But for some privacy and security reasons I don't send music by e-mail.


Billie: Happy holidays and have a good time with your friend!


Danny: Excellent posts. I mostly agree with your views, but I also actually like to listen to personal interpretations from various conductors, even though, you're right, the most important is to be respectful to the composers intentions.


And, Sirusjr, thanks a lot for your awesome contributions, as usual!

Just to re-equilibrate the music posting / discussion ratio (:D), here's something I wanted to repost here:



Cloverfield ROAR! (ITUNES) - Michael Giacchino

Thanks to Visculmania

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1236208&postcount=9797





This is the official itunes version - NOT REENCODED. There are some mp3 versions posted in this board, but I really don't recommend them, I tested them and the sound isn't good, they clearly sound like transcodes.


Review by Jonathan Broxton


A silly but enjoyable monster movie written by JJ Abrams (the creator of Lost) and directed by Matt Reeves, Cloverfield stars Mike Vogel, T.J. Miller, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan, Odette Yustman and Michael Stahl-David as a group of young twenty-somethings in New York who, while attending a going-away party, become the unwitting observers of a catastrophe when a huge monster of indeterminate origin begins attacking the city. The film then unfolds in pseudo-documentary fashion, as video taped on a hand held camera by one of the group, as they make their way across the increasingly devastated downtown Manhattan, trying to make their way to safety. To enhance the sense of realism, Cloverfield has no original score in the film itself: the only music comes by way of source material heard at the party, or elsewhere as the characters pass by places playing songs. Michael Giacchino’s contribution, therefore, is limited to a 9-minute ‘overture’ entitled “Roar!”, which plays over the end credits. Giacchino’s piece is performed with great gusto by a full orchestra and choir; it’s a fun, portentous march with a flurry of thrusting cellos, fluttering flutes, resounding brass blasts, ‘aahing’ female voices, and a lyrical, vaguely-oriental sounding string bridge - a blatant homage to the late Akira Ifukube, whose music accompanied all those wonderfully cheesy Japanese Godzilla films, dating back to the 1950s. It’s a superbly nostalgic throwback to the age of studio creature features, and has all the uncompromising seriousness those 1950s scores had, despite the inherent campness and ludicrousness of the film’s subject matter. Definitely recommended.

Thanks for the lengthy reply Danny! I'm sure there is alot to discuss in this area. I also assume a conductor in a studio recording situation would have some influence over the recording and miking techniques as well?

Occasionally... sometimes... maybe.

Some conductors don't have even the vaguest idea how all that stuff works - they're often at the mercy of their engineers. So many great performances have been wrecked by bad recordings.


In the case of Herrmann (of whom I'm a huge fan) there are widely varying reviews of his conducting. His re-recording of Psycho in the 70s is somewhat "lethargic", yet the original film score is conducted as if he held a riding crop in one hand and a flamethrower in the other.

Herrmann's a funny one, isn't he?

This is where it all gets quite foggy. Some people (in the world of film scores, anyway) grow completely attached to the original soundtrack recording and react with anger to a re-recording because it's not exactly the same. Well, the re-recording is an interpretation of said music - an alternative angle on the same piece.

In the case of Herrmann, the rumour ALSO goes that for the original session, of course he is conducting to fit the picture - and at the re-recording session, there's no click track or film to worry about - and so he can concentrate on the music.

And, as you say, the 70s recording of Psycho sounds like everybody was half asleep! I kind-of like it as a piece of music, but I don't think it works as Psycho. Maybe it's a different kind of Psycho - not a frenetic, unhinged insanity - but a more deliberate, inevitable progression to lunacy. From that kind of perspective, it's great - but that's not what Psycho the MOVIE was about. Tough one - very, very tough.


Many people assume his later conducting suffered from declining health, yet in interviews (such as the one in "An Unvarnished Chat with BH") he goes on at length about how each performance is a representation of "living music" and fiercely defends a conductor's option to make drastic changes in tempo. Of course, there's no conductor who will admit "ehh, I was kinda tired that day, whaddya expect"....so who knows. Coincidentally Herrmann worshipped Stokowski, so there you go...

Well, Herrmann was very much the prima-donna. That's the trouble with geniuses - they can't tell when their genius is helping and when it's making things worse, because they're sometimes hard wired with the thought "I'm so clever I can do absolutely no wrong!"

With Stokowski, they were both wildy creative, innovative men who had far, far more successes than failures...

I didn't know Herrmann was a fan of Stokowski, though! I would have thought he would have hated Stokowski with a passion - since he seemed to hate almost everybody else in the world... ;)

John Williaims - Superman The Movie (2cd)
Conducted by John Debney - Performed by the Scottish National Orchestra
|MP3|VBR256|139MB|1:23:44|
Thanks to esclad for posting LOSSLESS version :333


Thank you for this Sirusjr and Esclad.
I have not heard Debney recording of Superman before. It will be my first listen of this version.

For some strange reason i prefer other Williams big adventure scores over Superman. I only play the first half of the score until the "Fortess of Solitude" track, and the concert pieces of the villains and the love theme.
In fact my most favourite single track of Superman is "The Trip to Earth", I simply adore this litlle piece of music. I play and replay numerous times and never can't get tired of it.

Might as well share something relevant to the discussion :)

Bernard Herrmann Conducts Holst's The Planets 192k
http://folk.uib.no/smkgg/midi/soundtrackweb/herrmann/articles/conducting/p/planets200.jpghttp://folk.uib.no/smkgg/midi/soundtrackweb/herrmann/articles/conducting/p/planets200us.jpg

This is not a cover of the recording I'm sharing but I think it's well worth posting anyways :)

Here's an article about the piece in question
http://folk.uib.no/smkgg/midi/soundtrackweb/herrmann/articles/conducting/planets.html

http://sharebee.com/9c92cbfd

Sorry for the low bitrate, not my rip

Now to reverse it, someone else conducting Herrmann...

Bernard Herrmann - Torn Curtain Conducted by Elmer Bernstein 128k
http://www.bernardherrmann.org/articles/interviews/bernstein001/img/original/sp_tor2.gif

http://sharebee.com/38a0db9a

Again not rip so credit to the original uploader
I just recently pulled this out since I was reading an analysis of this score and it's unusual instrumentation. No violins at all, 16 horns, huge percussion section. And apparently Hitch wanted something he could market to the teeny-boppers!

The last 2 were kind of heavy-handed so here's something a good deal lighter.

Bernard Herrmann - The Four Faces of Jazz 320k:

Weill
1. Songs From Three Penny Opera
1a. Mack the Knife
1b. Instead of
1c. The Good Life-Foxtrot
1d. Polly's Song
1e. Tango
1f. The Big Shots- Charleston

Gershwin 2. Variations For Piano & Orchestra On (I Got Rthym)
Stravinsky 3. Ragtime
Milhaud 4. The Creation Of The World


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ICQ22GE5

While googling for a cover image I came across a lossless version as well which can be found here (http://avaxhome.ws/music/mfsl_bernard_herrmann_the_four_faces_of_jazz.html)

Herrmann gets pretty lively on some sections, notably the end of the Weill medley. Not generally considered to be "great" but I enjoy it anyways.

If anyone wants to have the track titles 100% correct on the Superman re-recorded by Debney, i put in the track listing. I seem to have messed up the track numbers somewhat.

Might as well share something relevant to the discussion :)

Bernard Herrmann Conducts Holst's The Planets 192k


Thanks for that - now people can hear it for themselves. :)

Incidentally - Westminster didn't half have some crazy record sleeves... The sixties was evidently a strange era. Get a load of the cover of Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto:



'Nuff said... ;)

...

Fire And Ice by William Kraft.

If you like Leonard Rosenman's score for Ralph Bakshi's LOTR this score will be perfect. If don't forget it!!!

Sample:
http://www.4shared.com/file/118964681/a0a50fb9/01_-_Main_Title_-_Prologue_-_Nekrons_Assault.html

(http://www.postimage.org/)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9T0WUUZ2

Track list

Main Title - Prologue - Nekron�s Assault
Nekron�s Subhumans / Larn Escapes
Teegra�s Theme
Teegra Kidnapped / Failed Negotiations
Teegra Bathes / Escapes From The Subhumans
Swamp Dragon
Teegra Defends
Ruins / Wolves / Larn Meets Teegra
Camp Fire / Bonding
Squid / Recapture
Larn Meets Darkwolf
Teegra In Chains
Foggy Ambush
Roleil / Darkwolf�s Stand
Firekeep
Burnt Witch / Taro & The Men Of Firekeep
Teegra�s Offer To Nekron / Taro Arrives
Nekron Kills Taro
Larn Duels Nekron
Larn�s Flight / Blizzard / Darkwolf Reappears
Dragonhawk Invasion / Juliana�s Death / Darkwolf Kills Nekron / Fire & Ice / St

About the composer:

(http://www.postimage.org/)

William Kraft (b. 1923, Chicago) has had a long and active career as composer, conductor, percussionist, and teacher. In the summer of 2002, he retired as chairman of the composition department and holder of the Corwin Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1981-1985, Mr. Kraft was the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Composer-in-Residence. During his residency, he was founder and director of the orchestra’s performing arm for contemporary music, the Philharmonic New Music Group. Mr. Kraft had previously been a performing member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 26 years – eight years as percussionist, and the last 18 as Principal Timpanist. For three seasons, he was also assistant conductor of the Philharmonic, and, thereafter, made frequent appearances as guest conductor.

During his early years in Los Angeles, Mr. Kraft organized and directed the Los Angeles Percussion Ensemble, a group which played a vital part in premieres and recordings of works by such renowned composers as Ginastera, Harrison, Krenek, Stravinsky, Var�se, and many others. As percussion soloist, he performed the American premieres of Stockhausen’s Zyklus and Boulez’s Le Marteau sans Ma�tre, in addition to recording Histoire du soldat under Stravinsky’s direction.

Mr. Kraft has received numerous commissions and awards, including two Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards; two Guggenheim Fellowships; two Ford Foundation commissions; fellowships from the Huntington Hartford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts; the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Music Award; and numerous others. Mr. Kraft’s works have been performed by orchestras throughout the United States and around the world, including in Europe, Japan, Korea, China, Australia, Israel, and the former Soviet Union. In November 1990, Mr. Kraft was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Percussive Arts Society.

In 2005, Mr. Kraft’s Concerto No. 2 for Timpani: The Grand Encounter, commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, was premiered under Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas with David Herbert as soloist. A significantly revised version of the concerto was premiered in the spring of 2007 by the Hong Kong Philharmonic, conducted by Xian Zhang, with soloist James Boznos; later the same year, David Herbert gave the first U.S. performance at the annual convention of the Percussive Arts Society in Columbus (Ohio), with the Akron Symphony, under Guy Victor Bordo. Red Azalea, an opera commissioned by the Modern Music Theater Troupe (London), was premiered in 2002 at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s New Music Festival, followed by its European premiere in London.

Compact discs completely devoted to Mr. Kraft’s music can be found on the Harmonia Mundi, CRI, Cambria, Crystal, Albany, and Nonesuch labels. Other works have been released on GM, Crystal, London Decca, Townhall, EMI, and Neuma.

Mr. Kraft received his bachelor’s degree cum laude (1951) and his master’s degree (1954) from Columbia University, where he was awarded two Anton Seidl Fellowships. His principal instructors were Jack Beeson, Seth Bingham, Henry Brant, Henry Cowell, Erich Hertzmann, Paul Henry Lang, Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky. He received his training in percussion from Morris Goldenberg and in timpani from Saul Goodman, and studied conducting with Rudolph Thomas and Fritz Zweig.

Hi there :)
Could someone please reupload this: China - The Mystical Land
I would like to hear it, but sendspace link is down :(

Consider this thread de-railed.

Lots to catch up on here. Some great posts and tangental discussion going on! :) It would take a lot more than a kerfuffle over 'please' and 'thank you' to derail this thread.

[..seeing as this proclamation appears aimed at me, I'd just like to point out for the sake of clarity that I was merely suggesting that politeness is to the general good. Clearly the common sense option... How this can be recieved as if contentious is utterly beyond me!]


Occasionally... sometimes... maybe.

Don’t you find it interesting though that the style or ‘stamp’ of certain conductors often seems associated with a characteristic recorded sound. I’m thinking of modern conductors such as Gergiev (grainy, close-miked, fake reverb), Harnoncourt (sharp, dry, compact), Gardiner (huge dynamic range, clear but antiseptic). These observations are enormously subjective I know, and more than partially attributable to the orchestras/venues involved. And there will always be exceptions. But I still feel I do know broadly what kind of sound I’m going to get when I buy a cd featuring any of the above. Perhaps some conductors keep favoured recording engineers to hand, that they feel to be an appropriate fit?

Many of Karajan’s recordings are ruined by dreadful lumpy sound; his style is all about sensuousness and glowing sonority, and shorn of sheen (for want of a better phrase) they come off as rather heavy and uninspired. Of course when the wind is on his side though the results are sublime – Parsifal, Bruckner’s late symphonies, Mahler, Mozart’s C Minor Mass..

Herrmann’s slower take on Psycho has an almost hypnotic effect that I like a lot. But the Decca Phase 4 suite from Jason and the Argonauts, for instance, is just leaden - the substance of the music can’t sustain such slow tempi. Hope this doesn’t also afflict his Planets.

Thank’s dooj17 for The Four Faces of Jazz in particular! Never heard this one. I don’t suppose you have Herrmann’s British music disc? I’d love to hear what he can do with Bliss..

On the subject of Stokowski.. He may have been a meddler, and an egomaniac, but his transcriptions of Bach and such are stunningly beautiful. Moreover, it may have been him (and Walt Disney.. and the ‘Emperor’ Concerto in the womb I’m told) that inspired me to the love I have for classical and orchestral music in general. Fantasia is often the subject of intellectual distain, I know, but I count it as a visionary work (yes, even the sickeningly camp ‘Pastoral’ has its place). Why anyone would interfere with The Planets though – one of the greatest masterpieces of orchestration ever - I just can’t account for. As long as I’m allowed to prefer Stoki’s rich arrangement of Pictures at an Exhibition over the rather lifeless Ravel version then that’s ok ;)

Edit:
Someone requested 'The Sword (Taarna Prepares)' from Heavy Metal:
http://rapidshare.com/files/257298232/19_-_The_Sword__Taarna_Prepares_.mp3

Wonderful post Garcia - Thanks much!!!

Don�t you find it interesting though that the style or �stamp� of certain conductors often seems associated with a characteristic recorded sound. I�m thinking of modern conductors such as Gergiev (grainy, close-miked, fake reverb), Harnoncourt (sharp, dry, compact), Gardiner (huge dynamic range, clear but antiseptic).

Indeed - maybe there IS some conductor influence going on there... who knows? Traditionally conductors have always maintained the "I am here to make a performance - the recording is coincidental" attitude and left the technical side of it to the studio personnel. Maybe they're familiar with the conductor and just tend to aim for a similar sound without being asked. Maybe it's record label interference. Or maybe conductors are nosing around a lot more than I thought!


Many of Karajan�s recordings are ruined by dreadful lumpy sound; his style is all about sensuousness and glowing sonority, and shorn of sheen (for want of a better phrase) they come off as rather heavy and uninspired. Of course when the wind is on his side though the results are sublime � Parsifal, Bruckner�s late symphonies, Mahler, Mozart�s C Minor Mass..

And isn't it ironic that Karajan was probably the most involved of all conductors when it came to recording technology. He was right up there with the developments, pushed for digital recording ("Anything else is gaslight!") and generally oversaw every aspect of the recording process.

Karajan is really really hit and miss for me. When he's good, he's incredible - but to me, he's just not incredible often enough. And when he's average, he's very average indeed.


...The substance of the music can�t sustain such slow tempi. Hope this doesn�t also afflict his Planets.

Ohh, dear oh dear oh dear. ;)


Holst's Jupiter (1926) - 7:01
Holst's Jupiter (1923) - 7:09
Stokowski's Jupiter - 7:13
Leaper's Jupiter (Naxos 1988) - 8:00
Karajan's Jupiter - 8:04
Herrman's Jupiter - 8:43


Holst's Mars (1926) - 6:18
Herrmann's Mars - 8:20

Believe me, IT DRAGS.

Overall, Herrmann stretches The Planets out to 65 minutes - versus the average 40-45.


On the subject of Stokowski.. He may have been a meddler, and an egomaniac, but his transcriptions of Bach and such are stunningly beautiful.

That's true. He was a helluva orchestrator. He just didn't realise that when a piece was already orchestrated, that he should put away his red pen...


As long as I�m allowed to prefer Stoki�s rich arrangement of Pictures at an Exhibition over the rather lifeless Ravel version then that�s ok ;)

I enjoy both. Besides, Pictures is a piano piece - which various people have arranged over the years. Stoki bought a lot to that piece - he completely reimagined it - but somebody had to do it because the composer never did. If a) Mussorgsky was acknowledged as a master orchestrator, b) Pictures had been originally conceived as an orchestral piece, and c) the composer's own orchestration was superbly successful and the only arrangement known for fifty years - and then along came Ravel or Stokowski and re-orchestrated it... THEN I'd be angry. ;)

I have a few tracks that I can share with everyone. I shall get down to uploading them, and I should have them up by tomorrow :) Can't say what they are yet, though, sorry ;)

Herrmann�s slower take on Psycho has an almost hypnotic effect that I like a lot. But the Decca Phase 4 suite from Jason and the Argonauts, for instance, is just leaden - the substance of the music can�t sustain such slow tempi.

Thank�s dooj17 for The Four Faces of Jazz in particular! Never heard this one. I don�t suppose you have Herrmann�s British music disc? I�d love to hear what he can do with Bliss..



I don't have the British film LPs, seen them around but didn't feel like actually paying for them ;). I do have "The Impressionists" (Debussy, Ravel, Satie, Faure, Honeggar) and if there's interest I'll up that. Not one of my favs tho to be honest.

RE - slow Herrmann tempi - I actually took some of those Phase 4 suites and sped up certain cues with an audio editor (Cooledit). Sounded like crap. Since then I've tried to appreciate them on their own terms tho and after repeated listenings they don't annoy me as much. Think of Jason as "doom metal" :). There are some real blunders tho...

Exactly, the slow style is like doom metal or just the droning style of bands like Heaven and Hell or old Black Sabbath. Not that I think very many here would appreciate comparisons to metal genres.

Exactly, the slow style is like doom metal or just the droning style of bands like Heaven and Hell or old Black Sabbath. Not that I think very many here would appreciate comparisons to metal genres.

Actually have you heard King Crimson's multiple live recordings of Holst's Mars? They are awesome if you like that sort of thing. Come to think of it I don't know why a band like Asva shouldn't do Ravel's Bolero - that'd be pretty cool and appropriate.

Actually have you heard King Crimson's multiple live recordings of Holst's Mars? They are awesome if you like that sort of thing. Come to think of it I don't know why a band like Asva shouldn't do Ravel's Bolero - that'd be pretty cool and appropriate.
I haven't but there are numerous "symphonic metal" bands that use melodies from popular classical music and it works nicely I think. I especially like Dark Moor and their rendition of some of the themes from Swan Lake in their latest album.

Now i present the track "Parachute to the Alligators", from That Man From Rio OST, by Georges Delerue.
Delerue is mostly known of his romantic vein and soft melodies. But it's not the case here, with the use of the brass section, much like Barry did on the early Bond movies in the sixties.
The cue itself is not really special, but i find curious to listen a piece of music, with a distinct style that generally Delerue composed in his career.

http://rapidshare.com/files/256881220/Parachute_To_The_Alligators.mp3

Live John Williams concert from Tanglewood was broadcast tonite.

http://www.bso.org/bso/mods/perf_detail.jsp?pid=prod2880019

I was able to record most of ithe mp3 stream (missed the 1st 2 pieces). It's kinda lossy (I think 96k) but if there's interest I'll upload it. Overall not a bad concert at all, my only major disappointment was that they exchanged Korngold's Sea hawk for Williams' Harry Potter. What a gyp! ;)

Live John Williams concert from Tanglewood was broadcast tonite.

I have it complete to 224 kb (considering my recording).

If it is better than dooj17 and you want tomorrow I can upload it.

Best!!!

Lot of interesting discussions and great posts recently, bravo!


Garcia: Thanks for Fire And Ice by William Kraft, your post is extremely well done. And I'm interested in that Williams concert, does it really sound like a 224 kbps? If so could you please upload it.


Dooj17: great series of posts, thanks a lot!


Sanico: this track is surprisingly orchestral in nature. I remember Delerue as a composer writing simpler music, but here he shows that he can also write something more in the orchestral action style, with swirling strings and winds, pounding brasses, and frenetic rhythm.


Announcement: my favourite Goldsmith score coming soon in an expanded version, with my own review. :)

I recently noticed that my favorite Goldsmith score has been posted in an expanded version. This is very welcome, because the original album only had 40 minutes of music, almost half of the full score.



JERRY GOLDSMITH: First Knight (Expanded)

Thanks to mentalmelvin

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1281686&postcount=14076





First Knight is quite an extraordinary score to me - This is probably the Goldsmith score I listened the most. Goldsmith wrote a monumental score for this less-than-average movie, epic and romantic at the highest level. Let's be honest: this story is a wonderful opportunity for a composer to write something really great: chivalry, heroism, treason, romance, in a medieval setting... These themes translate extremely well into music, and hopefully can lead to a grandiose score. This is exactly what happened here.

Two major themes are present in this score, along with other less prominent themes or motifs (Like the Arthur's Fanfare or another short heroic fanfare attached to the character of Lancelot). Both of these themes are extremely beautiful and are among the best themes I've heard from Goldsmith. The theme of Camelot is a noble, majestic, rather heroic theme, perfectly representing the grandeur and epic nature of the story. The Love Theme is a gorgeous romantic theme (IMO the most inspired Goldsmith has written) describing the relationship between Lancelot And Guinevere. It's clearly romantic, but also has a slight dramatic, almost tragic touch to it reminding that this love is a forbidden one.

Besides, another remarkable aspect of this score is the presence of breathtaking action cues: several powerful, nervous, intense cues composed with the usual rhythmic habits of the composer, brought at an even higher level of martiality here. Among those, "Night Battle" (included in my 1st compilation here) is a superb battle track with a very powerful rhythm reminding of Holst's Mars. The most important action cue is "Arthur's Farewell", where a large choir singing in latin is added in order to reach the extreme level of epic needed for the last battle of the story. Gigantic in scope, this furious piece is the climax, the apogee of the score and a true masterpiece in itself.

Overall I can't recommend this score enough. This is what I generally look for in movie music: a grand, powerful, totally desinhibited score, saying "So, you want some epic? Here's some epic!" Goldsmith didn't restrained or moderated himself here, he just let it go and offered a massive and monumental adventure / romantic score for our great listening pleasure.

~ A

I have it complete to 224 kb (considering my recording).

If it is better than dooj17 and you want tomorrow I can upload it.

Best!!!

Garcia27- I would be happy to have your version - I missed the medley at the beginning so yours is definitely better - when you get the chance... - thanks!

Arthierr - I will have to check out the expanded First Knight, thanks! To be honest I had heard the original release and for some reason I wasn't crazy about it, but maybe I was just having a bad day that day (or I was doing the dishes...etc..). I'll listen to it with fresh ears.

My mp3 editor doesn't work at Vista, do you know some other sofware to cut mp3, good for Vista and of course easy to use???


Thanks in advance!!!

My mp3 editor doesn't work at Vista, do you know some other sofware to cut mp3, good for Vista and of course easy to use???


Thanks in advance!!!
Have you tried mp3DirectCut? It always worked fine for me.

Have you tried mp3DirectCut? It always worked fine for me.

Yes, this is the one that I normally use, however when I try to install it in Vista the installation stops I have the next error:

An error prevents this program to continuing:
Could not extract the current file. Access denied.

I downloaded the file from different places and happens the same with all of them.

Yes, this is the one that I normally use, however when I try to install it in Vista the installation stops I have the next error:

An error prevents this program to continuing:
Could not extract the current file. Access denied.

I downloaded the file from different places and happens the same with all of them.
Strange. I've Vista too.... maybe the function "Run as Administrator" can solve the problem.

If it's a problem of extraction, then I'll do a zip and post it here. Just wait 15 minutes. ;)

Edit: I just noticed that mp3DC211.exe can be opened and extracted with Winrar. Try this, Garcia, and if there's a problem, I'll upload it then.

Ok I have a question about this performance of

Max Steiner's King Kong (Conducted by Fred Steiner)


http://rapidshare.com/files/222902756/KingSouthern.rar
PASS: XDD


(not my rip - from pordescargo...)

anyways in Track 4 - Aboriginal Sacrifice Dance - is it me or are the drums out of rhythm with the orchestra? This is my favorite rerecording of King Kong except that this one track sounds "weird". Curious for other opinions...

Strange. I've Vista too.... maybe the function "Run as Administrator" can solve the problem.

That was the problem.

Thanks a lot to both.

Overall, Herrmann stretches The Planets out to 65 minutes - versus the average 40-45.



To jump in on the conversation late... I still think my personal favorite version of The Planets is the one conducted by Sir George Solti. If I can figure out where I put my CD of it I will upload it for you guys. :)

Edit: I just noticed that mp3DC211.exe can be opened and extracted with Winrar. Try this, Garcia, and if there's a problem, I'll upload it then.

Thanks arthierr I finally was able to extract it.

Best

I recently noticed that my favorite Goldsmith score has been posted in an expanded version. This is very welcome, because the original album only had 40 minutes of music, almost half of the full score.

Arthierr, if you like First Knight you might like Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 6, which has actually inspired a number of Goldsmith scores. I'll post it tonight if you haven't heard it.

Here the concert by John Williams at Tanglewood.
...Enjoy!!!

Awesome! Thanks again.

Just curious - how did you record it? As in what software? You said it was 224k - how can you tell what the bitrate is? I played it thru iTunes and recorded as a wav file but it sounded crappy. I'd never recorded a live stream before so I may have done it in a back-asswards way...

Awesome! Thanks again.

Just curious - how did you record it? As in what software? You said it was 224k - how can you tell what the bitrate is? I played it thru iTunes and recorded as a wav file but it sounded crappy. I'd never recorded a live stream before so I may have done it in a back-asswards way...

Basically in this link you can find how I recorded the concert:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-10031813-49.html

I don't know if there is a better way but this seems right.

Best!!!

Basically in this link you can find how I recorded the concert:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-10031813-49.html

I don't know if there is a better way but this seems right.

Best!!!

Thanks. Unfortunately this method will not work with my particular soundcard, I've tried but even the manufacturer says it won't work. What I have to do is this ridiculous hardware reroute of my headphone jack back into stereo inputs etc..- anyways...thanks for sharing this!

Garcia - thanks for the concert. Pity it's 96k, but I guess it wasn't transmitted any better than that... Does nobody have an FM radio in the US any more...? ;)

What is this radio you speak of.
Seriously though, the only decent stations play classical but the reception is terrible because they are transmitted from universities with cheap setups.

Finally got my compilations up! I have two parts available, each one containing various songs by a composer.

TV & Film Action Music Part One: Joe Hisashi (http://www.sendspace.com/file/manz6o)

Contains my favorite action tracks from the films Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.

TV & Film Action Music Part Two: Joesph LoDuca (http://www.sendspace.com/file/01jtc2)

Contains tracks from the TV series Xena:Warrior Princess.

I know it isn't much, but this is my contribution. Hopefully I will introduce two of my favorite composers to others who didn't know they existed otherwise. Enjoy the compilations :)

Arthierr, if you like First Knight you might like Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 6, which has actually inspired a number of Goldsmith scores. I'll post it tonight if you haven't heard it.

Ah, this famous Symphony 6! You already posted an extract of a similarity with this score. Now the full thing would be great to compare.



Finally got my compilations up! I have two parts available, each one containing various songs by a composer.

TV & Film Action Music Part One: Joe Hisashi (http://www.sendspace.com/file/manz6o)

Contains my favorite action tracks from the films Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.

TV & Film Action Music Part Two: Joesph LoDuca (http://www.sendspace.com/file/01jtc2)

Contains tracks from the TV series Xena:Warrior Princess.

I know it isn't much, but this is my contribution. Hopefully I will introduce two of my favorite composers to others who didn't know they existed otherwise. Enjoy the compilations :)

Thanks for these custom compilations, StillAlive1364. It's good to see someone willing to promote some of his favorite composers. There are a lot of Hisaishi fans here, so it's welcome! And I'm a big fan of LoDuca's Hercules / Xena / Young Hercules (if you can forget the huge plagiarisms in them, of course), so you really made some neat choices. :)


Garcia: Thanks for the concert!

A little Vaughanny Williams never hurt nobody: http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?p=1289302#post1289302

Streich - thanks for this. I haven't heard Hickox 6+8. Very fond of the 6th, but I don't hear the influence on FK (Star Trek most definately recalls the stunning second movement). Is it a case of a couple of bars somewhwere being the same? Because the sound world of the symphony is incredibly different.

Thanks for these custom compilations, StillAlive1364. It's good to see someone willing to promote some of his favorite composers. There are a lot of Hisaishi fans here, so it's welcome! And I'm a big fan of LoDuca's Hercules / Xena / Young Hercules (if you can forget the huge plagiarisms in them, of course), so you really made some neat choices. :)

I'm glad you liked them :) Joseph LoDuca is a genius, along with Hisashi :P I'm going to try and upload Evil Dead 2 next.

Lonely Are The Brave (1962, Varese 2009) - Jerry Goldsmith



Posted by Mad777 http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?p=1289467

Description from product page: Without question one of the most historic releases of our CD Club to date! Lonely Are The Brave … finally!! Jerry Goldsmith’s first major motion picture … and hired on the recommendation of the legendary Alfred Newman, no less!

Famous for featuring Kirk Douglas’s favorite of his own performances (the actor inscribed in his personal copy of the script “of all the movies I have made, this is my favorite”), Lonely Are The Brave is a poignant and symbolic modern western. Based on Edward Abbey’s novel The Brave Cowboy, which was adapted for the screen by Dalton Trumbo, the film tells the sad story of a lone cowboy named Jack Burns (Douglas). Increasingly out of place in the world he lives in, Burns struggles to overcome lost love and cling to times past.

Some roads are long indeed. But this one has led to a resolution that now seems so perfectly choreographed and timed. Joining the celebration of what would have been Goldsmith’s 80th birthday, and coinciding with the exciting July 7 premiere of the film on DVD, comes this premiere release of the film’s historic score. That chapters as important as this one are still being added to Jerry Goldsmith’s recorded legacy is nothing short of miraculous.

Even on a project as early as this one, we see that Goldsmith was already composing scores that could be described as among the best he ever wrote. Lonely Are The Brave most assuredly is just that. It is arguably his best western score, written for the best western he ever scored.

In addition to the complete original score, the album contains a number of cues dropped from the final cut of the film. A Goldsmith classic!

The sound quality on this is fantastic considering its age. While it has that older recording feel, it is crisp and clean so that by the middle it just sounds normal. The sweeping themes give it a feeling of adventure, wonder, and epic grandeur. Fans of Goldsmith should marvel at his greatness even from the start.

Norma Rae (1979, Varese 2009) - David Shire



Posted by Mad777: http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?p=1289458


From product description: Another Oscar-winner, this time for Best Song, David Shire’s Norma Rae makes its premiere on this day. The score itself is probably not even all that familiar to most people (or anyone, for that matter) since so little of it was actually used in the film. So this release is a significant discovery, and a worthy and important one at that!

Shire’s score is beautiful and noble. It is poignant and touching. As Shire is so often – it is masterful.

In an Oscar-winning performance, Sally Field is unforgettable as Norma Rae, the Southern millworker who revolutionizes a small town and discovers a power in herself she never knew she had. Under the guidance of a New York unionizer (Ron Leibman) and with increasing courage and determination, Norma Rae organizes her fellow factory workers to fight for better conditions and wages. Based on a true story, Norma Rae is the mesmerizing tale of a modern day heroine. Beau Bridges co-stars.

2009 is the 30th anniversary of Norma Rae so we thought we’d celebrate by premiering its never-heard score by one of film music’s great treasures … David Shire.

Well guys I listened to this after posting it and it is not really orchestral at all. It is mostly country/bluegrass style with a little solo trumpet that seems to play the same melody in the same style on five or six different tracks. It is not BAD per se but probably shouldn't have been posted here in retrospect.

Streich - thanks for this. I haven't heard Hickox 6+8. Very fond of the 6th, but I don't hear the influence on FK (Star Trek most definately recalls the stunning second movement). Is it a case of a couple of bars somewhwere being the same? Because the sound world of the symphony is incredibly different.

It's the opening bars of the 6th symphony heard most prominently in the track Arthur's Farewell.

Gotcha. Don't know why I didn't hear this in the first place!

The performance of the 8th is very good too. It was a little rediscovery for me listening to this one, as it never really clicked with me before. I still wouldn't place it in the upper tier of RVW symphonies - 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 (I can't decide between these for a favourite - they're all so distinctive and consistently inspired!).

Has Hickox tackled the 'Antarctica'?? I don't recall ever seeing one. Might post Hatink's in the classical thread soon :)

http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm?ID=12699
Guys, this has already been flagged-up in another thread, but I think it calls for a big "YAAYYYY!!!" all round :D

I don't know if Hickox got around to the 7th. Alls I know is I kind of prefer the Scott of the Antarctic film score (on Chandos) to the symphony, even though the symphony has much more counterpoint right from the opening measures.

I also have Hickox's Symphony 2, 3, and 4. For 5 and 9 I was extremely satisfied with the Naxos release, and Haitink's Sea Symphony is phenominal. I forget what 7th I have, since I don't listen to it all that often in comparison to the film score.

Really! I vastly prefer the symphony. I couldn't do without the otherworldly organ part in the 3rd movement. The score seems a little bitty and undeveloped by comparison. It's probably because I first encountered the music in its symphonic form, and I've always felt it to be a triumph of film music/classical 'crossover'.

Just today my good friend Zahir passed me two links with the concert (not cut) that was celebrated last Saturday in Ubeda (Spain). Of course the quality is not the best (live recording) however I think that it deserves to be listening. This was the preliminar program:

http://congreso.bsospirit.com/ingles/

Symphonic Concert

PROGRAM AND PARTICIPANTS

DAY: Saturday, July 18 2009

HOUR: Afternoon/night (to be confirmed)

PLACE: Courtyard of the Hospital de Santiago (limited places)

PRELIMINAR PROGRAM (*):
FIRST PART

Aritz Villodas

Bsospirit Hymn

Patrick Doyle

* Hamlet (Swordfight)
* Frankenstein (The Weeding Night)
* Gosford Park (String Folly)
* Corasik (tribute piece for Emma Thompson)
* Hamlet (My Thoughts Be Bloody)
* Much Ado About Nothing (Strike Up Pipers)

Georges Delerue Tribute (Agnes of God)

Joel McNeely Suite from Tinkerbell/Tinkerbell 2 **

Artiz Villodas No Me Pidas Que Te Bese Porque Te Besar�/Don't Ask me to Kiss You Because I will Kiss You

Claudio Simonetti

* La Terza Madre
* Phenomena
* Profondo Rosso
* Suspiria

Michael Giacchino

* Lost (Suite for Ubeda) **
* Cloverfield: Roar! **
* Ratatouille **
* Star Trek - 2009 (End Credits) **
* Up **

SECOND PART Roque Ba�os

* Suite from Torrente (Voice: Santiago Segura)
* Suite from El Coraz�n del Guerrero/Warrior's Heart

Fernando Velazquez Suite form El Hombre Esponja/The Foam Man (Introduced by J.A. Bayona)

Wataru Hokoyama Afrika (Savanna, Sunset, Afrika)

Christopher Young Suite from Hellraiser / Hellraiser 2 **

Sergio de la Puente Suite from El Lince Perdido/Missing Lynx **

Philippe Rombi

* A Man and His Dog/Un homme et son chien(Principal Theme)**
* Angel (Principal Theme/Ouverture) **
* Merry Christmas /Joyeux No�l (Fraternity Hymn)

(*) Definitive information of the concert's program at the hand program given to the attendants.

(**) World Premiere

Here the two parts:

http://www.4shared.com/file/119374425/642ff626/Parte_I.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/119394862/280de184/Parte_II.htm

Best!!!

Thank you Garcia, for this recent Ubeda concert.
I will look forward to listen Giacchino and Philippe Rombi suites.
To bad that Hisaishi concert was canceled for the festival.. :erm:

The part with Claudio Simonetti to the piano is marvelous.

Best!!!

Ps. Listening Cloverfield: Roar and Star Trek. Astonishing !!!!

Lonely Are The Brave (1962, Varese 2009) - Jerry Goldsmith

Thanks a lot Sirusj.

Downloading it !!!

Two videos:

Enterprising Young Men (Star Trek) - Michael Giacchino
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtrsX4Xus4g&feature=channel

Lost (Suite)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_tHVU8ywsU&feature=channel

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Two videos:

Enterprising Young Men (Star Trek) - Michael Giacchino
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtrsX4Xus4g&feature=channel

Lost (Suite)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_tHVU8ywsU&feature=channel

Garcia27 you are really bringing the goods! Thanks! I don't love everything Giacchino does but his Lost scores are up there with Goldsmith and Herrmann's TV work IMHO.

Now if someone would (please ;) ) share the Giacchino Hawaii Lost concert described in the Season 4 dvd set....

Howdy gentlemen,
Just wanted to say that I was hoping to share two new anime scores this afternoon - Tears to Tiara by Takayuki Hattori, and Shin Mazinger Shougeki Z Hen by Akira Miyagawa.
Thanks to the dispicable, money-grabbing scum working in the Customs and Excise department, I'm being stung for an additional �20 just to "release" the parcel from its ransom - and forced to drive for an hour and a half to the courier's headquarters for the privelige. Two CDs including delivery cost me �51. Adding on the disgusting customs fee, we finish up at �71 in total - or �35.50 (That's $58 US Dollars) per CD. What can one possibly say to that?
To the industry: Give people a way to buy the music they want without having to pay appallingly exhorbitant dispatch and import charges - or look forward to piracy continuing to spiral out of control. Piracy may be immoral, but so is fleecing hard-earned cash out of honest people to line your own pockets and subsidise the revenue lost by the pirates. Stop screwing me over - I *buy* your damn CDs! Rant over - apologies, gentlemen.

Thats terrible Danny! While I feel bad for what you have to deal with, I must say that I never have the same sorts of problems with my Japanese imports. Perhaps you need to find a better import suplier or your country just hates Japan. I listen to a lot of European metal/rock and I finally found a US based supplier who imports stuff and sells it for awesome cheap prices so that I don't have to deal with imports.
Good luck on your future imports. I look forward to your posts!

Here's the first of this evening's Goldsmith posts to honour the 5 year anniversary of his passing. Just a short one to begin - two tracks from the oddball score to The Traveling Executioner (1970). It's an unusual mix of New Orleans jazz, gospel and pastoral Americana. The second track here 'The Fields of Ambrosia' is one of the most beautiful and elegiac Jerry ever wrote and, by all accounts, above and beyond the level of film.


http://rapidshare.com/files/258406389/Travelling_Executioner.rar

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Thanks lens, will post some comments when I get a chance to listen.

Lens, Garcia and Sirusjr: Awesome posts, guys! A lot of downloads scheduled for this weekend, again. :)

Tomorrow will be the 1st anniversary of the Orchestral Thread, so it's a great gift from you, a bit in advance. ;) I'm planning to post something special for the occasion, too.

Hello all,

A bit of an unusual one for me - just sharing one track and not the whole score. Apologies - alas, time is not on my side today!

So, here is, quite possibly, one of the finest symphonic themes of all time - regardless of genre.

NHK's pretigious Taiga dramas are certainly known for their scores, and for their propensity to receive impeccable opening themes. I don't think there's ever been a bad one; but for me, 2004's Shinsengumi (composed by Takayuki Hattori) is unsurpassed.

For starters, let's mention a very important fact about the Taiga dramas; they have the world's longest, most intricate opening titles sequences - even by Japanese standards where a minute of opening credits and 90 seconds of closing credits are the norm, the Taiga dramas traditionally receive a full THREE MINUTE opening credits sequence: A magnificent blessing in this world obsessed with speed, ratings, and advertising revenue; that a Television station would allow three full minutes of rousing symphonic music accompanied by credits is surely a testament to the venerable, quality-driven NHK. Certainly another case of "Only in Japan"...

There's not a great deal I can really say about this piece that would do it justice; from my perspective, from start to finish it's a masterclass in melody, orchestration, and form - this, friends, is how it should be done. Structured like a mini-symphony, I don't know of another theme with quite the rousing power that Shinsengumi conjures - like the story it accompanies, it's a potent mixture of bravery, patriotism, pomp, and ceremony.

Accompanied by the absolutely beautiful opening titles of the series (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo5unloWEdc) its greatness is magnified still further.

Takayuki Hattori
SHINSENGUMI (Main Theme)
John Ken Nuzzo, tenor
The NHK Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Junichi Hirokami

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=zcxpssoggx

Does anybody have the Orphan soundtrack by John Ottman?

Richard Wells - Mutant Chronicles
|MP3|320KBPS|120MB|

Originally posted by Grepe
Thread 67831
As Hunter told ScoreNotes.com in a recent interview, the soundtrack for Mutant Chronicles is much more classical and orchestral than might be expected for so unusual a film. Rather than creating an unusual, electronic score, Hunter and Wells chose to approach the music from a traditional direction, one that ultimately makes the compositions easily mistakable as selections from an epic, science fiction Hollywood blockbuster rather than a low-budget Sci-fi action adventure movie. Pulling from both science fiction and horror, the Mutant Chronicles score weaves from one to the other seamlessly. The exciting high notes of violins and other string instruments common to horror film scores were perfectly implemented to establish a sense of the impending action and looming danger that faced the film’s antiheroes, while the eerie, ethereal notes of a choir frequently heard in modern science fiction films heightens the sense of mystery and adds weight to the struggle of humanity against a seemingly inevitable destruction.

Man, I love that score...

Mutant Chronicles - a textbook example of how you can write a modern orchestral score loaded with electronics and percussion, and STILL make it exciting, complex, listenable, and musical - I still believe that electronics/percussion are an unnecessary feature in contemporary scoring, but if you have to have it, this is the way to do it. Are you listening, Media Ventures / Remote Control / Whatever You're Called Today?

Edit: And a fully through-scored End Credits suite! How lovely! I can't be the only person who looks back wistfully on the days where a composer actually wrote some coherent music for the end credits - rather than having some music editor throw together a six or seven minute medley by editing together cues...

Mutant Chronicles movie is kinda lame, but funny and entertaining, so after all... it is cool film:). And score is really surprising. Maybe a bit too much of horror cues on the album, but after all rather good listen (I just love first track:)).

About this japanese drama - for me it's nothing special. Of course it is good track, but nothing more. And I don't like male voices (well, mostly, there are exceptions of course). They just annoy me. No difference here. And about J dramas - if annyone is interested, than I can post Yoshitsune by (one of my fave japanese composers;)) Taro Iwashiro.

And now the main part of my post: Krzesimir Dębski - Stara Baśń (Old Tale) and it's hideous cover art;).





http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UTJSD5K4
password: H4sL0

Hope U'll enjoy it, though it's a bit more "underscorish" than With Fire and Sword (as I remember;)). Still good listen (though 16th track is "kinda" similiar to something else...;)). Except for the last track. Shitty pop song. Just delete it for your own good;).

And one more thing. I just ripped it, so I had no time to check if everything is allright there. So if something's wrong, just tell me.

Hi guys, just discovered Ultraman today, you should give it a try. :naughty:

CDs 1 and 3 are orchestrated.
Thread 61322

I was looking for some "old asian's" music, similar to the "inuyasha" and "romance of three kingdoms" soundtracks, any suggestion?

Try Okami. You can preview the ost here (http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks/7104), I suggest track 125, 234 and 429. The complete packed ost is available here (Thread 55051).

in germany most varese cds come out 2 weeks before the official release date, so i am listening to G.I. Joe right now.Here a short review i wrote in the morning, but you have to know that the electronics only are annoying when you listen to it for the first time. everything else i just fine and even better.

About halfway through the score i was dissapointed by the huge amount of electronic, even if silvestri always has the upper hand in the music. i was dissapointed because there was only a heroic motiv, not a theme.Then the Track The Joes Mobilize comes...8,5 minutes, still full of electronic but total awesome Silvestri Action.And still not the best part of the Album.About 2 minutes in Deploy the Sharcs, the electronics say goodbye and never return. And as if they were a course,from which is he free now, silvestri starts to kick ass. All lot. The Action goes into overdrive, as the Joes attack Cobras underwater base.The cue Final battle is only the beginning of the final battle. Ladies and Gentlemen, Just about close enough is Alan Silvestris most frenetic, most dramatic and even his fastest actioncue ever. And gets even better. The End Credits feature the Heroic Motive as a full blown Theme and these of you who havent cried of joy yet will now. Trust me. The last 20minutes are enough to give it 5 stars.
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If you are listening to GI Joe could you possibly post it for us to hear as well!?

If you are listening to GI Joe could you possibly post it for us to hear as well!?

sorry, i use the ps3�s browser,can�t download or upload and don�t have the slightest idea how to use a computer.so i can only recommend things you should get. and this is one of them.

hahaha, it's you! Small world! (I'm a lurker at a certain other forum where I read a review very similar to that one earlier this morning!)

hahaha, it's you! Small world! (I'm a lurker at a certain other forum where I read a review very similar to that one earlier this morning!)

yupp, i am also member of several filmscore boards, each with an other avatar and name.

something interesting happened:
http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=3434
the important part is at the end of the interview

is anyone making any action packs

is anyone making any action packs

alan silvestri did one hell of an action package. ;-)

Try Okami. You can preview the ost here (http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks/7104), I suggest track 125, 234 and 429. The complete packed ost is available here (Thread 55051).

thanks!
but i was looking for something... more powerful?
Some sort of battle theme.

Today I'd like to post my 2nd most favorite Goldsmith score: The 13th Warrior. I already told it, I'm a big, big fan of the medieval / fantasy / epic genres. Most of my favorite scores belong to them (and to the SF genre). Goldsmith excelled several times in these genres, such as in the recently posted First Knight, or in the fabulous Lionheart (also already posted in this thread - just do a search). Once again he was hired to hastily compose the score for this movie after various productions problems, in replacement of Graeme Revell. Given the rather short amount of time available to do so, he managed to masterfully create one of the most grandiose and epic score of his career. I wrote in my review of First Knight that it was a massive, monumental and immensely epic score - but The 13th Warrior is even beyond that. It's pure power. 55 minutes of unbridled orchestral bombast, of mind-blowing symphonic grandeur, leaving you breathless and in ecstasy. Highly recommended!



JERRY GOLDSMITH - THE THIRTEENTH WARRIOR

Thanks to the original uploader

MP3 320

rapidshare.com/files/83679753/Jerry_Goldsmith_-_13th_Warrior.part1.rar.htm

rapidshare.com/files/83691856/Jerry_Goldsmith_-_13th_Warrior.part2.rar.htm

Thanks for these tons of wonderful posts, mates! Will have to progressively grab each of them ASAP.



;1292594']thanks!
but i was looking for something... more powerful?
Some sort of battle theme.

What you want is more Kaoru Wada. Check out his Ninja Scroll (movie), and Samurai 7, among others.

Thanks a lot for Stara Baśń (Old Tale) and Mutant Chronicles.

Best !!!

Hey arthierr, did you intend to post the complete score for the 13th Warrior? If so... you just posted the original 16 track soundtrack.

Still a great share! I've been a fan for years.

alan silvestri did one hell of an action package. ;-)

i didnt like them im very hard ro plz with music :)

Hey arthierr, did you intend to post the complete score for the 13th Warrior?

Yep. A bit later tonight.

Alan Silvestri - G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
|MP3|VBR256|125MB|Converted from APE posted by Laugiscore (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1293051&postcount=5082)|

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?p=1293137#post1293137
This soundtrack has a bit of synthesizer but also has a few lengthy orchestral tracks.
This album may sound less than perfect because the original CD is confirmed to be mastered from MP3s. It is not a fake, was ripped from original CD.

Ok guys, I got two albums for you that I just bought today on a whim because I found them in the $3 clearance section at my local used cd shop that sells lots of CDS from Japan. These two I bought because they are accompanied by orchestra and while one is celtic I thought this is the best place to post it anyway.


Karl Jenkins - Adiemus_IV_The_Eternal_Knot
|MP3|VBR256|128MB|Ripped from Original CD|
|Celtic/Orchestral/Female Vocals|


http://rapidshare.com/files/259662799/Adiemus_IV_The_Eternal_Knot.rar
PSW: smile
http://www.amazon.com/Adiemus-IV-Eternal-Karl-Jenkins/dp/B00004WC6I


Angels_will_Seek_you_From_Heaven_-_Coba_with_Orchestra
|MP3|VBR256|96mb|Ripped from original CD|
|Orchestral/Accordion|


http://rapidshare.com/files/259651019/Angels_will_Seek_you_From_Heaven_-_Coba_with_Orchestra.rar
PSW: smile
I couldn't find any information about this one online so I had to scan the cover myself. Fantastic album though :3

Well guys it has been quite a while since I have done much of anything, let alone post. I have been quite the non contributing member around here. Well, that is about to change for the better!

I have started work on a fantasy novel that takes place at the beginning of said world. It deals with the first vampire - his life before, his "curse", and his struggle to pure him of said curse.

As one could surmise, I couldn't just write a book. No, I had to listen to it. I made myself an unofficial soundtrack, all comprised of music on my computer.

I am uploading the first 5 songs now. Each has a brief "description" of what is going on in said scene, as well as the original source.

In the mean time, allow me to present you all with the cover art for it!


(http://img190.imageshack.us/i/thevampirenamedkhanunof.jpg/)

0. Main Theme - The First Vampire ('Introitus' from 'A Polish Requiem') (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nghnxntizdc)
I. The Raid on the Bandits ('Main Theme' from 'Demon Souls') (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?f0bjbkgjhdm)
II. The Stage is Set - The Clan of Khan March on the Dragon ('Ashe's Theme from Final Fantasy XII') (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?f0bjbkgjhdm)
III. The Attack / The Death of the Clan / Vladislav Kills the Beast ('Dragonhawk Invasion / Juliana�s Death / Darkwolf Kills Nekron / Fire & Ice St' from Fire & Ice') (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gjjjlwgr2m0)
IV. The Dragon Curses Vladislav ('Welcome Aboard the U.S.G. Ishimura' from 'Dead Space' (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?4iyjqm011wd)
V. A Month Later... Khan Becomes the Vampire ('Gy�rgy Ligeti's Requiem') (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jywdabhj3jm)

James Horner

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn (2009)

Retrograde/FSM Records FSM-80128-2 (http://anonym.to/?http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/soundtrackdetail.php?movieid=6433)



MP3 (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1293490&postcount=14832) - LOSSLESS (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1293769&postcount=5170)

James Horner

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn (2009)


Such a wonder, bi0h4zard!

Does it contain the booklet scans as well?

PS: Yes it does. Sorry about that bi0. I read the other posts.

JERRY GOLDSMITH - CABOBLANCO
MP3-V0 / 66MB / 12 tracks / 39:24
http://rapidshare.com/files/258521548/Caboblanco.rar


Short and sweet, this is a score that might fly under the radar of some. The Main Title is an absolute corker - you won't have heard anything like this from Goldsmith. The action music is from the top drawer too, tense and catchy. And the whole thing is brilliantly orchestrated. There's also a song sung by Carol Goldsmith (Heaven Knows), and several sultry arrangements of the tune 'The Very Thought of You'. I shouldn't admit this, but both make me a little misty-eyed about the lack of Jerry in the world..

Check it out :)

Wow, Adiemus:). I thought that only I listen to this crap;). And I think that Eternal Knot is the worst album by them. All are kinda kitschy, but Eternal Knot is way too much for me. Orchestral/celtic/vocal/choral monster;). BUt I like theirs previous albums. Can post if somoene is eager to listen;).

Bi0: Holy moley!!! I waited for a REAL expanded ST2 for years! And here it is at last. Thanks a lot, dude. :) :) :)


Doublehex: contributions are very welcome, so thank you. The fact that it's a personal artistic project mixing literature and music (and why not graphics?) adds even more value to it. Now just one little complaint: downloading each track individually isn't the best. I suggest you make one or several packs (for instance one for each chapter of your story) including the tracks, some descriptions, and the custom cover. Anyway great idea.


Sirusjr: nice shares! I have to try this Coba album, there could be some good arrangements if it's orchestral. I listened a lot to Adiemus years ago: some really good melodies, a nice performance, but the choir has a weird timbre to me, and the solo singer hasn't a very pleasing voice IMO. Anyway there's some wonderful tracks in it (track 1 from album 1 is awesome).


Lens of Truth: another new *RARE* score from a legendary composer? How many obscure gems are you hiding, my friend?! Thanks a lot!


herbaciak: This new Krzesimir Dębski score is a fantastic post. I'm a very big fan of the one previously posted here, and I wanted to hear more from this wonderful composer, so Bravo!


And now, before I post The 13th Warrior expanded a bit later, here's what the great Garcia already posted some months ago: Revell's rejected score. In fact it wasn't really rejected, it seems the producer didn't even listened to it and just choose to hire Jerry because he was a friend...




The 13th Warrior - The Eaters Of The Dead (rejected score by Graeme Revell) 320 Kbps (no tracks names)

Here one very rare score. This is the rejected score by Graeme Revell for The 13th Warrior.

Usually Revell is not my favorite composer but this composition is really good, probably his best, but it was rejected by Michael Crichton (what a shame for Revell)

In this cd predominates ethnic and eclectic music, although it includes interesting action tracks, as the one with 10 minutes of duration.

Finishing I would like to tell that Revell's work is completely diferent from Goldsmith's one, so don't look for something similar.


(http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pqr7jhr)

(http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gxepImA)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OFXPNHOT

Best

James Horner

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn (2009)

MP3 (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1293490&postcount=14832) -LOSSLESS (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1293769&postcount=5170)

Bi0, thank you tor this.
I won't listen the new tracks until i receive the CD, but for the old tracks this new edition sounds awesome when compared to the old CD.
It's been my favorite Horner score along with Krull and The Land Before Time. Here's hoping thet he can compose something in the same league for Avatar.

JERRY GOLDSMITH - CABOBLANCO
MP3-V0 / 66MB / 12 tracks / 39:24



Short and sweet, this is a score that might fly under the radar of some.
Check it out :)

Wow, this is great - thanks Lens! I usually tend to shy away from Goldsmith Westerns but this is really grabbing me. Also thanks for the description, alot of times I pass on something if all I see is a link and it's a completely unknown score to me.

I'd like to introduce this great place, for people interested in Orchestral music and willing to discover new composers. It's a board where young composers post their music for other people to listen and comment. This particular section is dedicated to orchestral and large ensemble music. Some pieces are quite good so it's worth visiting. Check it out.



Young Composers Music Forum: Orchestral and Large Ensemble

http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/orchestral-large-ensemble.html

Mutant Chronicles movie is kinda lame, but funny and entertaining, so after all... it is cool film:). And score is really surprising. Maybe a bit too much of horror cues on the album, but after all rather good listen (I just love first track:)).

About this japanese drama - for me it's nothing special. Of course it is good track, but nothing more. And I don't like male voices (well, mostly, there are exceptions of course). They just annoy me. No difference here. And about J dramas - if annyone is interested, than I can post Yoshitsune by (one of my fave japanese composers;)) Taro Iwashiro.

And now the main part of my post: Krzesimir Dębski - Stara Baśń (Old Tale) and it's hideous cover art;).


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UTJSD5K4
password: H4sL0

Hope U'll enjoy it, though it's a bit more "underscorish" than With Fire and Sword (as I remember;)). Still good listen (though 16th track is "kinda" similiar to something else...;)). Except for the last track. Shitty pop song. Just delete it for your own good;).

And one more thing. I just ripped it, so I had no time to check if everything is allright there. So if something's wrong, just tell me.

Thanks a lot for this,it's really a great score with big orchestra and epic choir.

Thanks for the last uploads.

The Don Is Dead by Jerry Goldsmith (1973)

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(http://www.postimage.org/)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TPLPF6CA

22 tracks. No names and has a lot of sound effects. Sorry. Only if you have curiosity.

Big Orchestral Action Music:

Extreme Classics (RCA Victor)


"Amazon.com:
With so many compilation CDs billing themselves as being perfect for "romantic moments" or "young minds," it's refreshing to find a CD that attempts to do nothing but get your blood pumping. And Extreme Classics does just that; there's not a single Bach excerpt, and even Vivaldi's summer storm from The Four Seasons couldn't make the cut. Instead, we get snippets of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" (from Die Walkure), the conclusion of Ravel's Bolero, as well as the finale of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. The "extreme" moniker might be a bit misleading (save that for Stockhausen!), but these are great cuts that will have your heart racing. The recordings by included conductors Leonard Slatkin, Fritz Reiner, and Eugene Ormandy are all classics. Crank it up and watch the neighbors complain! --Jason Verlinde"

I have lots of Stockhausen, too if you want extreme - "Mikrophonie I" anyone?


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7AORT9RC

1. Die Walk?re: Ride of the Valkyries - The Philadelphia Orchestra
2. A Sea Symphony: Behold, The Sea Itself - Philharmonia Chorus
3. Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral': Thunderstorm - Fritz Reiner
4. Grand Canyon Suite: Cloudburst - Eugene Ormandy
5. Requiem: Dies irae (Excerpt) - Chicago Symphony Chorus
6. The Rite Of Spring: Sacrificial Dance - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
7. Romeo And Juliet: Montagues and Capulets (Excerpt) - Philharmonia Orchestra
8. El Amor Brujo: Ritual Fire Dance - Boston Pops Orchestra
9. Bolero: Conclusion - Charles Munch
10. Gayne: Sabre Dance - Boston Pops Orchestra
11. Carmina Burana: O Fortuna - London Symphony Chorus
12. Pictures At An Exhibition: The Great Gate at Kiev - The Philadelphia Orchestra
13. Il Trovatore: Anvil Chorus - Rome Opera Chorus
14. Ein Heldenleben: Battle Scene - Fritz Reiner
15. 1812 Overture: Finale - Fritz Reiner

Does anybody have the other "Extreme Classics" compilation?
http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=4880

Bi0, thank you tor this.
I won't listen the new tracks until i receive the CD, but for the old tracks this new edition sounds awesome when compared to the old CD.
It's been my favorite Horner score along with Krull and The Land Before Time. Here's hoping thet he can compose something in the same league for Avatar.

Yeah, seriously. I loved A Beautiful Mind but nothing compares to his early music that really gave you a sense that you were galloping across the galaxy. Even Aliens, despite being more atmospheric in sound, hits this mark at times.

Yeah, seriously. I loved A Beautiful Mind but nothing compares to his early music that really gave you a sense that you were galloping across the galaxy. Even Aliens, despite being more atmospheric in sound, hits this mark at times.

The music of James Horner from the 80s is probably my favorite kind of music (with Williams from the same period). Rarely have I heard such a sense of wonder and enchantment. Aliens is IMO a real masterpiece, with ingenious orchestrations and breathtaking action cues. No wonder why it's been imitated so much by so many composers thereafter.


Garcia: thanks for this new score!

Is it just me, or is The Journey of Natty Gann quickly becoming one of your favourite Horner scores too? I mean, it's a crime this was never released in high quality until now and I've had to listen to the crappy bootleg for almost 10 years!

Is it just me, or is The Journey of Natty Gann quickly becoming one of your favourite Horner scores too? I mean, it's a crime this was never released in high quality until now and I've had to listen to the crappy bootleg for almost 10 years!

It is not only you Streichorchester.
Natty Gann is a very fine score, and it's becoming better and better after each listening.
The theme is gorgeous, and the album contains sublime moments of Americana style.
It is one of those perfect scores for a walk on a sunny sunday in the park :) I'm glad i bought it on time, because it's now sold out on Intrada.

Kotaro Nakagawa - Hayate no Gotoku Second Season Original Soundtrack 1
AKA Hayate the Combat Butler Second Season Original Soundtrack 1
|MP3|320kbps|174mb|Originally downloaded from LonE|


http://rapidshare.com/files/261037661/KN-HnG2S1.rar
PSW: smile
This soundtrack is much more orchestral than the second soundtrack to the first season (which I could barely get into myself). Includes awesome flute, trumpet, strings, and others!

Wow wow wow...O.O so much more music...great thank you very much to all uploaders ^^

Oh, I'm back from my holiday ^^

and i have a new soundtrack uploaded in my WMT-thread

Sekai Meisaku Gekijo Memorial Ongakukan - Romeo no Aoi Sora



World Masterpiece Theater-Collections (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?p=1208457#post1208457)

Okay now ladies and gents, I now have a wonderful surprise for you. Who here has heard of Homeworld?

The franchise that began in 1999 by Relic Entertainment, an engrossing Sci-Fi tale on the futuristic exodus of people from the desert world of Kharak to the Utopian paradise that is their ancient home. Hiigara. Guided by an ancient stone, inscribed upon it the universe, they set off, on a parable of wonder and fear that few mediums could have ever captured nearly as beautifully.

As the battles rage, you look to the stars. The background of the three Homeworld games are beautiful in much the same way that photos from space telescopes are. They are distant, but there is a great wonder to them.

Paul Ruskay worked on all three Homeworld games. Some would say that Jeremy Goldsmith made music in space. I would have to disagree. Ruskay captured the helplessness, the distance, the silence, of space in his music for the games. It is wholy ambient. The closest you will get to the traditional cinematic score is in the first Homeworld's "Tears of Karan", a beautiful melody that perfectly reflects the people of Kharak's sorrow as they see their world being burned, their loved ones still on it being reduced to ash.

Anyways, enough of my rambling! Here are the links. Enjoy. :)

Homeworld

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0XQVKXW7

Homeworld: Cataclysm

http://www.mediafire.com/?mmmm4rdqfwn

Homeworld 2

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U2EO1355

Welcome back Billie! I got many new scores in yesterday so expect many awesome posts over the coming week! I have to listen to them to decide if they are worthy of this thread!

Kotaro Nakagawa - Hayate no Gotoku Second Season Original Soundtrack 1

Thanks, I've been looking forward to this one. What a crushing pity that there was no budget for an orchestra though... Still, a very fun score!

Thanks, I've been looking forward to this one. What a crushing pity that there was no budget for an orchestra though... Still, a very fun score!
Indeed! Can't wait for 07Ghost and Cross Game soundtracks to get released (more Kotaro Nakagawa). When they do, i plan on making a Nakagawa thread to share my collection. I really wish more of his scores would get US release along with the anime. Thankfully so far Bandai has been kind enough to package the Code Geass soundtracks with the limited edition versions of part 1 and 3 of season 1. As much as I love anime soundtracks, few are worth the crazy $25 they tend to cost to import considering they are usually single-disc affairs.

Too right. I'm going bankrupt trying to keep up with all the scores I need to buy. Particularly when, considering the cost of the disc, postage, and customs fee, you're looking at $50 per CD. It's daylight robbery. Put the bastarding things on Itunes for �7.99 and I'll be a happy chappy.

Yeah, that is why I am so glad I got my recent haul of anime soundtracks for around $5 each on a recent sale.

Too right. I'm going bankrupt trying to keep up with all the scores I need to buy. Particularly when, considering the cost of the disc, postage, and customs fee, you're looking at $50 per CD. It's daylight robbery. Put the bastarding things on Itunes for �7.99 and I'll be a happy chappy.

Not unless you are one of those chaps like me who demand to have the physical copies of anything and everything he forks his money over for.

Not unless you are one of those chaps like me who demand to have the physical copies of anything and everything he forks his money over for.

Well, I'd certainly prefer to have a physical copy, but my main aim is to be legal. Particularly for some scores which are.. shall we say, not particularly important to me - throwaway fun, etc - then if I can get them quickly and cheaply as downloads then that seems like a far better bet than paying exhorbitant prices, import fees, and postage. ;)

Don't get me wrong - it would be LOVELY if there was some SENSIBLE way we could actually buy the CDs - without moving to Japan or paying for imports... I don't see any solution coming soon - the Japanese record companies obviously make MORE than enough money from sales domestically (as evidenced by the fact that almost every note of music - film, television, theatre alike - is automatically given a soundtrack release). It's hardly worth their while to set up a local operation, or offer discounts to overseas purchasers - because our numbers are sufficiently low that, in the world of business, we literally do not exist. If they can sell twenty five million copies of some random crap Anime disc in their own country, they're hardly going to bust a gut to make it easily available to the, probably 500 buyers across the Western world who'd be interested. Really sad as I think more and more of us are looking increasingly to the East to satisfy our need for good music. When a Japanese cartoon show receives a better orchestral score than a Hollywood epic blockbuster, you know you're in trouble.

Well, I'd certainly prefer to have a physical copy, but my main aim is to be legal. Particularly for some scores which are.. shall we say, not particularly important to me - throwaway fun, etc - then if I can get them quickly and cheaply as downloads then that seems like a far better bet than paying exhorbitant prices, import fees, and postage. ;)

Don't get me wrong - it would be LOVELY if there was some SENSIBLE way we could actually buy the CDs - without moving to Japan or paying for imports... I don't see any solution coming soon - the Japanese record companies obviously make MORE than enough money from sales domestically (as evidenced by the fact that almost every note of music - film, television, theatre alike - is automatically given a soundtrack release). It's hardly worth their while to set up a local operation, or offer discounts to overseas purchasers - because our numbers are sufficiently low that, in the world of business, we literally do not exist. If they can sell twenty five million copies of some random crap Anime disc in their own country, they're hardly going to bust a gut to make it easily available to the, probably 500 buyers across the Western world who'd be interested. Really sad as I think more and more of us are looking increasingly to the East to satisfy our need for good music. When a Japanese cartoon show receives a better orchestral score than a Hollywood epic blockbuster, you know you're in trouble.

Well said, good sir. Well said. And I agree on every point.

Yeah, too bad Geneon went under because a lot of the soundtracks that got released over here were under their label.

So guys, have any of you listened to the Homeworld scores I have uploaded?

I will be. I'm downloading them at the moment. I love these scores, especially the original rendition of the adagio for strings.

Thanks for these.

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So guys, have any of you listened to the Homeworld scores I have uploaded?

Don't want to rain on your parade Doublehex, but these aren't orchestral at all. They sound more synth/chant/ambient. You might be best starting a separate thread for them, where they'd get more attention from fans of the games.

Don't want to rain on your parade Doublehex, but these aren't orchestral at all. They sound more synth/chant/ambient. You might be best starting a separate thread for them, where they'd get more attention from fans of the games.

And yet I seem to remember quite well that some non orchestral music was posted in this very thread!

I think this thread had evolved into more of an "Post music that we people with fine taste will enjoy and debate and communicate on endlessly" thread.

New Upload in my WMT - thread, enjoy this sad and warmtouched soundtrack

Dog of Flanders - Original Japanese Soundtrack

http://vdzyoq.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pT5F-vUVA2Yg6IFMctAc_FKYMNJYKcOoXW31QN6p2qPBzT5SQSLAYRx LdJsJYnAFKaDnCep_ox8PyJ7-EP8RRVA/The%20Dog%20of%20Flanders%20OST.jpg

World Masterpiece Theater - Collection (Thread 63760)

@Lens
Wow, Elmer Bernstein, thank you very much for this ^^


Welcome back Billie! I got many new scores in yesterday so expect many awesome posts over the coming week! I have to listen to them to decide if they are worthy of this thread!
Thanks Sirus ^______^ *HUG*
Wow, more soundtracks from your side...GREAT GREAT *______*, more to listen, thank you very much in advance ^^

Sorry for my lack of presence these days, guys, but I took some holydays, but I'll try to connect occasionally from a local cyber store.


And yet I seem to remember quite well that some non orchestral music was posted in this very thread!

I think this thread had evolved into more of an "Post music that we people with fine taste will enjoy and debate and communicate on endlessly" thread.

Sorry to somewhat contradict you, but this thread is clearly meant for orchestral music, even though there's been some posts from different nature at times, but as much as possible, this should be avoided. A line must be drawn at some point, or people will start posting anything: rock, pop, reggae, or my personal favorite: RAP MUSIC! (irony intended)

That said the fact that you try to contribute is greatly appreciated, but what Lens said is the perfect truth (hence his name!). I know the Homeworld OSTs and clearly remember they were synth/chant/ambient, thus not really in the vein of this thread.

Try again :) You surely must have an orchestral score you really enjoy and wish to share with other people here, along with some personal notes or a review explaining why you enjoy it so much. That's the way this thread has REALLY evolved, in fact.


SORRY if I don't answer to every latest posts. I have not much time in my hands right now, but I will be more active in a week or so. But of course a big THANKS to every poster, as usual. :)

And yet I seem to remember quite well that some non orchestral music was posted in this very thread!

I think this thread had evolved into more of an "Post music that we people with fine taste will enjoy and debate and communicate on endlessly" thread.
I try to keep my off-topic posts to stuff that is maybe not orchestral but at least uses mostly live instruments and has a good melody. I try to shy away from electronic stuff unless it is mixed with orchestral stuff because I am just not that huge of a fan. Of course I don't have any problems with slightly off-topic instrumental stuff but there just may not be as much of an interest in it here as you might find in something like the avant garde thread or if you gave it a separate thread.

Well, the way I saw it, it wasn't orchestral in the literal sense - use of live instruments - but it is undeniable that all 3 Homeworld games have a layer of complexity and musical layers to the songs. The Homeworld music is more akin to the Matrix trilogy musically. It is very hard to define it in the musical sense, but there is still a steady and caring hand that guides each note.

So, I was certainly linking the HW music here with the idea that that it was orchestra in the philosophical sense.

And come on! This is music after all. We can hardly limit something to as rigid of a definition as "has to use live music". :)

Presenting a surprise excellent score - for the second from last installment of a very popular, venerable game franchise - Star Fox...


STAR FOX ASSAULT
Original Orchestral Score
Original Star Fox Themes by Koji Kondo and Hajime Wakai
Additional Music Yoshie Arakawa and Yoshinori Kawamoto
Performed by The Tokyo New City Orchestra
Conductor unknown



This is the best version of the score currently available. I have removed the non-orchestral tracks. If anybody wants them I'll upload them.
Remaining is ~50 minutes of magnificent sci-fi music - proud brass, trilling woodwinds, rolling timpani, militaristic snares, and big themes.

There is a gamerip and a short (~15 mins) promotional album for Star Fox Assault. I have combined tracks from both to provide the most complete, best quality edition of the score.

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=vvn4fhjotu

[Edit: Fixed dodgy crediting and also spelled "orchestral" correctly in the header!]

Remember when we were discussing the true intentions (and tempos) of composers for performances their work? Well, we need someone to up this :

http://www.amazon.com/Composers-Person-Box-Set-CDs/dp/B001EX5CH8/ref=pd_sim_m_7

Please? It's only 22 CDs heh

GREAT COMPOSERS - ELMER BERNSTEIN
MP3-V0 / 99MB / 16 tracks / 59:05
http://rapidshare.com/files/261218980/Bernstein_Great_Composers.rar

Thanks a lot for this Lens.

Best!!!

*** PLACEHOLDER ***

COMING SOON

Cuuuuuuurse youuuuu!!!!!

Remember when we were discussing the true intentions (and tempos) of composers for performances their work? Well, we need someone to up this... Please? It's only 22 CDs heh

Well, I have the Gustav Holst / Edward Elgar disc!

Fascinating stuff in there - though I expect most of those remasterings have been overtaken now - this set is a good fifteen years old now. They're excellent remasterings for the time, but digital noise reduction in 1992 wasn't what it is now - some truly exciting techniques have been developed in recent years that really blow these discs out of the water.

As far as true intentions and tempos are concerned, I wouldn't place too much stock in these recordings. 78rpm records were limited to between three and four minutes per side, and it's well known that record companies placed considerable pressure on players to rush through their performances (and make occasional cuts) so that a given piece would fit on one side of a record without interruption - or at the very least, so that it could be broken into two parts at a musically convenient moment.

This maniacal attitude turned so many potentially great performances into high-speed farcical abominations. Why great composers and artists agreed to it so readily I have no idea...

For a true idea of composers' actual intentions, we would have to do something impossible: Travel back in time and buy tickets to their live concerts. I'm probably a real sad git for saying this, but if I had a time machine it's the very first thing I'd do.

As some of you are probably aware by now V@g0$ FM had a bit of a cleaning out recently. I mean, fucking eviscerated.

So now I'm really digging Rozsa's Spellbound Concerto (Bernstein) and thinking: I need that Miklos Rozsa : A Centenary Celebration 3CD now, let me go and grab it, I always keep putting it off - and of course it's gone.

So if anybody did grab that while it was up, I'd be real happy if you could re-up it to megaup or somesuch - thanks!

(and the lesson is - never download tomorrow what you can download today ;) )

As some of you are probably aware by now V@g0$ FM had a bit of a cleaning out recently. I mean, fucking eviscerated

WHAT?

That place was a goldmine. I'm there now - it looks pretty busy in the film music section to me... What's gone? How, why, when, by whom? :(

Edit: Ah... all the damn links are dead. Yikes. There goes Leyenda MK II.

Edit again: Stupid me, I actually didn't answer your question - sadly, I didn't get it either. It must be available elsewhere though. I dare say we'll dig it out.

Danny: I just downloaded Star Fox: Assault, and I am already in love it. There is not enough trully orchestral works in videogames anymore, and listening to SF: Assault is just pure bliss. I love it!

I am in a dark mood if my tastes for music, so I will be uploading Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction in a single .rar. Completely orchestral, dark and brooding. I am a personal fan of everything from Lord of Destruction - it has a more fantastical whim to the darkness. Diablo II is pure fantastical horror... and it is all good stuff!

Thanks for Star Fox Assault Danny! I will check it out.
And with vagos, i mostly use that place for my metal needs so new links are all good for me. Just gotta grab them quick.

A pedant's note on Star Fox:

Almost the entirety of the tracks in Assault are straight-up orchestrated arrangements of the music written by Koji Kondo and Hajime Wakai for Star Fox 64, so really they ought to recieve the composer credit ;)

I swiped the Rozsa Centenary set a while ago. The quality isn't great at 160kbps and some of the performances are a bit ropey. It's worth it though for great stuff like Eye of the Needle.

Edit: God, the tags are all over the place! I'll do my best to tidy up this mess :)

Quite right. I will amend the post accordingly. Apologies for my foul-up... :)

There are some original pieces too. I think 'Oikonny's Fleet' is one of them. Don't remember this from 64, and it's one of my favs :)

So, for those of us who care to amend the tag mistakes ourselves, who did what?

Koji Kondo and Hajime Wakai:
Main Theme
Briefing 1
Fichina
Briefing 2
Corneria
Katina
Sargasso Space Hideout
Meteo
Game Over
Star Wolf Theme
Ending Credits

(These are the ones I know are from 64/Lylat Wars)

Yoshie Arakawa and Yoshinori Kawamoto:
The Rest

:)

At this stage, I would like to point out that the tags weren't mine. I'm just the messenger. I just combined the contents of two albums and shoved them into a RAR. ;)

So now I'm really digging Rozsa's Spellbound Concerto (Bernstein) and thinking: I need that Miklos Rozsa : A Centenary Celebration 3CD now, let me go and grab it, I always keep putting it off - and of course it's gone.

Just in this moment I placed my order. I didn't know about this compilation and is great.

I had to buy it !!!

Best !!!

Thanks everyone for the latest contributions.

Just wanted to say that in the next week, i'll be out on vacations, and won't be able to be online, so this only a see you soon post.

+___+

Bye bye...and a big hug XDD

Hamlet by Patrick Doyle

(http://www.postimage.org/)

http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=e93c684bbc098bb181be5e98b35899dc

Track listing

1. In Pace (03:07)
Sung By Placido Domingo
2. Fanfare (00:48)
3. "All that lives must die" (02:40)
4. "To thine own self be true" (03:04)
5. The Ghost (09:55)
6. "Give me up the truth" (01:05)
7. "What a piece of work is a man" (01:50)
8. "What players are they" (01:33)
9. "Out out thou strumpet fortune" (03:11)
10. "To be or not to be" (01:53)
11. "I loved you once" (03:27)
12. "Oh, what a noble mind" (02:41)
13. "If once a widow" (03:36)
14. "Now could I drink hot blood" (06:57)
15. "A foolish prating nave" (01:05)
16. "Oh heavy deed" (00:56)
17. "Oh here they come" (04:39)
18. "My thoughts be bloody (02:52)
19. "The doors are broke" (01:20)
20. "And will 'a not come again?" (01:59)
21. "Alas poor Yorick" (02:49)
22. "Sweets to the sweet - farewell" (04:39)
23. "Give me your pardon, sir" (01:24)
24. "Part them they are incensed" (01:47)
25. "Goodnight, sweet prince" (03:36)
26. "Go bid the soldiers shoot" (02:52)

Total Duration: 01:15:45

Review:

The Triumph of the Prince: Patrick Doyle and Kenneth Branagh's film William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Let's talk about film not as it is, but as it could be. Film as art at the highest level, made without compromise or undue consideration of commerce. Imagine a world in which a major filmmaker could approach the greatest play ever written, and even if that play took four hours to perform, present it complete. Imagine if that filmmaker could bring to the play a fine cast, a supreme technical department and an utterly coherent vision, making the great play relevant to modern audiences. Imagine if that filmmaker could work to the highest standards of presentation, shooting a ravishingly beautiful film in 70mm, creating a work of staggering visual beauty which dwarfed all completing films. Surely for such a film there would be a level of anticipation to rival any previous spectacle? Yet in 1996 such a film was made, it was William Shakespeare's Hamlet, directed by Kenneth Branagh, with music by Patrick Doyle, and it was all but ignored, by critics and public alike.

This article will discuss some aspects of Patrick Doyle's score, and hopefully lead at least some readers reconsidering what the most under-rated film in the entire history of cinema - least some consider this claim unwarranted hyperbole, it is made after 30 years of very regular cinema going and thousands of films seen. Let me first make clear what is being discussed here. When talking about the film I am referring to seeing it in its full-intended majesty in 70mm, with 6-track sound perfectly presented on a screen measuring some 50' wide. This is an entirely different experience to seeing the 35mm reduction on a small multiplex screen, or even worse, enduring the disgracefully grainy and ill-defined video transfer. Seeing the film in 70mm brings the world of the drama fully alive, such that we enter fully into it and the four hours slip by far quicker than many films running less than half that time. When talking about the music score I am referring to the music in its intended context, as a part of the film, unless of course, specifically referring to the soundtrack album. However, I shall sometimes use the titles from the album, which are almost all lines from the play, as an easy way of refering to a particular scene.

First some context: Kenneth Branagh and Patrick Doyle have been working together for well over a decade, with Doyle originally a part of Branagh's Renaissance Theatre Company. They made their cinema debut together with Branagh's outstanding film version of Shakespeare's Henry V, and have since collaborated on Dead Again, Much Ado About Nothing, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, William Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the forthcoming Love's Labour's Lost. The only Kenneth Branagh directed films he hasn't scored are the comedies Peter's Friends and In the Bleak Midwinter.

Following Doyle's acclaimed scores for Branagh's previous Shakespeare films, Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing, a first encounter with Hamlet via the soundtrack CD may give the impression of a disappointingly understated and subdued score. While the song 'In Pace' (derived from material from the themes for both Hamlet and Ophelia), sung by Placido Domingo, which opens the album, can sound overly theatrical. These first impressions may be difficult to overcome. On screen the song plays over the first half of the end titles, a fittingly operatic requiem as the finale to four hours of high drama, in which context it is as powerful and moving as any song ever written for the screen. Clearly it should come in place at the end of soundtrack album, but was doubtless placed at the beginning to capitalise on Domingo's name. Otherwise the disc is sequenced in film order, and while some cues are inevitably missing (most notably a solemn version of the main theme played on a church organ during an early scene between Ophelia, played by Kate Winslet, and her father and brother, played by Richard Briers and Michael Maloney), it does provide an excellent representation of the full score.

Doyle has crafted a complex score, fully supporting and greatly enhancing Brannagh's vision of Hamlet. The traditional approach has all too often lost any sense of tragedy. Elsinor is portrayed as a place of gothic gloom and misery, and from the onset Hamlet, Prince of Denmark a tormented soul. In such a version there can be no essential tragedy, for there is nothing to lose. Branagh makes Elsinor a place of light and beauty and joy. Hamlet, played by Branagh, is a happy young man, cheerfully in love with his beautiful girlfriend, Ophelia. Tragedy comes via murder and incest, which strikes a rotten blow of corruption at the very heart of the kingdom. Here, as is John Boorman's brilliant version of the Arthurian mythos, Excalibur, "the land and the king are one", such that when a corrupt king, Hamlet's uncle, who has murdered Hamlet's father, Claudius (Brian Blessed), and married his brother's wife, takes to the throne, the land itself is thrown into chaos.

The first semblance of music we hear is a church bell (there is no main title sequence), suggesting the toll for the dead, and soldiers on watch in the dark and snow. This uncanny atmosphere gives way to powerfully staged supernatural terror as Claudius's ghost incarnates through a statue of himself. Thus it becomes immediately clear what is wrong in this demi-paradise, such that while much of the score will be noble, majestic, suffused with an almost Elgarian sense of tragedy, Doyle is able to conjure a virtuoso 10 minute sequence for the main appearance of this apparition. Here Doyle follows Hamlet on a frantic chase through the darkling forest, taking the score into wild, pulsating atonal territory, using the device of a continually restless canon for Claudius, and hence into stark scoring for a bleakly modern string quartet. On screen the ghost of Hamlet's father recounts the crimes committed by his brother, and this is a very real ghost, no Freudian figment of the imagination. Rather, here is a restoration to the play of a world Shakespeare would have recognised, in which people had no difficulty in accepting the reality of the supernatural. Afterwards nature itself rebels, lightening crashes, the very earth sundering in response to the evil destroying the land. Doyle, summoning the fury of the elements unleashed, helps to craft one of the most breathtakingly visionary sequences ever put on film.

Branagh's approach to the play emphasises clarity of purpose and understanding, and Doyle is in his element with subtle underscoring of the key soliloquies of the play. He takes us deep into Hamlet's mind, with the brooding atmosphere of the "To be or not to be" sequence exploring the sonic soundscape territories akin to Jan Gabarek's Nordic jazz. A harp plays through the pastoral melancholy of the music for the speech "If once a window", a folk-like sense of loss and foreboding emerging from the most plaintively beguiling melodies. Elsewhere Doyle's central theme for Hamlet is a work of wondrous lyricism, capable of expressive pain, heroic nobility and many shades between, while a secondary theme for Ophelia has a simple, haunting loveliness, which captures the tragedy not just of a love denied, but a life sacrificed.

Before the intermission Doyle builds the drama to a new height, with Hamlet in the winter snows, an invading advancing army far below, as the Prince of Denmark declares "My thoughts be Bloody" and imperious drums sound a defiantly rousing tattoo. Here, as clearly as anywhere, the influence of the epic 1967 Russian version of War and Peace can be witnessed on Branagh's bold conception of Shakespeare's version of similarly universal themes.

After the intermission, which comes exactly two-thirds of the way through the film, Branagh builds the remaining 80 minutes like a relentless thriller, aided by Doyle's intensely powerful writing, escalating the drama to an epic fever pitch such as the screen has rarely seen. The final sequences of betrayal and slaughter in the throne room achieve an extraordinary sense of the timeless intensity of destiny being fulfilled before ones very eyes and ears. Yet inter-cut with the arrival and storming of Elsinor by the invading army, come to restore the just rule of law, the film presents a sense of tragic sacrifice made heroic and necessary, Hamlet's death a vital atonement for the restoration of the land. Tellingly, the music moves from violence to choral lament, through the mourning of 'In Pace', to the celebratory triumph of the latter part of the end titles (by which point 99% of the audience has left the auditorium) such that, as in all the greatest films, the story is told through the music. Hamlet continues through the titles, the song rightfully sorrowful for life lost so young and in the prime of love, yet rising to a heroic finale entirely in keeping with Branagh's vision, in which the final image is a statue of Hamlet being demolished and unceremoniously removed. The tragedy is over and now life can go on, the kingdom renewed. The final effect is exhilarating, uplifting almost transcendent, a testament to the overwhelming power of absolute cinema.

In an era of small, intelligent films, and big but empty blockbusters, William Shakespeare's Hamlet towers over everything else the decade has produced. Branagh's film is a monumental achievement, quite simply one of the very finest films ever made, and instrumental in this quality is the superb musical score by Patrick Doyle. If you have never seen this film properly, and given that there were on only two 70mm prints made for the UK, and few cinemas left in this multiplex era capable of showing them it is not an easy thing to do, then do make it a priority. Forget all other films, except perhaps the previously mentioned War and Peace, for this is the one to see. If there is a cinema with a 70mm projector near you, pester the management until they relent and show it. If not, travel to the next available screening. But whatever you do, see it, this is real cinema, and Patrick Doyle's score is an integral part of the glory of William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Reviewer

Gary S. Dalkin

Best!!!

Just wanted to say that in the next week, i'll be out on vacations, and won't be able to be online, so this only a see you soon post.

+___+

Bye bye...and a big hug XDD

Enjoy your free time !!!

Just in this moment I placed my order. I didn't know about this compilation and is great.

I had to buy it !!!

Best !!!

I really like the Spellbound Concerto on this thing (which someone else already shared here - thanks!). Actually one of the few rerecordings I prefer over a Gerhardt of same. I think it's funny tho that Charles Gerhardt calls his Rozsa record "Spellbound, Classic film scores of MR" - and then has a 5 minute Spellbound cue and that's it!

Thanks Garcia. I'm a big fan of Patrick Doyle's soundtrack for Carlito's Way, so I'm looking forwards to listening to this.

Hello. Does anyone have some good opera soundtracks they'd like to share. My Itunes is a little empty. Any sort of opera music will help - huge opera fan here :D

Thanks for Hamlet :)

.

Okay guys, here is something that may catch your fancy. The soundtrack to Diablo II, and its expansion pack, Lord of Destruction.


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NUPQB7YB

Thanks everyone for the latest contributions.

Just wanted to say that in the next week, i'll be out on vacations, and won't be able to be online, so this only a see you soon post.

+___+

Bye bye...and a big hug XDD

Oh I wish you a very great vacation and come back alive X3 *HUUUUG*
I miss youuuuu~ *HUGHUGHUG*

As i mentioned earlier, i recently purchased 11 anime soundtracks online for $5 a piece (one is not fitting for this thread so will not be posted). Having ripped them all, scanned cover art, and listened to them to determine the suitability for posting in this thread, I thought it would be good to start with a sampling of what is to come. I sort of randomly picked nice tracks from the albums which may or may not represent the general feeling of the album as a whole. If you want the full albums, they will be coming up eventually so only request if you can't wait for something because I haven't picked the order yet. I use the cover art for Doggy Poo (1) to show you it is a real soundtrack (2) because it is KAWAII and (3) because I will post it first after the pack :3.


Sirusjr's Anime Sampler Pack
|MP3|VBR256|38mb|10tracks|

Tracklist (may not be in order when unzipped):
Format: Album - composer - track
Doggy Poo Soundtrack - Yiruma - All Myself to You.mp3
Hand Maid May - Toshio Masuda - The Ladder.mp3
Kamichu - Yoshihiro Ike - It's Bad Karma!.mp3
Kanaukyo Maid Team La Verite - Michiru Oshima - Everyday Radiant.mp3
Sound Wave of Stellvia - Seiko Nagoka - Sense of Fullfilment.mp3
Gunparade March - Kenji Kawai - The Strained Marhc.mp3
His and Her Circumstances Act 2 - Shiro Sagisu - Yukino Miyazawa V (Nocturne for Strings).mp3
His and Her Circumstances Act 1 - Shiro Sagisu - Everyday Peace.mp3
Fafner OST1 No Where - Tsuneyoshi Saito - Comrade.mp3
Fafner OST2 Now Here - Tsuneyoshi Saito - Time of Happiness.mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/262202483/Sirusjr_s_Sample_Pack_1.rar
PSW: smile

Doggy Poo - Yiruma
|MP3|VBR256|90mb|Ripped from Original CD|
|Piano centric, relaxing, peaceful|


http://rapidshare.com/files/262211743/Doggy_Poo.rar
PSW: smile

Kamichu - Yoshihiro Ike
|MP3|VBR256|102mb|Ripped from Original CD|
|Warm, Adventurous, peaceful|


http://rapidshare.com/files/262219072/Kamichu.rar
PSW: smile

Hanaukyo Maid Team La Verite OST - Michiru Oshima
|MP3|VBR256|90MB|Ripped from Original CD|
|Romantic, Majestic, Peaceful, Warm|


http://rapidshare.com/files/262225665/Hanaukyo_Maid_Team_La_Verite_OST.rar
PSW: smile

More to come later. Don't want to blow it all at once :3

Wow, wonderful posts, Sirus, thank you very much therefor

Thanks to Arthierr's Patrick Doyle comp (thank you!) a ways back I just got into Doyle.

So here's :
Arthur Doyle - Nim's Island -V2



http://rapidshare.com/files/159673992/Patrick_Doyle-Nim_S_Island-_OST_-2008-JUST.rar.html

Does anybody have Needful Things? (Another v@g0$ casualty :( )

Hai guys... long time no see.

Anyone have flute music to share?
Im depressed

My recent posts are pretty "happy". Although they aren't flute music they may cheer you up.

I think I was a bit 'half empty' with what I said about this one above. It's actually a wonderful collection - just some of the big hitters like El Cid and Ben Hur aren't as polished as they could be. Fixed tags

Thanks Lens!

Hai guys... long time no see.

Anyone have flute music to share?
Im depressed

Whatever you do, don't download "Ran". It perfectly embodies helplessness, corruption, and the impending doom that will consume us all.

Good stuff! :D

Thanks Sirus for Hanaukyo Maid Team and Kamichu! I'm really enjoying both. Melkoret, I second the recommendation of these if you're feeling down. Many of the tracks in the sample pack are flute led in their melodies too :)

Thanks Sirus for Hanaukyo Maid Team and Kamichu! I'm really enjoying both. Melkoret, I second the recommendation of these if you're feeling down. Many of the tracks in the sample pack are flute led in their melodies too :)
Glad you like them! The rest I have are fantastic as well! I just don't want to put them all up in one weekend. I also have a fantastic special treat coming up soon that I've been waiting for a long time. It is currently over halfway uploaded.

Nanase Hikaru - Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom Original Soundtrack 1
|MP3|320kbps|170MB|Originally Downloaded from Nipponsei|
|Orchestral, Somber, Majestic, Female Vocals, Jazz|


http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?p=1298386#post1298386
This soundtrack is absolutely wonderful and I have waited so long to hear it in full apart from the anime. The anime itself is about a young man who finds himself in a position where he sees the face of a female assassin (ein). Rather than kill him off, the organization erases his memory and has Ein train him and gives him the name of Zwei. Zwei and Ein take on numerous missions in a cold and detached manner leading to numerous high-profile assassinations.

Many of the scenes, and thus the music, are sad as we watch these young assassins take orders without question and kill ruthlessly. Many of my favorite tracks are accompanied by female vocals in the style of Lisa Gerard. Like most anime soundtracks, there are a variety of styles used throughout but there is a consistent quality with the melody that brings it all together.

I also highly recommend the anime even though about half way through it takes a major turn in direction and gains sort of an urban feel in actions and in music. I fear that the second soundtrack will lose the classical quality to fit the tone of the show as I have already heard through a few tracks but there is not much I can do to change that.

Glad you like them! The rest I have are fantastic as well! I just don't want to put them all up in one weekend. I also have a fantastic special treat coming up soon that I've been waiting for a long time. It is currently over halfway uploaded.

Well I'll look forward to it!


Takayuki Hattori
SHINSENGUMI (Main Theme)
John Ken Nuzzo, tenor
The NHK Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Junichi Hirokami

A late thank you! Very interesting. Shame there isn't an English subbed version on youtube. The theme really grows on you! Could I be very cheeky and request the whole soundtrack? Pretty please :angel:

Is it really necessary to put passwords with lower and higher case?

Sirus, i'm in love with Doggy Poo, it's sooooo wonderful, thank you very much therefor.

Sirus, i'm in love with Doggy Poo, it's sooooo wonderful, thank you very much therefor.

I badly want to make a dirty joke right now...

I badly want to make a dirty joke right now...
You and me both! I hope everyone is enjoying all my cute soundtracks! More to come this weekend :3

If someone is interested:

(http://www.postimage.org/)

http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm?ID=12724

A TRIBUTE TO BASIL POLEDOURIS (DVD / 1200 EDITION) (DVD)

120 minute dvd, region 0 (worldwide). English commentary with Spanish sub-titles.

A TRIBUTE TO BASIL POLEDOURIS. LIVE IN CONCERT AT UBEDA 2006 FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL, a unique document made from the heart and to the heart of film music lovers all over the world, including the only concert Mr Poledouris conducted in his life, a few months before his passing.

Contents:
- CONAN THE SYMPHONY (almost 50 espectacular minutes of the “Conan the Barbarian” score, with Basil Poledouris conducting the Andaluc�a Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. Remixed and remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1)

- REMEMBERING BASIL ( A 40 minutes documentary directed by Dan Goldwasser where friends and personalities like Paul Verhoeven, Randal Kleiser, Zoe Poledouris, Richard Kraft, Eric Colvin and Jon Burlingame remember Basil, his music and his legacy.)

- THE TALE OF CONAN (including the conversation by Mr Poledouris in Ubeda International Film Music Festival where he speaks about his relation with John Millius and how they came to create the score of “Conan the Barbarian”. Includes images of the rehearsals of Mr Poledouris conducting the orchestra before the concert.

- BASIL AT UBEDA A moving document on the days Basil spent at �beda surrounded by friends and fans.

- AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH BASIL POLEDOURIS.

Indeed, big POLEDOURIS fans here!

Do you have it?



Thanks to Arthierr's Patrick Doyle comp (thank you!) a ways back I just got into Doyle.

Does anybody have Needful Things? (Another v@g0$ casualty :( )

Yep, I'll reup ASAP. :)

Hi guys, just discovered Ultraman today, you should give it a try. :naughty:

CDs 1 and 3 are orchestrated.
Thread 61322

Yes, yes, yes! I enjoy a lot the orchestral scores from the Ultraman franchise. There's some really good heroic-action-epic stuff in it!

So, this is the opportunity to post one of my favorite score from this franchise: another rare Toshihiko Sahashi score, Ultraman Gaia soundtrack Vol.1. If you like superhero music with powerful battle cues and heroic anthems, you'll enjoy this one.



Ultraman Gaia soundtrack Vol.1

Music composed by Toshihiko Sahashi

MP3 192 kbps

Thanks to Bad Wolf

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1366406&postcount=3675





01 Ultraman Gaia!.mp3
02 Titles.mp3
03 Gamu [Gamu Takeyama, The Hero].mp3
04 Roots of Destruction!.mp3
05 City Defence Order Issued!.mp3
06 Launch Team Lightning!.mp3
07 First Battle.mp3
08 The Light is in The Servant.mp3
09 Gaia Attack.mp3
10 End Strategy.mp3
11 Aerial Base.mp3
12 Becoming a Member.mp3
13 Esplendour [aka Esplender, the transformation device].mp3
14 Fujimiya & Gamu [Hiroya Fujimiya is Agul].mp3
15 Flying.mp3
16Launch XIG! [eXpanded Interceptive Guards].mp3
17 Preventing Attack.mp3
18 Violent Fight.mp3
19 Gaia Challenge.mp3
20 Agul Advent.mp3
21 Agul Attack.mp3
22 Quantum Stream Reversal.mp3
23 Gaia & Agul.mp3
24 Return.mp3
25 Notice of Next Time.mp3
26 Gaia's Power.mp3

Indeed, big POLEDOURIS fans here!

Do you have it?

My post was because If I remember well Danny French asked for a commercial release of Poledouris concert and just now It is available at Screen Archives.

I ordered it last Monday since it was the first day that you can buy it via internet.

The people that attended to Ubeda two weeks ago had the chance to get it there.

Best !!!

Do you believe you could do a HQ mp3 rip of CONAN THE SYMPHONY? That would be a real treat for the fans here.

Do you believe you could do a HQ mp3 rip of CONAN THE SYMPHONY? That would be a real treat for the fans here.

Of course, I can try it.

To follow my previous post, here's another Toshihiko Sahashi score for the Ultraman franchise, Great Decisive Battle! The Super 8 Ultra Brothers. This one has been made for an actual theater movie, hence the budget was much bigger and so is the orchestra. The other interesting point is that this movie includes several Ultraman from different series: Mebius, Tiga, Dyna... So the composer had the nice opportunity to use each of their respective themes into the same score. Overall it's a very enjoyable score with many massive and powerful tracks.



Great Decisive Battle! The Super 8 Ultra Brothers

Music composed by Toshihiko Sahashi

MP3 320 kbps

Thanks to dark side destroyer

http://www.sendspace.com/file/8l1r4o





01-Prologue [M01].mp3
02-Boyhood Dreams [M02].mp3
03-The Red Shoed Girl ~ Daigo's Theme [M03].mp3
04-The Incident's Omen [M04].mp3
05-The Eerie Mirage ~ Main Title [M05].mp3
06-Trouble For The Ultra Brothers... A Dream [M06].mp3
07-Yokohama Tourist Information Centre [M07].mp3
08-Daigo's Deja Vu [M08].mp3
09-A Chance Meeting [M09].mp3
10-TV News [M10].mp3
11-Anxiety [M11].mp3
12-Every Dream [M12 - M13].mp3
13-A Lovely Partner ~ Happening [M14 - M15].mp3
14-Promise At Water's Edge [Featured Song].mp3
15-King Gezura vs. Ultraman Mebius [M16].mp3
16-Daigo And Mirai [M17].mp3
17-The Girl's Warning [M18].mp3
18-Seeking The Ultra Brothers [M19].mp3
19-Aspiration [M20].mp3
20-King Pandon vs. Ultraman Mebius [M21].mp3
21-Super Alien Hipporito's Trap [M22].mp3
22-The Terrible Spectacle Of Yokohama [M23].mp3
23-The Girl's Request [M24].mp3
24-Daigo And Rena [M25].mp3
25-King Silvergon and King Goldoras Appear [M26].mp3
26-2 Giant Monsters, Attack Yokohama [M29].mp3
27-Rena's Wish [M30].mp3
28-Yokohama Drawn Under Crisis [M31].mp3
29-''I'm Going'' [M32].mp3
30-Believe In Ultraman [M33].mp3
31-Ultraman Tiga Appears! [M34].mp3
32-And Then... Dyna, Gaia! [M35].mp3
33-The Glory Of Tiga, Dyna and Gaia [M36].mp3
34-Moment Of Victory [M37].mp3
35-The Super Giant Monster Giga Kimaira [M38].mp3
36-Tiga & Co. In Crisis [M39].mp3
37-Rise! Showa Ultra [M40].mp3
38-The Ultra Brothers' Theme [M41].mp3
39-Final Battle [M42].mp3
40-Curse Of The Silhouette [M43].mp3
41-The Light Will Not Go Out [M44].mp3
42-Return Of The Morning Glow [M45].mp3
43-Dreams Come True [M46].mp3
44-The Power To Believe [M47].mp3
45-Let's Go! To The Star Of Ultra... [M48].mp3

Of course, I can try it.

Great! Thanks in advance.


Sirusjr: Wow, I just tried Hanaukyo Maid Team La Verite OST (the name Michiru Oshima was attractive) - wonderful! So ravishing and heartfelt, and with a typical old european style so pleasing. That's an EXCELLENT purchase you made. Gotta try the other ones now. Thanks a lot for posting so many new stuff!

Sirusjr: Wow, I just tried Hanaukyo Maid Team La Verite OST (the name Michiru Oshima was attractive) - wonderful! So ravishing and heartfelt, and with a typical old european style so pleasing. That's an EXCELLENT purchase you made. Gotta try the other ones now. Thanks a lot for posting so many new stuff!
Yes I agree! You have to try the others as they are uploaded. I was pleasantly surprised when I listened to all of them and realized I had chosen such wonderful scores for cheap!

Also thanks for the two ultraman soundtracks. I always like more Toshihiko Sahashi. Those ultraman pics are creepy though. I don't see how I could enjoy watching the show it came from :P

[center]Doggy Poo - Yiruma
|MP3|VBR256|90mb|Ripped from Original CD|
|Piano centric, relaxing, peaceful|

Kamichu - Yoshihiro Ike
|MP3|VBR256|102mb|Ripped from Original CD|
|Warm, Adventurous, peaceful|

Hanaukyo Maid Team La Verite OST - Michiru Oshima
|MP3|VBR256|90MB|Ripped from Original CD|
|Romantic, Majestic, Peaceful, Warm|

More to come later. Don't want to blow it all at once :3

THANK YOU :)

I'll listen when I get home. Hopefully this will help...

All of them are very good :)

my third compilation


Sounds of Heaven - Drama 3



http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?p=1257649#post1257649

This one has quite his place in this thread.



ULTRAMAN SYMPHONY

THE JAPAN PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Thanks to the original uploader

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z6ZL3AUL





01. ULTRAMAN NO UTA ~ JOKYOKU
(ULTRAMAN’S SONG ~ PRELUDE)
02. ULTRAMAN TARO
03. ULTRAMAN DYNA
04. ULTRAMAN 80
05. ULTRAMAN LEO
06. THE ULTRAMAN
07. ULTRAMAN ACE
08. KAETE KITA ULTRAMAN
(RETURN OF ULTRAMAN)
09. TAKE ME HIGHER (ULTRAMAN TIGA)
10. ULTRASEVEN’S SONG
11. ULTRAMAN GAIA!
12. ULTRAMAN’S SONG ~ Symphonic March

To follow my previous post, here's another Toshihiko Sahashi score for the Ultraman franchise, Great Decisive Battle! The Super 8 Ultra Brothers. This one has been made for an actual theater movie, hence the budget was much bigger and so is the orchestra. The other interesting point is that this movie includes several Ultraman from different series: Mebius, Tiga, Dyna... So the composer had the nice opportunity to use each of their respective themes into the same score. Overall it's a very enjoyable score with many massive and powerful tracks.


Thank you so much for this - it's epic, tuneful and actually very touching in places. Is there anything from the same composer (or similar) that is in a similar style, or that you could recommend?

Of course. Another Sahashi Ultraman score coming soon. :)

And you can also try his other scores, there are quite a lot which have been posted in this thread, just do a search. Most of them are epic, melodic and actioney in nature, so you should be satisfied.

Recantha - I would start with the gundam symphony albums and if those rouse your interest then grab all the associated soundtracks. Also Fullmetal Panic stuff I posted is very fun as well! All by Sahashi!
Also watch for my next set of uploads today: Hand Maid May, Sound Wave of Stellvia, Gunaprade March (all in my previous sampler).

Stellvia Original Soundtrack CD: Sound Wave of Stellvia - Seiko Nagaoka
|MP3|VBR256|134MB|Ripped from Original CD|
|Magical/Calm/Warming/Peaceful/Piano|


http://rapidshare.com/files/265124175/Sound_Wave_of_Stellvia_Soundtrack.rar
PSW: smile Lossless posted HERE (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1301116&postcount=78)

Hand Maid May Soundtrack - Toshio Masuda
|MP3|VBR256|109mb|Ripped from Original CD|
|Warm/Majestic/Jazzy/Peaceful|


http://rapidshare.com/files/265113683/Hand_Maid_May.rar
PSW: smile

Gunparade March - Kenji Kawai
|MP3|VBR256|95mb|Ripped from Original CD|
|Marching/Majestic/Action/Jazzy|


http://rapidshare.com/files/265133142/Gunparade_March_OST.rar
PSW: smile
Anyone who is curious what to expect, check out my SAMPLER (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1298079&postcount=2922) which contains one track from each

Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold (OST) (Michael Linn) (1986, 2009 LLL)




Presenting composer Michael Linn’s (AMERICAN NINJA, BREAKIN’ 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO) score to the 1986 Cannon Film’s action/adventure feature film ALLAN QUATERMAIN AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD, the sequel to KING SOLOMON’S MINES, starring Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone and James Earl Jones. Remastered from MGM vault elements, Linn’s robust orchestral score compliments all the adventure in high-flying fashion, occasionally working in Jerry Goldsmith’s main theme from KING SOLOMON’S MINES. CD Booklet features exclusive, in-depth liner notes. Produced by Ford A. Thaxton. This is a limited edition pressing of 1200 Units.

Thread 68327



The Last Legion (OST) (Patrick Doyle) (2007)



Thread 68315

Hey, does anyone have the Hot Shots score by Sylvester LeVay? I downloaded it a long time ago from LW but the guy cut me off one track before completion.

Here you go. :)



Hot Shots! (Sylvester Levay) (1991)

MP3 128 kbps

Thanks to the original uploader








http://rapidshare.com/files/117721477/1991_Hot_Shots__-_Sylvester_Levay.rar

Sirusjr: Wonderful series of posts! I'm totally looking forward to listen to these new OSTs. Thanks again!



Is it really necessary to put passwords with lower and higher case?

Yes, it is.



I badly want to make a dirty joke right now...

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

And this Starfox album is a beauty. The Starfox theme was one of my favorite tracks from the Orchestral Game Concerts, so it's good to have a whole album from this franchise. Thanks a lot!

Here you go. :)



Hot Shots! (Sylvester Levay) (1991)

MP3 128 kbps

Thanks to the original uploader








http://rapidshare.com/files/117721477/1991_Hot_Shots__-_Sylvester_Levay.rar



Thank you so much Arthierr!

Recantha - I would start with the gundam symphony albums and if those rouse your interest then grab all the associated soundtracks. Also Fullmetal Panic stuff I posted is very fun as well! All by Sahashi!
Also watch for my next set of uploads today: Hand Maid May, Sound Wave of Stellvia, Gunaprade March (all in my previous sampler).


Siriusjr, this is a fantastic batch of shares - thank you! I've been listening to film music for a good 20 years and this is the first time I've ever listened to Sahashi. For some reason, I think I'd always expected ethnic instruments going nowhere, but this music is amazing!

Would you be able to link back to your Gundam Symphony post? I found it once and then the browser crashed and I completely lost my way. :-(

You'd think after all this time of searching I'd learn to bookmark...

--
Mike

As I said before, just do a search: there's a button in the upper right corner of this page called "Search this thread". Type the word "Sahashi" in it, and you'll see many results appear.

Ps: it wasn't Sirusjr's Gundam posts, it was mine ;) And it's indeed the best choice to start with Sahashi's music: pure sumptuous symphonic bombast, performed by a world-class orchestra.

Edit: Ok, here you go:


Symphony Seed: Gundam Seed
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1249475&postcount=2198

Symphony SEED Destiny
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1250326&postcount=2217

Ys Series Epic Music Album



1. The Boy's Got Wings (Ohirome Version)
2. Sealed Time
3. Steeling the Will to Fight
4. Ernst
5. Chop!!
6. A Searing Struggle
7. Final Battle (FC Version)
8. Release of the Far West Ocean
9. Prelude to the Adventure
10. Valestein Castle
11. The Morning Grow
12. Sealed Time (Super Arrange Version)
13. Beat of Destruction
14. Tower of Destiny
15. Termination
16. The Strongest Foe
17. Believing

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nzknz1mmtvl



I really recommend you guys this album. The Ys series has some very beautiful compositions and amazing instrumentation. This is a collection of some of the most epic tracks from various Ys albums that I have listened to. The music is a mix of orchestra (mostly violins), powerful but very emotional electric guitar work, and sometimes quality synth. I hope you music lovers enjoy this.

Hot Shots! (Sylvester Levay) (1991)

Thanks for this! Is there also a score for "Hot Shots 2" by Basil Poledouris?

Hiii all.

\^.^/

I'm finally back from my holiday.
And oOh so many new wonderful music you always keep coming. So much music to look but so little time to listen. :erm:
That's all for now, it's time to take a look at all 37462094 new posts on the shrine, since my last visit. lmao

*hugs*

Basil Poledouris - Hot Shots! Part Deux - 1993 - OST

MP3 192 kbps

Thanks to the original uploader





01. Main Title
02. Dipsong Fight
03. The 3 Bears / Flurvian Sea - Includes “Innamorata” By Harry Warren And Jack Brooks
04. Reel 5
05. Colonel Torture
06. Gotta Light?
07. Compound Escape - Includes “Father Knows Best” Theme By Irving Friedman And Don Farris
08. Saddam Battles / Freedom Fighters - Includes “Sea Hunt” Theme By Ray Llewelyn

http://rapidshare.com/files/193698972/Hot_Shots_Part_Deux__Score_.rar

password: http://soundtracks.myfreeforum.org/index.php


From MMUK


Basil Poledouris very rarely scores comedy movies, and it comes as even more of a surprise to find him scoring a spoof sequel, but sensibly he approaches this film as he would any other - seriously - and by doing this he has come up with a score which both works well in the context of the film and sounds wonderful on its own. As usual with Poledouris, the music is fully orchestral and absolutely enormous in scale and, although there is no real central theme to speak of (other than a recurring trumpet fanfare), the score is nevertheless hugely enjoyable and there are many excellent cues. The vast majority of the score is made up of bombastic action music with strong brass lines and heavy militaristic percussion, parts of which would be later re-used in his incredible score for Starship Troopers.

The 'Main Title', had it not been composed for this spoof, would have sounded wonderful in any serious action drama, such is the heroism and grandeur the music conveys; 'Dipsong Fight' is a monumentally grand march, reminiscent of his theme from Robocop; the second half 'Gotta Light' is a gigantic action set piece, full of whirling strings and tense, nervous headache... I mean snare drums, while the nine minute finale of 'Compound Escape' and the hilariously titled 'Saddam Battles/Freedom Fighters' is simply electric, finishing with a final restatement of the Hot Shots fanfare.

Of course, Basil occasionally panders to the comedic tendencies of the film, and incorporates some extremely clever nods and winks into the proceedings: 'The 3 Bears/Flurvian Sea' begins as a surprisingly attractive, if a little sorrowful, love theme, but then turns into a side-splittingly funny parody of the legendary meatball scene from Disney's The Lady and the Tramp, complete with a romantic tenor duet and accordion backing; 'Reel 5' features a lonesome harmonica solo which would not have been out of place in a John Wayne western; while 'Gotta Light' contains a beautifully sexy saxophone and a soft, gentle rendition of the underscore to "Amorado", the song the Italian waiters sing to Charlie Sheen and Valeria Golino.

I honestly think that if you had never seen Hot Shots! Part Deux, and didn't know that it was a take-off of the deadly serious Rambo series, then you would never in a million years guess that this was a comedy by listening to the music. It's a real testament to Poledouris' talent as a composer that, time and time and again, he can rise above his subject matter and write music which is far, far better than the movie it was written for.

Basil Poledouris - Hot Shots! Part Deux - 1993 - OST

Very nice, thanks :D

By the way, Bio, some of your last posts could be great in this thread too: Doyle, etc... ;)

Hiii all.

\^.^/

I'm finally back from my holiday.
And oOh so many new wonderful music you always keep coming. So much music to look but so little time to listen. :erm:
That's all for now, it's time to take a look at all 37462094 new posts on the shrine, since my last visit. lmao

*hugs*

*hugs back* A warm welcome back to you, Sanico, i missed you ^_____^
I'm really glad, that you back ^^

Billie, and i missed yours funny little posts too lol
Sirusjr, thanks much for the new anime ost's. I start download as the moment i've seen them.
For all the others, nice to see you back too.

The Last Legion (OST) (Patrick Doyle) (2007)

Thread 68315[/CENTER]

This looks great - thanks. I feel like I have been out of the loop lately with the site downtime and also because lately I have been spending all my time watching these Leonard Bernstein Young People's Concerts videos that can be found on avxhm. Highly recommended but be prepared to choke your bandwidth for awhile...9 dvds..ulp.

Empire Total War Soundtrack - Slovak National Symphony Orchestra
|Militaristic/Bombastic/Epic/Powerful|
|MP3|VBR256|ORIGINALLY From GAMEMP3S|


http://rapidshare.com/files/266380862/SNSO-ETWST.rar
PSW: smile
This soundtrack was just recently released on Sumthing Else Music Works game soundtrack label and is a great listen! I suggest that you purchase a copy if you enjoy it to support their efforts. Thanks to Gamemp3s for releasing this!

Aliens in the Attic - John Debney
|MP3|VBR256|75mb|
|Supernatural/adventurous/epic/sneaky|
Link Deleted as it is a Varese Sarabande release. Do not ask to re-upload.

A new action / adventure score by Debney = high probability of orchestral fun. Very nice post, thank you!

Another RARE Toshihiko Sahashi score for the Ultraman series, this one is closer in style from his gundam scores: more space music-like. Again there are many enjoyable tracks, composed with Sahashi's usual energetic style. Also a special mention for the EXCELLENT sound quality (Lame -V0).



Ultra Daikaiju Battle OST

Music composed by Toshihiko Sahashi

MP3 VBR HQ

Thanks to ergleburgle


Part 1: http://sharebee.com/441d1eed
Part 2: http://sharebee.com/b2687306





01 - Main Title.mp3
02 - Spaceship Pendragon.mp3
03 - Eternal Traveller (TV Size).mp3
04 - ZAP SPACY.mp3
05 - Emergency!.mp3
06 - Reach Boris Planet.mp3
07 - Lawless Monster Planet.mp3
08 - Big Monster Crash.mp3
09 - Mysterious Youth.mp3
10 - Ray Theme.mp3
11 - Anxiety.mp3
12 - Haruna Allegations.mp3
13 - Tense.mp3
14 - Quaking Earth.mp3
15 - Offensive and Defensive Battle.mp3
16 - Miracles.mp3
17 - Victory (Eternal Traveller).mp3
18 - Ray Peace.mp3
19 - ZAP Victory.mp3
20 - Search.mp3
21 - Rock Giants.mp3
22 - Cruel Truth.mp3
23 - Setback.mp3
24 - Hallucinations.mp3
25 - Creeping Nightmare.mp3
26 - Though Hearts Are Apart.mp3
27 - Terror Envoy.mp3
28 - Supersonic Surprise.mp3
29 - ZAP's Pursuit.mp3
30 - Close Call!.mp3
31 - Ray Battle.mp3
32 - Twilight Calm.mp3
33 - Hope Chest.mp3
34 - The Strongest Opponent.mp3
35 - Vicious Chance.mp3
36 - Tearful Eyes (Eternal Traveller).mp3
37 - Thoughts.mp3
38 - HYUUGA Directive.mp3
39 - Start Operation.mp3
40 - ZAP SPACY Sortie Rate.mp3
41 - Confrontation.mp3
42 - Decisive Moment.mp3
43 - Big Monster Game.mp3
44 - Blowing In The Wind.mp3
45 - ZAP Friendship.mp3
46 - Journey To Eternity (Eternal Traveller).mp3
47 - JUMP UP (TV Size).mp3

Thanks mate! Btw the zshare links in sharebee are expired *megaupload works tho :3*. Also if you have skipscreen installed on firefox it doesn't work with sharebee.

Dude thank you man I was finally able to get the music it was kind of rough to get to it with this computer but thanks alot.

Michiru Oshima - Bounen no Zamned OST
AKA Xam'd: Lost Memories OR Bounen no Xamdou
|MP3|VBR256|2CD|Converted from Flac|Scans|
|Orchestral/Majestic/Regal|

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?p=1304661#post1304661

House of Sand and Fog (OST) (James Horner) (FLAC/MP3) (2003)




Academy Award winners Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind) and Sir Ben Kingsley (Gandhi) star in the dramatic thriller House of Sand and Fog, based on the acclaimed bestseller by Andre Dubus III.

Massoud Amir Behrani (Sir Ben Kingsley) is living a lie to fulfill a dream. Once a member of the Shah of Iran�s elite inner circle, Massoud has brought his family to America to build a new life. Despite a pretense of continued affluence, he is barely making ends meet until he sees his opportunity in the auction of a house being sold for back taxes. It is a terrible mistake. Through a bureaucratic snafu, the house had been improperly seized from its rightful owner, Kathy Nicolo (Jennifer Connelly). The loss of her home tears away Kathy�s last hope of a stable life � a life that had been nearly destroyed by addiction � and Kathy decides to fight to recover her home�at any cost.

House of Sand and Fog exposes the unsettling truth that it is sometimes our hopes and not our hatreds that drive us to ruin, in a devastating exploration of the American Dream gone terribly awry.

The film also stars Ron Eldard (Black Hawk Down) as deputy sheriff Lester Burdon, who tries to take the law into his own hands to help Kathy; major Iranian film star Shohreh Aghdashloo as Behrani�s wife, Nadi; Jonathan Ahdout as their son Esmail; and Frances Fisher as Kathy�s attorney who tries to help her reclaim her home.

The score for House of Sand and Fog by James Horner is, unquestionably, one of the composer�s most dramatic. The final thirty minutes of the film is scored almost continuously and the powerfully emotional music is not soon forgotten after the closing credits.

Both Kingsley and Connelly are already being talked about with expectations of Oscar nominations. DreamWorks will be opening the film on December 19, for Academy consideration, and it will widen on December 26.

Thread 68486

About this score, I'd just like to add this more developed review, which I quite agree with.

Review by Andreas Lindahl


James Horner was certainly busy towards the end of 2003, with scores for no less than four films - The Missing, Radio, Beyond Borders. And House of Sand and Fog, which, despite the fact that it really isn't Horner's best effort of 2003, recently gave the composer his eighth Academy Award nomination. It will probably have a hard time competing with the other nominated scores, however, since it's a very dark, atmospheric, serious and rather low keyed score - not the kind of score that usually wins the trophy.
House of Sand and Fog is the most serious of Horner's four 2003 scores. Unlike The Missing it isn't performed by a larger than life orchestra. Unlike Radio it doesn't have lush strings and sentimental woodwinds. And unlike Beyond Borders it misses voices and beautiful, hummable themes. Instead, House of Sand and Fog relies a lot on texture and restrained underscore. It's performed by an orchestra consisting of strings, woodwinds, percussion and keyboards. No brass at all, which certainly is rare when it comes to Horner.

The music is mostly performed by slow strings and piano and it's a rather depressing score, with long chords and chord progressions. House of Sand and Fog is dominated by typical underscore music and this is not a score that will overwhelm you with large, dramatic writing. And it actually takes a while to really get and understand the music. But don't give up, because this is a really nice score at times, even if there's plenty of rather dull moments as well. The Piano parts are, as always in Horner's music, a highlight. Track three, "Old Photos, New Memories", features some wandering and dreamy piano solos, performed by Randy Kerber. It's reminiscent of the restrained piano solos in Class Action and To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday. Really nice.

Unlike many of Horner's score, House of Sand and Fog doesn't come with a nice, bittersweet theme. Which is a pity, of course. But the small number of themes used works pretty well. Especially when performed by The Piano .

A recent trend in Horner's scores is the use of synths and keyboards. Beyond Borders used plenty of synths, for example. And House of Sand and Fog is no different. Horner uses keyboards and synths to create a subtle backdrop to the orchestral elements and it works pretty well, although he has a tendency to use the same sounds all the time. But overall, he mixes the sounds of the orchestra with those of his synths better than, say, Jerry Goldsmith...

Does anybody have Needful Things? (Another v@g0$ casualty :( )

Here you go :) This one is a VBR version in much better quality than the 192 kbps formerly posted at v@g0$, so you made the right choice to request it here!



Needful Things (Patrick Doyle) (1993)






Varese = forbidden


The Arrival (2:56)
To My Good Friend Brian (5:29)
Needful Things (2:37)
Brian's Deed (1:38)
More Deeds (2:33)
Art & The Minister (1:43)
Gaunt's Web (2:51)
Racing Towards Apple Throwing Time (4:43)
Nettie Finds Her Dog (1:49)
Ave Maria (3:51) Schubert
Peer Gynt: Hall of the Mountain King (2:14) Grieg
Go Upstairs (2:58)
The Turning Point (12:08)
They Broke the Law (1:36)
The Devil's Here (4:31)
Just Blow Them Away (2:46)
End Titles (3:53)


From soundtrack-express.com


Patrick Doyle makes is mark in the annals of scoring for the Devil and in such illustrious company as Jerry Goldsmith's superlative score for the Omen as well as James Newton Howard's score for The Devil's Advocate. While Needful Things wasn't such a high profile film as those two, the score, as one would expect from Doyle, is exceptionally good. Perhaps the best part would be expert choral opening which is thundering setting of the words to the Requiem Mass and makes superb use of the natural rhythm of the words which adds momentum as well as being very clever. Much of the rest of the score contains hints of the choral work and not until the end does the choir return with a vengeance.

A lot of the quiet, but sombre music sounds much like something Bernard Herrmann would have written, Vertigo perhaps. There is a lovely lullaby waltz theme that appears several times and gives some of the score a little of the poignancy it requires to offset the more demonic aspects. There are even a few more fun moments, indeed, Art & The Minister uses the choir in a very classical sounding, but amusing moment. It effectively by slowly moving into lighter territory from the more sombre choir into the more joyful tone that lightens the tone without making it sound at odds with the rest of the score. One of the best things about the score is what it doesn't have, and that is a lack of horrible orchestral outbursts for some particularly horrific moment. Perhaps the fact that the film itself wasn't really frightening in the least has something to do with it. The only real scare occurs in Nettie Finds Her Dog and this is reflected in the score with a brassy outburst.

The two classical tracks included are actually very well picked indeed. Hall of the Mountain King is fairly similar to the style that Doyle has adopted for the choral moments. This isn't glaring similarity, but it does contain the outrageously exciting choir of the opening titles and so compliments the rest very well. Ave Maria does rather change the style of the music too much to fit in quite as well, but it does feature in the film with a fairly high profile so its inclusion as a more heavenly offset to the devilish parts is quite reasonable.

Certainly a score for all Doyle fans as well as horror score fans, in fact I can't really recommend it enough as it is hugely entertaining and Varese have actually produced a very sensible length album that contains pretty much everything from the film, the other tracks were often very similar to ones that had already appeared so the score is perfectly arranged and produced. It even contains a few notes from the director and the composer.

Pandora Hearts (OST) (Yuki Kajiura) (FLAC) (2009)



Thread 68491

Here you go :) This one is a VBR version in much better quality than the 192 kbps formerly posted at v@g0$, so you made the right choice to request it here!

Needful Things (Patrick Doyle) (1993)



Thanks Arthierr! Based on the amazon samples this sounds quite superb so I'm looking forward to checking this out!!

Thanks for needful things. Sadly the tags are nonexistent. Just a warning.

Thanks for needful things. Sadly the tags are nonexistent. Just a warning.

Well, it's not really a problem since you can easily use the excellent and free Mp3tag to automatically grab the tags at Freedb:

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

Tag&Rename (http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm) is also a good software :)

Thanks guys, I know about those tagging programs :)
I just put the warning so people can retag before adding it to the software instead of adding it to itunes/zune and having to delete it before retagging.
Anyway, next batch of anime soundtracks today :) look forward to it.

Thanks everyone for the brilliant posts over the last few days. I'll have to tuck-in asap!!

Shiro Sagisu - His and Her Circumstances Act 1
|MP3|VBR256|My Rip|
|Majestic|Classical|Warm|March|


http://rapidshare.com/files/267686262/His_and_Her_Circumstances_Act_1.rar
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Shiro Sagisu - His and Her Circumstances Act 2
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|Majestic|Classical|Warm|Jazzy|Romantic|


http://rapidshare.com/files/267691821/His_and_Her_Circumstances_Act_2.rar
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Tsuneyoshi Saito - Fafner OST 1 No Where
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|Majestic|Classical|Epic|Royal|Orchestral|


http://rapidshare.com/files/267697561/Fafner_OST_1_No_Where.rar
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Tsuneyoshi Saito - Fafner OST 2 Now Here
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http://rapidshare.com/files/267707437/Fafner_OST_2__Now_Here.rar
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Extra information about the Fafner music by composer Tsuneyoshi Saito from the booklet of the first soundtrack.
No such composer interview exists on the second soundtrack booklet.
Composer notes from Booklet "At the first meeting we all agreed on a classical theme using an orchestra. Until that point, I was planning on using normal robotic music for the action scenes. Since we decided on using an orchestra, I used it for all the songs. I wanted to make classical music not pop music. The word "orche" (orchestra) caused a chain reaction on what type of music I would create. Director Nobuyoshi Habara requested that I used an orchestra by some means or another.
The soundtracks for anime are often created with a generalized technique that the type of mysic for a particular scene is already determined, so there's not much difference between composers. I did not want to use this technique. I wanted to do something witha stronger impact. Since I was going to use an orchestra, I suggested we record it overseas. Surprisingly my suggestion was openly accepted.
I thought if i use an orchestra that is equivalent in scale to John Williams, I should be capable of creating the same scale of music. This soundtrack would not be an anime soundtrack, but a soundtrack that is enjoyable by itself. People often divide an orchestra into samll groups such as brass instruments, string instruments only, solo instruments and piano to create vivid sounds. But to use full orchestra for all the music was the whole point of the project. I believe the music became more symphonic.
I thought the warsaw philharmonic was cheerful, and other composers such as Mr. Masamichi Amano and Shiro Sagisu told me that the Warsaw Phil was good. I'd been hoping to work with them for a long time.
When we record a performance with an orchestra, the echos of the hall also need to be recorded. Even if we spend extra money to have an orchestra perform and record in a studio, it would not be much different from having a session in Japan. In fact, it was worthwhile to go there. Their sound is different from a Japanese orchestra, since Japanese performers tend to be more passive, while the Warsaw performers are more assertive, and the performance itself gets so excited.
About composer Tsuneyoshi Saito
Born on April 29, 1965 in the Shizoka Prefecture, Mr. Saito started to play classical piano at the age of 7, and started composing at the age of 9, receiving much attention as a child pianist. He graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in a music major with a concentration on composition. While he was in college in 1990, He organized "Kryzler & Kompany" with Taro Hakase, a violinist, and Kinshin Takeshita, a bass player. They actively did concerts domestically and internationally and performed together with artists from overseas. The recording session he did with David Forster and Celine Dioni for the Fuji TV Drama, the theme song of "To Lovers," and especially "To Love You More" is still fresh in our memory. After the breakup of "Kryzer & Kompany," he did music for NHK "The Central Tokyo Regional Network" various TV series, "Each Precipitous," "Tenchi Muyo!," Descendants of Darkness," "NAZCA - Blades of Fate-" and "Tornado Bodyguard." He also produced for various singers such as Hiroko Yakushimaru, Keizo Nakanishi, Yumi Adachi, Misato Watanabe and others. Besides these singers, he has written for a wide range of projects such as musical, cinema and commercial theme songs such as Asami Maki Ballet Company's "Cachein's Dream" musicals "Alice in Wonderland," "Rosta Lantos" and the rock opera, "Hamlet." Commercial songs include clieints of Shiseido, Nissan, Lenowan and Heineken. Theme songs include "The Newscaster" by ANB Station, and "Romantic Journey - Gifts from the Earth" for TBS station. He received the Excellence Award at Art Festival from the Agency for Cultural Affairs for "Passion" performed by the Takarazuka Girls' Operetta Company, Cosmos Troupe in 1999. He released his solo album, "Relaxing Piano" in February 2001. He continues to strive to reach a new world in his creation by not being exclusive to classical music, but by producing and arranging various types of music.

Thx so much for all this anime soundtracks Sirujr. That's so wonderful
You're the best :), and the other too of course.:coolegg:

Glad you like it Sanico! I want to share the wonderful soundtracks I discovered randomly with everyone! *hug*

Thanks Arthierr! Based on the amazon samples this sounds quite superb so I'm looking forward to checking this out!!

Yeah, I'm loving this soundtrack. Great addition.

the wonder woman animated main title from the website is such a great song but unfortunately there is no ost for it. the main title is on

http://www.warnervideo.com/wonderwomanmovie/

you have to close the trailer that automatically starts playing to hear the song


i've tried every audio capture program, but failed because my operating system/sound card isnt capable of stream recording. Im sure there are some music fans out there in which this is a piece of cake. If someone could post this song in an mp3, me and I am sure many others would be very grateful. I appreciate it. Thanks!

request filled by lgguy16 at

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1306953&postcount=15494

thanks

youseph: Thanks for this beautiful piece. This is a promising score indeed. Also you may be interested in this:



Wonder Woman animated movie score

Thread 68234




Sirusjr: Oh boy, this amazing................

Fantastic posts! In fact they're so great great that you may have wanted to post them in 2 times: one for the Sagisu scores, and another for the Warsaw ones. This is too much good music at once!

Actually I didn't know any of these, even though Shiro Sagisu is among the great anime composers I quite appreciate, in this case mostly for his awesome Evangelion Osts. So these new scores by him are quite welcome.

The other one is more obscure to me, but if it's mentioned "Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra", then you certainly can't go wrong! The sound of this orchestra has usually something special: a sort of massivity, and a sublime reverb - a real treat for the ears.

Once again, what an admirable series of uploads. Thank you Sir!

Yeah arthierr I was tempted to do them separately but since I had been posting things in groups of 3 and got down to the last 4, i decided to round up. I gave them a separate thread as well but nobody seems to have noticed. If you would bump it and give some extra praise to tempt new listeners it would be much appreciated.

Nice action/drama score by Stuart Hancock, posted by mad777:


Bodyguard: A New Beginning (2009) - Stuart Hancock



http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1306587&postcount=15474

moviescoremedia wrote:


"Underground" composer Stuart Hancock's score for Chee Keong Cheung's new film, Bodyguard - A New Beginning - is an equally engaging modern film music piece written for orchestra and electronics. This score puts a little more emphasis on character-driven music, as the story is about a Hong Kong bodyguard who is sent to the UK to protect a woman whose identity is known only by his boss. Hancock's dark, percussive and driving action music is coupled with reflective themes and atmospheric suspense writing.

hope you like it :) i do. and thanks again to mad777!

Yeah arthierr I was tempted to do them separately but since I had been posting things in groups of 3 and got down to the last 4, i decided to round up. I gave them a separate thread as well but nobody seems to have noticed. If you would bump it and give some extra praise to tempt new listeners it would be much appreciated.

Of course, my friend - The only reason I didn't do it before is that I haven't noticed either!


bi0h4zard: Thx for the recommendation, gonna check this out. And by the way, nice avatar. :love:

Re-uploaded for another thread so thought I'd share :3 Previous links are all dead. Such a wonderful score!

Robin Hood Prince of Thieves - Michael Kamen
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http://rapidshare.com/files/268414469/MK-RPT.rar
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Hot Shots! Part Deux (OST) (Basil Poledouris) (FLAC/MP3) (1993)



Thread 68582

very intense/pulsive action score, one of the best this year imo.. enjoy.


District 9 (OST) (Clinton Shorter) (2009)



Thread 68591

Hey guys, new here.

I'm on a big search for a piece called The Tall Ships Suite, composed by Dave Roylance.

My search actually brought me here, where it was mentioned in this thread, but I couldn't seem to find the link anywhere. Did I miss it?

Thanks in advance.

DAVE ROYLANCE and BOB GALVIN
THE TALL SHIPS SUITE
OCEAN FANTASIA
VOYAGER

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Bill Connor

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http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=eyi6wthfe4



http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=eyi6wthfe4

This is probably one of British classical music's best kept secrets. Long out of print, Dave Roylance's Tall Ships Suite is a massive, fully symphonic tone poem that evokes the majesty and sportsmanship of the grand "Tall Ships Races". It's a glorious piece, and one which you will absolutely adore if you have any affinity for larger-than-life, lush, sea-faring joy.

British readers will be familar with the music of Dave Roylance (who sadly passed away in 2006) - he wrote the iconic theme tune to Liverpool-based soap "Brookside" - so if you're wondering why parts of this glorious symphony remind you of Brookie... that's why!

(For curious persons... British soap opera "Brookside" - opening theme, by Dave Roylance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgKIjSaQwN4)

From the album sleeve notes...


The Tall Ships
Each year, as ambassadors for their respective countries, the International Fleet of Tall Ships visit selected ports throughout the world during the various stages of the Tall Ships Race. For each port of call, the arrival of this great flotilla offers an unparalleled spectacle and a rare opportunity to reach out and touch the living heritage of an ocean racing tradition that began in the age of the tea clippers. Whatever the size - barques or barquentines, sloops or schooners, there is no denying their enormous emotive appeal to the crowds - now in their millions - who flock to see them.
It was the advent of one of the most ambitious Tall Ships Races ever staged - the Grand Regatta Columbus '92 - that inspired Dave Roylance and Bob Galvin to compose the evocative music so magnificently recorded here by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra. Here, embodied in music, is all the excitement and nostalgia generated by a Grand Parade of Sail.
Beginning in April 1992, the Tall Ships sailed from Genoa and Lisbon via Cadiz and the Canaries to Puerto Rico, passing near the Bahamas to arrive in New York for Independence Day. Thence to Boston in July, for `Sail Boston 1992'. Then the race across the Atlantic, climaxing in the Port of Liverpool. There, in August, over one hundred Tall Ships, some with masts towering up to 250 feet above the waterline, will pass by some two million spectators in a Grand Parade of Sail as the Tall Ships leave to set out for their home ports.
Amidst this, the most memorable experience to be seen in any great port in our lifetimes, we should remember the admirable aims of sail training which bring together young people of many nations to face together the challenge of the sea and so contribute to international understanding.
Nigel Green, Chairman,UK Tall Ships Commitee
Composers Dave Roylance and Robert Galvin first met at a Liverpool recording session in 1980 and have since frequently worked together composing, recording and producing music embracing an enormous range of styles and disciplines.
When commissioned to write `The Tall Ships Suite' including 'Grand Parade of Sail', Roylance and Galvin drew heavily upon their experience in writing music for the screen, producing music of a highly descriptive nature. But background music this is not! Rich orchestration, strident themes and an abundant wealth of melodic invention make this music exciting and extremely entertaining - qualities inherent in the best tradition of classical Suites for orchestra.
The Tall Ships Suite, in three movements, symbolises in turn the spectacular start of the race, the journey (with storm) and the finish culminating in The Grand Parade of Sail.

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