There's been a lot of great stuff posted lately, so thx a lot guys. :)

I discovered this one not long ago. This is an early score by Alan Silvestri, composed for a magic show. A bit like the Asterix score by Talgorn, this is one full of enthusiasm and energy, shiny and bombastic. It's not the most complex score composed by Silvestri, but its straightforwardness and "good nature" make it very pleasant. Quite a good listen for fans of big powerful orchestral music.

Oh, and one of the themes is an almost note-for-note copy of the holy theme from Indy 3.



Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box (Bootlegs)

Composed By Alan Silvestri

Released in 1999. Edition Mirage music released in June 2004

|MP3|320|102MB|

http://rapidshare.com***/files/328189847/as.zip
Remove the *** in the link




01. Introduction & Main Titles / The Magic Box Opens (06:17)
02. The Story Begins / Childhood (03:29)
03. Book Of Magic (02:54)
04. The Cage (01:53)
05. Swamp Incident (04:09)
06. First Magic Trick (04:38)
07. The Bremen Zoo (04:15)
08. Munich Secret Store (05:07)
09. Ocean Liner Entrance (01:45)
10. Teaming Up / Fired (03:05)
11. French Assignment / Coming To Las Vegas (04:21)
12. White Wild Cats (03:36)
13. Flashback Montage & Finale (04:42)

OH YEAAAAAAAAAAH! WE'RE BACK! :-D

To celebrate, here's just a little something...


ROBOT JOX
Composed, orchestrated, and conducted by Frederic Talgorn
The Paris Philharmonic Orchestra



Amazing! My old copy is at last replaced by a great quality one. And bravo for the sound enhancement, this is a lot better this way - of course purists will complain, but screw them, the most important thing is the listening pleasure added.



I was so happy when i heard the Elfman unrejection news.
Speaking of symphonic Elfman, i searched and couldn't find this on the thread so thought i would share it with all of you.



Danny Elfman
Serenada Schizophrana


Great choice! Elfman doing his 1st concert album is good news. This is a fascinating album, very complex and subtle at times. Odd that it wasn't posted before in this thread. Thanks!




ENNIO MORRICONE

THE DOLLAR TRILOGY

THE MISSION



Cool! These are true classics of movie music. Although I'm not a huge fan of MORRICONE, I must admit he had his inspired moments, and these scores are among them.






Silver by Dean Evans

I remember having seen some very good comments about this one. So I went to grab them at GH, then I forgot to listen to it and eventually lost it. So your post is like a 2nd chance! Nice initiative!




COPLAND - MUSIC FOR FILMS
(Leonard Slatkin, St Louis Symphony Orchestra)


COPLAND - ORCHESTRAL WORKS
(Antal Dorati, Detroit Symphony Orchestra)



Holy Moley!! More Copland for us? Thanks a million :) I was quite fascinated by the various pieces you posted in this thread by this composer. Can you believe that before your posts, I only heard about this composer without even having listened to any of his music (except Horner's famous rip-off in Fievel 2 ;))? This is a greatly appreciated post, Lens :)

Just for this occasion, here's a little cultural bonus that I enjoy posting in this thread.



Aaron Copland

http://emmasmusic.com/emma/copland.gif


Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American nationalist composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers".Copland's music achieved a balance between modern music and American folk styles. The open, slowly changing harmonies of many of his works are said to evoke the vast American landscape. He also incorporated percussive orchestration, changing meter, polyrhythms, polychords, and tone rows in a broad range of works for concert hall, theater, ballet, and films. Aside from composing, Copland was a teacher, lecturer, critic, writer, and conductor (generally, but not always, of his own works).

More on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Copland

I always loved playing Copland with whatever orchestra I was in at the time, it was always good fun.
It makes me a kinda sad i am not a member of any orchestra right now.

It's a score from an old game (well from 1999) Silver. And it's awesome orchestral piece of music by an unknown composer Dean Evans...

Thanks for bringing this to my attention; I'll definitely give it a listen.

Cool! These are true classics of movie music. Although I'm not a huge fan of MORRICONE, I must admit he had his inspired moments, and these scores are among them.

'Twas my pleasure. Once Upon A Time in America and " " in The West when I can be bothered. :)

Probably Monday or Tuesday, I promise.

Silver is wonderful! Thanks so much for bringing it to my attention. Haunting chorals, dark melodies, inspirational action tracks :D

Basil Poledouris - Amanda - Prometheus - 2000
|Relaxing|Sweeping|Small orchestral|Woodwinds|Strings|
|MP3|VBR V0 Fast|Scans|

http://anonym.to/?http://rapidshare.com/files/340647662/Basil_Poledouris_-_Amanda_-_Prometheus.rar
Poledouris' two themes are simple in their chord construction, one for the boy and other for the landscape of Montana. Performed by the certainly adequate, but not overwhelming Seattle Session Orchestra, the majority of material composed includes light woodwind solos with string overlays. It is pleasant material, harmonious in almost all circumstances, and contains the expected gravity of weight that Poledouris often provides with supporting brass whole notes. (excerpt from filmtracks review)
http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/amanda.html

watch this video to get a taste of what will be one of 2010 best game scores: first 3 minutes are just awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX2JOJ4e-Pc&feature=player_embedded
But you need something big to score the crazy action on the screen.

Arthierr - thanks for the info. I should have included some with my post. More Silvestri too :)

Sirus - Amanda is a lovely score. Poledouris = :love: :love: :love:

TT - fascinating stuff about the remaster (generally a word I don't like to see on these forums, but of course In Tango We Trust). Fun score too. Thanks!

oops

Listening to Mike Vertas Ultraman once a day only leads to one conclusion: Lucas Arts and Bioware have to hire him for Star Wars Force Unleashed 2 and Star Wars The Old Republic....OR ELSE!!!

That would be awesome, but the composer(s) for the Old Republic have been already announced: http://tracksounds.blogspot.com/2009/12/star-wars-old-republic-composers.html
Fortunatly this could be a great opportunity to deliver the best score since Return of the Jedi considering the talent of the composers and the incredible high music budget for the game

That would be awesome, but the composer(s) for the Old Republic have been already announced: http://tracksounds.blogspot.com/2009/12/star-wars-old-republic-composers.html
Fortunatly this could be a great opportunity to deliver the best score since Return of the Jedi considering the talent of the composers and the incredible high music budget for the game

oooh i definitly think Lenni Moore is a great addition

Mike Verta on a Star Wars game (or better still, movie... once Mr Williams is no longer with us, I can think of no finer heir to the throne) would be a dream come true... Imagine what he'd come up with if he had the LSO and a sensible amount of time to write the score. (Since Ultraman was written in a tearing rush and was performed by synthesisers... and it's THAT GOOD...)

Still, the team announced for The Old Republic is excellent. I'm most excited to see Lennie Moore's name in that list, however... that guy really is a man out of time. An absolute genius, a modern day Golden Age maestro...

In other news... and please understand that I don't want to turn this into "Look at my remastering SKILLZZZZZ!" thread... but I thought you may be interested in a project I was working on before my HDD went up the wall in December. I began during a sudden burst of Final Fantasy love, and what with FF XIII just becoming available, I thought it might be a good time to bring it up again.

"Final Fantasy VI - Grand Finale" is one of my favourite albums of all time. It gets a lot of stick from various people and I can understand where they're coming from, but something about it really gels with me. What doesn't, however, is the sound quality... which is atrocious. It badly needed some attention, but it's almost guaranteed never to receive it by the record company, since the album was pretty much universally slated.

So I started to work on it. (Using a lossless rip of the original CD as source material, I might add.) Here's the first track in an almost-finished form. I'll not comment on the track any further... I'll let it speak for itself. (Note: Yes, I know there are a couple of glitches and ticks in here. They won't be on the final mastering; this is, as I have indicated, a first draft.)

Comments (and criticism, and encouragement) are particularly welcome. :)

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/VW4THLGN/Opening Theme_Tina.mp3

tango, I'm glad to hear that.
I often feel alone in my love for the grand finale album as well.
I'd be very interested to hear that project

It's a wonderful album. People moan because it's not a carbon copy of the music heard in the game, and that the arrangements therein are unique interpretations that sometimes bear very little similarities to the moods of the original pieces. Those are precisely the reasons why I love it. Any idiot can transcribe composition X for orchestra. But it takes guts and talent to totally reimagine composition X in a way that you would never have expected or thought of. It's such a shame that the orchestra is so small and badly recorded. Still, I'm fixing all these problems that really should've been addressed in the mastering studio all those years ago. (This album is from 1994. It sounds more like 1944. Whatever idiot was at the mixing console should be shot.)

That would be awesome, but the composer(s) for the Old Republic have been already announced: http://tracksounds.blogspot.com/2009/12/star-wars-old-republic-composers.html
Fortunatly this could be a great opportunity to deliver the best score since Return of the Jedi considering the talent of the composers and the incredible high music budget for the game

that is a nice list. just hope they won�t rely too much on previous scores and write an hour or more each. i�m not the biggest fan of the force unleashed score. its uninspired, especially the love theme is such alazy mix up of stargate and cutthroat and nothing else. i hope this was just a bad day griskey had, same with gordy haabs indiana jones score. too much temp tracking. now they have 1,5 years until the game is released, so take your time and make it count.the game has an approxiamated playtime of 1000 hours (about 200 hourse each class and there are 8, each with their very own story)

Here is another pretty cool score that i don't believe has been shared here


David Arnold & Kevin Kiner
Wing Commander


1. Overture
2. Pod Scene
3. Torpedo Kilrathi
4. Pilgrims
5. Rescued
6. Into the Quasar
7. Bad Decision/Blair
8. Angel's Story
9. The Fleet
10. Briefing/Tricked
11. Hot Dogs
12. Diligent Arrives
13. The Gift/Skipper Missile
14. Kilrathi Battle
15. The Big Battle
16. Kilrathi into Scylla
17. Big Damn Ending

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/SVKAUKPD/DAKKWK.zip

Grand Finale was the lynchpin that made Uematsu finally grow on me about a year ago. It's not just simple arrangements for orchestra or piano(I was never fond of the piano collections, save Hamauzu's work for X. The man simply has a better hand for timbre and tone with the instrument.) In fact, many of the takes on the themes presented were astonhingly different; Kefka, Opening Theme-Tina and others feature full, sumptously-performed and realized development and wonderful new cues and movements weaved in with a apprieciable grace, and I barely recognized The Mystic Forest until a good minute or so in. I loved the sheer operatic drama and romaticism Uematsu brought to each track. "Grand Finale" was a fitting title indeed.

Hello to you, person who I find myself agreeing with more and more frequently! ;)

And good day to you. <3

And good day to you. <3

That just fuels my suspicions that you're a girl...

That just fuels my suspicions that you're a girl...

I assure you, I'm of the masculine persuasion. I lean toward the same side of the fence the ladies do, if you understand my meaning, but I'm a guy. Just a very silly one. :p

Haha, understood. ;)

Customary apologies for my wonderful adeptness at dragging the thread off topic. Somehow I would've felt worse about the unpleasent things I said to you all those years ago had you been female. So this news is a great relief.

And now, normal service shall be resumed.

Haha, understood. ;)

Customary apologies for my wonderful adeptness at dragging the thread off topic. Somehow I would've felt worse about the unpleasent things I said to you all those years ago had you been female. So this news is a great relief.

And now, normal service shall be resumed.

Oh no, not at all. Turgid water under a bridge I barely remember.

To help put things a bit back on track, would you care for some Michiru Oshima, good sir?

Nabari no Ou OST 1
http://rapidshare.com/files/341109017/Nabari_no_Ou.rar.html

(Caution: will only last ten downloads. If someone with a paid membership could re-up after that, it would be much appreciated.)

Oh great, I've been looking to listen to more Michiru Oshima, so this should be fantastic.

I'd be happy to re-upload as I'm downloading it right now, but as a tip, you can make a "free collector's account" and it doesn't put limits on downloads for files you've uploaded.

Oh? Neato, how do I acquire that?

Oh? Neato, how do I acquire that?

Or you could just use MU, which has a significantly faster download speed, not nearly as long wait time, and it does not expire after so many downloads.

I honestly don't understand the appeal of Rapidshare.

Wow, I just realized it's nowhere on the website, but that it only gives you the option after uploading a file. This is what the site says:

To create a collector's account a file must be uploaded from our homepage. Once the upload is complete you can choose between creating a collector's account and just receiving the downloadlink. After creating the collector's account files can be uploaded directly into the account. Please make sure that you are logged in before uploading.


Alternatively, you could use another service, like Doublehex suggested. Also, the set starts with track five. Is track five really track one or am I missing four tracks?

Nabari no Ou OST 1

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QMPKD2IP

There ya go. Don't know why tracks 2 through 4 weren't there, so I added em again. (Track 1 was an OP which I guess I deleted awhile ago.)

Oh, and what with FFXIII's amazing soundtrack just released, try checking out some of this guy's fan arrangements of FF and Kingdom Hearts. Not bad.

http://www.youtube.com/user/max05XIII#p/a/u/1/bUme0IMOmL4

Still, the team announced for The Old Republic is excellent. I'm most excited to see Lennie Moore's name in that list, however... that guy really is a man out of time. An absolute genius, a modern day Golden Age maestro...

Has Lennie Moore done anything interesting lately? He seems to be at risk of falling into obscurity.


"Final Fantasy VI - Grand Finale" is one of my favourite albums of all time. It gets a lot of stick from various people and I can understand where they're coming from, but something about it really gels with me. What doesn't, however, is the sound quality... which is atrocious. It badly needed some attention, but it's almost guaranteed never to receive it by the record company, since the album was pretty much universally slated.

Probably the fault of Shiro Sagisu....

Lennie Moore is back?! OMFG! Nice info, hope he will actually write something not only "tune" work of others.

And I always liked Grand Finale, it was different and fresh, so - for me - it's hard to dislike it (FF arranges are so predictable, but like 'em anyways;)). My faves are definitely Mystic Forest and Mystery Train. Have to check your remaster Tango. Thanks. But for now I'm a hostage of FF XIII. Dunno how long it will take;D.


I honestly don't understand the appeal of Rapidshare.

Don't get it either. MU is the best imho.

Don't get it either. MU is the best imho.
Its simple. Rapidshare links tend to last for a long time. Sure there is that annoying problem with overloaded servers but the links stay alive for quite some time. Further, megaupload is nice when they aren't scouting the forums and deleting everything we post within a day.

Count me as one of the Grand Finale lovers. FFVI was surely Uematsu’s dramatic and melodic peak; the arrangements are sumptuous, developed (!) and, I always thought, pretty ‘faithful’… The only thing I’d change is the gormless pan flute thingy in Terra’s Theme - I wish it sounded more ethereal and less faux-celtic. I have to say though, I was only peripherally aware of it being panned and it surprises me (I prefer to ignore reviews by myopic, pontificating rpg fans anyway). The opera sequence is simply gorgeous. And lots of harpsichord is always a good thing. Looking forward to checking the remaster! Comments later.

Allegedly Uematsu didn't like the arrangements nor did he find the album as a whole particularly appealing. Whether or not this is true, it seems to have stuck in the minds of most rabid fanboys who reason that if Holy God From Heaven Uematsu doesn't approve, then the argument is already over. What they were expecting was the music they heard in the game, but played by real people. What they got was a fascinating symphony based upon Final Fantasy's melodic strands. The album's only crime was that it credited its intended audience with more taste and open-mindedness than they had.

From that perspective it was mistargeted; but that doesn't change the fact that it's great.

Listen listen listen to the sample! I want to know whether it's worthwhile finishing this thing off, because it's a hard slog trying to extract some decent sound from this boxy, muffled, indistinct recording of a pathetically small ensemble...!

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Tango: Listened to your remastering of track 1 from Grand Final. Sounds great!

Grand Final has to be one of my favorite Final Fantasy albums. It's really enjoyable to listen to it with a much clearer and cleaner sound quality! i've compared it to my other copy and there is a noticeable difference

Listen listen listen to the sample! I want to know whether it's worthwhile finishing this thing off, because it's a hard slog trying to extract some decent sound from this boxy, muffled, indistinct recording of a pathetically small ensemble...!
My reply to you yesterday was tossed aside by the bloody server. Briefly, YES! The new sound is a lot more spacious and involving. You'd swear it was a bigger orchestra. The opening is very rich now (perhaps not so natural though), as if you're right in there with the strings. I like that you scaled things back for the entrance of the theme itself. Am I imagining that there's a greater dynamic range? I haven't compared to the original yet. Feels like an interpretation of the music as much as the raw sound. Excellent!

[What you'll do with the rather upfront harpsichord in the Aria I have no idea!]

I don't have greatest ear ever, but even I hear the difference in your version of Tina's Theme. It's much cleaner, instruments sounds better, maybe even a bit more agressive (trombones). So I think it's worth to finish this project:).

And a bit of off topic - is it just me, or it's one of the best months for VGM ever?:D FF XIII, RE Darkside Chronicles, Ar Tonelico (I really like hymmnos...), in a while we're gonna hear new Layton and Sakimoto's Valkyrie Chronicles 2 (at least vgmdb says that) and probably bonus soundtrack to Resonance of Fate (End of Eternity) by Sakuraba and Tanaka (I liked the music in trailers, it sounded like Sakuraba did something that sounds a bit different than his previous works, it actually can be good or at least bearable...). Anyway awesomly crazy month:D.

herbaciak - add in the release of John William's Black Sunday and new FSM version of Jerry Goldsmith's Islands in the Stream and we got a winner. I should be posting VC2 soon hopefully. Plus completely off topic this is an insane month in another genre of music I enjoy (European heavy/power metal). There were at least 3 new releases from major groups this month.

Don't forget FSM's Blue Max... I am a happy chappy this year! (Not to mention the recently announced Poltergeist 2CD edition [FINALLY properly mastered] and Alex North's Spartacus from Varese... After the absolute disrespect and arrogance Varese displayed with the GI Joe debacle, I decided to boycot the whole label in protest... but I love Spartacus... I will make this ONE EXCEPTION.

Not to mention the recently announced Poltergeist 2CD edition [FINALLY properly mastered]
REALLY?!!! God I need to keep up to date! That's fabulous news.


I will make this ONE EXCEPTION.
What about Freud?? You mustn't abstain from that one! It's a beaut * :)

Edit: I read something on FSM about a reissue of the contents from the Rhino cd from Sony, so I'd written it off. Absolutely chuffed now!


*Apart from a couple of shameless Bartok lifts. But we knew about those already ;)

Don't forget FSM's Blue Max... I am a happy chappy this year! (Not to mention the recently announced Poltergeist 2CD edition [FINALLY properly mastered] and Alex North's Spartacus from Varese... After the absolute disrespect and arrogance Varese displayed with the GI Joe debacle, I decided to boycot the whole label in protest... but I love Spartacus... I will make this ONE EXCEPTION.
I wish I had caught FSM's Blue Max before it sold out everywhere. I didn't realize the significance of the updated version until it was too late. Hopefully it will show up in other places soon.

ELMER BERNSTEIN - THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Reconstructed and edited by Elmer Bernstein and Christopher Plamer
(James Sedares, The Phoenix Symphony Orchestra)



Here's one I recently mp3-ised. A digital recording of Bernstein's Classic score. It plays like a wonderful, programmatic symphony, filled with infectious rhythms, and as a bonus it's capped off by the winning overture from Hallelujah Trail (featuring the Arizona State Uni Choir). Booklet scans included.

MP3-V0 + scans

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/AWAZADZJ/EBJSMagSev.rar

Guys, I need help! What media player do you use? I'm absolutely sick of mediamonkey fading between tracks. You can change this in the settings but it still misses off the beginning and end portions of each track, as if it's 'eliminating silence'. It's driving me nuts! >:S

Foobar plays back perfectly but doesn't show album art. It's also not as fluid to scan though your 'library' for what you want..

And winamp is a nightmare on my (admittedly decrepit) PC. Crashes, takes ages to load etc.

Recommendations? :)

You can get a plugin for foobar that displays artwork and a better presentation for the library. I think there are a couple different options, but I use "Columns UI" and I believe it comes with artwork capability. I definitely prefer foobar as it is just fast and simple, but it's not the most user-friendly program out there to say it lightly.


(Columns User Interface for Foobar2000)
http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_ui_columns

I support various updates to Foobar as suggested. Further, if you add everything to a single playlist you can hit F3 and search through the playlist for what you want at any given time. I find all software that attempts to add all my music files to a library of sorts completely useless at sorting my massive amount of music, especially when its not all tagged properly. Foobar is used best by either as I said adding everything to one playlist or making a playlist for each genre and adding everything to that playlist.

OH YEAAAAAAAAAAH! WE'RE BACK! :-D

To celebrate, here's just a little something...


ROBOT JOX
Composed, orchestrated, and conducted by Frederic Talgorn
The Paris Philharmonic Orchestra


Thanks million tangotreats ! I have been reluctantly holding on to a crappy 128 version for about a year...but no longer. :D

Thanks for the advice on foobar :) I'll get myself sorted as soon as I'm back.

And now, before I'm off on my travels, I’d like to present a British composer who I don’t think has featured so far in the thread:


NIGEL HESS



Sampler Pack

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/EQFUT1KO/Nigel Hess.rar

This is a selection of various works from TV, theatre, film and the concert hall. Hess has an understated style, occasionally in a baroque/classical vein, and a knack for creating warm, memorable themes. The themes for television use various sizes of ensemble.. but I have to warn you that in this medium he's not shy of the drum kit ;) The only one that isn't at all orchestral is 'The One Game' - a track I didn't like at first, but the melody really grows on you.

I'm slightly embarrassed to say, but it was Hetty Wainthropp back in the mid nineties that got me into this guy, so that's the tune that kicks us off, and you'll hear it again as the culmination of the TV Detectives Suite, with Dangerfield, Wycliffe (another personal fav), Maigret and Campion.

Right, I don't have any more time to go into detail on the rest. Suffice to say, I think you'll enjoy them.

Tracklist as follows:

TV Themes
1. Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
2. An Ideal Husband
3. Wycliffe
4. A Woman of Substance
5. Classic Adventure
6. Dangerfield
7. Anna of the Five Towns
8. Vanity Fair
9. The One Game

Music for the Royal Shakespeare Company
10. ‘Entry to the Senate’ from Julius Caesar
11. ‘Willow Song’ from Othello
12. Troilus and Cressida

13. Ladies in Lavender – Suite from the film score
(Joshua Bell, Violin)

Music for Symphonic Wind Band
14. The TV Detectives
15. Thames Journey

does anyone have any ef a tale of memories ablum and single cds

he guys and girls! I am totally confused with all those resident evil releases...so i�d like to request a compilation which includes all orchestral music from resident evil 5 AND Darkside Chronicles. Like an Ultimate Biohazard Symphony. I don�t have any of them.

And winamp is a nightmare on my (admittedly decrepit) PC. Crashes, takes ages to load etc.

I was just about to recommend Winamp. Hrm.

I think what you need is a new computer, if you having this much trouble with Winamp. It's not what one would call a high profile program.

[CENTER]NIGEL HESS






Wow, there's some very present British brass band vibrato going on in some of those tracks, and I just adored some of those tracks, especially Cressida and the...lavender?..ladies?

Lens, you've inspired me to post a euphonium sampler pack. I've quoted the image on purpose so that those of you that don't know what a euphonium is will see it in the bottom-right of the picture. I'll post the sampling of euphonium solo works with orchestra and brass band later tonight.

Hi folks!
I really hope the original poster of this score won't mind my "appropriation" of his upload, so to speak. "jpvx" deserves the credit and the thanks, not me. All I've done is provide a mirror of his splendid upload, and retag the tracks in Romaji. (Since Japanese is a problem for some people who don't have the Asian language packs installed.)

Sadly, the gentleman's post in this thread Thread 73572 isn't getting a lot of attention... If you enjoy this score, please post the chap some thanks in there.

So, on with the show...


SATORU KOSAKI
The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzimiya (Theatrical Film, 2010)
performed by
The Eminence Symphony Orchestra
conducted by
Phillip Chu



ORIGINALLY UPLOADED BY jpvx
Tagged in Romaji and Mirror by Tangotreats

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/1E4BDW24/SK-TDOHSTM.part1.rar
http://uploadmirrors.com/download/0PS136CY/SK-TDOHSTM.part2.rar

LAME 320kbps incl Scans -- NOT MY RIP

I've had my eye on the Haruhi film for quite some time. I was expecting a score that was fun and listenable. I really wasn't expecting this, however - a completely grown up, intelligent, fully orchestral score. And one that is strangely full of personality. Kosaki's style is vaguely minimalist here, but more importantly than that, it's never trying to be something it isn't. This score is the master of restraint - the moments where it holds back (Track 16 - a gentle piece for cello and strings, Track 8 - a wonderfully still, tranquil piece just for the woodwinds, Track 18 - a shimmering orchestral arrangement of Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No 2) are in many ways more special than the more traditional crowd pleasing cues (Track 13 - a strident, upbeat brassy cue, and Track 21 - a rousing action piece for full orchestra and choir). There really is a bit of everything, and at the same time it's not quite what you'd expect. It's nearly impossible to explain. I think you have to hear it to know what I'm talking about.

The second CD - the most beautiful bonus CD of all - is a selection of Satie's piano music, as recorded especially for this album by a Japanese pianist (whose name I cannot translate) - all three Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes, and Je Te Veux.

What a wonderfully classy affair. All in all, I find there to be a lot of magic in this album. And, as I say, I don't entirely understand why. I suppose that's the way it goes sometimes. :)

Peace, ladies and gentlemen.

Sorry for the mega-reply, but since I have less time to come here on a daily basis, once I manage to come I answer to each needed post in a row, to avoid double or triple posts!



People are still searching for a high quality version of Chris Tiltons and Chad Salters outstanding Score for the Lucas Arts Game Fracture. I told Chris that the Promo was out there and he seemed to imply that its good that people are finally able to hear it apart from the game. So, Ladies and Gentleman, i proudly present the Fracture Promo in good quality:

https://www.yousendit.com/download/VGlkZGluTmEzMWtLSkE9PQ

For all of you who still don�t have it....i think its one, if not the best fullorchestral action score of the decade. It has strong, memorable themes, tons of massive military action music and suspense music with great build-up. Enjoy! *

Amazing! At last we have a decent album. Here's a quickly made cover for it.



Fracture Promo Score (256k)
by Michael Giacchino, Chris Tilton, Chad Seiter






Basil Poledouris - Amanda - Prometheus - 2000
|Relaxing|Sweeping|Small orchestral|Woodwinds|Strings|
|MP3|VBR V0 Fast|Scans|


What a ravishing score! I listened to it a lot before, to relax and get a better mood.



In other news... and please understand that I don't want to turn this into "Look at my remastering SKILLZZZZZ!" thread... but I thought you may be interested in a project I was working on before my HDD went up the wall in December. I began during a sudden burst of Final Fantasy love, and what with FF XIII just becoming available, I thought it might be a good time to bring it up again.

"Final Fantasy VI - Grand Finale" is one of my favourite albums of all time. It gets a lot of stick from various people and I can understand where they're coming from, but something about it really gels with me. What doesn't, however, is the sound quality... which is atrocious. It badly needed some attention, but it's almost guaranteed never to receive it by the record company, since the album was pretty much universally slated.

So I started to work on it. (Using a lossless rip of the original CD as source material, I might add.) Here's the first track in an almost-finished form. I'll not comment on the track any further... I'll let it speak for itself. (Note: Yes, I know there are a couple of glitches and ticks in here. They won't be on the final mastering; this is, as I have indicated, a first draft.)

Comments (and criticism, and encouragement) are particularly welcome. :)

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/VW4THLGN/Opening Theme_Tina.mp3

The sound is significantly clearer and more aggressive, and more enjoyable to listen IMO. But, is it just me or is there way too much hiss during some parts, especially when high strings play? This is certainly due to the excessive high frequencies enhancement, IMO you should lower it by about 10%. Apart from this, it's quite a success. Please post the whole stuff when done.



Here is another pretty cool score that i don't believe has been shared here


David Arnold & Kevin Kiner
Wing Commander


Man. This is nothing less than a superb 320 kbps rip. Please, please mention it in your posts, because I hesitated to DL it since I had it already, but in much lower quality. Only the fact of checking the size gave a clue about the bitrate. Thanks for this HQ rip!

Now about the music itself, I must admit that I consider George Oldziey as the REAL Wing Commander composer. What he did for WC 3 and 4 is among the best "Space" music I heard, stylistically not very far from Horner's ST 2 and 3. When I heard Arnold was to handle the movie score, it was good news and bad news. Good because he's the man of Stargate and ID4, and bad because he's not Oldziey. IMO the latter is the one who should have scored it. Anyway Arnold did a satisfying effort, with a nice theme and some cool action parts.



Nabari no Ou OST 1

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QMPKD2IP

There ya go. Don't know why tracks 2 through 4 weren't there, so I added em again. (Track 1 was an OP which I guess I deleted awhile ago.)

Hey thanks. But there's a click at the beginning of each track. For people who want OST 2 in 320k, here it is:
Thread 57629
There also was a clean rip of OST 1 in 320k, but the link is down... If someone could please reup?




ELMER BERNSTEIN - THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Reconstructed and edited by Elmer Bernstein and Christopher Plamer
(James Sedares, The Phoenix Symphony Orchestra)


Wonderful stuff. I enjoy so much this kind of "reconstructed" score. Movie music often has too much "Mickey-mousing", so to speak, resulting in a lack of listenability, so when a composer has the opportunity to take his score back and transform it into a coherent and structured symphony, this could lead to some extraordinary albums, which is the case here.



Guys, I need help! What media player do you use? I'm absolutely sick of mediamonkey fading between tracks. You can change this in the settings but it still misses off the beginning and end portions of each track, as if it's 'eliminating silence'. It's driving me nuts! >:S

Foobar plays back perfectly but doesn't show album art. It's also not as fluid to scan though your 'library' for what you want..

And winamp is a nightmare on my (admittedly decrepit) PC. Crashes, takes ages to load etc.

Recommendations? :)

Personally, I use Winamp Lite. It's the same as the original but much lighter and without the ton of useless junk Winamp has accumulated since years. You can DL it lower on this page.

http://www.winamp.com/media-player



Thanks for the advice on foobar :) I'll get myself sorted as soon as I'm back.

And now, before I'm off on my travels, I’d like to present a British composer who I don’t think has featured so far in the thread:


NIGEL HESS



Marvellous! Thanks a lot for introducing this composer to us. I wish more people do the same, and make us know in the same way some talented composers who deserve more exposition.

Good trip, and come back soon!



he guys and girls! I am totally confused with all those resident evil releases...so i�d like to request a compilation which includes all orchestral music from resident evil 5 AND Darkside Chronicles. Like an Ultimate Biohazard Symphony. I don�t have any of them.

Ditto!

I also saw in another thread some confusing comments about some stuff being orchestral, some others being not... What a mess.

Tango: could you please sort this for us and re-post the orchestral stuff only here?




SATORU KOSAKI
The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzimiya (Theatrical Film, 2010)
performed by
The Eminence Symphony Orchestra
conducted by
Phillip Chu

Cool! Thanks for bringing this one here, otherwise I would had certainly missed it.

Thanks for this lovely anime score of �The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya� [涼宮ハルヒの消失, Suzumiya Haruhi no Shōshitsu] by Satoru Kōsaki.

when i got the Biohazard 5 soundtrack I was shocked (like many others) to see that the live orchestral tracks weren't on it
instead they only came on a promo with the japanese version of the xbox 360 game (as has already been discussed)
anyway here they are


Kota Suzuki, Wataru Hokoyama
The Hollywood Studio Symphony
Biohazard 5 Selection Promo

Sample Track (http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/6/24/2487612/04%20Wind%20of%20Madness.mp3)

1. Opening ~Chris's Arrival~
2. An Emergency
3. A Big Despair
4. Wind of Madness
5. Deep Ambition
6. Pray ~Theme Song~
7. Plan of the Uroboros

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/WFSTWKXK/Bio5Select.zip


Wataru Hokoyama
The Hollywood Studio Symphony
Afrika Original Soundtrack

Sample Track (http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/6/24/2487612/05%20Jambo%20Jambo.mp3)

1. Savanna
2. Base Camp
3. Safari
4. Mission
5. Jambo Jambo
6. Heaven
7. Masai
8. Hunting
9. Okapi
10. Night Safari
11. Hatari
12. Big Five
13. Sunset
14. Afrika

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/1ACPTPPQ/WHAFR.zip

I cannot recommend Afrika enough, it is absolutely beautiful. Please listen to the sample if you have never heard it before.
Also this is a rip i made directly from the album so the quality is excellent.

Guh? Haruhi Suzumiya? Really? Hmm, I'm a touch apprehensive, but thanks for posting it.

SATORU KOSAKI
The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzimiya (Theatrical Film, 2010)

I totally missed they're doing a Haruhi movie! :o Thanks for sharing, will definitely give it a listen.

I know this is completely unsolicited, but with the euphonium popping up in that Nigel Hess album cover, I had to do a plug for the euphonium. We don't see many solos here, but there is a lot of great ensemble playing in all of these recordings, so I hope you enjoy it.





Euphonium Action Pack



http://rapidshare.com/files/342658139/Euph_sampler.rar



This set includes:

Vladimir Cosma Euphonium Concerto w/New Zealand Symphony

Vladimir Horowitz Euphonium Concerto Mvt. 1 w/Brass Band

Fantasie Original, and The Student Prince w/Cincinnati Wind Symphony

Allen Feinstein Concerto for Euphonium: "Swimming the Mountain"


*edit* I decided some comments were in order. The Cosma euphonium concerto was written for a french competition about ten years ago, and is a wonderful piece of music. Passionate, heroic, bombastic, thoughtful at times, and always rhythmically driven, it is one of my favorite works for euphonium. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. The horowitz concerto is a tongue-in-cheek, quirky piece with a TERRIFIC brass band behind the soloist in this recording. If anyone really likes this, I can post the rest of it and more of his works for brass. The two recordings with the Cincinatti Wind Symphony are from one of my favorite soloists, in the more traditional brass soloist style (theme and variations). "Swimming the Mountain" is a newer piece (around 2005 I believe) that won an award I can't remember, but it is a refreshing piece that should be a delight to listen to. You'll notice I haven't included names of soloists, but they are embedded in the tags of the individual tracks.

Nice submit jakob, thanks!

I don't know if this is old news or not. But I caught wind of a Castlevania concert that will be performing in Sweden on the 20th of Feb.

Any orchestra/Castlevania fan is gonna friggin love this.

Here's the link for more info. http://www.castlevaniaconcert.com/

Also they will be performing the following:

Dracula�s Castle (Symphony Of The Night)
Theme of Simon Belmont (Super Castlevania IV)
Chandeliers (Super Castlevania IV)
Requiem for the Gods (Symphony Of The Night)
Tragic Prince (Symphony Of The Night)
Clocktower (Aria of Sorrow)
The Sinking Old Sanctuary (Bloodlines)
Bloody Tears (Simon's Quest)
Opposing Bloodlines (Dracula X)
Lost Painting (Symphony Of The Night)
Wood Carving Partita (Symphony Of The Night)
Beginning (Castlevania III)
Calling from Heaven (Bloodlines)
Dance of Pales (Symphony Of The Night)
Dance of Illusions (Dracula X)
Vampire Killer (Castlevania)

Sorry this isn't a submit, but I thought you guys might be interested. I believe this is being sponsored by Konami, so we may see a later release.

Thanks guys for your recent posts! Anyone who hasn't grabbed Afrika before absolutely must listen to the wonderful score. I'll listen to the others I am not so familiar with soon :)

On a side note, one new score you guys should be aware of sounds quite nice and orchestral: Christophe Beck - Percy Jackson And the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
http://www.abkco.com/soundtracks.php
It sounds like a complex orchestral work with epic/regal feel to it.

Thanks guys for your recent posts! Anyone who hasn't grabbed Afrika before absolutely must listen to the wonderful score. I'll listen to the others I am not so familiar with soon :)

On a side note, one new score you guys should be aware of sounds quite nice and orchestral: Christophe Beck - Percy Jackson And the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
http://www.abkco.com/soundtracks.php
It sounds like a complex orchestral work with epic/regal feel to it.

I grabbed afrika but haven't had the chance to listen yet. I did listen to the samples of Lightning Thief, though, and It sounds like good things might come of that one, but I'm not sure what to make of it yet. Thanks for posting that.

*edit* Just started listening to Afrika, and it's terrific, thanks!

I grabbed afrika but haven't had the chance to listen yet. I did listen to the samples of Lightning Thief, though, and It sounds like good things might come of that one, but I'm not sure what to make of it yet. Thanks for posting that.

*edit* Just started listening to Afrika, and it's terrific, thanks!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Percy-Jackson-Olympians-Lightning-Thief/dp/B0032EZC04/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1264802543&sr=1-1

More Clips, it sounds better than Golden Compass and those Narnias. But David Arnolds Narnia 3 will be a league of its own i hope. Still, this is easily Becks best and biggest score to date.

Any opinions about the Final Fantasy XIII soundtrack? Its already on its way from japan to me, and i won�t download it. But how is it? How much of the music has been recorded with a real orchestra?

Any opinions about the Final Fantasy XIII soundtrack? Its already on its way from japan to me, and i won�t download it. But how is it? How much of the music has been recorded with a real orchestra?
I would say a good amount is orchestral but it is no where near the level of say Masamichi Amano. It is stylistically very similar to Unlimited Saga, especially in the main theme. Its good but I'm not blown away.

Here is a new Sakimoto for everyone :) Fresh from Japan!

Hitoshi Sakimoto - Valkyria Chronicles 2 Original Soundtrack
aka. Senjou no Valkyria 2 Gallian Royal Military Academy​ Original Soundtrack
|Synth Orchestral|Relaxing|Militaristic|

Thread 73617

Final Fantasy 13 has thirty minutes with a full orchestra. A special pack with just these tracks is currently uploading for your pleasure. :D [That is, for everybody's - you said you didn't want to download, but I bet your resolve will wain...] ;)

Final Fantasy 13 has thirty minutes with a full orchestra. A special pack with just these tracks is currently uploading for your pleasure. :D [That is, for everybody's - you said you didn't want to download, but I bet your resolve will wain...] ;)

I�m far away from the next computer and tomorrow mass effect 2 will arrive for my xbox360, so i may be able to resist.

Oh well. ;)

Here's the orchestral pack for FFXIII...

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/0ZZUFGJA/MH-FFXIIORCHONLY.rar

I know some folk will still be interested. For what it's worth... I now understand Hamauzu. I never used to, but I think I get it after playing this one. The orchestral cues (actually thirty two minutes - must get these things right) are obviously a cut above the rest, benefitting as they do from Yoshihisa Hirano's mind blowing arrangements... but the rest of it as well, the whole thing... I absolutely love it. The synth cues are splendid music in their own right, to the extent where the lack of live musicians doesn't hurt it. There is, however, that wonderful feeling of "event" when an orchestral cue kicks in; it's all excellent, but when the Warsaw Philharmonic appear, you really start to notice.

How can you not love pieces like Nascent Requiem, where Hirano takes what could have so easily been a pedestrian action cue, and turns it into a apocalyptic piano concerto? The piano is so underused today - particularly in action music - to hear it so far in the forefront here, in a score written in 2009... It just does not compute, in the best possible way. Real virtuoso writing that wouldn't be out of place in a late romantic classical work. At 2:38, you get those lovely chordal triplets that sound like they dropped straight out of Vaughan-Williams' piano concerto. And the orchestral work going on at the same time - oh, my God... this stuff is ridiculously good.

Crash Landing as another example... the opening bars are just magic. A timpani roll and bass drum hit leads into this wonderfully dissonant almost-fanfare with arpeggiating woodwinds, shimmering, whirling strings, and a strident brass melody... This just makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

And the tenor soloist in Born Anew... particularly the deliciously evil final thirty seconds that finishes on that thick, velvety chord of pure dissonant glee...

I'm sorry. I like this score. ;)

I think FFXIII is the sort of score that might take me a few times listening through it to fully appreciate its quality. Sakimoto's stuff hits me in the face and I can tell how amazing it is right off the bat but I think some Hamauzu takes a bit longer.

there is just so much material in FFXIII that its going to take me a few listens to understand, reading through tangos comments i realized i barely even remember alot of the tracks. Not saying they aren't memorable because they are absolutely wonderful, but just that the number of tracks makes me unable to even think about the score as a whole yet.

Yeah, FF XIII needs a bit of attention when U listen to it. It's not Uematsu style catchy theme based score. It's much more sophisticated. Tracks performed by Warsaw Orchestra are among the best (Nascant Requiem, OMFG! Nautilus? Pure bliss), but there are also a lot of live instruments here and there, including full string section etc. (check the quantity of different musicians in it, so yes, the music has a lot of "life"), and U can really hear that. Add to it awesome use of vocals (The Gapra Whitewood, Serah's Theme, Battle Results) or just awesomly great tracks like Lake Brasha (I don't know why, but it's among my faves here, the mood of it is so magical...). And even if music is synth, it makes up with creativity, ideas, melodies (that are simple to overlook after one listen). For me it's stunning score, yet not easy to listen, and certainly you shouldn't do all 4 CD's at once - like I did;). But it's one of the best things that happened to game music since some time. Masterpiece.

And I agree with you Tango, there should be more piano in modern music. Actually - on that side - I'm a bit dissapointed by FFXIII 'cause Hamauzu has piano in his blood, so I expected much more of crazy piano tracks here. But anyway, Nascant Requiem is so good, that I won't whine;).

And thanks for new Sakimoto:D.

Oh, and End of Eternity sampler has some great orchestral music by Kouhei Tanaka... and some Sakuraba's crap;). You can find it on sonixgvn blog, really worth to try.

http://www.sonixgvn.co.cc/2010/01/resonance-of-sounds-end-of-eternity.html

Lens! The Nigel Hess stuff you posted is so wonderful. I'm sure this will be on repeat over and over. The music has such warmth and beauty!

Hopefully this album hasn't been contributed already.

Furin Kazan
by Akira Senju

http://rapidshare.com/files/344644139/Furin_Kazan_-_Final.zip.html

I'll keep rooting around for anything else I might have that isn't here :)

Thanks for Furin Kazan has not been posted in this thread to my knowledge. EDIT: It appears you posted the wrong link. It contains Symphonic Poem Emily of New Moon

I have to cross-post this here from the film-score vgm hunt thread (with credit to the original poster). I wasn't expecting much from this and in all truth haven't listened to it fully but from what I was able to listen to it was very nice so here we go:

Yugo Kanno - Shaolin Girl (Shorin Shojo), CD1-2, 2008
Majestic, Orchestral, Piano



Format: mp3
Bitrate: cbr 320
Rozmiar: 207 MB

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1417464&postcount=19830
Original links by Nikitos.

As suggested by Sirusjr:



Tomohito Nishiura, Norihito Sumitomo
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva Original Soundtrack (http://vgmdb.net/album/16406)
レイトン教授と永遠の歌姫 オリジナル サウンドトラック
[MP3/CBR@320kbps]





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

[ pw: abakabu ]

I should mention a word about the layton soundtracks. I find that the series has some wonderful melodies and many of them are represented here. However, they are much easier to enjoy when performed by live instruments rather than using the DS's limited powers of music production. You guys should all give this album a listen and see what you think.

Here I great score for a historic spanish movie titled La Conjura del Escorial by Alejandro Vivas Puig.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1100898/

Really it is a fantastic work.

Thanks to Amedio for the link:

(http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV2ucPqJ)

http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=32025ba7f0924b7e02355648ec4b6bdc

The link doesn't work :(. Could someone please reup :)?

Hopefully this album hasn't been contributed already.

Furin Kazan
by Akira Senju

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

I'll keep rooting around for anything else I might have that isn't here :)

Dude...I have one question.

What the hell is a porno video doing mixed up with this soundtrack? And another thing - you didn't link us to the soundtrack above. You gave us "Symphonic Poem Emily of the New Moon."

Dude...I have one question.

What the hell is a porno video doing mixed up with this soundtrack? And another thing - you didn't link us to the soundtrack above. You gave us "Symphonic Poem Emily of the New Moon."
Is the video any good? ;)

Is the video any good? ;)

I watched it for half a second. :P Not saying porn ain't... appreciable, but it doesn't have any place in my music folder!

I have for you guys a real treat. Square Enix Music has really gotten some wonderful reviewers lately who are able to write the kind of review that shows they have a lot more classical training than I do. I mainly want to point out their newly posted review for the recently released Night in Fantasia 2009 as well as interview with composer Wataru Hokoyama.

The reviewer brings up some valid criticisms of the quality of the recording and performance (and most clearly the weakness of the compositions presented by the Western Composers on the CD). I wish my CD would show up soon.

http://squareenixmusic.com/reviews/simonelchlepp/anif09.shtml

And In the interview with Wataru Hokoyama, they discuss how his works on Afrika got him into working on Resident Evil 5 among other things. That would explain how RE5 got such wonderful orchestral tracks.

http://www.squareenixmusic.com/features/interviews/wataruhokoyama.shtml

I suggest you guys keep an eye out for the reviews on squareenixmusic because they have some talented reviewers who are able to go a lot more in depth in comment and criticism than I could ever hope to myself. They also have some solid reviews of the full Final Fantasy XIII and Resonance of Fate's preview disc. I'm especially excited for the massive six disc soundtrack for Resonance of Fate although I may wait until it is announced just how many tracks are composed by Kohei Tanaka before I take the plunge and import.

Dude...I have one question.

What the hell is a porno video doing mixed up with this soundtrack? And another thing - you didn't link us to the soundtrack above. You gave us "Symphonic Poem Emily of the New Moon."

I originally downloaded it off a J-drama website. I don't know what a video would be doing in there. Holy crap, that's really embarrassing. >_>;

Anyways, I re-found the actual Furin Kazan Soundtrack. It should be fixed now.

Here's my latest composition upload, "Damien Black V.2", inspired by Castlevania!

Have a listen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmmGSghnhFA

Hope you like it!

I originally downloaded it off a J-drama website. I don't know what a video would be doing in there. Holy crap, that's really embarrassing. >_>;

Anyways, I re-found the actual Furin Kazan Soundtrack. It should be fixed now.

Hey, just think of it as a story for the grandkids. "Sally, you think your cracking voice in the school musical was embarrassing? Let me tell you about the time I posted a soundtrack online that had an anime porno featuring a catgirl eating another's crotch!"

I really need to get that image out of my head. :ashine:

Haha its not so bad. The worst part is the terrible low resolution of it.

Hey, I may be...into the sexual glorification of the human race, mostly of the female variety, but I do not like animal-beast perversion of it.

So, yeah. That's enough of a derail of a good thread for now. :)

I really need to get that image out of my head.

There are things that are hard to erase from mind. But keep fighting. Maybe you'll succed;).

Resonance of Fate on 6 CD? Holy crap, awesome (well, only when most or at least half of it is by Tanaka, 'cause 5 CD's of Sakuraba and one by Tanaka doesn't work for me;))!

And is it just my impression or new Layton is much more orchestral than previous ones? Great score anyway (but main theme is a bit overused).

Okay, so I am going to apologize for that derail with one of the great movie score masterpieces - Once Upon a Time in America.


ENNIO MORRICONE - ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA




http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E3CS4GDJ

And is it just my impression or new Layton is much more orchestral than previous ones? Great score anyway (but main theme is a bit overused).
Well the DS ones were 100% synth and focused around investigation and puzzle solving almost exclusively. This one is now for an anime which I assume has at least a little more action. Plus as I mentioned the anime has full live instruments.

Oh well. ;)

Here's the orchestral pack for FFXIII...

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/0ZZUFGJA/MH-FFXIIORCHONLY.rar

I know some folk will still be interested. For what it's worth... I now understand Hamauzu. I never used to, but I think I get it after playing this one. The orchestral cues (actually thirty two minutes - must get these things right) are obviously a cut above the rest, benefitting as they do from Yoshihisa Hirano's mind blowing arrangements... but the rest of it as well, the whole thing... I absolutely love it. The synth cues are splendid music in their own right, to the extent where the lack of live musicians doesn't hurt it. There is, however, that wonderful feeling of "event" when an orchestral cue kicks in; it's all excellent, but when the Warsaw Philharmonic appear, you really start to notice.

How can you not love pieces like Nascent Requiem, where Hirano takes what could have so easily been a pedestrian action cue, and turns it into a apocalyptic piano concerto? The piano is so underused today - particularly in action music - to hear it so far in the forefront here, in a score written in 2009... It just does not compute, in the best possible way. Real virtuoso writing that wouldn't be out of place in a late romantic classical work. At 2:38, you get those lovely chordal triplets that sound like they dropped straight out of Vaughan-Williams' piano concerto. And the orchestral work going on at the same time - oh, my God... this stuff is ridiculously good.

Crash Landing as another example... the opening bars are just magic. A timpani roll and bass drum hit leads into this wonderfully dissonant almost-fanfare with arpeggiating woodwinds, shimmering, whirling strings, and a strident brass melody... This just makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

And the tenor soloist in Born Anew... particularly the deliciously evil final thirty seconds that finishes on that thick, velvety chord of pure dissonant glee...

I'm sorry. I like this score. ;)

I'm not sure I like these tracks as much as you do, but I haven't heard the rest of the soundtrack or played the game so I don't really have any context. Apart from the end credits it sounds like a concert work adapted into loopable tracks. I guess I was expecting more development from track to track. As a concert work it's great, but I can't see this reaching the heights of Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec. I think this is a case of the orchestrations outshining the compositions.

ENNIO MORRICONE - ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST




http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZU30CUAX

This is the track 'Chariot Race' from Quo Vadis by Miklos Rozsa.
A little but frenetic action orchestral cue.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T98YMNYT

Could someone, please, re-up Fracture Promo ?

THanks

Could someone, please, re-up Fracture Promo ?

THanks

No need - C. Tilton gave some guy permission for the cd soundtrack to be released. Just give a look for it, and it should still be up.

No need - C. Tilton gave some guy permission for the cd soundtrack to be released. Just give a look for it, and it should still be up.

I already checked the thread and when you click on the link you get this :( :


THE FILE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS LINK HAS EXPIRED.

A file link is only available for a certain number of days or a limited number of downloads, whichever occurs first. Once an uploaded file expires, it can no longer be downloaded. If you still need the file, please contact the original sender directly.

It needs to be re-upped unfortunately...preferably to another file sharing site.

Anymore Quo Vadis? Listened to entire Rozsa El Cid-the other day-well-wonderment!-thanks-

Thanks for the Copland-great Master for a long time-like the Lincoln Portrait a lot-short but very very moving music-like the Gettesburg Address embedded in it-

Guys, I wanna bring to your attention two scores.

First one is "Creation" by Christopher Young. It's really fantastic score which I would describe as "A Beautiful Mind" meets "The Village". Great, emotional violin solos, kinda gloomy, yet a bit "romantic" mood. Really worth try.


Creation by Christopher Young



http://rapidshare.com/files/335928356/Crtn_Prm-CY.rar


Thanks to Mad777 for putting this link in The Film Score Hunt Thread.

The second one is the newest score by Bruno Coulais. Another documentary from him, but this one is much more orchestral than for example Winged Migration (which I also love). If U like Coulais than you have no choice - you need to listen to this. If you're not a fan - try it, it's really awesome, creative, melodic orchestral score with just incredible finale (great, great, great song!).


Oceans by Bruno Coulais



http://hotfile.com/dl/27158899/40e55e8/Ocns-BC.rar.html


And thanks goes to Mad777 again:).

Currently looking for Sakuraba's "Forest of Glass." Anyone here happen to have that?

Motoi Sakuraba - Forest of Glass
|Piano|Solo Album|Relaxing|
|MP3|VBR|58MB|

http://anonym.to/?http://rapidshare.com/files/347319063/Motoi_Sakuraba_-_Forest_of_glass.rar

This solo album was released by Motoi Sakuraba in 2008 after Sakuraba's work on Eternal Sonata. I suspect that a large part of his inspiration for doing a piano solo album came from his heavy use of piano in Eternal Sonata.

John Barry - Out of Africa
|Flac|Log|Cue + MP3 VBR|
|Romantic/Orchestral|

FLAC|LOG|CUE|150MB
http://anonym.to/?http://rapidshare.com/files/347485405/John_Barry_-_Out_of_Africa.rar
MP3 55MB
http://anonym.to/?http://rapidshare.com/files/347489340/Out_of_Africa.rar
I will be posting more John Barry romantic scores soon thanks to a bud at another forum who has gotten me into his music.

Would anyone happen to have any more works by Wataru Hokoyama (especially recordings of his concert works like Nebula and Spiritual Planet)?

Would anyone happen to have any more works by Wataru Hokoyama (especially recordings of his concert works like Nebula and Spiritual Planet)?
I second this request.

Would anyone happen to have any more works by Wataru Hokoyama (especially recordings of his concert works like Nebula and Spiritual Planet)?

I was planning on putting up sort of a Hokoyama Sampler Pack, with a bunch of concert works, i'll have it uploaded in a few hours

I put together this sampler of some of Wataru Hokoyama's concert works.
I previously uploaded some of his soundtracks here (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1416882&postcount=4311).
Again I can't recommend Afrika enough.


Wataru Hokoyama
Concert Works Sampler


1. Fanfare
2. Beyond
3. Nebula
4. Forward
5. Jamestown
6. Fanfare for United Brass
7. Echoes of Memories
8. Spiritual Planet: I. Sphere in Chaos
9. Spiritual Planet: II. Lost Souls
10. Spiritual Planet: III. Enlightenment
11. Halloween Dance
12. Stellar Wind

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/YCO2RZR1/WHS.zip

I put together this sampler of some of Wataru Hokoyama's concert works.
I previously uploaded some of his soundtracks here (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1416882&postcount=4311).
Again I can't recommend Afrika enough.


Wataru Hokoyama
Concert Works Sampler


Just passing by very quickly right now (I need some SLEEP!) to say... WOW!! Marvelous stuff, Afrika was a superb masterpiece, I was so surprised (astonished would be a more accurate word) by its incredible beauty and sumptuousness, so this concert works sampler is quite welcome.

More comments tomorrow. :)

I just fisnished listening to the new Score from Garry Schyman-Dante�s Inferno. Not only is this one of the Top5 Best Videogamescores, but also one of the most intense and scary pieces of music i�ve ever heard. Warning, the music is so extrem it could cause the destruction of your computer. First of all, its massive. Huge orchestra and ever-present giant choir, from angle-like, to yelling demons and torchered souls. The score itself is a mix between Goldsmiths The Omen Trilogy, the darker parts of The Mummy, the bombastic dissonant Horror Brilliance of Christopher Young a la Hellraiser and the megalomania of Elliot Goldenthal. Its that good, its madness. Action cues have a certain goldsmithy drive but in full-power epic-horror-mode. I couldn�t find words when it was over. Its incredible, just incredible....its the next Lair, but less temptrack and themes and more hellish chorus madness. 666 out of 10.

Fantastic post Hater. This is why I was so mad when it turned out the "soundtrack" in the LE ps3 version was not really an audio cd. I want to hear this score in LOSSLESS!

Fantastic post Hater. This is why I was so mad when it turned out the "soundtrack" in the LE ps3 version was not really an audio cd. I want to hear this score in LOSSLESS!

I bought it from amazon.de today, its complete, 41 tracks with 83mins, most of it is intense, additional music by another guy is more your common horror-sounddesign score which is modern now. But Schymans Score is Infernal.

Yeah but amazon version is just VBR mp3, which is great but I don't pay for mp3s and never will.

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Wataru Hokoyama
Concert Works Sampler



Interesting to hear some of his compositions for wind band. I listened to all of this today, and some of it was brilliant, some mediocre, but it was a good listen overall.

Interesting to hear some of his compositions for wind band. I listened to all of this today, and some of it was brilliant, some mediocre, but it was a good listen overall.

yeah he is a young composer and this wasn't his best work just to show an upcoming talent,
and he shows alot of promise especially with his later stuff (half of those songs are fairly old/mediocre)
in a couple of years he will be in top form and one of the best hopefully

Vladimir Cosma Euphonium Concerto w/New Zealand Symphony

Vladimir Horowitz Euphonium Concerto Mvt. 1 w/Brass Band

Fantasie Original, and The Student Prince w/Cincinnati Wind Symphony

Allen Feinstein Concerto for Euphonium: "Swimming the Mountain"
Brilliant!! I’m listening now – should be in bed, but I’ve missed this thread ;) - delightful pieces! That’s not the Horowitz is it, as in the pianist? Surely not.. Love the Spanish swagger of the Cosma piece; the Euphonium fits the character perfectly.


Wow, there's some very present British brass band vibrato going on in some of those tracks, and I just adored some of those tracks, especially Cressida and the...lavender?..ladies?
So pleased you and Sirus like them. Hess’ music for the RSC is stunning across the board, and shows that, as well as the easy going themes, he can write searing, dramatic stuff that destroys most of contemporary Hollywood (sorry Horner, that now includes you). Ladies in Lavender – the film is lifeless middlebrow nonsense, but the score is undeniably lovely.

Oh yeah sorry about the Horowitz, it should be Joseph Horowitz. I'm glad you are enjoying it! I was wondering if anyone saw that... Swimming the Mountain totally ripped the main motif from a tuba concerto that I can't remember the name of at the moment...

Yeah but amazon version is just VBR mp3, which is great but I don't pay for mp3s and never will.

works for me, never heard an difference. but i�m getting older :-)

Don�t forget: Lalaland releases today The Flash 2cd! More Shirley Walker Superhero Goodness!

Its not a matter of whether I can hear a difference. Its a matter of not wanting to support a degradation in the quality of music released. It is illogical to go from tapes to records to CD to MP3. They should at least give us an option of buying it on CD.

Its not a matter of whether I can hear a difference. Its a matter of not wanting to support a degradation in the quality of music released. It is illogical to go from tapes to records to CD to MP3. They should at least give us an option of buying it on CD.

you�re right but i made my peace with that. gimme the music in whatever form and i�m happy. (ok, maybe not MONO). And The Flash is not only a cd, its 2...;-)

I should also note I may pay for the mp3s of Dante's inferno but only if it was a bit cheaper. I'd rather download the lossy releases and support the companies releasing actual CDs. Only when EVERYONE stops releasing CDs will I finally give in.

Flash is nice but i'm not a fan of Shirley Walker superhero stuff. The batman stuff earlier released didn't click with me.

At this point, I don't think many companies care that much about the quality of the music. It sounds good to the common ear, and that is good enough for them. Heck, we should be happy that we are getting the soundtrack at all! So many games don't even get a proper release, it's sickening.

Well, amazon sells mp3s at a VBR that is slightly higher than the lame v0 setting. I agree, there should be a better-quality release, but at least there IS a release.

I should also note I may pay for the mp3s of Dante's inferno but only if it was a bit cheaper. I'd rather download the lossy releases and support the companies releasing actual CDs. Only when EVERYONE stops releasing CDs will I finally give in.

Flash is nice but i'm not a fan of Shirley Walker superhero stuff. The batman stuff earlier released didn't click with me.

They should stop releasing CDs of certain composers haha. bedtime, nighty-night.

PLease for the re-up of Fracture promo
Thanks

Here's the orchestral pack for FFXIII...
Thank you! I've been a bit slow on the uptake, maybe in denial.. I suppose because I think the game looks unspeakably vile. Silly I know, but that's what I'm like. Nascent Requiem is just phenomenal. WOW to that piano! Imagine what Hirano would do for a game score of these proportions on his own. We'd have real fire to go with those mercurial orchestrations. The man's a magician!

Thank you! I've been a bit slow on the uptake, maybe in denial.. I suppose because I think the game looks unspeakably vile. Silly I know, but that's what I'm like. Nascent Requiem is just phenomenal. WOW to that piano! Imagine what Hirano would do for a game score of these proportions on his own. We'd have real fire to go with those mercurial orchestrations. The man's a magician!

Yeah, it's a shame that a game as tedious, boring, and just downright ridiculous and juvenile as FF XIII gets a score so wonderful.

Haven't shared anything in a while, so here's a quicky:


Star Ocean: Till The End of Time
Suite
Motoi Sakuraba



MP3-V0
http://www.multiupload.com/5KK50NE1TQ

This is a short orchestral suite I put together to try to make a little musical sense of some of my favourite pieces from the OST (which is all over the place and spread very thin). It's no FFXIII but I hope you enjoy ;)

Haven't shared anything in a while, so here's a quicky:


Star Ocean: Till The End of Time
Suite
Motoi Sakuraba


MP3-V0
http://www.multiupload.com/5KK50NE1TQ

This is a short orchestral suite I put together to try to make a little musical sense of some of my favourite pieces from the OST (which is all over the place and spread very thin). It's no FFXIII but I hope you enjoy ;)

Oh, now this is tempting. I do love Orchestral music, but on the other hand, I despite suites, or arrangements. Dilemmas, curse you!

Oh dear :puppydog: It's only about 20MB (14mins).

The voluminous unadulterated soundtrack can be had here:
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[And btw, you might want to edit out the picture quote...]

Oh dear :puppydog: It's only about 20MB (14mins).

The voluminous unadulterated soundtrack can be had here:
Thread 70681

[And btw, you might want to edit out the picture quote...]

What's wrong with the quote?

Yeah, it's a shame that a game as tedious, boring, and just downright ridiculous and juvenile as FF XIII gets a score so wonderful.
Haha I can't wait to play FFXIII. To each his own. I am also VERY excited that they got rid of the towns and made the first half TOTALLY linear.

Haha I can't wait to play FFXIII. To each his own. I am also VERY excited that they got rid of the towns and made the first half TOTALLY linear.

I just like a game with believable characters, a well written story, and games that actually require the use of intelligence.

Yeah, I much prefer WRPGs to JRPGs for certain reasons. :D

Arthierr and all,
If anyone is interested, James Horner was interviewed on the PBS talk show "Tavis Smiley" last night. PBS has that segment (http://video.pbs.org/video/1409583570/) online now.
Cheers.

What's wrong with the quote?

You may have noticed that MOST people in this thread (or in other threads) tend to remove the picture in a post before quoting it - just look underneath how I did for the same post. There's a reason for this: it's a common rule in most forums to avoid quoting with pics. So please, as Lens asked, edit your post to remove the pic and try to avoid doing it again. Thank you.

And bravo for more MORRICONE. ;)



Haven't shared anything in a while, so here's a quicky:


Star Ocean: Till The End of Time
Suite
Motoi Sakuraba


Possibly my favourite Sakuraba score. I can also see that you chose most of my favourite tracks. :)



Could someone, please, re-up Fracture Promo ?

THanks

I can reup it this weekend, but my download got very slightly corrupted: it has a short "pop" in the last track. If it's ok for you then tell me and I'll reup, otherwise you'll have to ask someone else.




John Barry - Out of Africa
|Flac|Log|Cue + MP3 VBR|
|Romantic/Orchestral|


This is a very tasteful upload (and you actually upgraded my old copy). Please more Barry!

You may have noticed that MOST people in this thread (or in other threads) tend to remove the picture in a post before quoting it - just look underneath how I did for the same post. There's a reason for this: it's a common rule in most forums to avoid quoting with pics. So please, as Lens asked, edit your post to remove the pic and try to avoid doing it again. Thank you.

Erm, that's actually the first time I have ever heard of that rule, and I never actually noticed the rest of you guys removing the images from the quotes.

Heh.

This is a very tasteful upload (and you actually upgraded my old copy). Please more Barry!
You are in luck! I have received requests already for more Barry and have a number of beautiful scores to post thanks to a John Barry fan on another forum who doesn't mind me sharing his posts here.

Erm, that's actually the first time I have ever heard of that rule, and I never actually noticed the rest of you guys removing the images from the quotes.

Heh.

NP. :)



Arthierr and all,
If anyone is interested, James Horner was interviewed on the PBS talk show "Tavis Smiley" last night. PBS has that segment (http://video.pbs.org/video/1409583570/) online now.
Cheers.

Very interesting, I'll have some comments after watching it (my Flash is apparently too old...). Thx for digging this out.


Announcement: my next score posted will be a big orchestral score composed for a SF anime. Written by a talented lady in 2005, it truly has some gorgeous and impressive parts, so it really deserves to be posted here. :)

Announcement: my next score posted will be a big orchestral score composed for a SF anime. Written by a talented lady in 2005, it truly has some gorgeous and impressive parts, so it really deserves to be posted here. :)

Oh? Noein, perhaps?

Oh? Noein, perhaps?

Sounds like it. I have it, and it is a great score! Arthierr, if that isn't it, I'll gladly upload it.

Sounds like it. I have it, and it is a great score! Arthierr, if that isn't it, I'll gladly upload it.

I have it too, both discs. And yes, indeed it is a fine score.

John Barry - Enigma - 2002
Romantic/Relaxing
FLAC/MP3

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Ahh, Enigma... If we only knew back in 2001 that we might very well be hearing Barry's last film score... (I still have hope... but as the days go by it fades. This is no longer a world where great men like John Barry fit in, any more.)

Thanks for posting. :)

Ahh, Enigma... If we only knew back in 2001 that we might very well be hearing Barry's last film score... (I still have hope... but as the days go by it fades. This is no longer a world where great men like John Barry fit in, any more.)

Thanks for posting. :)
Yeah, its a shame we don't get to hear anymore John Barry scores. He certainly created some wonderful music.

Oh, nostalgia. Only love could be so cruel.

Barry will be back in one form or another. Perhaps some thoughtful British production will give him the chance for a swan song. :) And isn't he working on another concept piece?


Arthierr and all,
If anyone is interested, James Horner was interviewed on the PBS talk show "Tavis Smiley" last night. PBS has that segment (http://video.pbs.org/video/1409583570/) online now.
Cheers.
LOL @ coyness of the final segment. Lost in technology is right. Horner is clearly ambivalent about the state of things (even the shooting style!). On one level you can’t blame him for playing it safe with Avatar, and maybe these pussyfooting reminders of ‘the John Williams Golden Age’ are him steeling himself for greater things in the sequels..? But at the same time, I wish he’d have the courage of his convictions and just go all out, or at least come up with something compelling, melodically, orchestrally, music that actually has emotion and inner life, that speaks to the audience and not to a corporate template.

He'd better hurry up. Barry seems to be in absolutely no rush to do anything nowadays - aside from occasionally making statements blasting Monty Norman, of course. His concept piece has been "in production" for years now; allegedly he's got a deal with the record company, but I'm not holding my breath. Though it pains me to say, we're talking about a guy who's been in ill health since the late 80's and is now seventy six years old.

In any case, If I were him, I wouldn't want to know. Occasionally job offers come up - The Incredibles ("I'm not rehashing my sixties style, get lost!"), Casino Royale ("I want �1,000,000 and I want full creative control over the song!") and countless others he's no doubt ceremoniously turned down. I won't be holding my breath.

As for any British productions calling him up - that would be lovely... although the British film industry is largely moribund too. We make three types of movie: 1) Gritty films about ethnic tensions in the inner city. 2) "It's Grim Up North" films. 3) Snotty-nosed American-friendly romcoms. I can't see Barry getting along too well in any of those genres...!

He'd better hurry up. Barry seems to be in absolutely no rush to do anything nowadays - aside from occasionally making statements blasting Monty Norman, of course. His concept piece has been "in production" for years now; allegedly he's got a deal with the record company, but I'm not holding my breath. Though it pains me to say, we're talking about a guy who's been in ill health since the late 80's and is now seventy six years old.

In any case, If I were him, I wouldn't want to know. Occasionally job offers come up - The Incredibles ("I'm not rehashing my sixties style, get lost!"), Casino Royale ("I want �1,000,000 and I want full creative control over the song!") and countless others he's no doubt ceremoniously turned down. I won't be holding my breath.

As for any British productions calling him up - that would be lovely... although the British film industry is largely moribund too. We make three types of movie: 1) Gritty films about ethnic tensions in the inner city. 2) "It's Grim Up North" films. 3) Snotty-nosed American-friendly romcoms. I can't see Barry getting along too well in any of those genres...!

Jeez, Barry sounds alot like Marlon Brando to me, or even better, Orson Welles! All of them were geniuses, and all of them were swelling with pride. Made them dicks to work with, but they knew what they were doing, and made masterpieces.

Also, of the 3 type of movies Britain tends to make, I think I'd like the first one the most. 2 and 3 just sounds a little bit too much like films we get in America anyways.

John Barry - King Rat - 1965 (1995)
Orchestral/Militaristic/Romantic/Relaxing
FLAC/MP3

Thread 73991

As for any British productions calling him up - that would be lovely... although the British film industry is largely moribund too. We make three types of movie: 1) Gritty films about ethnic tensions in the inner city. 2) "It's Grim Up North" films. 3) Snotty-nosed American-friendly romcoms. I can't see Barry getting along too well in any of those genres...!
Those are just the conspicuously British films. Recently we’ve had things like Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, Creation, Dorian Gray, Moon; none of which I like, but Enigma is no great shakes either. Barry in current spaced-out mode would’ve given Moon the psychological dimension it needed, and so significantly lacked (let’s face it, the plastic tedium of Mansell is good for nothing). Oh, and we shouldn’t forget important categories like the dumbed-down period drama, macho crap like Crank and Layer Cake, and the ‘tentpole’ Kiera Knightly vehicles.

One of my own favourite unlikely Brit productions of the noughties is the Post-Ironic masterpiece that is Basic Instinct 2.



John Barry - King Rat - 1995
Thank you!! I nearly included the unbelievably catchy march from this in one of my compilations. Never heard the full score though! :D :shock: :D

Glad you like it. I'm going to wait a day or two between John Barry posts just so it doesn't all get posted at once.

Thank you again for more wonderful Barry!

Just a small point... King Rat was made in 1965, not 1995! I think the album was released in 1995, though... The score has weathered REMARKABLY well in terms of sound quality... listening to it, you'd hardly believe it was recorded 45 years ago.

Yeah I put the year of the CD release in the post not the year of the movie.

Yeah I put the year of the CD release in the post not the year of the movie.

Ah, OK. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me, unless you're wanting to let people know what particular release they're getting. I'll shut up now. :)

Thanks for the John Barry, Sirus. Being relatively new to film music, I haven't heard any John Barry and am excited to listen to these two scores. Thanks again!

Ah, OK. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me, unless you're wanting to let people know what particular release they're getting. I'll shut up now. :)
Well I put both on this post now and will do that for all the rest I post as well.

WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW!!!
New Kritzerland release seems to have sold out within HOURS of announcement! I hope I got my order in fast enough on Screenarchives!
http://anonym.to/?http://www.kritzerland.com/iron.htm
CROSS OF IRON and GOOD LUCK, MISS WYCKOFF

Music Composed and Conducted by Ernest Gold
From the samples these sound like absolute gems!

Listening to King Rat, it's sumptuous, and yes, perfect sound! Love the ravishing harpsichord+harp combo! :swoon:

The whole business of Barry being possibly too ill to complete 'The Seasons' makes me very sad. Why had I blocked that eventuality from my mind? I remember waiting with baited breath when I heard Jerry had been commissioned to write a concert piece for the London Symphony back in about 2000. I was hoping it would be a triumphant final statement - you know, free from the encumbrances of less-than-inspiring fare like Along Came a Spider and Sum of All Fears. When Jerry was unable to attend the Barbican (in what was it 2003?) I started to get very worried. And indeed, we never did have the pleasure of it.

The whole business of Barry being possibly too ill to complete 'The Seasons' makes me very sad. Why had I blocked that eventuality from my mind?

Well, he was well enough to write "This Is Our Time" for the recent Shirley Bassey album... He's still got it.

I wonder if his lack of production recently hasn't been due to illness and just due to the "F**k it, I'm old and I've had enough of this s**t!" mentality that has afflicted so many of the old guard...


I remember waiting with baited breath when I heard Jerry had been commissioned to write a concert piece for the London Symphony back in about 2000. I was hoping it would be a triumphant final statement - you know, free from the encumbrances of less-than-inspiring fare like Along Came a Spider and Sum of All Fears. When Jerry was unable to attend the Barbican (in what was it 2003?) I started to get very worried. And indeed, we never did have the pleasure of it.

That was a very very uncomfortable period. I remember talking to a friend in early 2004. We were discussing Jerry and I said that I thought Looney Tunes might turn out to be his swansong. Sadly, it turned out to be true. Somehow in the back of my mind I never contemplated a world in which the man didn't exist. Listening to Looney Tunes now, as I have said before (probably in this thread) makes me feel queasy because with the benefit of hindsight you can tell exactly what it is: A desperate effort by a man who knew full well that the clock was ticking, to say goodbye to the world and to music. He quotes so much of his previous work in that score it's quite painful. On the surface, it's a massively fun, intricate, tour-de-fource... but underneath there's this bittersweet melancholy that seems to be his unconscious acceptance that the end is drawing near.

My apologies for the off-topic drag and for the morbid nature of the above; just a time for thinking about this kind of thing, I guess...

I've been meaning to go through my Yoko Kanno stuff and whittle it away to just the orchestral stuff. I figured I'd ask if anyone was interested in having the resulting orchestral packs as I would be making them anyway. This may have been done already, but is anyone interested?

Well guys I went and saw Wolfman today. Movie could have been a lot better but I am seriously in love with Elfman's score. I listened to it once before going and am listening to it again. I absolutely love his Gypsy influenced heavy use of strings. Its like what Drag Me to Hell could have been if it didn't have as many boring ambient tracks. This is seriously one of the best Hollywood soundtracks in years. I hope his Alice score is just as wonderful.

Yes, at first I was disappointed (only slightly) with his Wolfman score. I was expecting alot of chorus, a la Kilar's Dracula. That is what it was compared to after all, and that is what I expected going in.

But I realized something - Danny's strings are Kilar's chorus. They are the very base of this score, and Danny uses them in an awesome way. This is a great score. I really hope the movie is as good, but from what I hear it isn't. It's not bad, but it could of have been many ways better.

You think? When you're in your house alone at the darksome nights, try the following music:

Again from the "Biohazard Orchestra Album", but the piece is not orchestral. It's the theme "At Deep Mountains and Dark Valleys, the Night Begins", the music that plays on the first floor of mansion in Biohazard/Resident Evil 1. The piece is arranged for pipe-organ solo, and performed by organist Aotani Michiko. It's really scary!
http://gh.ffshrine.org/song/447/1



Composed and orchestrated by Franz Liszt.
"A Dante Symphony", movement I: "Inferno".
http://rapidshare.com/files/138676145/Liszt_Dante_Symphony_Inferno.mp3.html



Composed by Modest Mussorgsky, orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and arranged by Leopold Stokowski.
"Night on a Bald Mountain" (or "Night on a Bare Mountain") symphonic poem.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/h3ueor



From Constantine OST
Klaus Badelt & Bryan Tyler --> "Circle of Hell"
http://www.sendspace.com/file/loscu7



Composed and orchestrated by Edvard Grieg.
From the Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, the infamous "In the Hall of the Mountain King".
http://www.sendspace.com/file/p949fl

your sendspace and rapidshare links do not work. could you please re-upload them.

Hey guys, i think what should be worked on is the shockwave film scores.
they have some complete epic sounds. someone should probably work on those and convert to a download or torrent so we can all enjoy.
here is a link to check them out :
http://shockwave-sound.com/Royalty_Free_Cinematic_Music/
there are tons and they could be used.

Wow, those are really boring.

hahahahah you must have listened to just one category.
Because those are not boring.

Wow, cliched synthy trailer music!

*facepalm*

On a positive note, I noticed a while ago that Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is lauded rather consistently in this thread but I couldn't find the score itself in this thread, and it took me a while to find it on the forum itself, so I thought it might be a decent idea to post it here.

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1033331&postcount=1934

The ones at the beginning of the thread are dead, but the special edition ones in this post are good (they are mp3 CBR 192). I've seen the movie multiple times and I enjoy it, but I didn't remember the music so I thought I'd give it a listen after I'd heard so much praise from arthierr and others here. Wow, it is terrific! Thanks for causing me to find this one and pay attention to the music this time, everyone!

Wow, cliched synthy trailer music!

*facepalm*

you took the words out of my mouth and the action out of my...palm?
haha

does anyone have the position music volumes?

Some of those sound pretty cliched, but that Yuri Sazonoff is definitely talented.

Nah, this is just the usual "EPIC" (which means generic) Trailer Music to me.
This music has a massive lack of substance, personality or complexity.
The only music company that "produces" music which is actually decent or worth a listen for me would be "Two Steps From Hell".
But you would have to skip through some of their albums to actually find something that is above the generic choir screaming.

Have any of you guys listened to Percy Jackson much? I really like the music although it seems Doublehex isn't into it as much. Any thoughts?

Have any of you guys listened to Percy Jackson much? I really like the music although it seems Doublehex isn't into it as much. Any thoughts?

sounds like the music narnia should have. big orchestral fantasy action-adventure music full of highlights, james-newton howard plus john debney..

Have any of you guys listened to Percy Jackson much? I really like the music although it seems Doublehex isn't into it as much. Any thoughts?

Well, it just seems so very meh to me. I just don't see (hear?) anything with it, is all.

Well, it just seems so very meh to me. I just don't see (hear?) anything with it, is all.

its generic, but the good kind of generic. not as boring as narnia and golden compass.

its generic, but the good kind of generic. not as boring as narnia and golden compass.

As much as I understand the definition of the word, something being called generic is not a good thing.

As far as Percy Jackson goes, I think it's very average, but in the best possible way; that I mean as a compliment, if it's possible to do so. It's a solid, effective, orchestral fantasy score. It's not groundbreaking or complex, and it has absolutely no individual personality to speak of; it's inoffensive, functional, and enjoyable to listen to.

That the score itself isn't particularly great is almost a non issue compared to the bigger picture: In 2010, we got a large scale orchestral score for a live action Hollywood movie that more-or-less completely refuses to acknowledge the existence of MV/RC. It's a step in the right direction; it's a sign that this is still a viable technique. Like Dragonball Evolution and GI Joe last year - neither of them were particularly good in the great scheme of things... but they were a turn back to the right track.

I can sit and listen to Percy Jackson and not grit my teeth with anger. It will get multiple spins from me, that's certain. I can enjoy it. No, it's not a masterpiece, but it is a solitary weed growing in a desolate post-apocalyptic world of abject despair... Like that small, unassuming shoot of green in Wall-E, it's nothing impressive on its own, but it is a sign that the bad times have perhaps reached the beginning of their end.

As far as Percy Jackson goes, I think it's very average, but in the best possible way; that I mean as a compliment, if it's possible to do so. It's a solid, effective, orchestral fantasy score. It's not groundbreaking or complex, and it has absolutely no individual personality to speak of; it's inoffensive, functional, and enjoyable to listen to.

That the score itself isn't particularly great is almost a non issue compared to the bigger picture: In 2010, we got a large scale orchestral score for a live action Hollywood movie that more-or-less completely refuses to acknowledge the existence of MV/RC. It's a step in the right direction; it's a sign that this is still a viable technique. Like Dragonball Evolution and GI Joe last year - neither of them were particularly good in the great scheme of things... but they were a turn back to the right track.

I can sit and listen to Percy Jackson and not grit my teeth with anger. It will get multiple spins from me, that's certain. I can enjoy it. No, it's not a masterpiece, but it is a solitary weed growing in a desolate post-apocalyptic world of abject despair... Like that small, unassuming shoot of green in Wall-E, it's nothing impressive on its own, but it is a sign that the bad times have perhaps reached the beginning of their end.

Goddamn you tango and your ever wonderful persuasive power. Now I have to listen to this again. I know there are circles of hell reserved for people like you.

I think tango summed it up nicely. These days any hollywood soundtrack that is orchestral is a bit of a rarity and needs to be celebrated even if it is a bit average.

I think tango summed it up nicely. These days any hollywood soundtrack that is orchestral is a bit of a rarity and needs to be celebrated even if it is a bit average.

amen to that. in related news, the main influence on john debneys iron man 2 score is a guy named jerry goldsmith. good choice mr debney.

jerry goldsmith

There is no neck under Jerry Goldsmith's ponytail, only a tatoo of another great score to a B-grade action movie.

At a signing back in the 90s Jerry Goldsmith wrote a few musical notes for a fan on his copy of the soundtrack to The Mummy. Those few notes later became the score to The 13th Warrior. (That fan was, in fact, Graeme Revell)

Jerry Goldsmith wrote the score for Alien between lunchtime and dinnertime, then wrote Star Trek: The Motion Picture for dessert.

The line Harrison Ford speaks from Air Force One "Get off my plane!" is actually based on a feud Jerry Goldsmith once had with Randy Newman in which during a heated argument Goldsmith was known to have said "Get off my podium!"

Before settling on the Euro, the Italian government considered changing their currency from lira to Jerry Goldsmith soundtracks.

Jerry Goldsmith has never had a rejected score. It is his scores that sometimes reject movies.

Jerry Goldsmith's theme to Star Trek Voyager is the first example of a TV series created solely to fit the music he wrote for it.

Jerry Goldsmith was told to write a very classical and tonal score to Planet of the Apes. Something like Mozart or Mendelssohn. But Jerry Goldsmith only takes orders from one person: Jerry Goldsmith.

Once on the Todd AO scoring stage a violist coughed between takes of LA Confidential's soundtrack so Jerry Goldsmith fired the entire orchestra and recorded the entire score entirely with hand farts.

this is a pretty interesting album from 1995
its by no means brilliant but has some pretty nice points that make it worth a listen
its orchestral music with heavy traditional japanese influence.


Takayuki Hattori
Romance of the Three Kingdoms V


1. Dragon of Beam of Light
2. Fragrant Spring
3. Winter Stars
4. The Pulverising Snow Dragon
5. Flower Dragon March
6. Dance of Silver
7. Summer in the Native Place
8. Phoenix Orchid
9. Sea Dragon Arrival
10. The Heavenly Peach Land

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/1GASVE3H/THROTTKV.zip


i also have IV with the hungary philharmonic

There is no neck under Jerry Goldsmith's ponytail, only a tatoo of another great score to a B-grade action movie.

At a signing back in the 90s Jerry Goldsmith wrote a few musical notes for a fan on his copy of the soundtrack to The Mummy. Those few notes later became the score to The 13th Warrior. (That fan was, in fact, Graeme Revell)

Jerry Goldsmith wrote the score for Alien between lunchtime and dinnertime, then wrote Star Trek: The Motion Picture for dessert.

The line Harrison Ford speaks from Air Force One "Get off my plane!" is actually based on a feud Jerry Goldsmith once had with Randy Newman in which during a heated argument Goldsmith was known to have said "Get off my podium!"

Before settling on the Euro, the Italian government considered changing their currency from lira to Jerry Goldsmith soundtracks.

Jerry Goldsmith has never had a rejected score. It is his scores that sometimes reject movies.

Jerry Goldsmith's theme to Star Trek Voyager is the first example of a TV series created solely to fit the music he wrote for it.

Jerry Goldsmith was told to write a very classical and tonal score to Planet of the Apes. Something like Mozart or Mendelssohn. But Jerry Goldsmith only takes orders from one person: Jerry Goldsmith.

Once on the Todd AO scoring stage a violist coughed between takes of LA Confidential's soundtrack so Jerry Goldsmith fired the entire orchestra and recorded the entire score entirely with hand farts.

i also have IV with the hungary philharmonic and XI with the Filmharmonic Orchestra Prague if anyones interested

Very very much so! I'd love to hear these - I'm really enjoying Takayuki's Three Kingdoms.

*waits with baited breath*

;)

here is one for tango, hopefully you will all enjoy


Jun Nagao
The Hungarian Philharmonic
Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV


1. Opening Soaring Heavens
2. Bamboo Hermit
3. Wild Current ~ Uprising
4. Purple Swallow Palace
5. Drunk Moon
6. Imperial Fortress ~ Blazing Horse ~ Glorious Death
7. Balmy Breeze
8. Green Ripple
9. Sea God ~ River of Darkness ~ Funeral Attendance
10. Diao Chan
11. Flower Banquet ~ Ending Horizon of Light

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/0KLBWSQS/JNROTTK.zip

i also have IV with the hungary philharmonic and XI with the Filmharmonic Orchestra Prague if anyones interested

Can you believe that I looked for these ones during a long time before at no avail? I heard some very good comments about them, but finding them was quite some task... Thanks a lot for adding these to my collection. :)




Hey guys, i think what should be worked on is the shockwave film scores.
they have some complete epic sounds. someone should probably work on those and convert to a download or torrent so we can all enjoy.
here is a link to check them out :
http://shockwave-sound.com/Royalty_Free_Cinematic_Music/
there are tons and they could be used.

Some of those sound pretty cliched, but that Yuri Sazonoff is definitely talented.

Perfectly right. Some comments have been overly negative, or just too hasty. Sazonoff's pieces are indeed excellent, but some other composers pieces are... eh.

Very good find, R3BEL (and welcome to the thread).



Oh? Noein, perhaps?

Good guess. ;)

(post delayed due to lack of time, but will be posted in a day or so)

Can you believe that I looked for these ones during a long time before at no avail? I heard some very good comments about them, but finding them was quite some task... Thanks a lot for adding these to my collection. :)

No problem, I'm always glad to contribute to this great thread.
I know I have made many musical discoveries because of you guys that I never would have known about otherwise

Splendid splendid splendid! Thank you! (More constructive comments tomorrow -- I'm off to bed now.) ;)

Takayuki Hattori
Romance of the Three Kingdoms V





Jun Nagao
The Hungarian Philharmonic
Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV

Thanks for both of these, ShadowOnTheSun! I've listened only to part of the Jun Nagao one, but it looks like these are going to be good from what I was able to hear!

I don't remember, but I think I said I was going to post this once before...


Richard Rodgers, Robert Russell Bennett
VICTORY AT SEA



http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?p=1431102#post1431102

Wonderful post JRL3001!
I hear similarities in this score to Rhapsody of Steel by Dimitri Tiomkin.

Here's 2009's best score you never heard of: It's from a German film called Wickie Und Die Starken M�nner, based upon the animated show (a Japanese-German-Austrian co-production) of the early seventies. Better known in English as "Vicky The Viking".

RALF WENGENMAYR
WICKIE UND DIE STARKEN M�NNER (VICKY THE VIKING) - 2009
Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg (The German Film Orchestra Babelsberg)
orchestrated and conducted by
Ralf Wengenmayr



LAME 3.97 -V0 (NOT MY RIP - Credits the original anonymous uploader from Usenet)

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/1TKCHYSG/RWWUDSM2009.rar

Well, that's all I know about it - aside from the fact that it was scored by Ralf Wengenmayr, which is a very good thing indeed. Wengenmayr crafted a good old fashioned, shamelessly melodic, leitmotivic, rambunctious fantasy adventure score that proudly refuses to acknowledge MV, RC's destructive influence on the artform. Out with the false "epicness" and the childish arrangements and the cliched power anthems. In comes a glorious outpouring of melodies you can hum framed in a delightfully florid, enthusiastic, symphonically-minded orchestration that really reminds you of the simple joys that got you into film music.

If you enjoyed Frederic Talgorn's magnificent 2008 score for Asterix At The Olympic Games, you'll enjoy this one.

If I may make on criticism; the cues are rather short (only three run longer than three minutes, and a dozen or so run less than a minute) and therefore do not lend themselves to quite the level of development one would usually like. Still excellent stuff though.

Note: Not my rip! I found this on Usenet eventually after giving up searching my usual channels. This is LAME 3.97 at -V0 - quality is excellent, but there are a handful (and I literally mean just a couple) of ticks to be heard; nothing serious or even noticeable to the untrained ear. If this bothers anybody (notably, our "anything but FLAC is Satan's excrement" constituent) feel free to contribute a better rip, or at least point us to one. This is the best I could find. (Note: I'm too poor to buy this at the moment. New Michiru Oshima, Toshihiko Sahashi, and Yoshihisa Hirano releases ALL in the next six weeks must take priority!)

Enjoy! :)

PS... Another symphonic Wengenmayr score coming up tomorrow.

Thanks for the posting Tango! I'm with you there on crazy new releases coming up. I'm excited for the new Hirano as well as new Ryo Kunihiko coming soon. I wonder which of us will post the upcoming Hirano first? ;)

Are you talking about Chu-Bra!! (which, despite being a show about fourteen year old girls' underwear, is actually VERY VERY GOOD - no, I'm not a pervert) or Book Of Bantorra? ;)

Bantorra, and wait you mean Chu-Bra has good music? (I wasn't aware that Hirano wrote the soundtrack for Chu-Bra)

Hirano scored it. (WHY I will never know.)

It's not a massive orchestral work; it's more intimate. String quartet, solo piano. Very tender, emotional music. First time Hirano ever made me cry (in the emotional sense anyway - I usually cry when I hear something I really enjoy, but that's the first time he ever did that Goldsmith trick - break your heart with two chords.)

OK, Wengenmayr #2 will have to wait! Months and months ago (around the time Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood's first OST was released) I promised this and it entirely slipped my mind. Here is one for fans of Akira Senju, who doesn't just write music film and television - he's equally at home in the concert hall, as this magnificent symphony for soprano, tenor, and orchestra, proves:




AKIRA SENJU
Symphony Of Psalms - The Tale Of Genji (Shihen Kokyokyoku Genji Monogatari)
Takashi Matsumoto (lyricist)
Sara Kobayashi (soprano)
Kunpei Matsumoto (tenor)
The Kyoto Symphony Orchestra (leader: Naohisa Miyama)
Naoto Ohtomo (conductor)



http://uploadmirrors.com/download/1P5AU8HK/AS-TTOG.rar

MY RIP - LAME 3.98 -V0 - Sorry, no scans - my scanner is banjaxed. All the salient information from the booklet is here. Very little of it is in English, at any rate.

I spent two hours in Shibuya looking for this, and despite walking up and down every aisle in the classical section and exchanging some frenzied pantomime with a very confused member of staff, I didn't find it and ended up importing it when I returned to England. (Yes, I know... on holiday in Tokyo and what do I do? Spend it in a record shop.)

This symphony is a sensitive adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's insanely well known 11th century masterpiece "Genji Monogatari". It's been translated into just about every language known to humankind, it's been several films, an anime, and even an opera by Miki Minoru in 1999. Here, Akira Senju takes a shot at this venerable tale and what a shot it is.

This is one of those pieces I don't presume to try to describe in any great detail. It's hypnotically beautiful - not a note is wasted, as is usually the case with Senju. It's just lovely. Anybody who appreciates Senju's work will certainly have a special love for his absolutely unique sense of melody and trademark warm, romantic harmonies. Here, they are truly to the forefront - not that Senju's media scores are anything less than wonderful, but it's so good to hear the man unencumbered and just allowing his imagination to soar. No further description is needed from me, I don't think. Please, listen, and enjoy.

"Tale of Genji runs like a pompous and boring exercise that [will] please all fans of the artist if they approach [it] with the gullibility with which they do own their stressed film." - Miguel Angel Ordonez (a recent review of this piece by a man who is completely missing the point...

AKIRA SENJU
Symphony Of Psalms - The Tale Of Genji (Shihen Kokyokyoku Genji Monogatari)


wonderful share tango

Holy crap - seven downloads already! I didn't realise people liked Senju that much! ;)

You're welcome matey :)

Wonderful tango! I can't wait to get home and listen to this.

AKIRA SENJU
Symphony Of Psalms - The Tale Of Genji (Shihen Kokyokyoku Genji Monogatari)
Takashi Matsumoto (lyricist)
Sara Kobayashi (soprano)
Kunpei Matsumoto (tenor)
The Kyoto Symphony Orchestra (leader: Naohisa Miyama)
Naoto Ohtomo (conductor)


Thanks for this, tangotreats! I must admit that I'm not as into vocal works, but I rather enjoyed it!

Thanks Tangotreats for sharing Symphony of Psalms - The Tale of Genji [Shihen kōkyōkyoku Genji monogatari] by Akira SENJU. Very nice.

In June 1999 I saw Isao TOMITA perform his richer and less sad version of The Tale of Genji with the London Philharmonic Orchestra accompanied by scenes from the mammoth book (reputedly the world�s first novel, and written by a woman) on a 48-section video wall at the Royal Festival Hall in London, which made it very impressive.

Thanks for another Senju. I uploaded a higher res cover here ().

Thank you Tangotreats. For Symphony Of Psalms - The Tale Of Genji. Muchas GRACIAS!!!

I don't know if the rest of you frequent the film score hunt thread, but a few John Barry scores have been shared there in the last couple of days if you want to check it out:

Thread 40522

There's one halfway down this page and a couple on the next.

Those aren't really the same style as the ones I've been and will continue to post. Still good for people who want to hear more of his work. That CD of The Day of the Locust is a bit uninspired though I thought. And it has 3-4 songs on the disc, I assume from the movie.

Ah, I haven't downloaded them yet but plan to. Thanks for the info.

High Road to China posted there is amazing. I can't wait to hear this different release of it. Huge action/adventure and romance soundtrack.

It's crazy how much better Romance of the Three Kingdoms V works as a soundtrack compared to IV. Both are solid orchestral efforts, but I've noticed a lot of the Japanese scores getting posted here tend to be more classical/concert hall efforts rather than soundtracks. It's hard to explain what I mean, but I think a lot of it has to do with the thematic content.

I've enjoyed visiting this thread the past few months and have been consistently amazed at the variety and quality of material found herein. I think I've finally found something from my own collection worthy of contribution:


TORU TAKEMITSU
Orchestral Works
NEXUS, Pacific Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Carl St. Clair
LAME 3.98 VBR V0 MP3 from ALAC



"Takemitsu's genius was to create music that at once expands outward into the universe in ever-repeating waves of sound (like the ripples of a stone dropped into quiet water) and at the same time penetrates inward into the soul of the listener with an unrelenting intensity."

1. From me flows what you call Time (1990)
A wealth of inspirational sources underlie this "concerto" for percussion ensemble and orchestra. The title is taken from the poem "Clear Blue Water" by Makoto Ooka, and was intended by Takemitsu to evoke the century of musical associations flowing through Carnegie Hall on its centennial. The work is built around a 5-note theme, and the number 5 serves as the keynote of the composition, both because of the five members of the Nexus ensemble, and because of the number's symbolism in Tibetan Buddhism. The imagery of the Tibetan "Wind Horse" was in Takemitsu's mind as he composed the piece. The five colored ribbons of the Wind Horse (blue for water, red for fire, yellow for earth, green for wind, and white for sky) are given additional significance by the composer: at the work's premiere on October 19, 1990, he directed that the hall be prepared with five long colored streamers linking the Nexus musicians onstage with delicate bells arranged along the top balcony and gently run as the piece comes to an end.

2. Twill by Twilight (1988) - (in memory of Morton Feldman)
In the original program notes for this large orchestral work, Takemitsu wrote: "The twill weave of the music, as the title intimates, takes effect by means of an extremely limited musical unit -- or what we might better call the musical principle which exists prior to the forming of the melody or the taking shape of the rhythm. Subtle variations in pastel-like colors express the moment just after sunset when twilight turns toward darkness."

3. Requiem (1957) - for String Orchestra
Written at the age of twenty-seven in memory of his mentor and close friend, the Japanese film composer Fumio Hayasaka, Requiem was Takemitsu's first orchestral work. With a sophistication remarkable in so young a composer, this slow, elegiac meditation anticipates the genius for subtle musical color and texture that became characteristic of his later work. Its three sections are marked Lento, Modere, and Moins Lent, causing the composer to laugh later in life, "From the very beginning, I was never able to write an Allegro...." Requiem has established itself as a modern classic and, not surprisingly, was performed by many of the world's orchestras in the weeks and months following Takemitsu's death.

-- Excerpts from the liner notes

I place particular emphasis on the first piece, "From me flows what you call Time," as it truly captures an ethereal essence. It's a bit avant-garde, but I think a bit of patience and open-mindedness will be amply rewarded. Enjoy!

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/ASZC4YZE/T_OW.zip

Welcome to the thread Tazermonkey! Interesting start with some Takemitsu. I have a hard time getting into his different style but its always welcome to have more contributions of what you love :D

Thanks a lot for the last albums posted, tangotreats, ShadowOnTheSun, JRL3001! Mass downloading right now!




I've enjoyed visiting this thread the past few months and have been consistently amazed at the variety and quality of material found herein. I think I've finally found something from my own collection worthy of contribution:


TORU TAKEMITSU
Orchestral Works
NEXUS, Pacific Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Carl St. Clair
LAME 3.98 VBR V0 MP3 from ALAC



Very impressive 1st post in this thread. Not only the album looks very interesting, but the presentation is top-notch. It's like you were a veteran of the Orchestral thread! Thanks a lot.




Hopefully this album hasn't been contributed already.

Furin Kazan by Akira Senju


Could someone please re-upload this one. The RS 10 downloads limit has been reached...



And for the people who asked for a reup of Fracture, here's something they apparently missed:


Fracture Promo Score (MP3 256k)
Composed & Orchestrated by Chris Tilton & Chad Seiter
Performed by the Slovak National Orchestra

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1430993&postcount=23

[CENTER]TORU TAKEMITSU
Orchestral Works
NEXUS, Pacific Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Carl St. Clair


Takemitsu is always so wonderfully unique, great share

I think enough time has passed since my last John Barry post! Here is another ravishing score for you!

John Barry - Across the Sea of Time - EK-67355 - 1995
|Romantic|Orchestral|Relaxing|

MP3|VBR|V0
http://rapidshare.com/files/354924855/Across_the_Sea_of_Time.rar
PSW: smile
FLAC + Scans
http://rapidshare.com/files/354933705/JB-AcrssSoTime.rar
PSW: smile

Review taken from Movie-Wave.net:
Across the Sea of Time, in case you don't know, is an IMAX-3D film about New York, and how it's changed over the years. In other words, it's just basically a visual-feast, more a documentary than a narrative. A perfect opportunity, then, for the composer to showcase his talents. But the music that John Barry has composed for this film must have surpassed even the wildest dreams of the producers.

The main theme, introduced in the first track and reprised with slight alterations three or four times, is one of the lush themes for which Barry has become particularly renowned in the 1990s. It opens with a six-note solo flute motif that is later developed for the full orchestra. There are several other themes throughout the score, most notably a grand, majestic orchestral tour-de-force first heard in the aptly-titled "Never Have I Felt So Free".

"The Subway Ride" is a loud, rhythmic action cue that builds on a "people-moving" motif first expressed in "The Automobile, the Telephone, the Skyscraper", and is just perfect for the scene. "Times Square and Broadway" is a piece of low-key blues, centred around one of the secondary themes of the score.

The finest cue is "Flight Over New York". John Barry composed one of his best-ever themes for The Prince of Tides, but then had a falling out with director Barbra Streisand and so it was never used. He later turned it into the title track of his first Moviola compilation, but it was too good not to be used in a film, and so it turns up here, after a brief introduction, and in a slightly new, even grander, arrangement. The trouble is that Shawn Murphy's recording does it no favours: the brass counterpoint to the glorious crescendos is virtually inaudible, and this gives the impression that the orchestra is a lot smaller than it actually is. But that is a minor quibble.

Across the Sea of Time is just perfect to listen to; beautiful themes, and every single piece is a musical entity into itself. Barry is unquestionably the finest melodist working in film at the moment, and this score will surely appeal to any who like good, old-fashioned, emotion-filled romantic music.
http://www.movie-wave.net/titles/across_sea_time.html

[QUOTE=Sirusjr;1202078]Bernard Herman - Concert Suites



Thanks for the share.

good news everyone-not only is john debney scoring iron man 2, but PREDATORS as well. i really hope he can find his way back to blockbusters. we need him desperately.

Hello guys, does anyone have promo score Christopher Stone - Treasure Island: The Adventure Begins (1994)? It's supposed to be swashbuckling gold in par with lets say Debney's Cutthroat Island!



Thanks!

i also have IV with the hungary philharmonic and XI with the Filmharmonic Orchestra Prague if anyones interested


Hi, many thanks if you can share the XI soundtrack with Philharmonic Orchestra Praha!

hey guys, this thread is extremely hot ! only masterpieces ! thank you so much to all of you !
i'm looking for a song now for years now , and i'd like to know if someone can upload it or give me some advice to find it ! it's meridian dance , from seiken densetsu 2, the orchestral version done by Eminence Symphony Orchestra
Here is the link to a video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNoHt458uIo
thanks again for all the links !

Thanks for Takemitsu-this is a wondrous recording- His Requiem I heard live in San Diego-

thank you

Do you guys think we should make "the big relaxing music thread" or something to share things like romantic comedy orchestral scores and romantic stuff or just keep with having a bit of everything in here?

Also I wanted to direct everyone to the new La La Land release of Love Happens by Christopher Young. I ordered it after listening to the samples because the last one made me cry a little bit. Such a beautiful score!
http://www.lalalandrecords.com/LoveHappens.html
I am told it is a rarity for the quality scores from romantic movies to be released so please buy this score if you like the samples.

I see where you're coming from, but this thread has already expanded beyond the 'action' stamp. What about those pieces that contain both (a basic principle of classical composition, and a natural corollary in the art of film scoring) and everything in between..?

I think Arthierr should change the thread title to simply 'THE BIG ORCHESTRAL THREAD' ;)

Hello guys, does anyone have promo score Christopher Stone - Treasure Island: The Adventure Begins (1994)? It's supposed to be swashbuckling gold in par with lets say Debney's Cutthroat Island!



Thanks!

I had it once, and its not on par with Cutthroat...ok first track has amazing moments. the score suffers from a very image-bound scoring. every time you think it really starts, it immediatly stops or shifts to comedy music. never heard it in such an extreme form. its like dozens and dozens of short cues combined, not maching together. except for first track. that is awesome.

Would be nice to hear that first track...

"Tale of Genji runs like a pompous and boring exercise that [will] please all fans of the artist if they approach [it] with the gullibility with which they do own their stressed film." - Miguel Angel Ordonez (a recent review of this piece by a man who is completely missing the point...

I wonder if he called it "pompous" because the composer called it a symphony when it definitely is not. It's more a song cycle, but in Japan they love attaching the word "symphony" to everything with strings (as we do here in the west as well.) Call it a song cycle and all of a sudden the listening experience is a different one.

The songs are really lovely, but I wish there was more orchestral-only fanfare like in tracks 1, 7, and 10. It's the moments where the melody strays from the simple harmonic progressions and pop-like synchopated rhythms that add depth to the story-telling. The best I can describe the music is what Broadway musicals would sound like if Andrew Lloyd Webber was Japanese.

It's a great for what it is: a collection of songs in the Japanese orchestral style based around a story. I think the writer of the negative review made the mistake of judging it in a tone poem framework, hence the constant name-dropping of classical composers. What do Stravinsky and Shostakovich have to do with anything here? Nothing. This is orchestral music in a very familiar-sounding Japanese style and is not trying to break new ground, nor should it.

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Do you guys think we should make "the big relaxing music thread" or something to share things like romantic comedy orchestral scores and romantic stuff or just keep with having a bit of everything in here?

Technically, this thread has become, as Lens said, an Orchestral Thread, so any kind of orchestral music can be posted here, romantic or not. But of course, if you want to start a Romantic Thread (orchestral or not), this would be a nice initiative.

And thanks for another Barry. ;)




cuckoo jai the linking for downloaded the b�o of
Christopher Stone - Treasure Island: The Adventure Begins

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http://rapidshare.com/files/32013697/CLS_TreaIsl.rar.html

Hey, thanks! Just started to listen, and it's very good, some authentic old-school big orchestral swashbuckling.



Christopher L. Stone
Treasure Island: The Adventure Begins
(1994)

Conducted by Christopher L. Stone
Performed by The Pro Arte Orchestra Of London

|MP3|320|96MB|

Jeff Mills And Montpellier Philarmonic Orchestra Blue Potential 2004 Live Classic & techno verry verry good Style John Williams Star Wars & Don Davis The matrix

http://rapidshare.com/files/163375284/_tresor_223__Jeff_Mills_And_Montpellier_Philarmoni c_Orchestra__-Blue_Potential.zip

warstar937: I don't quite understand you, but thanks a bunch for the link for Treasure Island! I have this piratey mood right now, and it will be a great relief from the Hans Zimmer's Muppet Treasure Island soundtrack I've been listening to nonstop all day :)

One more time, thanks!

Just a thought, do you guys think we should merge the classical thread with this one? It does have the symptoms of becoming a "Orchestral Music" thread, severing it's restriction to being a pure soundtrack one.

Oh, and I have got my hands on all of Beethoven's symphonies, so expect those soon. :)

Could someone reup elmer berstine heavy metal please?

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

reup please bump last

Okay Mr. Evangelion fan, there is a thing called patience. You really need to bug us every 20 minutes for the score? If you need it so desperately, find it yourself! If you won't do that, then at least have the decency to wait until someone re-uploads it.

If you do something stupid as this again, I don't think anyone in this thread here will mind at all just ignoring any of your future requests.

EDIT: On to happier things, I am debating between posting Beethoven's Symphonies or the very much action oriented Basilisk - The Kōga Ninja Scrolls.

I am debating between posting Beethoven's Symphonies or the very much action oriented Basilisk - The Kōga Ninja Scrolls.

Perhaps prioritise 'Basilisk'. I've just posted the symphonies here (Thread 74443) (the more the merrier, however :)).

Doublehex, it seems Lens beat you to posting Beethoven's symphonies
Thread 74443

Perhaps prioritise 'Basilisk'. I've just posted the symphonies here (Thread 74443) (the more the merrier, however :)).

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...I suppose I can post Basilisk. It's smaller anyway.

JOHN BARRY - THE BEYONDNESS OF THINGS
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by the composer



MP3-V0 + scans
http://rapidshare.com/files/357894750/Barry_Beyond.rar

Last week I had a wonderful 'Barry moment' - walking through the snow at 6am with my Zen on shuffle, 'Dance with Reality' began to play, and wow, I knew I had to post :). Included partial scans because there are some nice quotes and pics of JB. As an aside, I'm rather attached to York myself (in fact I'm a VERY nostalgic person in general, especially for existential details of time and place), so it's lovely to think it inspired some of this music. The theme of the old world and the new comes through in pieces that are both wistful, sad and optimistic all at once. Other favourite tracks include 'Heartlands' and 'Meadow of Delight and Sadness'. Enjoy!

Basilisk - The Kōga Ninja Scrolls (All three volumes)



This .rar holds all three volumes of the soundtrack. Very well done fusion of traditional japanese instruments and chorus in the battle tracks, not to mention the occasional rock instrument. The drama files were removed, leaving you with all of the music instead.


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JVDF3M72

[QUOTE=Lens of Truth;1440756Last week I had a wonderful 'Barry moment' - walking through the snow at 6am with my Zen on shuffle, 'Dance with Reality' began to play, and wow, I knew I had to post :). Included partial scans because there are some nice quotes and pics of JB. As an aside, I'm rather attached to York myself (in fact I'm a VERY nostalgic person in general, especially for existential details of time and place), so it's lovely to think it inspired some of this music. The theme of the old world and the new comes through in pieces that are both wistful, sad and optimistic all at once. Other favourite tracks include 'Heartlands' and 'Meadow of Delight and Sadness'. Enjoy![/QUOTE]

I've been trying to snag all the Barry I can get my hands on lately -- thanks!

JOHN BARRY - THE BEYONDNESS OF THINGS

Thank you for this Lens.
I've read good things about this album, but never had the opportunity to listen.
And i love those "Barry moments" too. Never heard from a composer that musically conceives a sense of nostalgia, like Barry does.
Probably only Morricone comes close to him in this aspect.



I've been trying to snag all the Barry I can get my hands on lately -- thanks!

You have chosen..wisely :)

Okay Mr. Evangelion fan, there is a thing called patience. You really need to bug us every 20 minutes for the score? If you need it so desperately, find it yourself! If you won't do that, then at least have the decency to wait until someone re-uploads it.

If you do something stupid as this again, I don't think anyone in this thread here will mind at all just ignoring any of your future requests.

EDIT: On to happier things, I am debating between posting Beethoven's Symphonies or the very much action oriented Basilisk - The Kōga Ninja Scrolls.

I wasn't being impatiet or desperate I relized that I should have quoted the post the first time so it was a mistake and if i post on here again I will be sure to be careful

Koichi Sugiyama
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony
Dragon Quest IX: Protectors of the Starry Sky


1. Overture IX
2. Angelic Land
3. Destiny ~ Prologue to Tragedy
4. Oboe Melody in the Castle
5. Beckoning ~ Dream Vision of our Town ~ Tavern Polka ~ Beckoning
6. Hills and Meadows ~ Together in the Fields ~ Soaring in the Sky ~ Hills and Meadows
7. Village Bathed in Light ~ Village in Darkness
8. Build-up to Victory ~ Confused Ambitions
9. Gloomy Cavern ~ Dungeon Waltz ~ Atmosphere of Death
10. Gathering Place ~ Altar of Change ~ Sadness of the Heart
11. Sandy's Theme ~ Sandy's Tears ~ Sandy's Theme
12. Pathway to Good Fortune ~ Cathedral of Emptiness
13. Final Battle
14. Journey to the Star-Filled Skies ~ Defender of the Star-Filled Skies

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/H0TYADKY/KSDQIX.zip


for those of you not familiar with the dragon quest series, i am uploading a custom "Best of" and all of the symphonic suites (1-7 london, 8 tokyo)

[QUOTE=Lens of Truth;1440756][CENTER]JOHN BARRY - THE BEYONDNESS OF THINGS
English Chamber Orchestra conducted by the composer

John Barry, is and will forever be best for me.

It is very cheerful, melancholy and sad, according to my personality fits me your beautiful music.

It has made me very happy day, Thank you very much!

If you don't know where to start i'd start with Dragon Quest IV, VII, or Best of

this is a self made best of album,
I-VII with London Philharmonic
VIII with Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra


Koichi Sugiyama
Best of Dragon Quest (I-VIII)

1. Overture (VII)
2. Menuet (IV)
3. Into the Legend (III)
4. To My Loved One (VII)
5. Satan (V)
6. Heavenly Flight (III)
7. Comrades (IV)
8. Sky, Ocean, Earth (VIII)
9. Ending (IV)
10. Pegasus ~ Saint's Wreath (VI)
11. Chateau Ladutorm (I-II)
12. Healing Power of the Psalms ~ Friar's Determination (VIII)
13. Rondo (III)
14. Noble Requiem ~ Saint (V)
15. Triumphal Return ~ Epilogue (VII)
16. Eternal Lullaby (VI)
17. Morning in Eden (VII)
18. Bridal Waltz (V)

http://www.multiupload.com/Z20C9IDRC1

If you don't know where to start i'd start with Dragon Quest IV, VII, or Best of



Koichi Sugiyama
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Dragon Quest I & II


1. Overture
2. Ch�teau Ladutorm
3. People
4. Unknown World
5. Battle
6. Dungeon
7. Dragonlord
8. Finale
9. Dragon Quest March
10. Lonely Boy
11. Pastoral ~ Catastrophe
12. Ch�teau
13. Town
14. Fright in Dungeon ~ Devil's Tower
15. Requiem
16. Endless World
17. Beyond the Waves
18. Fight to the Death ~ Dead or Alive
19. My Road, My Journey

http://www.multiupload.com/3CU0M5FULE

If you don't know where to start i'd start with Dragon Quest IV, VII, or Best of


Koichi Sugiyama
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Dragon Quest III: Into The Legend


1. Roto
2. Prologue
3. Rondo
4. Around the World
5. Adventure
6. Dungeon ~ Tower ~ The Phantom Ship
7. Distant Memories
8. Requiem ~ Small Shrine
9. Sailing
10. Heavenly Flight
11. Gruelling Battle
12. Zoma's Castle
13. Fighting the Spirit
14. Into the Legend

http://www.multiupload.com/M0L8E747Z0

If you don't know where to start i'd start with Dragon Quest IV, VII, or Best of


Koichi Sugiyama
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Dragon Quest IV: Guided People


1. Overture
2. Minuet
3. Comrades
4. In a Town
5. Homeland ~ Wagon Wheel's March
6. Frightening Dungeons ~ Cursed Towers
7. Elegy ~ Mysterious Shrine
8. Balloon's Flight
9. Sea Breeze
10. The Unknown Castle
11. Battle for the Glory
12. Ending

http://www.multiupload.com/22NNP95SD1