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tangotreats

04-02-2011, 02:03 AM

A very bad April Fools joke. The "Hans Zimmer / Danny Elfman / Burt Bacharach / A Dead Goat Replaces Score By John Williams" story is becoming almost as repetitive, tired, and unimaginative as the scores put out by Zimmer's sweatshop.

For folk who are not aware, Alan Smithee is a pseudonym name used in the movie business by directors, actors, composers, etc, who wish to disassociate themselves from the production - maybe because their contribution was watered down or misrepresented by outside (ie, studio) interference or sometimes just because they're crushingly disappointed with the finished product.

Mr Smithee, along with his Japanese colleague "Mr Joki Sonyu", has also been known to pen outrageous news stories on April Fools' Day.

No panic, folks.

PS - I'm still around, just been kicked up the arse by the virus from HELL last Monday and have been sorting it out all week... Only just got myself back online. Antimalware Doctor is the spawn of the devil.

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For those who love the big orchestral sound!!! Rich orchestral sonorities FTW! Elephantine and resonant orchestrations!!!

Excellent stuff... but is it really necessary to stuff up the comments on those Youtube videos with gems such as "Piss off, you blockhead!" and "That's why I told ya : PISS OFF!!" - the man is entitled to his opinion, and I happen to support it: Ravel is possibly the finest orchestrator who ever lived and his version of Pictures is definitive. Very few people will disagree with that. He comes over as a bit of an arrogant sod, but that's to be expected in classical music circles... Debate first, swear later... That video was uploaded by the BBC. I'm sure they'd be impressed...

(hater)

Mate, you really have to stop gushing about every single piece of crap score there is out there, just because it displays a passing spark of vague intelligence in terms of its use of the symphony orchestra. I know that pickings are rather slim at the moment, but they're not going to get any thicker by blindly praising some rubbish simply because it is 1% less rubbish than the norm. That's like nominating Gaddafi for a peace prize because he hasn't killed as many people as Hitler did...

hater

04-02-2011, 09:16 AM

A very bad April Fools joke. The "Hans Zimmer / Danny Elfman / Burt Bacharach / A Dead Goat Replaces Score By John Williams" story is becoming almost as repetitive, tired, and unimaginative as the scores put out by Zimmer's sweatshop.

For folk who are not aware, Alan Smithee is a pseudonym name used in the movie business by directors, actors, composers, etc, who wish to disassociate themselves from the production - maybe because their contribution was watered down or misrepresented by outside (ie, studio) interference or sometimes just because they're crushingly disappointed with the finished product.

Mr Smithee, along with his Japanese colleague "Mr Joki Sonyu", has also been known to pen outrageous news stories on April Fools' Day.

No panic, folks.

PS - I'm still around, just been kicked up the arse by the virus from HELL last Monday and have been sorting it out all week... Only just got myself back online. Antimalware Doctor is the spawn of the devil.

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Excellent stuff... but is it really necessary to stuff up the comments on those Youtube videos with gems such as "Piss off, you blockhead!" and "That's why I told ya : PISS OFF!!" - the man is entitled to his opinion, and I happen to support it: Ravel is possibly the finest orchestrator who ever lived and his version of Pictures is definitive. Very few people will disagree with that. He comes over as a bit of an arrogant sod, but that's to be expected in classical music circles... Debate first, swear later... That video was uploaded by the BBC. I'm sure they'd be impressed...

Mate, you really have to stop gushing about every single piece of crap score there is out there, just because it displays a passing spark of vague intelligence in terms of its use of the symphony orchestra. I know that pickings are rather slim at the moment, but they're not going to get any thicker by blindly praising some rubbish simply because it is 1% less rubbish than the norm. That's like nominating Gaddafi for a peace prize because he hasn't killed as many people as Hitler did...
i love being overenthusiastic.have no idea how source code sounds, that was quoted from a review somewhere. alpha and omega was pure 90s style, so i have high hopes for it.source code was planned for clint mansell, so bacon is definately a step up.in other news, go to marco beltramis website for several full cues from soul surfer.great, low key thriller score with hawaiian singing, very intriguing. you should be happy with it.
have i mentioned how much i love Murray Golds Dr. Who scores? Is that a perfect way of combining classic and modern music or what????

Tsobanian

04-02-2011, 10:13 AM

Ahhh, thank you! I don't know any of these.

Edit: And WOW! I can see this Pictures at an Exhibition becoming my favourite, ahead of Stokowski's. Of course, the different orchestrations all have commonalities - there are, perhaps, only so many ways to interpret the inherent colour of the original - but this might be the most vividly pictorial of all. Brilliantly wide-ranging recording too.

Dude, this sounds great, and huge! Amazing stuff indeed, thanks for posting!

Cheers fellas!!
Please, be bound to remember that if you really liked the disc don't hasitate to buy it in order to support the label. This kind of stuff is rare, and labels pay a lot of money to record rarities and curiosities (especially when they feature big instrumentations).

Yup, Lyrita delivered! I also like the Mussorgsky-Stokowski Pictures. But it's hard to choose which is the best. I really like Wood's Bydlo and Great Gate of Kiev. When I heard Henry Wood's Bydlo for the first time, it brought me tears....It was vividly pictorial.

Wood's orchestration was once described by Gordon Jacob as "superior in picturesqueness to the Ravel", with its off-stage camel-bells in "Bydlo" and grand organ in "The Great Gate of Kiev".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_at_an_Exhibition#Arrangements_and_interpr etations

Another selection of big orchestral sound. All of them lossless.

20th CENTURY BACH (VIRTUOSO ORCHESTRAL TRANSCRIPTIONS)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus*

(Philips Classics Productions, 1992)

Grab it here! (http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0KU7U9SV)

Contents :
1. Toccata and fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (arr. Leopold Stokowski )
2. Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079 (Ricerdare a 6) (arr. Anton Webern )
3. Chaconne from Partita in D minor, BWV 1004 (arr. Hideo Saito )

4 - 9. Choral variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her", BWV 769* (arr. Igor Stravinsky )

10. Prelude and Fugue, E-flat major "St. Anne", BWV 552 (arr. Arnold Schoenberg )

Seiji Ozawa - Bach's Instrumental Works - Recordings (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/NVP/Ozawa.htm#T2)

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BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin

BACH TRANSCRIPTIONS Slatkin : Classical CD Reviews-August 2000 Music on the Web(UK) (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2000/aug00/bachtranscription.htm)
tracklist & samples (http://anonym.to/?http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Details.aspx?CatalogueNumber=CHAN%209835)

Grab it here! (http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FJZKUFZG)

Contents :
Bach-Bantock: Chorale Prelude Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645, transcribed for orchestra [5:27]
Bach-Elgar: Fantasia & Fugue in C minor, BWV 537, transcribed for orchestra, Op. 86 [9:07]
Bach-Holst: Fugue in G major ("Jig"), BWV 577, transcribed for orchestra (Fugue � la gigue) [3:04]
Bach-Honegger: Pr�lude et Fugue of the Noces d'Amour et de Psych�, H68b [5:28]
Bach-Raff: Chaconne (Mvt. 5) from Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004, arranged for large orchestra, WoO.40 [13:01]
Bach-Reger: Chorale Prelude O Mensch, bewein' dein' S�nde gross, BWV 622, transcribed for orchestra [5:56]
Bach-Respighi: Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor, BWV 582, arranged for orchestra, P. 159 [13:46]
Bach-Schoenberg: Prelude & Fugue in E flat major ("St. Anne"), BWV 552, arranged for orchestra [14:35]
Bach-Vaughan-Williams: Chorale Prelude Wir glauben all an einen Gott (I), BWV 680, arranged for string orchestra [2:33]

Leonard Slatkin - Bach's Instrumental Works - Recordings (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/NVP/Slatkin.htm#T5)

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Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)
The Conductors’ Transcriptions
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin

JS BACH The Conductor's Transcriptions CHANDOS CHSA 5030 [TB]: Classical CD Reviews- August 2004 MusicWeb(UK) (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/Aug04/Bach_conductors.htm)
SA-CD.net - Bach: The Conductors' Transcriptions - Slatkin (http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/2116)
tracklist & samples (http://anonym.to/?http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Details.aspx?CatalogueNumber=CHAN%205030)

Grab it here! (http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MX3QBT05)

Contents :
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565
Orchestrated by Stanislav Skrowaczewski (b. 1923)

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, from Cantata, BWV147
Orchestrated by Eugene Ormandy (1899-1985)

Herzlich tut mich verlangen: Chorale Prelude, BWV727
Orchestrated by Erich Leinsdorf (1912-1993)

Suite No. 6 for full orchestra
Orchestrated by Sir Henry Wood (1869-1944)

Air, from Suite No. 3, BWV1068
Orchestrated by Sir Malcolm Sargent (1895-1967)

Sheep May Safely Graze, from Cantata, BWV208
Orchestrated by Sir John Barbirolli (1899-1970)

Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV542
Orchestrated by Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960)

Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ: Chorale Prelude, BWV639
Orchestrated by Vittorio Gui (1885-1975)

Bist du bei mir:, BWV508, from Clavierb�chlein
Orchestrated by Otto Klemperer (1885-1973)

A Mighty Fortress is Our God: Chroale Prelude, BWV720
Orchestrated by Walter Damrosch (1862-1950)

A list for J.S. Bach Orchestral Transcriptions
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Arran/L-Orchestra.htm

arthierr

04-02-2011, 04:04 PM

What a relief! Although this Alan Smithee name was familiar, but I didn't know it was used for such purpose. Anyway, this guy at JWF did succeed at tricking some people - bravo for that!

About re-orchestrations of classical works, frankly, this is a non-debate. These pieces are usually superbly orchestrated from the beginning, sometimes even in the best possible way, no doubt about it; but it's not a crime to try other ways to incarnate the same music, and to experiment with the incredible possibilities allowed by a symphony orchestra. For an orchestrator, it must even be some kind of exciting temptation to do that, having all this top-notch musical material in front of him, awaiting to get a new, fresh, alternative orchestrational treatment. So let them do, let them have some fun, and stop being overly purist, or downright jerk. (This is addressed to the distinguished gentlemen who made the comments in the YT vid.)

Tsobanian - thanks for more awesome stuff!

its here for download though i refuse to download new releases.

Nothing really wrong about it, *IF*, like me, you do it for trying only, as you would do in a local music store or an e-music merchant. Then, if you really like it, you can buy the real product.

tangotreats

04-02-2011, 09:02 PM

i love being overenthusiastic.have no idea how source code sounds, that was quoted from a review somewhere. alpha and omega was pure 90s style, so i have high hopes for it.source code was planned for clint mansell, so bacon is definately a step up.in other news, go to marco beltramis website for several full cues from soul surfer.great, low key thriller score with hawaiian singing, very intriguing. you should be happy with it.
have i mentioned how much i love Murray Golds Dr. Who scores? Is that a perfect way of combining classic and modern music or what????

I rather like Mansell, when he's doing his own thing. He's not an orchestral composer and he doesn't pretend to be... but Bacon has the chops if you'll pardon the pun... he just hasn't used them yet.

I listened to Soul Surfer... Absolute crap. Beltrami regurgitating Goldsmith, minus the skill and plus the now-ubiquitous ethnic racket and percussion loops.

Of course I agree with you regards Doctor Who... but I find them at their best when they're not trying to be modern and cool... and I told Murray as much when I met him in January. I Am The Doctor, etc, is fun enough but the Who scores really shine in Silence In The Library, etc... extravagant, old fashioned, well constructed.

There's a theme coming up in Series 6 that'll have you in tears... a tender, lilting melody - something resembling a love theme, but not quite... very hard to explain... It's a weird little piece - out of kilter, sweet, off balance... and it didn't half cause a lot of trouble at the recording session. The version of it you'll hear in the show was take SEVEN...

Tsobanian

04-02-2011, 09:30 PM

Excellent stuff... but is it really necessary to stuff up the comments on those Youtube videos with gems such as "Piss off, you blockhead!" and "That's why I told ya : PISS OFF!!" - the man is entitled to his opinion, and I happen to support it: Ravel is possibly the finest orchestrator who ever lived and his version of Pictures is definitive. Very few people will disagree with that. He comes over as a bit of an arrogant sod, but that's to be expected in classical music circles... Debate first, swear later... That video was uploaded by the BBC. I'm sure they'd be impressed...

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Actually Mussorgsky-Ravel is the most balanced, imaginative and evocative orchestration throughout the whole work. The problem is not the fact that Ravel's orchestration is highly acclaimed and very popular. The problem is this tendency that says ' There is only room for Mussorgsky-Ravel! All the rest is either wrong, or gargabe, or pathetic.'

The Ravel 'fanboys' are the problem here. The 2nd most known orchestration is in fact the Musorgsky-Stokowski. Beyond that point, most people are unaware of the existence of other orchestrations. In some 'places', they use the Mussorgsky-Stokowski to show you how to do in the wrong way (or how not to do it), and the Mussorgsky-Ravel becomes the 'right way'.
There is no doubt that Koussevitzky and Ravel had good public relations, to make the score even more popular.

But still I think it is getting ridiculous with all the hundreds of CDs of Mussorgky-Ravel piling up. It is a situation that suffocates every effort to introduce the listeners to other people's ideas. There are orchestrations who 'crave/yearn' for one single recording. I repeat one single recording! And with all this unfriendly enviroment which one could characterize as 'We put Mussorgsky-Ravel on a pedestal and adore it! If anyone else dares to rear his head then walk over him at will!! Never question the one and only true God (=Mussorgsky-Ravel)!', other orchestrations are struggling to gain some popularity, whereas some of them will simply vanish into obscurity for the rest of the music history. I firmly believe that this is a grave injustice. This is a monarchy, and in the modern world the majority of people demands, seeks and exacts democratical pluralism.

I think Slatkin puts it very nicely.
YouTube - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition. Various orchestrations. Leonard Slatkin conducting. (6/6) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqFSIlI-PGs)

So everytime a rare orchestration for Pictures comes up, and you see people writing 'Oh my god, how awful!', 'This is disgusting...', 'appaling', 'Ravel is much much better!...' etc, there is no doubt that these gyus are narrow-minded Ravel - fanboys. Therefore they have to be flamed, cursed and sworn upon.
This is the minimum (yet insufficient) we can do to create a friendly enviroment where other orchestrations for Pictures at an Exhibition will be more welcomed-accepted......

tangotreats

04-02-2011, 10:55 PM

Doublehex

04-03-2011, 05:03 AM

Coming Soon: A 33"8 Symphonic Suite of a score, to a Chinese television series you have probably never heard of, by a composer you most likely do not know even exists, that will leave you ecstatic.

Doublehex

04-05-2011, 01:50 AM

Oh, what's this? The site is back up now? Well then!

MU.com (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LS2X5K10)

I have a hard time going into any real, manageable, detail about this. Not because it is plain, boring, or just forgettable because to admit those would make me a liar. This is nothing short of beauty, breath taking, and is just sheer wonders to behold. I have listened to this half a dozen times, front to back, and I am always caught in the sublime composition.

Simply put, I am not capable of putting into words just how awesome this is. You just have to listen for yourself.

Sirusjr

04-05-2011, 02:55 AM

Fans of 60s scores should check out the new Intrada release of North to Alaska (Lionel Newman) and Two Flags West (Hugo Friedhofer). Both are presented in stereo on one disc.
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/206489_10150156157502169_569387168_6518881_3881503 _n.jpg
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/200194_10150156157457169_569387168_6518880_5202614 _n.jpg
TWO FLAGS WEST / NORTH TO ALASKA (http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7038/.f)

Sanico

04-05-2011, 04:48 AM

Thank you Doublehex for your sharing.

Zhao Jiping is considered as the "Chinese John Williams", not that their music are alike or something but probably his popularity is due to the fact that he worked in the past with big name Chinese directors like Chen Kaige or Zhang Yimou. Seems that he was surpassed by Tan Dun, but then both composers are inactive at working for films in the recent years anyway.
I recommend anyone to listen the album Electric Shadows, a compilation of Zhao Jiping music for films and performed by the China Symphony Orchestra, especially the 2 track suite 'Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker'.

Tsobanian

04-05-2011, 08:30 AM

Oh, absolutely agreed.

Certainly there's room for other interpretations of Pictures - maybe the most orchestrated and reorchestrated piece in history.

All that guy said was that the orchestra was rubbish (a matter of opinion) and that he prefered Ravel's arrangement. I don't think that quite warrants such a flame. Not far off, but not quite. ;)

Forget about the guy
Ya, Pictures at an Exhibition must be now overdue to enter the Guinness Book of Records as the most transcribed, arranged, adapted and orchestrated piano work.
And concentrating on the orchestrations only, even J.S. Bach infamous Toccata & Fugue BWV 565 doesn't have so many.
A Clinton Nieweg chart for Orchestrations and Arrangements on MOLA. A must-have!
http://www.mola-inc.org/Mussorgsky.pdf

Again the Ravel orchestration is something superb - it works so well on the whole. Yet there are people who opposed and claimed that the Ravel version sounds too French/Gallic, thus not conveying the Russian-Slavic soul congruently (see Leopold Stokowski and Vladimir Ashkenazy).
For instance, the Sir Henry Wood orchestration I posted on the previous page has some pictures that sound distasteful, unbalanced and horrendous ("The old castle" with its off-stage euphonium). But some others are quite interesting and a surprising indulgence (Bydlo, Two Polish Jews, Great Gate of Kiev).
Depsite the inferiority to the Ravel version, despite the flaws and the awkward moments, I still believe that "orchestrations by others" deserve to be recorded at least once. In this particular way, people who are curious and quidnunc can grab the CDs and listen to "other people's ideas".

Take for instance Douglas Gamley's Great Gate of Kiev, scored for large orchestra, male chorus and organ. It is such an indulgence, really breathtaking! Or Sir Henry Wood's "Two Polish Jews, One rich the other poor" is quite unforgettable with all the orchestral effects. The Rich Jew is played on double bass and woodwinds which depicts his oily, luxurious, voluptuous, apolaustic personality. The harp glissandos were a stunning success and the dialogue between the rich and poor is conveyed as a mighty dichotomy.

Or what about Lucien Cailliet? It's a lovely orchestration with only one recording back in the '30s
MOUSSORGSKY-CAILLET: Pictures at an Exhibition : Eugene Ormandy, conductor : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/Moussorgsky-cailletPicturesAtAnExhibition)
Lucien Cailliet (Composer, Arranger) - Short Biography (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Cailliet-Lucien.htm)

But I guess the most wronged-damnified version is the one by Leonidas Leonardi (Also known as Leonid Leonardi and Leon Leonardi).
Leonidas Leonardi (Arranger) - Short Biography (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Leonardi-Leon.htm)
Thank God the Sergei Gortchakov, Sir Henry Wood, Lawrence Leonard, Vladimir Ashkenazy versions were all recorded hitherto and in digital quality!!

I am quite curious to hear the Byrwec Ellison version one day....

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RESPIGHI: PINES OF ROME - MUSSORGSKY: PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)

MUSSORGSKY Pictures RESPIGHI Pines WARNER 2564 61954-2 [LF]: Classical CD Reviews- August 2005 MusicWeb-International (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2005/Aug05/Pictures_pines_2564619542.htm)
disc details (http://anonym.to/?http://warnerclassics.com/release.php?release=4506)

Ottorino Respighi - Pini di Roma (BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Tadaaki Otaka)
1. I pini di Villa Borghese (Allegro Vivace)
2. Pini presso una catacomba (Lento)
3. I pini del Gianicolo (Lento)
4. I pini della Via Appia (Tempo di marcia)

Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus*. Various orchestrations compiled by Leonard Slatkin)
5. Promenade 1 (orch. Byrwec Ellison )
6. Gnomus (orch. Sergey Gorchakov )
7. Promenade 2 (orch. Walter Goehr )
8. Il vecchio castello (orch. Emile Naoumoff )
9. Promenade 3 and Tuileries (orch. Geert van Keulen )
10. Bydlo (orch. Vladimir Ashkenazy)
11. Promenade 4 (orch. Carl Simpson )
12. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (orch. Lucien Cailliet )
13. Two Polish Jews, One Rich, One Poor (orch. Sir Henry Wood )
14. Promenade 5 (orch. Lawrence Leonard )
15. Limoges: Le marche (orch. Leo Funtek )
16. Catacombae - Sepulcrum Romanum - (orch. John Boyd )
17. Cum mortuis in lingua mortua (orch. Maurice Ravel )
18. The Hut in Hen's Legs - Baba Yaga (orch. Leopold Stokowski )
19. The Great Gate of Kiev (orch. Douglas Gamley )*

Grab it here in lossless (http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JQADV618)

And for those who missed Leonard Slatkin's 1st compendium suite for "Pictures at an Exhibition"

Pianist Joanna MacGregor interviewing several people, including Leonard Slatkin, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Edward Johnson (doyen of Leopold Stokowski Society) and Lawrence Leonard about the several orchestrations for "Pictures at an Exhibition".

Part1
YouTube - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition. An introduction to various orchestration part 1/2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cUg5DiGOd4)

Part2
YouTube - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition. An introduction to various orchestration part 2/2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-qNwq7gKvg)

At a Promenade Concert on Monday, August 19th 1991 we heard Leonard Slatkin's brilliant first compilation from nine different orchestrations of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, a remarkably successful initiative, reminding us, as it did, of how many arrangements there have been of this evocative score. Then he went for extracts from Lawrence Leonard’s version for piano and orchestra, from Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lucien Cailliet, Sergey Gorchakov, Leonidas Leonardi, Sir Henry Wood, Mikhail Tushmalov, Leopold Stokowski and Maurice Ravel.
It was the indefatigable Edward Johnson, champion of Leopold Stokowski, we had to thank for getting Slatkin interested and finding some of the scores.
Slatkin’s first compilation, although he played it round the world, has never been commercially released, which makes it all the more pleasing to welcome his second version on this CD from the 2004 Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.
.......................
MUSSORGSKY Pictures RESPIGHI Pines WARNER 2564 61954-2 [LF]: Classical CD Reviews- August 2005 MusicWeb-International (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2005/Aug05/Pictures_pines_2564619542.htm)

Leonard Slatkin's 1st composite suite contains :
1. Promenade (Lawrence Leonard)
2. Gnomus (Vladimir Ashkenazy)
3. Promenade II (Lucien Cailliet)
4. The Old Castle (Sergei Gorchakov)
5. Promenade III (Leonidas Leonardi)
6. Tuileries (Leonidas Leonardi)
7. Bydlo (Sir Henry Wood)
8. Promenade IV (Lucien Cailliet)
9. Ballet of the unhatched chicks (Lucien Cailliet)
10. 2 Polish-Jews, One Rich, the other Poor (Sergei Gorchakov)
11.Promenade V (Lucien Cailliet)
12.Limoges ; the Market (Mikhail Tushmalov)
13.Catacombs (Leopold Stokowski)
14.Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua (Sir Henry Wood)
15.Baba Yaga (Maurice Ravel)
16.Great Gate of Kiev (Maurice Ravel)
*encore* --> Great Gate of Kiev (Sir Henry Wood)

Introductory speech by Leonard Slatkin
YouTube - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition. Various orchestrations. Leonard Slatkin conducting. (6/6) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqFSIlI-PGs)

Part1 ( Promenade I, Gnomus, Promenade II, Old Castle)
YouTube - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition. Various orchestrations. Leonard Slatkin Conducting. (1/6) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRydpS69d0A)

Part 2 (Promenade III, Tuileries, Bydlo, Promenade IV, Polish Jews ) <-- Leonidas Leonardi in here!!!! Yay!!!!!
YouTube - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition. Various orchestrations. Leonard Slatkin Conducting. (2/6) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNxSnyDMKuI)

Part 3 ( Promenade V, Limoges, Catacombs, Cum Mortuis )
YouTube - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition. Various orchestrations. Leonard Slatkin Conducting. (3/6) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P1teqjBdeY)

Part 4 (Baba-Yaga, The Grate Gate of Kiev )
YouTube - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition. Various orchestrations. Leonard Slatkin Conducting. (4/6) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx7tImOXHf8)

Great Gate of Kiev (Sir Henry Wood)
YouTube - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition. Various orchestrations. Leonard Slatkin Conducting. (5/6) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k38QV4ZTwN8)

Mikhail Tushmalov version with conductor Marc Andrae!
YouTube - Mussorgskij - Pictures at an Exhibition (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f0H3J_CSL0)
Marc Andreae - Conductor (http://www.marcandreae.ch/lp09.html)

Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich) - IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music (http://imslp.org/wiki/Pictures_at_an_Exhibition_%28Mussorgsky,_Modest_Pe trovich%29)
Luck's Music Library - Symphonic Orchestra Music (http://www.lucksmusic.com/cat-symph/showdetailMain.asp?CatalogNo=08431)

Sanico

04-05-2011, 03:53 PM

Great news everyone. Lalaland will release a 2CD edition of First Knight.

And here are some preview clips of the new recording of the Adventures of Don Juan by Max Steiner and conducted by William Stromberg with the Moscow Orchestra:
YouTube - Don Juan Trailer 1.m4v (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDt96MjgDnI)
YouTube - Adventures of Don Juan by Max Steiner - Procession Into London (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzShDCp8Dos)
YouTube - William Stromberg Conducts Don Juan Fight Scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9kLynQwObs)

exporocker

04-05-2011, 08:48 PM

iam looking for lost in space by bruce broughton cause i thought i bought it from this exchange shop and they gave me spiderman cd insted which i thought guys who handle cd should know the diffrence lost in space a family go into space to find a new world spiderman this guy gets bitten buy a spider then morphs into spiderman

Doublehex

04-05-2011, 09:44 PM

Sirusjr

04-06-2011, 01:26 AM

tangotreats

04-06-2011, 09:59 PM

Hi there, folks. :)

As I settle in to my new job, and finally get my computer working properly again... I find myself with a little bit of spare time and therefore the ability to post a few little somethings in this fine thread. This is the first of three scheduled for the next few days; depending on how efficient my postman is, number two may be coming as early as tomorrow morning.

For now, we have something that's a nice antidote for those folk (ie, everybody) who was crushingly disappointed by Uematsu's no-budget, no-inspiration score for Final Fantasy XIV...

Final Fantasy DISSIDIA 012 (duodecim) is one of dozens of spinoff games - a prequel to 2008's Dissidia. The original music was written by Takeharu Ishimoto. Surprisingly, given the economic climate, the producers found money for live musicians for this one... and not just a handful, for a spotty studio ensemble... they found money for a full symphony orchestra and choir (The FILMHarmonic Orchestra and Choir of Prague) to record a nice round twenty five minutes of score. It plays like a symphonic suite based on Uematsu's older themes - so if you don't like them, don't bother... there is actually very little original music here, but everything is just wonderful all the same. After twenty years of the same tired (but nevertheless good) Shiro Hamaguchi arrangements, it's WONDERFUL to hear those familiar melodies sounding fresh and alive.

The orchestrator here is none other than Kentaro Sato, who is a gobsmacking talent of only 29 years of age. His symphonic style is, like that of so many Japanese musicians, deliciously out of time - shamelessly old-fashioned, flamboyant, lush, and joyous.

This is no Yoshihisa Hirano arrangement... no harsh harmonies, modernist techniques, or clever tricks... this is far more traditional, far "easier on the ear" - sumptuous, romantic, and melodic.

All the pieces are glorious, but for me the real standout is the eponymous End Credits cue - a ravishing ten minute medley of all the Final Fantasy themes you've known and loved, all extrapolated and swallowed up into a glittering symphonic tone poem. It'll remind you just what was so great about those early Uematsu scores - the themes. And, as I said before, I love the Hamaguchi orchestrations as much as the next guy, but it's great to hear them clad in different clothes... pure, unadulterated joy whether you're familiar with the melodies or not.

The soundtrack release for this game is a double disc set - I have pulled out all the new orchestral tracks and uploaded them separately for your convenience. If you want the rest of the score, it's easily found on the forum.

Takeharu Ishimoto, based upon themes by Nobuo Uematsu
FINAL FANTASY DISSIDIA 012 (DUODECIM)
Orchestral Score
The FILMharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Prague
Orchestrated by Kentaro Sato
Conductor uncredited

Download TI-FFD012ORCH.rar from Mirrorcreator - Upload files to multiple file sharing sites (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/0XLKLQX3/TI-FFD012ORCH.rar_links)

Not my rip. MP3 @ 256kbps

arthierr

04-06-2011, 11:11 PM

I have a hard time going into any real, manageable, detail about this. Not because it is plain, boring, or just forgettable because to admit those would make me a liar. This is nothing short of beauty, breath taking, and is just sheer wonders to behold. I have listened to this half a dozen times, front to back, and I am always caught in the sublime composition.

Simply put, I am not capable of putting into words just how awesome this is. You just have to listen for yourself.

Great find! This time you're 100% accurate, mate, since this album indeed features a massive symphony orchestra, and occasionally a choir. The music is also very beautiful, highly lyrical, with a deliciously typical - and not stereotypical! - chinese sound (Yen would love this). Excellent stuff. Thanks for sharing this �ber-rare and obscure symphonic gem.

BTW, I greatly suggest you to indicate the name of the album and the composer in full letters in your post. This way, people using the forum search engine or Google can see this album appear in their search results; otherwise, nobody will know that you posted this album here unless they specifically stumble across your post - and even then, if the cover disappears, as it sometimes occurs, nobody will know what you actually posted.

Takeharu Ishimoto, based upon themes by Nobuo Uematsu
FINAL FANTASY DISSIDIA 012 (DUODECIM)

I just had time to listen to a few parts right now (looking forward to listen to this big suite tomorrow - yummy!), and WOW! The action cue in "Carmen Lucis" is stunning - this is the kind of music Final Fantasy VII-Advent Children would have deserved to have, instead of the mediocre modern rock-electronic (with a sprinkle of orchestra) score it actually got. Can you imagine the incredible action scenes of this movie with such superb orchestral action music? The arrangements are also truly excellent, even a little better than Hamagushi's virtuosic ones IMHO, which tells a lot about the quality of these pieces.

Thanks for digging this beauty!

Tsobanian - Bravo for your refined, cultured, well-presented classical posts, I'm very open to discovering and popularizing great classicals in this thread. (BTW, your posts would deserve a cross-post in the Classical thread, for people specifically interested in classical music)

ShadowSong

04-07-2011, 01:30 AM

Wow, that ending track is simply stunning Tango. So familiar yet at the same time brand new!

Oh and hi everyone. Sorry i haven't been around lately.

herbaciak

04-07-2011, 09:38 AM

Didn't know that Sato was involved in Dissidia. I would download it "years" ago if I knew it. He is brilliant composer (his choral works are breathtaking) and orchestrator. He definitely should write more. Huge thanks Tango!

Vinphonic

04-07-2011, 01:03 PM

Fantastic post ! Thanks Tango.

Sylvos

04-07-2011, 02:12 PM

Incredible recordings! Big "thank you" for sharing, Tango.
The Goldsmith quote in Kinerfan's signature makes more sense at times like this, even though it is not entirely relevant to this case.

sweetmeats

04-07-2011, 05:47 PM

I'm just starting to get into Joe Hisaishi and had no idea he did a score to one of my favorite all time movies, Buster Keaton's The General. Anyone have it and willing to upload?

Thagor

04-07-2011, 08:09 PM

Thanks for this great piece Tango :)

Lens of Truth

04-08-2011, 12:11 AM

I'm just starting to get into Joe Hisaishi and had no idea he did a score to one of my favorite all time movies, Buster Keaton's The General. Anyone have it and willing to upload?

Yes, it's a fantastic score. Coming up :)

Sirusjr

04-08-2011, 01:26 AM

Thanks for pulling out the orchestral stuff from that one Tango. Just what i needed!!

Lens of Truth

04-08-2011, 02:10 AM

THE GENERAL - JOE HISAISHI
The Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra

MP3-V0
http://uploadmirrors.com/download/NPHK57L6/JHGenV0_0.rar

This is Hisaishi's usual expert mix of styles, beginning with a simple, stoney-faced piano theme (played by Hisaishi himself), resembling the popular waltzes from the turn of the century, and moving on to military band, rodeo, Irish jigs - it's all here!

sweetmeats

04-08-2011, 04:05 AM

OH WOW OH WOW!!! Thank you so much for this. I really appreciate it.

Tsobanian

04-08-2011, 06:40 AM

Pictures at an Exhibition - Mikhail Tushmalov Orchestral version
Munich Philharmonic, Marc Andreae

details (http://anonym.to/?http://www.marcandreae.ch/lp09.html)
Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich) - IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music (http://imslp.org/wiki/Pictures_at_an_Exhibition_%28Mussorgsky,_Modest_Pe trovich%29#For_Orchestra_.28Tushmalov.29)

Mikhail Tushmalov (1861 - 1896) was a Russian Georgian opera conductor who held posts in Warsaw and Tiflis (Tbilisi). He died in what is now the nation of Georgia.
The opening bars of Tushmalov's orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition. Tushmalov is most widely discussed today as the first person to have prepared an orchestral version of Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. Tushmalov's version sets an abridged version of the piece. It may have been completed as early as 1886, when Tushmalov was a student of Rimsky-Korsakov. Reports circulate that Rimsky-Korsakov sketched the beginning of his own orchestration of Mussorgsky's piece, but abandoned the project when Tushmalov took up the task. The role possibly played by the teacher in shaping the orchestration by his student is not known. The first performance of Tushmalov's orchestration was conducted by Rimsky-Korsakov in Saint Petersburg on November 30, 1891.

Tushmalov's version of Mussorgsky's score is one of the least complete, as it omits 'Gnomus', 'Tuileries' and 'Bydlo' together with all the 'Promenades' except the fifth�which it puts in place of the first. Tushmalov's score is often described as dark and restrained in colour, and thus more authentically 'Russian' in its approach to the score than the later, more virtuosic orchestration by Ravel.

The Swiss conductor Marc Andreae leads very straightforward performances with the Munich Philharmonic. I've read a couple reviews describing these as "businesslike" and that is probably an apt description. The orchestration, however, has its moments and is somewhat reminiscent of Stokowski's, which too, is abbreviated from the original piano score.

Arr. TUSHMALOV, Mikhail (b. 1861�d. in what is now the nation of Georgia 1896)
Pub. Bessel Reprint Edwin F. Kalmus
Pictures at an Exhibition [Suite] Arr. Tushmalov (ca. 1886, published 1891, rev. 1900 by ?)
"Instrumentation by M. Tushmalov with collaboration by N. Rimsky-Korsakov." [sic ?]
(Three "pictures" and four Promenades omitted)
Dur. 20' to 24'50"
3[1.2.pic] 3[1.2.Eh] 3[1.2.bcl] 2 � 4 2 3 1 � tmp+5 perc( glock, tri, cym, sus cym, bd, tamtam,
chime in Eb: octave unspecified) � hp � orchestra pf � str
Kalmus A1860 Score and Parts for Sale

�The orchestration by Mikhail Tushmalov is actually a suite (which should be obvious with a
duration of 20 minutes), and omits all Promenades except the one preceding Limoges in the
original (which opens the suite), plus omits Gnomus, Tuileries, and Bydlo. He also cut out three
bars from Limoges for some reason. Though the Kalmus score mentions Rimsky-Korsakov on the
cover, it seems unlikely that Rimsky had much of a hand in Tushmalov's suite orchestration wise.
Rimsky conducted the premiere in 1891.� --(T.T.)
The eight movement Suite:
1. Promenade 5
2. Il vecchio castello
3. Ballet de poussins dans leurs coques
4. Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle
5a. Limoges, le marche
5b. Catacombe
6a. La cabane sur des pattes de poule
6b. La porte des bohatyrs de Kiew

MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an exhibition (orchestrated by Mikhail Tushmalov)
Scherzo
Intermezzo in modo classico
Ceremonial March
(World Premiere Recording)

M�nchner Philharmoniker

Random Classics: Pictures at An Exhibition in the Tushmalov orchestration (http://randomclassics.blogspot.com/2010/12/pictures-at-exhibition-in-tushmalov.html)
Download Mussorgsky_Andreae_MPO_BASF BC22128.zip (http://www.mediafire.com/?b8fn9facevncl46)
Many kudos to Fred for this awesome upload!!!!

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Lucien Cailliet's Pictures at an Exhibition

The Shellackophile: Lucien Cailliet's Pictures (http://shellackophile.blogspot.com/2011/04/lucien-cailliets-pictures.html)

Maurice Ravel's 1922 orchestration of Mussorgsky's piano suite, "Pictures at an Exhibition," has for so long been a part of the standard orchestral repertory that one is apt to forget that many other people have tried their hand at orchestrating it too. Among these were Sir Henry Wood, Leopold Stokowski, and the subject of this week's upload, Lucien Cailliet (1897-1985), French-born American composer, conductor, arranger and clarinettist. In 1919 he joined the Philadelphia Orchestra in the latter two capacities, and eventually became Eugene Ormandy's orchestrator of choice. In 1937 his version of Mussorgsky's masterpiece was unveiled and immediately elicited comparison with Ravel's, most of it negative (perhaps unsurprisingly). Nevertheless it is worth a listen. There are a few places where I think I actually prefer Cailliet's orchestration (the trombones in "Bydlo" as opposed to Ravel's tuba, for example), and all of the Promenades are there (Ravel had omitted the one before "Limoges"). Judge for yourself - here's the only known recording of this arrangement, made shortly after its premi�re:

Mussorgsky (orch. Cailliet): Pictures at an Exhibition
Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy
Recorded October 17, 1937

Orch. CAILLIET, Lucien (b. Chalon Sur Marne, France 27 May 1891;d. Los Angeles, CA 3 Jan. 1985)
�Tableaux d�une Exhibition�, Orchestrated by Lucien Cailliet (1937) Dur. 27'34"
Commission by Eugene Ormandy, Music Director, The Philadelphia Orchestra
3[1.2.3/pic] 3[1.2.Eh] 5or 4[1.2.3. bcl (+opt. contrabass cl)] 3[1.2.cbn] � 4 4 3 1 � tmp+8 perc
(glock,xylo,chimes,sd,tri,cym,wb,tam-tam,bd) �2 hp � str

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Pay heed to these two Rene Leibowitz orchestrations. The one for Night on the Bald Mountain truly conveys the atomic power of the orchestra. It is disturbingly noisy-sonorous and the percussions are clamorous, ostentatious and loud. Not to mention Leibowitz own alteration of the finale.

Rene Leibowitz (Conductor, Composer, Arranger) - Short Biography (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Leibowitz-Rene.htm)
Bach-Leibowitz - Arrangements/Transcriptions of Bach's Works - Works (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Arran/OT-Leibowitz.htm)

Mussorgsky, orch. Rene Leibowitz : Night on Bare Mountain
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Rene Leibowitz
Download 01 Moussorgsky - A night on bare mountain.flac from Sendspace.com (http://www.sendspace.com/file/u2xorf)

J.S. Bach, orch. Rene Leibowitz : Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Rene Leibowitz
Download Bach-Leibowitz_Passacaglia_Fugue.mp3 from Sendspace.com (http://www.sendspace.com/file/2cmvyw)

J.S. Bach, orch. Frederick Stock : Prelude & Fugue in E flat major "St. Anne", BWV 552
Chicago Symohony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner
Download Bach-Stock.zip from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way (http://www.sendspace.com/file/3zyubc)

Frederick Stock (Conductor, Composer, Arranger) - Short Biography (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Stock-Frederick.htm)
Bach-Stock: Arrangements/Transcriptions of Bach's Works - Works (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Arran/OT-Stock.htm)

chancth

04-08-2011, 10:24 AM

[QUOTE=Doublehex;1652648]
TOTAL WAR - SHOGUN 2
Jeff van Dyck

MU.com (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LJVIDQWW)

Thanks for sharing. It's a quiet & meditative score certainly matching with the game, but listening experience is quite boring

chancth

04-08-2011, 04:06 PM

Thanks for this share. Very interesting to hear Brian Tyler testing new style of scoring

tangotreats

04-09-2011, 03:08 PM

YASUO HIGUCHI
Phoenix 2772
(火の鳥2772 愛のコスモゾーン Hi no Tori 2772: Ai no Kosumozōn)
Orchestra 2772
Orchestrated and Conducted by The Composer
Mariko Senju (solo violin)

1. Prologue - Birth
2. Trials
3. She
4. Adulthood
5. Love and Suffering
6. The Evils of the World
7. In Search of Salvation
8. The Merry Bunch
9. The Encounter
10. The Power Of Love
11. Return to the Earth
12. Destruction
13. Death
14. Rebirth

My Rip. Scans included.

MP3 Version - LAME 3.98.4 @ V0 - http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/0F1NORN7/YH-P2772.rar_links
AAC Version - NeroAAC @ Q 0.40 (~128kbps VBR) - http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/0WL1K7J4/YH-P2772-AAC.rar_links
FLAC Version - FLAC 1.1.2 @ Compression Level 8 - http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/1RW1ND9M/YH-P2772-FLAC.rar_links

Fully tagged in English.

Well, what to say about this? You'll just need to listen to it for yourself, of course, but I find this to be one of the greatest masterpieces of symphonic music. Yasuo Higuchi works infrequently, but when he does, magnificent things happen - and none of his scores are quite as magnificent as this one. He's the only composer who excites that same part of my musical psyche that Yoshihisa Hirano does - with a completely unique style, an orchestral technique to die for, and a flawless sense of melody. It's a sumptuous mix of very-late romantic theatrics mixed with tantalising modernism. It's also impossible to categorise - calling it a film score is doing it injustice, because it's really a symphony. On the other hand, it is a masterpiece of musical storytelling - so perhaps it's an opera without words.

Listen out for the beautiful violin solos, as performed by Mariko Senju (Akira Senju's sister).

I won't say any more - because this is a score to listen to and enjoy... And I hope you do enjoy this one - it's very hard to come by. The only rip circulating online is at 128kbps and features atrocious sound quality - even by 128kbps standards. It was pressed on CD in 2004 as part of the Animex 1200 series and sold out almost immediately; it's now impossible to find new, and almost impossible to find on the secondhand market. Bearing that in mind, I'm breaking my own rule on this occasion and providing FLAC - it's one of those scores that just deserves it, and since you can't just "go and buy it" it makes sense to try to circulate it in the best possible quality.

I have one favour to ask in return for uploading this; PLEASE SPREAD IT AROUND. Put it on torrent trackers, reupload it, post it to other forums, share it, get it out there. And try to make that awful 128kbps rip disappear, for the good of humanity. I want to get it up on BakaBT but I'm not a power user; anybody who is and can offer a torrent is more than welcome to. In short, put it anywhere and everywhere.

Doublehex

04-09-2011, 03:17 PM

**PLACEHOLDER** (for the best thing ever)

http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-allears.gif

ShadowSong

04-09-2011, 03:58 PM

**PLACEHOLDER** (for the best thing ever)

You're making me anxious man. I need to know what the best thing ever is. ;)

tangotreats

04-09-2011, 04:02 PM

Hint time:
1. It's very, VERY rare. (Out of print for years, even hard to find on the second hand market.)
2. It's been posted before on the forum (not in this thread) in ridiculously poor quality.
3. It's Japanese.
4. It's from 1980.

Vinphonic

04-09-2011, 04:04 PM

Could it be ... impossible !

ShadowSong

04-09-2011, 04:16 PM

I'm trying to think of what came out of japan in '80.
Ideon...what else... hmm I don't know.

Oh nice! I can't say I'm too familiar with Phoenix 2772 but I have heard good things.

Sirusjr

04-09-2011, 05:10 PM

I know that score, very nice. Everyone must check it out.

tangotreats

04-09-2011, 07:05 PM

Original post updated. Apologies for the delay. Go for it, folks - enjoy. :D

Sirusjr

04-09-2011, 07:12 PM

Do you know of any other scores by this composer? I would love to hear something else.

Also to add to Tango's wonderful post, here is a great score by Yoshihiro Ike, posted elsewhere on the board.

Beautiful Neighbor (2011)
Music Composed & Arranged by: Yoshihiro Ike
Lyrics by: Sasja Antheunis (03, 17, 25)
Performed by: Hiroyuki Koike Strings
Sasja Antheunis (03, 17, 25)

Original Thread (Thread 88174)

If you've heard music by Yoshihiro Ike before, you know what to expect. Once again we have a restrained, subdued feel driven by piano and strings, possibly the most delicate score i've heard from this composer. There are a couple of absolutely marvelous vocal tracks and the first track gave me the chills. You owe it to yourself to check out this gem!!

hater

04-09-2011, 10:04 PM

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004SRM5ZE/ref=s9_simh_gw_p15_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=006TSFR8ZP2A788GFJ43&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294

worst case scenario came to be.

Sirusjr

04-09-2011, 10:05 PM

Well yeah, it is silly to expect that Thor would turn out to be anything other than a generic MV style score. Doyle has the chops but isn't going to be asked to use them for a modern blockbuster.

Doublehex

04-09-2011, 10:09 PM

With all due honesty, Thor does not sound at all like a Zimmer score to me. It is somewhat influenced by it, but by the samples I would say it is most predominantly a Doyle score at it's score. I'll definitely be buying it.

hater

04-09-2011, 10:19 PM

well there are bits of doyle in those clips, but the modern parts are again overwhelming. i�ll watch the movie first and then decide. my hope for captain america is crushed. i could live with a second g.i. joe style score, but less modern would be appreciated. but, chances are slim.

tangotreats

04-09-2011, 11:37 PM

Sirusjr

04-09-2011, 11:55 PM

Well there was a lengthy interview with Doyle floating around for a while that seems to have disappeared in which he mentions that he was asked to do something non-traditional. It is now better to assume each score is going to be utter shite and see what happens.

hater

04-10-2011, 12:08 AM

I never had any hope for Captain America in the first place. But it isn't half miserable hearing Doyle trying to clad his intelligent music in Hollywood lowest-common-denominator garbage... Was he afraid of getting kicked off the picture, or is this our good friend "studio interference" coming in again?

Exec: "Sorry, Mr Doyle... We know you're one of the finest composers in the world, and we know you'd come up with something truly awe-inspiring if we just let you do your job... But this is Hollywood! Make it simple, and stupid. Throw lots of dumb tribal percussion in there. You know the sort of shit that sells today."

Doyle: "Aw, jesus... How much did you say you'd pay me for this again?"
well, its doyle first time in this territory so he doesn�t have any experience and chose the easiest way propably.
elfman did the same with much more success in Wanted.but it will always depend on the studio, which is a shame.and now, with everyone praising Tron Legacy and Chemical Brothers and other bands starting to write film scores....i guess it gets worse before it gets better.maybe the big suprise on december 23 2012 is the return of good scores to hollywood.or everyone dies.

---------- Post added at 05:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:02 PM ----------

I can show you the difference of almost 20 years in filmmusic in 2 sentences:
1995
"Dude, Alan Silvestris Score for Judge Dredd is THE SHIT!"
2011
"Dude,Alan Silvestris Score for Captain America is shit."
Simple yet true

ShadowSong

04-10-2011, 12:50 AM

Well this is disappointing, I was hoping they would give Doyle free reign and just sit back. I should have known better. I can just imagine him coming into a production meeting with some writing of the same caliber of his Hamlet score (I'm not saying the same style, just the same quality) and immediately some studio exec is like "What is this competency thing?! We must destroy it!"

Aoiichi_nii-san

04-10-2011, 04:40 AM

With these recent posts, some of you might find this rather amusing:

Filmtracks: MV/RC is easy to write. (http://www.filmtracks.com/scoreboard/index.cgi?read=81374)

lossforever

04-10-2011, 05:45 AM

Vinphonic

04-10-2011, 12:50 PM

ARIA The ANIMATION The Complete Score

Relaxing / Warm / Tranquil / Strings / Guitar / Piano / Vocal

Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/1SSF4M6N/The_ANIMATION.7z_links)
MP3 / 320 kbps / 42 Tracks / 2 hours

It's about time I post one of my all time favorite scores. It is really special for me, because it is the only score I hold close to my heart which is not an orchestral tour de force. A score I instantly fell in love with the moment I first heared it in the show. Aria itself is already like a dream, a distant utopia where one can appreciate the wonders of life and find a moment of peace and happiness. Not to mention an almost flawless recreation of the city of venice with all of it's charms and beauty. Thankfully the music not only fits the scenery perfectly but also becomes a living part of this world aswell. It is one of a kind, with many humable and memorable themes, emotional piano and string pieces and beautiful vocal tracks. I can not recommend it enough. This upload has every piece of music for the first series, all piano pieces, alterations of some tracks and live versions of the vocal tracks. I will upload the complete score for the second and third series as well when I have enough time.

EDIT: In my ever ongoing search for more Sahashi I recently discovered this piece YouTube - King of Thorn Main theme. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZuAzJGTTOM) Does anyone know if the movie will get an OST or not ?

Sirusjr

04-10-2011, 05:27 PM

Thanks for posting Aria. I heard a lot of things about it but never got around to grabbing it.

Tsobanian

04-10-2011, 10:39 PM

Sergei Petrovich Gorchakov has a dark-Slavic orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition.

Orch. GORTCHAKOV, Sergei (Gorchakov, ergei Petrovich, b. Moscow 10 Feb. 1905; d. 4 July 1976) (family name Tsveifel [Zweifel] per LC )
Musorgski, Modest: Pictures at an Exhibition; Bilder Einer Ausstellung (Gortschakow, Sergej) (orch. 1954)
Dur.29' to 31'
3[1.2.3/pic] 3[1.2.3/Eh] 4[1.2.3/sop sx.bcl] 3[1.2.cbn] — 4 3 3 2 — tmp+5 perc
(bd, chimes, cym, glock, sd, tam-tam, tri, wdblk, xyl) — hp — cel — str.
Pub: Sikorski (1955) Score and Parts on rental.

Movement listing:
Promenade - Der Gnom (1.) 3:30
Promenade - Das alte Schloss (2.) 4:30
Promenade - Die Tuilerien (3.) 1:30
Bydlo (4.) 2:30
Promenade - Ballett der K�chlein (5.) 2:00
Promenade - Zwei Juden (6.) 2:00
Der Jahrmarkt von Limoges (7.) 1:30
Die Katakomben (8.) 4:00
Baba Jaga (9.) 3:30
Das eherne Tor (10.) 6:00
U.S. rental agent Schirmer Chester NY.
Also listed in the C. F. Peters Corporation, Glendale, NY rental catalog

Radio-Sinfonieorchester Krakau - Modest Mussorgsky, Bilder einer Ausstellung (http://www.welove-music.net/2010/06/radio-sinfonieorchester-krakau-modest.html)
MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M952EZYT)
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Krakau
Karl Anton Rickenbacher

live 1980 performance (http://intoclassics.net/news/2010-12-08-14267)
Download Gortchakov in FLAC (http://content3.files.mail.ru/29ANFO/a67f24a17e427919d857d6eb9e2b19f6)
Leningrad Academic Symphony Orchestra
Konstantin Simeonov

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And of course Vladimir Ashkenazy's version

Orch. ASHKENAZY, Vladimir (b. Gorky, Russia, 6 July 1937)
―Pictures at an Exhibition‖ (orch. Ashkenazy) (arr. 1982 [�1985]) Dur. 35'38''
3[1.2.3/pic] 3[1.2.3/ oboe d'amore] 4[1.2.Eb. bcl] 3[1.2.cbn] — 4.3.3.1 —tmp+perc (sd, bd, tamtam, tri, cyms, xyl, glock, tri, bells) —2hps — cel —str
Pub: Boosey & Hawkes - Score and Parts on rental

Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky has to be one of my favorite Miscellaneous pieces I have. This CD features not only the original piano version, played by the great Vladimir Ashkenazy, but the Orchestral Version of the piece as interperted by Ashkenazy himself.
Pictures at an Exhibition was Mussorgsky's claim to fame, as he rose up from little. This pieces soon became popular, and is often recognized for its wonderful promenade, the preface of five of the six movements. The promenade is first played by a lone finger on the piano (or in the orchestral version, a trumpet), which sets a simplistic setting for the rest of the promenade, soon going forth into complicated chords.
The movements were concluded by another section, relating exactly to Pictures at an Exhibition in that these sections resembled the place that they were named for (ie The Marketplace). Some are fast tempo'd (like movement I), but others (like movement II), are very slow and relaxed. Each is complicated in its own way, making the recording in whole very memorable.
The piece is originally a piano solo, which is in the first half of this CD recording. The many different parts that the soloist plays creates an atmosphere of complexity, making the piece sound as though it were played by a trio of pianists. The whole piece is very memorable, as i could recreate almost each movement in it's entirety right now.
The second half of this disc is an orchestral interpertation by the soloist of the piano solo, the wonderful Vladimir Ashkenazy. It is performed by the London Orchestra, which makes it sound wonderful. It is interesting to compare and contrast the overall goodness of both the pieces, as they are so different yet so alike.
Overall, this CD definitly deserves a 5 star rating. I give it that because it has kept me interested in Mussorgsky and classical music, as it is very interesting to listen to, and to attempt to play on the piano.

Pictures at an exhibition (1983) Piano and Orchestral - Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy (http://avaxhome.ws/music/classical/modest_mussorgsky_pictures_at_an_exhibition_vladim ir_ashkenazy_.html)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy

streichorchester

04-11-2011, 04:12 AM

possible you people here will appreciate my search and recognize this piece of music: YouTube - The Valour and the Horror In Desperate Battle Normandy 1944 Kurt Meyer clips (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yxAWSQ-q2I) it falls within the category of music found here.

I've spent years and years trying to solve this mystery. any idea?

It sounds like it could be Russian, but not anything by any of the major composers. Judging by the old recording it could be one of many war-time stock tracks or library music to set to propaganda films. It sounds more like a film score than a classical piece.

lossforever

04-11-2011, 04:40 AM

You might be correct, it's from a canadian documentary from 92'. In the credits it says the other pieces of music used in the film are by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra so possibly this is as well, maybe an original piece although doubtful since none of the other music is original. maybe a classical piece preformed by them... but which then

hater

04-11-2011, 11:18 AM

Source Code is excellent. Not the zimmerised James Newton Howard we get currently, but the The Fugitive JNH with a liitle John Powell, like in Paycheck.To compare it with Zimmer is utterly wrong.

tangotreats

04-11-2011, 01:31 PM

Source Code is crap. It's just slightly less crap than the norm.

Lens of Truth

04-11-2011, 05:37 PM

Not sure I'd go quite as far as Tango on this one ;) The problems with Source Code are that, however competent Bacon appears to be, it's thematically undernourished and stylistically conservative, to the point of sounding very bland and second hand indeed. The occasional clever touch of orchestral detailing or chewy dissonance does not lift it to the level of 'excellent' in my book. This score will be forgotten in even a year.

NaotaM

04-11-2011, 07:10 PM

Sukisyo OST
by Naoki Sato

OST 1: MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VTWW0HYT)

OST 2 : MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MRG04R1B)

Don't expect any thunderous, pulse-pounding action cues, just some simple, heartfelt melodies and string numbers, perfect for angsty, heartfelt boys' love shenanigans.

P.S. Am I the only one ultra-excited for the unprecedented musical goodness coming this season? Taku Iwasaki, Shiro Hamaguchi, Seikou Nagaoka, Hiroyuki Sawano, Yuji Nomi, Yoshihiro Ike, Ko Otani AND the possible return of Yoko Kanno to the realm of classical orchestral granduer with the announcement of Aquarion Evol? Yes, please.

ahdvd

04-11-2011, 08:35 PM

Listening to Source Code both separately and in the movie, it reminds me A LOT of Christopher Young's scores, sort of off key and prohecting an air of nervous uncertainty.

Sirusjr

04-11-2011, 10:45 PM

NaotaM

04-11-2011, 11:10 PM

NaotaM, I wish you would download those links you found and re-tag them before posting. They don't even have consistent genre tags or artist/album, or year. That said, I will be listening to these and post some comments later. Thanks for posting :)

No, mostly because I pay no attention to genre and year tags(didn't even notice they were off till you mentioned it just now), and you can easily fill in/fix the artist and album information yourself.Hope you enjoy the music!

bishtyboshty

04-12-2011, 12:25 AM

I've just finished playing Source Code. A very pleasurable experience. Maybe not excellent in my book either, but certainly not crap. It certainly deserves a second listening, which I'll give it in a day or two's time. It reminded me somewhat of the quieter cues of Die Hard.

tangotreats

04-12-2011, 12:33 AM

Sirusjr

04-12-2011, 01:04 AM

Well I will have to check out the new Aquarion series if they get a decent composer to do it and bring back Akino to do more amazing songs. It wouldn't be Aquarion without Akino's songs to me.

NaotaM

04-12-2011, 01:10 AM

NaotaM: You may be... Iwasaki has been really off for me the last few years. I plain don't like Yoshihiro Ike, Hiroyuki Sawano, and Ko Otani. Yuji Nomi can be really brilliant but depends on what he's working with - if it's another cheap synth score, count me out. Nagaoka has never impressed me. Shiro Hamaguchi does two types of scores - really great ones, and silly kiddy scores - again, if it's going to be the latter, count me out. And Kanno will not score Aquarion Evol in a hundred million years. They'll either re-use her original Aquarion score wholesale or it'll be somebody completely different working with zero budget.

Sorry... I guess I'm in a downbeat miserable mood this evening... my apologies... :)

Yeah, thanks, Mr. Downer. :p MEh, I'm still super excited, maself. I adore al these composers, Sawano specifically. I haven't heard much of Nagaoka, admittedly,but Strike Witches and El Hazard: the Symphonic World were quite nice. Otani can be very hit-or-miss, more often misses, but when he lands, he hits it outta the park and seeing which is which this time is part of the fun. And as for Kanno and Evol, who can say really? If Evol was just another movie or OVA, I'd likely agree with you, but this seems to be a whole new sequel series. Anything is possible, just look at Darker than Black, but the same is true vice versa.

Sirusjr

04-12-2011, 01:33 AM

I'm not feeling Sukisyo, at least not ost 1. It's primarily a bunch of generic synth and jazz like we get from most anime soundtracks and some simplistic string based romance and horror cues. Here is hoping that ost 2 is better. Towards the end we get typical oshima style single melody repeated ad nauseum in a number of simplistic relaxing cues. Soundtrack 2 is just a bunch of remixes and rehashes of the first disc read: not worth your while.

thomasdaly

04-12-2011, 04:22 AM

id love to find a orchestra ablum full of ABBA with no singing i have the munich and london ones they comes close but no :(

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is there any tetirs type b orchestra arrangement out there i have one from video games live it was and still is amazing

Tsobanian

04-12-2011, 09:27 AM

MUSSORGSKY: PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon (conductor),
Tamas Ungar (Piano)*

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (arr Leonard) [HC]: Classical Reviews- June 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2001/June01/Mussorgsky_Pictures.htm)
Details here (http://anonym.to/?http://www.calarecords.com/acatalog/info_CACD1030.html)
Lawrence Leonard's unusual piano and orchestra arrangement of Pictures at an Exhibtion headlines a disc of familiar and not-so-familar arrangements of Mussorgsky pieces

Grab it here in VBR V0 quality (http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MI1NXE9J)

Modeste MUSSORGSKY (1839-1881) works
1-16. Pictures at an Exhibition* - Piano Concerto Version - (orchestrated by Lawrence Leonard )

Two Interludes from Khovantchina
17. Dawn on the Moscow River (orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov )
18. Galitsin's Journey (orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski )

19. Gopak from Sorochinsky Fair (orchestrated by Anatol Liadov )

Pictures from the Crimea (orchestrated by Walter Goehr )
20. Hoursouff
21. Reverie (Douma)
22. Capriccio

23. Scherzo in B Flat (orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov )
24. A Tear-Drop (Une Larme) (orchestrated by Hans Kindler )
25. Night on Bald Mountain (orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov )

Arr. LEONARD, [Frank] Lawrence (b. London 22 August 1923; d. 4 January 2001)
Dates per Lawrence Leonard (http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/l/l/lawrence-leonard.htm)
[His own listing in International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory 2000-2001 gives b. 22 Aug.1928 not the 1923 given on the website.] [Dates given on the Slatkin recording b.1926 (sic) – d. 1991(sic)]
Moussorgsky, Modeste: Pictures at an Exhibition arr. Lawrence Leonard for piano and orchestra (1975, pub. 1977) Dur.29'
3[1.2.3/pic] 2[1.2/Eh] 2[1.2/bcl] 2[1.2/cbn] — 4 3 3 1 — tmp+3perc (tubular bells, xyl, cyms, susp.cym, tam-tam, claves, whip, bd, sd, wind machine) — str

Pub: Boosey & Hawkes NY (�1977) - Score and Parts on rental
Pub: Fazer Music Inc Edition for 2 Pianos 4 Hands [2nd Piano is a reduction of the orchestra parts] Product Codes: M060038525 ---- 0014950068355 $38.38

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An updated version of the Nieweg Chart for orchestrations and arrangements.
http://www.mola-inc.org/Nieweg%20Charts/MussorgskyPictures.pdf

Previously I posted Leonard Slatkin 2nd pastiche of "Pictures at an Exhibition".
http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/301.html#post1663869

Now it's time to introduce Leonard Slatkin's 1st pastiche!!!!! Huzzah!!!!! Huzzah!!!!!
Many thanks to Bill for providing this material!!!!!

I don't know how many times you've heard Pictures at an Exhibition, either on recording or live... Certainly it is one of the most familiar works to any concert audience. Because it so familiar it is very easy to take it for granted - we play it, you listen to it. You hear it in the same way, time and time again, with minor subtle differences. Tonight that will all change. You've noticed in your program that instead of being the traditional Mussorgsky-Ravel, it is Mussorgsky and 9 other orchestrators. Prior to Ravel, doing his orchestration, at least two others had a hand at transcribing Mussorgsky's work for orchestra and in my research over the last few years I found no less than 21 different orchestral versions of this piece. This is not the time to go into "why?" so many people have chosen to orchestrate, but rather to illustrate what some of the differences are -some of the choices that these orchestrators have made.................

Some years ago, Leonard Slatkin took up the Gorchakov arrangement of Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition because it is more Slavic than the standard Ravel orchestration, and then he was stimulated to check out other orchestrations. The resulting suite, combining arrangements by Lawrence Leonard, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lucien Cailliet, Sergei Gorchakov, Leonidas Leonardi, Sir Henry Wood, Michail Tushmalov, Leopold Stokowski, and closing out with Ravel's 'Baba Yaga' and 'Great Gate of Kiev', Slatkin played often to great acclaim. Although he never recorded it commercially, it was included in the six-disc St Louis set celebrating Slatkin's 17-year run with the orchestra, reviewed by Tom Godell (Jan/Feb 1996, p 203).

Since then he has had second thoughts on the subject, stimulated in no small part by Edward Johnson, doyen of the Leopold Stokowski Society, who urged Slatkin to take a look at the wildly over-the-top 'Great Gate' by the Australian composer and arranger Douglas Gamley. It calls for organ and men's chorus, along with a huge consort of brass and bells. No sooner did Johnson send a copy of it to Slatkin--it was recorded by Charles Gerhardt early on for Reader's Digest-- then Slatkin Emailed him back, "Love the Gamley ... Find the score!" From such acorns do mighty oaks grow.

Slatkin has retained only one section from the earlier montage, Cailliet's 'Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks'.........................
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Just to remind you, Leonard Slatkin's 1st composite suite was :
1. Promenade (Lawrence Leonard)
2. Gnomus (Vladimir Ashkenazy)
3. Promenade II (Lucien Cailliet)
4. The Old Castle (Sergei Gorchakov)
5. Promenade III (Leonidas Leonardi)
6. Tuileries (Leonidas Leonardi)
7. Bydlo (Sir Henry Wood)
8. Promenade IV (Lucien Cailliet)
9. Ballet of the unhatched chicks (Lucien Cailliet)
10. 2 Polish-Jews, One Rich, the other Poor (Sergei Gorchakov)
11. Promenade V (Lucien Cailliet)
12. Limoges ; the Market (Mikhail Tushmalov)
13. Catacombs (Leopold Stokowski)
14. Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua (Sir Henry Wood)
15. Baba Yaga (Maurice Ravel)
16. Great Gate of Kiev (Maurice Ravel)

Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Grab it here lossless (http://anonym.to/?http://www.sendspace.com/file/0kwujh)

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Hand Kindler
Hans Kindler (Cello, Conductor, Arranger) - Short Biography (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Kindler-Hans.htm)

Walter Goehr
Walter Goehr (Conductor, Composer, Arranger) - Short Biography (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Goehr-Walter.htm)

Leonidas Leonardi
Leonidas Leonardi (Arranger) - Short Biography (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Leonardi-Leon.htm)

Lucien Cailliet
Lucien Cailliet (Composer, Arranger) - Short Biography (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Cailliet-Lucien.htm)

Henry Wood
Henry J. Wood (Conductor, Arranger) - Short Biography (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Wood-Henry.htm)

Vladimir Ashkenazy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Ashkenazy)

Leonidas Leonardi, Lucien Cailliet and Hans Kindler FTW!! I love these guys!!!
Luck's Music Library - Symphonic Orchestra Music (http://www.lucksmusic.net/cat-symph/showdetailMain.asp?CatalogNo=08431)
Luck's Music Library - Symphonic Orchestra Music (http://www.lucksmusic.net/cat-symph/showdetailMain.asp?CatalogNo=11743)

Luck's Music Library - Symphonic Orchestra Music (http://www.lucksmusic.net/cat-symph/showdetailMain.asp?CatalogNo=08536)
Luck's Music Library - Symphonic Orchestra Music (http://www.lucksmusic.net/cat-symph/showdetailMain.asp?CatalogNo=12141)

Luck's Music Library - Symphonic Orchestra Music (http://www.lucksmusic.com/cat-symph/showdetailMain.asp?CatalogNo=09208)
Luck's Music Library - Symphonic Orchestra Music (http://www.lucksmusic.net/cat-symph/showdetailMain.asp?CatalogNo=08594)

arthierr

04-12-2011, 08:26 PM

Thanks a lot for the recent albums posted, guys! Quite some diverse and interesting stuff indeed.

Now, about Thor... AH! What a joke.

This is downright the WORST music I've heard from Doyle. I didn't even know he was capable of churning out such crap. Of course my opinion is just based on the samples, but even so, when you know they usually take the best parts of each track to make samples, you can imagine the rest.

No, seriously, asking a guy like Patrick Doyle - a talented, experienced composer, a marvelous symphonist - to produce such garbage, is just an outrage, a scandal, an utter shame. It's like using a Ming vase as a chamber pot. Bravo, Hollywood execs, you succeeded again at lowering the musical level of your field. Why did you even hired a great composer like Doyle for this? Any Zimmer mini-clone would have perfectly done the job; or in fact, any good music generating software could also have produced a similar result, and would have cost you a lot less...

herbaciak

04-12-2011, 09:19 PM

Doyle is in "Thor" only because of Branagh. And - as I presume - producers didn't want to destroy the "beautifuly" crafted world of Marvel comics with big symphonic sound I guess. Probably they wanted Djawadi or other Jablonsky anyways. They wanted awesomly massive... piece of shit. So. they got one. Shame that from such great composer. To be honest I couldn't even listen to the samples, I gave up after half of them or so. Hollywood FTW!:D

But movie looks like fun. Dumb, but entertaining. Btw, have no idea what is Branagh doing there either;).

Doublehex

04-12-2011, 09:42 PM

Well, Branagh is known for his Shakespearean adaptions, which you could argue is a great background for doing a modern Thor.

Sirusjr

04-12-2011, 11:34 PM

Well I must say, I've been listening to Aria the Animation for the last few hours, while finishing the last 5% of planetscape torment novel. Despite the name, this reflective and calm music was perfectly fitting for the finale as regret and reminiscence take over. Just as Oshima writes a great theme and uses it throughout a score, so too do the composers here re-use the themes a lot; but what a theme! The female vocals on various tracks are the sort of music that would melt the heart of zimmer and djawadi in an instant; too bad we can't melt the heart of hollywood producers who request jablonsky-styled Doyle. Aria is such a simple and introspective score that I feel all the pains melt away in the simple instrumentation. I don't know how I never listened to this marvel before.

Vinphonic

04-13-2011, 02:27 AM

I'm glad you love it. The next two scores are on the same level if not even better and more emotional (Origination has the best vocal track out of the all three). I will upload them soon. I can also highly recommend the series. Each season is better than the last and if you can swallow some cheesy aspects of it, it's an amazing visual and emotional experience. It will melt your heart YouTube - Reverie X (Aria) - New World Symphony [Dvo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDABUUTXKDU).

Pincel

04-13-2011, 02:46 AM

Listen to the score from the movie End Of Days by John Debney, that has some pretty intense orchestral/electronic action stuff.

Vinphonic

04-13-2011, 05:27 PM

ARIA The NATURAL The Complete Score

Relaxing / Warm / Tranquil / Strings / Guitar / Piano / Vocal

Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/NHTH9FC4/The_NATURAL.7z_links)
MP3 / 320 kbps / 44 Tracks / 2 hours

More of the same wonderful and magical music, consistent style and beautiful vocal tracks. Even more emphasis on strings.

Thagor

04-13-2011, 08:07 PM

Thanks for this too kInerfan :)

Vinphonic

04-14-2011, 11:45 PM

ARIA The ORIGINATION The Complete Score

Relaxing / Warm / Tranquil / Strings / Guitar / Piano / Vocal

Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/OAYLOFQ3/The_ORIGINATION.7z_links)
MP3 / 320 kbps / 46 Tracks / 2.5 hours

The final score for this fantastic series, with the most emotional vocal track of the three. Many beautiful piano pieces and the usual melodic magic but all with a sense of closure.

Sirusjr

04-15-2011, 12:25 AM

Ahhh...way too much Aria music. Thanks again :D

Sanico

04-15-2011, 12:55 AM

Aria is in fact very beautiful. There's an incredible amount of emotional pieces that come one after another. From the very first track you feel like you're transported to a city like Venice.
I'm still listening the first one now and there's already 2 more of them. Thanks klnerfan for sharing Aria, but slow down a bit, or we will not have the time to savor everything! kidding :o

NaotaM

04-15-2011, 09:07 PM

Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica
by Hikaru Nanase

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Sirusjr

04-16-2011, 12:12 AM

The Aria music is a perfect example of why I tend to only keep soundtracks when I love every track. I don't have the patience to go in and delete the mediocre ones or listen to each one enough times to decide if I should keep it. There is a lot of beautiful music here, but also a lot of repetitive tracks that are minor arrangements of existing melodies such that by the end of any one of the sets posted above, I sigh when I hear certain pieces from the first couple of notes because I know there it is again. For example, do we really need three versions of each of the Makino Yui songs on each soundtrack? Maybe it is just the arrangements but they don't seem to really contribute much as far as development. This of course brings to light the everlasting debate of how much music is too much. One man's needless repetition of thematic material is another man's favorite cue that he would be devastated if it wasn't included. It is similar with film scores when we have the album and the complete version with every cue and alternate. Sometimes it can be a bit extreme--as with the 2 disc versions of famous Ennio Morriconne western soundtracks with four or five versions of each theme. I don't know what the solution is other than to slowly trim away the fat to a more enjoyable listening experience.

Vinphonic

04-16-2011, 03:32 AM

Well I included the songs because they were used as bgm in the show but regarding the topic of Complete Score vs. OST, I would argue that it is better to have everything and then delete the parts you don't need. Some alterations or certain tracks may be your favorite part of a score so it can be frustrating to notice that it's not on the offical version. For example, the strings version of Voyage from Fantastic Children was my favorite piece from the show but it was not on the OST. I searched for it but it is still very difficult to find. Another good example is Hook. Some alterations on the bootleg are way better than their OST counterpart. So I'm always grateful for complete versions because I want to know the difference between the two so that I can compare them and then decide if the OST is worth buying. Depends on the score though.
The problem some people seem to have with ARIA is that it has no real climax, almost no conflict and little tension or suspense. The tone of the score is very consistent and for some people it becomes repetitive and boring after a while. You really appreciate the music when you have a nice relaxing day once in a while, are not in the mood for heavy Orchestral Action and just want simple and relaxing music. Then it becomes something incredible.

kkrikum

04-16-2011, 03:49 AM

hi there,
i want these 2 soundtracks by the highly underrated composer;Debbie Wiseman
Warriors - 1999
Tom's midnight garden -1999
Please provide download links for these AMAZING ost's
Thanks.

Orie

04-16-2011, 12:29 PM

I have not seen this posted here yet. so here you go :p

Akira Senju + Yoshihiro Ike
A very good listening experience to all ;)
http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/fuji-terebi-drama-gold-original-soundtrack-akira-88714/#post1671251

Tsobanian

04-17-2011, 04:38 PM

Tsobanian - Bravo for your refined, cultured, well-presented classical posts, I'm very open to discovering and popularizing great classicals in this thread. (BTW, your posts would deserve a cross-post in the Classical thread, for people specifically interested in classical music)

No dear arthierr, that thread has no zap.
Cheers for your open-mindness!

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Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Works by Modest Mussorgsky :
-A Night on the Bare Mountain (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)
-Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Leo Funtek & Sergei Gorchakov)
-Khovanchina: Prelude (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)
-The Capture of Kars - Triumphal March
-Scherzo in B flat (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Warner Classics & Jazz > Classical Release (http://warnerclassics.com/release.php?release=2972)

New performing edition by Jukka-Pekka Saraste combining the orchestrations of Leo Funtek and Sergei Gorchakov :
1. Promenade (Leo Funtek)
2. Gnomus (Sergei Gorchakov)
3. Promenade II (Leo Funtek)
4. The Old Castle (Leo Funtek)
5. Promenade III (Sergei Gorchakov)
6. Tuilleries (Leo Funtek)
7. Bydlo (Sergei Gorchakov)
8. Promenade IV (Leo Funtek)
9. Ballet of the Chicks (Sergei Gorchakov)
10. Samuel Goldenberg & Schmuyle (Leo Funtek)
11. Promenade V (Leo Funtek)
12. Limoges (Sergei Gorchakov)
13. Catacombs (Sergei Gorchakov)
14. Con Mortuis in Lingua Mortua (Sergei Gorchakov)
15. Baba Yaga (Leo Funtek)
16. Great Gate of Kiev (Sergei Gorchakov)

Audiophile CD (Finlandia) � Mussorgsky � Pictures at an exhibition | BOXSET.RU (http://boxset.ru/audiophile-cd-finlandia-mussorgsky-pictures-at-an-exhibition/)
http://www.rapidshare.com/files/417266262/muss_pict_saraste.part1.rar
http://www.rapidshare.com/files/417035661/muss_pict_saraste.part2.rar

Orch. FUNTEK, Leo (b. Ljubljana, Slovenia 21August 1885; d. Helsinki, Finland 13 January 1965)
Moussorgsky, Modeste - Pictures at an Exhibition / N�yttelykuvia (1874)
(Orchestrated by Leo Funtek 1922) Premiere Helsinki December 14th, 1922. Dur. 38'
4 3 4 3 � 6 4 4 1 � tmp+3perc � 2hp �pf, cel � str

First orchestration of the complete work - All Promenades included.
Pub: Espoo: Fazer Music � 1990[1995] Warner/ Chappell Music Finland Oy (formerly Fazer Music, Inc.) Listed at Fennica Gehrman Music Pub. Fennica Gehrman - Hire Material --- (http://www.fennicagehrman.fi/hirecatalogue.htm)
U.S. rental agent Boosey & Hawkes - Score and Parts on rental Study Score for sale #/ISBN: F 079781 / M-042-07987 #HL 48000723 $39.95

―Published in July 1922, just months before the Ravel orchestration, of whose project Funtek was seemingly unaware. In contrast to other orchestrations, Funtek's adheres closely to Mussorgsky's original piano version -- Russ, Michael (1992). Musorgsky �Pictures at an exhibition Cambridge University Press. p.7. Mussorgsky's original piano version is printed below the orchestral score.

Movements and Durations:
Promenade 1 1�41�
1. Gnomus 2�59�
Promenade 2 1'01�
2. The Old Castle 4'58�
Promenade 3 031�
3. Tuileries 1'07�
4. Bydlo 3'20�
Promenade 4 0'45�
5. Ballet of the Chicks in Their Eggs 1'18�
6. Two Polish Jews � rich and poor 2�45�
Promenade 5 0�45�
7. Limoges le march� 1�21�
8. Catacombae 1'50�
9. Con mortuis in lingua mortua 2'13�
10. The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba Yaga) 3�23�
11. The Great Gate of Kiev 6�52�

Recording:
World Premiere recording of the Funtek orchestration, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Leif Segerstam for BIS (Catalog No. CD-325) in 1986. Dur. 38'08''

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And again Vladimir Ashkenazy's orchestral transcription.

Audiophile LP (Decca) Mussorgsky/Ashkenazy � Pictures at an exhibition | BOXSET.RU (http://boxset.ru/audiophile-lp-decca-mussorgskyashkenazy-pictures-at-an-exhibition/)

Always remember the chart!!!
Mussorgsky Pictures orchestrations and arrangements (http://www.mola-inc.org/Nieweg%20Charts/MussorgskyPictures.pdf)

arthierr

04-20-2011, 07:14 PM

Wow, it's been a sloooow post week in this thread! I can't believe I had to go as far as page 7 to find it!

Anyway, thanks the last uploads, and sorry for being a little scarce lately, had a lot of priorities to deal with, you know how it is... Happily, I've got more free time now, so I'll have a few good things to post - and no, this is not one of my announcements I don't have time to honor, since I *already* uploaded the stuff, and now I just have to make a nice presentation for it. Coming soon. :)

For the moment, here's something I'm sure visitors of this thread will appreciate. Credits to ggctuk2005.

John Williams
Concert in Madrid

Performed by the Spanish National Orchestra and Choir conducted by George Pehlivania

Thread 88564

Tracklist:

Sirusjr

04-20-2011, 07:46 PM

I just wanted to point out for those who didn't notice that Bruce Broughton's orchestral score to Stay Tuned was released by Intrada this week. It is a wonderful thematic score and even has a suite of cartoon music at the end from bits of the movie where characters entered cartoons. It doesn't appear to be selling particularly fast, just as Glory and Honor doesn't seem to have sold out yet.

Dvorak - Symphony Nos. 7, 8, and 9
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Vaclav Neumann
MP3 VBR v-0 - 150MB

Some might think that posting late Dvorak symphonies is silly because they are so well-known. While this may be true, on the off chance that some here have not heard this marvelous version of the 7th and 8th (and to a lesser extent a still-solid version of the 9th) it must be posted to share such beauty! As one can tell from the cover above, this is from a set that includes all the symphonies--but of course, like any composer, as Dvorak matured, the music got more lush and beautiful. Dvorak's 8th is simply a stunning piece of relaxing classical bursting with emotion and color. Of course I'm sure we've all heard bits and pieces from the 9th whether or not we are conscious of it.
Download ( http://www.multiupload.com/XFNTR5FSEL)
PSW: smile

Faleel

04-22-2011, 07:02 AM

Just going to drop this here... http://uploadmirrors.com/download/FYVTDP9O/Before_And_After.mp3

what ever became of that?

cinar12oto

04-22-2011, 07:56 AM

nice song i like it

Tsobanian

04-22-2011, 03:47 PM

ALEXANDER BORODIN: REQUIEM
Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Geoffrey Simon (conductor)

BORODIN Requiem etc [HC]: Classical Reviews- June 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2001/June01/BorodinRequiem.htm)

Details here (http://anonym.to/?http://www.calarecords.com/acatalog/info_CACD1029.html)

Grab it here in lossless! (http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/?d=32IEK43F)

Contents :
1. Requiem, for Solo Tenor, Men's Chorus & Orchestra (orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski)

Polovtsian Dances and Suite from Prince Igor (orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov & Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
2. Overture
3. Chorus of the Polovtsian Maidens
4. Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens
5. Polovtsian March
6. Polovtsian Dances

7. Nocturne from String Quartet No. 2 (orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)

8. In the Steppes of Central Asia

Petite Suite (orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov)
9. Au Couvent
10. Mazurka Rustique
11. Mazurka
12. Reverie
13. Serenade
14. Finale: Scherzo-Nocturne-Scherzo

This is mostly for preview purposes. You are advised to buy the disc (in case you like it), since Cala has some really hot releases!
Cala Records--Geoffrey Simon Conducts (http://www.calarecords.com/acatalog/Geoffrey_Simon.html)
SA-CD.net - Cala Records (http://www.sa-cd.net/alltitles/392)

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Feel the BIG orchestral sound with a sonic spectacular by Leopold Stokowski's idiosyncratic orchestral transcriptions!!!
Exercise extreme caution when you play this. It can easily destroy your speakers!

THE FANTASTATIC STOKOWSKI TRANSCRIPTIONS FOR ORCHESTRA
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, conducted by Erich Kunzel

Details here (http://anonym.to/?http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/albums/The-Fantastic-Stokowski/)
Sonic Hall of Fame (http://www.classicalcdreview.com/sonichall4.html)

Erich Kunzel leads the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra in surprisingly vivid, dynamic performances of Leopold Stokowski transcriptions: Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and Fugue in G minor, Festival Day in Seville of Albeniz, Debussy's Clair de Lune and The Engulfed Cathedral, Hungarian Dance No. 6 of Brahms, the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata No. 14, Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# minor, Boccherini's Minuet, and two works of Mussorgsky: Night on Bare Mountain and The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition. Engineering represents Telarc at its very best with super wide dynamic range combined with warmth, presence and thundering detailed bass.

Grab it here in lossless! (http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KXW3F0Q9)

All works orchestrated by Leopold Stokowski
Contents :
1. Bach: Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV 565
2. Boccherini: Menuet
3. Bach: "Little" Fugue in G minor BWV 578
4. Beethoven: Adagio Sostenuto from Moonlight Sonata
5. Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 6
6. Debussy: Clair de lune
7. Albeniz: Fete-Dieu a Seville
8. Debussy: La cathedrale engloutle
9. Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C-sharp minor Op. 3 No 2
10. Moussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
11. Moussorgsky: The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition

Vinphonic

04-22-2011, 07:06 PM

Black Prophecy

(http://img69.imageshack.us/i/folderhey.jpg/)

Music by Dynamedion
Composed by Tilman Sillenscu

Download Link (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/0YSPEICI/Black_Prophecy.7z_links)
MP3 / 320kbps / 62 Tracks / 80 min

This is big orchestral action music. The Main Theme is basically Stargate with some bits of Alien and Battleforge mixed together. Recently Dynamedion got a new boost of fame across the world and I hope they will succeed Remote Control as the lead music company in the scoring business. I have also discovered why some people liked some parts of Crysis 2 despite being from RC. Well, guess who was also involved ;)

Thagor

04-22-2011, 08:51 PM

Nice as always ;)

TazerMonkey

04-24-2011, 09:44 AM

I have an Easter surprise lined up... Hopefully I'll have the time to get it uploaded tomorrow... two discs in FLAC. If not tomorrow, I'll get it up as soon as I can.

herbaciak

04-24-2011, 11:01 AM

Never liked Dynamedion. I always thought of them as solid team of not bad composer, who write very generic music. The same goes for Black Prophecy. It's standard, derivative s-f score (well, maybe except for credits theme... awesome track xD). Kinda like it though. Sci-fi always suited my tastes much better than fantasy (and most of Dynamedion works are much closer to fantasy...). Anyway, my favourite from them is still... Crysis 2. Not my fault that I like it. Sorry guys;).

tangotreats

04-24-2011, 11:31 AM

I kinda agree, to be honest... I'd sooner that music was written by people and not by companies. And whilst I've enjoyed a few Dynamedion scores in the past (I prefer to think of them as Tilman Silescu scores, though!) it can't escape my notice that they're rather generic. The good kind of generic, but generic nonetheless. It's lovely to hear a science fiction score making the sort of noises that Black Prophecy makes, definitely... but I still wait for the occasion where somebody with a really unique compositional voice comes along and writes a big old-fashioned sounding symphonic sci-fi score. A score which you'd describe using superlatives, rather than by saying what other music it sounds like. Yeah, the main theme is reminiscent of Stargate... so I'll go and listen to Stargate!

Hearing something like this just makes me wish somebody would come along and do it properly.

Utmost gratitude for posting, though, of course. :)

arthierr

04-24-2011, 02:24 PM

Thanks as usual! BTW, Sirusjr and klnerfan, mates, I guess you don't use the old forum theme, the blue one, because your dark blue titles on a... dark blue BG aren't *quite* visible!

Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica
by Hikaru Nanase

Hikaru Nanase can really be good sometimes. My favorite score of her is certainly Noein (amazing sci-fi and pastoral score), and Scrapped Princess also has some great parts. Polyphonica is a notch inferior (IMO), but some pieces, especially the action ones, are quite thrilling. An interesting aspect of such anime scores is their incredible eclectism, their immense variety in terms of musical genre - you have almost everything, even genres that don't seem to exist!

Black Prophecy

SUPERB!!

Oh, I love this *sound*, this massive orchestral sound, these bold trombones, these strident trumpets, these piercing piccolos, these explosive percussions. What a grandeur, what a fantastic wave of greatness that blows you away. I don't care about the Stargate and other influences, on the contrary, I welcome them, since such scores are what I want to hear in fact, but you don't hear anymore of this sound today.

About Dynamedion, I enjoyed many of their scores in the past, notably the Anno ones, and the relatively "generic" quality of their production never bothered me that much. It's good music - at times even excellent -, so I won't complain, especially when you see what's coming from Hollywood nowadays...

Dvorak - Symphony Nos. 7, 8, and 9
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Vaclav Neumann
MP3 VBR v-0 - 150MB

It's funny you posted precisely those three, since they're among my very favorite symphonies in all classical music. Incredible stuff. Now I don't know about the performance here, but I heard some stunning ones by Colin Davis and of course Karajan in the past. Their performances were so great that they seem to be hard to surpass, but let's see how Neumann and the CPO handle these masterpieces!

Feel the BIG orchestral sound with a sonic spectacular by Leopold Stokowski's idiosyncratic orchestral transcriptions!!!
Exercise extreme caution when you play this. It can easily destroy your speakers!

THE FANTASTATIC STOKOWSKI TRANSCRIPTIONS FOR ORCHESTRA
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, conducted by Erich Kunzel

Cool, more great orchestral transcriptions by Tsobanian! Big fan of Stokowski's transcriptions in fact. These pieces are simply marvelous orchestral material, so powerful, pertinent, and craftily made - and I have to admit that without them, I probably never would have heard some of the original pieces, since I'm no amateur of solo instruments or small ensembles music. I've also heard some good stuff from Kunzel before, he's a good conductor, yet a little mechanical IMO. Many thanks for the flac quality, too.

Do you happen to have other Stokowski transcriptions, notably the Wagner ones, about which I heard great things?

Sirusjr

04-24-2011, 02:31 PM

HAHA yes arthierr. I use the light colored theme and so I have gone to using darker fonts because the light ones don't show up for me very well. I had even forgotten we could switch it to classic view until you mentioned it.

Vinphonic

04-24-2011, 02:53 PM

Yeah the same goes for me too ;)

Ah before I forget it, the offical soundtrack version of Napoleon Total War is available on itunes. It is a bit different to my version. I thought they were going for a more historical approach but it's enjoyable nonetheless.

Tsobanian

04-24-2011, 07:03 PM

Cool, more great orchestral transcriptions by Tsobanian! Big fan of Stokowski's transcriptions in fact. These pieces are simply marvelous orchestral material, so powerful, pertinent, and craftily made - and I have to admit that without them, I probably never would have heard some of the original pieces, since I'm no amateur of solo instruments or small ensembles music. I've also heard some good stuff from Kunzel before, he's a good conductor, yet a little mechanical IMO. Many thanks for the flac quality, too.

Do you happen to have other Stokowski transcriptions, notably the Wagner ones, about which I heard great things?

I think you're right about the Stokowski transcriptions.
Well Kunzel is not a good conductor anymore, he was in the past though. Haven't heard too much from Kunzel to tell whether he is mechanical or not. Still the Stokowski from Telrac has been something phenomenal. It's true that many orchestral transcriptions were made to bring to wider public music that was not heard so often, music that was no performed so frequently. Therefore, when you listen to orchestral transcriptions, you desire to find out what the original composition was like.

Track List
1. Das Rheingold, Scene IV: Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla (ed. H. Zumpe, L. Stokowski) 08:11

Tristan und Isolde: Symphonic Synthesis (arr. L. Stokowski)
2. Prelude to Act I 10:12
3. Liebesnacht (Night of Love) 20:57
4. Liebestod (Love Death) 05:23

5. Parsifal, Act III: Symphonic Synthesis (arr. L. Stokowski) 15:51
6. Die Walkure, Act III: Feuerzauber (Magic Fire Music) (arr. L. Stokowski) 08:09
7. Die Walkure, Act III: Ride of the Valkyries (ed. H. Zumpe, L. Stokowski) 05:44

Wagner - Stokowski Symphonic Synthesis (Serebrier) on avaxhome (http://avaxhome.ws/music/classical/Wagner_Stokowski_Symphonic_Synthesis_Serebrier.htm l)

When Leopold Stokowski began his conducting career, the music of Wagner featured in his very first concert and was to remain close to his heart for the rest of his life. In those early days, particularly through gramophone records, he introduced Wagner to a wide public with extended orchestral excerpts woven together as richly conceived tone poems and given the title �Symphonic Syntheses�. In these performances by Jos� Serebrier and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, these tone poems have a unique sumptuousness of sound and for those who love this evocative music gloriously played, there is much here that will ravish the ear.
� The Leopold Stokowski Society

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The Philadelphia Orchestra, Conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch

Only Classical: Stokowski: Transcriptions - Sawallisch - EMI (http://classical-free.blogspot.com/2011/02/stokowski-transcriptions-sawallisch-emi.html)

Download Sawallisch Stokowski Transcriptions EMI part1 rar (http://filecrown.com/2twl4dim6kiy.html)
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Download Sawallisch Stokowski Transcriptions EMI part3 rar (http://filecrown.com/t96a30ztpbrx.html)
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arthierr

04-24-2011, 09:46 PM

TazerMonkey

04-24-2011, 10:38 PM

^Better yet, I'll just upload it ;)

JOHN DEBNEY
LAIR
[FLAC RIP]

This is something I've been thinking of doing for a while. The music, of course, is awesome; orchestral bombast at its finest. However, there's never really been a truly satisfactory release of this score: the only official release is the truncated version on iTunes available in lossy AAC, the original gamerip (Thread 45264) which is still only available in MP3 with electronic buzz and rampant clipping, and an album arrangement (Thread 45373) that combines these sources. While I've been satisfied with the latter, it has been four years since the game was released and the rip appeared, and no official lossless quality release in sight. It was time for an upgrade.

Thread here (Thread 89127)

Sirusjr

04-25-2011, 03:18 AM

All I have to say is if you are reading this thread and have not listened to Lair, it is worth downloading Tazer's version to give it a good listen.

arthierr

04-25-2011, 03:20 AM

Oh, you'll love this one. Enjoy this special release for the Big Orchestral Thread!

Kentaro Sato
Symphonic Tale "Peter Pan"
and other Symphonic Music

Philmharmonic Orchestra Prague and other orchestras

http://www.images-host.fr/view.php?img=040425092009-kentarosato-kenp-homelibrary-s.jpg (http://www.images-host.fr)

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Symphonic Tale "Peter Pan"
1. The Boy Who Won’t Grow Up / The Peter Pan’s Fanfare
2. Wendy’s Kiss
3. Tinker Bell / Flying to the Neverland
4. Pirates of the Jolly Roger
5. The Lost Boys
6. Cinderella, Wendy's Story
7. The Mermaids' Lagoon
8. The Never Bird
9. Dance of the Native Warriors
10. Memory of Mother
11. Hook or Me, This Time!
12. Return Home

Symphonic Music
Wings of Dreams
The Wind of Grassland
Redlands Overture
Star Ocean Overture
Freedom Overture
Breath of Dawn
A Gift from the Ocean
Going Home with You
The Great Voyages of Captain Little

Tango recently posted this great compilation (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/301.html#post1664960), and one notable thing about it was the stunning quality of the arrangements, and more particularly of the orchestrations. I wanted more of those, so I decided to make some researches about the man who did them: Kentaro Sato aka Ken-P. I discovered that he's not only a great conductor and orchestrator, but also a talented composer who created some very interesting music on his own.

One piece he composed specially attracted my attention: a full, sumptuous symphonic suite based upon the story of Peter Pan. Frankly, given the extraordinary quality of this suite, I can't believe it's so obscure and rare. The music is in fact stunning; it features a large number of themes, so many that almost each track has its own theme and a quite strong identity (this is the mark of the greatest film scores). Is it needed to precise that the orchestrations are top-notch? Their richness, fluidity and diversity show an obvious expertise in orchestration: this man is a true master orchestrator.

Of course there are a few influences coming from the monumental masterpiece of John Williams on the same subject, especially in the track "The Lost Boys", and also some slight inspirations from an eighties fantasy score by Robert Folk (guess which) in the track "Flying to the Neverland", but Sato manages to be original enough, and it seems anyway that these occasional influences are some kind of homage to his masters more than anything else - as if he wanted to show that he *can* compose and orchestrate like them, some sort of showing off if you will!

I also included in this upload the other symphonic pieces I found at his website. For people interested in virtual orchestras, they totally should listen to the very lyrical piece called "Breath of Dawn", entirely made with the Garrritan Personal Orchestra, it shows what this virtual orchestra can produce when it's handled by a very skilled orchestrator.

Hope you enjoy!

TazerMonkey

04-25-2011, 03:45 AM

"Peter Pan" is delightful. Thank you so much!

Also just sneaked a listen of "Black Prophecy." While I can see Tango's point about the score being generic, the fact is that these days the orchestral sci-fi score just isn't that commonplace; in absolute terms, yes, it's generic, but as Tango also phrased it, it's the "good" kind of generic. I'm trying to work on big genre stuff right now in my writing, and I can't get enough of epic gorgeous music, especially that I'm unfamiliar with. So many thanks for that as well.

herbaciak

04-25-2011, 08:19 AM

OMG! Arthierr! You just made my day! Hugu, huge, tremendously huge thanks for Sato's Peter Pan! I know all of his works from his site (and I love 'em deeply) but never had a chance to listen to Peter Pan (except for some samples). Great, great, great share. And Sato - I Think I'm saying it again - is really fantastic orchestrator and composer. Why he doesn't write more?

Sirusjr

04-25-2011, 02:49 PM

For those interested, Kritzerland just re-issued Until September (John Barry) so if you were holding off on buying the Intrada for inflated prices, now is your chance to buy it. Plus Kritzerland's cover to me is much more beautiful.

tangotreats

04-25-2011, 04:45 PM

Damn, Peter Pan was my third super special upload. You beat me to it. Well done, sir. :)

Thagor

04-25-2011, 08:29 PM

Thanks Arthierr :)

Vinphonic

04-25-2011, 11:00 PM

I searched for a very long time and finally found the last piece to complete this little collection.

Voyage ~ Theme from Fantastic Children

(http://img833.imageshack.us/i/folderykh.jpg/)

Lyrical / Classical / Emotional / Strings / Piano / Cello

Download Link (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/0J1BBKU3/Voyage.7z_links)
MP3 / 320kbps / 7 Tracks / 28min

Ever since I first heared this piece in the show I was instantly enchanted by it. I cannot explain why in detail but I really really love this theme. I consider it a masterpiece and the strings version is my personal favorite variation. It also does help that this piece with it's many variations is played during very emotional moments in the show and it underscores the dramatic and tragic aspects of a complex and wonderful story.

Sirusjr

04-25-2011, 11:28 PM

Some great music in Fantastic Children for sure :D Good post!

simonwu20923

04-26-2011, 02:29 AM

Damn, the peter pan suite is mind blowingly good. Praise thee, Arthierr

TazerMonkey

04-26-2011, 03:07 AM

Voyage ~ Theme from Fantastic Children

I love the cello version.

arthierr

04-26-2011, 04:33 AM

You're welcome, guys! Glad you enjoy it.

Now, for those of you who want to go much deeper in the musical analysis and comprehension of this suite, check this out:

Learn orchestration from Kentaro Sato!
-Wiseman Project- Official Web Site of Kentaro Sato (Ken-P) Composer/Conductor/Orchestrator (http://www.wisemanproject.com/education-orchestrationtip-by-KentaroSato.html)

This is BRILLIANT, and yet so well explained that it's accessible to anybody, even people unfamiliar with music creation.

BTW, Herbaciak, my friend, please learn copiously from this, you'll greatly improve your music if you follow his advices step by step. As I told you before, start with a nice melody of your own (it will be your basic material), and then do what is explained, and the result might be spectacular!

Cristobalito2007

04-26-2011, 08:44 AM

Oh, you'll love this one. Enjoy this special release for the Big Orchestral Thread!

Hope you enjoy!

This is fantastic! Thanks for share.

Sirusjr

04-27-2011, 05:24 AM

The New Swiss Family Robinson (John Scott) (1998)
Lush|Regal|Orchestral|Sweeping(MP3~320Kbps)
Originally posted by WildwoodPark

This lovely score was recently posted and I have to share it. Such beauty in orchestration it might be one of my favorite John Scott scores! This was just what I needed after listening to Thor.

Download (https://rapidshare.com/files/459300246/TNSFRJS88.rar)

Tsobanian

04-27-2011, 09:36 PM

Excellent finds! Thanks for answering this fast.

About Stokowski's transcriptions of pieces originally being orchestral, even though his transcriptions totally show a great orchestrational expertise, I generally tend to prefer the original pieces which seem to me more... genuine, authentic, as if the composer already was knowing which orchestrations are best. Stokowski's pieces sometimes tend to sound like an highly virtuosic game of re-orchestration: it's fabulously well done, it sounds great, and he certainly had a lot of fun doing this, but you can somehow feel that it's not quite right, quite as the original composer would have intended; it even sometimes feel a little too extravagant, over-ornate. At least this was my impression when I listened to some of these pieces, sorry if some classical experts might think that I talk drivel!

I subscribe to your view... This is the lavish, flamboyant, sumptuous, ornamented "Stokowski Sound". It is in fact idiosyncratic. I feel that the "Stokowski Sound" is very relevant and close to the generic "Philadelphia Sound". Having that said, Lucien Cailliet is another representative of the "Philadelphia Sound". I really enjoyed his orchestrations (although rather elusive in terms of availability )
Lucien Cailliet (Composer, Arranger) - Short Biography (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Cailliet-Lucien.htm)

This is perhaps the most accurate list in connection with Stokowski's output.
Stokowski Orchestral Transcriptions and Composition (http://www.mola-inc.org/Stokowskicatalog.htm)

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Otto's Classical Musick: The Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Bach (Family) (http://bachradio.blogspot.com/2010/08/philadelphia-orchestra-plays-bach.html)

Alternative link on narod.ru (2 CDs in one). You enter the code, then press the green button.
Яндекс.Народ (http://narod.ru/disk/2949925000/The%20Philadelphia%20Orchestra%20Plays%20Bach.rar. html)
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Purists will assert that the Philadelphia Orchestra has no business playing Bach. It's too bad they feel that way, particularly when the conductor is Leopold Stokowski, reunited with the orchestra after a hiatus of almost two decades. Eugene Ormandy invited Stoki back in 1960, and MH2K62345 documents the results: confident, suave recordings of the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto and the conductor's moving arrangements of three Chorale Pr�ludes. Ormandy was an expert arranger and conductor of Bach himself, as can be heard from the balance of this 2-CD set, which contains what used to be Columbia MS6180 ("Bach by Ormandy" � also recorded in 1960) and MS6342 ("The Bach Family" � works by Johann Christian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, recorded in 1957). None of it may be "authentic," but it all sounds luscious enough to make new friends for the music and the performances.

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This DVD has the best recording for Sergei Gorchakov's orchestration of "Pictures at an Exhibition". Packed with a very meticulous, yet warm, performance of the Mendelssohnian Italian Symphony... What more do you want!! SPLENDID!!!!! The acoustic quality is majestic!

# Composers: Modest Mussorgsky, Felix Mendelssohn
# Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
# Conductor: Kurt Masur
# Audio: LPCM 2.0, Dolby AC3 5.1, DTS 5.1
# Studio: Kultur
# DVD Release Date: January 25, 2011

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig: Mendelssohn, Mussorgsky (DVD-9) | Watch your music! (http://fulldvd.net/gewandhausorchester-leipzig-mendelssohn-mussorgsky-dvd-9/)

Kurt Masur held the position of Kapellmeister at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig from 1970 to 1996. Following his retirement, Masur was named as the first Conductor Laureate in the history of the orchestra. In 1998, he became the chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in September 2000.

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90, �Italian.� The work demonstrates a romantic moodscape of his journey through Florence, Rome and Naples. A sunny melody dominates the first movement (allegro vivace), uniting artistically with the idyllic second theme in the course of the movement, and leads to an impassioned finale. The present recording thus completes a circle for the Gewandhaus Orchestra under the baton of Kurt Masur.

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) Pictures at an Exhibition: In the present recording with the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Mussorgsky describes ten paintings by his friend Hartmann and frames them by the �Promenade,� which guides the viewer on his way round the exhibition.

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ahhfwww Classical: Marches in Hi-Fi (Boston Pops Orchestra,A.Fiedler) (http://ahhfwmy.blogspot.com/2010/12/marches-in-hi-fi-boston-pops.html)

Giuseppe Verdi: Grand March (from Aida)
Victor Herbert: March of the Toys (from Babes in Toyland)
John Philip Sousa: Semper Fidelis
Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky: March miniature (from Suite No.1, Op.43)
Traditional: Yankee Doodle (Arranged by Morton Gould)
Robert G. Morse: Up the Street
Hector Berlioz: Rakoczy March (from The Damnation of Faust)
Willson: 76 Trombones (from The Music Man)
Ippolitov Ivanov: Procession of the Sardar (from Caucasian Sketches)
Planquette: Sambre et Meuse
Ludwig van Beethoven: Turkish March (from The Ruins of Athens)
Kenneth J. Alford: Colonel Bogey (featured in The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Daniel Emmett: Dixie (Arranged by Frank Black)
Morton Gould: American Salute (based on When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
George Gershwin - Ira Gershwin: Strike Up the Band (from Strike Up the Band)

Sanico

04-28-2011, 12:26 AM

The Shooting Party & Birds And Planes by John Scott

All tracks @ VBR -V0
http://rapidshare.com/files/459462916/The_Shooting_Party__Birds_And_Planes.zip

There has been recently an interest on the shrine of sharing some John Scott soundtracks, so i take this as an a opportunity to share another work by Scott.
This is a lovely score with a classic style, full of pastoral touches and a bit of a romance. Hope you like it :)

Sirusjr

04-28-2011, 12:50 AM

Wonderful Sanico! I haven't heard that one before. Thanks so much.

Also, I suggest everyone check out the new James Newton-Howard score, Water for Elephans, as it is an absolutely lovely romantic score so lush and relaxing. However, I suggest you remove tracks 5, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, and 19 from your playlist because they are either jazzy or source cues that I don't feel really fit with the listening experience of the rest of the album. Still, when you take those out you still have 45 minutes of score. Please post your thoughts here.

streichorchester

04-30-2011, 04:13 AM

I can't remember if this clip from Shuky Levy's Digimon score was posted before, but it's just so awesome here it is (maybe) again!

Digimon - Score Selection #2 (http://www.shukilevy.com/Shuki_Levy_Online/Media/10%20Digimon%20-%20Score%20Selection%20%232.mp3)

Reminds me of Broughton's action style. Gotta love those woodwind runs.

hater

05-01-2011, 11:45 AM

Patrick Doyles Score for Thor isn�t completely useless.Even if the action is mostly RCP-ish, there is a lot of Doyle in there, especially the wonderful Main Theme, which appears a lot.Have only seen the movie twice (love it, at least as great as iron man and much better than iron man 2), but the score is fitting and sometimes great in the film. definately best avengers score yet.btw it was recorded with the LSO, and Captain America will take place in Abbey Road.Feel free to disagree.And no worry that Doyle will change his style now. His another new score is classic doyle.

guidefor

05-01-2011, 07:22 PM

Thanks For share.Like it.

arthierr

05-01-2011, 10:12 PM

Massive thanks for the recent posts! John Scott + great classicals = WIN

Also, I suggest everyone check out the new James Newton-Howard score, Water for Elephans, as it is an absolutely lovely romantic score so lush and relaxing. However, I suggest you remove tracks 5, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, and 19 from your playlist because they are either jazzy or source cues that I don't feel really fit with the listening experience of the rest of the album. Still, when you take those out you still have 45 minutes of score. Please post your thoughts here.

I sure will check this one. Let's hope he's back from his obnoxious alliances from the past. What happened to him then is quite similar to what happened recently to Doyle: take a wonderful, highly talented and trained composer, and ask him to be at 50% or less of his real skill level, ask him to make an effort to be mediocre, ask him to force his superior nature to become inferior for a moment, like a giant who's asked to huddle up to be dwarf size, in order to churn out a score that you can barely recognize as being from him...

Patrick Doyles Score for Thor isn�t completely useless.Even if the action is mostly RCP-ish, there is a lot of Doyle in there, especially the wonderful Main Theme, which appears a lot.Have only seen the movie twice (love it, at least as great as iron man and much better than iron man 2), but the score is fitting and sometimes great in the film. definately best avengers score yet.btw it was recorded with the LSO, and Captain America will take place in Abbey Road.Feel free to disagree.And no worry that Doyle will change his style now. His another new score is classic doyle.

About Patrick Doyle's Score for Thor, the full score is indeed better than what was previously heard in the samples. As you pointed out, there's a solid - but rather simple - main theme, used with abundance; its tone is surprisingly positive, cheerful, almost jolly given this kind of movie, which is generally used to dark and tense thematic approaches. Despite the zimmerish sound, Doyle's style can be spotted (for instance because of the profusion of high-strings ostinati, which is quite typical). So, it's not so bad a score, and it has a few pleasant moments that clearly deserve a listen.

BUT - you DID expect a "but", didn't you? -, overall, this score is rather boring and far below the usual level of Doyle's production. Yes, despite the occasional good moments, despite the rare glimpses of orchestral majesty, of musical subtlety, this score is undoubtedly very inferior to what could be expected from this great composer, especially by orchestral enthusiasts. The music is often very disappointing, not only because of the bland underscore tracks, but also and particularly because of the insipid, simplistic action-oriented ones: they're generally just ostinati-driven, percussion-fueled series of epic chords, with little to no real complexity, seriously lacking a sense of virtuosic, acrobatic musical development - which is more usual to this composer.

And what about this percussion madness??? Better not have sensitive, fragile ears to listen to this, since the percussions are almost *everywhere*; and they are not what one would call "moderate and subtle", since their volume is generally so high that they end up being quite intrusive - maybe this choice is good for the movie, since it tends to give more rhythm to scenes, but as a musical experience it's mostly garbage. If only it was some orchestral percussions! But no, what you mostly get is a sort of violent metallic slapping noise used as snares, and of course your usual bass drums, as indispensable to RC scores as eggs are to omelets. Did someone spotted some timpanis here?

So, the general impression I had about this score is that it's undoubtedly composed by someone who has some genuine talent and some good musical ideas, but who didn't have the possibilities - or in this case, the choice - to use them as he would have wanted. This score looks like a great painting watched through blurry glasses: what you see is simplistic, very basic, but the general shape seems good, and you can glimpse some snippets of true talent and craft here and there. Let's hope that Doyle's next score will have more than snippets of these, and will feature again his usual solid orchestral style.

I can't remember if this clip from Shuky Levy's Digimon score was posted before, but it's just so awesome here it is (maybe) again!

Digimon - Score Selection #2 (http://www.shukilevy.com/Shuki_Levy_Online/Media/10%20Digimon%20-%20Score%20Selection%20%232.mp3)

Reminds me of Broughton's action style. Gotta love those woodwind runs.

This is surprisingly good. I didn't expect such music for a Digimon show (even though Yamashita's one was very sweet). Another case of a score far superior to the show it's made for. How about using THIS for Thor?

Sanico

05-02-2011, 12:26 AM

And what about this percussion madness??? Better not have sensible, fragile ears to listen to this,

I'm with you Arthierr. It's like every big score made today have the same metallic poundings. To give power and "epicness" they say... well for me is just blatant noise.

mobilaks01

05-02-2011, 12:28 AM

Thank you for sharing. Waiting for new studies. ;)

Vinphonic

05-02-2011, 02:26 AM

Infinite Stratos

(http://img684.imageshack.us/i/folderyad.jpg/)

Orchestral Selection
Composed by Nanase Hikaru

Download Link (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/KECAWTFH/Infinite_Stratos.7z_links)
MP3 / 320kbps / 28 Tracks

This is my own version of the OST. I've cut all the unnecessary parts and put the remaining tracks in different order. A fine orchestral score.

Sirusjr

05-02-2011, 05:14 AM

Thanks for Infinite Stratos! Will check it out.

Ssuu1201

05-02-2011, 11:30 AM

All download links of part2 have not worked already!
Could you please fix the link so that we can download it successfully??

---------- Post added at 06:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:27 PM ----------

All download links of part2 have not worked already!
Could you please fix the link so that we can download it successfully??

JUST SMILE WITH MIRAI ORANGE!

TOSHIHIKO SAHASHI
Element Hunters (Original Soundtrack Vol. 2) 2010
AKA Elementhunters, Eremento Hanta, エレメントハンタ

My Rip - LAME 3.98.4 - Scans included and track titles in English

http://uploadmirrors.com/download/1W2HVZYJ/TS-EHOST2.part1.rar
http://uploadmirrors.com/download/0QVHBCQL/TS-EHOST2.part2.rar

Well, here you go folks - the second volume of Toshihiko Sahashi's fine Element Hunters score.

This is one strange album in a great many ways; and I mean that as a compliment. First of all, this album has 38 minutes of further orchestral music to add to the 30 minutes on the first volume. Secondly, it's Sahashi branching out in ways I don't think I would have expected. It's still Sahashi through and through, but unlike a lot of his work, there is some very unique music here. I think this may have been recorded at another session, as the credited orchestra is a bit larger than on the first volume - five trumpets, four trombones, bass trombone, two horns, make for a notable brass section.

Amongst the fairly typical Sahashi sci-fi music (a la Gundam Seed) there are cues like Gestalt Intelligence... a truly lovely, almost impressionistic tone poem, with a wonderfully light touch that Sahashi rarely exhibits. He knows when to roll out the full might of the orchestra - but here, most importantly, he knows when to take it right back. Out of that comes this beautiful lilting piece that's quite unlike anything Sahashi has written before.

Also notable is a couple of choral cues - now, I wasn't expecting that! In my opinion, this is choir done right - sparingly, so you don't get fed up with the sound of it. Jigenryuu recalls Carmina Burana (as so many choral cues do) but on the whole it's completely Sahashi's own. Amy Runaway seems to be based on Bach's Fantasia and Fugue, of all things - Sahashi expands it into an apocalyptic baroque-influenced piece for orchestra and choir.

Well, there you go - this one really surprised and impressed me. The addition of these cues to those of the first volume has pushed Element Hunters very close to being my favourite Sahashi score of all time. I think the whole lot works beautifully - and yes, I'm completely in love with cues like Gestalt Intelligence and Shape Shifter, not just because they're beautiful pieces in their own right, but because Sahashi is getting better all the time.

About half the album is synthy cues - most of them are fun enough, and Different World is just gorgeous - and again, completely unlike Sahashi.

Finally, there's a couple of songs - First Pain is the title theme from Element Hunters, which Sahashi uses quite liberally in the score, so you'll be familiar with the melody. Just Smile With Mirai Orange is an expanded version of a advertisment jingle in the show for an orange juice drink. Suihei Liebe is absolutely brilliant - yes, it's cheesy as hell, but it's so damn catchy.

Well, enjoy - I don't think there'll be any more Element Hunters soundtracks... so this is all you're going to get.

Roll on Sahashi's next anime project! (And I hope he gets the same amout of budget [or more] that he had for this one!)

Enjoy :)
TT

All download links of part2 have not worked already!
Could you please fix the link so that we can download it successfully??

bishtyboshty

05-02-2011, 11:32 AM

The Megaupload link seems to still be active ?.

jlaidler

05-02-2011, 01:08 PM

I'd like to point out that Symphony SEED and Symphony SEED Destiny have been re-posted in 320 kbps. For people who haven't listened to them or don't even know them (!!!), I reiterate that they're fantastic orchestral albums, composed by Toshihiko Sahashi and skillfully performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. No trace of rock or synth elements here, these are two pure, sumptuous symphonic suites, featuring numerous themes, including some gorgeous ones. A must-listen for any orchestral music lover. Credits to JonC.

Thread 85080

Thread 85081

And of course, once you've listened to these, you also have to listen to the third of the series:

Does anyone have this in flac? Also, still desperately searching for Gundam Seed The Bridge here. Please? I'd be eternally grateful.

jo12345678

05-02-2011, 02:27 PM

Here you go...

Symphony SEED and Symphony SEED Destiny FLAC

http://forums.ffshrine.org/f91/lossless-anime-music-thread-66456/58.html#post1644998

=)

Tsobanian

05-02-2011, 06:41 PM

This is hot dudes!

Sir Andrew Davis, Hilary Hahn, Jane Eaglen, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

01. J.S. Bach – Fantasia & Fugue c-moll (orchestrated by Sir Edward Elgar)
02. W.A. Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 4
03. J.S. Bach – Presto (from Violin Sonata No. 1 g-moll)
04. R. Strauss – Dance of the Seven Veils & Final Scene (from Salome)
05. D. Shostakovich – Jazz Suite No. 2 (orchestrated by G. McBurney)
06. P. Grainger – Tribute to Foster
07. F. Delius – The Walk to the Paradise Garden (from A Village Romeo & Juliet)
08. E. Elgar – Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1
09. H. Wood – Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
10. T. Arne – Rule, Britannia (arr. By Sargent)
11. H. Parry – Jerusalem (orchestrated by Elgar)
12. The National Anthem

The Last Night of The Proms (DVD-9) | Watch your music! (http://fulldvd.net/the-last-night-of-the-proms-dvd-9/)

Thagor

05-02-2011, 09:02 PM

Thanks for Infinite Stratos kInderfan :)
Great Anime and Music ;)
Do you have a tracklist without signs kInderfan? ;)
If possible in english ;)

Vinphonic

05-03-2011, 05:12 PM

I'm afraid not ;)

But something else instead.

Hyakka Ryōran Samurai Girls

(http://img651.imageshack.us/i/foldersmallu.jpg/)

Synth / Mandolin / Piano / Strings / Epic

OST Selection
Music Composed by Katou Tatsuya

Download Link (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/5UYP0PMO/Hyakka_Ry__ran_Samurai_Girls_0.7z_links)
MP3 / 320kbps / 34 Tracks

This one took me by surprise, similar to Black Rock Shooter. I was expecting garbage but got something very enjoyable. I still had to cut 50% of the OST but what's left I did really enjoy, which is weird because I usually hate the "epic" traileresque battle music but not in this case. For a show about ... well, Samurai Girls, I guess, the expected instruments can be heard but a Mandolin ? playful pizzato strings ? Irish Folk Music ?
Even if a great part of it is synth, this one grew on me very fast. Am I going soft ?

Also, should I lament on the fact that the recent OSTs of japanese shows about girls in underwear and other silly stuff, have made a better impression on me than most recent film scores ?

arthierr

05-03-2011, 07:36 PM

Haaa, some fresh anime scores, let's see what cool finds klnerfan brought to us again! Thanks as usual for the nifty musical discoveries you bring to this thread, mate. Thanks also for the proms concert, Tsobanian!

Just a little detail though: about the fact of posting edited albums with removed or re-numbered tracks, I've got nothing about it and I've done it sometimes as well, but in this case I prefer to label them "orchestral suite" or "selections" or something like that, to make sure people don't mix them with the original ost.

And BTW, since your excellent Black Prophecy was so enjoyable, I checked my Dynamedion scores and I noticed that BattleForge doesn't seem to be present here (!), so here it is for people who missed it:

Tilman Sillescu, Alexander R�der, Alex Pfeffer
BATTLEFORGE
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt / Oder
Bernd Ruf

http://forums.ffshrine.org/f70/battle-forge-soundtrack-65330/#post1236359
Credits to Jessie

Thread 79815
Credits to Maklai

Sirusjr

05-04-2011, 01:49 AM

Thanks for more music Klnerfan! I wanted to pop in to say that I will NOT be posting Gosick soundtrack (kotaro nakagawa) because it does not live up to the usual quality of my posts and I would prefer to forget it exists at all in the grand scheme of Kotaro Nakagawa's work. For those curious, it is NOT the usual style I have come to expect from him but instead a heavy horror/atmospheric release with many dark tracks. But for those who were watching for it, it is out there in the internets for all to grab if curious.

NaotaM

05-04-2011, 03:45 AM

Shigofumi
by Hikaru Nanase

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0HH20Y3W

And a little treat for klnerfan as thanks for all the neat new updates.

Quiet Country Cafe
by Choro Club

MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LL1I8W8L)

kanoder

05-04-2011, 10:16 AM

Voyage ~ Theme from Fantastic Children
Thanks a lot, really! :love:

ffshire

05-04-2011, 11:00 AM

This thread is amazing! Thanks for everything!

jlaidler

05-04-2011, 11:14 AM

The last two look interesting. Are there any plans for a lossless version?

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Here you go...

Symphony SEED and Symphony SEED Destiny FLAC

http://forums.ffshrine.org/f91/lossless-anime-music-thread-66456/58.html#post1644998

=)

Thanks mate, but I feel a bit of an ass for finding it after this post the other night by using Google search to find it on here. Actually fairly easy, just put symphony seed flac ffshrine.org and you'll find it. Easier then the search function for the forum.

Vinphonic

05-04-2011, 12:16 PM

@NaotaM I love it :) Thanks

I have actually one more to upload. If Zettai Shounen and Haibane Renmei ever had a child, this is what it would sound like ;) It will be up here soon.

Orie

05-04-2011, 12:58 PM

Sharing this with you. Although not much symphnic have you may be wanting, but sure it is very relaxing to hear it. I believe some of you may li this. :)
http://forums.ffshrine.org/f91/muji-bgm-1980-2000-relaxing-ambient-music-89691/#post1682703

NaotaM

05-04-2011, 01:16 PM

@NaotaM I love it :) Thanks

I have actually one more to upload. If Zettai Shounen and Haibane Renmei ever had a child, this is what it would sound like ;) It will be up here soon.

If I may take one guess, Dennou Coil?

Vinphonic

05-04-2011, 04:34 PM

Not exactly, but close... Bungaku Shoujo OST - Sumire iro no Bookmark (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV62WB-hqD4)

Bungako Shoujo - Musique du Film

(http://img815.imageshack.us/i/folderxu.jpg/)

Classical / Strings / Piano / Vocal

Composed by Masumi Ito

Download Link
(http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/TDCUDQRL/Bungako_Shoujo_-_Musique_du_Film.7z_links)MP3 / 320kbps / 44 Tracks / 84min

If you want an emotional and magical score for a romantic story, you can always count on the Japanese. This is no exception, like I said, this sounds like the lovechild of Zettai Shounen and Haibane Renmei, not exactly a coincidence because the composer also worked on both of those scores.

I have to say that I enjoyed almost every new release from Japan this year, more quality and quantity than ever before and tons of new stuff I look forward to (New Sahashi, New Zelda, Symphonic Legends 2.0, Symphonic Odyssey). This could be a great year for orchestral music.

Sirusjr

05-05-2011, 02:02 AM

Klnerfan, you are just what I needed! Hyakka Ryōran Samurai Girls is fantastic. I will check out this new one :)

It seems I had Bungako Shoujo already on my hard drive. I will give it another listen since you posted it.

ajl3

05-05-2011, 02:20 AM

masterocho

05-05-2011, 06:23 AM

^Better yet, I'll just upload it ;)

[CENTER]JOHN DEBNEY
LAIR
[FLAC RIP]

Color me clueless. I never knew John Debney wrote for Lair. My only good memory of the game was the very pretty score. I'm going to have to revisit this now. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. And boy have I been absent lately. Have a lot of pages to catch up on! Allons-y!

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I rather like Mansell, when he's doing his own thing. He's not an orchestral composer and he doesn't pretend to be... but Bacon has the chops if you'll pardon the pun... he just hasn't used them yet.

Of course I agree with you regards Doctor Who... but I find them at their best when they're not trying to be modern and cool... and I told Murray as much when I met him in January. I Am The Doctor, etc, is fun enough but the Who scores really shine in Silence In The Library, etc... extravagant, old fashioned, well constructed.

There's a theme coming up in Series 6 that'll have you in tears... a tender, lilting melody - something resembling a love theme, but not quite... very hard to explain... It's a weird little piece - out of kilter, sweet, off balance... and it didn't half cause a lot of trouble at the recording session. The version of it you'll hear in the show was take SEVEN...

Hearing your opinion on Mansell and Murray makes me smile. I must confess, Murray has the secret key to my heart. He's the only composer whose work can muster powerful emotional responses from me these days. Just when I think I'm dead inside, his themes bring me to my emotional knees. The new Doctor Who would be empty without him. All that wit and charm would just feel incomplete. His cue for the Cybermen is one of my favorites in how it manages to evoke tragedy *and* terror at the same time. How can something be so pitiful yet so imposing? I feel like he's pulling half the acting weight for the actors sometimes.

thomasdaly

05-05-2011, 12:06 PM

best thread ever on the interent

Sirusjr

05-06-2011, 02:20 AM

Bungako Shoujo is a lot better than I remembered, very nice relaxing soundtrack. Glad you posted it.

jlaidler

05-06-2011, 02:22 AM

Hey I was wondering if anyone here had a flac copy of the latest version of the Terminator 2 soundtrack which came out in limited release about a year or so ago? I'd like to hear how it compares with the old Varse CD I have. I'm also a huge Mark Mancina fan here. I have his Speed score if anyone is interested, just going to figure out how the Hell I'm going to upload it since I don't have access to the school computers with the semester being over. Anyone have the second soundtrack to Blood+ he did? I found the first on the lossless anime thread. Any chance I can beg anyone here to send up his score to Bad Boys? I was serious about sharing Speed though, if you guys want it I'll load it up. Might have to do it one song at a time though and have someone else put it together for me. Or perhaps beg one of my friends with a faster connection to let me borrow their internet for it. My DSL is great but it ain't a high end one.

Sirusjr

05-06-2011, 03:20 AM

Speed is hardly an orchestral score. Speed 2 is a little more so but still might not be so well received in this thread (others can correct me if I'm wrong). The recent Terminator 2 re-issue is just a re-print of the original album, though perhaps slightly remastered, because the full masters were lost. I was never really a fan of bad boys so I don't have that to share that with you.

jlaidler

05-06-2011, 06:24 AM

hater

05-06-2011, 08:20 PM

soundclips of Andy Hales L.A.Noire Score:
http://www.amazon.de/L-A-Noire-Official-Soundtrack/dp/B004ZDIHJ4/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304707919&sr=301-1

Sounds excellent.:-)

jlaidler

05-07-2011, 02:37 AM

Has anyone heard of the manga turned anime show back 10 years ago called Candidate for Goddess? Otherwise known as Pilot Candidate here in the US. Now THAT is some amazing orchestral stuff. Always wanted to get my hands on the CDs, never could though.

Sirusjr

05-07-2011, 03:42 AM

I did a quick search for Candidate for Goddess soundtrack and had no luck, sorry.

HansBadelt

05-07-2011, 03:59 AM

@jlaidler:

I found it in quality of 128k
*ttp://www.megaupload.com/pt/?d=5AI11EME

Credits to original poster

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And yes, it has beautiful score :D

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Oh yeah, perhaps some of you might have noticed it, but Gaku OST by Naoki Sato has awesome score :D
Thread 89726
Thanks to micobear for sharing it :D

Sirusjr

05-07-2011, 04:24 AM

Gaku is solid, a bit overly zimmer in style on the action cues, but some nice music.

thomasdaly

05-07-2011, 12:23 PM

google is our friend

---------- Post added at 05:23 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:17 AM ----------

Has anyone heard of the manga turned anime show back 10 years ago called Candidate for Goddess? Otherwise known as Pilot Candidate here in the US. Now THAT is some amazing orchestral stuff. Always wanted to get my hands on the CDs, never could though.

i found 320k here

Candidate for Goddess Music - OST | Keiichi Anime Forever (anime music, Japanese name translator, forums, roleplaying, more at KAF) (http://www.keiichianimeforever.com/music/Candidate-for-Goddess/OST)

first result on google :)

Sirusjr

05-07-2011, 06:36 PM

Kotaro Nakagawa - Gosick Soundtrack (Edited) - 2011
MP3 320kbps| 88 MB| 19 tracks (11 tracks removed)

Download ( http://www.multiupload.com/4V3UPXFJOG)

Ok so maybe I overreacted when I said this was a terrible soundtrack and made me sad as a fan of Kotaro Nakagawa. There are, however, a number of tracks that I felt detracted from the quality of the album and have deleted them. Primarily they are heavily synthesized or horror/suspense cues. The full soundtrack is available elsewhere on the forum with the additional tracks. So you can tell which ones I left and which ones I took out, I left the file names with the original track numbers and then re-numbered the tracks in the tags from 1-19.

The Candidate for Goddess Soundtrack - Tomoyuki Asakawa (2000)
MP3 320kbps|160MB|29 tracks|

Download ( http://www.multiupload.com/5LSGSRW5L4)

Thanks for the link thomasdaly.

Dominicruz

05-07-2011, 11:17 PM

thanks

Vivi's Clone

05-08-2011, 01:00 AM

Sirusjr, is it possible i could get a link to your FF XII soundtracks? your tinyurl links don't work!!

Thanks in advance

jlaidler

05-08-2011, 03:05 AM

Kotaro Nakagawa - Gosick Soundtrack (Edited) - 2011
MP3 320kbps| 88 MB| 19 tracks (11 tracks removed)

Download ( http://www.multiupload.com/5LSGSRW5L4)

Thanks for the link thomasdaly.

*sigh* Guess Ill have to put up with the mp3 until I can track down a lossless version. At least this is a 320K version. Cheers mate, thanks for the link.

arthierr

05-08-2011, 03:33 AM

Many thanks for the last albums posted, guys! I'll also have something nice to post soon...

Although, I can't but express some worries about a recent trend I noticed: the fact of posting edited, "personalized" albums with removed and re-numbered tracks. You know that I utterly appreciate your posts, guys, but I'm generally reticent to download edited albums (here and elsewhere). Here are a few reasons why:

1) Everydody has his own tastes, and one can love orchestral music *and* other kinds of music, so there's a fair chance that the tracks that have been removed can actually be interesting and worthy to someone, in a way or another, even though the poster judged them mediocre and worthless. For instance, as I said before, I can enjoy several musical genres apart from orchestral music: jazz, good techno music, and even some sweet j-pop or c-pop!

2) If I wanted one day to re-post or send to a friend an album downloaded from here, the complete original album would be necessary, because it wouldn't make a lot of sense to re-post a partial album, don't you think?

3) Imagine everybody does that! This forum would be a mess, there would be dozens of "self-made" versions of a same album circulating, and people would end up going elsewhere to grab the original stuff.

So I believe the best thing is to post the albums as they are, with their imperfections, their flaws, their varying internal quality, and let everyone decide for himself what's worthy and what's not. Making personal edits of albums should be, as it's called, a *personal* thing - I've done myself a lot of such albums for my *own* use, but when I want to post something for everybody, I only upload the whole stuff and let people choose for themselves (unless I specifically want to make and post an orchestral suite, in which case I clearly precise it in the title).

Now, don't take my words for some kind of reproach or something! Of course I do enjoy your posts, mates, and I'm VERY grateful for you to regularly post some great music here (this thread has become my number 1 music discovery source). But please post the original albums so me and everybody else can discover and evaluate them entirely!

Thanks again! :)

NaotaM

05-08-2011, 05:03 AM

The Five Star Stories
by Tomoyuki Asakawa

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I quite concur with arthierr's point; it's always irritating when someone removes entire tracks from an album and assures us that "they were shit, I'm doing you a favor, trust me." Especially just because said tracks weren't orchestral in nature. Variety is the spice of life, and one of the great things about this thread is how its steadily transceded its original, somewhat rigid parameters to invclude all manner of amazing instrumental albums we never would've found elsewhere. Just post the whole thing, percieved warts and all, and let us make up our own minds, thanks.

Amanda

05-08-2011, 05:15 AM

Well yes, I must say on the most part Bad Boys was Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer asking Mancina to rip off his own score to Speed, but the main theme for the film I find brilliant. And Speed on the most part is an orchestral score. Think Rebuild of Evangelion with a lot of horns. And I mean a lot of them. Couldn't tell you about Speed 2 though, haven't heard it and haven't had the chance to. Listening to Tactics Ogre right now, and it's OK. Not really setting my eyebrows on fire, but it's alright. I wish I could get a copy of the deluxe edition of the first Terminator soundtrack. If no one has the CD of the remastered T2 soundtrack that's OK, I still have the original CD and if it's REALLY important to me I'll try tracking down a CD. I suppose I could say the same for Bad Boys too, so I guess I'll just try to find a decent price for a copy of that somewhere. Thanks anyway.

Can't get ya FLAC, i have no use for that. But, I have the deluxe terminator @ 320. I can get you a slightly expanded Speed @ 320. I can get you Bad Boys (score), and Blood+ 2 @ 320. I can get you twister in wav, or 320 (my disc). I can get the Brother Bear Academy promo in 320. Among others. There is also a Mancina Themes and suites. I have a lot of his. PM me if you are interested in any of it.

And no. Although I love his stuff, it certainly wouldn't qualify as "orchestral" in any way.....

Sirusjr

05-08-2011, 05:41 AM

Well perhaps I should go with how I posted water for elephants as the usual way rather than cutting and trimming like I did with gosick. It is sort of a new thing for me because usually I would like you say only listen to the full score. Now I find certain soundtracks are much more enjoyable with a good trim. I don't cut things out just because they aren't orchestral. I cut things out that tend to feel out of place amongst the rest of the score and only when it is really glaring. Of course there is a thin line between cutting 5-8 tracks from a soundtrack and pulling out the orchestral highlights from a score and posting them here. In some instances, as with Dissidia 012, I was glad to be provided with the highlights and nothing more.

Anyway, thanks for more Tomoyuki Asakawa. The cover makes me very excited to hear it.

thomasdaly

05-08-2011, 12:48 PM

is there any good orchestra ablums that cover anime songs i love thoose

jo12345678

05-08-2011, 02:18 PM

is there any good orchestra ablums that cover anime songs i love thoose

There was this one posted by Tangotreats..
Inuyasha Koukyo Renka: Wind - Symphonic Theme Collection

http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/185.html#post1453803

=)

Sanico

05-08-2011, 04:31 PM

is there any good orchestra ablums that cover anime songs i love thoose

I always liked the Studio Ghibli Symphonic Selections by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, but there are only 2 or 3 song versions, because the rest are recorded versions of score tracks.

But there other albums mainly focused on instrumental versions of the songs. Of those i like the Carl Orrje Piano Ensemble 1 & 2, Chopin de Ghibli, Unplugged Ghibli and My Neighbor Totoro Orchestra Stories.

Thagor

05-08-2011, 08:35 PM

Thanks for this Naota ;)

thomasdaly

05-08-2011, 11:30 PM

There was this one posted by Tangotreats..
Inuyasha Koukyo Renka: Wind - Symphonic Theme Collection

http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/185.html#post1453803

=)

ah shame i have that one its amazing change the world song makes me so happy

any more suggestion i could google

like an album that that cover different songs orchestra from different animes

NaotaM

05-09-2011, 12:33 PM

ah shame i have that one its amazing change the world song makes me so happy

any more suggestion i could google

like an album that that cover different songs orchestra from different animes

You could try the A Night in Fantasia series. I don't terribly like them personally, but they fall in line with what you seem t be looking for and they cover a wide range of material from various series.

HansBadelt

05-09-2011, 01:34 PM

I dunno if it's what you meant:

Melodic Taste - Anime Song Orchestra [C79].zip (http://www.mediafire.com/?21k9n4w7uvikm3j)

credits to original uploader

thomasdaly

05-09-2011, 11:02 PM

lol i have that one also i guess there rare orchestras thats cover anime song :)

im gonna google some more

herbaciak

05-10-2011, 01:20 PM

Samples from Priest by Christopher Young:

Amazon.com: Priest (Original Motion Picture Score): Christopher Young: MP3 Downloads (http://www.amazon.com/Priest-Original-Motion-Picture-Score/dp/B005027TK2/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305003274&sr=301-1)

and here is first track:

http://www.chrisyoung-filmmusic.info/audio/The%20Priest/The%20Priest.mp3

For me they sound very, very good. Yeah, there are cliched ostinatos, Tron-like electronica but all in all it sounds very stylish and classic (choirs!). Can't wait to hear whole score, there's a chance for nice treat:).

T101

05-10-2011, 05:36 PM

thaks for this great classic

hater

05-10-2011, 10:12 PM

arthierr

05-11-2011, 01:27 AM

Guys, there's been a bunch of Naoki Sato scores posted lately, did any of you listen to them? I don't have the courage (and time) to download and try them to see if they're orchestral and worthwhile, so I'm interested in your opinion.

herbaciak

05-11-2011, 07:20 PM

Arthierr, I would go with Silver Season. It is 40 minutes (cause I deleted pure electronica and guitar tracks) of really fantastic orchestral music (with some very solid electronica). Gaku isn't bad as well, it's orchestral, but action score is a bit zimmerish. Not a bad listen, but Silver Season spoke to me much more - really beautiful music. Actually can't stop listening to it:).

Even found a piece from Silver Season on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d3FURSFIWk

Basically the whole thing sound like this (except for those tracks I deleted;)).

And don't forget about Priest. Great score.

arthierr

05-11-2011, 10:16 PM

Thanks for the recommendation. :) I'll begin with this one, then. Have you tried The Last Paradise? It's a NHK documentary: smells good music...

And since we"re at it, let's re-post the links to these threads, credits to the original poster:

Hot Spots - The Last Paradise
by Naoki Sato

http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/nhk-special-last-paradise-naoki-sato-mp3-89981/#post1686539

Silvery Season (銀色のシーズン)
by Naoki Sato (佐藤直紀)

Thread 89778

GAKU (岳-ガク-)
by Naoki Sato (佐藤直紀)

http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/gaku-ost-naoki-sato-89726/#post1683770

yepsa

05-11-2011, 10:25 PM

Thank you to those people offering music by the Choro Club! What a wonderful discovery they are, though it seems they've been around since the 90's! The "Aria" soundtracks are great, as is "Quiet Country Cafe" which was kindly posted here on May 3.
It seems there is another soundtrack by the Choro Club from 2004 whose title roughly translates as "She Died". The label # is SICL-121. Can anyone upload that for us new fans of the group???
THANK YOU!
Yepsa
P.S. I have a jpeg of the cover but can't figure out how to add it here.

jlaidler

05-12-2011, 06:46 AM

JERRY GOLDSMITH
Rio Conchos / Agony And The Ecstasy - 1989 Intrada Album
RE-RECORDING BY LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Just re-upping a CDrip of RIO CONCHOS (320kbps). The ones available on the net having a compressed sound. This one is a clean rip.

1989 Intrada Album

The Agony And The Ecstasy: Prologue
1. Rome/Florence/The Crucifix/The Stone Giants/The Agony of Creation (12:37)

Rio Conchos:
2. Rio Conchos (2:26)
3. Where's the Water (1:56)
4. Bandit's Ho (6:58)
5. The River (2:04)
6. River Crossing (4:22)
7. The Aftermath (2:06)
8. Wall of Fire (2:21)
9. Lonely Indian (3:24)
10. Chief Bloodshirt (2:27)
11. The Corral (2:45)
12. The Intruder (6:00)
13. Special Delivery (6:12)

http://rapidshare.com/files/324010018/Constantino_Presenta_-_Jerry_Goldsmith_s_Rio_Conchos_-The_Artist_Who_Did_Not_Want_to_Paint.rar.html

Any chance of this in lossless mate? I love the London Symphony Orchestra, they deserve the best.

herbaciak

05-12-2011, 08:00 AM

I just "skipped" trough The Last Paradise tracks, and it sounds nice, but only like 2/3 of it is orchestral music. On the other hand, when orchestra comes then it is really marvelous. Have to listen to it more though. Anyway Sato can be brilliant, but it's also a bit annoying when he tries to be more western in a bad, Zimmer padawans-like way. I think my favourite Sato is Yamato (because of a theme that I love, and it's not even Sato theme... a bit odd). Love that score. And now I would add Silvery Season I guess:).

Oh, and guys, listen to new "Pirates" if U want some good laughs... Ok, don't listen to it, there's nothing to laugh at xD.

tangotreats

05-12-2011, 09:22 AM

When Sato goes Zimmer, it makes me smile because you can hear what he's trying to do in the music... he's been asked to emulate current Hollywood scoring trends... but he simply isn't that much of a bad composer and it still comes of as sounding like decent music. Whereas modern Hollywood is superficial, unimaginative music pretending to be respectable, Sato's is respectable music pretending to be superficial and unimaginative.

Case in point - Ryomaden. God, how I hated it once upon a time - particularly the main theme. But then I actually realised what was going on; it's a typical Sato theme - it has form and structure, and a beginning, middle, and end. It's primarily lyrical and melodic. It's just got Lisa Gerrard moaning and crappy Media Ventures percussion banging away over the top of it. Once again, the Japanese make a mockery of Hollywood by proving that having the "modern sound" doesn't mean you have to throw away artistry, musicianship, and creativity as well.

That said, I still think Sato's strength is better showcased when he gets to do it his way - as evidenced by parts of Heroic Age, Eureka Seven, and pretty much all of K-20 (a rollicking adventure score basically untouched by the black spot of contemporary styling) - Yamato I still dislike with a passion, however. It's one long ostinato, occasionally interrupted by somebody else's theme. I wonder if he was intimidated by the ubiquitousness of the famous Yamato melodies and so wrote a comparitively pedestrian score to downplay his involvement, or he was told to do it that way, or he found the film uninspiring, or the score was written in a hurry... who knows? Not his best work, not by a long shot.

jlaidler

05-12-2011, 09:28 AM

Well look at Shiro Sagisu's work for Evangelion, especially the scores for the last two Rebuild themes. He's got a really great retro 60's thing going there with the modern symphonic and bits of rhythm programing and electric guitars. He even has some 60's bongo drums in there, especially in the track Battle Decisive from 1.0 you are (not) alone. The one with the red cover and EVA unit 01.

manitor

05-15-2011, 07:18 AM

to be or not to be. The whole point here is this:) + rap

jlaidler

05-15-2011, 09:38 AM

to be or not to be. The whole point here is this:) + rap

Banned already? Glad I try to behave well. Oh well, I'm just glad the forums are back.

Just looked at his other posts. I see why.

---------- Post added at 03:38 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:34 AM ----------

BTW, is there a lossless version of GAKU and Hot Spots - The Last Paradise available somewhere?

arthierr

05-15-2011, 01:02 PM

Dude, please do not ask for lossless here, this is not a thread about lossless, but about orchestral music, which is already there - whatever the audio quality.

I could understand some occasional requests for better quality when the quality posted is really bad, but doing *sighs* and asking for lossless when 320k versions are posted (!!!) is not only rather indecent, but also not very sensible, since 320k is already VERY GOOD audio quality (even excellent, depending on the codecs used). Perhaps you should try to be less obsessed about lossless and focus more on the MUSIC itself, its compositional and orchestrational qualities, and the emotions you get from it - which is perfectly possible with lossy!

Tango - how terrificly pertinent you are again - except for Yamato, again! Let's be clear: it's not great art indeed, not compelling music indeed, but it's just a big bag of musical FUN, and just for this, I quite enjoy it.

About the new Pirates score, I really don't have the courage to try it, but if someone has some opinions and comments about it, please post them here. Is this score AS bad or EVEN worse than its predecessors?

Sirusjr

05-15-2011, 03:37 PM

jlaider - while I appreciate the want of lossless, you need to keep in mind that most of the scores from Japan, especially these film scores from anime composers are rare enough to emerge in lossy, and the fact that someone posted them in 320 should be more than enough. They will eventually turn up in lossless if someone has them and decides to share but I doubt anyone in this thread in particular would have access to lossless versions any more than anyone else on the forum. You are free to request lossless in the original threads for particular scores and that will give the other readers of that thread notice that you are seeking lossless. Usually though, the groups that post game and anime scores in lossless on other sites don't seem so interested in lossless versions of these sorts of scores so I wouldn't get your hopes up.

tangotreats

05-15-2011, 03:57 PM

My problem with Yamato is that I know what the guy can do... there's nothing offensive in it, but I just feel like it should be better. It *is* heaps of fun, but K-20 is more fun. ;)

jlaidler

05-15-2011, 10:07 PM

[QUOTE=arthierr;1688311]Dude, please do not ask for lossless here, this is not a thread about lossless, but about orchestral music, which is already there - whatever the audio quality.

I could understand some occasional requests for better quality when the quality posted is really bad, but doing *sighs* and asking for lossless when 320k versions are posted (!!!) is not only rather indecent, but also not very sensible, since 320k is already VERY GOOD audio quality (even excellent, depending on the codecs used). Perhaps you should try to be less obsessed about lossless and focus more on the MUSIC itself, its compositional and orchestrational qualities, and the emotions you get from it - which is perfectly possible with lossy!

I see your point about going into the original post to ask for lossless, and if you insist I'll just give the poster a polite personal message if you'd be more amenable to that. Just please don't lecture. I'm not here to ruffle feathers or step on anyone's toes, and have been going out of my way not to do so. So please do not act as though I am. I've been nothing but polite with my requests. And for the record, I put one sigh, practically two pages ago.

herbaciak

05-16-2011, 07:19 AM

About the new Pirates score, I really don't have the courage to try it, but if someone has some opinions and comments about it, please post them here. Is this score AS bad or EVEN worse than its predecessors?

I like third Pirates as a whole, second had some nice tracks. I know what those scores are, I know they R not good in many terms, but it doesn't change the fact that I have a lot of fun everytime I listen to it. Not my fault;). But new "Pirates" are probably the worst score in MV/RCP career (!!!). This is pure piece of shit, without any doubts. It is even worse than Badelt work, whick is very bad, but can be enjoyable because of themes for example. "On Strangers Tides" is not enjoyable at all. At all! It's pure torture. And quality of the sound of orchestra is... well, let me put it this way - retarded chimpanzee could do better things with cheapest EWQL Library. It's abomination. I think everyone should listen to it because of one thing - after that, you will find everything else much better;).

Vinphonic

05-16-2011, 10:30 PM

herbaciak, you're spot on about Pirates 4. I usually keep quiet when I see the topic of MV/RCP music brought up but when the music is "that bad" and people still believe Pirates 4 is great "orchestral" and "epic" music, I just lose my composure. They don't care if it's artifical or not, apparently it's still "the best thing ever". Well I will be absolutly honest, this is one of the greatest pieces of shit I've ever heared. Not joking. Even the guitar pieces are subpar, the few guitar pieces from Valkyria Chronicles put the whole OST to shame. Even I could write a better score with my crappy Library and lack of skills. But do you even need skills or knowlege anymore in the scoring business ? Look at the social network. Some people are dumb enough to buy the biggest piece of uninspired crap as long as there is a big name attached to it, and the worst part is, this crap will sell, no matter what I will say about it.

So instead of falling into despair, here is my antidot: This is the music I want for my movies.

Moonlight Mile (Anime)

Music composed & conducted by Kan Sawada

Download Link (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4ZT51GQ1)

Kan Sawada ... incredible talent. Doraemon is one of my alltime favorite soundtracks and it is amazing how much melody and orchestral bombast he can put into one minute of music.

Leon Scott Kennedy

05-16-2011, 10:33 PM

Give this a try, maybe some of you will like it:

Thread 90135

Sanico

05-17-2011, 01:19 AM

I hope you enjoy this compilation of some Zhao Jiping music written for movies. The suite of 'Sunbird' is sublime, especially the track 'Spirit of the Peacock' :)

Thread 90166

"This unusual, and therefore invaluable album for the serious film music enthusiast, is an insight into Jipling's highly individual but very effective mix of Chinese/Western music for films from China like Raise the Red Lantern and Farewell My Concubine which have won great international acclaim and awards. It is a potent combination that has broad international appeal yet still retains the essential Chinese spirit and culture. Indeed, its impression of authenticity is enhanced with the inclusion of so many colourful Chinese instruments - - sometimes en masse as in the use of the percussion instruments of the Beijing Opera for the aforementioned scores.

In short, this is a collection of entrancing music beautifully played and recorded in vivid sound."

Full Review here: Zhao JIPING The Film Music of: Film Music CD Reviews-May 2000 (http://www.musicweb-international.com/film/2000/may00/electricshadows.htm)

Sirusjr

05-17-2011, 02:50 AM

Thanks for Moonlight Mile, will check it out :)

abottwhite

05-17-2011, 01:01 PM

@ arthierr I know it was 2 years ago but could you please reup the Black OST by Chris Tilton? Thank you in advance!!

Doublehex

05-17-2011, 01:34 PM

Nope. Chris Tilton came onto this forum to ask that none of his music be posted.

abottwhite

05-17-2011, 01:49 PM

Ah okay thx for the info must`ve skipped this^^found it on iTunes so no big deal.
Awesome thread btw guys lookin forward

Firefly00

05-17-2011, 07:36 PM

So instead of falling into despair, here is my antidot: This is the music I want for my movies...
This made for good listening; you have my gratitude for sharing it with the rest of us.

Thagor

05-17-2011, 08:46 PM

Thanks again like always kInderfan ;)

Sirusjr

05-18-2011, 01:39 AM

I wasn't very taken by the first half of Moonlight Mile. It should be called another japanese take on Rocketeer. If you haven't heard it, there is a score by Kotaro Nakagawa that similarly borrows from the themes in Rocketeer and it gets quite tiresome. I didn't find that the other music was all that compelling either.

Vinphonic

05-18-2011, 11:13 AM

Well, it might not be great or anything remarkable but this is the "sound" I want to hear in movies. Even the weakest take on Rocketeer is a million times better than anything from Zimmer&Co these days. I enjoyed Pirates 3 and a few Zimmer scores in the past but what is currently acceptable as a film score is frightening to me.

NaotaM

05-20-2011, 05:17 PM

Shion no Ou
by Kousuke Yamashita

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Unfortunate news for anyone who actually happened to like the score from Brotherhood; Senju won't be returning for the upcoming Fullmetal Alchemist film. Most of the creative staff is changed to tell the truth, with Taro Iwashiro(look him up on ANN) hired on for the score. I can't think of anything the man has done to my mind, but maybe it'll be a pleasant surprise. Or not.

In better, somewhat related news what with all the Sato going up left and right, Naoki Sato will be scoring for Blood-C. Mayhaps this series will finally get some adequate musical treatment after all.

Vinphonic

05-20-2011, 06:37 PM

Good news. Perhaps it's time for a new Eureka Seven. I'm not very fond of his zimmerstyle, even when it's miles better than anything Zimmer does. I was also disappointed with Iwasaki's newest score for C but that shouldn't be a surprise considering that the project itself is a giant mess. I hope that he signs up for the new Kenshin anime, his best work was definetly the score for the second OVA, so it would be a huge mistake to exclude him.

btw, can anyone upload Sato's score for Hot Spots on multiupload or somewhere else. Rapidshare is a pain in the ass right now for me. I will give you all something "big" in return.

EDIT: Thanks for Shion. Great stuff.

arthierr

05-20-2011, 10:51 PM

Good thing that I didn't try the new Pirates score! ;) Can't believe it's worse than the previous ones. At this point, you really have to have a special talent to suck that badly.

Regardless, thanks again for the recent contributions, I'll try them this weekend and post some comments (this Ken Sawada score seems VERY promising).

klnerfan - if no one reup Hot Spots before, I'll do it this weekend. It's the least I can do after your many contributions. :)

NaotaM - Shion no Ou was among the scores I intended to post here, but I renounced because the amount of orchestral music isn't enough, IMO, to be posted here. However, it's a beautiful score with a few excellent highlights, notably the rockin' piece called "Destiny ~Symphonic Version~", where the *GREAT* main theme is stated in a quite bold and powerful fashion. This piece is nearly a perfect example of fusion of orchestral music and techno beat, it has an obvious classical touch, and yet the modern beat blends perfectly - superb!

Give this a try, maybe some of you will like it:

Hey, long time no see here, Leon! Welcome back, my friend. :) And this stuff seems quite appetizing, I'll tell you my opinion this weekend. Thanks for mentioning it here!

thomasdaly

05-21-2011, 12:45 AM

anyone ever listen to james last his music amazing

Tsobanian

05-21-2011, 07:22 AM

Another sonic spectacular with big orchestral sound!

Rachmaninoff / Lucien Cailliet : 3 Preludes
YouTube - ‪Rachmaninoff: 3 Preludes (orch. Cailliet) - Ormandy conducts‬&rlm; (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTIaDXIqY3E&nofeather=True)
Instrumentation : 3,3,4,3 - 4,3,3,1 - timp, perc, - hp - str.

Weber-Johnstone : Invitation to the Dance
YouTube - ‪Weber "Invitation to the Dance" (orch. Johnstone) - Sargent conducts‬&rlm; (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPcUkOInbac&nofeather=True)

Clarke / Sir Henry Wood : Trumpet Voluntary
YouTube - ‪Jeremiah Clarke's "Trumpet Voluntary" - Sir Henry Wood's orchestration‬&rlm; (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTY9kmzr4Lc&nofeather=True)

Chopin / Leopold Stokowski : Funeral March
YouTube - ‪Chopin "Marche Funebre" - Stokowski orchestration‬&rlm; (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XKGF7hr3-o&nofeather=True)

Bach-Stokowski : Andante Sostenuto
YouTube - ‪Bach-Stokowski "Andante Sostenuto" - Bamert conducts‬&rlm; (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UllWUHxuFtg&nofeather=True)

Handel-Stokowski : Overture in D Minor
YouTube - ‪Handel-Stokowski: Overture in D minor - Bamert conducts‬&rlm; (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCF8mCkmOo&nofeather=True)

Mussorgsky "The Great Gate of Kiev" - Douglas Gamley's orchestration
YouTube - ‪Mussorgsky "The Great Gate of Kiev" - Douglas Gamley's orchestration‬&rlm; (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw7OM_Q810k&nofeather=True)
Douglas Gamley conducts his own orchestration of the finale from "Pictures at an Exhibition," with the New Symphony Orchestra, the Men's Chorus of the Ambrosian Singers, and the organ of Kingsway Hall, London.

Mozart-Stokowski : Turkish March
YouTube - ‪Mozart "Turkish March" (orch. Stokowski)‬&rlm; (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGIvd6pjdd0&nofeather=True)

Rachmaninoff / Edmund Rubbra : Prelude In G Minor Op. 23 No 5
YouTube - ‪Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G minor (arr. Rubbra) - Fennell conducts‬&rlm; (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ee4dJjijc&nofeather=True)

-J.S. Bach / William R. Smith : Fantasia & Fugue in G Minor BWV 542
YouTube - ‪Bach: Fantasia & Fugue in G minor - Ormandy conducting‬&rlm; (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJugAH0aZIY&nofeather=True)
Bach-W.R. Smith: Arrangements/Transcriptions of Bach's Works: Works (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Arran/OT-Smith-WR.htm)

-J.S. Bach / Sir Edward Elgar : Fantasia and Fugue BWV 537
YouTube - ‪Bach-Elgar: Fantasia and Fugue in C minor - Ormandy conducting‬&rlm; (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EhDNpfSLVA&nofeather=True)

Debussy/Stokowski : Engulfed Cathedral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEFuhWLenTA&nofeather=True

Buxtehude/Stokowski : Sarabande and Courante
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfhQa5wM688&nofeather=True

Handel/Stokowski : Dead March from Saul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOHrOegiF10&nofeather=True

Sirusjr

05-21-2011, 03:48 PM

I wanted to point out for everyone here Kritzerland's new release of The Berlin Affair. It is such a lovely orchestral score from Pino Donaggio. Check it out and buy a copy if you like the samples.

jaroshulk28

05-22-2011, 04:40 AM

Clutch Then Shift - Brian Tyler - Eagle Eye
Ladders - Brian Tyler - Eagle Eye
Potus 111 - Brian Tyler - Eagle Eye
The Case - Brian Tyler - Eagle Eye

Pretty much the whole damn score, and the rest of his scores :/

Sirusjr

05-22-2011, 08:08 PM

James Newton Howard - Wyatt Earp - 1994
MP3 VBR V-0 + Scans
Americana|Sweeping|Orchestral|Regal

Download (http://www.multiupload.com/QI606IWLAV)
PSW: smile

I ran a search today before posting this to see if it had been posted in this thread before. I found a few posts that contained one cue from this in a compilation but nothing with the full score. This is one of my all time favorite scores by James Newton Howard, and the CD is out of print and rare for some time. This is a fresh VBR V-0 encode and not a transcode. Anyone who has not listened to this score, should grab it and check it out.

arthierr

05-23-2011, 02:28 AM

Here's the reup. :)

Hot Spots - The Last Paradise
by Naoki Sato

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Vinphonic

05-23-2011, 03:11 PM

And here's my response ;)

BIG ORCHESTRAL ACTION MUSIC

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Download CD1 (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/1YBPK9OA/Duels_of_Fate_I.7z_links)
MP3 / 320kbps / 35 Tracks

Download CD2 (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/NGG1IKPI/Duels_of_Fate_II.7z_links)
MP3 / 320kbps / 35 Tracks

This is the music that is in almost every sense the very defintion of this thread. I posted a small preview of this almost a year ago but now it is finally complete. I examined every score in my library to find the worthy counterparts for Duel of the Fates. The result is over five hours of orchestral bombast, choral power, final battles and showdowns.

Some tracks are edited by myself:

- Lord of the Rings: Doom is at hand
- Katanagatari: Battle of the Blades
- At World's End: Showdown in the Maelstrom
- Avatar: War

Music from: Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, First Knight, 13th Warrior, LAIR, Princess Mononoke, Advent Rising, Aquarion, Kingdom Hearts, Bleach, Evangelion, Ace Combat, God of War, Break Blade, SotC, LEGO, FMA, Troy, Final Fantasy, Last Ranker, Glass fleet, Cutthroat Island, Escaflowne, Macross, Soul Calibur, Black Sea Raid, Castlevania, Matrix, Gundam, Conan, Star Driver, Xenosaga, Super Mario Galaxy, Darkside Chronicles, Elemental Gearbolt, Indiana Jones, Montecristo, Katanagatari, Blood+, At World's End, HttyD, Treasure Planet, Ryumaden, Red Alert, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Kameo, Primal, Notre Dame, Ni No Kuni, Avatar

EDIT: Thanks Sirusjr, Wyatt Earp is great film music.

Thagor

05-23-2011, 09:05 PM

Thanks again for this kInderfan ;)
I have your preview somewhere on my pc ;)
And thanks to Sirisjr too :)

hater

05-24-2011, 01:44 AM

very cool. great to have them in one place.

Sirusjr

05-24-2011, 02:06 AM

Can you post a full list of that compilation Klnerfan? I want to see if there is anything I don't have.

NaotaM

05-24-2011, 04:30 AM

Battle Royale
by Masamichi Amano

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chancth

05-24-2011, 03:39 PM

Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica
by Hikaru Nanase

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Thanks a bunch !

---------- Post added at 08:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:12 AM ----------

And here's my response ;)

The result is over five hours of orchestral bombast, choral power, final battles and showdowns.

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Such an appealing description. thank you very much

Sirusjr

05-25-2011, 01:18 AM

Thanks for the tracklist Klnerfan, looks like Elemental Gearbolt is the only one I haven't ever listened to out of your compilation. If the full score is good, can you post it here? I found the vgmdb page and the cover doesn't look familiar.

streichorchester

05-25-2011, 01:32 AM

I wasn't very taken by the first half of Moonlight Mile. It should be called another japanese take on Rocketeer.

I don't hear the Rocketeer part. CD 1 track 9 sounded very familiar, perhaps John Williams-ish, and one of the main themes throughout the score is like the theme to Titanic. My skills must be getting rusty.

Vinphonic

05-25-2011, 10:43 AM

@Sirusjr: Elemental Gearbolt was one of the first orchestral game scores and it is a very melancholic yet beautiful orchestral score.

Elemental Gearbolt

Melancholic / Dramatic / Choral

Download Link (http://www.mediafire.com/?z3pgw9y5sabyx43)

chancth

05-25-2011, 02:23 PM

ARIA The ORIGINATION The Complete Score

I've just listened to it, and I didn't expect to enjoy it so much. Many great pieces of music, especially the songs. klnerfan, thank U for making me discover it

eliot93

05-25-2011, 02:56 PM

It really is a great thread, thanks

arthierr

05-27-2011, 12:39 AM

BIG ORCHESTRAL ACTION MUSIC

Really great choices. This compilation goes straight back to the roots of this thread indeed, and will rejoice the many fans of such music. Good thing also that you didn't fall in the trap of including 3P1CZ!!! remote control-like stuff! ;) If I may do one little complaint though: some pieces are WAAAY too much known! For instance, was it really necessary to include Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, or Matrix? Most people here already have heard them one million times. I tend to believe that such compilation is a great way to discover new music, and should therefore only include little to moderately known pieces, leaving aside the "classics" everybody already know. However, sorry for being such a nit-picker! This *IS* compelling music, so, thumbs up!

Elemental Gearbolt was unknown to me, so thanks for this too (even if I'm really not into slow sentimental stuff these days - I'd better start with your compilation before!)

Battle Royale
by Masamichi Amano

This was actually already posted by me long ago, with a nice and detailed review I found, but thanks anyway!

BTW NaotaM, I already noticed many times that you're quite an eloquent, litterate and cultured guy, hence I'm surprised that most of your posts don't include a few comments of your own about why you chose to post such album, what you find interesting and worthwhile about it, etc. I don't ask you for a dissertation of course, but at least a few words of presentation that excite our appetite would be quite welcome!

Sorry if I don't answer to other posts, but massive thanks for the contributions as usual!

- REQUEST -

I also have something to ask: since some months, I really need to listen to *VERY* cheerful music, something very enthusiastic, that motivates and helps *doing* things, if you see what I mean. So, please could you - *all* viewer of this thread, of course, not only the usual members - post such pieces here, I'd be quite interested since I actually collect such music for my own use. Single pieces or whole compilations would be welcome. Thanks in advance, mates.

As an example of what I mean, here's one of my favorite pieces of such nature by the phenomenal Kousuke Yamashita (you can hardly be more cheerful than that!):

YouTube - ‪Hana Yori Dango - OST - Dash‬&rlm; (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2cdEtquZI4)

Vinphonic

05-27-2011, 02:52 AM

@arthierr: Coincidence. I actually am in the middle of creating such an uplifting compilation for running and other things. Will take some time to upload it here but I will see what I can do.

lordjim48

05-27-2011, 04:47 AM

Thanks Sirusjr for the Wyatt Earp-I had it once before and also think it is a tremendous JNH score-one of his best-many thanks again-

jlaidler

05-27-2011, 08:31 AM

Wyatt Earp? Oh, was on the previous page.

chancth

05-27-2011, 09:00 AM

Kentaro Sato
Symphonic Tale "Peter Pan"
and other Symphonic Music

Peter Pan is incredibly beautiful. Thank so much

chancth

05-28-2011, 08:53 AM

Shigofumi
by Hikaru Nanase

"Tsuiseki" is such a magnificient and emotional piece of music, Thank U for this nice score

chancth

05-30-2011, 03:09 PM

[CENTER]THE GENERAL - JOE HISAISHI
The Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra

Fantastic ! The train theme is really good

hater

05-30-2011, 03:44 PM

Michael Giacchinos Score for Super 8 could be one of the years (rare) highlights. Hear for yourself:
http://www.super8-movie.com/#/gallery
Lovely!

Doublehex

05-30-2011, 03:49 PM

Michael Giacchinos Score for Super 8 could be one of the years (rare) highlights. Hear for yourself:
Super 8 | Trailer & Official Movie Site | June 10, 2011 (http://www.super8-movie.com/#/gallery)
Lovely!

Sirusjr showed me that last night, and I am inclined to agree. Giacchino is quickly becoming one of the orchestral super stars in Hollywood, which is fine by me.

hater

05-30-2011, 04:44 PM

Sirusjr showed me that last night, and I am inclined to agree. Giacchino is quickly becoming one of the orchestral super stars in Hollywood, which is fine by me.

in this case they wanted to create the classic williams/spielberg 80s feeling. cant wait to hear the whole cd.�
cars 2 will be propably more music from incredibles which i loved and MI4 is in good hands with brad bird as director, could prevent it from going the modern route. if its like MI3,couldnt ask for more.but john carter is his biggest chance. no jjabrahms, mostly with pixar or ex pixar people and big budget sci fi adventure. kinda like avatar, but without jungle and avatars.

Sirusjr

05-30-2011, 05:09 PM

Fractale Original Soundtrack (2011)
Composed by Souhei Kano and Satoru Kousaki, Songs by AZUMA HITOMI,
Regal, Majestic, Serene, Small Ensemble
Originally posted by ayaaaa

MP3 320kbps + Scans
Download (http://www.multiupload.com/ORJ3D4673V)
PSW: smile

FLAC + Scans
Download (http://www.multiupload.com/KDT3FYXI52)

This is such a lovely score, everyone should grab it and listen!

hater

05-30-2011, 06:44 PM

speaking of awesome i highly recommend bear mccrearys human traget scores.beside of dr.who the best tvscores.fullorchestral highly thematic action adventure mayhem, over 3 hours of it.

Sirusjr

05-30-2011, 06:51 PM

speaking of awesome i highly recommend bear mccrearys human traget scores.beside of dr.who the best tvscores.fullorchestral highly thematic action adventure mayhem, over 3 hours of it.

Eh human target is ok music. Yes it has themes but they aren't very good and his score is still highly percussion driven like every other McCreary score. I couldn't make it through the end of the three discs of it without getting bored.

herbaciak

05-30-2011, 07:10 PM

Fractale is nice. Had to delete few track, but it's pleasent listen nontheless, even if nothing actually stood out during the first listen.

And as not Michael Giacchino fan, I'm very fond of what I hear on Super 8 site. I hope everything will be in this style - pure 80', Williams/Spielberg magic. Like it very, very much.

Thagor

05-30-2011, 09:47 PM

Thanks for Fractale Sirusjr :)

tangotreats

05-30-2011, 10:47 PM

Well, this thread has served its purpose once again... introduced somebody to something they would never have given a second glance... Sirusjr, thank you for Fractale!

An instant entry in my "I love Japan" category... an unknown composer, first major score... and out comes half an hour of shockingly good symphonic music. The "small" ensemble (actually a respectable 51-piece orchestra by my count) really motors through it as well. And GREAT tracks like "Mirai e no Tabiji" as well - not a silly little piffling 45-second stinger, but a formidable SEVEN MINUTE CUE that has time to breathe, thematic development, form, structure, a beginning, a middle, and an end... Not to mention some rollicking atonal orchestral chaos that almost rivals Yoshihisa Hirano for sheer control and flair.

Not to mention, that wonderful credit we don't see nearly enough today - "Composed, orchestrated, and conducted by"... Dear Hollywood; one composer and a small orchestra has, once again, outdone pretty much everything you've put out in the last decade put together. Fifteen composers, thirty orchestrators, 100 musicians, 200 singers, a battery of synthesisers, and every percussion instrument under the sun... does not good music make.

As for Super 8... I'm cautiously optimistic. Giacchino has utterly disappointed me, by and large, in recent years - but if the producers have genuinely said to him "Look, forget all this modern shit - write a score like it's 1981 again!" we might be in for something pretty good... Even if it won't necessarily be a masterpiece, it could be another important stepping stone along the treacherous path back to decent music in mainstream movies...

Human Target: Bear McCreary can piss right off. I could go on, but I think you get the message... ;)

Peace and goodnight folks :)

hater

05-30-2011, 11:21 PM

intrada has just released Masada Complete 2cd!

Sirusjr

05-31-2011, 01:14 AM

intrada has just released Masada Complete 2cd!

<3 We were right! Can't wait to order!

Doublehex

05-31-2011, 08:48 AM

THE WITCHER EXPANDED SOUNDTRACK

Play Length: 3:59:33
124 Arranged Tracks + Street Players + Dandelion Ambience = 160 .mp3 files
Converted from .OGG files to VBR-0 320 .mp3

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JI03NAW1

About the Music:

My God, this has been a long time coming. It was way back in 2007 when I first heard the music of The Witcher. As an avid PC Gamer I knew all about The Witcher. It was one of those few games that hardcore crowd at RPG Codex thought was actually good – and that was probably the best review any game could ever get. It was a game that emphasized morale choices that weren’t cut and dry. At the time I was an avid Bioware junkie. Come 2008, when I finally got to play the game, that changed forever.

But I’m not here to talk about the game. This is supposed to be about the music. The Witcher is a fantasy game – but it doesn’t sound like one. In terms of music for Fantasy…anything, we are still feeling the impact of Poledouris’ Conan and Shore’s The Lord of the Rings. Those two scores had distinctly stated how fantasy should sound like. Just like how John Williams (Star Wars) and Goldsmith (Alien, Star Trek) discovered how Sci-Fi should sound.

The Witcher may have chorus, but isn’t optimistic, nor does it ever dominant soundtrack. Only a couple tracks (probably increased to a little bit more than half a dozen in my rip) has any sort of chorus. Even then, it is not organized and “pretty” like in The Lord of the Rings. It is a beautiful, chaotic mess. In Last Batte, the chorus intermingles with harsh drum beats, and appears only at the beginning and end. With To Arms “Rebellion”, the chorus has a few short words, and they are almost akin to shouts and battle cries than a daintily organized chorus.

With the music, the two composers (Adam Skorupa and Paweł Błaszczak) showed the Northern Kingdoms as a pretty terrible place. Rarely is there a piece of music that puts you at ease. Rape is common place; women have no real sense of authority. Most people live in dumps and tumbling hovels. Humans possess hatred for the non-humans, and the elves and dwarves are fighting a losing battle for freedom. Most victories are pyrrhic at best.

If I had to use a single word to describe the Witcher score, it would be Slavic. The game is heavily influenced by Slavic mythology. You can tell by the journal of the monsters – Drowners are corpses of those that drowned and kill others by drowning, Ghouls are the raised corpses of those that were cannibals in life. The music doesn’t sound epic: it sounds down to earth. The soundtrack uses instruments that would sound out of place in a regular fantasy score but is perfect here.

That said, the Witcher is good, not great. It doesn’t reach the level of excellence of some of its associates. The score is lacking in motifs, and as such lacks cohesion. Each piece stands alone, isolated from the rest. There are reoccurring musical pieces, but they are mostly used as stingers in cinematics. We also rarely get a chance to understand the characters musically. The music focuses so much on showing just how much the world sucks that we don’t get to hear what the characters think. Many character’s homes, which would be a great place to give them their own personal theme, shares music with other zones in the game. The composers trading narrative cohesion in exchange for world immersion. It would be hard to say if they made the wrong choice. After all, The Witcher may be fantasy, but it so unlike so many other fantasies out there.

In conclusion, the Witcher is a good score. You could argue it is even great. But it is not excellent. Despite how unique it sounds, and how it manages to pull of such a dark fantasy score without falling into clich�s, it lacks narrative cohesion at the end. But don’t let that stop you – I didn’t spend three months working on this rip on a terrible soundtrack. Take a listen and enjoy it.

About the Rip:

The rip is long. Very long. It’s not as long as my Age of Conan rip: at a few seconds short of 4 hours, it is 30 minutes behind my first rip. But I would argue it was a harder rip to do because the Witcher’s music had a very distinct rhythm that sort of “merged” together when you were dealing with a hundred different .mp3 files. Age of Conan was split over three very different civilizations, and so it was easy to get an idea as to where an .mp3 went.

Despite the fact that I had beaten the game before, I mostly used Let’s Plays on YouTube as a guide. I would watch them, and assign .mp3s as I heard them. Since in many of the chapters you can see cinematics and hear music at different times, that means you’re “canonical” ordering may be different from what I have.

Also, you will see that lots of the tracks have a title and the parentheses. The parentheses contain the title of that track from the soundtrack release and the game file name, in that order. If there is just one title in parentheses that means the soundtrack didn’t have it on disc.

All of the files were taken from the game’s folders as .OGG, and then using dbPowerAmp converted to .MP3 files at 320 VBR V-0 settings.

alera2

05-31-2011, 10:47 AM

"As for Super 8... I'm cautiously optimistic. Giacchino has utterly disappointed me, by and large, in recent years - but if the producers have genuinely said to him "Look, forget all this modern shit - write a score like it's 1981 again!" we might be in for something pretty good... Even if it won't necessarily be a masterpiece, it could be another important stepping stone along the treacherous path back to decent music in mainstream movies..."

Modern s**t - does a fully orchestral Wagnerian leitmotif classic orchestral such as LOST or even his more jazz inspired scores such as SPEED RACER,THE INCREDIBLES,CARS 2 etc fail to deliver the goods.I am a fan of his work , sure but to imply that he is in the same leages as Zimmer or even one of his clones such Ramen Didyouwhat ? or even Steve Jablonsky is a bit of a insult to a man who's hero is John Williams - dontcha think.

No flaming or criticism meant here but for a composer to "utterly disappoint" construes somewhat of a disaster on the whole film composing aspect of Giacchino's work.
Essentialy - why so disappoint ?

"Human Target: Bear McCreary can piss right off."

Please go on and elaborate on why he can piss right off as his style is definitely not a regurgitation of MV and Remote Control Productions style or even a Portman-esque minimalism - so why is he a scourge.

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Props on being invited to a Doctor Who recording sessions - what a great experience.

Cheers.

Doublehex

05-31-2011, 03:01 PM

I am going to have to agree with alera on this on Tango.

What the hell is wrong with Giacchino and McCreacy? Giacchino has produced some fantastic music. You even said yourself that when "Up" won the Oscar for best score, it was the first time in years that the deserving score won it.

The idea of any of you looking at his Medal of Honor scores and calling them anything less than superb is kind of crazy. They are superbly well written, and have great motifs. I always considered them superior to Williams' "Saving Private Ryan". That score always bored me, while Giacchino's scores always grabbed my attention.

I can understand why you don't like McCreary, but he is still a very much orchestral composer, and is nowhere close to MV. He has a great sense of rhythm and melody, and is more than willing to go beyond his percussion driven technique. His score for "The Waling Dead", which is done mostly with strings, comes to mind. I don't really think he has ever written a flop at this point, although he did have some scores I enjoyed less than others.

So seriously Tango, just what the heck are you talking about?

tangotreats

05-31-2011, 03:31 PM

Wow.

I did not compare Giacchino to Zimmer or anybody else for that matter; I don't know where you got that idea but it certainly wasn't from my post. I simply said that on the whole his recent scores have disappointed me. Lost, Star Trek, etc, do not live up to the standard he set with Medal Of Honour and his other early game scores. I enjoyed "Up" and whilst I maintain that it is not Giacchino's best, taken upon its own merits and contrasted with the other nominees, it was a worthy Oscar winner.

In case you thought my "forget this modern shit" line was inferring that Giacchino himself wrote nothing but modern shit, allow me to clarify: I envisaged a director discussing what sort of music they would like, and in an effort to convey to Giacchino exactly what they would like, they told him that he needn't feel constrained by modern scoring techniques as he has been on previous assignments. (You can tell me about how great Star Trek was, and how unlike MV it was until you're blue in the face... but would that score really have been written for a Star Trek movie twenty years ago? Of course not. It was Giacchino's best effort at trying to sneak in something good whilst avoiding things that have become unpopular in modern scores - strong themes, compositional identity, complexity - all of which we know he can write thanks to scores like the aforementioned Medal Of Honour... but which, by and large, the current Hollywood climate does not permit him to write in mainstream cinema.

Giacchino is NOT John Williams. He does a damn good impression. People who hail him as the second coming of Jesus are doing so because they're desperate for a sign - any sign of intelligent life emerging in the world of Hollywood film scoring. He certainly is that, but let's be absolutely honest - he hasn't written a single note of music that will stand with Williams' best, Goldsmith's best, etc.

Why do people always "assume the worst" and proceed along those lines?

As for McCreary - a composer who writes music that is a cut above the rest (quite a significant amount, on occasions) but is only worthy of mention when compared to his contemporaries - most of whom are turning out utterly generic, musically barren dross. If you look at Human Target in context with other TV scores of the year, it seems very good. But if you look at it in context with other TV scores (or any scores) in history its true nature is revealed - a surprisingly well orchestrated but ultimately soulless, noisy, percussive mess.

A turd in a pink bow is immeasurably beautiful when compared to other turds; but compared to roses, sunsets, clouds, the sea, gardens... it's nothing but a simple turd in fancy dress.

He's done some good stuff - the string orchestra cues in BSG are rather nice, and the theme from Dark Void was remarkable (again, given the current climate) - but by and large, I don't like the guy.

McCreary or Goldsmith?
McCreary or Williams?
McCreary or Poledouris?
McCreary of Herrmann?

Masada or Human Target?

Etc, etc.