One Piece Music & Song Collection 1:
http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=ysyy7hhkff

I'll upload the rest later, it's starting to be so late here.

Thanks for The Tall Ships Suite, Danny. ;) Quite curious about it.


Elemental Eye: Thanks a lot for One Piece Music & Song Collection, I'm a big fan of the One Piece scores in fact: splendid, lush Pirate / adventure music, beating the crap out of any of the Pirates of the Caribbean scores.

But just to save your time, I'd like to mention that the 3 volumes of One Piece Music & Song Collection have been posted here in lossless:


Thread 66456

I love one piece music but i noticed that these soundtracks aren't 100% score. Too bad because it is wonderful.

Dannyfrench - Such a wonderful posting! I love the feeling of adventure and romance in the first two tracks. Track 3 is majestic and deeply moving. It gives me a sense of accomplishment and triumph.

It's a beaut, isn't it...

This piece is barely known, even in England. Even the composer (died 2006) - better known for his television music in the 1980s, is almost forgotten today.

The album has been out of print for a decade or more. A crushing shame. This is one of my favourite pieces of contemporary classical music. I'm going to crosspost tomorrow in the classical thread - it certainly has a classical scope. It feels to me like Roylance's Sea Symphony.

Thanks arthierr!
I also love the musical richness of the series. It's just too bad there isn't a full OST available. And you are ABSOLUTELY right with Pirates of the Caribbean, it's really a ridiculously overrated score. Not even comparable to One Piece.

Here's also the missing volume 4:
http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=ueda9b0wqa

We're having a sudden rush of sailing-related music lately! Thanks for One-Piece - I was dimly aware of it, but I'd never really given it much time until now. The music is great and I think I may enjoy the anime as well...

Cheers :)

Could anyone the one piece collection upload in mp3?
FLAC are not working for me :(

Here's for the collector! Enjoy :)


Credits to luffy59


One Piece Music & song collection 1



01 - The great pirate of Gold, Uunan
02 - We are! (TV Size)
03 - Hungry Luffy
04 - EruDrago Appears
05 - The world's number one Oden store
06 - On the shore! Golden island
07 - Usoppu! It's dangerous!
08 - Explosion! Sonic Wave!!
09 - Uunan and the Stone storage room
10 - Gold and Oden
11 - Fury!!
12 - GomuGomu Vs Goegoe
13 - GomuGomu Bazooka!!
14 - Message from Uunam
15 - Departure of the King of Pirates
16 - Memories
17 - I'm becoming the king of pirates!
18 - Wanted!
19 - A reliable friend!
20 - MUSIC
21 - To the Grand Line
22 - Duel!!
23 - Straw Hat Jorry Rodger
24 - We did it! Party!
25 - More and yet more, The adventure continues

megaupload.com/?d=4X7VEK0H


One Piece Music & song collection 2



01 - We Are! (TV Size)
02 - Village Harbour
03 - Luffy
04 - Holy Holiday!
05 - Zoro
06 - Nami
07 - Usop Drop (Karaoke)
08 - Sanji

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One Piece Music & song collection 3



01 - HI! HO! READY GO!
02 - To The Ocean
03 - Luffy's Pace
04 - Sanji's Feast
05 - Food Fight
06 - Holy Holiday! (Karaoke)
07 - Caravel Farewell - Onward Going Merry!
08 - If There Are Storms There Are Stars Too
09 - Mother Sea
10 - Sea Moon See You (Karaoke)
11 - Stealthy Night Shadow
12 - Landing At Town
13 - 1, 2, Jango! (Karaoke)
14 - Desperate Situation
15 - One Hour Evacuation
16 -I Can't Lose!
17 -Spirit of ZORO (Karaoke)
18 - We Are! (TV size)(no chorus)
19 - We Did It!
20 - Jolly Roger with a Straw Hat (Karaoke)
21 -After Eating, Grand Line!
22 - Sanba Banbaa - Devil's Fruit

megaupload.com/?d=Z7RDKJSY


One Piece Music & song collection 4



01 - Pandaman
02 - Hi Ho Ready Go
03 - Wanted
04 - Music
05 - Spirit of Zoro
06 - Usopp Dropp
07 - Sanji the Great Blue ~Desert wa Kimi~
08 - 1 2 Jango
09 - Samba Bomba Akuma no Mi
10 - Holy Holiday
11 - Tonitoni Chopper
12 - Grand Line Island (Cold)
13 - Grand Line Island (Hot)
14 - Misu Orusundae
15 - Umi no Namamono
16 - Shizuka na Ikari
17 - Shinkenshoubu
18 - Mezase One Piece
19 - We Are

megaupload.com/?d=RPAOQKT7


One Piece Best Album



01 - We Are
02 - Believe
03 - Memories
04 - Run! Run! Run!
05 - Watashi ga iru Yo
06 - Souchi no Suke
07 - Ready!
08 - Mabushikute
09 - BEFORE DAWN
10 - fish
11 - GLORY-Kimi ga iru kara
12 - Shining ray
13 - Free Will
14 - Family - 7-nin no Mugiwara Kaizoku-dan
15 - Brand New World
16 - Kokoro no Chizu
17 - Hikari E
18 - Bon Voyage

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One Piece - best song collection



CD1:

01 - We Are!
02 - Memories
03 - Mugiwara no Jyoriirojyaa
04 - Wanted!
05 - Music
06 - Spirit of Zoro
07 - Usopp Dropp
08 - Sanji The Great Blue ~Desert wa Kimi~
09 - Katayoku no Taka
10 - Run! Run! Run!

CD2:

01 - Shouchi no Tsuke
02 - Caravel Farewell
03 - 1 2 Jango!
04 - Sea Moon See You
05 - Holy Holiday
06 - Talking Blues
07 - Hi! Ho! Ready Go!
08 - Sanba Bonbaa Akuma no Mi
09 - Watashi ga Iruyo
10 - Pandaman

megaupload.com/?d=C874WBQX


One Piece Movie 2 - Nejimaki to no Boken



01 - Nusumareta Going Merry Go
02 - Dorobou Kyoudai Toujou
03 - Trump Kaizoku-dan no Theme
04 - Trump Tsuramono wo Tattsukero
05 - Akiisu no Organ
06 - Nami ga Yuukaisareta
07 - Nejimaki Shima
08 - Fushigi na Nejimaki Town
09 - Kanashimi no Juumin
10 - Inochi Kake na Kya!
11 - Kyoui Torotoro no Jitsu!
12 - Sanji Dai-pinchi!
13 - Totsugeki Trump Shiro!
14 - Kyoufu no King Hou
15 - Akushuu! Gasu Gasu Kougeki
16 - Usopp Sutemi no Tatakaiasu
17 - Saijou-kai wo Mesase
18 - Poroodo no Kokuhaku
19 - Zoro Tsui Pin Joker
20 - Ikari no Bear King
21 - Poroodo no Yuuki
22 - Luffy Zenkai
23 - Fukkatsu no Luffy Kaizoku-dan
24 - Gyakushuu! Sanji to Usopp
25 - Kihaku no Kenshi Zoro
26 - Gomu Gomu ga Kikunai-!
27 - King Hou Hassha!
28 - Daigyakuten! Luffy no Hissatsu Waza!
29 - Diamond Rock
30 - Nejimaki Shima no Houkai
31 - Haha, Soshite Tabidachi
32 - Believe (Gikijou Version)

megaupload.com/?d=3UKKF6XB


One Piece Movie 3 - Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals



01 - Suddenly, There's Crown Island!
02 - Gorogorogoro! Zun!!
03 - Chopper is Crowned King!
04 - The Strange Animals Rejoice
05 - The Island of Strange Animals is Fun!
06 - Mobambi's Scar
07 - Butler's Violin
08 - Butler's and His Henchman Appear!
09 - Chopper Will Be Fine
10 - To the Animal King's Place
11 - An Enemy is Coming!
12 - Eating in the Royal Dining Room
13 - Secret of the Crowning Treasure
14 - Usopp Boomerang!
15 - Run for it, Chopper!
16 - Follow Chopper!
17 - Watch Out, Chopper!
18 - Chopper in a Pinch!
19 - Sanji vs Snake
20 - Zoro vs Hotdog
21 - Usopp & Nami's Plan
22 - Mobambi's Courage
23 - Luffy Arrives!
24 - Giant Beast Butler!
25 - Explosion! Sanji's Keeps On Kicking!
26 - Can Zoro Pull It Off!
27 - Santouryuu Tatsumaki!
28 - Luffy vs Bulter
29 - Kokutei Roseo!
30 - Mobambi's Determination
31 - Luffy's Rage
32 - Nakama
33 - The New Animal King
34 - Mabushikute (Movie Size)
35 - Dr. Tony Tony Chopper
36 - Believe (TV Size)
37 - Mabushikute (Full Version)

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One Piece Movie 4 - The Dead End Adventure



01 - Main Title~ Port town Hannabal
02 - Underground Bar, Large Hall1
03 - Big Fight
04 - Gasupade
05 - Scout
06 - Mugiwara boushi
07 - Badger
08 - Morning of beginning
09 - Wind is coming!
10 - Dead End, Start!
11 - Violent Race of Pirates without rules
12 - Going Mary ship, flys!
13 - Because we're alive
14 - Fierce battle! Zoro VS Sanji
15 - Preparedness for the Ambition
16 - Defeat Gasupade!
17 - Past of Shuraiya
18 - Shuraiya VS Needorusu
19 - Gasupade's power
20 - Luffy's appearance
21 - Live!
22 - Luffy VS Gasupade
23 - Torn straw hat
24 - Cyclone Assults!
25 - Boiler Room, Explosion count down!!
26 - The Real pirates!!!
27 - That's why life is so fun
28 - Depature
29 - TV Ending Free Will

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One Piece Movie 5 - Cursed Holy Sword



01 - Cursed Blade
02 - Legend of the Seven Star Swords
03 - Zoro's Round Sword
04 - Greeting Swordsman
05 - Run Away!
06 - Going Merry, Narrow Escape
07 - Marine Training Hall Instructor Saga
08 - Shrine Maiden Maya
09 - Oiii!
10 - Pirates!
11 - Marines Attack the Village
12 - Zoro is Inside There...
13 - Luffy VS Saga
14 - The Missing Seven Star Sword
15 - Luffy in Peril!
16 - Battle Scar
17 - Suspicion
18 - Rolling Boulder
19 - Trap!
20 - Straw Hat Cave Exploration Corps
21 - The Marine Swordsman's Battle Cry
22 - Legend
23 - Sad Shrine Maiden
24 - The Sword of Vows
25 - Zoro & Saga
26 - Absolute Death
27 - Maya's Tears
28 - The Water!
29 - We're Out!!
30 - Well, Well
31 - Maya's Strong Thoughts
32 - Purification
33 - Action Starts
34 - Touma's Naivety
35 - Suspicious Saga
36 - Zoro VS Saga
37 - Suspicious Snake
38 - Three Towers
39 - Ruler of Darkness
40 - Sword of Prayer
41 - Luffy's Fierce Attack
42 - The Time Has Finally Come!
43 - Sword of the Red Moon
44 - The, The, The Strongest
45 - I'll Cut You...
46 - A Human's Heart
47 - Vows
48 - Know the 7 Straw Hat Fellows
49 - Zoro VS Saga...On the Afueko
50 - An Accident for the Straw Hat Pirates Too!
51 - Theatre Version, What Comes Next...
52 - One Piece is Eternally Immortal

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One Piece Movie 6 Single - Yumemirukoro wo Sugitemo Main Theme



01. Yumemirukoro wo Sugitemo
02. Android Meda no sempai~ ossu perasu no tema~
03. Iyasaka! muscle ondo

megaupload.com/?d=I93S64RM


One Piece - Dan Live Daikaisen Character Song Album!



01 - An Ordinary Day for the Luffy Pirate Crew
02 - Every-one Peace! (Luffy)
03 - Zoro's Intro
04 - Eyes of ZORO (Zoro)
05 - Nami's Intro
06 - between the wind (Nami)
07 - Sanji's Intro
08 - Moulin Rouge (Sanji)
09 - An Ordinary Day for the Luffy Pirate Crew 2
10 - Jungle Fever (All)
11 - Mashira's Intro
12 - Saru Salvage! (Mashira)
13 - Usopp's Intro
14 - Usopp no Kadou (Usopp)
15 - Chopper's Intro
16 - Present (Chopper)
17 - Nico Robin's Intro
18 - my real life (Robin)
19 - An Ordinary Day for the Luffy Pirate Crew 3
20 - We Are! (Straw Hat Pirates Version)
21 - Bonus Track - Tanaka Mayumi (Luffy) & Nakai Kazuya (Zoro)
22 - Bonus Track - Hirata Hiroaki (Sanji)
23 - Bonus Track - Okamura Akemi (Nami) & Ohtani Ikue (Chopper) & Yamaguchi Yuriko (Robin)
24 - Bonus Track - Yamaguchi Kappei (Usopp)

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Earth Days (OST) (Michael Giacchino) (2009)



Thread 68661

Danny - a massive THANK YOU for the Tall Ships!!!! An absolutely gorgeous piece. I'm only now emerging from tears of joy, both for the sweeping beauty of the music itself, and to know that such nobility of emotion and heroic feeling is still possible in contemporary music.

It *might* have touched that place in my heart that's still sentimentally and self-aggrandisingly scouse too ;)

The recording sounds like a particularly good one - very representative of the experience you get in the Liverpool Phil Hall actually. The orchestra really rise to occasion (even the often lackadaisical horns are superb!).

Thanks for the inclusion of hq scans too. I'll be damned if those Teddy Walker paintings don't look fantastic. And I've just discovered to my delight that it's still available from arkiv and amazon market place :D

Thanks for One Piece Arthierr :)

Shangri-La Original Soundtrack 1-Hitomi Kuroishi
MP3/320VBR/Scans/Tracklist
Orchestral/Ethnic/Majestic/Warm



http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C9DN89O0

Tracklist:

1. Calling
2. Kimi Shinitamou Koto Nakare
3. Boomerang Girl
4. Moujuu Tsukai
5. Risoukyou
6. Watashi Tachi no Douomo
7. Sabi to Oiru to Koushinryou
8. Kochou Mugen
9. Suntrap
10. Carbonist no Yuuutsu
11. WAKE UP MEDUSA.
12. Rakuen no Uragawa
13. Keizai Sensou
14. Prisoner
15. Mizu Ebisu
16. Mimikazari no Yakusoku
17. Nettaigyo
18. Asobi wo Sentoya Umare Kemu
19. Kousai Ishoku
20. Tsuki Kyuuden
21. Mizu Utsuru Kioku
22. Emergency Call
23. Metal Age
24. Hajimari no Asa ni Hikari Are.
25. PREVIOUS NOTICE

And a picture of Hitomi Kuroishi since dannyfrench demanded it (XD):


Original link: Thread 68598

Danny - a massive THANK YOU for the Tall Ships!!!! An absolutely gorgeous piece. I'm only now emerging from tears of joy, both for the sweeping beauty of the music itself, and to know that such nobility of emotion and heroic feeling is still possible in contemporary music...

Wow, that's quite an ecstatic appreciation. And as you're a man of great taste, then the Tall Ships will be the next item in my listening queue, thus skipping the 3462 other albums waiting for months to be heard.


NotSpecial: Thanks for reposting this score here. This forum is huge, MASSIVE, there are tons and tons of albums posted, so it's not easy to try each of them, especially if one looks for a certain type of music, say for instance orchestral music. At least people coming here are mostly sure to get orchestral or semi-orchestral albums.

And boy, she's amazingly beautiful, thanks also for bringing glamour to this thread. ;)

all theese ablum are gr8 warn soft music engertgeitc no action


ME WANT SOME ACTION MUSIC EPIC

Patrick Doyle Movie Score Suites:

If you like Patrick Doyle and thanks to Marbala here we have more than 6 hours of music with almost all his works:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8HAAN50S
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0BKP53YH
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2AJWG809

Track list

1.- Patrick Doyle Medley Suites
2.- Henry V
3.- Look back in anger
4.- Shipwrecked
5.- The thistle and the rose
6.- Dead again
7.- Indochine
8.- Into the west
9.- Carlito's way
10.- Much ado about nothing
11.- Needful things
12.- Frankenstein
13.- Romeo & Juliet (BBC)
14.- A litlle princess
15.- Exit to eden
16.- Sense & sensibility
17.- Una femme francaise
18.- Hamlet
19.- Mrs Winterbourne
20.- Donnie Brasco
21.- grat expectations
22.- quest for camelot
23.- Listen to the storyteller
24.- Love's labour's lost
25.- Bridget jone's diary (it's only diary)
26.- Killing me softly (theme)
27.- Blow dry
28.- Calendar girls
29.- Secondhand lions
30.- The galindez files (end titles)
31.- nouvelle france
32.- Harry potter and the globet fire
33.- Man to man (end title)
34.- Nanny mcphee
35.- Igor

Best!!!

First, one of my favorites Gordon's themes:


Oh my GAAAAUUUUDDD !
Thanks so much Garcia !

More than twelve years ago, I went into a small shop near my family house in Reunion Island, where I was born (it's east of Africa). And i bought my two first scores : "Moby Dick" by Gordon and "Sirens" by Rachel Portman.
I love Christopher Gordon (and Portman too... but) and Salem's Lot is a score i've been looking for. And "On the Beach" is great also !

Txs Garcia !

Oh my GAAAAUUUUDDD !
Thanks so much Garcia !

More than twelve years ago, I went into a small shop near my family house in Reunion Island, where I was born (it's east of Africa). And i bought my two first scores : "Moby Dick" by Gordon and "Sirens" by Rachel Portman.
I love Christopher Gordon (and Portman too... but) and Salem's Lot is a score i've been looking for. And "On the Beach" is great also !

Txs Garcia !

You are welcome!

Really, C. Gordon is very, very good.

I recommend you his pieces for Melbourne Olympic Games. Astonishing !!!!

Patrick Doyle Movie Score Suites:

If you like Patrick Doyle and thanks to Marbala here we have more than 6 hours of music with almost all his works:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8HAAN50S
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0BKP53YH
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2AJWG809

Very nice! This one is in fact much more developped than my own Doyle compilation previously posted. Thanks Garcia.

Btw, one of my favorite Doyle scores is the gothic and thunderous Frankenstein. I beleve you posted it some time ago in this board, so would you please repost it here, it would be great.

THanks for Shangri La and the Patrick Doyle Suites :):):)

Very nice! This one is in fact much more developped than my own Doyle compilation previously posted. Thanks Garcia.

Btw, one of my favorite Doyle scores is the gothic and thunderous Frankenstein. I beleve you posted it some time ago in this board, so would you please repost it here, it would be great.

I completely agree, I love this score.

I saved some time and I found it in lossless:



Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
Patrick Doyle
EAC | FLAC | CUE | LOG | M3U
Epic/Soundtrax EK 66631



Track listing

1. To Think Of A Story (03:26)
2. What's Out There? (02:51)
3. There's An Answer (04:37)
4. I Won't If You Won't (02:00)
5. A Perilous Direction (03:21)
6. A Risk Worth Taking (03:22)
7. Victor Begins (00:54)
8. Even If You Die (02:16)
9. The Creation (02:02)
10. Evil Stitched To Evil (04:46)
11. The Escape (01:49)
12. The Reunion (00:48)
13. The Journal (01:04)
14. Friendless (02:11)
15. William! (02:46)
16. Death Of Justine / Sea Of Ice (03:57)
17. Yes I Speek (05:39)
18. God Forgive Me (00:59)
19. Please Wait (03:21)
20. The Honeymoon (01:19)
21. The Wedding Night (02:08)
22. Elizabeth (04:14)
23. She's Beautiful (03:37)
24. He Was My Father (06:10)

Total Duration: 01:09:37

http://rapidshare.com/files/267172550/Mary_Shelley_s_Frankenstein__FLAC_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/267178210/Mary_Shelley_s_Frankenstein__FLAC_.part2.rar

:)

Thanks of course to the original uploader:

Thanks Garcia! And now here's a rare gem I wanted to post. The review below is quite accurate: it's MASSIVE! And as it's the score of a young and talented composer deserving a lot of support, I really recommend you buy it if you like it.



Jane Antonia Cornish - Island of Lost Souls (2007) 320k

Thanks to Andrew-C and to Sirusjr






http://rapidshare.com/files/270223090/JAC-ILC.rar
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1. Kashmir - Supergirl (03:56)
2. Kashmir - Slay The Emperor (04:46)
3. The Alpine - Box Office Band (03:09)
4. Pernille Vallentin - Glasshouse (03:53)
5. Island of Lost Souls (01:53)
6. Death of Linea (01:04)
7. Escape Through the Forest (02:55)
8. Lulu's Theme (01:15)
9. Old Enemies (03:41)
10. Shadows (02:41)
11. Richard to the Rescue (02:35)
12. The Cave (02:36)
13. Monk's Island (01:05)
14. Final Battle (09:32)
15. Soul Bridge & End Titles (08:02)
Total Duration: 00:53:03


Original Review by Jonathan Broxton:


In such a crowded market as the today’s international film music world, it’s difficult to make a splash. Hundreds of films are released each year, many of which never make any kind of box office impact or draw any kind of press, positive or negative. The vast majority of these undiscovered films have scores by jobbing composers, looking to make a name for themselves, looking to be attached to that one, golden movie which can launch a career. One such film is the Danish supernatural fantasy-adventure “De Fortabte Sj�les �”, better known internationally as Island of Lost Souls, which could very well be the break-out score for the comparatively little known English composer Jane Antonia Cornish.

London-born Cornish was a violin prodigy as a child, before switching to composing. After being a finalist in the BBC Young Composer of the Year competition in 1993, she attended the Royal College of Music, and upon graduation re-located to Los Angeles to attempt break into the film music business. Since then, she has worked an orchestrator on a couple of Hollywood projects (Big Fish for Danny Elfman, The Girl Next Door for Paul Haslinger, Earthsea for Jeff Rona), but ironically the majority of her work has been back across the Atlantic – she won a BAFTA award for her score for the children’s family adventure Five Children and It in 2005, and has now traveled to Denmark for this score. And, if the quality of this score is anything to go by, this is just the first step on a long and successful road.

To call Island of Lost Souls a ‘big’ score would be an understatement. It’s huge. Enormous. Gigantic. Monumental. Colossal. Stick any of those adjectives into a thesaurus, take your pick, and you’re starting to come close to the size and scale this tremendous work. It’s a score which overflows with sweeping action-adventure themes, thunderous battle music, orchestral crescendos and choral climaxes. It has nine-minute action cues offset by lyrical themes of romantic tenderness. And all this from a 32-year-old woman with just three feature scores to her name, including this one.

The main theme, as heard in the opening “Island of Lost Souls”, is a grand and powerful brass theme in the most epic fantasy tradition, and forms the cornerstone of the film’s thematic material. It features in a dramatic action setting in the frantic “Escape Through the Forest”, a bold and exciting action cue which put the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra through its paces with rampant brass writing, skittery woodwinds and throbbing percussion, and in fragments in several other tracks. The unyielding style continues into “Shadows”, before emerging triumphantly into the heroic “Richard to the Rescue”, which features an exultant fanfare motif that somehow puts me in mind of Laurence Rosenthal’s Clash of the Titans.

The choral writing is bold and dramatic, adding a sense of impending doom to “Old Enemies”, a notion of other-worldly spectral beauty to “Shadows”, and a beguiling icy coldness to “The Cave”. For Cornish to have such an impressive command of both instruments and voices at such an early stage in her career is impressive indeed.

At times, Cornish’s action music resembles David Arnold’s work on Independence Day and Godzilla; elsewhere, it has the throaty brass rasps that one might associate more with Elliot Goldenthal. “Lulu’s Theme”, which appears in truncated snippets in other cues, is the warm, tender backbone of the score, and has the definite feeling of the most lyrical parts of John Williams’ The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi – ‘Han Solo and the Princess’, or ‘Luke & Leia’ perhaps. These comparisons should not be taken as implying that Cornish has in any way ‘ripped off’ these other great scores – instead, they are more indicators of the stylistics Cornish employs.

The nine-minute “Final Battle” is a monumental tour-de-force of exhilarating forward motion and tremendous creativity, pitting thunderous performances the main theme against a bed of swirling strings, cooing choirs and dense horn clusters. As it progresses, the intensity increases to apocalyptic proportions, and the sense of dread becomes almost palpable. Eventually, finally, the conclusive “Soul Bridge and End Titles” releases all the tension with the grandest and most impressive performance of the main theme yet to bring the score to a rousing close. It’s remarkable, breathless stuff.

If one was to make one small criticism of the score, it would be to say that is perhaps a little too relentless. The power and cacophony never lets up for the entire CD running time, which is fine if, like me, you like this kind of thing, but I can see how others would simply be overwhelmed by it all. This small issue aside, I can honestly say that I can think of nothing else negative to say about Island of Lost Souls. It’s density, inventiveness, and overflowing ebullience makes every single note a joy to experience. If I sound like I’m gushing over this score, I apologize, but when I hear music as good as this from a composer at the beginning of their careers, I can’t help but be enthusiastic. If you like your film music big, bold and dominant, then Island of Lost Souls will be the score for you. I don’t think I would be overstating things if I said that, with this score, Jane Antonia Cornish had made the most impressive mainstream debut of any composer since David Arnold and Stargate back in 1994. And we all know what happened to him…

Aounds interesting Arthierr! I may have to re-upload after I finish because this guy split it into two parts when it wasn't needed considering Rapidshare has a 200mb upload max now.
EDIT: Here is a proper mirror Arthierr

http://rapidshare.com/files/270223090/JAC-ILC.rar
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Please include it in your post in place of that 2 part RS link. I also cleaned up the tags slightly and encoded album art into the files.

Anyone in this thread have Michael Land's "The Dig" in lossless. I have it in mp3, but would like to make a good CD.

Anyone in this thread have Michael Land's "The Dig" in lossless. I have it in mp3, but would like to make a good CD.
May want to ask in
Thread 62633
More likely to get people who are lossless nuts.

Thanks to original uploaders of these awesome albums in the Lossless thread. I converted them to VBR MP3 to share with you guys the awesomeness of Debney.
[center]John Debney - I Know What You Did Last Summer Complete Score
|MP3|VBR256|
|Orchestral/Horror/Tense/Dark|
For some reason this has a single pop at the begging of each track. I believe that was how the original lossless was uploaded. Nothing I could do about it as I was too lazy to edit it out of each track. Still a great orchestral horror soundtrack.


http://rapidshare.com/files/270620755/I_Know_What_You_Did_Last_Summer_Complete_Score.rar
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John Debney - End of Days
|MP3|VBR256|
|Dark/Horror/Choral/Orchestral/Epic|
Link Deleted as it is a Varese Sarabande release. Do not ask to re-upload.

John Debney - Hocus Pocus
|MP3|VBR256|
|Magical/Warm/Energetic/Relaxing|


http://rapidshare.com/files/270628951/Hocus_Pocus.rar
PSW: smile

John Debney - Cats and Dogs
|MP3|VBR|
|Orchestral/Sneaky/sounds like Tuxedo, James Bond|
Link Deleted as it is a Varese Sarabande release. Do not ask to re-upload.
If you guys see something big and orchestral in the Lossless thread and don't want to bother with FLAC or APE or any of those other formats, feel free to PM me and I will re-upload in MP3 for everyone here.

Hey, I just finished the first recording of the first movement of my third symphony, and I think it's very appropriate for this thread. You can download it here: http://jeremyrobson.com/allegro1.mp3

I wanted a kind of Howard Hanson meets Shostakovich for this movement. The next one is going to be more impressionist and the other two will be reorchestrated versions of two pieces I composed a few years ago that I think merit revisiting. Let me know what you think.

Hey, I just finished the first recording of the first movement of my third symphony, and I think it's very appropriate for this thread. You can download it here: http://jeremyrobson.com/allegro1.mp3.... I composed a few years ago that I think merit revisiting. Let me know what you think.

Very good. I like it !!!

Congratulations !!!

Got some great action music for you guys. Just finished watching the movie and had to re-post the score link here (still works, just downloaded it).

Mark Mancina - Shooter
|Regal/blood-pumping/tense/blistering|


http://rs52.rapidshare.com/files/34017196/Mark_Mancina_Shooter_2007.rar
Thanks to original uploader. Will replace with own link later.

Hey, I just finished the first recording of the first movement of my third symphony, and I think it's very appropriate for this thread. You can download it here: http://jeremyrobson.com/allegro1.mp3

I wanted a kind of Howard Hanson meets Shostakovich for this movement. The next one is going to be more impressionist and the other two will be reorchestrated versions of two pieces I composed a few years ago that I think merit revisiting. Let me know what you think.

Excellent. It's very well-done, technically well mastered. And it's very ostinato-heavy, I like that, I really enjoy the technique of repeating, varying and developing short motifs in music. Here your main motif is a sort of dark rhythmic motif sounding a bit like the one from Jaws. Really good stuff. Also it seems this piece is more, how to say, "structured" than other pieces of yours, it's more centered around a main motif.

Just one thing though, when I listened to it, I had the impression something wasn't quite right: the tempo. In fact it seemed it's meant to be played at a faster tempo. So just as an experiment I used Chronotron to increase the tempo to 125% without changing the key, and... WOW!! It became awesome, a superb, frenetic blood-pumping piece! Of course it's only a personal opinion and no disrespect to your original piece, but it seems to me better this way.

Here's the recording of this version, I also added some bass enhancement + treble enhancement + normalizing. What's your opinion?


Jeremy Robson - I Allegro agitato
http://www.sendspace.com/file/py4a7j


Looking forward to hearing the other movements!


Sirusjr: what a great series of posts! These Debney scores are so much welcome here. Thank you very much! :)

Excellent. It's very well-done, technically well mastered. And it's very ostinato-heavy, I like that, I really enjoy the technique of repeating, varying and developing short motifs in music. Here your main motif is a sort of dark rhythmic motif sounding a bit like the one from Jaws. Really good stuff. Also it seems this piece is more, how to say, "structured" than other pieces of yours, it's more centered around a main motif.

Just one thing though, when I listened to it, I had the impression something wasn't quite right: the tempo. In fact it seemed it's meant to be played at a faster tempo. So just as an experiment I used Chronotron to increase the tempo to 125% without changing the key, and... WOW!! It became awesome, a superb, frenetic blood-pumping piece! Of course it's only a personal opinion and no disrespect to your original piece, but it seems to me better this way.

Here's the recording of this version, I also added some bass enhancement + treble enhancement + normalizing. What's your opinion?


Jeremy Robson - I Allegro agitato
http://www.sendspace.com/file/py4a7j


Looking forward to hearing the other movements!

Yep, it sounds really good that way, but maybe still a bit fast for any medium-level orchestra to attempt to play well. Somewhere in between might be the best tempo.

Also, I noticed in the recording I posted the trumpets dropped out near the end, so I fixed the original file. Now the ending is even more trumpety.

Hey, I just finished the first recording of the first movement of my third symphony, and I think it's very appropriate for this thread. You can download it here: http://jeremyrobson.com/allegro1.mp3
.
Wow, this is truly a superb piece! Thanks for sharing, and congratulations for a great work! =)

Here are some 'shopping guides', of composers with instant soundtrack reviews of his albums.
The sites are written in Spanish, but if you translate the webpage on google, the texts can be understandable in English.
Unfortunatly some of them are not complete, or maybe are but i don't know where to find on those sites, so hopefully someday they can complete all the discography.


Basil Poledouris
http://www.bsospirit.com/reflexiones/pole.php

Jerry Goldsmith
Part 1: http://www.bsospirit.com/reflexiones/guiagoldsmith1.php
Part 2: http://www.bsospirit.com/reflexiones/guiagoldsmith2.php
Part 3: http://www.bsospirit.com/reflexiones/guiagoldsmith3.php

Bruce Broughton
Part 1: http://www.scoremagacine.com/GuiaCompra_det.php?Codigo=10
Part 2: http://www.scoremagacine.com/GuiaCompra_det.php?Codigo=40

Patrick Doyle
Part 1: http://www.scoremagacine.com/GuiaCompra_det.php?Codigo=44
Part 2: http://www.scoremagacine.com/GuiaCompra_det.php?Codigo=45

James Newton Howard
Part 1: http://www.scoremagacine.com/GuiaCompra_det.php?Codigo=41
Part 2: http://www.scoremagacine.com/GuiaCompra_det.php?Codigo=42
Part 3: http://www.scoremagacine.com/GuiaCompra_det.php?Codigo=43

Bill Conti
Part 1: http://www.scoremagacine.com/GuiaCompra_det.php?Codigo=46
Part 2: http://www.scoremagacine.com/GuiaCompra_det.php?Codigo=47
Part 3: http://www.scoremagacine.com/GuiaCompra_det.php?Codigo=48


Arthierr, i hope you don't mind that i post these links in your thread. I have post it because i've found them today, and i believe that can be a useful information for anyone interested.
If you don't want it, i will remove the links instantly.

I'm sorry but that bill conti page is phail if it doesn't suggest North and South 7cd collection of orgasm. His best and my most favorite work along with Huck Finn.

Thanks for the Patrick Doyle suites - so nice to be able to just turn some Doyle on :-)

I'm sorry but that bill conti page is phail if it doesn't suggest North and South 7cd collection of orgasm. His best and my most favorite work along with Huck Finn.

That shopping guide doesn't fail since was written in 2007 before the new North And South edition, previously you could only find material from this work in this other cd from Varese Sarabande together with The Right Stuff (the only Oscar winner for Conti):

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

Track listing

1. Breaking The Sound Barrier (04:46)
from "The Right Stuff" by Bill Conti
2. Almost Ready (01:26)
from "The Right Stuff" by Bill Conti
3. The Training (01:17)
from "The Right Stuff" by Bill Conti
4. Glenn's Flight (05:19)
from "The Right Stuff" by Bill Conti
5. Yeager's Triumph (05:15)
from "The Right Stuff" by Bill Conti
6. Main Title (03:45)
from "North And South" by Bill Conti
7. Southern Life (01:38)
from "North And South" by Bill Conti
8. Love In The Chapel (04:04)
from "North And South" by Bill Conti
9. A Close Call (02:00)
from "North And South" by Bill Conti
10. Returning Home (02:13)
from "North And South" by Bill Conti
11. Last Embrace (02:57)
from "North And South" by Bill Conti
12. Final Meeting (02:28)
from "North And South" by Bill Conti

Total Duration: 00:37:08

This edition is the one reviewed in the guide.

Curiously one month ago Varese published The Right Stuff (already sold) and of course it doesn't appear in the guide:

http://www.varesesarabande.com/details.asp?pid=VCL-0609-1095

Best.

Thanks Garcia. I understand although I do think it bears mentioning to someone who may be interested in Bill Conti that now the new boxset is out and is amazing.

This is the North and South review in the guide:

NORTH AND SOUTH (Norte Y Sur) 1985
Varese Sarabande VCD 47250 (CD)
“Norte y Sur” es una de esas miniseries cl�sicas que no pueden faltar en la hemeroteca de todo amante de la televisi�n. Emitida en nuestro pa�s dos a�os despu�s de su estreno, cosech� un gran �xito popular al recuperar para la peque�a pantalla los grandes dramas �pico-hist�ricos. La producci�n presentaba ciertos paralelismos con la inolvidable “Lo Que el Viento se llev�”, con la Guerra de Secesi�n americana como escenario de la trama entremezclada con similares historias de amor imposible, todo ello construido desde una puesta en escena soberbia, muy lograda teniendo en cuenta las limitaciones l�gicas de todo proyecto destinado a TV.
Conti, convertido ya por entonces en un referente televisivo de incontestable solvencia, se muestra a la altura de las circunstancias, escribiendo una banda sonora excelsa y francamente distinguida, la cu�l dar�a origen a otra de las sinton�as m�s conocidas de la historia de la televisi�n (“Main Title”). Tremendamente sinf�nico y exuberante, este “Norte y Sur” ofrece a Bill una de sus primeras oportunidades (salvedad hecha de su anterior “Grand Canyon”) de ahondar expresamente en las sonoridades costumbristas a la Americana, mediante melod�as vivaces y coloristas, tratadas en clave preciosista (“Southern Life“), en las que no faltan referencias l�gicas -dentro de un orden-, a autores de la “Golden Age” como bien pudiera ser Max Steiner. Otro de sus puntos fuertes lo hallamos en la certera orquestaci�n de la desconocida Julie Giroux, gracias a la cu�l la m�sica logra mutar de la �pica melodram�tica (”Love in The Chapel”) a la introspecci�n “sensiblera”, sin perder ni un �pice de coherencia y calidad.
La lastima es que los siete cortes disponibles en el mercado son s�lo regrabaciones; eso s�, ejecutados con la usual maestr�a de la London Symphony Orchestra e incluidos en el mismo compacto de su anterior “The Right Stuff”. Lo que no es �bice para reconocer que el escaso material comercializado no es sino una �nfima muestra del extenso score que el compositor escribi� para la miniserie.

Duraci�n: 7 cortes - 20�.
Lo mejor: La elegancia y empaque transmitidos del primer al �ltimo acorde de la partitura.
Lo peor: Que nadie se haya atrevido a�n a lanzar una edici�n con m�s material del disponible.
El Tema: Partiendo de la extraordinaria grandilocuencia del ”Main Title”, destacar�a la emocionante rendici�n in crescendo de dicha sinton�a central que podremos deleitar en “The Reunion“.

The translation by Google (very long for me to try):

NORTH AND SOUTH (North & South) 1985
Varese Sarabande VCD 47250 (CD) Varese Sarabande VCD 47250 (CD)
"North and South" miniseries is one of those classics that should not be missing in the newspaper library of every lover of television. Issued in this country two years after its premiere, was a success for people to recover the small screen's great epic historical dramas. The production featured some parallels with the memorable "Gone with the Wind", with the American Civil War as the setting for the plot interspersed with similar stories of impossible love, all built from a superb staging, very successful in taking account the logical constraints of any project for TV.
Conti, and then become a benchmark credit incontestable television is shown to rise to the occasion by writing a sublime soundtrack distinguished and frankly, that would give rise to another of the most popular tunes in the history of television ( "Main Title"). Fiercely symphonic and lush, this "North-South" offers Bill one of his first opportunities (apart from its previous "Grand Canyon") to delve specifically into the folkloric sounds of Americana, through lively and colorful melodies, discussed in key price ( "Southern Life"), in which no-missing references in a logical order, the authors of the "Golden Age" as well be Max Steiner. Another of its strengths to be found in the orchestration of the unknown accurate Julie Giroux, thanks to which the music achieves the epic melodramatic mutate ( "Love In The Chapel") to introspection "maudlin" without losing any of consistency and quality.
The pity is that the seven courts available in the market are just re-recordings, that yes, executed with the usual mastery of the London Symphony Orchestra and included in the same compact of his previous "The Right Stuff". What is nonetheless that the market is not limited material but a tiny sample of the extensive score that the composer wrote for the miniseries.

Duration: 7 cuts - 20 '.
The best: Elegance and sent packing the first to the last chord of the score.
Worse: No one yet has dared to launch an edition with more material available.
The Topic: Building on the extraordinary bombast of "Main Title", highlight the surrender exciting crescendo of that central line that we delight in "The Reunion".

I do think it bears mentioning to someone who may be interested in Bill Conti that now the new boxset is out and is amazing.

Of course, a lot better that the old edition that we had to listen for too many years, je, je and lucky you that have it original.

Best!

Well both parts of the massive score are still available on Varese's web site. Until they sell out I will not upload FLAC. However once they sell out, I will share the majesty with all the world. My purpose for uploading the MP3 version I did was so that people can get an idea how wonderful the score is and go buy it for themselves. (even if I did mess up the tags somewhat)

The most intriguing about these guides is the one about Goldsmith (mostly the first part).

It is something that I realized when I first read that reviews several years ago.

That reviewer doesn't like too much Jerry Goldsmith during the sixties and seventies. For him The Planet Of The Apes is not a master piece. More, in opinion of this guy Jerry Goldsmith doesn't have any majestic score during the 60s. How is that possible?

Arthierr, i hope you don't mind that i post these links in your thread. I have post it because i've found them today, and i believe that can be a useful information for anyone interested.
If you don't want it, i will remove the links instantly.

No problem, it's quite a good idea in fact. The only thing which shouldn't be done is to put direct links to commercial sites, but here it's only reviews so it's ok.


And as there's been some discussions about North and South, I repost a link to it because some people may have missed it.


This is a collection of SEVEN cds with over SEVEN HOURS of music by the great Bill Conti. I should warn you ahead of time that this collection of music is both orgasmic and repetitive. If you love repeating themes then you will have a blast.

North and South is an Epic miniseries from the 80s about the civil war based on novels. From what i can get off the site, there were two books and each one was made into a series.

I characterize the music as warm, epic, grand, sweeping, powerful. The music is all recorded with full orchestra so there are numerous uses of horns, strings, percussion, everything you would expect. The main melodies in this collection are absolutely stunning. As soon as i heard the samples on Varese Sarabande's web site I had to order them and thanks to them being in my state, I got the music quickly.

I will post the discs here as I get them uploaded although I am too lazy to do scans of the booklets I guess I can do them later if people request.


Thread 64064

North and South Book 1

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3598/3320551138_119a58be6b_o.gif


North and South Book 2

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3638/3319725369_f5633a6145_o.gif

:) thanks arthierr although it is linked in my sig :) I'm working on those requests of yours too btw.

I have never heard North and South before, but going through seven hours of music would be to much for me, on a first time listen.
If someone has the edition with North and South and Right Stuff together would be great, if not i will request in the hunt thread instead.

Sanico each CD is a separate link. Grab the first link and you should get a good taste for it and you WILL want the rest of it.

mk, if you say so. I'm grabbing CD 1 of book 1.

I ordered both sets based on the samples on the Varese web site so yes its that good. Only bill conti that might even come close is Huckelberry Finn.

World of Warcraft: Mosaic Soundtrack (2009)




The latest CD collection of Blizzard Entertainment music spans the original game and its two expansions, and includes unreleased music from Black Temple, Ulduar, and Sunwell Plateau.

Thread 68868

I Sell The Dead (2009) - Jeff Grace




Tracklist:

01. Opening Titles (03:31)
02. A Very Peculiar Priest (03:22)
03. Langols Island (02:36)
04. Wake Snatching (01:35)
05. A What Which? (03:21)
06. The Resurrection Apprentice (03:33)
07. Cornelius Murphy (02:39)
08. Guts for Garters (03:12)
09. A Hard Slog (00:56)
10. Dr. Vernon Quint at Your Service (01:38)
11. The House of Murphy (01:21)
12. The Dead Undead! (02:57)
13. A Foot? (02:37)
14. From a Long Line of Ghouls (02:19)
15. Valentine Kelly (01:42)
16. Grimes and Blake (02:02)
17. Other Arrangements (01:58)
18. A Cemetery Stroll (03:05)

Total Duration: 00:44:24


mp3 320 kbps
size: 106 Mb


http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1315310&postcount=16053
Fantastic orchestral score! Thanks to Mad777 for posting it!

Requested by Arthierr. I actually had this encoded a while ago after I downloaded the Lossless version and decided it wasn't worth keeping. It is an interesting soundtrack for sure.
Super Mario Galaxy Soundtrack
|Orchestral|Sweeping|Majestic|Relaxing|
|MP3|197VBR|2CD|180MB|


http://rapidshare.com/files/271999467/SMG.rar
PSW: smile
Sorry that the tags are all in Japanese. I grabbed it before an English translation was available. Too lazy to fix it.

Hi to all of you guys and girls!

I would like to share with you some of my own orchestral/epic like compositions!

I sincerely hope you like them!

Epic Clash Against The Darkness - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnakrmPmpnk

The Secret Gathering Of The Nymphs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsdweQ4brB0

Goodnight Father - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwUPFojvtls

Raijin's Drums - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iGRKsBHlrY

A Throne Of Steel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyznSmcI5X8

Hope you like them. Please give me your valuable feedback!

I am sorry, mine is the third Edition.

Here is the one by Silvestri in 2007 as part of Soncinemad

Musica De Cine 2 (Alan Silvestri)





Tracklist:
1. Forrest Gump (09:52)
2. The Polar Express (07:34)
3. Back To The Future (Regreso Al Futuro) (07:35)
4. Judge Dredd (Juez Dredd) (11:15)
5. Father of The Bride (El Padre de la Novia) (06:26)
6. The Mummy Returns (El Regreso de la Momia) (08:10)
7. Night At the Museum (Noche en el Museo) (06:42)
8. Cast Away (N�ufrago) (05:00)
9. Mouse Hunt (Un Ratoncito Duro de Roer) (05:55)
Duraci�n: 00:68:34

http://rapidshare.com/files/72148431/Musica_de_cine_2__Soncinemad_-ALAN_SILVESTRI.rar.html

It is not my upload, credit to juanginger.

Can someone please reupload this one? Thanks!!!

Requested by Arthierr
Shenmue Orchestral
|MP3|VBR256|101MB|
|Asian Instrumental/Orchestral/Majestic|


http://rapidshare.com/files/272010922/Shenmue_Orchestral.rar
PSW: smile
Thanks to Anthraxx for posting the Lossless version.

Thanks for SMG und Shenmue, Sirusjr :):)

Hi to all of you guys and girls!

I would like to share with you some of my own orchestral/epic like compositions!

I sincerely hope you like them!

Epic Clash Against The Darkness - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnakrmPmpnk

The Secret Gathering Of The Nymphs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsdweQ4brB0

Goodnight Father - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwUPFojvtls

Raijin's Drums - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iGRKsBHlrY

A Throne Of Steel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyznSmcI5X8

Hope you like them. Please give me your valuable feedback!

Isn't this great? Young / amateur composers posting their music in this thread? I really appreciate such initiative and wish more people share their compositions here.

Thank you Sephirothgreece, I listened to your pieces and they sound good, with an epic / fantasy feel quite enjoyable. My favorite piece is "The Secret Gathering Of The Nymphs" because of its fairy-like, enchanting ambience and accurate choice of instruments: the result is delightful. Too bad it's too short: you should extend it - notably by developing the theme appearing around :25.

One little criticism though: these pieces lack a real melody (except "Nymphs" at the beginning), or a distinct theme, and are too much ambient / rhythm based IMO. But maybe that's just me, as most of the time I need a melody to cling to in music.

Anyway it's good stuff, and thanks again for sharing your music with us. :)


Sirusjr: Excellent posts, as usual! :)

This Shenmue album has a special importance for me because the Shenmue games are one of the greatest gaming experience I had. So when I listen to this album, not only it's very beautiful music and performance in itself, but it also brings back delightful memories.

Isn't this great? Young / amateur composers posting their music in this thread? I really appreciate such initiative and wish more people share their compositions here.

Thank you Sephirothgreece, I listened to your pieces and they sound good, with an epic / fantasy feel quite enjoyable. My favorite piece is "The Secret Gathering Of The Nymphs" because of its fairy-like, enchanting ambience and accurate choice of instruments: the result is delightful. Too bad it's too short: you should extend it - notably by developing the theme appearing around :25.

One little criticism though: these pieces lack a real melody (except "Nymphs" at the beginning), or a distinct theme, and are too much ambient / rhythm based IMO. But maybe that's just me, as most of the time I need a melody to cling to in music.

Anyway it's good stuff, and thanks again for sharing your music with us. :)


Sirusjr: Excellent posts, as usual! :)

This Shenmue album has a special importance for me because the Shenmue games are one of the greatest gaming experience I had. So when I listen to this album, not only it's very beautiful music and performance in itself, but it also brings back delightful memories.


You are right about the melody... but I am still a noob. These are my first songs, so give me some time... I think I will improve...lol. Thanks for your kind words!

Well, you have some potential for sure, and also some good equipment apparently: your soundfont sounds very good (especially the timpanis are superb). So these are some very good basis to start with!

Murai Shusei - Souten Korou OST 1
|MP3|192kbps|Fully tagged except track names in Japanese|
|Melodic/Warm/Traditional Asian/Epic Action/electronic/rock|
(http://img83.imageshack.us/i/76955492.jpg/)

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?p=1317187#post1317187

Demain des l'aube aka Tomorrow at Dawn - J�r�me Lemonnier (2009)
|Regal/Orchestral/Classical/Powerful|
VBR Kbps - MP3 - Zip - 45Mb
Originally posted by PRican82

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1316714&postcount=16155

Originally posted by franzcool

Yuki Kajiura - Rekishi Hiwa Historia (2009)
|Majestic/Regal/Female Vocals|
|MP3|320kbps|150mb|
|This is the usual awesome Yuki Kajiura stuff. If you like her work grab it!|


http://rapidshare.com/files/273073799/Rekishi_Hiwa_Historia_OST.rar
PSW: smile

I wanted to share with you some music from a fairly new composer I met on Thursday evening. Her website is
http://www.micheleshipp.com/music/index.htm and if you click on her top links titled Due North, are some relaxing piano music. Feel free to post any comments and I will pass them on to her.

TCHAIKOVSKY - SWAN LAKE
(Complete Ballet)
Charles Dutoit, Montr�al Symphony Orchestra



Sample: Danse espagnole (http://rapidshare.com/files/273583719/Act_3-_Danse_espagnole__Allegro_non_troppo._Tempo_di_bol ero_.mp3)

TCHAIKOVSKY - THE NUTCRACKER
(Complete Ballet)
Valery Gergiev, Kirov Orchestra



Sample: Inside the Christmas Tree (http://rapidshare.com/files/273708345/Act_1_Tableau_2-_Inside_the_Christmas_Tree.mp3)

TCHAIKOVSKY - THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
(Complete Ballet)
Mikhail Pletnev, Russian National Orchestra



Sample: Introduction (http://rapidshare.com/files/273732742/Prol-_Introduction._Allegro_vivo_-_Andantino_-_Moderato__Tempo_di_marcia_.mp3)

Thread 58159

Hey, I just finished the first recording of the first movement of my third symphony, and I think it's very appropriate for this thread. You can download it here: http://jeremyrobson.com/allegro1.mp3

I wanted a kind of Howard Hanson meets Shostakovich for this movement. The next one is going to be more impressionist and the other two will be reorchestrated versions of two pieces I composed a few years ago that I think merit revisiting. Let me know what you think.

Streich this is a brilliant piece - really exciting! Very impressive too that you sustain such a sense of momentum and rigourous development. I think I agree that a tempo somewhere in between your original and arthierr's would be ideal. Keep up the good work! :)

pumpkin scissors soundtrack anyone?

-edit- (time for a change of tone) *ahem* , wow so many nice soundtracks :), but what really bites is I can't download from rapidshare :(

As someone new to the forums, I don't see why you can complain about the host. Rapidshare is used for the most part because it is easier for the uploader and generally reliable. You need to just use it and get used to it.

Hey, I've been around for ages, I just haven't been posting . Lol look at my join date.

Anyway, rapidshare is virtually un-usable to i guess many people , me included. Thats the reason I say its a waste. Cause I can't download any rapidshare file, not a single one gets through ( I keep getting that "you've downloaded too much" ip error), and looking at all the awesome music thats been posted, it really is indeed a pity. I don't understand why people post up music on rapidshare when theres better sites like megaupload and mediafire. But oh well, to each his own.

As an uploader, I don't use Megaupload because I've had it time out and fail to upload far too many times and I don't use mediafire because a free account has a max size of 100mb. Rapidshare is easy because it has 200mb upload limit and with a collector's account you can keep track of all your uploads in your account and how many people downloaded them. As a downloader I don't prefer rapidshare but I put up with it and you should too.

Just because you have lurked for years doesn't give you the right to complain about how stuff is uploaded. The fact that you have a few posts clearly shows you haven't bothered to upload anything yet. As someone who doesn't upload at all, just take what you can get.

Plus, if you had initially posted something like "Sirusjr - can you please re-upload soundtrack X on host X, I can't deal with rapidshare" rather than "wow so many good uploads too bad they are on rapidshit" you might have gotten a better response. The tone of your posts can seriously change the reaction you get. I haven't seen anyone else since I started posting stuff on rapidshare complain and ask me to use a different host so I can assume safely that none of them have problems with it. For the most part, the majority of the files on this forum in general are uploaded on rapidshare so if you do not like it, you can go somewhere else and ignore it.

Hey, I've been around for ages, I just haven't been posting . Lol look at my join date.

Anyway, rapidshare is virtually un-usable to i guess many people , me included. Thats the reason I say its a waste. Cause I can't download any rapidshare file, not a single one gets through ( I keep getting that "you've downloaded too much" ip error), and looking at all the awesome music thats been posted, it really is indeed a pity. I don't understand why people post up music on rapidshare when theres better sites like megaupload and mediafire. But oh well, to each his own.

because some people have a collectors or premium account (me included), thats why i use rapidshare (since rs.de) :)

Hey, I've been around for ages, I just haven't been posting . Lol look at my join date.

Anyway, rapidshare is virtually un-usable to i guess many people , me included. Thats the reason I say its a waste. Cause I can't download any rapidshare file, not a single one gets through ( I keep getting that "you've downloaded too much" ip error), and looking at all the awesome music thats been posted, it really is indeed a pity. I don't understand why people post up music on rapidshare when theres better sites like megaupload and mediafire. But oh well, to each his own.

What exactly says when you download from rapidshare?
I know that there's a restriction of 15min between downloads, if you don't have a premium account. Is it the case?

geez guys, so many awesome soundtracks / music , but all of them are in rapidshit which is crappy and un-usable. What a waste man.

First, when I upload something I use the host that I want. Take it or leave it!!

Second, the most of my uploads are in Megaupload. I didn't upload nothing in Rapidshare so it is not real that all the uploads are in rapidshare.

Third, answering to Sirusj. Megauplod works perfectly for me, you can upload files with a bigger size than those in Rapidshare or some other hosts (may be Gigasize accepts bigger files). You don't have to wait between consecutive downloads. It is a lot faster that Rapidshare, downloading and uploading. Of course, all this features are in my hands. I know that depending the country that you live Megaupload works in different ways.

I don't mind that the links are for Rapidshare, Megaupload or something else if the uploaded music is good.

Best!!!

and remember... its for free.

:)

Good night (or day) everybody! Good to be back after some days off. :)


Sirusjr: thanks for your great contributions, and I'll check ASAP this new composer website you mentioned, and comment thereafter.


chaosknightEX: you may be interested in looking at this thread about your RS problem.

Thread 60215



Third, answering to Sirusj. Megauplod works perfectly for me, you can upload files with a bigger size than those in Rapidshare or some other hosts (may be Gigasize accepts bigger files). You don't have to wait between consecutive downloads. It is a lot faster that Rapidshare, downloading and uploading. Of course, all this features are in my hands. I know that depending the country that you live Megaupload works in different ways.

About MU, I have a problem: I have a MU account since months and uploaded several files, but the counter tells me 0 downloads! And yet I know for sure that they've been downloaded because a) I downloaded them for testing, and b) other people have made accurate comments about the content, so they necessarily have downloaded them. So I guess the MU counter seems to be crap...

About MU, I have a problem: I have a MU account since months and uploaded several files, but the counter tells me 0 downloads! And yet I know for sure that they've been downloaded because a) I downloaded them for testing, and b) other people have made accurate comments about the content, so they necessarily have downloaded them. So I guess the MU counter seems to be crap...

I don't have an account, but of course if you want to know how many people download your files it is normal that you're disappointing if the counter doesn't work.

For me the most important is the speed and the time that you have to wait between consecutive downloads.

Other thing that we shouldn't forget is that the links are more stable in Mega, I mean, it is easier that your links are more frequently removed in Rapid than in Megaupload.

Best !!!

My two penneth - rapidshare is the best option. Despite all the naysayers, it's the most reliable, and the most prevalent. I've waited hours before uploading to MU, only to find it hasn't worked! Also I pay the miniscule fee for a premium account. The service it provides is completely worth it.


First, when I upload something I use the host that I want. Take it or leave it!!

and remember... its for free.
Very succinctly put. :)

Batman Arkham Asylum Game Rip
|MP3|320kbps|32tracks|450mb|
|Dark|Orchestral|Up-beat|slight synth|

Main Theme (3:20)
The Dark Knight (8:33)
Escorting Joker (11:49)
The Choke's on You (4:31)
Batman (8:33)
Invisible Predator (4:13)
Double Trouble (6:06)
Harley Quinn (2:43)
Rope-A-Dope-A-Dope (5:08)
Arkham Asylum (7:10)
Baneful Payback Part 1 (6:10)
Baneful Payback Part 2 (9:11)
Visitor Centre (8:32)
World's Greatest Detective (5:07)
Whiskey Trail (1:18)
Sniper (0:49)
Medical (4:19)
Malpractice Needs More Practice (9:07)
Henchmen (4:36)
And at the End of Fear...Oblivion! (4:05)
Bat-Cave (6:04)
Over-World (6:27)
Tick, Tock, Feed the Croc (8:25)
Venom (1:52)
Poisoned Ivy (11:22)
Play You Like a Violin, then Cut Your Strings (10:07)
Prison Cells & Lunatics (3:37)
He's out There (3:44)
Surprise Attack (8:28)
Just What the Doctors Ordered (8:01)
The Caped Crusader (4:18)
Throne Room – Joker Fight – Breaking News (7:44)
The Aftermath (2:26)
Credits (5:16)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H7NU8XHI

http://rapidshare.com/files/274941853/Nick_Arundel___Ron_Fish_-_Batman_Arkham_Asylum__Complete_Score_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/274954539/Nick_Arundel___Ron_Fish_-_Batman_Arkham_Asylum__Complete_Score_.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/274958459/Nick_Arundel___Ron_Fish_-_Batman_Arkham_Asylum__Complete_Score_.part3.rar
PSW: smile
I debated whether I should post this or not but then I decided it has enough orchestral stuff to be worth posting. It has a slight resemblance to the recent Batman Begins and Dark Knight soundtracks but I believe it is a bit better. Thanks of course to the original rippers and everyone who condensed the massive rip to a more listenable format. No use holding out for commercial release because in an interview the composers said there will not be one.

Oh, it does have orchestral stuff?? I listened to the main theme and a couple of other tracks but decided it was a bit too low key for my tastes. With your recommendation tho, I'll have to give it another try :)

Lol, sorry , I didn't mean to take an offensive tone. Really sorry. haha, I guess I really screwed up with how I phrased that and actually i was only only referring to the soundtracks on that page. I really do appreciate how you people post so many soundtracks up in good-will to share them :) and yes , if I can't access it I really should just leave it :(, was just lamenting the fact earlier.
And oh, I get that your ip "0938490234" is currently downloading a XXXX mb file , please wait awhile" kind of message.

Again, Sorry if I've offended anyone :)

Personally, so far I like Mediafire, but Megaupload too. Rapidshare comes third. Well I'll give a hint... Greasemonkey + userscripts are a good way to solve problems with rapidshare, megaupload etc...

So now you know... and knowing is half the battle! COBRRRR.. Errr... G.I JOEEE!

Mediafire pwnz! :P

Mediafire pwnz! :P

Lol man... grow up! Besides, I told you already... Mozilla+Greasemonkey+Userscripts= Pure WIN against all sharing services!

Yes sir.

Batman Arkham Asylum Game Rip
|MP3|320kbps|32tracks|450mb|
|Dark|Orchestral|Up-beat|slight synth|

Hey Sirusjr, very nice cover! And thanks for the new arranged tracklist :)

I don't take credit for the arranged tracklist or cover. They were posted by others in the existing thread. I liked that cover more than the one the guy included in the tags (from the game box art).

Again, Sorry if I've offended anyone :)

No problem :)

Call of Duty Soundtrack

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=2sfxs1mzjj

Lol, sorry , I didn't mean to take an offensive tone. Really sorry. haha, I guess I really screwed up with how I phrased that and actually i was only only referring to the soundtracks on that page. I really do appreciate how you people post so many soundtracks up in good-will to share them :) and yes , if I can't access it I really should just leave it :(, was just lamenting the fact earlier.
And oh, I get that your ip "0938490234" is currently downloading a XXXX mb file , please wait awhile" kind of message.

Again, Sorry if I've offended anyone :)
No offense but all that message means is that you have to download one file at a time. Everyone has to deal with the same restrictions of (1) download only one file at a time and (2) wait 15 minutes between downloads. Sure the waiting sucks but just go do something else while you wait. It is worth it in the end if the music is awesome.

I added fresh rapidshare links to batman in case someone has problems with megaupload.

Hello

I have been around for a week now and finally decided to post something.

I read that some of you guys are interested in Chinese music, so I'm uploading this beautiful album that I think hasn't been posted yet:



Favorite Chinese Instrumentals @ 320kbps

01. Like Wave Against the Sand (Pipa solo with ensemble)
02.Fisherman Singing The Night Song (Zheng solo)
03.Night (Percussion ensemble)
04.Love Song Of The Grassland (Tung hsiao with ensemble)
05.Ducks Quacking (Percussion ensemble)
06.Love At The Fair (Erhu solo with ensemble)
07.The Fishing Song (Bawoo solo with ensemble)
08.Happy Reunion (Xylophone solo ensemble)
09.Chinese Martial Art (Ensemble)
10. River Of Sorrow (Erhu solo with ensemble)
11. Spenpadei Folksong (Yung qin solo with ensemble)
12. Autumn Moon Over The Han Palace (Erhu solo ensemble)
13. Moonlight Over the Flowery River In Spring (Ensemble)
14.Variation On Yang City Tune
15.Moon Over Guan Shan (Ensemble)

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

I think this album is very interesting because it really shows off the principal chinese instruments giving a good taste of the whole genre.

If someone is interested, I have more of these kind of music (specially er-hu) that I could share.

Right now I'm desperately looking for the album Bibbidi Bobidi Bach I already found three different sources for Heigh-Ho Mozart, but nothing for the sequel. Really odd.

If someone could help me with this, I would really, really really appreciate it.

Hello

I have been around for a week now and finally decided to post something.

I read that some of you guys are interested in Chinese music, so I'm uploading this beautiful album that I think hasn't been posted yet:



Favorite Chinese Instrumentals @ 320kbps

01. Like Wave Against the Sand (Pipa solo with ensemble)
02.Fisherman Singing The Night Song (Zheng solo)
03.Night (Percussion ensemble)
04.Love Song Of The Grassland (Tung hsiao with ensemble)
05.Ducks Quacking (Percussion ensemble)
06.Love At The Fair (Erhu solo with ensemble)
07.The Fishing Song (Bawoo solo with ensemble)
08.Happy Reunion (Xylophone solo ensemble)
09.Chinese Martial Art (Ensemble)
10. River Of Sorrow (Erhu solo with ensemble)
11. Spenpadei Folksong (Yung qin solo with ensemble)
12. Autumn Moon Over The Han Palace (Erhu solo ensemble)
13. Moonlight Over the Flowery River In Spring (Ensemble)
14.Variation On Yang City Tune
15.Moon Over Guan Shan (Ensemble)

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

I think this album is very interesting because it really shows off the principal chinese instruments giving a good taste of the whole genre.

If someone is interested, I have more of these kind of music (specially er-hu) that I could share.

Right now I'm desperately looking for the album Bibbidi Bobidi Bach I already found three different sources for Heigh-Ho Mozart, but nothing for the sequel. Really odd.

If someone could help me with this, I would really, really really appreciate it.

Xie xie, it is very interesting.

Again, Sorry if I've offended anyone :)

Again, no problem. ;)



No offense but all that message means is that you have to download one file at a time. Everyone has to deal with the same restrictions of (1) download only one file at a time and (2) wait 15 minutes between downloads. Sure the waiting sucks but just go do something else while you wait. It is worth it in the end if the music is awesome.

I believe his problem is not the waiting time but the famous rapidshare IP problem: the IP address which RS is tracking is the provider's proxy. So no matter how long he tries and awaits, he won't access the download.

This may help:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/426312.html


Elemental Eye: thanks for Call of Duty, another great orchestral ost, really good stuff. :) (and good idea to put the covers)



Favorite Chinese Instrumentals @ 320kbps

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

I think this album is very interesting because it really shows off the principal chinese instruments giving a good taste of the whole genre.

If someone is interested, I have more of these kind of music (specially er-hu) that I could share.

Right now I'm desperately looking for the album Bibbidi Bobidi Bach I already found three different sources for Heigh-Ho Mozart, but nothing for the sequel. Really odd.

If someone could help me with this, I would really, really really appreciate it.

Excellent! Yes, most people here are fond of asian and notably chinese traditional music, so this is very welcome and highly appreciated, thank you. May I also suggest that you post it in its own thread so more people can grab it, because this thread is specialized in orchestral music, so people strictly interested in chinese music could miss it. And of course if you have other albums why not start a big chinese music thread, I'm sure a lot of people will appreciate - this is really something which was missing in this board.

About Bibbidi Bobidi Bach you should also put a request in the Classical Thread, maybe Lens has it.

Bibbidi Bobbidi Bach! - Donald Fraser [1996]


Credits to elphie





Playlist:

1. Whistle While You Work / Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Beethoven)
2. Give a Little Whistle / Pinnochio (Haydn)
3. A Whole New World / Alladin (Chopin)
4. Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) / So Dear to My Heart (Faure)
5. Just Around the Riverbend / Pocahontas (Vaughan Williams)
6. Chim Chim Cher-Ee / Mary Poppins (Pachelbel)
7. The Siamese Cat Song / Lady and the Tramp (Falla)
8. Some Day My Prince Will Come / Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Berlioz)
9. Circle of Life / Lion King (Gregorian Chant)
10. So This Is Love / Cinderella (Debussy)
11. Kiss the Girl / The Little Mermaid (Sibelius)
12. Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo / Cinderella (Bach)
13. You've Got a Friend in Me / Toy Story (Bernstein)
14. Bella Notte / Lady and the Tramp (Satie)
15. The Ballad of Davy Crockett (Copland)


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QQT3VME5

WoW!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you very much.

And I posted my chinese album because... it's kind of orchestrated... chinese style, but orchestrated in the end...

But you're right, I'm going to start a new thread.

And thank you again for Bibbidi Bobbidi Bach. Now I'll just wait until a 320kbps version comes up, but I can finally listen to the whole thing.

Cristobalito2007 and MajorMarmot: Please guys, can you stop quoting full posts, especially when the post you're quoting is just above yours! This is a common rule in most forums.

What you can do instead is a) to just say "Thanks for ...", or b) to quote a post without the images.

Thank you for your attention.

Arthierr, thanks for B-B-B. I've been meaning to buy the mp3s for ages. The most successful homages in my view are the Beethoven, Haydn, Debussy, Sibelius and Bernstein ones; or, at least, these are my favs. Oh, and 'Just Around the Riverbend' in the style of RVW - but I knew that one already :)

'Circle of Life' Gregorian chant style made me lol though.

STOKOWSKI'S MUSSORGSKY
Matthias Bamert, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra


MP3-V0 + PDF booklet
http://rapidshare.com/files/275240699/Stokowski_s_Mussorgsky.rar

1. A Night on Bald Mountain 10:15

Boris Godunov: Symphonic Synthesis 24:20
2. Outside the Novodievichi Monastery - 6:56
3. Coronation of Boris - 5:29
4. Monks chanting in the Monastery of Choudov - 2:47
5. Siege of Kazan - 1:35
6. Outside the Church of Saint Basil - 3:41
7. Death of Boris - 3:52

8. Entr`acte to Act IV of Khovanshchina 5:25

Pictures at an Exhibition 28:48
9. Promenade - 1:53
10. Gnomus - 2:23
11. Promenade - 0:56
12. The Old Castle - 3:46
13. Bydlo - 2:43
14. Promenade - 0:46
15. Ballet of the Chickens in their Shells - 1:04
16. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle - 2:23
17. Catacombs - 1:53 �0.70
18. Con mortuis in lingua mortua - 1:51
19. The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba Yaga) - 2:59
20. The Great Gate of Kiev 6:09

A treat for all fans of dark, burnished orchestral music. These are Leopold Stokowski's orchestrations of various works by Modest Mussorgsky. Beginning with his arrangement of 'A Night of Bald Mountain' for Disney's Fantasia - that lies somewhere in between the rough-hewn Mussorgsky original and Rimsky-Korsakov's more refined version, and taking us through a 'Symphonic Synthesis' of the opera Boris Godunov (a masterpiece of musical narrative and atmosphere) to a grand setting of 'Pictures at an Exhibitiion'. Originally a piano suite, 'Pictures' is best known in Ravel's orchestration. Stokowski, though, does things a little differently, keeping the fulsome Russian flavour of the score (he omits two short numbers not present in the original manuscript that he deemed 'too French'), and the orchestral texture is ripe and thick-set. The grotesquery of 'Gnomus' and 'The Hut on Fowl's Legs' may make you think of a certain Mr Herrmann, and in the rousing finale, 'The Great Gate of Kiev', Stokowski treats the orchestra like a giant sonorous organ, with instruments blending and swelling over a pedal bass, while bells chime in triumph.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do! :)

Thanks for all the last uploads.

Frederic Talgorn - Film Music Collection

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

http://www.frederictalgorn.com/home.html
http://frederictalgorn.free.fr/biographieENG.html

Sample:

http://www.4shared.com/file/130016463/9d409b3c/17_-_Molire.html

Link:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9PRVUT69

Tracklist

01 - Alexander's Four-Legged Robot.mp3
02 - The Traitor.mp3
03 - The temp.mp3
04 - The temp.mp3
05 - Freedom.mp3
06 - Prelude And Pursuit.mp3
07 - Heavy metal 2000.mp3
08 - Heavy metal 2000.mp3
09 - Revelation.mp3
10 - Ouverture.mp3
11 - Les aiguilles rouges.mp3
12 - Les aiguilles rouges.mp3
13 - Les aiguilles rouges.mp3
14 - Pr�sident.mp3
15 - Pr�sident.mp3
16 - Moli�re.mp3
17 - Moli�re.mp3
18 - Moli�re.mp3

Best!

Arthierr, tricking my IP doesn't work for me because I have a static IP address. Thanks for trying to help though :)

Lens and Garcia: Thanks for the great posts, guys!

So this is the opportunity to post something I wanted to post since a long time: one of my favorite Talgorn scores. This one is a pure piece of orchestral fun! It comes from a very expensive french comedy, a blockbuster meant to attract a very large audience. The score benefited from this profusion of money because Talgorn had the opportunity to compose for a big orchestra (which is a rather rare thing in french movies). The result is remarkable: he created a huge symphonic score, in the great tradition of Peplum music, with beautiful themes and great action cues, especially "La Course De Chars" - a 12 minute track of pure action, which is actually the highlight of the score.



Frederic Talgorn - Asterix Aux Jeux Olympiques





Soundtrack | VBRkbps | 2008 | 92MB

Credits go to the original uploader

Released: 2008
Tracks: 25
Play Time: 01:05:32
Quality: VBRkbps / 44.1 KHz
Size: 92 MB


http://rapidshare.com/files/89077653/Asterix_Aux_Jeux_Olympiques-by_goblin.zip.html

TRACKLiST:
01. Loďs Andrea - All We Need Feat. Big Ali
02. Big Ali - Funk Machine (Asterix Funk) Feat. Loďs Andrea
03. Hakimakli - Dollaly
04. Eight - Supernatural Funky Fresh
05. Frederic Talgorn - G�n�rique D�but
06. Frederic Talgorn - Ast�rix Et Ob�lix
07. Frederic Talgorn - Mais Nous Sommes Romains !
08. Frederic Talgorn - En Route Vers Olympe
09. Frederic Talgorn - Les Juges
10. Frederic Talgorn - Dr. Mabus
11. Frederic Talgorn - Bain Mousse-La Palestre
12. Frederic Talgorn - Entra�nement D'Alafolix
13. Frederic Talgorn - Scčne Du Balcon
14. Frederic Talgorn - Ouverture Des Jeux Et Parade
15. Frederic Talgorn - Congrčs De Druides Et Id�fix Cherche Panoramix
16. Frederic Talgorn - Test Du Col�optčre
17. Frederic Talgorn - Course De Relais
18. Frederic Talgorn - Lancer De Disque BW Alafolix Et Humungus
19. Frederic Talgorn - Brutus Se Dope Et Se D�gonfle
20. Frederic Talgorn - Pr�paratifs De La Course De Chars 1
21. Frederic Talgorn - Pr�paratifs De La Course De Chars 2
22. Frederic Talgorn - La Galčre
23. Frederic Talgorn - Courennement Et Banquet Final
24. Frederic Talgorn - La Course De Chars
25. Beno�t Poelvoorde - Besoin De Rien, Envie De Toi

A few months ago, a radio rip from a live John Williams Tanglewood concert in 224kbps had been up on this threat, by garcia27..
I don't know why but the links to it are all gone. I would be very happy to hear this one.
Can anybode send the link again, or re-upload this one please, that would be a great pleasure :)

Yes, it's weird because the post seems inaccessible, it must be a database problem.

Anyway, here it is:


Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra
Conducted by John Williams

Film Night At Tanglewood

(http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1DPyFr)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HDQR0BTY

Cd1: A Tribute to David Lean

01 - Introduction.mp3
02 - Prelude from Blithe Spirit.mp3
03 - Commentary.mp3
04 - Excerpts from The Bridge on the River Kwai.mp3
05 - Commentary.mp3
06 - Excerpts from the Passage to India.mp3
07 - Commentary.mp3
08 - Three Pieces from Oliver Twist.mp3
09 - Commentary.mp3
10 - Excerpts from Doctor Zhivago.mp3
11 - Commentary.mp3
12 - Excerpts from Lawrence of Arabia.mp3
13 - Intermission.mp3

Cd2: The Magic Of Harry Potter

01 - Introduction.mp3
02 - Hedwig's Theme.mp3
03 - Commentary.mp3
04 - Aunt Marge's Waltz.mp3
05 - Commentary.mp3
06 - Diagon Alley.mp3
07 - Commentary.mp3
08 - The Knight Bus.mp3
09 - Commentary.mp3
10 - Fawkes the Phoenix.mp3
11 - Commentary.mp3
12 - Nimbus 2000.mp3
13 - Commentary.mp3
14 - Quidditch.mp3
15 - Commentary.mp3
16 - The Chamber of Secrets.mp3
17 - Commentary.mp3
18 - A Bridge to the Past.mp3
19 - Commentary.mp3
20 - Harry's Wondrous World.mp3
21 - Applause.mp3
22 - ENCORE Flying Theme from E.T..mp3
23 - Closing.mp3

Thanks for Asterix Aux Jeux Olympiques. I only ever had Molliere soundtrack and thought it was sorta boring. So I will post comments once I get to listen!

EDIT: Absolutely marvelous Arthierr! So lush, energetic and happy!

Can I request he first Asterix movie soundtrack? It's a great ost!

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!!!


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! ;)


Thanks arthierr!!
Is it the same as shown in this link in these posts? Because the tracks dont match with the link..
But if it is, thanks a lot!! :-D ;)

Thanks arthierr!!
Is it the same as shown in this link in these posts? Because the tracks dont match with the link..
But if it is, thanks a lot!! :-D ;)

It is the same concert ;)

Following with epic films:

Cleopatra - Trevor Jones

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

Sample:
http://www.4shared.com/file/130457542/f1e20ac/Epica.html

Link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2DTA5BYE

Track list

� 1. Cleopatra (3:19)
� 2. Egypt is Yours for Only One Day (6:07)
� 3. The Tomb of Kings (6:55)
� 4. Rome Decress (8:27)
� 5. The Roman Forum (6:47)
� 6. The Eye of Horus (5:07)
� 7. Temple of the Sun (4:44)
� 8. Prayer to Isis (4:01)
� 9. To Speed You on Your Way (2:32)
� 10. In the Eyes of the Gods We Are One (6:55)

Review:

Cleopatra: (Trevor Jones) The original 1963 film version of Cleopatra cost 20th Century Fox a staggering $37 million, nearly sinking the studio into bankruptcy. The 1999 production by Hallmark Entertainment cost $30 million, a relative bargain, and failed badly in its television debut. Running a full three hours, the series would adapt the famed Egyptian character from 40 years of research contained in Margaret George's book "The Memoirs of Cleopatra." It would mostly deal with Cleopatra's impact on Rome, and Julius Caesar and Marc Antony in particular. Featuring Timothy Dalton and Billy Zane in those roles, the French/Chilean actress Leonor Varela was badly outclassed in talent, with her wooden performance causing many of the complaints regarding the film. Like most of the Hallmark films produced for cable or network television, there were no corners cut when it came to the score, which was, compared to most of the other production values of the film, praised uniformly by critics at the time. Director Franc Roddam, responsible for Hallmark's Moby Dick, turned to veteran blockbuster composer Trevor Jones for the task of writing an absolutely massive score for the remake of Cleopatra. Along with Jones comes, of course, the London Symphony Orchestra, and Jones delivered a phenomenal recording for a film that went through a rather hasty production process. Jones is well know for his epic themes, and that talent would be put to the true test here, but what's even more intriguing are two essential choices that Jones developed in his music for the project. First, he would use the orchestral ensemble to represent the power of Rome while relying on specialty instruments, a solo voice, and synthesizers for Egypt, placing the two elements at battle with one another in the final score mix. Secondly, he would throw aside the Alex North notion of straight forward Western romance writing of the Golden Age of film scores and instead give the teenage temptress a truly erotic musical representation. To that end, the score would have a distinctly lurid new age side to it.

If you've previously been impressed by Jones' well known epic themes for Last of the Mohicans, Cliffhanger, and others, then you will not be disappointed by Cleopatra's primary theme. In fact, the very similarly styled progressions of the theme for this film, while bordering on self-plagiarism in some regards, are better orchestrated and performed in Cleopatra than in any of Jones' other major scores. That includes Merlin, a previous entry in the Hallmark series for which Jones' score is highly regarded by all. Simply put, Cleopatra is better. A resounding bass, wild percussion section with a bed of varied drums, and bold solo female voice get in on the string-over-brass-counterpoint standard for Jones' masculine themes. That theme is given a more varied treatment in Cleopatra than the rather static one for Merlin, which repeated only in nearly identical form. In Cleopatra, a variety of much stronger secondary themes grace the score, including a sultry love theme for the primary lovers and a forceful march for Rome and its senate. The title theme is presented in full ensemble ruckus at the opening and closing of the album, along with some satisfying variants in between, including a heartbreaking string rendition in "To Speed You on Your Way." The love theme would be at home in any late 90's new age album, performed with much allure by the solo voice of Belinda Sykes. She also performs the shawm, which is the primary specialty instrument in the score. Essentially a descendent of a traditional Egyptian oboe, the shawm has a distinctly foreign and slightly electric, but extremely smooth sound. Its solo performance at the outset of "The Eye of Horus" is powerful in its resolve, and a true joy when merged with the equally forceful solo voice. The major performance of the love theme exists in "Egypt is Yours for Only One Day," a simply gorgeous new age track that introduces the delicately balanced role of the keyboarded electronics. Jones has a clever way of incorporating the electronics (along with a very wet mix of the vocals) in such a way that the synthetic side of the music doesn't interfere with the authenticity of the era. The orchestra would combine with these elements for a reprise of the love theme in "Temple of the Sun."

Another subtheme introduced in "The Tomb of Kings" is a distant cousin of the title theme and it brackets an eerie synthetically-aided performance of that title theme, rolling with humble percussion to an eloquent conclusion. The Roman music is a bit predictable, beginning with noble trumpet fanfares and often extending over a martial rhythm led by snare, timpani, and chopping bass strings. Parts of "Rome Decrees" and "The Roman Forum" stir up the same wild, noisy brass action that woke up neighbors in Dark City. Some of the most interesting parts of Cleopatra are those that alternate between the elements of the orchestra and the specialty instruments for Egypt. Jones accomplishes this balance intelligently as the two cultures and their rulers work their irregular diplomacy. Also working in his favor is his ability to adapt fragments of his themes seemingly effortlessly into any part of the score, sometimes masked as counterpoint. The fluttering nature of the shawm and vocals offers an almost creepy and mysterious Arabic feel to the sharp London players. Despite featuring ten or so minutes of simmering, slightly erotic underscore in its latter half, the album is a remarkably engaging listening experience. The performances of the title theme could use some additional reverb, especially with the force of the percussion in the forefront, and you'll be rewarded by playing with their mix yourself on a PC. The album was a pseudo promo released through Jones' own label (in similar fashion to his Dinotopia score), and was available for a short while at online retailers. It has since disappeared from the market, but you'd be well served by a copy even at a higher price. With such a fascinating and enjoyable run of 55 minutes on that album, with all of the cues of substantial length and substance, the score begs for a full release. Cleopatra is Jones' consistent creativity and intelligence on display at every moment. Avid fans of the composer need to research this score without fail; it would be among the top five of 1999 if composed for a widely released theatrical film. *****

Re-Posted from the Oriental Instrumental Thread!

Toru Takemitsu - Orchestral Works (4cd)
|Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra|
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Autumn

Download (http://rapidshare.com/files/276009777/Takemitsu_Autumn.rar)


Coral Island

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Gemeaux

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Visions

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Toru Takemitsu - I Hear the Water Dreaming
|BBC Symphony Orchestra - Andrew Davis|
|Patrick Gallois - Fabrice Pierre - Goran Sollscher|
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EDIT: For those who care about tags, I forgot to mention that the first 4 Takemitsu albums are tagged improperly. I noticed after uploading. Be warned in advance that they all say "Unknown Genre" so you can change to whatever you prefer yourself.

Awesome posts, guys!


garcia: wonderful choice. Cleopatra is one of Trevor Jones' scores I haven't tried yet. This is the opportunity to listen to it. The review in your post seems to be very favorable about it. Thank you!


Sirusjr: HUGE!! So many hours of great orchestral music for us to enjoy, thanks for your massive contributions, Sir.

Arthierr - I also wanted to add the Carl Nielsen stuff I uploaded recently because it is so wonderful! I almost forgot.

Carl Nielsen - Orchestral Music
|Thomas Dausgaard - Danish National Symphony|
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01. Maskarade - 1. Ouverture [0:04:21.68]
02. Maskarade - 2. Hanedans [0:05:42.43]
03. Hr. Oluf han Rider - Forspil: Andantino giusto [0:05:38.27]
04. Snefrid - Suite for Orkester - 1 [0:02:15.09]
05. Snefrid - Suite for Orkester - 2 [0:02:43.54]
06. Snefrid - Suite for Orkester - 3 [0:02:03.19]
07. Snefrid - Suite for Orkester - 4 [0:03:27.42]
08. Snefrid - Suite for Orkester - 5 [0:02:33.17]
09. Saul og David - Forspil til 2. akt: Allegro marziale [0:05:08.31]
10. Rhapsodisk Ouverture - En Fantasirejse til Faeroerne [0:10:17.52]
11. Willemoes - Forspil til 3.akt: Andantino espressivo [0:02:11.71]
12. Pan og Syrinx - Naturscene for Orkester, Op. 49 [0:08:43.40]
13. Amor og Digteren, Op. 54 [0:05:22.08]
14. Ouverture Helios, Op. 17 - Andante tranquillo [0:11:55.29]
http://rapidshare.com/files/275801663/CN-OM.rar
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Carl Nielsen - String Quartet
|Young Danish String Quartet|
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01. String Quartet in G minor, OP.13 : I. Allegro energico [0:09:48.51]
02. II. Andante amoroso [0:05:45.29]
03. III. Scherzo : Allegro molto [0:04:56.65]
04. IV. Finale : Allegro (inquieto) [0:05:42.46]
05. String Quartet in F major, OP.14 : I. Allegro non tanto e comodo [0:07:52.58]
06. II. Adagio con sentimento religioso [0:07:50.21]
07. III. Allegretto moderato ed innocente [0:03:39.56]
08. IV. Finale : Molto adagio - Allegro non tanto, ma molto shcerzoso [0:06:39.63]
09. String Quintet in G major : I. Allegro pastorale [0:08:22.40]
10. II. Adagio [0:07:10.66]
11. III. Allegretto scherzando [0:04:30.23]
12. IV. Finale : Allegro molto [0:05:20.34]

http://rapidshare.com/files/275366099/CN-SQV1.rar
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Review by Classics Today:

It's been a very good couple of years for the clarinet repertoire, what with magnificent new concertos written by Lindberg, Rautavaara, and now this one by Kalevi Aho. Intensely lyrical, thematically memorable, and beautifully scored, this piece easily should find a home in concert halls throughout the world. Aho has said that he writes melodically because it is still the best tool for the musician to convey the most expressive information in the smallest space; the truth of his observation is evident in every bar of this evocative concerto. It covers a huge range of moods, from a Tempestoso opening to its emotional core, an Adagio mesto ("sad"), that leads to a Mysterioso conclusion. Along the way there's plenty of virtuosity, of which Martin Frost takes full advantage.
The Nielsen Concerto, perhaps the greatest work in the medium, also receives an outstanding performance, though I have one small reservation. This is an eruptive, often angry work--I'm thinking of such moments as the cadenza after figure 7, marked "passionato", and in some of the duels between clarinet and snare drum. Frost plays all of these passages with consummate technique, but with such nimbleness and ease of articulation that some of the music's inherent stridency and combattiveness seems to get lost. This is only obvious in direct comparison to such performances as Olle Schill's (also on BIS), or perhaps the Drucker/Bernstein (Sony), where the two soloists manage to turn admittedly more effortful performances to more intense expressive effect.
I suspect that for most listeners this won't be a big deal, and Frost's musicianship is such that he's a joy to listen to in any circumstances. There isn't a minute in either work where you will find your attention wandering, particularly with such sympathetic accompaniments from Vanska and the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, never mind the spectacular sonics in both stereo and SACD surround formats. This is an excellent release, then, irrespective of one's personal take on the individual merits of various versions of the Nielsen. For the Aho alone, it certainly belongs in the collections of clarinet fans.
Carl Nielsen - Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra
|Martin Frost - Osmo Vanska - Lahti Smphony Orchestra|
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01. Carl Nielsen : Clarinet Concerto: I. Allegretto un poco [0:08:19.38]
02. II. Poco adagio [0:04:52.12]
03. III. Allegro non troppo [0:11:08.37]
04. Kalevi Aho : Clarinet Concerto: I. Tempestoso [0:07:47.46]
05. II. Cadenza [0:02:28.59]
06. III. Vivace [0:06:22.02]
07. IV. Adagio [0:06:22.23]
08. V. Epilogo [0:06:39.08]

http://rapidshare.com/files/275372500/CN-CCO.rar
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Gramophone Review:
I�m not sure what the members of the Danish Quartet, who recorded the Nielsen quartets more than effectively in 1992, think about a �young� incarnation appearing 15 years later. But I hope they would doff their caps in admiration, because these new recordings are top-notch, and I�m happy to echo and endorse the enthusiasm they have already generated in Denmark.

The benchmark recording has been that of the Kontra Quartet (BIS 4/92 � nla), sympathetic interpretations of works which do not enshrine the absolute finest of Nielsen, for all that he was an orchestral violinist and an experienced and enthusiastic performer of string quartets. But the new Quartet, all in their early twenties, bring a freshness and energy plus a level of sheer accomplishment that I don�t ever remember hearing in these works. Far from defensiveness or special pleading, they simply assume that they are playing high quality music and that their job is therefore to give it their all. The results are joyous, effervescent.

The First Quartet is the most striking beneficiary, since it can too easily sound texturally over-written and structurally effortful, as in the finale�s contrived �R�sum�. Such reservations are hard to entertain while listening to this thoroughly infectious account. Nielsen asks for energy in the first movement, and that is what the Young Danish Quartet give him, along with large-scale sweep and mellifluous tone throughout. The Fourth Quartet, a tough-minded cousin to the comic opera Maskarade, is interpretatively more challenging, and the Young Danish Quartet may in future find more subtly shaded routes through it; in the meantime their expressive candour and passion are entirely to the good. They are joined in the Quintet by Tim Frederiksen, under whom they studied at the Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen, and without quite transmuting base metal into gold, they display the various facets of what was a breakthrough piece for the young Nielsen to their best advantage.

Oh, thank you. And in fact a lot of stuff posted in the Classical thread can technically also be posted here as long as they're orchestral, of course. All classical music isn't orchestral and vice-versa.

I tend to consider this thread as mostly for movie / anime / game orchestral scores, but more academic oeuvres are also welcome here.

Thanks garcia27!!
The soundtrack from Cleopatra sounds really great!

Cleopatra - Trevor Jones



very nice score, thanks :)

Hi. I've been looking for stravinsky's firebird suite and rite of spring for some time now. Can someone post it? I need it for school. Thanks. :D

musikera10 - I'll upload these to the classical thread for you in the next day or two :)

I'm sorry to interrupt this awesome thread, but there is a thing that's been haunting in my mind for a long time. I don't know if this is a good thread to duscuss about it, but since there are so many fellow symphonic lovers reading & commenting I decided to give it a try.

So, is it just me, or does anybody here notice the lack of woodwinds in modern, orchestral film music?

I've been listening orchestrated film/game music for my entire life and recently... well it just feels that all the concentration goes for heavy brass, percussion and strings and the entire woodwinds-section is slowly but stedily disappearing. This makes me very sad, because, to me, as I play oboe myself, the orchestra without woodwinds feels pretty plain and poor. Woodwinds are IMPORTANT! Well of course their sound can't compare to brass when it comes to volume, but when it comes to solos and, additionally, an action theme harmony/upper melody, it just isn't the same without them. Orchestral music cannot be taken seriously if one VITAL section is missing!

I am very bad with English, so sorry about that, hopefully you understand what I'm trying to say. =/

It's a well-known problem for orchestral music enthusiasts. Most of Hollywood modern orchestral music lacks some real use of woodwinds. Here's a blatant example of this, the famous Titus rip-off:

300: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVVHTBAA-VU

TITUS: http://www.lastfm.fr/music/Elliot+Goldenthal/_/Victorius+Titus

In Goldenthal's version, you can hear a superb piccolo trill at :27, in Bates' version there's none of this. Bates didn't even had the capacity to properly copy Goldenthal! I believe in fact that Bates doesn't know how to make woodwind trills... Because he's just not a true symphonist, while Goldenthal is.

I believe the main responsability for this goes to MV /RC, because they hired composers who mostly aren't real symphonists, and when they happen to be, they're asked to put aside their orchestral skills and to make simplistic "epic" shit. These composers don't really make orchestral music, they indeed use an orchestra, but they do so in the most simple and coarse way, ignoring the many subtleties of symphonic composition. They compose very loud and powerful music, but without complexity. In fact their music sounds like rock or hard rock more than true orchestral music.

Woodwinds are a section of the orchestra which precisely requires a lot of subtlety and mastery. Composing for woodwinds isn't something easy, it demands some good skills in orchestration to properly use them. I believe this new generation of Hollywood composers just don't have these skills. One of the only places where I can hear a real, appropriate use of woodwinds nowadays is in japanese orchestral music from animes or dramas!

^ It's a bit sad to listen that... like Bates is so bad, that he CAN'T EVEN COPY! That's really pathetic!

And you really are right about woodwinds needing a great much of professionality, but that's what makes a sypmhonic composer good. Hearing only some electro-percussion combined with heavy brass is... incomplete and amateurish. I mean, as I've found out myself when trying to create orchestral music myself, it's very easy way but it really can't be seriously be called "orchestral", not to mention full-orchestral as the famous remix from Lux Aeterna! Gosh, I never get that song, why is it so popular when it has not even a single interesting part? Only a lame, overused and poor melody going monotomically over and over again... and yet, the song is so succesful! =S

But hey, I have an idea! How about making a special selection of some superb, especially woodwind-rich themes, as it was the original purpose of this topic anyway? That would be absolutely fantastic! =)

If you want to hear woodwinds in scores check out Bernard Herrmann's lesser known scores (especially the McNeely rerecordings.) He's probably the only film composer who treated winds as equals with the other sections (brass, strings, percussion) which is very hard to do. And not just your usual 2/2/2/2 wind section, but bass clarinets, contrabassons, english horns, efers, etc.

Today I uploaded one of the best scores from the 80s and of course on of the best by Basil Poledouris.

Farewell To The King (Expanded) - Basil Poledouris

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Samples:
http://www.4shared.com/file/130640403/f0c80f0b/13_-_Battle_Montage.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/130639309/da7a630a/12_-_Nigels_Trip.html

Link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EIYKYGGU

Track list:

• 1. Prologue - The Trek (1:38)
• 2. Main Title (South China Sea) (1:37)
• 3. Flare of Youth (1:53)
• 4. Trek (1:25)
• 5. Mitaura (0:53)
• 6. The Women Saved Me (1:24)
• 7. Learoyd Slays Lian the Magnificent (1:21)
• 8. Honeymoon (0:38)
• 9. Zed Force (2:44)
• 10. Learoyd Saves the Child (3:22)
• 11. Learoyd Saves Nigel (2:43)
• 12. Nigel's Trip (4:14)
• 13. Battle Montage (2:37)
• 14. Realization (1:36)
• 15. The Wait (1:45)
• 16. Night of the Living (1:14)
• 17. Day of the Dead (1:14)
• 18. Village Attack (2:57)
• 19. This Day Forth (2:41)
• 20. The War is Over (3:20)
• 21. Imperialist Waltz (1:47)
• 22. Learoyd Sacrifices (4:23)
• 23. Farewell to my King (2:25)

Bonus Tracks:
• 24. Main Title (Flute Version) (1:37)
• 25. Battle Montage (Alternate Mix) (2:37)
• 26. Sorrow (0:49)
• 27. Grief (0:53)
• 28. The Jungle (1:42)
• 29. Japanese Radio Source Cue (2:18)
• 30. Rising of the Moon (1:14)
• 31. Main Title (Alternate Mix) (1:37)

Review

Farewell to the King: (Basil Poledouris) Director John Milius' adaptation of Pierre Schondorffer's 1969 novel "L'Adieu au Roi" takes considerable elements from Milius' penned Apocalypse Now and combines them with several homages to Lawrence of Arabia and The Man Who Would Be King to form another film about the utopian dream of the simple, natural life among noble primitives during a time otherwise defined by worldwide conflict. In this case, Nick Nolte is a World War II American Army sergeant who deserts the service after narrowly escaping capture by the Japanese during the battle of Corregidor on Borneo in 1942. He flees inland until encountering a tribe of headhunting Dyak Indians. Instead of killing him, however, the headshrinking Iban tribe in Sarawak allows to him to live because of a tattoo of a dragon on his chest, and eventually he becomes king of the tribe. Three years later, the war catches up with him as the British parachute onto the island and attempt to enlist the American and his tribe to fight against the Japanese. A predictable dilemma faces the Nolte character, who by that point has long hair and looks frighteningly similar to the look of the actor's famous 1990's police mug shot. The philosophy of becoming a hero is Milius' focus here, and though Nolte's performance was heralded as a success, the predictable nature of the plot (with several contradictions along the way) caused the film to be largely panned by critics and ignored by audiences. The director's choice to force the film into the mould of a love story would complicate matters. For Milius, however, the choice of composer would be among the easiest he'd have to make. Having Collaborated with Basil Poledouris for Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn, Milius would rely on the versatile composer (from a time very early in the production process) to provide music both exotic enough for the tribe and noble enough to represent a king. Also necessary would be a musically romantic representation of grand vistas, and all of this would require a significant orchestra and an array of unusual percussive elements.

The employment of such an organic ensemble yielded tremendous success for Farewell to the King, despite the composer's well documented success with the incorporation of synthesizers as a dominant aspect of his career. The end result is still music that stands as one of the finest obscure scores of the digital age, one that is known mostly for its stunning ten minutes of highlights but remains strong throughout. One aspect always prevalent in Poledouris' music is a compelling theme, and for Farewell to the King, the composer provides no less than four primary ideas, each receiving considerable development throughout the work. The most obvious of these themes is the one of sweeping, romantic, and epic expanse, with layered strings and accompanying brass straight from the famed 1980's style of John Barry. Heard most prominently in "Main Title (South China Sea)," the resemblance to Barry's broad constructs and fluid performances in this theme is remarkable, but perhaps predictable given the immense popularity of that lush Barry style at the time. In fact, even Milius became caught up in that sound, insisting on it from Poledouris despite not being the composer's initial inclination for a film for which he originally considered a mostly vintage militaristic approach. The other themes in Farewell to the King exist in various states of nobility, one being a battle call worthy of Conan himself. In "The Battle Montage," Poledouris drops the Barry imitation and returns to the folk-inspired rhythmic flow that is more familiar to his career; he handles the cue with the same rhythmically propulsive and raw horn techniques heard in both Conan the Barbarian and Flesh + Blood. With its crisp percussion, the theme dances with remarkable depth and enthusiasm, emulating the same feeling in the tree of woe rescue cue in Conan the Barbarian in particular. Softer variants of this theme are equally rewarding, including the closing finale in "Farewell to my King." A subtheme for pan flute evokes memories of James Horner's use of related instruments, though Poledouris always distinguishes himself by allowing a more traditional orchestral woodwind to take the lead.

All of Poledouris' primary ideas are masterfully referenced in the aforementioned cue "Farewell to my King," complete with the banging of the composer's ethnic metallic instruments taking the place of the usual tolling chimes at the end. In a score that often uses the gong-like instruments as slightly dissonant accents to the orchestra, the conclusive employment of them as harmonious accompaniment is extremely satisfying. Saturated with Poledouris' heavy, dense orchestral styles, the score reduces its dramatic grip rarely, such as for the newsreel-inspired "The Training March" and an elegantly simplistic and out of place "Imperialist March." Ethnic rhythms and instrumentation also offer quick respites in the opening cue and "Day of the Dead" (Hans Zimmer would take the percussion in "Realization" to heart when writing Beyond Rangoon). But the quality is never in doubt across the board, with Poledouris maintaining harmonic integrity and a melodramatic presence also heard in Les Mis�rables, though without the brooding bass mix. In fact, the strings in "War is Over" and other cues significantly foreshadow ideas that would be heard again in Les Mis�rables. Simply put, Farewell to the King is an outstanding combination of all of Poledouris' finest thematic and instrumental elements, except for the synthesizers. On album, the score was released on 1989 CDs by both Var�se Sarabande and Milan (in nearly identical fashion), and both fell badly of print and demanded prices in excess of $50 for many years. In 2006, the Prometheus label expanded and remastered the score as part of its non-limited offerings, allowing it to exist on the soundtrack specialty market at an asking price of about $17 for several years. The most interesting additional material on the Prometheus product is contained, not surprisingly, in the alternate mixes of the score's two major cues, though none of these three bonus takes is so different from the originals as to make them absolutely necessary. Within the score, only the opening minute of exploration of the primary theme in "Flare of Youth" is truly worthy of inclusion. The remainder of additional material strays too closely to source material to compliment Poledouris' bolder tones. On any of its albums, though, Farewell to the King is an absolute necessity, and it should be sought with confidence by any Poledouris collector. *****

Garcia - Wonderful post. I have listened to In The Name of the King a bit and it is superb!

Hey guys,

So I've been reading all these commentaries and such about lack of woodwinds in modern scoring, and while I agree that such is indeed the trend, I figure it gives me an excuse to share with you a new piece of mine from yesterday. Some of you may already know that I'm a composer for media myself, and I happen to be a huge fan of using woodwinds in my scores (even if they're not the prominent element).

Anyway, in the interest of redeeming my fellow composers a bit when it comes to woodwind use, and of providing you all with some nice orchestral action music while I'm at it, I'd like to share this piece with you � it's called Lords of Madness and you're welcome to download and listen to it as you please. I only ask that if you show it to someone or anything of the sort, you let them know who it's by....I would appreciate the marketing. :)

Lords of Madness (http://www.mathazzar.com/Music/Lords%20of%20Madness.mp3)

Enjoy and have faith in us younger composers in the industry...Remote Control thankfully isn't the only entity operating in the business, and while they fill the power anthem niche well with their orchestral rock ballads, there ARE successful composers still out there and still coming who know their way around an orchestra.

Streich: Thanks so much for the recommendation, I'll definitely check it out! = )

Mathazzar: I must say that I am extremely impressed. And even though I'm not an expert, I can tell THAT is what film/game music should be! Instead of killing all the sound with percussion and brass, you managed beautifully use all the sections harmonically together. I really love those transitions with piccolo! Thank you for posting, hopefully we can hear more from your work in future! = )
And thanks for showing that there is still hope for properly orchestrated music at these... dark times! = D

Mathazzar - Absolutely fantastic! Your piece sounds like a mix between the orchestral music of Igor (Patrick Doyle) and Mongol (Tuomas Kantelinen). It sounds like the perfect piece to go along with a mature period piece drama with a little bit of suspense and action. I also really love the low growling vocals that remind me of the Mongolian chanting in the Mongol soundtrack. Do you perhaps have a lossless version available? I would really love to hear it in lossless if you do.

You're very kind, friends. :)

Ironically enough, EE, I am a gigantic percussion freak and a lot of my work demonstrates that, but I guess that in using so much percussion I've learned to use it tastefully and not kill the mix with it. Thank you for noticing, in any event. I'm happy to share more stuff, but in the meantime you can fly over to www.mathazzar.com and have a listen to things around there. You can always PM me if there's a specific thing you want. I write a LOT of music though, so it's hard for me to keep it all on the site.

Sirius, I'm very glad you enjoyed it! The growling vocals that you noticed (and that I love so much) are Tuvan male singers...the famous "overtone" singers that have graced a few scores and things in the past. Fascinating sounds. I haven't made a lossless mixdown of it, but it'll only take a second so I'd be happy to bounce one out for you — do you have a format preference?

I really appreciate the feedback, folks, it makes me happy that you enjoyed it. :)

Flac would be preferred thanks. And yes Tuvan male singers are so awesome! That is why Mongol is one of my favorites. I'll listen to some of your other stuff as well :)

Okay, Sirius. Same link as before, just replace the ".mp3" with ".flac" and you're good to go! :)

Thanks! I really like your pieces "Ascent to the Mountain Temple" and "The Faerie Gate"! Many of the other pieces in your Demo Reel are awesome but not so much my style.
Another reason I really like Lords of Madness is it reminds me of I Sell the Dead, a score I recently purchased in CD format because it was so kickass! MMM This is much better in FLAC! I can hear the separation of instruments much more clearly! I'm going to post a link to the flac file on the lossless soundtrack thread for everyone to enjoy!

Thank you! I can see where the others would deviate stylistically from what you seem to enjoy, but as you know, flexibility in terms of style is very important for someone in my place.

As for the lossless crosspost, go for it! Hopefully others will prefer the FLAC too. :)

Danny - a massive THANK YOU for the Tall Ships!!!! An absolutely gorgeous piece. I'm only now emerging from tears of joy, both for the sweeping beauty of the music itself, and to know that such nobility of emotion and heroic feeling is still possible in contemporary music.

It *might* have touched that place in my heart that's still sentimentally and self-aggrandisingly scouse too ;)

The recording sounds like a particularly good one - very representative of the experience you get in the Liverpool Phil Hall actually. The orchestra really rise to occasion (even the often lackadaisical horns are superb!).

Thanks for the inclusion of hq scans too. I'll be damned if those Teddy Walker paintings don't look fantastic. And I've just discovered to my delight that it's still available from arkiv and amazon market place :D

I know this was uploaded last month, but I have to echo this post's compliment. I'm writing a short story at the moment and when Ocean Fantasia started playing, I was enthralled and inspired. Magnificent.

Matthazar - very fun piece, thanks for posting! My favourite bit is the little echoing section with flute and xylophone. It would be wonderful to hear it playerd by a real orchestra. Keep us updated about your upcoming projects :)

Elemental Eye - you might want to check this out:
Thread 68018

Garcia - excellent post, thank you! I'm getting into Poledouris more and more and I frequently listen to your compilation.

Garcia or anyone else who grabbed these, could I request a re-up of
Chiara E Francesco AND
Giovanni Paolo II by Marco Frisina?
I seem to have overlooked these gems when you first posted them and the links for those 2 are now dead (while thankfully the rest on megaupload still exists!) Thanks in advance!!

Garcia or anyone else who grabbed these, could I request a re-up of
Chiara E Francesco AND
Giovanni Paolo II by Marco Frisina?
I seem to have overlooked these gems when you first posted them and the links for those 2 are now dead (while thankfully the rest on megaupload still exists!) Thanks in advance!!

I'll do it. The father Frisina is really good.

Best!!!

I'll do it. The father Frisina is really good.

Best!!!
I am really loving what I'm listening to so far!! Can't believe I didn't take your word for it at the first place.

Giovanni Paolo II - Marco Frisina





http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q11FQ1OK

Track listing

01. Open the doors
02. Nazisti a Cracovia
03. Deportazione
04. Gli amici di Karol
05. Gita in kajak
06. La Berretta Cardinalizia
07. Votazione in Conclave
08. La Croce di Widzinsky
09. Da un paese lontano
10. Servo dei servi di Dio
11. Annuncio dalla Loggia
12. In preghiera sui monti
13. La preghiera del Papa
14. In viaggio per il mondo
15. Ritorno in Polonia
16. Solidarnosc
17. Il perdono del Papa
18. Giovane con i giovani
19. La malattia
20. La Porta Santa
21. Morte del Papa (Finale)



Chiara E Francesco - Marco Frisina



http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HQIQ85W3

Track listing

1. Assedio (05:53)
2. Vittoria per Assisi (01:37)
3. Preghiera per la guerra (02:40)
4. Chiara nella prigione (01:58)
5. Pica e Francesco (02:20)
6. Il bacio al lebbroso (02:28)
7. Il Crocifisso di San Damiano (02:54)
8. Spoliazione di Francesco (03:02)
9. Chiara (01:19)
10. Morte di Favarone (01:52)
11. Promessa sposa (02:04)
12. Il sogno di Innocenzo III (02:05)
13. Francesco ricevuto dal Papa (00:47)
14. Consacrazione di Chiara (02:43)
15. Verso la Terra Santa (01:25)
16. In missione per il mondo (02:25)
17. Il crociato nella sabbia (01:54)
18. Al cospetto del sultano (01:08)
19. Il presepe di Greccio e il miracolo del bambino (06:24)
20. La salita del monte della Verna (02:18)
21. Morte di Francesco (06:06)

Total Duration: 00:55:22

Something about Marco Frisina:

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

Marco Frisina was born in Rome on December 16th 1954. He got a diploma in Composition in 1979 at “Santa Cecilia”'s Conservatoire, and he also took an Arts degree at “La Sapienza” University in Rome in 1983. He entered the Roman Seminary in 1978, studying theology at the Gregorian University, and after taking holy orders he specialized in Holy Scriptures at the Biblical Pontifical Institute.

He has been the chapel-master of the Musical Lateran Chapel since 1985. In those years, more precisely in 1984, he thought of creating a choir to animate the liturgies. The Rome Diocese's choir was born exactly in this way, spontaneously, as it is a group of no professional young people, who wants to follow together a spiritual and cultural path. The Rome Diocese’s Orchestra was then born to accompany the choir's musical activity.
In 1991 he began his cooperation with RAI R.T.I. on an international project called “Bibbia” (Bible), both as biblical consultant and composer of the soundtracks of the first five films. He got two nominations for the Cable Ace Award in USA in 1994 for “Abramo” and “Giacobbe”, and he won this award in 1995 for “Giuseppe”.

His production of liturgical songs is very wide: over a 120 have been published, and loads of them are known both in Italy and abroad. He composed and played for Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI many oratories.

He wrote many symphonic and chamber-music compositions, and he took part in many musical festivals with his orchestra and his two choirs. He always accompanies the Rome Diocese's choir and orchestra to the most important television representations, such as those live concerts from the Vatican, or those in occasion of the most important events broadcast worldwide.

He was also the responsible for the Jubilean events during the Great Jubilee of the year 2000, such as the International Eucharistic Convention, the Youth World Day and the Jubilee of the Families.

Muchos Gracias Garcia! Now I can enjoy the rest of his work!

Muchos Gracias Garcia! Now I can enjoy the rest of his work!

You're welcome :)

Another great share, thanks garcia27 :)

Hi everyone! I'd like to share the soundtrack for Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb. It has much orchestral action music composed by Clint Bajakian. Enjoy it!

DOWNLOAD (http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=bfac5a5e0e53eae3391d7d881749d3a7e04e75f6 e8ebb871)
Composer: Clint Bajakian.
Format: mp3 @ 192kbps.
Year: 2003.
Genre: Videogame Soundtrack.
Duration: 114 min.
Tracks:

01. The raiders march (John Williams) [01:30]
02. Main menu. [00:45]
03. Ceylon [10:11]
04. Prologue [04:28]
05. Prague [12:38]
06. Istanbul [11:49]
07. Hon Kong [07:44]
08. Peng Lai [16:45]
09. Black Dragon Fortress [11:24]
10. Temple of Kong Tien [09:11]
11. Xian [12:41]
12. The Netherworld [10:26]
13. Epilogue & end credits [5:54]

http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/en/2/2d/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Emperor%27s_Tomb_Coverart.pn g

Action moments:

05. Prague: 08:05 to 12:38
06. Istambul: 00:45 to 02:55 & 07:10 to 11:49 (my favorite)
07. Hon Kong: 01:12 to 07:44
08. Peng-Lai: 01:50 to 04:45 & 07:50 to 16:45
09. Black Dragon Fortress: 01:50 to 04:55 & 06:50 to 11:24
10. Temple of Kong Tien: 04:10 to 09:11
11. Xian: 02:20 to 12:41
12. The Netherworld: 01:30 to 10:26


Greetings from Spain!

Thanks :)

Great stuff! Haven't heard this one before, but I know Clint Bajakian from his work on other Lucasarts games.

Welcome to the forums Pertox! :)

Thank you Pertox for Indiana Jones.
Have anyone heard it yet? Does it use any of themes that exists in the movies?

Life in One Day (OST) (Johan Hoogewijs) (2009)




Flemish composer Johan Hoogewijs� deeply emotional score for the new Dutch theatrical feature Life in One Day (original title: �Het leven uit een dag�), directed by Mark de Cloe, is a heartwarming, moving and poetic musical work that will remind listeners of such renowned composers as Dario Marianelli, Thomas Newman and Johan S�derqvist.

Based on the novel by A.F. Th. van der Heijden, Life in One Day�s premise is that we live in a world where human life lasts for only one day. Hoogewijs combines orchestra, electronics and solo instruments such as cello and piano in Life in One Day. Just like the film itself, it�s a score that presents a broad range of emotions � all of them with a sense of honesty and despair.

Digital Only Release

Thread 69280

Monster Hunter 5th Anniversary Orchestral Concert
|Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra - Conducted by Hirofumi Kurita
|MP3|VBR256 V-0 Fast|Scans|106MB|

Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/O1XATLTW/MHtr5Con.rar_links)
PSW: smile

thanks for the monster hunter concert
whats the password?

edit: never mind i guessed and i was right :P

OOPS...its my usual password - smile
Well some noob might not know my usual password, so its good that you reminded me :)

Thank you Pertox for Indiana Jones.
Have anyone heard it yet? Does it use any of themes that exists in the movies?

It uses the Raiders March in various arrangements, but other than that the themes are all new. Very busy action writing for the most part.

Thanks for that Monster Hunter concert Sirus! I've only recently started to take an interest in this series (since its announcement for Wii) and the music is really very good. Do you know which games in the series these tracks are from? Here's some info from Vgmdb for correct tagging:

Composers:
Masato Kohda (01, 03, 04, 06, 07, 09, 10, 13)
Tetsuya Shibata (02)
Yuko Komiyama (05, 11, 12)
Akihiko Narita (08, 09)

Edit - just noticed a nod to Dvorak's 'New World' Symphony at the start of 'Hunter, Go Forth'. And why not! :)

Sorcerian Symphony


1 - Chapter I - Opening ~ Pentawa
2 - Chapter II - We'll meet here ~
3 - Chapter III - Aboard Ship ~ Vill
4 - Chapter IV - Cave 1 ~ Forest

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=r0pnspt2yq

To be honest, I have absolutely no idea where it's from and where I ran into it, but today when cleaning up my music folder I found this jewel. Even though there are only four tracks in it, all of them are quite long, ~10 min each. And boy it sounds great! = )

Lens thanks for the information for those who may want more detailed information in tags. I tend to keep the artist section simple so my player doesn't get confused with too much detail.
Elemental Eye, that sounds like a fun album! Will check it out!

.

Delerue is a genius, for a lot of people the best european film music composer.

Thanks for this Sanico :)

[center]Monster Hunter 5th Anniversary Orchestral Concert
|Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra - Conducted by Hirofumi Kurita
|MP3|VBR256 V-0 Fast|Scans|106MB|

Thanks.

It sounds great and powerful.

I like it!

Thanks a lot Sanico! Great idea including samples :) It sounds old in style but not in quality :)

Brilliant Sanico! I've wanted to hear this for a while, being much in love with the Bernstein Great Composers set. This looks much more elaborate though.


It sounds old in style but not in quality :)

In other words, perfection! ;)

There'll be another Delerue post coming from me soon that I think everyone will enjoy..

Thanks a lot Sanico! Great idea including samples :) It sounds old in style but not in quality :)

I have posted samples in my last uploads, and i'll do them on future.
It's a way for people who don't know that music, can get a glimpse before bothering to download.


It sounds old in style but not in quality :)
"If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good."
Jerry Goldsmith


There'll be another Delerue post coming from me soon that I think everyone will enjoy..

Great. :)

Here's one I don't think has been posted before.

From little-known composer Abel Korzeniowski, here are the only available tracks to Battle for Terra, an animated feature.



http://rapidshare.com/files/278128281/TerraAbel.rar

No password on this.

There's some orchestral bombast in there as well as contemplative music of an ethnic vibe. I think he's used synths, but they're either really good, or they're mixed with real.

Enjoy!
--
Recantha

There's a lot to catch up here! Thanks a lot to the latest contributors, hopefully this weekend I'll have the time to download and listen to the latest uploads.

For now, just a quick post as a follow-up of my previous post:



Ast�rix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatre – Philippe Chany

192 kbps

Credits go to the original uploader






http://rapidshare.com/files/5903771/Soundtrack_-_Asterix___Obelix_-_Mission_Cleopatre.rar

Tracklist:
1. Mission Cleopatra
2. -----------------
3. Theme Original du Film Asterix et Obelix - Mission Cleopatre
4. -----------------
5. Interieur Palais Cleopatre
6. Numerobis Theme
7. Top Chronos
8. Voyage en Gaule
9. -----------------
10. Les Pirates
11. Amonbofis
12. Chantier
13. Les Romains
14. Le Sphinx
15. Les Pyramides
16. La Poursuite
17. Le Jardin Fantastique
18. Exterieur Palais Cleopatre
19. Le Grand Final
20. Kung Fu
21. -----------------

Can I request he first Asterix movie soundtrack? It's a great ost!

Coming soon (this weekend). :)

Warcraft Collection (1994-2009)



Thread 69429

Half Light (2006) - Brett Rosenberg
ORIGINALLY POSTED BY Mad777




Tracklist:

01. Main Title (02:41)
02. The Drowning (05:32)
03. Dark Drive (01:09)
04. The Cottage (00:51)
05. Rachel's Theme (01:00)
06. Thomas Appears / The Island (02:14)
07. Dreams and Drownings (03:18)
08. Lighthouse Vista (00:54)
09. Love Theme (01:36)
10. Camera Flashback (00:35)
11. Boat Journey (00:35)
12. Morag's Vision (01:02)
13. �Thomas Was Here� (00:33)
14. Boat Journey (Alternative Version) (00:39)
15. Get It On (01:13)
16. Got It On (00:47)
17. Rachel's Healing (01:09)
18. He's Dead (01:38)
19. Haunted (02:51)
20. Broken Cross (01:10)
21. The Reflection (01:15)
22. Now You See Him... (03:16)
23. Losing It (00:51)
24. Who's There? (00:47)
25. Mr. Angus Regrets (01:42)
26. The Houdini (04:50)
27. Farewell (00:58)
28. Alone (01:27)
29. Girl In The Storm (01:45)

Total Duration: 00:48:18

mp3 192 kbps
size: 66,8 Mb


http://rapidshare.com/files/279221942/HlfLght-BR.rar
Review from Soundtrack Central:
The sweeping melodies of Dario Marianelli's Pride and Prejudice meets the orchestral fidelity of John Williams' Hook in the soundtrack to Half Light (starring Demi Moore). The thriller film is already out in DVD in the United States, and is currently making the rounds in Europe. Its soundtrack, composed and conducted by Australian Brett Rosenberg in his feature-length film debut, is the 9th release of record label Movie Score Media, and--in my opinion--its best yet. Fortunately for us, the CD was released, though it took an online petition and hundreds of 'signatures.'

Movie Score Media called the Rosenberg�s score "Herrmann-esque" relating it to the finest of Hitchcock soundscapes. The label commented that the score is composed of "a lot of moody atmospheres that recalls some of Christopher Young�s finest genre works." Young, of course, has composed The Exorsism of Emily Rose and The Shipping News in this similar style (though the latter has Irish overtones). What struck me, though, were the beautiful themes in this soundtrack, as evidenced especially in the "Main Title" (and the "Lighthouse Vista"). This brings to mind Lizzie's theme from last year's Pride and Prejudice remake. For these melodies Rosenberg said that he "wanted it to sound warm, to give a sense of warm family life.� And it does. The intense sections of the score are also well-done, straying from the use of synthesizers in favor of broader orchestral pieces. Case in point: "Dreams and Drownings," "Drownings," and the creepy build-up of "Haunted."

My favorite cue from the soundtrack is "The Houdini" for its colorful one-three woodwind sequencing and brilliant undercurrent of instrumentation. The theme used here is also rather catchy, and reminded me that he does come from a pop background (his Father played for Nat Cole, Sinatra, and others). "Girl in the Storm" ends out the album (as the 29th track), and it is an easy bit of fiddling, reminiscent of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

All in all, the soundtrack--recorded by 80 members of the London session players in the Air Lyndhurst Studios--is very good for this genre, and promises great things for the still-young Mr. Rosenberg.

Good morning ladies and gentlemen!
Well, I'm back from my holiday in Tokyo - I'm so sorry I didn't actually post in advance of my disappearance; I was planning to do so before I left, but as usual I managed to leave packing until the last possible second and I was up until 4am getting my suitcases ready on the day of the flight - and for some reason, the Shrine wasn't loading up in my hotel room... ANYWAY. I am back! And jolly pleased to be back - had a wonderful wonderful wonderful wonderful time (did I mention wonderful?) but it's good to be back in England again.

And, I have brought back some little "gifts" from Tower Records in Shibuya... which I shall be uploading here in the next couple of days - so hopefully you good people will forgive me for just buggering off without even saying goodbye! ;)

Cheers :)
D

Bibbidi Bobbidi Bach! - Donald Fraser [1996]

Hey Arthierr,
WoW! What a fascinating concept. I've never heard such a thing before.

Question, since this is subtitled "MORE Favorite Disney Tunes" does that mean there is a previous disc? Do you happen to know what the name of that one is?
Thanks! Michael

Danny mate, welcome back to Blighty and the Shrine! Was worried there for a minute you might've gone native ;) Sorry I forgot to wish you well for the trip - I've been going crazy with work. Nice to hear you brought us back some pressies! I've got a couple of uploads coming myself. It's so hard trying to come up with stuff that'll satisfy the orchestral obsessives on this thread!


Bibbidi Bobbidi Bach! - Donald Fraser [1996]
Question, since this is subtitled "MORE Favorite Disney Tunes" does that mean there is a previous disc? Do you happen to know what the name of that one is?
The first one Heigh-Ho Mozart! is here:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1235681&postcount=1909

Answered my own question. The first cd is called "Heigh-Ho! Mozart: Favorite Disney Tunes In The Style Of Great Classical Composers"

JOE HISAISHI - ARION SYMPHONIC SUITE


MP3 VBR
http://rapidshare.com/files/279573554/Arion_Symphonic_Suite.rar

A score of truly epic sweep here for an anime painted on a similarly broad canvas. The main theme is classic Hisashi - soaring and wistful - heard most gorgeously singing over a bed of churning strings. Each track is like a little suite of contrasted sections, with many different kinds of music, but all united into a smooth whole [How does JH do this? It's all so accomplished, with lyricism and crucial telling details in the orchestration, yet it sounds so simple!]. I think you'll find this one grows with repeated listening. Also recommend the movie very strongly. Some beautiful art and character design and a story filled with incident, based on classical mythology, with plenty of those quasi-avant garde touches that make the best anime so strange and so special.





ARION OST (1986)

MP3 128CBR
http://rapidshare.com/files/279835686/Arion_OST.rar

I have never heard Arion before so thank you for posting it Lens of Truth. And as always with a beautiful presentation and a nice synopsis that will help when i'll listen to it.

Oh and welcome back Dannyfrench. :)

Sirius, thank you so much for Half Light! I'd never heard of it before but I'm listening to it now and it's absolutely wonderful! :D Much appreciated.

Sirius, thank you so much for Half Light! I'd never heard of it before but I'm listening to it now and it's absolutely wonderful! :D Much appreciated.
Indeed! Shame it is only released in digital formats. I would like to buy the CD.

EDIT: UWAHHHH!!!!!
ARION is absolutely astounding! Thanks so much lens!

Hi

Does anyone have a recording of the July 2009 john Williams tanglewood concert?

Thanks!!

Arthierr! Are you there, my friend? This one is particularly for you... although I have no doubt everybody else will enjoy it as well...

A brand new Sahashi for you all, today - which doesn't appear to be particularly well known outside of Japan. I bought this in Tokyo last week in possibly the most crowded record store I've ever been to; Tower Records in Shibuya.

The tracklisting is NOT PERFECT. It's cobbled together once again, from three sources - my incredibly limited understanding of Japanese syntax, Google Translate, and Yahoo Babelfish. By combining the three, I have been able to reach fairly decent translations in most cases, but some titles were absolutely mangled. I think track 3 is trying to say something more than "Wish" but I don't want to interpret too much, so I left it as wish. The actual translation came through as "It does to wander about, the request" on Babelfish, and "Ishii Wish" on Google. So, in the absence of a sane translation, we have "Wish". The original Japanese tracklisting is here http://www.amazing-dc.jp/shop/shop_sa/nqcl-2029.html if anybody wants to have a go, or is just interested. I found this tracklisting after uploading the score, so the tags are just "Track 1", "Track 2", etc - sorry about that. I can't be bothered to upload again just to put in some badly translated track titles - so if you really want them, do it yourself. ;)


TOSHIHIKO SAHASHI
Kanryo Tachi no Natsu



http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=wkvzndi1er

1. Summer of Bureaucracy
2. A Better Tomorrow
3. Wish
4. Wind of Hope
5. The Wall Which Obstructs The Dawn
6. Warriors Rest
7. In a Daydream
8. Summer of Bureaucracy (medium version)
9. A Better Tomorrow (medium version)
10. Swirling
11. Wind Of Hope (acoustic guitar Version)
12. Noble Battle
13. Warriors Rest (strings version)
14. In a Daydream (acoustic guitar version)
15. Summer of Bureaucracy (slow version)
16. A Better Tomorrow (strings version)
17. Looming Shadow
18. Wind of Hope (piano version)
19. The Abyss of Sorrow
20. Determined Gallop
21. Summer of Bureaucracy (acoustic guitar version)
22. A Better Tomorrow (acoustic guitar version)



Just briefly - a fairly typical Sahashi score, with many different kinds of music. Not quite as full-on-action as you'd expect from Sahashi - still action oriented in places, but comparitively subdued. I'm very much liking it, as it is a slight departure from his usual style. (Much as we all love Sahashi... every score usually sounds the same.)

Enjoy! :)

OST added above for the curious. Unfortunately only in 128. I've got a 192 version, but it has horrendous clipping with absurd amounts of gain applied. So this one sounds a lot better.

Thanks danny! Always like more Sahashi!

Hi mates, I'm a bit less present here these days because september is quite a busy period in my job. I'll be more active as soon as I can.


Danny: Welcome back! So you went to Japan, oh you lucky bastard?! ;) This is my dream since YEARS. Hope you had some good time in this incredible country. Thanks a lot for this brand new (and I guess extremely rare) Sahashi score. This is a very kind attention ;)


Lens: Wonderful post, I randomly grabbed ARION in GH with other stuff with the word "symphonic" or "orchestral" in it. I didn't have the time to try it then, but your post is a good opportunity to give it a proper try. Thanks!


Sirusjr: Half Light is a very tasteful post. There's something interesting about it: it's been orchestrated and conducted by Nick Dodd, the guy who also do so for most David Arnold scores, IMO one of Hollywood's finest professionals in this domain. Here's a guy who actually knows how to use woodwinds!

Hi guys, Iam looking for BEN HUR -THE ESSENTIAL MIKLOS ROZSA 2CDset on Silva label conducted by kenneth Alwyn.

http://www.amazon.com/Ben-Hur-Essential-Mikl%C3%B3s-Miklos-Rozsa/dp/B00004X0T8

ALSO
Bernard Herrmann: The Essential Film Music Collection

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Film-Music-Bernard-Herrmann/dp/B000F9038K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1252936046&sr=1-1


Thanks! a good rip at 320kbs would be great.

JOE HISAISHI - ARION SYMPHONIC SUITE

Big Thanks! Hisaishi is the man :)

OST added above for the curious. Unfortunately only in 128. I've got a 192 version, but it has horrendous clipping with absurd amounts of gain applied. So this one sounds a lot better.

Lens, here is a perfect 320k version of Arion OST.





Arion OST - Joe Hisaishi
14 Tracks (42min 45sec) @ 320 Kbps
http://rapidshare.com/files/280040484/Arion.zip

Sample
Hades, Lord Of The Underworld ~ Main Theme (http://www.zshare.net/audio/655612812d1f3599/)




Big Thanks! Hisaishi is the man :)

Indeed ;)
He's a wonderful composer.

Wonderful thanks Sanico! I am very interested in this after the beautiful Symphonic Suite.

Signs (OST) (James Newton Howard) (FLAC/MP3) (2002)



Thread 69528

Wonderful thanks Sanico! I am very interested in this after the beautiful Symphonic Suite.

:)

The Symphonic Suite is the better album i think, but the OST has a few themes with chorus different from the suite album.

Thanks for all the shares, guys - especially the Japanese ones which would be nigh-on impossible to get where I am. You're wonderful wonderful people :-)

Lens, here is a perfect 320k version of Arion OST.

Marvelous, thank you! English tags too! You're right about the symphonic version being the best. I think perhaps if you've seen the film it makes you appreciate the OST more, and I'm quite fond of both :)

ULTRAMAN SYMPHONY
The Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Takayuki Hattori and Kaoru Wada

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=fglizd1icg

This is Gift From Shibuya #2! :)



1. ULTRAMAN NO UTA ~ JOKYOKU (ULTRAMAN'S SONG ~ PRELUDE)
2. ULTRAMAN TARO
3. ULTRAMAN DYNA
4. ULTRAMAN 80
5. ULTRAMAN LEO
6. THE ULTRAMAN
7. ULTRAMAN ACE
8. KAETE KITA ULTRAMAN (RETURN OF ULTRAMAN)
9. TAKE ME HIGHER (ULTRAMAN TIGA)
10. ULTRASEVEN'S SONG
11. ULTRAMAN GAIA!
12. ULTRAMAN'S SONG ~ Symphonic March

This has been posted in this thread already, but the only copy circulating online is an appalling rip, with some tracks at 128kbps and others at an even lower bitrate. This is a brand new rip, LAME -V0 of course, from my own copy of the disc as purchased in Japan.

Note about the tags: The composers of the respective tracks are listed in the sleeve notes (included) in Japanese only. A direct romaji transliteration of these Kanji and Hiragana names has yielded the composers listed in the tags. Many of the names are familiar - but there is no sign of them ever being involved in an Ultraman series. Koichi Sugiyama, anybody? I really don't know what to say - they may be absolutely wrong. I hope not. Some I can confirm are correct (Toru Fuyuki and Kunio Miyauchi spring to mind) but the others are... odd. Sorry. This is what you get when you try to translate a language like Japanese. I'm going to give a copy of this to my Japanese friend to see if she can make head nor tail of it. In the mean time, please be slightly wary of these tags...!

Enjoy! :)

AWESOME Dannyfrench!!
I have been wanting to listen to that some more but the quality made it difficult. Thanks so much!

First time posting in this forum. I was reading the thread and was immpresed with the knowledge and quality of music selections. I dont know if its proper to request a title here or not, but there is two albums i would like to find.... that for some reason is hard to get a hold of. 1 Brotherhood of the Wolf 2.Outlander

Thanks in advance
Hackmage

Both were posted recently
Thread 66311
Thread 64156
In general, links to soundtracks are posted multiple places, one of them being the Film Score VGM Hunt thread so a search through there can be all you need.
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?p=1329750&posted=1#post1329750
Usually try to search for the longest word because the search function fails.

Lense, Sanico...thank you for posting ARION! I have NEVER heard this score before! I am SOO enjoying this! Hisaishi is, as I have mentioned time and time again...my favorite composer...so I am very much in happy land right now!

First of all, thanks danny for the Ultraman Symphony. There's something really satisfying and wholesome about it. Brilliant cover art. Some great darker material as well, and a wonder that so many composers didn't spoil the broth (is each movement based on a different iteration of UM, and each is the original composer?). I'm also enjoying 'Kanryo Tachi no Natsu' - the first track took me by surprise!

Ok, something I've been meaning to post for a while: my second Big Orchestral pack :)


ACTION, ROMANCE & SUSPENSE



http://rapidshare.com/files/279644561/Action_Romance_Suspense.rar

1. Hugo Friedhofer: The Sun Also Rises (1957) - Prologue, The Lights of Paris
A growling curtain-raiser by a much underrated composer of the golden age. While in general Friedhofer's musical personality seemed to be a self-effacing one (just look at how many ‘uncredited’ listings he has on imdb!), that is not the case here, and I think you’ll agree that this piece is astonishingly muscular and undated.
2. Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Sea Hawk (1940) - Main Title
3. Escape from the Galley / Fight on Deck
Did anyone used to watch the 90s kids cartoon 'Peter Pan and the Pirates'? The only highlight in an otherwise dreary show was the bracing theme tune. Talk about a moment of glory for a jobbing tv composer hey.. well yeah, if you allow for the fact that it's essentially a more obvious version of Korngold’s CLASSIC fanfare. What it didn’t have was a swooning, neo-Wagnerian love theme like the one heard at 0:40. The next track begins with some brilliant tension building underscore, eventually bursting out into a marvelously uplifting choral setting of the main heroic theme.
4. Jerry Goldsmith: Damnation Alley (1977) - Main Title
5. End Title
The bookends to this rare Goldsmith score presented here are a small taste of what a modern re-recording would sound like, with Goldsmith conducting the RSNO from his 'Frontiers' sci-fi compliation. The Main Title has some terrific antiphonal fanfares and an angularity and determination that reminds me of Herrmann’s 'Devil and Daniel Webster', while the ending music features a floating, optimistic melody introduced on trumpet and then taken up singing cellos.
6. Conrad Salinger: The Band Wagon (1953) - Dancing in the Dark
One of the ways I wanted to stretch the ‘action pack’ concept this time around was to incorporate the idea of dance. Not all on screen or musical action needs to be of the balls-to-the-wall variety ;) Conrad Salinger is a master orchestrator and composer who worked almost invisibly on many well known movies. He writes and arranges melodies in very full, rich harmonies, with always a graceful element of counterpoint and, as in this piece, subtle chromatics.
7. Conrad Salinger: The Pirate (1948) - The Pirate Ballet
Another thrilling musical interlude that would be unthinkable in the cinema of today. This is closer to what you might expect of straight-up ‘action’. In the film it’s the accompaniment to a very stylized ballet/dream sequence that mixes dancing with sword fighting and pyrotechnics. The orchestra in this recording, conducted by Elmer Bernstein, sound as if they’re struggling to keep up at certain points. Also - one of the melodies that’s touched-on amidst all the frenzy was from the pen of Cole Porter.
8. Malcolm Arnold: The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) - London Prelude
Two gorgeous themes presented in this track: the first is associated with the heroine's spirit of determination and courage, and reminds me a little of the Kansas music from Williams' 'Superman'; a short passage of chugging train programmaticism at 1:03 (the film opens in Victoria Station) leads to a second, more sweepingly romantic tune.
9. Rachel Portman: Emma (1996) - The Dance
Another dance piece, this time an effective little period pastiche by Rachel Portman. I thought I’d throw this in as I love the way it goes from quartet to full string orchestra.
10. William Walton: Richard III (1955) - Coronation: Fanfare and Processional - Sound Drums and Trumpets - Recessional
Walton’s score to Oliver’s Richard III is an interesting mix of styles, and very different to the more famous Henry V. It begins with an overture that sounds like it could have been written by Elgar himself, but I decided to include the music as it begins in the film-proper – heraldry and a courtly atmosphere take over to establish a sense of history and setting. In keeping with the glowing, oil-paint-like Technicolor cinematography and the theatrical unreality of the sets, the music remains stylized, with brightly lit orchestrations.
11. Ron Goodwin: Minuet in Blue
12. The Trap (1966) - Theme
Ron Goodwin is a composer with a very cinematic sound, but also a distinctively English one. You probably know his excellent scores for films like 'Where Eagles Dare' and '633 Squadron'. These two pieces I always listen to together and that’s how I’ve kept them in the pack. The description in the cd booklet notes that this Minuet for harp and strings appeared ‘out of the blue’, not written for a film or a concert commission, but clearly for Goodwin's own amusement. It shows his easy way with melody, combining sinuous bluesy contours with classical elegance. The main theme from 'The Trap' has since been adopted by the BBC for their coverage of the London marathon. So stick this one on the pod and go for a run! :D
13. Georges Delerue: Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) - The Storm and Rescue
I defy anyone not to fall in love with this cue. It begins with an evocation of a storm at sea, a little reminiscent of the brief movement at the heart of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, and building to an expansive Wagnerian outcry in the brass, complete with catchy rhythmic punctuations. The romantic gush at 3:19 is impossible to resist! Delerue must’ve been a man of great feeling (the film, as I’m sure you can guess by the title, is utterly atrocious in every other aspect.. but in an oddly forgivable way ;)). More Joe coming soon..
14. Max Steiner: The Three Musketeers (1935) - To Paris, Fencing Demonstration
15. Love Theme
Steiner shows a clarity and even lightness here. The sense of elan is carried over from a polka-like dance to a broad swaggering march, and a cheeky interpolation of the Warner fanfare to close. As for the tender love theme, it's pretty Herrmannesque - and I don’t know about you, but I’m a sucker for sighing supensions.
16. Henry Mancini: Lifeforce (1985) - Theme
Total change of pace with this one, and quite a surprise from Mancini. It makes you wonder where rhythm has gone in film music these days (never mind the woodwinds!). Of course it’s the same fandango pulse from 'North by Northwest', used to very different effect however. The whole score is a masterpiece, very varied and hard to pigeon-hole. Definitely check it out.
17. Maurice Jarre: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) - Fanfare & 'Thunderdome Music'
I did see this film years ago, but I don't remember a thing about it (except being freaked out by Tina Turner). This track isn't on the commercial album as far as I'm aware, and it's great stuff. As well as the action there are some magical softer passages.
18. Toru Takemitsu: RAN (1985) - Movement IV 'Hell's Picture Scroll'
I know Sanico likes RAN, and this is also qualifies as action music of a kind – except that Kurosawa and Takemitsu chose to play the visuals and the music in counterpoint to one another. All diegetic sound is exterminated for this overwhelmingly powerful sequence; Takemitsu’s anguished Mahlerian dirge floods in over a disjunctive montage of flying arrows, dead bodies, mist and soil, as the warlord Hidetora (the Lear equivalent in this transposition of Shakespeare) recoils and leaves the besieged castle. If I’d had room I’d have included the whole suite from this recording (not from the original soundtrack) with the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra.
19. Jerry Goldsmith: Logan's Run (1976) - End of the City
And to finish, the sonorous, triumphant finale from (IMHO) one of Goldsmith absolute best scores. How good is Jerry at these 'emerging from a dystopia' codas!!

Hope you enjoy!




Dancing in the Dark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iAWxCxTgoI

Ok, something I've been meaning to post for a while: my second Big Orchestral pack :)


ACTION, ROMANCE & SUSPENSE




Lens, this is another superb compilation, and the way you describe the tracks is highly appreciated. I can't imagine how much work and time caused to you.
I hit the download button without any kind of hesitation, and it will be my first listen of Friedhofer, Salinger and William Walton.



*watching the window download bar progress :)

Awesome lens!
EDIT: It seems you thought about what I was going to suggest already. Much appreciated the way you presented this.

Thanks Sirus for the links and the general help.

The Joe Versus the Volcano music is great. Lens can you post the album please? I found one link in the hunt thread, but it's only 128k. I much prefer v0 that was in you compilation, if you have it please.

And where i can find Lens first compilation? I want to listen but i don't know what kind of words should i put in the search for that. Help (^_~)

Here's the post you're after:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1230035&postcount=1713

i love an action pack

Thank you Lens, for everything.

Cleopatra (OST) (Trevor Jones) (FLAC/MP3) (1999)



Thread 69636



Iron Eagle (OST) (Basil Poledouris) (FLAC/MP3) (1986, 2008 Varese)




On the eve of the 2008 film music festival in �beda, Spain we thought it would be timely to remember the great Basil Poledouris, who experienced such a triumph of will and was fueled by a giant embrace from his fans when he visited the beautiful town in Spain mere weeks before his passing. Basil conducted a performance of Conan: The Barbarian that is now legendary, but we remember him here with the premiere release of Iron Eagle.

One of the most iconic films of the 80s featured one of Basil Poledouris' most thrilling scores. Air Force pilot Col. Ted Masters (Tim Thomerson) is shot down over a hostile Middle Eastern country and taken prisoner. The U.S. government is powerless to negotiate his release. With time quickly running out, Masters' teenage son Doug (Jason Gedrick) takes bold action. He enlists the aid of a tough-as-nails reserve officer (Lou Gossett Jr.) and they devise a daring military rescue mission to storm the skies, exact vengeance on the evil captors, and free Doug's father. Powered by dynamite aerial dogfight sequences, a soaring rock soundtrack and thrilling, edge-of-your-seat action, Iron Eagle has something for everyone!

Poledouris' score is centered around one of his most infectious and exciting themes. This never before available score is an action blockbuster and a must for all Poledouris fans!

Thread 69644

Hey folks,

Since you all seemed to enjoy the last piece I posted so much, I wanted to share something else. This is a fresh piece (started and finished today) and I really enjoyed working on it. It's an orchestral hymn, but it ventures into some more active territory as well.

Eve of War (http://www.mathazzar.com/Music/Eve%20of%20War.mp3)

I hope you enjoy!

Hi all, don't suppose anyone's got these tracks?

Flight of the Intruder March - Basil Poledouris

Battle Beyond the Stars Title - James Horner

Hamburger Hill - Philip Glass

Also, anyone know of a good ripper. If I can get hold of one maybe I can get some of my disks posted.

Hi guys, Iam looking for BEN HUR -THE ESSENTIAL MIKLOS ROZSA 2CDset on Silva label conducted by kenneth Alwyn.

http://www.amazon.com/Ben-Hur-Essential-Mikl%C3%B3s-Miklos-Rozsa/dp/B00004X0T8

ALSO
Bernard Herrmann: The Essential Film Music Collection

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Film-Music-Bernard-Herrmann/dp/B000F9038K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1252936046&sr=1-1


Thanks! a good rip at 320kbs would be great.


BUMP

Please do not request the same thing twice. Either someone found it or they didn't.

azahid - I don't have that exact Herrmann compilation, but I do have 'Citizen Kane - The Essential Bernard Herrman', which is pretty much the same (City of Prague Phil - they just constantly repackage the same recordings) but possibly minus a couple of tracks. I'm really busy until Friday, but I can upload next weekend if you'd like..?

Removed.

1st, some little apologies: I was away from here since several days due to my job, so sorry if that gave the impression that I neglect the people here and their wonderful music. This is of course not the case, I was just too busy.

2nd, I'm astonished by some of the latest posts here, especially your compilation, Lens. Once again you raised the bar higher in this thread. I'm fascinated by your choices, I must admit I didn't know half of them, so it'll be delightful to hear them. Thank you so much (comments later)

Danny: S-U-P-E-R-B. I'm fond of this Ultraman Symphony, but the only copy available was barely acceptable in quality. Your post is SO much welcome! What a good idea you had to purchase it - I hope it wasn't too expensive. Thanks!

And since I missed a lot of things here, I'll progressively check the latest posts and answer to each of them requiring it.

GEORGES DELERUE - JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO


Thank you Lens!
I was impressed when i heard this for the first time in your compilation.
I'm beggining to like more and more Delerue works, and unfortunatly i didn't know much about him when the album was released by Varese and now it's sold out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IRBmpIsQuM&feature=PlayList&p=D15A0C9D95720512&index=12

Do you guys know any groups that perform this type off music? Its epic, but shame its only 1 CD. Though the second cd is coming out in a few days, its pretty interesting type of music to listen to

Antihero - That is what you would call medieval style classical music. There is a bit of it out there although I could never get into it personally.

Thanks to Turk here a Patrick Swayze tribute:

(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-patrickmusic-3235340.html)


(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-patrickmusicback-3235352.html)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A7K6BQXP

Wow! Thanks a lot from the Ultraman OST, dannyfrench! It's truly magnificent!

Hey folks,

Since you all seemed to enjoy the last piece I posted so much, I wanted to share something else. This is a fresh piece (started and finished today) and I really enjoyed working on it. It's an orchestral hymn, but it ventures into some more active territory as well.

Eve of War (http://www.mathazzar.com/Music/Eve%20of%20War.mp3)

I hope you enjoy!
I had to quote this to bring it onto the next page and because it is awesome. Great job Mathazzar again. Highly epic work.

Oh, you caught it! Thanks, Sirius. I guess I'll have to keep posting random things when I make them...;)

Yeah i just forgot about it because by the time I was home, lens started a new page. Yes please do, your music is awesome!

So I'm back, sorry for my long absence, but my Personal Computer was bust and now my external fixed disc is in pieces...my dear luck is busted...greaat... T_____T

Mathazzar - I love Eve of War! That must've taken you a while! :-)

Nicely done,

--
Mike

Nice post! great score, just wonder if there's any mirror site for downloading as Megaupload doesn't work in my country... Thanks a lot:D








Anterak and Billie : Thank you for your support. I was seriously considering abandonning doing uploads if the only thing I get is criticism and no thanks AT ALL!


Billie : Thank you for the Brown piece, very nice indeed. I was planning a presentation post for this composer, because he's really one of the best western game composers out there.

Here are both complete albums of Zyuranger - Symphonic Fantasy
http://www.megaupload.com/fr/?d=ryuglh08
http://www.megaupload.com/fr/?d=om7d9gaj




Thomasdaly : sorry to disappoint, I did my best on this one. As you asked for a similar piece I looked for pieces having similar characteristics :

- extremely upbeat, lively and powerful
- coming from animes
- very brassy, and in some cases including electric guitars
- including a modern beat

All pieces here match at least 3 of these aspects, and to my ears many of them are very similar to the one you mentioned.

If you want me to try again you'll have to be much more precise and tell me what you mean exactly by "like that one above in that track style".

Danny: S-U-P-E-R-B. I'm fond of this Ultraman Symphony, but the only copy available was barely acceptable in quality. Your post is SO much welcome! What a good idea you had to purchase it - I hope it wasn't too expensive. Thanks!

It wasn't too bad - not by import standards anyway... Japanese CDs are expensive, full stop - I've grown accustomed to paying ridiculous sums for postage, customs, etc, that the �18 I paid for the Ultraman symphony didn't seem too bad! Anyway, it was worth every penny and I was very VERY surprised to find it, given how hard it is to come by; my fiancee actually pulled it off the shelf for me (she was grabbing anything with "orchestra" or "symphony" on the front cover for my perusal) and when I saw it, it went straight in the basket.

I have much more from my Japanese shopping trip still to share, but right now, I'm in a Masamichi Amano mood, thanks for the recent posting of Giant Robo 1 and 3 in Lossless over in this (Thread 66456) wonderful thread, so, here is a REAL RARITY!



Masamichi Amano
Mushiking - Super Battle Movie - Symphony
The Angel City Studio Orchestra
conducted by Masamichi Amano

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=jxn3wfqghj



1. First Movement - Introduction
2. Second Movement
3. Third Movement
4. Fourth Movement
5. Fifth Movement
6. Sixth Movement
7. Seventh Movement
8. Eighth Movement - Finale

The man who stirred up such a magnificent storm in Giant Robo is back once again, in this outstanding score for 2007's Mushiking Super Battle Movie. This one was recorded with a 66 piece orchestra in Los Angeles, at the famous Eastwood Scoring Stage - certainly no expense spared, and it must've been a fabulous, rare opportunity for the members of the Hollywood Studio Symphony to take a break from dreck like Iron Man and Transformers and play some real music for a change! I have no idea why they went to LA to record this - they could just have easily done it with the Warsaw Philharmonic as Amano usually does (and got considerably better value for money) - but at the same time I'm certainly not complaining.

This is a lovely, old-fashioned rollicking orchestral score like they just don't write any more (except in Japan) with heroic brass, soaring strings, thundering percussion, and Amano's typically choppy rhythms and triumphant melodies all present and correct.

A little note about the presentation: This album is absolutely monolithically AWFUL in its presentation. Thirty-two minutes of score split over THIRTY tracks - seventeen of which clock in at under a minute. Certainly not a recipe for a coherent listening experience, and indeed I just couldn't get into this score listening to it like that. Most album producers pay some attention to the need for the music to function away from the film, and therefore work shorter cues into longer, more satisfying tracks that play well on disc. Not here - it looks like they literally took the cue sheet, divided it up into tracks, and shoved it on CD.

So - along came me, doing the job that the album producers really should've done: Whittle the thirty tracks down to eight, incredibly satisfying, coherent movements that really allow the score to shine.

To make this work, I listened to the album about a dozen times over two days and tried to memorise it as much as I could - then I could go about grouping together tracks that are actually musically and thematically connected, rather than the traditional technique of just shoving together a bunch of tracks without gaps. The funny thing is, most of the tracks almost seemed like they were made to be heard this way - a theme in track three would be cut short, but it would continue to develop in track twenty five, and would receive a satisfying conclusion in track 12. Repeated listening really helped me fit together the jigsaw puzzle and weave together a splendid, extended piece.

My eight movements incorporate every note of score on the original album - nothing is omitted and nothing is cut short. There is a dreadful pop song by Rainbow Yuki that I have omitted - it's not by Amano, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the score, so I make no apologies for this.

If anybody wants the album in its original presentation, with this horrific song intact, please let me know and I'll upload it - although I'd really ask you to all trust my judgement; it really is better this way. As I say, I was crushingly disappointed with the score in its entirety until I listened to the Symphony - and suddenly it all made narrative, as well as musical, sense. Trust a guy who knows a crappy album when he hears one, and who also knows the value of a structured, classically-minded album sequencing to really bring the best out of fine music like this... :)

Enjoy.

This damn thing cost me �40, so you'd better bloody well do...

Looks awesome, can't wait to give that one a listen Danny!! Thanks!
I tend to do the same when searching my local used CD shop in the Japanese section. Sadly I am not accustomed to the kanji for orchestra or symphony but I do my best.

Your CD store *HAS* a Japanese section? Where do you live?! The most Japanese thing I can find at any record store near me is "Turning Japanese" by The Vapours... Though HMV in Oxford Street does have a reasonable anime section, there's nothing particularly rare there - shelves of Kanno, Kajiura, etc... I did spot Gundam Seed Destiny once, but it's not exactly a utopia. Still, it's better than nothing... But I wouldn't mind a trip back to Tokyo every few weeks to get at the REAL good stuff...

Well I live in a highly Asian neighborhood. There is a local store called Book-Off that is essentially a Japanese used CD, Book, Video Game, Anime, Magazine, shop. They have TONS of CDs in the 3$ a piece section of clearance and a ton of CDs in the normal section that are from $7 to $25 depending on popularity and rarity. I got tons of awesome music in the clearance section from various Japanese Pop groups I like especially one group where I got 9 out of the 11 existing studio albums in clearance. I tend to avoid the regular section for stuff unless I KNOW its good already.

Danny, I would love to enjoy the new Amano music you just posted, but the link there says the file does not exist :(

Die Hard Original Soundtrack.
Composer: Michael Kamen.
Format: mp3 @ 128kbps.
Year: 1988.
Genre: Film Soundtrack.
Duration: 76 min.
DOWNLOAD (http://www.turboupload.com/c83lqepdspxn/DH.zip.html)

01. Nakatomi Plaza [01:49]
02. Gruber's Arrival [03:41]
03. John's Escape/You Want Money? [05:52]
04. The Tower [01:49]
05. The Roof [03:37]
06. The Fight [01:06]
07. He Won't Be Joining Us [03:53]
08. And If He Alters It? [02:36]
09. Going After John Again [04:30]
010. Have A Few Laughs [03:26]
11. Welcome to the Party [00:57]
12. TV Station/His Bag Is Missing [03:52]
13. Assault on the Tower [08:15]
14. John Is Found Out [05:01]
15. Attention Police [03:39]
16. Bill Clay [02:02]
17. I Had an Accident [02:37]
18. Ode to Joy [03:35]
19. The Battle [10:14]
20. Gruber's Departure [01:55]
21. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! [01:53]





Die Hard Complete Motion Picture Score.
Composer: Michael Kamen.
Format: mp3 @ 160kbps.
Year: 1988.
Genre: Film Soundtrack.
Duration: 83 min.
DOWNLOAD (http://www.turboupload.com/60ub97uwsopi/DH-CS.zip.html)

01. John & Holly Meet - The Van [01:09]
02. Terrorists Arrive [04:14]
03. Lines Are Cut [02:28]
04. Party Crashers - First Fight [01:13]
05. McClane Escapes - Gruber's Speech [06:17]
06. Fire Alarm [02:10]
07. Planting The Explosives [01:59]
08. The Guard [01:46]
09. Small Shoes - Elevator [00:57]
10. Now I Have A Machine Gun [03:06]
11. On The Roof [02:42]
12. Roof Battle [08:34]
13. Don't Shoot - Gruber Falls [02:02]
14. Dead Body [01:11]
15. News Room [00:46]
16. Preparing To Come In [01:20]
17. The Assault [09:03]
18. John & Al - Ellis Dies [05:17]
19. Gruber's Demands [02:06]
20. McClane & Gruber Meet [04:15]
21. FBI [00:57]
22. Al's Story - Power Cut [02:42]
23. The Safe Opens [02:13]
24. Emptying The Safe [01:00]
25. The Fight Begins [01:18]
26. Choppers Arrive [01:53]
27. The Fight Continues [01:52]
28. Choppers Attack [02:30]
29. Chopper Falls - Finale [04:09]
30. Resolution [00:51]
31. McClane's Theme [01:49]

: Thrilling action themes.
Note: the quality is quite bad, but at least it makes us remember the 80's movies, above all Die Hard, my favourite one.

Greetings form Spain!

Danny, I would love to enjoy the new Amano music you just posted, but the link there says the file does not exist :(

Ah, CHRIST, that took 20 minutes to upload and Rapidspread have lost it already... I am reuploading - should be with you in another 20. Thanks for the heads-up. :)

Ah, CHRIST, that took 20 minutes to upload and Rapidspread have lost it already... I am reuploading - should be with you in another 20. Thanks for the heads-up. :)

Any time. Sorry the upload didn't hold. I hate when that happens!

New link: http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=jxn3wfqghj

Hopefully THIS should be working... Right now, it looks good... Maybe this time it will hold for long enough for people to actually get it...

Worked for me!! Thanks Danny!!
Giant Robo 2 was also posted in lossless in the same thread by me earlier. I can find it you want.

Link Deleted as it is a Varese Sarabande release. Do not ask to re-upload.

What an awesome series of posts! Thanks a lot Sirusjr, Danny, Pertox, Garcia and Lens.


Billie: I'm so glad to see you back! I was wondering why you've been absent so long. Welcome back!


Danny: another great gift for our listening pleasure! This one seems to be quite a rarity, and if it's Amano it has to be good. Fantastic post!


Pertox: this is an excellent choice for the fans of good orchestral action music. You might be interested in a lossless version:


Michael Kamen - Die Hard [Promo Version, 1988] - FLAC + EAC LOG [the limited Var�se Sarabande edition !!!!!]

1 - Roy Rogers Meets Beethoven's Ninth (1:30)
2 - The Terrorists (4:00)
3 - "He Won't Be Joining Us, Forever!" (1:44)
4 - Searching For John / Neck Snap (2:09)
5 - Ho-Ho-Ho / One Dead Terrorist (0:56)
6 - Rooftop / Elevator Shaft / Air Shaft / "Welcome To The Party Pal!" (8:53)
7 - "Let's Kick Some Ass!" / S.W.A.T. / "Send In The Car!" / Big Boom (7:19)
8 - Bathroom Stories (1:46)
9 - Beethoven's Ninth / "Get In The Van" (3:07)
10 - Hand To Hand / Helicopters / Another Big Boom (6:44)
11 - "Honey, I'm Home" / The Big Fall (5:55)
12 - We've Got Each Other (Man On Fire - John Scott) (1:55)
13 - Resolution (Aliens - James Horner) (2:46)

Varese = forbidden

Hey folks,

Since you all seemed to enjoy the last piece I posted so much, I wanted to share something else. This is a fresh piece (started and finished today) and I really enjoyed working on it. It's an orchestral hymn, but it ventures into some more active territory as well.

Eve of War (http://www.mathazzar.com/Music/Eve%20of%20War.mp3)

I hope you enjoy!

Sorry for the delay of the reply, but I listen to the music posted here in the same order it's been posted, so having finished listening to Lens' compilation of orchestral awesomeness, I tried your piece, and...

Man, this is good.

Very cinematic in nature, tastefully orchestrated (thanks for the woodwinds!), this piece is very professionally done. You have an excellent soundfont and you obviously know how to use it. I appreciate the emotional and dramatic aspects of this piece, which accurately express the tension before a battle.

Thanks for posting your music here. Don't hesitate to post more of it, and don't forget to put in each of your posts (or your sig) a link to your website for people interested in listening to more. You might get lucky. ;)

It appears this wonderful score was never posted here in entirety!!
[center]Elmer Bernstein - To Kill a Mockingbird
|MP3|VBR V-0 Fast|70MB

I posted it, together with a lot more by Bernstein :)


In this post we have heard things of Goldsmith or Williams. I like other composer with a similar importance in the universe of the film music. Of course I am speaking of the great Elmer Bernstein.

I just uploaded some of his best works and in order to save time to arthierr, I cut and paste from wikipedia:

(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1827216.html)

Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 - 18 August, 2004) was an Academy and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score composer. He was famous for composing music for The Ten Commandments, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Great Escape and The Magnificent Seven.

Youth

Bernstein was born in New York City on April 4, 1922. Although not in any way related to the celebrated composer and conductor, Leonard Bernstein, there was a slight facial similarity between the two men and, within the world of professional music, they were distinguished from each other by the use of the nicknames, Bernstein West (Elmer) and Bernstein East (Leonard). During his childhood he performed professionally as a dancer and an actor, in the latter case playing the part of Caliban in The Tempest on Broadway and he also won several prizes for his painting.Throughout his life, he demonstrated an enthusiasm for an even wider spectrum of the arts than his childhood interests would imply and, in 1959, when he was scoring The Story on Page One, he considered becoming a novelist and asked the film's screenwriter, Clifford Odets, to give him lessons in writing fiction. He gravitated toward music by his own choice at the age of twelve, at which time he was given a scholarship in piano by Henriette Michelson, a Juilliard teacher who guided him throughout his entire career as a pianist. She took him to play some of his improvisations for composer Aaron Copland. Copland was encouraging and selected Israel Citkowitz as a teacher for the young boy. Bernstein's music has some stylistic similarities to Copland's music, most notably in his western scores and in his spirited score for the 1958 film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's novel, God's Little Acre.

Background

He wrote the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments (1956), The Man with the Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Robot Monster, Ghostbusters and the fanfare used in the National Geographic television specials. His theme for The Magnificent Seven is also familiar to television viewers, as it was used in commercials for Marlboro cigarettes. Bernstein also provided the score to many of the short films of Ray and Charles Eames.

Broadway

In addition to his film music, Bernstein wrote the scores for two Broadway musicals: How Now, Dow Jones in 1968 and Merlin in 1983.

Politics

Along with many in Hollywood, Bernstein faced censure during the McCarthy era of the 1950s. He was "gray-listed" (not banned, but kept off major projects) due to sympathy with left-wing causes, and had to work on low-budget science fiction films such as Robot Monster and Cat-Women of the Moon.

Comedies

John Landis grew up near Bernstein, and befriended him through his children. Years later, he requested Bernstein do the music for National Lampoon's Animal House, over the studio's objections. He explained to Bernstein that he thought that Bernstein's score, playing it straight as if the comedic Delta frat characters were actual heroes, would emphasize the comedy further. Bernstein accepted the job, and it sparked a second wave in his career, where he continued to do high-profile comedies such as Airplane!, as well as most of Landis's films for the next 15 years.

Cape Fear

When Martin Scorsese announced that he was re-making Cape Fear, he requested Bernstein do the job of adapting Bernard Hermann's original score to the new film. Bernstein leapt at the opportunity to work with Scorsese, and to pay homage to Hermann; Scorsese and Bernstein subsequently worked together on two more films in the 1990s.

Awards

Bernstein was recognized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association with Golden Globes for his scores for To Kill a Mockingbird and Hawaii. In 1963 he was awarded the Emmy for Excellence in Television for his score of The Making of The President, 1960. He is the recipient of Western Heritage Awards for The Magnificent Seven (1960) and The Hallelujah Trail (1965). He received five Grammy nominations from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and garnered two of Broadway's coveted Tony Award nominations for How Now Dow Jones and Merlin.

Additional honors included Lifetime achievement awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), The Society for the Preservation of Film Music, the USA, Woodstock, Santa Barbara, Newport Beach and Flanders International Film Festivals and the Foundation for a Creative America. In 1996, Bernstein was honored with a star on Hollywood Boulevard. In 1999, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Five Towns College in New York and was honored by the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Bernstein again was honored by ASCAP with its marquee Founders Award in 2001, and with the NARAS Governors Award in June 2004. He received 14 Academy Award nominations, nominated at least once per decade from the 1950s thru 2000s, but his only win was for Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Death

Bernstein died of cancer in his sleep, at his home in Ojai, California, on August 18, 2004.

A nice video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQZox6kPQ1Y&feature=channel_page

and the scores. I strongly recommend you his work for the animated movie Heavy Metal. Very impressive. Here some videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGYcVbT3c88

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TXEou-a2J8

The Ten Commandments
(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1827640.html)

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

Track listing


Disc/Cassette 1

1. Overture (01:36)
2. Main title - Prologue (05:40)
3. Slaying of the first born - in the bulrushes (04:24)
4. Nefritiri (00:54)
5. Throne room (01:55)
6. Love and ambition (03:55)
7. The bitter life (03:24)
8. Temple grainery (01:11)
9. Treasure city (04:32)
10. Death of Memnit (02:09)
11. The hard bondage (02:10)
12. The mud pits (03:58)
13. Nefretiri's barge - Death of Baka (07:53)
14. Egyptian dance (02:22)
15. Farewell to Moses (03:18)
16. dathan and Lilia (01:09)
17. Exile - The crucible of God (04:08)
18. Jethro's daughters (02:17)
19. The holy mountain (03:24)
20. Bedouin dance (01:30)
21. Moses and Sephora (06:10)

Disc/Cassette 2

1. Burning bush - End of act one (06:16)
2. Intermission music (02:42)
3. Thus sayeth the Lord (04:06)
4. Bricks without straw (00:42)
5. Lily at the well (01:28)
6. Blessing of the waters (00:26)
7. The water turns to blood (01:28)
8. Days of darkness (01:49)
9. The palgues (04:25)
10. Freedom! (02:20)
11. Exodus part one (07:08)
12. Exodus part two (02:55)
13. The wrath of the Pharaoh (03:28)
14. The red sea (08:21)
15. Orgy complete (09:59)
16. Destruction and finale (03:52)
17. Exit music (05:22)
18. Exodus fast (02:12)
alternate fast version part one
19. Pharaoh's wrath (01:49)
20. The pillar appears - giving of the commandments - alternate beginning (00:44)

Total Duration: 02:19:31

The Seven Magnificent
(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1827321.html)

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zgnnrn1wyym

Track listing

1. Main Title and Calvera (03:56)
2. Council (03:14)
3. Quest (01:00)
4. Strange Funeral / After the Brawl (06:48)
5. Vin’s Luck (02:03)
6. And then there were Two (01:45)
7. Fiesta (01:11)
8. Stalking (01:20)
9. Worst Shot (03:02)
10. The Journey (04:39)
11. Toro (03:24)
12. Training (01:27)
13. Calvera's Return (02:37)
14. Calvera routed (01:49)
15. Ambush (03:10)
16. Petra's Declaration (02:30)
17. Bernardo (03:33)
18. Surprise (02:08)
19. Defeat (03:26)
20. Crossroads (04:47)
21. Harry's Mistake (02:48)
22. Calvera killed (03:33)
23. Finale (03:27)

Total Duration: 01:07:37
The Comancheros and True Gift
(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1827576.html)

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?n1zmmtmgre1

Track listing

1. Main Title (01:39)
"The Comancheros"
2. Escort (03:21)
"The Comancheros"
3. McBaine and the Prairie (02:35)
"The Comancheros"
4. Jake Surveys the Camp (03:45)
"The Comancheros"
5. Pursuit (02:03)
"The Comancheros"
6. Mexican Dance (02:15)
"The Comancheros"
7. Indian Attack (03:08)
"The Comancheros"
8. Finale (01:03)
"The Comancheros"
9. Main Title (01:42)
"True Grit"
10. Rooster and Runaway (02:54)
"True Grit"
11. Bald Mountain (04:29)
"True Grit"
12. Pony Mine and Papa's Things (02:09)
"True Grit"
13. The Dying Moon (03:09)
"True Grit"
14. Big Trail (01:52)
"True Grit"
15. Sad Departure/The Pace that Kills (03:00)
"True Grit"
16. Warm Wrap-Up (01:55)
"True Grit"

Total Duration: 00:40:59

To Kill a Monckingbird
(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1827652.html)

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?djt2tzjmw4n

Track listing

1. MAIN TITLE (03:19)
2. REMEMBER MAMA (01:07)
3. ATTICUS ACCEPTS THE CASE / ROLL IN THE TIRE (02:05)
4. CREEPY CAPER / PEEK-A-BOO (04:09)
5. EWELL'S HATRED (03:30)
6. JEM'S DISCOVERY (03:46)
7. TREE TREASURE (04:22)
8. LYNCH MOB (03:03)
9. GUILTY VERDICT (03:09)
10. EWELL REGRET IT (02:10)
11. FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK (02:07)
12. ASSAULT IN THE SHADOWS (02:25)
13. BOO WHO! (02:59)
14. END TITLE (03:25)

Total Duration: 00:41:36

The Great Scape
(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1827958.html)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I4H265VZ

Track listing

Disc/Cassette 1

1. Main Title (02:28)
2. At First Glance (03:09)
3. Premature Plans (02:27)
4. If At Once (02:30)
5. Forked (01:26)
6. Cooler (01:57)
7. Mole (01:27)
8. X (00:54)
9. Tonight We X (00:36)
10. The Scrounger (00:28)
11. Blythe (03:20)
12. Water Faucet (01:22)
13. Interrups (01:32)
14. The Plans (00:41)
15. The Sad Lives (01:00)
16. Green Thumbs (02:26)
17. Hilts And Ives (00:36)
18. Cave In (01:59)
19. Restless Men (01:54)
20. Booze (01:46)
21. Discovery (03:37)
22. Various Troubles (03:52)

Disc/Cassette 2

1. Panic (02:04)
2. Pin Trick (00:59)
3. Hendley's Risk (01:43)
4. Released Again (01:10)
5. Escape Time (04:14)
6. 20 Feet Short (03:04)
7. Foul Up (02:36)
8. At The Station (01:32)
9. On The Road (03:25)
10. The Chase (04:13)
11. First Casualty (02:34)
12. Flight Plan (02:11)
13. More Action (03:10)
14. Hilt's Captured (02:57)
15. Road's End (02:07)
16. Betrayal (02:19)
17. Three Gone (01:44)
18. Home Again (01:30)
19. Finale (01:28)
20. The Cast (01:17)

Total Duration: 01:27:44

Heavy Metal
(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1827946.html)

http://rapidshare.com/files/185572509/_1981__Heavy.rar.html

Track listing

1. Beginning (01:16)
2. Intro to Green Ball (01:18)
3. Discovery/Transformation (Den and the Green Ball) (03:15)
4. Den Makes Out (Den Makes It) (02:42)
5. Castrate Him/Searching for Loc Nar (02:04)
6. Queen for a Day (Den and the Queen) (02:54)
7. Pursuit (Den's Heroics) (02:51)
8. Fiste (01:27)
9. Getting Bombed (03:06)
10. Green Ball (02:15)
11. Dem Bones (02:44)
12. No Alarm (00:58)
13. Robot Love (Space Love) (01:32)
14. Harry (01:35)
15. The Next Morning (01:56)
16. End of Baby (02:43)
17. Council (Taarna Summoned) (02:49)
18. The Flight to Temple (Flight) (02:16)
19. The Sword (Taarna Prepares) (03:32)
20. Flight to Holiday Town (02:20)
21. Fighting (02:43)
22. My Whips!/Taarna Escapes Pit (04:57)
23. Finish (Taarna Forever) (03:34)
24-27 bonus tracks:
24. Den Makes Out (film version) (02:49)
25. Bomber and the Green Ball (album edit) (04:35)
26. Harry and the Girl (album edit) (03:41)
27. Barbarians (album edit) (03:34)

Total Duration: 01:11:26

AH! Well now more people can enjoy it who missed it :)

Sorry for the delay of the reply, but I listen to the music posted here in the same order it's been posted, so having finished listening to Lens' compilation of orchestral awesomeness, I tried your piece, and...

Man, this is good.

Very cinematic in nature, tastefully orchestrated (thanks for the woodwinds!), this piece is very professionally done. You have an excellent soundfont and you obviously know how to use it. I appreciate the emotional and dramatic aspects of this piece, which accurately express the tension before a battle.

Thanks for posting your music here. Don't hesitate to post more of it, and don't forget to put in each of your posts (or your sig) a link to your website for people interested in listening to more. You might get lucky. :)
Thanks, arthierr! I figured I'd contribute some original material to your thread. :) You make an excellent point about adding a link to my site next time — will definitely keep that in mind! I'm really pleased that you enjoyed it!

Does anyone know where to find Max Steiner's score to SHE? Judging from the clips I believe it is highly appropriate for this thread.

http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm?ID=10006

Does anyone know where to find Max Steiner's score to SHE? Judging from the clips I believe it is highly appropriate for this thread.

http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm?ID=10006

I think I have it but I am not sure.

If I really have it I will upload it.

Best !!!

Sorry I am unable to find it between my files.

So, bought the DVD set for Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water a few days ago and to my pleasant surprise it came with 2 CD's, soundtrack's 1 and 2 for the series. So thought I would share them with you guys :)

Both are ripped in the best quality MP3 I can do, Lame insane version something (probably not the newest version I know, so sue me :P ), I am sorry I don't have the tracks named for OST 2, for some reason my program would not detect the CDDB info for that disk...so I included it in the archive as a notepad file.



Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water

OST 1:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WPYR05SG

OST 2:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=COUGLRBT

hi guys, i am looking for the Sound track of the anime THUNDER JET a.k.a ginga sengoku which is composed by Kaoru Wada

So you guys are aware, it has been requested that all Varese Sarabande music be removed from this site and has been so updated in the thread about what may or may not be posted.
Thread 49829
As a result I may be forced to seriously remove material from my soundtrack list and various pre-existing links. Be forewarned.

I'm not entirely surprised. I don't want to push this off topic, but I will make a small comment: This probably wouldn't have happened if people (I'm genuinely not pointing the finger at any one individual - this has been a cumulative thing) had been a bit... choosier... with what they were posting.

No record company is going to give a damn about some twenty year-old album that's out of print. No record company is going to chase you down for sharing a few odds and sods. No record company is going to chase you down for sharing something with limited marketability.

The trouble starts - and I have warned about this time and time again - when you share anything and everything a record company puts out. Particularly things like limited editions, holy grail scores, etc.

How many people cringed when they saw, for instance, the new Star Trek II album from Intrada turning up on this forum? We've waited nearly thirty years for a proper release of that score - and Intrada finally do it, and they do it well, and against all the odds - and what happens? Ten seconds after the release date some enterprising pirate shoves it up on the Internet. Truly, is nothing sacred? And the Superman box, now there's one I'm really really surprised didn't get the shrine put down permanently. FSM worked their butts off for years on that one, and it turns up - in lossless, complete with a PDF of the full booklet. Once again, is nothing sacred?

And albums from Moviescoremedia. That label is run by a VERY NICE GUY (not a big nasty multinational conglomerate of greedy fatcats,) and makes available some really obscure, really great scores than otherwise would have almost zero chance of getting released. They do short runs because nobody buys the discs. They do it for the love. And still, some clever bastard uploads their scores. Some people may remember me raving about how great Andrew Pearce's Cinema Symphony was - it's easily the best album of the year, full stop. Did I upload it? No I damn well didn't, and I really hope people can understand why I didn't - despite the fact that every note would fit this thread like a glove, and that we spent a good four or five posts talking about it. Why? Because the poor guy hired the orchestra to record it HIMSELF, at great personal expense, and negotiated with MSM for a release - and they did a release, and it was really really great. You can buy it online, and you can buy it on iTunes. Put your hand in your pocket and pay for it, like Andrew Pearce did when he hired the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in order to get his piece performed. (Only he handed over probably something in the region of �50,000 for that. �10 for a CD doesn't seem so bad after that, really...)

And this Clinton Shorter business. I thought his score was a piece of absolute, unadulterated SHIT and I wouldn't take a copy of it if he paid ME. But he's a new composer, and that film was a big break for him. Forget royalties, fatcats, paychecks, and that old "He already got paid for his work - why's he moaning?" buillshit - the guy doesn't want his album shared. His friend showed up and told us this in the nicest possible way. He could've collected the infringeing links and taken them straight to a lawyer - who would have got in touch with the Shrine, got an injunction forcing the forum to provide what personal data they had on the poster, and a week later the FBI is knocking at his door. No, he didn't - he joined up, engaged us in conversation, gave us a little background on Shorter and his work, and asked us if we'd mind not stealing from his friend. And what did he get? Abuse, and a chorus of idiots going "Why should I have to pay for it? It's the Internets, d00d! Move with the times, nobody pays for shit these days!" -- and the most bitter pill to swallow: Rapidshare killed the link, and even in the midst of this conversation people were asking for a reupload -- and the original poster ACTUALLY PROVIDED IT. Wow, nice going. You rob somebody. They ask you not to rob them, and you say "fuck you!" and continue to rob them whilst they are in the process of politely asking you not to. And you think you're being a crusader for the "free internets" and striking a blow for piracy everywhere! No, you're just being a cock.

A limited edition from a small record label, of the first major score by a struggling young composer... and somebody pirates it, defends their "right" to do so, and become aggressive with people who say that's not a very nice thing to do. C'mon guys. Seriously.

In summary - sharing new, commercially viable albums creates trouble. Sharing albums which are very much available through legitimate means creates trouble. Sharing albums that were a labour of love for the record company / producer / composer / whatever, creates trouble...

Most of the sharing in this thread is what I'd term the morally justified kind. It's also the kind of sharing that rarely, if ever, attracts any kind of legal difficulties whatsoever. Rare albums. Stuff you've never heard of. Personal discoveries. Albums that aren't available (easily) in the west. Albums that are out of print. Etcetera. That's great.

But seriously, whence is the line drawn? What does anybody gain by sharing the complete works of Varese Sarabande, Intrada, FSM, or whoever, in a lossless audio format, apart from to save lazy cheapskates the effort / expense of getting the bloody thing the old fashioned way - the way we had to do it all those years ago when people (by and large) purchased music on big round black things (and later, small rectangular rattly things, and even later than that, small round silver things).

IN short - folks, use your heads... People are going to share these albums anyway. Let them get in the shit, not the shrine. We have a great thing going on here - hell, even this individual thread is nothing short of a miracle - and it would be a terrible thing if it got wrecked because some folk are trying to turn this place into The Pirate Bay For Movie Scores.

On days where I see a whole first page full of "Some Really Great Score (2009, FSM, lossless, with scans)" and suchlike, I weep for humanity. On days where I see an album I've searched literally across the world for in vain and never found, or an album I'd never heard of, or didn't know was available, and I make a wonderful discovery, I cheer for the wonderful people who make that possible. There is a BIG DIFFERENCE, both in intent and in net overall damage as a result...

I come here to learn, to make friends, to share mutual interests, and to hear music I couldn't hear anywhere else. I don't come here to steal fifty pound notes out of Lukas Kendall's back pocket, or get a free copy of something I know full well that I could buy in any record store, or for �7 on iTunes. Some things are more important than instant gratification and saving a few pounds at somebody else's expense. (Yes, people don't like iTunes, and yes, there are problems with it. But at least you're not fucking over the artists you claim to respect so much when you buy an album off them...)

Sermon over - sorry folks, normal service will resume later. :)

That was a big speach dennyfrench! But you're absolutely right.
You have been on this forum long before I joined and, wow, I didn't know the forum had such a history.
But still its a big issue and I agree.
I will ,too, continue buying scores I like.

You're spot-on Danny, of course, but unfortunately a lot of people on the forums are here just to grab as much as they can, almost indiscriminately. The Lossless thread clearly got out of control, cliquey and aggressive, and perhaps in a way the recent 'trauma' has been a necessary chastening.

[Sorry, just to be clear that I'm not attempting any 'moral high ground' on this - and I include myself in the whole business. I'm all too aware that it may be delusory to imagine my own motivations to be anything more than a subtle gradation away.. BUT it's only due the great people around here and their passion for music, that I've wanted to share, and to become involved.]

Pearce's Cinema Symphony was indeed brought to my attention in this thread, and I LOVE it! So thank you! I'm not as tuned in as some here to new stuff, but in a similar vein, I'd like to recommend Peter Boyer's music. It's gloriously 'cinematic' and polished. His prime influences were the greats like Goldsmith, Bernstein and Herrmann, and it shows. He's also an orchestrator of some of Hollywood's biggies (..by god, why didn't they let him actually write Star Trek?? He's ten times the composer Giacchino is!). Anyone else a fan?
http://www.propulsivemusic.com/

I have removed all my links of soundtracks from the label Var�se Sarabande.


If you know or found any active link of a soundtrack from this label posted by me in this or in any other thread of the Final Fantasy Shrine forums, please inform me and i will remove shortly.

Thank you.

FSM support.

dannyfrench - As much as I agree with you, I wouldn't even know that these awesome re-orchestrations of classic scores EXISTED if it wasn't for some of the posts here. I really wish that (if not here) there existed some place that not only reported on awesome new releases of the sort but included one or two FULL TRACK samples in at least 192KBPS quality so that I can get an idea of the sort of thing I would be getting into if i was to purchase those albums.

The fact of the matter is that in many cases I get excited that some classic is released and I listen to it and I enjoy it but I don't really get into it THAT much so I don't ever buy it. Now I even take the blame of providing some sorts of lossless versions of recent scores that I thought would be great to share with the community. I, and many others in the lossless thread, try to buy the albums that we absolutely love because we want that physical disc. However, when something quickly becomes out of print, having that lossless version is the only realistic alternative to going out and buying a copy yourself.

At the same time though, when I posted the MP3s of the North and South collection, I SPECIFICALLY made it CLEAR to everyone on the thread that (1) I really love the collection that was released (2) I think some more samples than were provided on the web site are in order for people to truly decide if they want to buy 7 discs of music for a single score and (3) I refused to post lossless versions of the same, while partially out of lazyness, because I wanted to wait until it sold out completely to do so and (4) until the set was sold out, people should really go out and buy it themselves if they want lossless.

As far as recent releases getting released in their entirety on this forum, I generally support it (while in the form of MP3s) because, as i said before, I want that experience of the full album before I lay down the money. This is true not only for film scores but for any music I buy. What should really happen is Varese and all the other Major labels should each set up some sort of myspace or other site that makes it easy to sample a few tracks from their new releases in their entirety so that this is not as necessary. Until then, I have no way of truly knowing if a score is another trashy synth album (watchmen) or a refreshing orchestral album (mutant chronicles and i sell the dead).

All that being said I will remove my Varese links, when plausible, because I want to comply with the requests of the label.

The classical label Deutsche Grammophon offer an option of 'renting' the full album for a week for about 0.99 euro. If you then decide to buy, you get a reduced price on either mp3, flac or cd. Never tried it myself, but it seems like a good idea.

As most are aware, what really caused the Shrine to bleep on the radar of Varese etc was a series of emails from a disgruntled ex-forumite, who went from demanding lossless uploads til he was blue in the face to crusading as a conscientious objector. So, while the idea of a growing arrogance and carelessness in certain quarters has a ring of truth, I'm not sure that was the cause in this instance.

The lesson still stands however. And for my part I've removed the Herrmann recordings among others. What drove me to post in the first place though was the desire to share and to discuss the wonders of the music itself.. I think perhaps I got carried away. The Shrine is such a world unto itself that it's easy to forget that what you're doing might be harmful or irresponsible.

I'd like to believe that if it were to reach a stage where uploads are banned entirely, we'd still have a place to exchange ideas and talk about great music.

dannyfrench - As much as I agree with you, I wouldn't even know that these awesome re-orchestrations of classic scores EXISTED if it wasn't for some of the posts here. I really wish that (if not here) there existed some place that not only reported on awesome new releases of the sort but included one or two FULL TRACK samples in at least 192KBPS quality so that I can get an idea of the sort of thing I would be getting into if i was to purchase those albums.

Well, there are a number of film music forums that do this - Filmscoremonthly, and though it receives less traffic, Movie Music UK is still good. Ultimately, it doesn't take a great deal of effort to research upcoming releases... I do agree that more substantial samples would be nice - as would alternative ways of selling. I still think the "piracy" model can work in a business context and generate more income for labels than ever before... it's just a massive culture change for the labels and for the industry at large. It will take time, but I would imagine it will have to happen in the end, as anybody who seriously believes piracy will stop really has no idea how the world works... ;)


At the same time though, when I posted the MP3s of the North and South collection, I SPECIFICALLY made it CLEAR to everyone on the thread that (1) I really love the collection that was released (2) I think some more samples than were provided on the web site are in order for people to truly decide if they want to buy 7 discs of music for a single score and (3) I refused to post lossless versions of the same, while partially out of lazyness, because I wanted to wait until it sold out completely to do so and (4) until the set was sold out, people should really go out and buy it themselves if they want lossless.

North and South, for me, was one of those undiscovered gems. I simply didn't rate Conti - and that's entirely my failure. I wasn't going to buy them, and I ended up buying them because of your post. That was probably a unique case, and I'm certain that wasn't one of the contributors to the current stress. All things in moderation, as they say.

(Off topic, but still relevant: I have an involvement with a forum which shares... erotic media. It never attracted any kind of legal attention because the sharing was limited and took place amongst a small group of community participants, just like it does here. One day, a member posted a 75gb torrent, which contained a complete archive of every single thing one particular company had ever produced in its life. THEN the threats started. And you can completely understand why. As I say, big difference between the odd share here and there, and making available a record label's entire catalogue and marketing it like some kind of business, with a brand name and a perceived "reputation" to uphold...)


As far as recent releases getting released in their entirety on this forum, I generally support it (while in the form of MP3s) because, as i said before, I want that experience of the full album before I lay down the money..............Until then, I have no way of truly knowing if a score is another trashy synth album (watchmen) or a refreshing orchestral album (mutant chronicles and i sell the dead).

Too right. This is definitely the case for piracy. Record labels, at the moment, don't buy it. They can't differentiate between mainstream, thoughtless piracy, and the small groups who are actually generating sales in a market sector that is, let's face it, almost non-existent from a business perspective. IE, us. I firmly believe that this thread has created more sales than it has cost. And more than that, it's actually created fans. It's opened up new people to the genre. Example - Masamichi Amano is well known in anime circles, but virtually unknown in film score circles; it doesn't help that his music is hard to come by even in Japan, and borderline impossible anywhere else. We have a fair selection of Amano here, certainly - but it doesn't particularly hurt the record companies, and we may have just created three dozen new potential customers. (As an aside, I recently contacted Phoenix Entertainment in Japan - they're distributors for Amano's music - and asked them if I could buy one copy of every single CD they sold. They wrote back and said "NO" because they don't accept overseas orders. Go figure - they actually don't care about what happens to their albums outside of Japan.)


As most are aware, what really caused the Shrine to bleep on the radar of Varese etc was a series of emails from a disgruntled ex-forumite, who went from demanding lossless uploads til he was blue in the face to crusading as a conscientious objector. So, while the idea of a growing arrogance and carelessness in certain quarters has a ring of truth, I'm not sure that was the cause in this instance.

I didn't know that, but it doesn't surprise me. We're being squeezed from all corners - and for some reason, we seem to attract a disproportionate amount of attention from composers themselves. We've got Chris Tilton, which means we've got Giacchino and Seiter by proxy. That's only the beginning. You can bet that when they all get together down the pub after a recording session, they bitch and moan to each other about who's been pirating their albums. I know I would. We're probably notorious already.


The lesson still stands however. And for my part I've removed the Herrmann recordings among others. What drove me to post in the first place though was the desire to share and to discuss the wonders of the music itself.. I think perhaps I got carried away. The Shrine is such a world unto itself that it's easy to forget that what you're doing might be harmful or irresponsible.

Herrmann is an aquired taste, and those albums have been around forever. I doubt you harmed their sales. I really don't think those shares were bad, but of course I understand why you got rid of them. The moral compass by which we judge our uploads isn't an accurate one, nor is it one for which North and South (with apologies to Mr Conti) are necessarily always in the same direction. I think you're being too hard on yourself. We are a small community-within-a-community, and I do honestly believe 99% of the posts here do do infinitely more good than they do harm.

I'm so sorry for hammering on about this - forgive me, folks. I will post a real firecracker later on to get us back on track. :)

Could someone upload Rachel Portman's promo score for

THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE ?

Thanks.

Well, I admit that the fact of posting brand new movie scores is something I'm usually not too keen on. I certainly grabbed some, but as far as I remember, I never posted some. If you consult my previous uploads / reposts, they're only out-of-print movie scores, or game scores, or anime scores, or compilations (there could be some exceptions though - I posted so many...). And I have no problem sharing this, I even enjoy it. Spreading culture and good music is something quite satisfying.

So this is what I intent to post in the future. Since years I've tried so many orchestral scores from these medias, some being quite rare and obscure, yet remarkable in quality, so in this thread I just want to make them more popular, and invite other people interested in orchestral music to try some music they'd never have tried otherwise. This is the objective of this thread since the beginning: promoting orchestral music, from any source.

And I try to make this thread a place for real enthusiasts, where people post their favorite orchestral music, promote their favorite composers, and have interesting comments and discussions about it, not a place where you only post the latest releases and have one million leechers downloading them without even a word of gratitude! So you may not find here the freshest releases, but you will certainly find some GREAT music - some music you didn't even know it existed!

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I didn't know that, but it doesn't surprise me. We're being squeezed from all corners - and for some reason, we seem to attract a disproportionate amount of attention from composers themselves. We've got Chris Tilton, which means we've got Giacchino and Seiter by proxy. That's only the beginning. You can bet that when they all get together down the pub after a recording session, they bitch and moan to each other about who's been pirating their albums. I know I would. We're probably notorious already.

Younger composers these days are very likely 'geeks' of the same ilk as ourselves (well, I don't have to tell you this ;)) so it makes sense. I'm sure Chris Tilton has downloaded a few things in his time (in all likelihood, from this very thread).


Herrmann is an aquired taste, and those albums have been around forever. I doubt you harmed their sales. I really don't think those shares were bad, but of course I understand why you got rid of them. The moral compass by which we judge our uploads isn't an accurate one, nor is it one for which North and South (with apologies to Mr Conti) are necessarily always in the same direction. I think you're being too hard on yourself. We are a small community-within-a-community, and I do honestly believe 99% of the posts here do do infinitely more good than they do harm.


I agree entirely. The problem is that the finer points of intention and effect don't make a shred of difference when it comes to 'combating piracy'. And how could they? As for the people who simply want to hoard and distribute as many free soundtracks as they can.. to state the obvious, doesn't this devalue music. This is the overwhelmingly depressing feeling I get from certain parts of the forum (not here), and the fact that it sometimes goes hand in hand with rudeness and abruptness doesn't help. The charmlessly utilitarian 'LESS TALK MORE GRAB' attitude that goes around is further evidence of the strange, passionless compulsion that seems to take hold when so much is available so easily.

Part of the joy of discovering music is that it's like an adventure, and not always easy; that it brings up a thousand and one ideas and feelings that you wish you could share; that you have to take a chance, and gradually build a sense of taste and discernment. I know this sounds like I'm collapsing artistic value into commodity value, but that's not quite what I mean..


Does anyone know where to find Max Steiner's score to SHE? Judging from the clips I believe it is highly appropriate for this thread.

Sounds amazing doesn't it! Really 'out there' for Steiner. It's been on my to-buy list for a while. You may as well take the plunge on it, you're not going to be disappointed. The Tribute label is a case in point that I believe should be supported as much as possible (I'll never be at peace until they give us On Dangerous Ground!).

Hey there, if anyone's interested, i'm working on "Sounds of Heaven: Drama 4" right now... :) will be uploaded this week.

i saw some posted here:

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Hey there, if anyone's interested, i'm working on "Sounds of Heaven: Drama 4" right now... :) will be uploaded this week.

I am interested bi0.

Thanks for the Battle compilations to 140.8

This is the track 'Nocturne' from The Day of the Dolphin by Delerue. A soundtrack that i've been listening almost non-stop in the last day(s).
It's probably my favourite cue of this score, and it's a gentle and peaceful music played by an oboe, a flute and some strings that cause a serene mood whenever i listen this piece.


Artist: Georges Delerue
Album: The Day Of The Dolphin
Track: Nocturne (http://rapidshare.com/files/284581463/Nocturne.mp3)


Hope you like it :)

This is the track 'Nocturne' from The Day of the Dolphin by Delerue. A soundtrack that i've been listening almost non-stop in the last day(s).
It's probably my favourite cue of this score, and it's a gentle and peaceful music played by an oboe, a flute and some strings that cause a serene mood whenever i listen this piece.


Artist: Georges Delerue
Album: The Day Of The Dolphin
Track: Nocturne (http://rapidshare.com/files/284581463/Nocturne.mp3)


Hope you like it :)

Indeed I did. Thank you for sharing such a lovely piece. Is the rest of the score as well composed?

Indeed I did. Thank you for sharing such a lovely piece. Is the rest of the score as well composed?


In my opinion yes, but only if you like "mysterious or suspenseful music", as i presume it was mostly written for water/underwater scenes, but when the theme appears like in 'Nocturne' (maybe it's dolphin theme), the music elevates to wonderful levels.

I shall post the soundtrack tomorrow.