Oh, poo - you beat me by three minutes!

Ha ha. Thanks for the tip anyway.


Sirusjr: Wow, that's an impressive collection. You're quite a fan of the guy. Thanks for your offer.


And, by the way,

HAPPY 1000th POST! http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repository/F%EAtes/0027.gif

JRL made a lossless rip, as he extracted the stream without re-encoding it.
The files have been reencoded, 100% sure.

As much as I would like to help you guys, I cannot upload for various reasons. So technical advise is all I can give you at the moment.

Greetings

A question: how did you merged the tracks?



I used this program - MP3 Splitter & Joiner (http://www.ezsoftmagic.com/mp3splitter_joiner.htm)

Ha ha. Thanks for the tip anyway.


Sirusjr: Wow, that's an impressive collection. You're quite a fan of the guy. Thanks for your offer.


And, by the way,

HAPPY 1000th POST! http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repository/F%EAtes/0027.gif
XD thanks!! Yeah i have all the tuomas kantelinen albums that have been released in the US to my knowledge.

posted the concert in its own thread :) With the link to dannyfrench's video download as well. Thanks guys :)

Hey does anybody happen to have The Alternative Classical Collection? I know a while back there were a bunch of things like this one being uploaded. If someone could get this thatd be awesome!!!!

Thanks in advance!!!


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alternative-Classical-Collection-Philharmonic-Stereophonics/dp/tracks/B000BITH4G/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1

Since my rapidspread link for Year of The Wolf, The Promise, and Quest for a heart together seems to still work and they are all so small, get it here
http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=hsrlgdmbth
If you guys want more by this composer then i will gladly upload the rest i have again. I hope some of you will consider buying one of his four cds he sells at www.cdbaby.com because they give a lot more money to the composers than the usual sale.

Quest for a Heart is a score for an animated movie I've never seen but it has a very large sound to it and is very lifely and happy sounding.


Year of the Wolf is a slow, more emotional type of film score that might not be attractive on first listen but the final track alone with its vocalists caught me instantly and made me want to listen to the first part again.


The Promise is a similar slower emotional type of film score with a more middle-eastern style to it.


A little information about Tuomas Kantilen

Film music composer Tuomas Kantelinen studied classical composing in his native Finland and continues to make music for both cinema and concert audiences.

He is well known in Europe for his concertos and operas as well as for his orchestral film music for over 30 feature films.

Tuomas too has won numerous awards and nominations for his scores, including several Finnish "Jussi" statuettes, best score awards on festivals and the Finnish Art Critics� Award for the artistic breakthrough of the year.

On the TV front, Tuomas has written news and program jingles, scores for TV movies and music for advertisements.

John Scott


His website:
http://webhome.idirect.com/~rlevy/


IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0779346/


From Wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scott_(composer))

"John Scott (b. Patrick John O'Hara Scott, November 1, 1930, Bristol, England) is a British composer and conductor.

John Scott (aka Johnny Scott and Patrick John Scott) is a film composer who has worked with some of the world's foremost producers and directors including Richard Donner, Mark Damon, Hugh Hudson, Norman Jewison, Irvin Kershner, Daniel Petrie, Roger Spottiswoode and Charlton Heston, among others.

Scott has scored over one hundred film and television projects. His film scores include the above-mentioned A Study in Terror (1965), Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967) and Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984). More recently, his TV work has included incidental music for the ITV series Rosemary and Thyme. Of note are his many scores for films and documentaries by explorer Jacques Cousteau.

He is also active as a classical composer (he has written a symphony, a ballet, 4 string quartets, a guitar concerto and is currently working on an opera) and as a conductor (he has also conducted many the world's finest orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and several of Europe's leading orchestras, including the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Opera Orchestra, the Lubliana Radio Orchestra and the Prague Philharmonic).

Since 2006, John Scott has been the Artistic Director of the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra."

To complete a bit my Special John Scott Post, here are 3 excellent albums I greatly recommend.

For each score, I posted a part of an interview where the composer makes some comments about them. The full interview is available at BSOSpirit (http://www.bsospirit.com/entrevistas/johnscott_e.php).


Lionheart (1990) (John Scott)
http://anonym.to/?http://rapidshare.com/files/2441872/Lionheart-John_S.rar

pw = youdont

Credits to nomwl1.




BS: Just to close the decade, you offered us what for many fans was seen as a surprising assignment for John Scott: Lionheart. Listening to you score, one has the feeling that here it was somehow the "Johnny Scott Quintet" coming back to work! Probably, one of the most intriguing aspects of your music lies in the way the main theme was divided into two parts that only came together once Van Damme's character found his inner strength. Did you have this approach very clear from the start?

JS: Lionheart was a film I have been criticized for accepting. Why should John Scott interest himself in composing for a kick boxing film? I have to say that the thought never occurred to me. I liked the emotion of the film. I really enjoyed the challenge of the development of the character. I enjoyed the variety - from urban city drugs to Foreign Legion - street fighting to big organized fixed fights. I loved the fact that there was an ethnic quality bestowed on the fights. I loved the idea that the ethnic quality was amplified and echoed through the musical score. Last but not least I purposely intended the theme to grow from nothing in a tentative way and gain strength as the main character matured and for that tentative theme to finally emerge as a mature theme complementing the mature spirit of Lionheart.



King Kong Lives (1986 Soundtrack) (John Scott)
http://anonym.to/?http://www.megaupload.com/fr/?d=7V0EOJES

pw = youdont

Credits to nomwl1.

Includes bonus tracks from 'Greystoke', 'Shoot To Kill', 'Phantom of the Sun', & 'The Final Countdown'.




BS: John Guillermin's sequel to his very own 1976 remake of the classic King Kong movie had you facing the risk of being measured against your friend John Barry (who was in charge of the original film's score). Did this ever deter you from accepting the project? Was your friendship with this composer one of the reasons you were chosen for this assignment? To what extent were you asked to achieve certain continuity with the previous score?

JS: John Barry was a person with whom I developed a close relationship based on mutual respect. I started working with John Barry early in his career when he had a weekly TV series with his own group the "John Barry Seven". I was recognized as the top jazz flute exponent and saxophone player in England and he invited me to be a regular guest, playing my own brand of jazz, with his group.

At that time I had never considered the thought of composing as a career. Later I played on his first film Beat Girl and still later I played on his wonderful Lion in Winter and the James Bond scores. He always regarded me as a featured soloist within his written scores. When he recorded the King Kong film I was just starting to compose seriously.

It was after Greystoke that I was approached to compose the music for King Kong Lives. John Guillermin was the director and I met him in North Carolina where he was shooting King Kong Lives. We did not discuss John Barry and I was given the impression that he was looking for another kind of score, a more human score. His first King Kong was a remake of the original, this was an extension. He briefed me very carefully and very exactly as to what he wanted the music to do in his film. Luckily I did not have to copy or use any of John Barry's musical themes.



GREYSTOKE Soundtrack - John Scott
http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=epldr4n3je

Credits to ChiefDundee.




BS: Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is probably your best known American film. It displays a ravishing score of exquisite grace that you've often play in concert. The film production was somehow controversial when original screenwriter Robert Towne withdrew his name from the credits after having failed to direct the picture. Hugh Hudson, of Chariots of Fire fame, came to replace him. Did this turmoil affect you in any way? How come your name was attached to this production?

JS: You know so much more than I do! I did not know anything about Robert Towne's involvement, nor do I get into politics if I can avoid them.

When I was a playing musician I used to compose music for Hugh Hudson's commercials. I was hired to compose the Greystoke score because of Hudson's recommendation. It was an extremely difficult film to score and they had already had two attempts. One with a composer I will not mention and another score which was assembled out of classical music and specially recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO). The Royal Philharmonic manager suggested my name to Hudson who then recommended me to Warner Brothers. I had enjoyed an ongoing relationship with the RPO because of Jacques Cousteau. We used to record Cousteau�s music with that orchestra.

BS: The fact that half the film (the jungle part) does hardly feature any dialogue must have been a great challenge for you as a musician. It was just your score plus sound effects that had to put the audience in the right mood! Was this a major reason for you to accept the project?

JS: The reason I accepted the assignment to compose the Greystoke score was because I was offered the chance to compose a satisfying score. The real bonus was being able to work with such a fine orchestra.

The first half of the film, with no intelligible dialogue, was only one of many challenges. I think the biggest challenge was that Hudson wanted a tragic score. When he briefed me he said he wanted an operatic score in the manner of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. Warner Brothers wanted Superman in the Jungle. They were briefing me in exactly the opposite way to Hudson's brief.

I had to decide that Hudson was my boss. In fact, I did write a cue for when Tarzan becomes king after vanquishing the ape leader. After we played the cue with the picture the whole orchestra burst into applause. I was very happy until Hudson told me he did not want that effect. He made me rewrite the cue. This time it was more vicious and primitive, and Hudson was happy, and the Warner Brothers' executives were disappointed. I was really in a no win situation.

Ok arthierr i'm downloading those 3 right now, I'll get back to you on how i like them.

Also would anyone be interested in me uploading Pan's Labyrinth (expanded promo) (Javier Navarette), inkheart (Javier Navarette) Perfume (expanded academy promo)? They are soundtracks I really love but i don't know if everyone already has them.

Since my rapidspread link for Year of The Wolf, The Promise, and Quest for a heart together seems to still work and they are all so small, get it here
http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=hsrlgdmbth
If you guys want more by this composer then i will gladly upload the rest i have again. I hope some of you will consider buying one of his four cds he sells at www.cdbaby.com because they give a lot more money to the composers than the usual sale.

Thank for this post, Sirusjr. Seems interesting, I'll try it.

In order to give this score more attractiveness, I repost for you a tip I already posted before in this thread:

A little suggestion though: this thread is HUGE (in fact it's one of the threads with the most replies) and I noticed that people tend to visit frequently the older pages, so I suggest you put a cover or an image showing what your post is about. For people browsing the thread it's easy to miss a link or a reply if it's not visually catchy enough.

For the scores you mentioned you should post them if you really enjoy them and want people who don't still know them to try them. This thread is a lot about expression of personal preference.

Arthierr i was offering to upload those 3 but i wanted to make sure they weren't already in this thread before I do but since you took it as a request and didn't offer to share i take it you haven't heard them? If so then I will most definitely share them here because you need to hear those beautiful scores.

Yeah, sorry, I didn't read correctly your post at first, ha ha. That's why I edited my post after.

Yes, please upload, if you tell me they're great, then I totally wish to try them.

Ok i edited that first three pack post with info on Kantelinen and the 3 scores as best I could and images!!

So far i've listened to the first 2 osts you posted in that 3 ost post and i really am not a fan of lionheart but king kong lives is good stuff.

I'll get on uploading those 3 and put them up today.

Here is the first of two Javier Navarrete albums i have that are good. I first heard his score for Pan's Labyrinth a few years ago and was sucked in by the amazing theme so i tried to gather up whatever I could of his and realized that a lot of his other scores were not very exciting to me. Thankfully Inkheart was released this year and I really love it.

Inkheart is a big fantasy orchestral score with occasional vocal accompaniment to the themes.


Javier Navarrete - Inkheart
http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=76obzprftp

Woohoo! That's some nice posts. Covers, short explanations, photo of the composer, short bio... Very good. I was just interested, now I'm very eager to try these scores.

Thanks a lot! :)

Oh thanks Arthierr, for the John Scott soundtracks you found.
I was only looking specifically for Lionheart, but you shared 3 different soundtracks of John Scott.
Downloading in progress..
It's the christmas time, i guess. :)

Sirusjr, it's great to see you around in this thread, and boy, you really like Kantelinen music.
You must be the n�1 Kantelinen music supporter in the world or something. :p

Thank you all :)

Pan's Labyrinth is a strange sort of horror/war/fantasy movie that dabbles in all 3 genres equally. It's main theme has a haunting female vocalist who sings a catchy lullaby. The rest of the score is a mixture of the three genres mentioned above so it has some magical fantasy themes and some haunting horror themes and is all held together by the fantastic main theme my dad still whistles to this day (we saw the movie in the theater together 2 years ago).
Thankfully i found this expanded version on demonoid this year and was very excited and gave it a fresh listen because of it.

Javier Navarrete - Pan's Labyrinth Expanded

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=rjvqud6rjg

I can't find much information on Javier Navarrete but this score was nominated for a grammy and an oscar although i am unsure if it won either of them. Here is one picture I found though.
http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/images/composer/Navarrete_Javier.gif

Thanks for these scores, Sirusjr. :)

But *please* don't shoot all your bullets at once! That makes a LOT of scores to listen to. So I suggest you post your favorite scores from your favorite composers one at a time, with several days or a week between them. That's what I do, to regularly feed the thread with fresh content and keep up the interest.

Thanks for these scores, Sirusjr. :)

But *please* don't shoot all your bullets at once! That makes a LOT of scores to listen to. So I suggest you post your favorite scores from your favorite composers one at a time, with several days or a week between them. That's what I do, to regularly feed the thread with fresh content and keep up the interest.
Ok good idea ;P i got a little excited there.

Thanx for Greystoke! :)

Wow, many stuff from great composers, thank you, Sirusjr and Arthierr...oh boy so many to download and so little time to do that XDD

Here is a nice one, too, enjoy ^^

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, 風の中の少女 金髪のジェニー, Kaze no Naka Shōjo Kinpatsu no Jenī



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Awesome score there buddy. I don't really mind but the first track sounds totally familiar. I can't remember from where though.

A very beautiful, charming, exquisite soundtrack you posted there, Billie. It's really relaxing and touching to listen to.

Thank you! :)

Sirusjr: the main theme (heard in tracks 1 and 6, notably) is very reminiscent of another movie theme. I don't quite remember which one, but probably an old western score.

A very beautiful, charming, exquisite soundtrack you posted there, Billie. It's really relaxing and touching to listen to.

Thank you! :)

Sirusjr: the main theme (heard in tracks 1 and 6, notably) is very reminiscent of another movie theme. I don't quite remember which one, but probably an old western score.
I just played that song for my dad and he says its "Old Folks at Home" or something else by Stephen Foster, which makes total sense because the anime is based on another Stephen Foster song. Really beautiful stuff though.

Hey i was wondering, anyone got the Cross of iron movie OST? movie from 1977

can't find it anywhere, download or buy

FSM support.

I would like to say that this is simply the greatest thread I have had the privilege to lurk on for some time now. Not only is the music topnotch and highly enjoyable, but the information provided is appreciated immensely.

Thanks a lot.

And I second your opinion.

Thanks dannyfrench & arthierr for the concert links. This has to be the most spectacular film music concert I've ever seen - and I've seen a few!
One of the best early Christmas presents I could have ever wished for!

Came across a magnificent song recently.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ymxlhmczhb1

10 - Alexander Nevsky Op.78 - The Battle on the Ice

Pretty amazing

Hey i was wondering, anyone got the Cross of iron movie OST? movie from 1977

can't find it anywhere, download or buy

Of course, here it is:

Cross of Iron - Ernest Gold
http://anonym.to/?http://rapidshare.com/files/141681561/Cross_of_Iron.rar



Credits to the original uploader.



Came across a magnificent song recently.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ymxlhmczhb1

10 - Alexander Nevsky Op.78 - The Battle on the Ice

Pretty amazing

You can rarely go wrong with Prokofiev. Streich already posted this great piece in his first Classical Pack, here: http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?p=1119290

Hahaha no�l avant l'heure!

http://123celtic-irish-jewelry.com/mall/christmas/celtic-christmas-card-MC1-large.gif

A little gift for the musiclovers in this thread, composed by the great Bill Conti...
I wish you all a great and peaceful christmastime, Merry Christmas
*HUUUUUG*

Walt Disney Pictures present The Adventures of Huck Finn

http://i13.ebayimg.com/03/c/00/e4/0f/1d_7.JPG

Kbps: 320
Cover: included
Composer: Bill Conti

Track listing

01. Main Title (04:43) ->> cheerful, vivid, introductory
02. Missy Finn Goes Shoppin' (02:42) ->> funny, stealthy, humorous
03. Next of Kin (02:01) ->> mysterious, sinister, dramatic
04. Do The Right Thing (02:48) ->> proud, fluent, heroic
05. Once A Slave... (03:26) ->> dramatic, sad, oppressive
06. We're Still Friends (02:43) ->> warm, graceful, raising, rising
07. Billy Gets Killed (02:19) ->> tragic, sympathetic, oppressive
08. The Barge (02:43) ->> sinister, destructive, menacing
09. Huck Springs Jim (03:15) ->> sad, hectic, impulsive, heroic
10. All's Well (04:25) ->> warm, cheerful, vivid

Total Duration: 00:31:05

The Adventures of Huck Finn (http://rapidshare.com/files/176397688/Huck_Finn.zip)

I wish you a merry Christmas too! Thank you very much for this delicate attention and this great gift for all of us, Billie. :) I just started to listen and it's really good.

I've found an interesting review of this score:

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCK FINN

Delightful adventure score from underrated composer

A review by JAMES SOUTHALL (Movie Wave)

I frequently compile lists of film composers who should be working a lot more than they are. (I know, I know - I need to get a life. It's just the sort of thing I do!) I always include Bruce Broughton and Joel McNeely and Basil Poledouris. Usually a couple of others. I always forget Bill Conti. It seems that everyone else does, too. Maybe he's forgotten himself. His crotchety attitude in interviews and almost Leonard Rosenman level of self-regard doesn't really endear him on a personal level, but he has written some wonderful film music over the years, including one of the most famous themes a film has ever had (Rocky) and an Oscar win for The Right Stuff. Aside from John McTiernan's surprisingly good Thomas Crown Affair remake though, we've barely heard from Conti in a long time. His score for that movie was fresh and invigorating, showing he's still got what it takes, so his absence from the film music scene is frustrating.

He has always been able to write really good, full-bodied orchestral music in the grand tradition of past masters. He seems absolutely ideally suited for The Adventures of Huck Finn, Stephen Sommers's 1993 adaptation of Mark Twain's classic (yes, that Stephen Sommers!) and so it proved to be. His music brims with enthusiasm and life, evoking fond memories of Copland, Moross (who scored a previous version of the same story) and Bernstein (that's Bernstein West, of course), a lovely score which paints a picture of an outdoor American adventure just perfectly. Conti begins by offering an extended treatment of his delightful main theme, a wonderful creation which bounces with a spirit of adventure. This is followed by the bucolic, lovely "Missy Finn Goes Shoppin'" which again is a treat. Conti continues to present theme after theme in the cues which follow, varying from uptempo drama ("We're Still Friends") to the poignant, extremely moving "Billy Gets Killed" (a bit of a spoiler there, sorry about that).

Action music of a particularly dark hue comes in "The Barge", featuring some strident, aggressive brass writing. Of course, things all get resolved in the end with another extended version of the main theme in "All's Well". It really is a wonderful score, one which attracted little attention at the time and attracts even less now, but one which deserves a place in the collection of any fan of large scale orchestral film music. It's wonderful stuff.

Thanks for Huck Finn. I don't have much by Bill Conti so it's always nice to hear new things written from probably the best era for film scores.

Oh man arthierr cross of iron is awesome!!

And thanks billie for huck finn i'll listen to that and get back to you.

Wow huck finn is amazing. Never heard any bill conti before but that has raised my bar for excellence quite a bit.

I'm pleased that you like Huck Finn ^^

I would like to say that this is simply the greatest thread I have had the privilege to lurk on for some time now. Not only is the music topnotch and highly enjoyable, but the information provided is appreciated immensely.

Thanks a lot.

Thanks for your nice comments.

I just like to present things the way I'd like them to be presented to me. I appreciate to have some knowledge about the context of a score, it really enhances my understanding and my enjoyment of the music.

I thank all posters in this thread for having supplied not only great music, but also most of the time infos, comments, photos, links, interviews, review, videos, ... This really enriches your listening experience.



Thanks dannyfrench & arthierr for the concert links. This has to be the most spectacular film music concert I've ever seen - and I've seen a few!
One of the best early Christmas presents I could have ever wished for!

Yeah, watching concerts is quite a great pleasure for orchestral music enthusiasts.

Now that you mention it, and as this thread is devoted to Orchestral Music in all its forms, it would be nice to post more often concerts videos. I'll try to do it once in a while, and of course I'd also greatly appreciate the posting of it if someone find a great concert to watch.

Ah, so much to do, and so little time... Just enough time to say MERRY CHRISTMAS, and thank you all for the music, ladies and gentlemen, and have a LOVELY HOLIDAY.

I'll be back tomorrow sometime I think with a festive selection. Until then... :)

Merry christmas to everyone as well even though it is a little early. I might post something special from my presents tomorrow if i get something truly awesome.

Here is the first of two Javier Navarrete albums i have that are good. I first heard his score for Pan's Labyrinth a few years ago and was sucked in by the amazing theme so i tried to gather up whatever I could of his and realized that a lot of his other scores were not very exciting to me. Thankfully Inkheart was released this year and I really love it.

Inkheart is a big fantasy orchestral score with occasional vocal accompaniment to the themes.


Javier Navarrete - Inkheart
http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=76obzprftp

I just finished to listen to this score and I really enjoy it.

I like these kinds of big-scale fantasy score, with a magical, mysterious ambience. Reminds me of the Harry Potter scores, or Horner's the Pagemaster. Also the presence of oriental-like music in some tracks is very refreshing and adds an interesting development.

Several instruments I appreciate a lot are heavily used here: harps, celestas, chimes, choirs, wich helps creating a fairy-like, spellbinding atmosphere.

My favorite tracks are as usual the most action-filled ones: The Escape, Rooftops, Creatures Return Home. Tracks with oriental music are also very enjoyable, like Bandits and Jugglers.

The only thing I regret is that it lacks some thematic approach, other than that it's a very beautiful and quite enjoyable orchestral fantasy score. Thanks a lot for posting it. :)

Requested in the hunt score thread. I post it there too, as it's a very good score, full of action and humor.



Inspector Gadget (John Debney) - 256k

http://anonym.to/?http://rapidshare.com/files/173294884/IGJD.zip

01 - Main Titles.mp3
02 - John Brown Saves the Day.mp3
03 - Experimental Foot.mp3
04 - Scolex Approaches.mp3
05 - Scolex Revealed.mp3
06 - Penny Goes to the Hospital.mp3
07 - The Operation.mp3
08 - Scolex Becomes Claw.mp3
09 - Waking Up as Gadget.mp3
10 - Between Man and Machine.mp3
11 - Scolex's Grand Plan.mp3
12 - Gadget Suit Revealed.mp3
13 - Fun in the Park.mp3
14 - Meditation Exercise.mp3
15 - New Car - Gadget Takes a Spin.mp3
16 - Convict's Chase.mp3
17 - Get My Tuxedo.mp3
18 - John Brown's Daydream.mp3
19 - Tango.mp3
20 - Birth of Robo-Gadget.mp3
21 - Heroic Mission.mp3
22 - Stealing the Foot.mp3
23 - Lights Out for Gadget.mp3
24 - Searching for Gadget.mp3
25 - Robo-Gadget Appears.mp3
26 - Gadget Re-born.mp3
27 - Rocket Ride.mp3
28 - Battle on the Bridge.mp3
29 - Penny Sneaks In - Gadget Battles Robo.mp3
30 - Gadget Saves Brenda.mp3
31 - The Kiss - Scolex Captured.mp3
32 - Happy Ending.mp3
33 - Swingin' Gadget.mp3
34 - Gadget Theme Song.mp3


Here's an interesting review from Music from the Movies (http://www.musicfromthemovies.com/default.asp):

Reviewed by: Mikael Carlsson

The amount of creative joy and musical enthusiasm showcased in this hilarious orchestral score by John Debney is the most overwhelming quality of this promotional album. Clearly, this score is not to be taken too seriously and the tongue-in-cheek, cartoon-ish approach taken here should be appreciated for what it is. I would not be surprised if many of my colleagues will regard this score as just another hollow score from one of Hollywood's most skilled, yet unappreciated creative forces. In my opinion, however, this is a very entertaining score in the same league as Alan Silvestri's Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

It's also a better listening experience than Debney's other recent promo release, My Favourite Martian, which I felt was a bit too fragmentary to work as a coherent album. What Inspector Gadget has is a very strong theme which is utilised throughout the whole score in the most imaginative ways. This catchy tune, more quirky than heroic, effectively binds the 34 cuts on this album together.

The overall humorous feel of the score is revealed already in the first few bars of the album, where the Disney 'When You Wish Upon a Star' logo is given a neat treatment. Following is the 'Gadget' theme, with female voices shouting 'Go, Gadget, Go' in a deliberately cheesy, tongue-in-cheek fashion - everything spiced up with a modern rhythmic treatment. The second cue, 'John Brown Saves the Day', showcases Debney's magnificent action writing. In fact, Inspector Gadget include some of the most rewarding action music written by John Debney since his underrated Cutthroat Island. Other examples here are the strong 'Rocket Ride' and 'Gadget Saves Brenda'.

However, the heavy action scoring in this score is always written with a twinkle in the eye. You never know, in the next bar the shrieking brass may be interrupted by a swinging jazz rhythm ('Battle on the Bridge'), a cool techno rhythm ('Gadget Re-Born'), or maybe an 'inside joke' like the Korngold homage in 'Scolex Approached' or the 'Mission: Impossible' quote in 'Heroic Mission'.

Of course, the stylistic coherence in the score is a little bit questionable but I have to say that John Debney manages to make a fully functional whole out of the Inspector Gadget score. It's a long and bumpy roller-coaster ride and a very funny one. Don't expect a revolutionary score - this one is walking down a well known path - but enjoy the large amounts of humour and precision in Debney's writing!



Edit: I've found a bit of an interview of the composer doing comments about it, from soundtrack.net (http://www.soundtrack.net/features/article/?id=41).

You recently completed work on Inspector Gadget. Were you a fan of the original cartoon, and did you find it to be a fun project to work on? Also, you adapted the show's famous theme into the score - was that something you enjoyed doing? Or did would you rather have come up with your own theme instead?

I enjoyed twisting the original theme this way and that. It's so recognizable and loved that there was no question that I was going to use it often. My theme for the evil Scolex is a very broad Grand Waltz. I also composed the John Brown theme, which is stated quite often when Gadget is being very heroic. This was a very fun score to write.

It made a long time I haven’t posted a compilation of selected great orchestral pieces. So here’s my long-announced ORCHESTRAL CHORAL PACK (yes, it’s been a while, but it’s finally there :D). A part 2 is in preparation and will be posted later.


ORCHESTRA AND CHOIR - PART 1


Basil Poledouris - Honor and Glory.mp3
A beautiful choral piece written especially for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. Grandiose and inspiring.

Christopher Field - Lord Of The Rings Trailer Music - Gothic Power.mp3
Christopher Field - Ultima Odyssey - Gothic Combat.mp3
Christopher Field - Ultima Odyssey - Mt. Bold Combat.mp3
Already posted long ago in this thread, HERE (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1118795&postcount=41), along with some other beautiful cues. I repost those because they're some truly awesome choral battle pieces. I believe Christopher Field is an authentic young genius. You can notice in Gothic Combat some obvious similarities with Prokofiev’s The Battle on the Ice, posted HERE (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1191205&postcount=1029).

Danny Elfman - Edward Scissorhands - Ice Dance.mp3
Can't do a choral selection without including those ethereal elfmanesque voices. This score is so beautiful, so emotionally charged. Yes, I admit, I cried at the end of the movie, greatly because of the music.

Derek Oren, Jeremy Robson - Final Fantasy VI 'Cantata for Dancing I. Mors ego sum mortis'.mp3
The regular visitors of this thread know who’s Jeremy Robson, so to be clear I don’t post this because he’s a frequent contributor here, but because it’s really a very good choral piece, brilliantly written and tastefully arranged. For more details, I’ll let the author describe it.

Don Davis - House of Frankenstein - Frank Restrained.mp3
Very rhythmic and structured piece with strong pounding timpanis. Davis is known for often writing complex music, but here he chose to write something simple yet very effective.

Gavin Greenaway - Millenium Celebration - Tapestry of Nations.mp3
An almost 24 minute piece! From Wikipedia: "The Tapestry of Nations was a parade at the Epcot theme park in Walt Disney World, Florida, USA, that ran around the World Showcase Lagoon from 1999 to 2001, after which it was rethemed as Tapestry of Dreams. The parade had a unity and world peace theme and featured a variety of large puppets and massive rotating drum units." Not fully orchestral, but very cheerful piece, full of joy and hope.

James Horner - Glory - Charging Fort Wagner.mp3
Yes, it’s very much inspired by Carmina Burana, but I’m pretty sure it’s intentional. Horner’s revisiting of Carl Orff’s classic piece is technically almost perfect and very enjoyable.

James Newton Howard - Flatliners - Redemption.mp3
This piece is a highlight in this particular score and in the composer's career. JNH gets religious in this cue and bring us a superb, inspired, choral piece.

Jerry Goldsmith - First Knight - Arthur's Farewell.mp3
Wow, just wow. Is the term “grandiose” enough to describe the greatness of this piece? My favourite track of one of my favourite scores.

Kaoru Wada - Inu Yasha - Warera Shichinntai.mp3
Kaoru Wada - Kenran Butousai - The Mars Daybreak.mp3
Kaoru Wada - Record of Lodoss War TV - Okoreru Kyousenshi.mp3
3 pieces showing what Kaoru Wada can do with a small orchestra and a male choir. The 1st piece is a powerful battle theme, the 2nd a superb main theme, and the 3rd is a haunting, tribal-sounding, battle piece. Very well done.

Kohei Tanaka - Bastard!! - Metalicana Seikishidan syouka.mp3
Kohei Tanaka is a true master of symphonic music. I try to put one example of his music in each compilation I post. This one is a nice grandiose, bombastic piece.

Kosuke Yamashita - Garasu no Kantai - Kizoku Tachi.mp3
One of my favorite composers too. This piece is very cheerful and joyful, although way too short.

Miki Higashino, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus - Genso Suikoden II - Opening.mp3
The song: Composed by Miki Higashino, played by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus. Higashino's score for this game is a PURE MARVEL (but only the opening is orchestrated), she wrote a lot of superb, moving and memorable themes. The game: Exceptional! The summit of 2D RPGs. In fact it stands as one of the greatest, unforgettable games I've played. Frienship, treason, vengeance, destiny, epic story, ingenious narration, complex gameplay, engaging characters, beautiful graphics, superb ost... It has it all.

Toshihiko Sahashi - Gundam Seed Destiny - Shuunen No Ichigeki.mp3
From my favourite eastern composer. I try to post one of his pieces in each pack I make. This one is a dark powerful march, very effective and catchy.

Yuka Tsujiyoko - Fire Emblem VI ~The Sword of Seals~ - Fire Emblem Theme - Opera Version.mp3
When I first heard the theme of Fire Emblem I thougt it was a very beautiful and memorable theme, that could really sound great with a real orchestra. Luckily, some years later I found this very good orchestra and choir arrangement.


http://tinyurl.com/7ygfg9


Part 2 coming soon. :)

It's about time! Looking forward to this!

It's about time! Looking forward to this!

You're welcome. ;)

Don't hesitate to post some comments or give your opinion if you have some.

Arthierr regarding your pack,
The first songs up through the Edward Scissorhands are good but i am not a huge fan of quiet choir.
The FFVI song is AWESOME, although part of it is because I love the melody to begin with it is just a great choral piece.
Ok that 24 minute one you put up, tapestry of nations is Absolutely Fabulous!! So good in fact that you sparked me putting up my own collection of songs!! I should have them up in a few hours.

When I decided to make a pack I didn�t realize it would take me 2 hours but that is the way of things and actually it wasn�t too bad. Anyway when I realized my selection of choral pieces from movies alone was pretty short, I decided to include stuff from Anime and Video Games. The side effect of this is that I included some songs that a few might consider undeserving of this thread because of their pop flair but the vocals are so beautiful I felt them deserving of inclusion. I will mark them as such so you are forewarned but I suggest everyone still listen to them because they are beautiful.

Choral and Vocal Game/Movie/Anime Pieces PART1 (Part 2 coming later)

Basil Poledouris � The Hunt for Red October � Hymn to Red October.mp3
Beautiful and haunting piece, probably my favorite Poledouris piece with male and female choral even though I don�t think my version here is very good quality.

Javier Navarrete � Pan�s Labyrinth � Long Long Time Ago.mp3
Haunting female humming; I just had to include this song to get people excited if they didn�t download Pan�s Labyrinth already. This song makes the soundtrack.

Vangelis � El Greco Soundtrack � Part 01.mp3 (I don�t know the song name)
Choral piece with male vocals and latin lyrics.

Joe Hisaishi � Howl�s Moving Castle OP single � Sekai no Yakusoku.mp3
This is one of those more pop style songs I mentioned. Beautiful female vocals with a melody composed by Hisaishi so you can�t go wrong

John Ottman � Valkyrie � They�ll remember You.mp3
This is a huge choral piece with male and female vocals with German lyrics.

Yoko Kanno � Sousei no Aquarion OST � Aquarius.mp3
This song is the reason I fell in love with Aquarion. Yoko Kanno�s style of big choir with orchestra is always amazing.

Joe Hisaishi � Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea � Mother of the Sea.mp3
Single female vocalist here singing in Japanese. I can�t get enough of it.

Tyler Bates � 300 � Returns a King.mp3
As much as I would think everyone has heard the 300 soundtrack I felt this was worth including because the choral pieces in 300 are fabulous.

Jamie Christopherson � Bladestorm The Hundred Years War � The Hundred Years War.mp3
This is an orchestral piece with choral singing, very medieval sounding.

Tenpei Sato � Soul Cradle Arange Track � Requiem of Gemini.mp3
Single female vocalist with Tenpei Sato�s unique synthesizer as background.

Akiko Shinada � Eternal Sonata OST CD4 � Kyoutenka.mp3
Ending song from Eternal Sonata that gives you a taste of the wonderful orchestrations of Motoi Sakuraba, single female vocalist is amazing.

Yoko Kanno � Escaflowne OST1 � Escaflowne.mp3
Gregorian chant style song that is simple but for some reason I love it.

Yoko Kanno � Escaflowne OST1 � Angel.mp3
Female choir and orchestra, very beautiful song

Kotaro Nakagawa � Code Geass OST1 � Outside Road.mp3
I had to pick at least one Kotaro Nakagawa song so I found the first Geass song with the right type of vocals. Very similar to some posted by arthierr.

Rob Lane � Merlin TV OST � The Witch�s Aria.mp3
Single female vocalist with a small amount of background. As the name suggests it is an aria style. More of this type in part 2 with perfume sample.

Aoi Teshima � Gedo Senki Tales from Earthsea OST � Owari To Hajimari Shudaika.mp3
Aoi Teshima has a beautiful angelic voice but a lot of her early stuff is a capella so I picked one with a little orchestral accompaniment.

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=p12gca0p4l

Impressive post, thanks a lot!

Frankly, I don't know most of these pieces, so they're very welcome, as I'm eager to try new music. I'll listen to them and post some comments soon.

The FFVI piece is made by our good friend Streichorchester. I'm sure he'll appreciate your nice comments. ;)

Just to be complete, I repost Dannyfrench's choral pack here, so people can have all our packs at the same place.



SOME FINE MUSIC FOR ORCHESTRA and CHOIR
-- Classical, anime, movie, television, game.

http://sharebee.com/8a588689
http://sharebee.com/2cd984c6


In no particular order...

Gabriel Yared - Battle Of The Arrows (Troy)
This is a sad example of what happens when somebody tries to write an intelligent, grandly-conceived score for a Hollywood picture - he works on it for a year, creates a masterpiece, then is fired at the last second when spotty teenagers at test screenings moan about the "old fashioned music" - and then James Horner throws together his latest Star Trek II redux in two weeks and it's hailed as one of the great scores of our time. Yared's Troy is a fine piece of work - thankfully he released it on a promotional disc (which predictably did the rounds) and so we can hear his monumental effort.

Naoki Sato - Heroic Age
A fine piece for full orchestra and choir, from 2007's television anime, Heroic Age. A true theme - with a melody, shimmering orchestration, and sumptuous late romanticism, this really is one of the gems of 2007. At 3:12, you get to hear what happens when a composer has some time to explore his themes - instead of getting it out the way as quickly as possible, Sato takes his melody and elegantly passes it around the orchestra - the result is absolutely superb.

Alan Silvestri - The Legend Of Mythica
Just when you thought Silvestri was getting tired of it all, somebody in Japan has the fantastic, miraculous idea to hire him to score a new show at Tokyo Disneysea. Firmly in the established "Disney orchestral" tradition, Silvestri's score nevertheless maintains his own compositional identity, whilst at the same time taking us on a heartbreakingly beautiful journey, the way only a true master of symphonic form can. There are some rock pieces in the show, but this one - the fifth movement - is exclusively orchestra and a small choir. There is a few seconds of narration (in Japanese) that is so beautifully spoken - almost sung to the melody - that it truly belongs. Another fine example of what happens when a composer is told "Please go and write us some music - it should be roughly this long - thanks!" and lets him get on with it, rather than forcing uncreative committee decisions upon him that are nothing to do with music, and everything to do with the marketing department...

Joel McNeely - The Destruction Of Xizor's Palace (Star Wars - Shadows Of The Empire)
Ok, so everybody knows this by now - but it's still a fine piece. McNeely's powerhouse score for the Lucasarts novel (and later, game - but this score was written for the book) surprised everybody - it came at the same time Williams returned to the franchise with "The Phantom Menace" - and fans were certainly feeling his stylistic departures. McNeely - Hollywood's greatest imitator - swallowed up Williams' techniques (from the seventies through to the present day) and mixed them up with his own, and created this magnificent work. What a terrific pity McNeely didn't get Clone Wars - say what you like about McNeely (and his occasional plagiarism) but you can't deny that he is clearly a musician - a classically oriented, experienced composer, and an orchestral magician.

John Barry - Main Title (The Lion In Winter)
There were some rumblings in film music circles when Barry was announced to score The Lion In Winter. After all, wasn't he just the jazz guy who wrote the Bond theme? He shocked the world - in the best possible way - with, for some, his crowning achievement. This piece clearly inspired Goldsmith's theme to The Omen some ten years later.

Matsuo Hayato - Gradus Vita (Hellsing OVA)
Every now and again somebody makes an anime with a ridiculously big music budget. This is one of them. Here is the apocalyptic ending theme to the first episode.

Murray Gold - The Parting Of The Ways (Doctor Who)
Nobody really knew what to expect with regards to the scoring technique that would be employed with 2005's revitalisation of Doctor Who. It was something of a shock to hear that the producers had commissioned huge scale, orchestral scores from Murray Gold - still more shocking that they didn't find a budget for any real musicians whatsoever (with the exception of one female singer, and one cor anglais player) - but still, even in its poor-synthesiser garb, the music garnered attention. For the 2005 Christmas Special, the budget went up, and suddenly there was a very large orchestra. The music for later series' constantly evolves - but this piece is from the first series. It was orchestrated (by Ben Foster) for album recording and for concert performance - this recording is from the BBC's Children In Need fundraising concert of 2006.

Lennie Moore - World Of Snow (Outcast)
I don't know how it came about that Outcast should be given a gorgrous, old fashioned, golden age score for large orchestra and choir - but I'm certainly grateful that it was. Moore regularly works with William Stromberg and John Morgan (indeed, Stromberg conducted Outcast in Moscow) so you know you're in good hands. This piece plays like a mini symphony - truly a glittering example of what a talented composer can really do with an orchestra.

Luna Sea - Moon (Symphonic Luna Sea)
This isn't from a film or an anime series - this is an orchestral album of songs by Japanese rock band Luna Sea. It does, however, sound incredibly filmic - the thing I really like about Japanese "symphonic whatever" albums is that, unlike most Western attempts at the same thing, you don't just get a limp arrangement of a song that just sounds like crap in comparison to the original. If this is a symphonic suite, you get a symphonic composition - somebody with a classical brain has interpreted Luna Sea's song into an impressionistic, Ravellian, tone poem. The music speaks for itself.

Yoko Kanno - Escaflowne (Black Escaflowne)
Kanno is a stinking thief - a disgusting plagiarist, morally void, disrespectful of her peers, and a downright liar. But bloody hell, she knows how to whip up an orchestra to absolute breaking point, and then push just a little bit further... Streich has already cross-analysed, interrogated, examined, and questioned this piece to within an inch of its life, so I won't go on about it - except to say that whilst air-conducting the passage of 1:31 - 1:54 (a ridiculously accomplished section of sumptuous choir and apocalyptic, modulating orchestra that seems to serve virtually no purpose except CHANGING KEY) I broke my baton in half - flinging it so hard across the room it punched a hole in my bedroom door, before splintering into two pieces. That gives you some kind of feeling as to what sort of piece this is - please, gentlemen - forget your Gladiator, The Rock, and your Transformers - THIS is what the term "epic" is all about.

Leos Janacek - Gloria (Glagolitic Mass)
Sorry about the recording - it's old, but I'm quite fond of this performance (by Klaus Tennstedt and the LPO) so it's worth putting up with the ropey sound. Janacek must surely be one of the most instantly recognisable composers who ever lived - quite unlike any other, every note speaks so clearly with his language. I remember vividly hearing this piece for the first time, in concert, in the Royal Albert Hall, when I was fourteen. I wasn't particularly into later music (I was a Beethoven man back them) but I remember so clearly how that concert changed my life. When the glorious Albert Hall organ began to play and this powerful kaleidoscope of orchestral colour swirled around me, every hair on my body stood on end, and I don't think they've sat back down, even now a decade later. This isn't just a chorus - there is a male soloist there as well. And yes, it's about God - please don't run away - give it a chance, folks!

Howard Blake - The Riddle Of The Sands (Riddle Of The Sands)
Blake is known largely for his masterful score to The Snowman - but there is so much more to the gentleman than that. I sneezed at him (unintentionally) during the interval of a concert at the Barbican, and he turned and said "Bless you!" - another moment of my life I won't forget! This piece - showing off Blake's absolutely superb command of the orchestra, in equal parts with his enviable ability to weave beautiful, lyrical melodies - certainly has all of his trademarks, and it's one of my all time favourites, so you can't argue with that, really, now can you...?

Richard Blackford - Canticle Of The Furnace (Mirror Of Perfection)
This is another classical piece (again, please don't run, folks) composed in 1997, based upon the writings of St Francis Of Assisi. Most of the piece is slow, tender, and gorgeously beautiful - but this section is violent and very primal. A very definite stand against the ravages of atonalism, this piece is always approachable, and extremely satisfying.

Yoshihiro Kanno - Transmigration (Angel's Egg)
Angel's Egg is one of the most completely strange - and also phsychologically rewarding - films you will ever see. The score, by highly respected classical composer Yoshihiro Kanno, fits it like a glove - veering towards classical modernism (well, OK, so it IS classical modernism) you'll love this if you can suspend your need for harmony, and appreciate something that manages to be terribly ugly and searingly beautiful at exactly the same time - this is not easy listening, but by God, it reaches inside you and squeezes your heart in ways you would never have thought possible.

Yoshihisa Hirano - Domine Kira (Death Note)
This guy is a genius - he's become my second favourite composer, after the Godlike Goldsmith - and coming from the likes of me, that's praise indeed. I'm planning some more Hirano posts in the future, so I'm not going to bang on about this in any great detail - it's a cue of fire and brimstone, for orchestra and choir. Hirano manages to take his small television orchestra and stir up the most unbridled, chaotic, symphonic HELL - he's a cutting edge modernist, late romantic melodramaticist, early romantic dreamer, distinguished classical gentleman, and a baroque ornamentalist - all at the same time, and all of it just drips with his own, deeply individual, style - what can I say? It's magnificent.

Jerry Goldsmith - Main Theme (QB VII)
Have you ever known me to make a selection without including some Goldsmith? Legend has it that he virtually stalked the director of this 1974 TV series until he was given the job of scoring it. Goldsmith - a Jew, obviously felt a strong, personal connection to the subject matter, and it shines through so clearly in his score. This isn't sentimental, or over the top, or sappy. Every note is personal, subtle, heartbreaking, and above all respectful. He never takes any cheap shots or easy solutions - the score is a masterpiece of the highest order. This piece - also known as "Kaddish For The Six Million" - is a tribute to the victims of the Holocaust. Completely Goldsmith, the second section will break your heart. At the two minute mark, everything stops - and I don't know how he does it, but Goldsmith manages to say so much with just three rising notes - for strings in unison - before the orchestra and choir rejoin for the finale. It's only two and a half minutes long - but there is more power and meaning in here than in probably the entire last decade of film music.

Sirusjr > Sweet, more Choral packs! Downloling as I speak.

Arthierr>

Okay, some comments. I'm not one for super extensive analysis so I'll keep it short and sweet.

I like it. As you know I'm more a fan of combat-esque, darker themes, and you provide and ample variety. About half of these I've heard before, half I haven't, a better turnout than I expected. All in all I quite like it and it's been worth the wait. I eagerly look forward to the second part.

If you are a fan of the original Gundam soundtracks, might I suggest investigating the new Gundam 00 soundtracks? I have those, if you wants them.

I was able to write another 5-6 pages on my novel after months of inactivity thanks to your music. I consider music a greater medicine than any drug...

... which is doubly unfortunate that I've been too busy and tired to finish the second part of my own pack for you gentlemen. I'll see if I can get Midnight finished sometime soon for you.

Sirusjr's Awesome Choral/vocal pack part 2!!

Origa � Fantastic Children Ending Song � Mizu no Madoromi.mp3
Origa is one of the closest pop sounding singers I just had to include because this is one of her more melodic pieces and without any electronica.

Kenji Kawai � Ghost in the Shell Innocence OST � Kugutsuuta Aratyo ni Kamutsudo Hite.mp3
Absolutely haunting female vocals similar to Hirawasa Susumu�s Paprika sound.

Tom Tykwer � Perfume Story of a Murderer Academy Promo � Preparing Pauline
Lone female soprano, again very haunting vocals and very soothing. I will upload the full soundtrack later if enough people are interested.

Tuomas Kantelinen � Mongol � Beginning.mp3
Big orchestra with male vocals and some Mongolian throat singing as well. The song is full of an epic energy.

Tuomas Kantelinen � Year of the Wolf � Requiem.mp3
Another lone female vocalist with a slow sad feel, very beautiful.

Serena � Soul Cradle OST disc 2 � Cradle of the Ivory Moon.mp3
Single female vocalist with beautiful relaxing voice.

Naoshi Mizuta � FFXI OST � Opening.mp3
Huge orchestral song with large choir in parts, far surpasses anything uematsu has composed for other Final Fantasy games.

Yuki Kajiura and Deb Lyons � Xenosaga 2 ost disc2 � The image theme of Xenosaga2.mp3
I had to include one Kajiura song so I put in the one that is slightly orchestral. This has a bit of a techno side to it as well but the made up language used for the vocals is just amazing. Again, single female vocalist.

Fire Emblem Main theme from Smash Brothers Brawl gamerip (similar to the one arthierr posted but better version IMO)

Mio Isayama � Shadow Hearts 2 OST Disc 2 � Getsurenka.mp3
Single female vocalist with piano and strings in the background

Chikayo Fukuda - .hack GU OST2 � Sugary Mansion Shiefoberg.mp3
One of the more orchestral and choral songs from .hack GU again female vocals.

Tenpei Sato � Phantom Brave Arrange - Heavens Garden.mp3
Same vocalist as the Cradle of the Ivory Moon song again absolutely beautiful.

Noriyuki Iwadare � Grandia 2 ~Povo~ - Cancao de Povo.mp3
European styled female vocalist, by far my favorite Grandia song.

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

Sirusjr> Listening to the first part right now. Lots of new stuff for me! And all very excellent. Your contributions are well appreciated.

Sirusjr: Thanks a bunch for your Part 2 (in fact I was expecting it quite later, I'm only half way in your Part 1). Seems really interesting, with many unknown pieces.




If you are a fan of the original Gundam soundtracks, might I suggest investigating the new Gundam 00 soundtracks? I have those, if you wants them.

Thanks for proposing. Which ones are you mentioning? I've already found some in the Gundam thread, here (Thread 38406). If you have some new ones not in this thread, they would be indeed welcome.

Oh. Yeah mine are probably in that thread, heh.

Sirusjr: Thanks a bunch for your Part 2 (in fact I was expecting it quite later, I'm only half way in your Part 1). Seems really interesting, with many unknown pieces.

Well i started making just one and then it sorta turned out bigger than i thought so i split it up.

Sirusjr, you didn't mention anything about the Kyoutenka track, which is one I found the most interesting (because I've never heard it before) especially around the 6:50 mark.

I haven't posted anything in a while, so here's an awesome piece by Julian Orbon that's influenced a lot of film scores (try to guess which ones.)

http://sharebee.com/01c1adb1

Sirusjr, you didn't mention anything about the Kyoutenka track, which is one I found the most interesting (because I've never heard it before) especially around the 6:50 mark.
I'm just not very good at describing music and after i had my files together listening to each one to describe it in detail was a bit much to bother with.

Thanks everyone for your wonderful uploads, I really keep enjoying them! = )

I also uploaded some tracks I find extremely enjoyable.

Tracklist:

Trevor Jones ~ Age of Magic ~ Merlin OST
Merlin is probably one of the most underrated films I have ever came by. The movie itself is a masterpiece which is IMHO even better than LOTR Trilogy! And the soundtrack is also very nice, this song particularly.

Yasunori Mitsuda (well, original somposer, this one is arragement) ~ Chrono Trigger ~ Chrono Trigger Orchestra Extra
Originally posted by GameGuy444 in here (lossless) (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?t=62530&), I just converted to mp3. Well, it's Chrono Trigger Theme Song performed by real orchestra, so can it really be bad? No, but this one's just AMAZING arragement! And the original is my favourite song of all-time.

Toshihiko Sakaki ~ Opening - Unmei no Tobira Akareru Koku ~ Symphony SEED Destiny
Gundam SEED Destiny is one of my favourite anime series and this song just rocks. I think it's performed by London Symphony Orchestra, but I'm really not sure...

Brian Tyler ~ Summon the Worms ~ Children of Dune OST
A superb piece! Grand, epic and powerful, can a film music fan wish for more?

Stuart Catwood ~ Opening ~ Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones OST
The entire score is absolutely fantastic and has a nice, martial feeling in it. Definitely worth listening.

Richard Beddow ~ Prologue ~ VIKING: Battle for Asgard OST
VIKING: BFA is one of the most mind-blowing scores in game music history. Entire soundtrack performed by a real choir + orchestra with some epic battle themes in it. And this one is a perfect intro to the game.

Trevor Jones ~ Griffins ~ Merlin OST
Nice action cue from an excellent soundtrack.

Taro Iwashiro ~ Chapter XI - Truth of War ~ Onimusha 2 Orchestra Album
This one is actually a suite, all main melodies from the game put together.

Richard Beddow ~ Hel's Fortress Battle ~ VIKING: Battle for Asgard OST
And here we a perfect example for epic battle theme. Choir just makes the atmosphere incredible!

Joe Hisaishi ~ The Legend of Ashitaka ~ Mononoke Hime OST
Joe Hisaishi is absolutely one of the best Japanese composers I have ever heard of. This songs, as well as the entire soundtrack, is performed by a HUGE orchestra and choir.

Nobuo Uematsu ~ Scene VII - FF 2 Rebel Army's Theme ~ Final Fantasy Symphonic Suite
Well, it's not an ACTION cue, but I still want to include it in my compilation. Incredible song with strong strings and choir.

Download link (Sharebee): http://sharebee.com/2e0a4e2a

Enjoy! ; )

Oh, and I also "composed" a new orchestral piece for a story project that I am working with. Here: http://www.harhakuva.org/view/121164
Although it is a Finnish site, just click the play button.

Ah, so busy and so much great music to listen to...

Thanks a lot for this nice compilation, Elemental Eye. I'm eager to listen to it, as soon as I've finished listening to the previous packs posted. And you get a special praise for posting a Sahashi piece (indeed played by the London Symphony Orchestra). ;)

By the way, I also repost your sweet orchestral and choral pack you posted before, so people can have all choral packs in one place.


Here goes my compilation:

-Action part-
Story Continues - Patrick Doyle - Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire OST
Title Theme - Kail Rosenkranz - Gothic III OST
Spectres In the Fog - Hans Zimmer - The Last Samurai OST
James Horner - Hard to Starboard - Titanic OST
From Silden to Trelis - Kail Rosenkranz - Gothic III OST
Intro Part 3 - Unknown - Descent 3 OST

-Choral part-
Prelude - Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy VOICES
Showdown - Kail Rosenkranz - Gothic III OST
Sactuary - Unknown - The Huchback of Notre Dame
The Last Confrontation - Jeremy Soule - Knights of the Old Republic (gamerip)
Final Boss - Cris Velasco, Sascha Dikiciyan - Dark Messiah of Might and Magic OST


http://rapidshare.com/files/150361609/Orch_Action___Choral.zip.html (http://rapidshare.com/files/150361609/Orch_Action___Choral.zip.html)

guys, i love you. thanks so much for posting all that incredible stuff. i never heard of that planet earth symphony from johan de meij, and now i think it the most incredible orchestral/choral piece of music i�ve ever heard. 47mins of pure brilliance full of power and magic, it simlpy leaves you breathless.i also heard his lord of the rings symphony. any recommandations or maybe uploads of his other works, maybe similar to this two?

Sirusjr: A very good surprise for this Choral Pack Part 1. I didn't know most of these pieces, and they're all very good. Also it's a good idea to have enlarged your choices to vocal pieces, such as arias.

My favs are:

They'll Remember You: I'm not a fan of Ottman (really disappointed by the scores I've heard from him), but these piece is very beautiful and inspired.

Mother of the Sea: delicate, subtle, very soothing piece.

Returns A King: yes, it looks like Titus, but I like this kind of antique martial ambience. Very powerful and extremely epic.

The Witch's Aria: magnificient. A true gem, even if some parts are too similar to Trevor Jones' previous score.

Owari to Hajimari ~ Shudaika [Toki no Uta] ~ Ending: Wow, first class choral piece, elegant and highly emotional. Wonderful choice.

Kyoutenka: I'm a big fan of Motoi Sakuraba. This guy came from progressive rock and now composes superb, inspired orchestral music, with a very personal style. This piece is awesome.

Now to Part 2...


streichorchester: this Julian Orbon piece is wonderful. It doesn't remind me of a particular score, but reminds of various styles: Williams (a bit of ET), light-hearted Newton Howard scores (Dave, maybe), and western scores in general.

Could you please upload the full album? These symphonic Dances seem very interesting.

there is one thread with all yoko kanno cds. does anyone have a overview which of them are fully orchestral? i don�t like synth music, especially when it tries do sound like orchestra.

guys, i love you. thanks so much for posting all that incredible stuff. i never heard of that planet earth symphony from johan de meij, and now i think it the most incredible orchestral/choral piece of music i�ve ever heard. 47mins of pure brilliance full of power and magic, it simlpy leaves you breathless.i also heard his lord of the rings symphony. any recommandations or maybe uploads of his other works, maybe similar to this two?

Good question. Leave me just some time to remember some similar scores. Also I'll try find some other De Meij pieces.


there is one thread with all yoko kanno cds. does anyone have a overview which of them are fully orchestral? i don�t like synth music, especially when it tries do sound like orchestra.

Again, given the huge amount of scores she made, not easy to remember exactly which ones are orchestral right now. I'll post a list a bit later.

By the way, if you're interested by Kanno's orchestral music and if you want to learn a lot about it, you should totally read these brilliant analysis posted in this thread by streichorchester:


Action music by Yoko Kanno - first set:

http://sharebee.com/ea7ff546

It was bound to happen sometime in this thread, and even though I'm sure most of us are already familiar with Kanno's work and posting this might be a bit redundant, it gives me a chance to talk about the work.

First, it is important to note that even though I condemn Kanno for her blatant plagiarizing, I can't help but admire the sheer skill and relevance of the composition and orchestration of these pieces. It is some of the best orchestrated music of the past 20 years because a) it is well played, b) it is highly motivic, c) it uses the entire orchestra effectively, d) it draws inspiration from classical music as well as film scores, and e) aside from the plagiarisms, I can't hear a bad note in them.

There are theories that it is impossible for someone of Kanno's resume (or what we know of it) to be able to compose/orchestrate like this, and the fact she tends to compose 90% of her output in other genres is almost a slap in the face to us orchestra snobs. I really can't get enough of this stuff. From my perspective, if she is not getting help, she is a master or a prodigy of some kind. If she just one day decided to compose orchestral music that sounds like Prokofiev, whatever difficult self-training she endured was complete by 1994 when she single-handedly composed and orchestrated the scores to Macross Plus and Nobunaga's Ambition Tenshoki.

It is the near-pinnacle of orchestral achievement to sound like Prokofiev, Copland, Ravel, etc. but Kanno can accomplish this with such ease. It is only one step down from the top tier: Mahler (whom is strangely absent from Kanno's long list of sources.)

There are many trademarks across Kanno's work, or signatures if you will: low strings ostinatos, high strings ostinatos, loud and exposed brass clusters, quick flourishes in the winds, slow rising stepwise motion in the bass line, off-kilter melodic rhythms used as ostinatos, movement around the circle of fifths, and many more. The fanfares always seem to resemble Holst's Jupiter from The Planets or John Williams's music for the Olympic games. Many slower pieces carry an Impressionistic tone reminiscent of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe or Pavane for a Dead Princess. The ostinato-heavy action pieces with chorus bring to mind Orff, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Penderecki all at once. It really could be a subject of a larger study; Kanno inserting classical music into her work as composers might have inserted folk songs or other ethnic characteristics.

The best way to describe Kanno's work is "schizophrenic" in that you can neither tell where it came from or where it's going. Not much of the orchestral music really connects with the anime or game it is written for and always seems like it would fit better in a Golden Age swashbuckler epic or Star Wars or even the concert hall. The end result is that the music is often chopped up to fit random scenes and some pieces reused over and over with others only getting a solitary appearance. It's like scoring your anime with bits and pieces of Mahler's 8th: the result is confusing and maybe even a tad pretentious (:D). Nevertheless, it's still fun to listen to on its own.

Now onto the tracks:

Set No. 1:

Brain Powerd - OST 2 - 06. Warriors
Brain Powerd - OST 1 - 07. Chemical Dance
Brain Powerd - OST 1 - 11. Ground Zero
Macross Frontier - OST 1 - 17. TALLY HO
Macross Frontier - OST 1 - 18. The Target
Macross Plus - OST 1 - 09. Break Out - Cantabile
Nobunaga's Ambition Tenshouki - 1. The War Hawk
Nobunaga's Ambition Tenshouki - 5. Spring Waves
Nobunaga's Ambition Tenshouki - 6. Haouden Suit
Nobunaga's Ambition Tenshouki - 11. Battlefield of Light:
Sousei no Aquarion - OST 2 - 11. Heaven's Gate
Sousei no Aquarion - OST 2 - 12. Exodus
Sousei no Aquarion - OST 2 - 13. BLAQARION

Set No. 2: Coming soon...

As a bonus, here's a rather medium-lengthed analysis of each track. It requires some knowledge of classical music, music theory, and film scores. Read at your own risk.

http://jeremyrobson.com/kannoanalysis1.txt


I talk about that track and others that hint at the Bolero in my next analysis, finally finished, and this time made into a Word doc because I just ramble on and on and on and on and...

Kanno Orchestral Action Set No. 2:
Turn A Gundam - OST 1 - 06. The Second Advent - The class of god strike the beach
Turn A Gundam - OST 1 - 08. Final Shore - Ah, to meet again
Turn A Gundam - OST 3 - 09. Exit
Turn A Gundam - OST 2 - 12. Drum Head
Turn A Gundam - OST 2 - 13. Triad
Turn A Gundam - OST 3 - 18. Heavy Duty
Turn A Gundam - OST 1 - 19. Koujiku no nazoru mono
Turn A Gundam Movie - 03. Uirugemu Ririku
Turn A Gundam Movie - 18. X Top
Vision of Escaflowne - OST 1 - 02. Flying Dragon
Vision of Escaflowne - OST 1 - 03. Dance of Curse
Vision of Escaflowne - OST 3 - 03. Epistle
Vision of Escaflowne - OST 3 - 10. Revenge
Vision of Escaflowne Movie - 04. Into GAEA*
Vision of Escaflowne Movie - 18. Dance of Curse II
Vision of Escaflowne Movie - 19. Black Escaflowne
Sousei no Aquarion - OST 1 - 02. Aquarius

*I talk about the "Sora" theme in some detail, but didn't include any clips. They can be found on the Escaflowne Movie OST and The Creation album in the Kanno thread.

http://sharebee.com/30a2bf24

6 page analysis of the pieces:
http://jeremyrobson.com/kanno_analysis_2.doc

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, i wish you all a really great new year and the best for 2009 ^^

I have a little gift for you, enjoy!
it's a really warm, epic and funny soundtrack

Fly Me To The Moon, composed by Ramin Djawadi



Tracklist
01. Cape Canaveral (01:33)
02. Junkyard Dreams (01:41)
03. Amelia Earhart (02:07)
04. Nat Convinces Friends (02:14)
05. Phase I / Sneaking into Nasa (03:20)
06. Phase II / Mission Control (00:58)
07. Phase III / Launch Prep (01:56)
08. Lift Off (01:15)
09. Blue Danube (02:18)
10. Waltz in Space (01:09)
11. I Did It Grandpa (02:33)
12. From Russia with Love (02:33)
13. Saving the Mission (03:53)
14. In Space (02:25)
15. Contaminants on Board (03:51)
16. Manual Landing (03:33)
17. Moon Walk (04:53)
18. Nadia (00:54)
19. Russian Operatives (04:20)
20. Saving Scooter (02:19)
21. Grandpa to the Rescue (01:57)
22. Cold War (03:41)
23. Back to Earth (01:51)
24. Homecoming (01:47)

Total Duration: 00:59:01

Fly Me To The Moon (http://rapidshare.com/files/179754277/FMTTM.zip)

Ramin Djawadi (Info from Wikipedia)

Ramin Djawadi (born 1974 in Duisburg, Germany) is an Iranian - German composer of orchestral music for film and television. His father was an immigrant from Iran.

Djawadi has been widely credited as a composer for additional music, orchestrator and as an assistant composer to Hans Zimmer on movies such as Batman Begins and Pirates of the Caribbean. His work as a music composer for films include Blade: Trinity (with RZA), Ask the Dust, Open Season, Mr. Brooks, and Deception.

Along with Paul Westerberg, Djawadi won an award for his contribution to the score of Open Season at the 22nd Annual ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards. Djawadi has also composed theme music and incidental music for television series. These include Threshold, Blade: The Series, and Prison Break for which he received an Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Main Title Theme Music" in 2006. The theme music of Prison Break was remixed by Ferry Corsten and released as "Prison Break Theme (Ferry Corsten's Breakout Mix)". On September 3, 2007, he released an album containing incidental music from the show Prison Break.

He has also composed the music for Iron Man, which was released on May 2, 2008.

The talented composer received nomination for the Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for composing Iron Man for Black Sabbath. This is an Award to Composers for an original score created specifically for, or as a companion to, a current legitimate motion picture, television show or series or other visual media.

Billie thanks for sharing that Ramin Djawadi. I had that one for a while and almost went and bought it but decided against it because it didn't catch me that much. I think it borrows too much from overused classical themes.

Arthierr - because you love that Aoi Teshima piece so much, I am going to share with you my discography of her music. I can make a new thread if you don't think they should be in this one.

EDIT: Also Arthierr what is this Titus that the 300 piece "looks like"?

Well I posted an Aoi Teshima thread here
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?p=1195368#post1195368
Enjoy!!

[QUOTE=arthierr;1188776]Thanks a lot for the link, dannyfrench. But as I believe it will interest more people than only you and Sanico, I'll post it again with more infos, if you don't mind.

For those having trouble downloading the torrent, here's a Direct Download rar pack of the Hisaishi - Ghibli Concert:

[NHK] Joe Hisaishi - Studio Ghibli Concert 2008
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=5add5b2d63b2244eab1eab3e9fa335ca36a1f588 dd63c169

Part 8 is slow like hell,and Part 12 doesn't work, can anyone upload them to a different server?rapidshare or megaupload will be great,thanks!

Biliie: a great and satisfying new year to you as well. :)

Thank you very much for this great gift, this one was unknown to me, I'm eager to try it. I'll post some comments after listening.





Arthierr - because you love that Aoi Teshima piece so much, I am going to share with you my discography of her music. I can make a new thread if you don't think they should be in this one.

Thanks, Sirusjr. Yes, it's a better idea to post it in its own thread. It should attract more people and anyway as it's not really orchestral, it doesn't match the speciality of this thread.

I just downloaded the first album and it's very beautiful.


EDIT: Also Arthierr what is this Titus that the 300 piece "looks like"?

TITUS Composed by ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL (http://www.movie-wave.net/titles/titus.html)

"looks like" means in that case plagiarism. If you want to listen to it, here it is:

300: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZLbPObKQaM

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




Part 8 is slow like hell,and Part 12 doesn't work, can anyone upload them to a different server?rapidshare or megaupload will be great,thanks!

Sorry, but as people having downloaded this have certainly unrared the packs, so nobody should have those now.

But maybe the torrent is still available. You should check.

Happy new year folks - I'm slowly catching up on all the activity over the holiday period, so will be a bit more regular now I think! ;)

As for the Ghibli concert, Part 12 is working perfectly for me - I've just downloaded it from the Mediafire link and it's OK. It's 19mb - that's how big it's supposed to be.

Part 8 is on a slow server - but if you set it going and go do something else, it'll be with you in about 90 minutes.

I'm sorry, I don't have the RARs any more, but if you're really having trouble, I'll grab Parts 8 and 12 again for you and stick them on Sharebee.

:)

As for the Ghibli concert, Part 12 is working perfectly for me - I've just downloaded it from the Mediafire link and it's OK. It's 19mb - that's how big it's supposed to be.

Part 8 is on a slow server - but if you set it going and go do something else, it'll be with you in about 90 minutes.

I'm sorry, I don't have the RARs any more, but if you're really having trouble, I'll grab Parts 8 and 12 again for you and stick them on Sharebee.

:)
Thanks for your reply.

AS to Part 12,for some unknown reason, I can only access part 12 with IE on my PC while the other 11 parts all go well with my Firefox,anyway it's not a big problem.

As to Part 8,I got an average 3~5k with my 256k ADSL while the other parts are at around 90~100k,so it would be really nice if you can reupload it.

Thanks again!

Wow arthierr hearing that song makes me lose most of my faith in tyler bates as being a decent composer. 300 was the only score of his I enjoyed and knowing that he stole that makes me really irritated.

there is one thread with all yoko kanno cds. does anyone have a overview which of them are fully orchestral? i don�t like synth music, especially when it tries do sound like orchestra.

I'm not a kanno specialist. There are 2 fellows often present in this thread with a professional doctorate in kannology, maybe they'll help you better than me.

Anyway, among the scores I've heard from her, here are the ones I remember being (at least partly) orchestral:

Brain Powerd
Macross Plus
Macross Frontier
Sousei no Aquarion
The Vision of Escaflowne
Turn A Gundam
Nobunaga's Ambition
NHK Special China
Napple Tale

I'm not a kanno specialist. There are 2 fellows often present in this thread with a professional doctorate in kannology, maybe they'll help you better than me.

Anyway, among the scores I've heard from her, here are the ones I remember being (at least partly) orchestral:

Brain Powerd
Macross Plus
Macross Frontier
Sousei no Aquarion
The Vision of Escaflowne
Turn A Gundam
Nobunaga's Ambition
NHK Special China
Napple Tale

thanks.how about gundam? which of them are with orchestra? i mean, which of the series?

You know, you're just crying out for a special Gundam-themed orchestral compilation this evening... ;)

thanks.how about gundam? which of them are with orchestra? i mean, which of the series?

Wow, another complex question. Give me a little time for this one.


Dannyfrench: Woohoo!

You know, you're just crying out for a special Gundam-themed orchestral compilation this evening... ;)

hell year. you know, your suites are better than most suites real composers put together.i just loved the gundam suite and the anime symphony nr.1. any new in sight?

Wow, another complex question. Give me a little time for this one.


Dannyfrench: Woohoo!

i�m hunting for orchestral music for more than ten years now and didn�t know about all the asian stuff. this is making me crazy.tons and tons and tons of great anime scores and i didn�t know about them all the time.uff! for me this thread is like the warehouse at the end of raiders.

Mates, I'd like to recommend a fantastic album I just enjoyed. The sound is huge, the arrangements are classy, and some tracks even have a big choir.

Symphonic Shades - H�lsbeck in Concert (Thanks to Shiryu)



Thread 62710


Review from VGM Rush - Read the full review (http://www.vgmrush.com/review.php?id=29)

"On August 23, 2008, Symphonic Shades - H�lsbeck in Concert celebrated the music of Commodore 64 and Amiga legend Chris H�lsbeck in two concerts in Cologne. The concert was inspired and organised by Symphonic Game Music Concert series producer Thomas Boecker, who wanting to offer a tribute to the man who provided him with so many enjoyable early musical experiences. He directed Jonne Valtonen to arrange and orchestrate 14 of H�lsbeck's most significant compositions for the concert. The choices ranged from classics such as The Great Giana Sisters and Turrican II to more obscure pieces like Tower of Babel and Licht am Ende des Tunnels. The approaches to the arrangements were also diverse and ensured a colourful and emotional experience within a distinctive orchestral setting. Conducted by the award-winning Arnie Roth, Valtonen's scores were performed in concert by the eminent and experienced WDR Radio Orchestra, FILMharmonic Choir Prague, and several soloists. Following the glorious commercial and critical success of the concerts, Symphonic Shades received a limited edition album release. It will provide a phenomenal musical experience for fans of melodic game music and those who enjoy mature orchestral productions alike."


Also, to be noted, Yuzo Koshiro arranged the track 'Jim Power in Mutant Planet (Main Theme)', in fact it slightly looks alike his Symphonic Actraiser.

Symphonic Shades is great, but there is one new release i like to recommend even more: Cinema Symphony from Andrew Pearce, available at moviescoremedia and worth every penny.Its a superb hommage to Jerry Goldsmith, Miklos Rosza, John Williams amogst others. There are 4 movements, the third is like goldsmith back from the dead. and the two bonus works after it are equally impressive. The Celtic Warrior Prelude for an Orchestra kicks the ass of Silvestris Beowulf.All in all 68mins of pure perfection. For me its the best new music i heard since Shores Return of the King.(but now second because of the planet earth symphony)

Thanks, hater, for mentioning Pearce's Cinema Symphony. It is pure, unadulterated brilliance. To be honest, I cried through most of it, because I never thought I'd ever hear anything like it since the world lost Goldsmith (4:31 in the third movement evokes Jerry so clearly without pastiche or plagiarism - what we have here is respectful reverence). It shows the influence of other composers (as you have noted) but the thread holding it all together is absolutely unmistakable - the symphony is effectively a 60 minute outpouring of unwavering Goldsmith worship.

So many people try to "do" Jerry and they end up sounding trite and disrespectful. Pearce's piece is not - it is simply wonderful.


Symphonic Shades - H�lsbeck in Concert (Thanks to Shiryu)

Thank you indeed, to you both! I missed this when it was posted originally and am eternally greatful you made it available again here.

What a concert... More comments tomorrow. :D


i�m hunting for orchestral music for more than ten years now and didn�t know about all the asian stuff. this is making me crazy.tons and tons and tons of great anime scores and i didn�t know about them all the time.uff! for me this thread is like the warehouse at the end of raiders.

I discovered the wonderful music coming from Japan only a year and a half ago. I read a review of Sahashi's Symphony Seed, bought it, and was absolutely blown away. So I can thank Sahashi, and Gundam, for giving me the keys to this bizzare, wonderful world of "hidden" music.


hell year. you know, your suites are better than most suites real composers put together.i just loved the gundam suite and the anime symphony nr.1. any new in sight?

Oi, I'm a real composer too! ;) (I understand what you meant) -- thank you very much for the praise which I do not in any way deserve. :)

Symphony no 2 on the way (about 1/3 finished) along with another dozen suites from various things... Quite a lot to follow in the next month or so. Also, "The Warsaw Suite" is taking shape - a medley of pieces performed by the Warsaw Philharmonic.

Gundam compilation coming very shortly...

[Edit: Backups restored, all is well... Apologies for swearing.]

hi thomas daly here looking for bout 10 or more actiony tracks anime style any actiony lol said that twice music like that play if a battle going o people fighting


thank you

we�ll be waiting full of patience for more of your suite greatness. i hope you can fix the problem quickly.and like you, i absolutly love the Cinema Symphony for being so close to the real Goldsmith, which even the best McNeely moments didn�t ever accomplish.Got into some fights lately with people who said that it is "soulless Hollywood-Standard" which i think is unbelievable.Haven�t they realized just how much passion is inside it? You can here it note by note. I always think someone�s left heavens door open and you can hear their concerts here down on earth.

hi thomas daly here looking for bout 10 or more actiony tracks anime style any actiony lol said that twice music like that play if a battle going o people fighting


thank you

this thread is swarming with such music

this thread is swarming with such music


new music i already have the rest

Thanks for symphonic shades arthierr. I was looking out for it but it seems I missed it.

i hope you can fix the problem quickly

Well, the drive is completely knackered, but I do have a backup so I won't cry too loudly. The moral of the story is ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP AND KEEP IT IN A SAFE PLACE! Ladies and gentlemen, I want you all to please do me (and yourselves) a big favour - RIGHT NOW. Put down whatever you are doing, and go and make BACKUPS of your most important data. Don't put it off. On that day when you hear that lovely clacking noise coming out of your hard disk, or better still smoke or flames, it will all seem worthwhile. If you haven't been touched by data loss before, beileve me, it's not a nice feeling. Insure yourself against it. Thank you. :)


i absolutly love the Cinema Symphony for being so close to the real Goldsmith, which even the best McNeely moments didn�t ever accomplish.

McNeely does a mean Goldsmith impression... but for me, it was always just an impression. Like somebody read a textbook "How to sound like Jerry Goldsmith in three easy steps: 1) Use this chord progression here, 2) Use unison violins and double basses a lot, 3) change time signatures every three bars" and just blagged their way through. It's wonderfully functional, and Goldsmithian on the surface, but it's the musical equivalent of McNeely putting on a Jerry mask and putting his hair in a ponytail - squint a bit, and they look the same, but look closely and it falls apart.

Pearce's piece doesn't feel like that at all. He hasn't put on a cheap mask and a pony tail - he has created a massive, extravagant painting and framed it in gold.


Got into some fights lately with people who said that it is "soulless Hollywood-Standard" which i think is unbelievable.Haven�t they realized just how much passion is inside it?

Were these people by any chance classical snobs who are writing off the piece because it's tonal and approachable, or because it breaks no new ground in its style and instrumentation?


What good is it to invent new forms of speech? Everything has been said and everything has been done.
-- Henri Tomasi, composer, 1901-1971

If this *was* soulless Hollywood standard, I would be jumping for joy - have they heard the kind of mindless crap that actually *IS* the standard today?

On paper, the symphony looks like it's going to be pretty artless - basically a medley of plagiarised film scores linked together with some quasi-symphonic filler. That's pretty much what I was expecting (and to be honest I would have been happy with that, given the current disparing climate of modern film music) but when I heard it, it was clearly so much more. It is not film music. It is a classical symphony, written in respectful homage of some incredibly talented musicians who happened to work in the movie business. That's where the "film" connotation ends. If you're expecting the worst, you need to suspend your disbelief, clear your mind of anti-film music bias, and just listen to the thing. I think the music speaks for itself, but only to those who are listening.

You can hear about half of the Cinema Symphony (LEGALLY!) on Erik Woods' Cinematic Sound Radio Show. The show is available here:

http://www.dillusions.net/erik/cinematicsound/thisjustin_006.ram

If you like it, get yourselves off to iTunes or Moviescoremedia. :)

download this track i uploaded

http://www.sendspace.com/file/gmkfhz

this is what i like and want more of have a listen

arthierr i want you to listen to this aswell

Dannyfrench - Yeah I have had quite a few friends lose a bunch of data so that scared me into backing up my own stuff. I have backed up all my favorite game/anime/movie soundtracks on dvds so that if my hard drive decides to die I will have most of it. It is a REAL pain in the ass to back up anything where you are constantly downloading new stuff though because I always wait until I have enough to fill up a dvd and it can be a real pain to look back and figure out what hasn't been backed up already.

Hi, guys! :)

Fantastic thread, obviously, I have some stuff to contribute but for now I had a question. Today, I started looking back through the pages I had missed and I discovered the Ogniem i Mieczem soundtrack (from the Polish film; With Fire and Sword) which I think it absolutely fantastic. My question is whether or not anyone has it in a higher bitrate than was previously uploaded...128kb/s hardly does this music justice.

I'd really appreciate it if someone with the original CD could make a highe bitrate rip for me.

Thank you in advance! :)

Good to see you in the thread Mathazzar!! I look forward to your contributions. (more original stuff perhaps?? :3)

Hi, guys! :)

Fantastic thread, obviously, I have some stuff to contribute but for now I had a question. Today, I started looking back through the pages I had missed and I discovered the Ogniem i Mieczem soundtrack (from the Polish film; With Fire and Sword) which I think it absolutely fantastic. My question is whether or not anyone has it in a higher bitrate than was previously uploaded...128kb/s hardly does this music justice.

I'd really appreciate it if someone with the original CD could make a highe bitrate rip for me.

Thank you in advance! :)

This one is pretty rare. Maybe Garcia27 owns the cd. I suggest you make a request in the score hunt thread too, to multiply your chances.




(more original stuff perhaps?? :3)

Well, I encourage people to post their orchestral compositions here. Several contributors here have already posted their own music. So of course Mathazzar is very welcome if he wants to share it as well.

Well, I encourage people to post their orchestral compositions here. Several contributors here have already posted their own music. So of course Mathazzar is very welcome if he wants to share it as well.
That is what i hope he chooses to do ;3 I was quite happy with the lost world crysis mod soundtrack he posted in his own thread.

Aww you guys are very kind! :) I'm going to put the request up in the other thread, as you suggested, arthierr, but in the meantime I have a couple of quick contributions to make in here.

Since I know that no orchestral action music fan could possibly not love the soundtrack to Dinosaur by James Newton Howard, I have taken the liberty of creating a suite track that encompasses all of what I consider to be the highlights of the score, hence the title. It comes out to somewhere under 8 minutes in length and makes for a good listening experience, I think:

Dinosaur - Highlights Mix (http://www.mathazzar.com/Music/Dinosaur%20Highlights%20Mix.mp3)

And for Sirius, I have one of my own tracks. This is far less epic, I'm afraid, but it was a lot of fun to make and it's definitely an action track. Something like a fun orchestral action mambo kind of thing...enjoy. :P

Moogle Action (http://www.mathazzar.com/Music/Moogle%20Action.mp3)

It was for a machinima production, for the curious. I'll post more when I get some time. Thanks again! :)

Sweet moogle action is awesome!!
I'm not so much a fan of dinosaur though :P

Since I know that no orchestral action music fan could possibly not love the soundtrack to Dinosaur by James Newton Howard, I have taken the liberty of creating a suite track that encompasses all of what I consider to be the highlights of the score, hence the title. It comes out to somewhere under 8 minutes in length and makes for a good listening experience, I think:

Dinosaur - Highlights Mix (http://www.mathazzar.com/Music/Dinosaur%20Highlights%20Mix.mp3)

And for Sirius, I have one of my own tracks. This is far less epic, I'm afraid, but it was a lot of fun to make and it's definitely an action track. Something like a fun orchestral action mambo kind of thing...enjoy. :P

Moogle Action (http://www.mathazzar.com/Music/Moogle%20Action.mp3)

It was for a machinima production, for the curious. I'll post more when I get some time. Thanks again! :)

Dinosaur is truly an exceptional score. It was JNH's first assignment for a Disney movie, which is an honor and the certitude to reach a very large audience. He gave all he got, and the result was awesome, a grandiose score.

Nice suite you made, good transitions, almost unnoticeable. I would have added 'The Courtship' though, also I would have put some slow cues between the actioney ones, to let the listener recover. Anyway well done!

'Moogle Action' is very fun to listen to. It reminds me a bit of Alan Silvestri, because of its very rhythmic nature and the heavy use of ostinatos. Could be great in a cop movie with Eddie Murphy!

I'm VERY busy this evening, but I really just HAD to share this one. I overlooked it when it first appeared (in fact, I overlooked the entire anime) but today I ran into it purely by accident. As a habit, because I don't like J-Pop, I usually disregard opening and ending song albums as they tend to be... well, rubbish.

So... Imagine my open-mouthed joy when I ran across Tytania:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9XXXPZ5T

(Sorry about megaupload - not my link; this one comes courtesy of getfansub.com)

The full score album is coming out in February. I've already got my order in.

[Edit: Both song and score are by Hiroshi Takagi (Beet The Vandel [sic] Buster, Iriya no Sora UFO no Natsu, Dragonaut) - good Lord, this man is versatile... The tenor soloist is Ken Nishikiori.]

The score (two of these four tracks) is ravishing.

Enjoy, ladies and gentlemen. :)

I'm VERY busy this evening, but I really just HAD to share this one. I overlooked it when it first appeared (in fact, I overlooked the entire anime) but today I ran into it purely by accident. As a habit, because I don't like J-Pop, I usually disregard opening and ending song albums as they tend to be... well, rubbish.

So... Imagine my open-mouthed joy when I ran across Tytania:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9XXXPZ5T

(Sorry about megaupload - not my link; this one comes courtesy of getfansub.com)

The full score album is coming out in February. I've already got my order in.

[Edit: Both song and score are by Hiroshi Takagi (Beet The Vandel [sic] Buster, Iriya no Sora UFO no Natsu, Dragonaut) - good Lord, this man is versatile... The tenor soloist is Ken Nishikiori.]

The score (two of these four tracks) is ravishing.

Enjoy, ladies and gentlemen. :)

ok, thats one hell of an opening song. checked out the youtube video, the anime looks gorgeous.spacebattles!

It's one of NHK's ridiculously expensive prestige shows. I simply cannot get over the production values that you see in Japanese television. That level of artistry has never been on Western television, and has been almost completely absent from Western cinema for at least a decade... And there they do, putting it out in an animated TV show. It boggles the mind. I'm emigrating, you just wait and see. Quite frankly, I'd move to Japan just so I wouldn't have to pay the import costs for new soundtracks. ;)

If you like sci-fi WITH BRAINS, and some good-old-fashioned space opera (both musically and in the plot) it looks like it's WELL worth a watch.

Wow Dannyfrench that intro is amazing. I'll have to check out this anime.

EDIT: just watched the first episode. So far the score is as awesome as the two tracks on the single. Do you or anyone else have other soundtracks by this composer? reminds me of Kousuke Yamashita.

Thanks Dannyfrench. Tytania sounds impressive, with just two tracks to gauge the rest upon. It reminds me a lot of material from Uchu Senkan Yamato, Super Dimensional Fortress Macross, and Gundam ( and maybe a Joe Hisashi flourish for good measure ). Definitely ordering this one ASAP.
Many thanks.

I like the first 40 seconds of track 1, it kind of reminds me of some Japanese classical composers you hear on those naxos releases.

I got a really awesome treat for you guys. Before you scoff at the name Hans Zimmer on here, this is an absolutely beautiful orchestral score to an animated childrens movie. It is heavy on the woodwinds and strings and includes a couple vocal songs as well. It has a wonderful relaxing theme that is repeated throughout and overall just gives me a warm, relaxing feel.
Composed by Hans Zimmer and Nick Glennie-Smith
Performed by The Deutsches Filmorchestrer Babelsberg
Orchestrations supervised by Bruce Fowler
Orchestrations by Walter Fowler‚ Suzette Moriarty‚ Elizabeth Finch‚ Rick Giovanasso

I encoded it in VBR from 192-256 from a flac source I found on demonoid.
I hope everyone enjoys this beautiful score :3
http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=p51tijiplw
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BGDUZ0CM (new link, rapidspread didn't seem to work)

I think some of you will be excited to hear that Danny Elfman started to write the score for Terminator Salavation.

Awesome!!! That movie looks like a lot of fun too :3

Wow Dannyfrench that intro is amazing. I'll have to check out this anime.

EDIT: just watched the first episode. So far the score is as awesome as the two tracks on the single. Do you or anyone else have other soundtracks by this composer? reminds me of Kousuke Yamashita.

I have Beet The Vandel Buster, and Iriya no Sora UFO no Natsu. I made a mistake in my earlier post - he didn't score Dragonaut; he arranged the title song. His CV is very sparse indeed. He only seems to have written three anime scores and I can't find any sign of him in drama or film. Perhaps he's only just starting out. I wonder if he's one of the young prodigy composers?

I will upload soon, unless somebody can find some links... My internet is playing up at the moment.

FSM support.

New link for Lauras Stern
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BGDUZ0CM
Updated original post to include this one, going to leave the rapidspread one in case it comes to life in the future.

FSM support.

Hi and Happy New Year.

Here a nice compilation of one of the best cinema composers ever, the great Georges Delerue:

Some videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ebiTEBLPs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW1YVU-1okU

And the compilation:

(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1774347.html)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DAUM5NM4

Track listing


Disc/Cassette 1

1. Ouverture (01:51)
Le m�pris
2. Camille (02:28)
Le m�pris
3. Charlie (g�n�rique) (01:42)
Tirez sur le pianiste
4. Trois petites notes de musique (04:05)
Une aussi longue absence / interpr�t� par Cora Vaucaire
5. G�n�rique (02:16)
Cartouche
6. Vacances (02:44)
Jules et Jim
7. Mort de Thomas (03:46)
L'insoumis
8. Th�me principal (02:08)
Cent mille dollars au soleil
9. Les Appalaches (02:54)
L'a�n� des Ferchaux
10. G�n�rique (02:54)
Jacquou le croquant
11. G�n�rique (01:41)
Les tribulations d'un chinois en Chine
12. Valse tordue (02:08)
Le roi de coeur
13. Retour � l'asile (01:05)
Le roi de coeur
14. G�n�rique (01:31)
Thibaud ou les croisades
15. Adagio (03:11)
Compte � rebours
16. Les taureaux (03:14)
Love
17. Th�me (03:26)
La petite vertu
18. Les adieux (02:13)
Le vieil homme et l'enfant
19. G�n�rique (01:24)
Malpertuis
20. Alice et Jeanne (01:42)
Malpertuis
21. G�n�rique (01:47)
Le diable par la queue
22. Th�me de Jeanne (03:06)
Le diable par la queue
23. Must it happen once to everyone (03:20)
Interlude
24. Th�me (01:50)
Le jour du dauphin
25. G�n�rique (03:00)
Les caprices de Marie
26. Final (02:18)
L'Incorrigible
27. Valse de l'hibern� et final (02:15)
Hibernatus
28. D'o� venons-nous ? (05:08)
La vie de Paul Gauguin
29. Grand choral (02:21)
La nuit am�ricaine

Disc/Cassette 2

1. Final (02:02)
Le dernier m�tro
2. G�n�rique (02:31)
Les rois maudits
3. Chantal Martineau (02:05)
Garde � vue
4. G�n�rique (03:14)
Police Python 357
5. Elle (01:35)
L'�t� meurtrier
6. G�n�rique (01:47)
Une belle fille comme moi
7. Th�me principal (02:54)
Ch�re Louise
8. Luigi (02:30)
Ch�re Louise
9. Heureux qui comme Ulysse (02:13)
Heureux qui comme Ulysse / interpr�t� par Georges Brassens
10. Lamento (03:35)
Heureux qui comme Ulysse
11. Indicatif (02:29)
Radioscopie
12. Ballade d�risoire (01:37)
L'important, c'est d'aimer
13. Largo (01:26)
L'important, c'est d'aimer
14. Grande valse (Th�me in�dit) (02:23)
15. Th�me (03:03)
Le jeu du solitaire
16. Choc (01:25)
Quelque part quelqu'un
17. Apaisement (02:14)
Quelque part quelqu'un
18. Ballade pour guitare (01:09)
La femme de Jean
19. Cartes postales (02:24)
Jamais plus toujours
20. Anne et Claude au mus�e (02:27)
Les deux anglaises et le continent
21. Une petite �le (01:32)
Les deux anglaises et le continent
22. Les joies du maquis (02:34)
Calmos
23. La passante (01:34)
La passante du Sans-Souci
24. Sans-souci (02:19)
La passante du Sans-Souci
25. Th�me principal (03:11)
I love you, je t'aime
26. G�n�rique de fin (03:32)
Un homme amoureux
27. La confession de Lola (03:49)
Descente aux enfers
28. Concerto de l'adieu (09:50)
Dien Bien Phu

Total Duration: 02:26:52

Best

So... Imagine my open-mouthed joy when I ran across Tytania:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9XXXPZ5T

(Sorry about megaupload - not my link; this one comes courtesy of getfansub.com)

The full score album is coming out in February. I've already got my order in.

The score (two of these four tracks) is ravishing.

Enjoy, ladies and gentlemen. :)


Dannyfrench, very awesome. I have heard a bit of music from this series before which has interested me in watching it...if I can find it! As well I would love to get ahold of the rest of the music too :D

But I must counter with my own favorite space military scifi anime for all your enjoyment.

Crest of the Stars
Seikai no Monshou _APE__OA_.rar - 269.92MB (http://www.zshare.net/download/5388499574c12909/)

This is not my rip, so I cannot speak too surely for the quality, also it is in APE format, thats what it was when I aquired it and I am not sure how to change it to mp3. I also have the soundtracks to Banner of the Stars and Banner of the Stars II if you guys want them. They are in mp3 format, but sadly in lower quality. I have had all 3 of these some time and cannot remember where I got them. If anyone has higher quality ones I would love to get copies.

TO ALL RECENT POSTERS:

First I thank all of you very much for your great contributions.

I'm sorry if I'm less present these days, but I'm quite busy lately. I promise to answer to all your posts one by one as soon as I find some free time.

Thanks again! :)

Sirusjr's Awesome Choral/vocal pack part 2!!

Origa – Fantastic Children Ending Song – Mizu no Madoromi.mp3
Origa is one of the closest pop sounding singers I just had to include because this is one of her more melodic pieces and without any electronica.

Kenji Kawai – Ghost in the Shell Innocence OST – Kugutsuuta Aratyo ni Kamutsudo Hite.mp3
Absolutely haunting female vocals similar to Hirawasa Susumu’s Paprika sound.

Tom Tykwer – Perfume Story of a Murderer Academy Promo – Preparing Pauline
Lone female soprano, again very haunting vocals and very soothing. I will upload the full soundtrack later if enough people are interested.

Tuomas Kantelinen – Mongol – Beginning.mp3
Big orchestra with male vocals and some Mongolian throat singing as well. The song is full of an epic energy.

Tuomas Kantelinen – Year of the Wolf – Requiem.mp3
Another lone female vocalist with a slow sad feel, very beautiful.

Serena – Soul Cradle OST disc 2 – Cradle of the Ivory Moon.mp3
Single female vocalist with beautiful relaxing voice.

Naoshi Mizuta – FFXI OST – Opening.mp3
Huge orchestral song with large choir in parts, far surpasses anything uematsu has composed for other Final Fantasy games.

Yuki Kajiura and Deb Lyons – Xenosaga 2 ost disc2 – The image theme of Xenosaga2.mp3
I had to include one Kajiura song so I put in the one that is slightly orchestral. This has a bit of a techno side to it as well but the made up language used for the vocals is just amazing. Again, single female vocalist.

Fire Emblem Main theme from Smash Brothers Brawl gamerip (similar to the one arthierr posted but better version IMO)

Mio Isayama – Shadow Hearts 2 OST Disc 2 – Getsurenka.mp3
Single female vocalist with piano and strings in the background

Chikayo Fukuda - .hack GU OST2 – Sugary Mansion Shiefoberg.mp3
One of the more orchestral and choral songs from .hack GU again female vocals.

Tenpei Sato – Phantom Brave Arrange - Heavens Garden.mp3
Same vocalist as the Cradle of the Ivory Moon song again absolutely beautiful.

Noriyuki Iwadare – Grandia 2 ~Povo~ - Cancao de Povo.mp3
European styled female vocalist, by far my favorite Grandia song.

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

Very nice part 2. More ambient tracks in this one, and also less orchestral, anyway some very good highlights.

Here are my favs:

God of War II - Main Titles: awesomely epic. Almost too much. Very good one.

FFXI Opening Theme: I didn't know this one! What a miss it was. Can I ask you a favor? Could you please compile the orchestral pieces only of FFXI and post them as a pack in this thread? If it's too much hassle, then just make a list of them and I'll grab them in GH.

Heavens Garden: extraordinary beautiful voice. If you have more albums from this singer, please post them.

Canc�o do povo: I'm a fan of Noriyuki Iwadare. I'm fond of his very energetic and melodic style. This song beautifully develops his theme for Grandia.

Cradle of the Ivory Moon: I hesitated to put this piece in my own pack, I decided to remove it because it's not orchestral enough. *BUT* what an incredible song, maybe one of the most ravishing I've heard. A pure moment of grace and charm. Highly recommended.

Fantastic Children ED - 01 - Mizu no Madoromi: Exceptional! Sounds a bit like a poetic folk song (well, maybe it is...). Gracious melody, exquisite voice and tasteful orchestration, it has it all.

Requiem: the use of regular rhythmic string staccatos coupled to the children voices tends to bring a real emotion. Very good solemn, heartfelt piece.

Arthierr - thanks for your comments, sadly i don't think any of the other tracks on the soundtrack use a real orchestra, however I do suggest you download the entire 2cd soundtrack because it has many wonderful melodies (shouldn't be too hard to find in the ff thread). There are also numerous expansion soundtracks with beautiful music and piano collections and a group called the star onions ( i believe with some of the composers in there as well) that have a cd of jazz/piano remixes from the soundtracks.

I think I have one or two more songs by the singer from phantom brave so I will find them and share :3
EDIT: I think those 2 tracks I posted are the only ones i have by that vocalist. I wish i had more too :(

Dannyfrench, very awesome. I have heard a bit of music from this series before which has interested me in watching it...if I can find it! As well I would love to get ahold of the rest of the music too :D

But I must counter with my own favorite space military scifi anime for all your enjoyment.

Crest of the Stars
Seikai no Monshou _APE__OA_.rar - 269.92MB (http://www.zshare.net/download/5388499574c12909/)

This is not my rip, so I cannot speak too surely for the quality, also it is in APE format, thats what it was when I aquired it and I am not sure how to change it to mp3. I also have the soundtracks to Banner of the Stars and Banner of the Stars II if you guys want them. They are in mp3 format, but sadly in lower quality. I have had all 3 of these some time and cannot remember where I got them. If anyone has higher quality ones I would love to get copies.

Both this score, and the two soundtracks for Banner of the Stars, can be had here:

http://tenshi.ru/anime-ost/Seikai_no_Senki/

They're only 128kbps mind you, but they're tolerable... I will reupload Crest Of The Stars in good quality (LAME -V0) MP3 later on this evening.

I am interested in high quality crest of the stars and banner of the stars cores very much dannyfrench :3 I look forward to it.

[Deleted - sorry, I'm half asleep today.]

Both this score, and the two soundtracks for Banner of the Stars, can be had here:

http://tenshi.ru/anime-ost/Seikai_no_Senki/

They're only 128kbps mind you, but they're tolerable... With your permission, I will reupload Crest Of The Stars in good quality (LAME -V0) MP3 later on this evening.

thats the sickest site ever. my life is over.

Good, isn't it? ;)

The quality on that site is great. 128 can sound just as good as 320 if encoded correctly anyway and this guy has it right.

Here is the GOOD QUALITY MP3 version of Crest Of The Stars. This is a re-encode of the lossless APE upload provided earlier by JRL3001. It's about a third as big as the lossless version so if you have a slow internet connection, or just would prefer MP3, here you go:

[Edit: I'm sorry JRL3001 - I have repeatedly credited Sirusjr for uploading the APE of COTS, by mistake. I apologise - I seem to be having some kind of stupid mental block today. I have corrected my faulty posts.]

http://sharebee.com/89e73ab8

Cover scans and track Romanisation are included as in the original upload.


The quality on that site is great. 128 can sound just as good as 320 if encoded correctly anyway and this guy has it right.

Can I correct that? 128kbps can sound a lot better than you would expect if encoded correctly. Technically it is nowhere near the level of 320kbps or any other bitrate for that matter. That said, 128kbps can sound pretty good if it's encoded with a competent encoder (LAME for example) and if you do a bit of sensible lowpass filtering at the same time. Some of this chap's 128kbps uploads aren't too bad. Some absolutely stink. I don't think he ripped them - I think he's just collected them from other places.

He has some EXTREMELY rare stuff I haven't sound here, GH, on any other site, or even for SALE. It's a wonderful resource.

Thanks but I didn't upload the APE version.

Also I have heard properly encoded 320 and 128 mp3s and couldn't tell the difference when done right. It is rare to find it done right online but that doesn't change the fact that you can make them indistinguishable.

Thanks but I didn't upload the APE version.

OOPS... Sorry folks, I am incredibly stupid. JRL3001 did. My apologies...!



Also I have heard properly encoded 320 and 128 mp3s and couldn't tell the difference when done right. It is rare to find it done right online but that doesn't change the fact that you can make them indistinguishable.

I don't mean to denigrate you or what you say, but there is a big difference between "I can't tell them apart" and "they are indistinguishable" -- encoding quality is in the ear of the beholder. To some people, they can appear to sound indistinguishable. It depends on your ear, your experience, your expectation, and the quality of your playback equipment. 128kbps loses more than twice as much of the original audio data as 320kbps and also loses more top end frequencies [bye bye all frequencies above 16khz] - to me, the difference is *very* pronounced - if you are sensitive to higher frequencies (the younger you are the better) then it will be easy to distinguish. I can easily tell them apart.

I don't deny that 128kbps can sound very good. So I don't get moaned at for going off topic, here's an example of a *very well done* low bitrate MP3 encode. It's also a wonderful piece of music. If you like banging, relentless percussion then give this a try. ;)

PHILIP GLASS: Concerto Fantasy for two timpanists and orchestra (3rd Movement)

http://sharebee.com/39ea2e5f

Average bitrate is 127kbps.

dannyfrench- no worries man :) You should see how often I mix things up! Thanks for the mp3 version of the soundtrack! As well thanks for the link to that site! I am going to be spending a good portion of my day there now he he he :)

Yeah i didn't mean to say there was any real reason why 128 should be used when 192+vbr sounds way better and is still much smaller than 320 (if trying to fit on a small portable media player everything counts.

Anyways, your uploading that phillip glass track reminded me that I was looking for some recommendations of his music. I REALLY like The Illusionist but other than that i never really listened to his scores but I hear he is a genius.

Sirusjr- I have 2 cd's of Philip Glass's classical music. If you are interested I can upload them for you? Pretty interesting stuff. And I agree his soundtrack for the Illusionist was grand

I have to encode music for my mother's mobile phone at 32kbps WMA... Now THAT sounds bad... ;) Point completely taken.

As far as Philip Glass goes, if you like, I can put together a little compilation. I absolutely adore his Violin Concerto - it's absolutely sublime. Tirol Concerto (for piano) is magnificent too. The Heroes symphony is a lot of fun - Glass wrote a symphony based upon the music of David Bowie. It's a weird combination but it works.

Film music wise, the Illusionist is gorgeous. I also like The Hours - a score with a special place in my heart.

To be honest it's hard to recommend anything from the guy, because (with only a handful of exceptions...)

a) It's all bloody brilliant
b) It all sounds the same (though I don't mean this in a derogatory sense - only to say that his style is *VERY* consistent and *VERY* recognisable)

So if you like one, you'll like them all! :D

Sounds great guys, whatever you have that is excellent please.

JRL3001 and Dannyfrench: Thanks for the Ape and Mp3 versions respectively. Banner and Crest of the stars are some very nice scores with a fabulous main theme (although rather repetitive in the osts).

I have both Crest of the Stars in good quality (192k, I believe), but as I have this habit to get rid of the tracks I'm not interested in albums, they're only partial (only the tracks I like).

Also I'm very interested too by a compilation of highlights from Phillip Glass. Not very used to his music, this could be the occasion to try it further.

Yeah i didn't mean to say there was any real reason why 128 should be used when 192+vbr sounds way better and is still much smaller than 320 (if trying to fit on a small portable media player everything counts.
Just a note.

I saw you use Lame 3.89Alpha from the year 2001. Lame made big improvements since then, I suggest you update to current Lame 3.98.2. :)

Greetings

Just a note.

I saw you use Lame 3.89Alpha from the year 2001. Lame made big improvements since then, I suggest you update to current Lame 3.98.2. :)

Greetings
Thanks!! I updated it :3

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, i'm glad to see you all
I have a animalistic gift for you

The Animalistic Soundtrack by Billie (sorry for the really big picture)



01 Main Title from 'Black Beauty', composed by Danny Elfman -> oppressive, graceful, fluent
02 Flicka Comes Home from 'Flicka', composed by Aaron Zigman -> calm, fluent, proud
03 Escape from N.I.M.H from 'The Secret of Nimh', composed by Jerry Goldsmith -> busy, mysterious
04 Opening Escape from 'Chicken Run', composed by Harry Gregson-Williams -> gigantic, powerful
05 Seal Ballet from 'Andre', composed by Bruce Rowland -> warm, graceful
06 Eight Below Overture from 'Eight Below', composed by Mark Isham -> vivid, grand
07 A Big Ending from 'Horton Hears A Who!', composed by John Powell -> grand, powerful
08 A Fateful Meeting from 'King Kong', composed by James Newton-Howard -> warm, driving, curious
09 A New Family from 'Free Willy 3', composed by Cliff Eidelman -> warm, graceful, hopeful
10 Dieses Land (This Land) from 'The Lion King', composed by Hans Zimmer -> powerful, mighty, grand
11 Moby Dick Theme from 'Moby Dick', composed by Christopher Gordon -> impressive, grand
12 Main Title from 'Seabiscuit', composed by Randy Newman -> calm, fluent, sad
13 End Credits - The Rescuers Down Under from 'The Rescuers Down Under', composed by Bruce Broughton -> vivid, cheerful

Animalistic Soundtrack by Billie (http://rapidshare.com/files/182136798/The_Animalistic_Soundtrack_by_Billie.zip)

Thanks everyone for your wonderful uploads, I really keep enjoying them! = )

I also uploaded some tracks I find extremely enjoyable.

Tracklist:

Trevor Jones ~ Age of Magic ~ Merlin OST
Merlin is probably one of the most underrated films I have ever came by. The movie itself is a masterpiece which is IMHO even better than LOTR Trilogy! And the soundtrack is also very nice, this song particularly.

Yasunori Mitsuda (well, original somposer, this one is arragement) ~ Chrono Trigger ~ Chrono Trigger Orchestra Extra
Originally posted by GameGuy444 in here (lossless) (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?t=62530&), I just converted to mp3. Well, it's Chrono Trigger Theme Song performed by real orchestra, so can it really be bad? No, but this one's just AMAZING arragement! And the original is my favourite song of all-time.

Toshihiko Sakaki ~ Opening - Unmei no Tobira Akareru Koku ~ Symphony SEED Destiny
Gundam SEED Destiny is one of my favourite anime series and this song just rocks. I think it's performed by London Symphony Orchestra, but I'm really not sure...

Brian Tyler ~ Summon the Worms ~ Children of Dune OST
A superb piece! Grand, epic and powerful, can a film music fan wish for more?

Stuart Catwood ~ Opening ~ Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones OST
The entire score is absolutely fantastic and has a nice, martial feeling in it. Definitely worth listening.

Richard Beddow ~ Prologue ~ VIKING: Battle for Asgard OST
VIKING: BFA is one of the most mind-blowing scores in game music history. Entire soundtrack performed by a real choir + orchestra with some epic battle themes in it. And this one is a perfect intro to the game.

Trevor Jones ~ Griffins ~ Merlin OST
Nice action cue from an excellent soundtrack.

Taro Iwashiro ~ Chapter XI - Truth of War ~ Onimusha 2 Orchestra Album
This one is actually a suite, all main melodies from the game put together.

Richard Beddow ~ Hel's Fortress Battle ~ VIKING: Battle for Asgard OST
And here we a perfect example for epic battle theme. Choir just makes the atmosphere incredible!

Joe Hisaishi ~ The Legend of Ashitaka ~ Mononoke Hime OST
Joe Hisaishi is absolutely one of the best Japanese composers I have ever heard of. This songs, as well as the entire soundtrack, is performed by a HUGE orchestra and choir.

Nobuo Uematsu ~ Scene VII - FF 2 Rebel Army's Theme ~ Final Fantasy Symphonic Suite
Well, it's not an ACTION cue, but I still want to include it in my compilation. Incredible song with strong strings and choir.

Download link (Sharebee): http://sharebee.com/2e0a4e2a

Enjoy! ; )

Oh, and I also "composed" a new orchestral piece for a story project that I am working with. Here: http://www.harhakuva.org/view/121164
Although it is a Finnish site, just click the play button.

Very nice choices, Elemental Eye. Thanks for this tasteful selection.

Merlin: wonderful ost, IMO one of Trevor Jones' best scores. Despite the presence of some boring underscore parts, the highlights are exceptional. I already said that, but 7:49 of 'Age Of Magic' is one of the most impressive cues I've heard since Krull.

Chrono Trigger Main Theme: what is remarkable with is orchestra arrangement is that it fully respects the original Super Nintendo piece, which is indeed a very inspired piece. For his very first score Yasunori Mitsuda really did a "Coup de Ma�tre"!

Opening - Unmei no Tobira Akareru Koku ~ Symphony SEED Destiny: now I hope everybody understands why this guy is my favorite eastern composer. And this is only a very small part of his gigantic production. This piece should be taught in musical schools.

Summon The Worms: for his first big-scale score, Tyler made some important efforts for creating a great original score. The result isn't too bad, isn't it? This piece sounds like Horner at some points.

Viking Battle for Asgard: Very impressive score for a game. I point out that you posted the full score here (Thread 60451), for those interested.

Onimusha 2 Medley: although it's very good, with some quite epic and powerful parts, several cues reminds me of other scores, even if I don't reminds which ones right now. Anyway, great suite.

Prince of Persia: the beautiful oriental ambience is very enjoyable in this one. Great epic and dramatic piece.


Now about your own composition (no need of quotation marks, you did compose it), it begins in a sort of asian ambience, then it reminds me a bit of Chrono Trigger. It's really good, well written and nicely orchestrated, but way too short! You should make it a 3-4 minute song (also maybe slightly reduce the volume of the background strings while the chinese flute plays the melody).

Thanks for posting! I'm eager to liten to your next creations, please post them when they're done.

Ho, what a lovely subject of compilation, Billie! You know it's very special to me, don't you?

Thank you very much for this nice original compilation, it's a great idea. I'll post some comments after listening.

Ho, what a lovely subject of compilation, Billie! You know it's very special to me, don't you?
hehehe, yes, i know, therefore this compilation X3

Billie, that collection of yours is amazing.

Black Beauty Main Titles � Fabulous piece with a relaxing melody and beautiful orchestration. Great choice!

Flicka � Beautiful somber piece if a bit slow for my liking but it picks up near the end.

Chicken Run � A heroic piece with a magical feel to it, again fantastic choice!

Andre � A fabulous inspiring piece of work that touches me deeply. I am very glad you put this one in.

Eight Below � Another excellent choice!! Such a rousing call to glory.

Dieses Land � Beautiful piece, great choice!! Has sadness along with its sense of triumph.

Seabiscuit � beautiful track that instills a peaceful serenity like a slow walk on a country road with your family.

I only included comments on the absolute best but all of the tracks are awesome.

I absolutely adored the pieces from Andre and Eight below. If it is not too much trouble could you please upload the full albums of those two?

Thank you so much for the sweet comments to my compilation, sirusjr
no, it is not too much trouble, i'm glad, that you like it.
i upload the two soundtrack tomorrow

Hi, guys! :)

Fantastic thread, obviously, I have some stuff to contribute but for now I had a question. Today, I started looking back through the pages I had missed and I discovered the Ogniem i Mieczem soundtrack (from the Polish film; With Fire and Sword) which I think it absolutely fantastic. My question is whether or not anyone has it in a higher bitrate than was previously uploaded...128kb/s hardly does this music justice.

I'd really appreciate it if someone with the original CD could make a highe bitrate rip for me.

Thank you in advance! :)

Guess what, I've found a MPC VBR version. The quality is extremely high, close to lossless.

As I agree that this score is truly fantastic, I'll post it ASAP.

THANK YOU! :D You're the best, Arthierr! I posted in the film score hunt thread as well but everyone just ignored me. :P

I just recently finished a mix that I've been asked to put up on OCRemix.org (it's a Halo theme remix of sorts, which is funny since I don't really like Halo) but I'll probably share it here before it goes live on OC, because I expect fans of Halo and action music in general will appreciate it. :)

I'll keep my eyes on here for the Ogniem i Mieczem soundtrack in here — thanks again! :)

Wow Dannyfrench that intro is amazing. I'll have to check out this anime.

EDIT: just watched the first episode. So far the score is as awesome as the two tracks on the single. Do you or anyone else have other soundtracks by this composer? reminds me of Kousuke Yamashita.


what anime are you guys talking about i wanna see it

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

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

Really it is a fantastic work.

Thanks to Amedio for the link:

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

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

what anime are you guys talking about i wanna see it
It is called Tytania, its a space opera type scifi thing. Really good.

Here other spanish work that I love it. Fully epic, a mix between the old scores by Miklos Rozsa and the force of Basil Poledouris.

It is a score for a animated movie titled El Cid, La Leyenda (2003) by Oscar Araujo.

(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-cidleyenda0602498617-1785136.html)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1M9H2RDK

Track listing

1. La fuerza de mi coraz�n (04:10)
Song
2. Heroes (01:47)
3. Sin honor (01:48)
4. Caballero (02:47)
5. Tolerancia (03:28)
6. Duelo (08:10)
7. Encuentro a media noche (01:12)
8. En la corte (01:38)
9. Amor imposible (01:51)
10. El legado (02:49)
11. Almoravides (02:07)
12. Noche en Valencia (02:15)
13. Partida (01:36)
14. Conspiraciones (01:31)
15. Lucha de libertad (01:57)
16. Sin mirar atr�s (02:16)
17. La muerte del rey (02:12)
18. Encuentro con Sancho (02:05)
19. El reino de un sue�o (03:55)
Song
20. The power of a broken heart (04:10)
Song

Total Duration: 00:53:44

Finishing for today the score for the movie Caravans (1978) by Mike Batt. This soundtrack has one of the most beautiful themes that I ever listened. Here you can hear it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCWZX6vhRWk

(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1785244.html)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UTDPUGF1

Track listing

1. Caravans On The Move (04:02)
2. Main Title (02:56)
3. Russian Dance (01:46)
4. Inside Sardar Khan's Palace (01:35)
5. Journey To Badek (01:47)
6. The Camp At Qualir (03:03)
7. The Desolate Valley (01:25)
8. Caravan Song (02:05)
9. Qualir at Night (01:47)
10. Storm In The Desert (06:39)
11. Becky's Waltz (01:04)
12. Kochi Dancer (01:13)
13. The Aftermath (03:49)
14. Theme from Caravans (03:40)

Total Duration: 00:36:51

Thanks a lot Garcia27!!
The first of those 3 is very relaxing and has a number of solid choral tracks and my favorite pop opera type on a few at the end. I'll post some impressions of the other 2 in a bit and a little something from myself.

Something special for everyone. I uploaded this a while ago in the film score vgm hunt thread and didn't get much reaction so you guys get to listen to it.

Perfume The Story of a Murderer Academy Promo - Tom Tykwer, Reinhold Heil, and Johnny Kilmek (320kbps)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YIEYE99A

This is a score from my personal collection I got lucky enough to find at Comic-Con last year. It is longer and has more tracks than the retail version and is still 100% beautiful. Anyone who downloaded my packs will remember a track from here and there are MANY more like it. For anyone else, this track is relaxing orchestral with a number of beautiful female arias. This is my all time favorite score so when I saw it i bought it instantly. I HIGHLY recommend everyone to download this and give it a listen because it is a wonderful score.

EDIT: I forgot to include stuff about Tykwer as a composer and director.
It is certainly unusual for a film director to co-compose the film score for a movie he is directing. Especially in a case like this, where the movie is a multi-million-Dollar blockbuster production like "The Perfume". In Tom Tykwers' movies, the film score always has top priority. In the beginning of his film career there was simply no budget for a professional score composer, therefore he had no alternative but to compose the music himself.

He has been working together with Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek since the production of "Winter Sleep" in 1996. This trio, named "Pale 3" had their first worldwide success with "Lola Runs", which received numerous international awards. The trio contributed the song "In Your Head" to the soundtrack for "The Matrix: Revolution".

Recently they faced the demanding challenge of scoring the soundtrack for "The Perfume". For this movie the music had to be classical. The Brandenburg Symphonic Orchestra already had recorded the complete soundtrack in 2005, but the trio decided to re-record the complete score again in 2006 with one of the leading orchestras in the world: The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, this orchestra is definitely one of the best addresses when it comes to classical music. And the music is of special importance in this movie: All the odours of 18th-century-Paris had to become "smellable" through the music. And the movie shows in a very convincing way that they were truly successful.
http://www.rme-audio.de/en_artists.php?page=content/artists/en_reinhold_heil

Thanks to Garcia27 for giving me the opportunity to talk a bit about Georges Delerue, a very prolific composer in in the 60-80's.



Georges Delerue


Official website:
http://www.georges-delerue.com/eng/accueil.html


IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000016/


Also, if you want to go deeper in the knowledge and understanding of his music, I suggest you read this collection of words from the composer:
http://www.georges-delerue.com/eng/biographie/propos/propos.html


From Wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Delerue)

Georges Delerue (March 12, 1925 Roubaix – March 20, 1992 Los Angeles) was a renowned French film composer who composed over 350 scores for cinema and television. He won numerous important awards including Rome Prize (1949), Emmy Award (1968 - Our World), Genie Award (1986 - Sword Of Gideon), ACE Award (1991 - The Josephine Baker Story) and Academy Award in 1979 for A Little Romance and 4 other Academy Nominations (1969 - Anne of the Thousand Days, 1973 - The Day of the Dolphin, 1977 - Julia and 1985 - Agnes of God).

Le Figaro (France, 1981) referred to him as the "Mozart of cinema" (Georges Delerue le Mozart des salles obscures), and Delerue was the first and perhaps the only composer to win 3 consecutive Cesar Awards (1979 - Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, 1980 - Love on the Run and 1981 - The Last Metro) plus 5 other Cesar Nominations (1977 - Le Grand Escogriffe and Police Python 357, 1983 - La Passante, 1984 - L'�t� Meurtrier and 1993 Dien Bien Phu). Georges Delerue was a Commander of Arts and Letters, one of France's highest honours.

His career was diverse and he composed frequently for major avant-garde directors, most often Fran�ois Truffaut, but also for Jean-Luc Godard's film Contempt, and for Alain Resnais, Louis Malle, and Bernardo Bertolucci, besides working on several Hollywood productions like Oliver Stone's Platoon and Salvador.

He composed the music for Flemming Flindt's ballet, Enetime (The Lesson), based on Ionesco's play, La Le�on. During his 42 years career he put his talent to the service of nearly 200 feature movies, 125 short ones, 70 TV films and 35 TV serials. According to many testimonies he would do and redo some cues to fit the new editing of a sequence without any protestation. He insisted to be allowed to orchestrate and conduct himself in order to polish every detail. Georges Delerue was extraordinarily gifted for melody and at creating surrounding overtones which encapsulated the spirit of the movies for which he collaborated, enhancing them often beyond the expectations of their directors.

Georges Delerue died from a heart attack at the age of 67, just after the recording of the last cue for the soundtrack to Rich In Love. He is buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.



Here's the nice compilation posted by Garcia27. Highly recommended!


Hi and Happy New Year.

Here a nice compilation of one of the best cinema composers ever, the great Georges Delerue:

Some videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ebiTEBLPs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW1YVU-1okU

And the compilation:

(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1774347.html)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DAUM5NM4

Track listing


Disc/Cassette 1

1. Ouverture (01:51)
Le m�pris
2. Camille (02:28)
Le m�pris
3. Charlie (g�n�rique) (01:42)
Tirez sur le pianiste
4. Trois petites notes de musique (04:05)
Une aussi longue absence / interpr�t� par Cora Vaucaire
5. G�n�rique (02:16)
Cartouche
6. Vacances (02:44)
Jules et Jim
7. Mort de Thomas (03:46)
L'insoumis
8. Th�me principal (02:08)
Cent mille dollars au soleil
9. Les Appalaches (02:54)
L'a�n� des Ferchaux
10. G�n�rique (02:54)
Jacquou le croquant
11. G�n�rique (01:41)
Les tribulations d'un chinois en Chine
12. Valse tordue (02:08)
Le roi de coeur
13. Retour � l'asile (01:05)
Le roi de coeur
14. G�n�rique (01:31)
Thibaud ou les croisades
15. Adagio (03:11)
Compte � rebours
16. Les taureaux (03:14)
Love
17. Th�me (03:26)
La petite vertu
18. Les adieux (02:13)
Le vieil homme et l'enfant
19. G�n�rique (01:24)
Malpertuis
20. Alice et Jeanne (01:42)
Malpertuis
21. G�n�rique (01:47)
Le diable par la queue
22. Th�me de Jeanne (03:06)
Le diable par la queue
23. Must it happen once to everyone (03:20)
Interlude
24. Th�me (01:50)
Le jour du dauphin
25. G�n�rique (03:00)
Les caprices de Marie
26. Final (02:18)
L'Incorrigible
27. Valse de l'hibern� et final (02:15)
Hibernatus
28. D'o� venons-nous ? (05:08)
La vie de Paul Gauguin
29. Grand choral (02:21)
La nuit am�ricaine

Disc/Cassette 2

1. Final (02:02)
Le dernier m�tro
2. G�n�rique (02:31)
Les rois maudits
3. Chantal Martineau (02:05)
Garde � vue
4. G�n�rique (03:14)
Police Python 357
5. Elle (01:35)
L'�t� meurtrier
6. G�n�rique (01:47)
Une belle fille comme moi
7. Th�me principal (02:54)
Ch�re Louise
8. Luigi (02:30)
Ch�re Louise
9. Heureux qui comme Ulysse (02:13)
Heureux qui comme Ulysse / interpr�t� par Georges Brassens
10. Lamento (03:35)
Heureux qui comme Ulysse
11. Indicatif (02:29)
Radioscopie
12. Ballade d�risoire (01:37)
L'important, c'est d'aimer
13. Largo (01:26)
L'important, c'est d'aimer
14. Grande valse (Th�me in�dit) (02:23)
15. Th�me (03:03)
Le jeu du solitaire
16. Choc (01:25)
Quelque part quelqu'un
17. Apaisement (02:14)
Quelque part quelqu'un
18. Ballade pour guitare (01:09)
La femme de Jean
19. Cartes postales (02:24)
Jamais plus toujours
20. Anne et Claude au mus�e (02:27)
Les deux anglaises et le continent
21. Une petite �le (01:32)
Les deux anglaises et le continent
22. Les joies du maquis (02:34)
Calmos
23. La passante (01:34)
La passante du Sans-Souci
24. Sans-souci (02:19)
La passante du Sans-Souci
25. Th�me principal (03:11)
I love you, je t'aime
26. G�n�rique de fin (03:32)
Un homme amoureux
27. La confession de Lola (03:49)
Descente aux enfers
28. Concerto de l'adieu (09:50)
Dien Bien Phu

Total Duration: 02:26:52

Best

Request from Sirusjr
i upload this great and adorable soundtrack with a warm and lovely touch, enjoy everyone ^^

Andre - based on a true Story composed by Bruce Rowland



Tracklist

01. Seal Ballet (Opening Montage) (02:47)
02. An Orphan Pup (02:01)
03. Toni Meets Andre (02:40)
04. Let's Call Him "Andre" (02:17)
05. Andre's First Swim (01:09)
06. The Coat Button/Thanks to You (02:33)
07. Winter in the Barn (02:12)
08. The Storm (06:19)
09. Off to the Aquarium (01:41)
10. T. N. T. (01:19)
11. Halloween (01:13)
12. Let Nature Take Its Course (01:37)
13. Robinson's Rock (02:18)
14. Butterflies Are Free (00:54)
15. Back to the Wild (01:08)
16. "16 DAD-16" (01:24)
17. Frogman Dad (00:22)
18. How Can I Make It Up To You? (01:22)
19. An Attempt on Andre's Life (01:25)
20. He's on his Way (02:40)
21. Welcome Home (00:53)
22. Thanks to You (03:20)

Total Duration: 00:43:34

Andre - Based on a true Story (http://rapidshare.com/files/182550317/Andre.zip)

Information to the Movie Andre (Wikipedia)

Andre is a 1994 feature film starring Tina Majorino and is about a child's encounter with a seal. The film is an adaptation of the book A Seal Called Andre which was based on a true story.

Plot

Toni Whitney, a nine-year-old girl, and her Rockport, Maine family adopt an orphaned baby seal, naming it Andre. Andre is manageable when he is young but as Andre gets older and starts getting into mischief, he antagonizes some of the local fishermen. Toni forms an inseparable bond with Andre and their relationship becomes threatened when the fishermen do not want to deal with Andre's antics any longer.

Information to the Composer Bruce Rowland (Wikipedia)

Bruce Rowland is a well-known Australian composer. He composed the soundtrack for the 1982 movie "The Man from Snowy River", as well as the soundtrack for its 1988 sequel "The Man from Snowy River II" (which has the United States title of "Return to Snowy River", and the United Kingdom title of "The Untamed"). Both films were based on Banjo Paterson's poem The Man from Snowy River.

He also composed a special Olympics version of the main theme of The Man from Snowy River Suite, as well as conducting the orchestra, for the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics which were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Bruce Rowland also composed special arrangements of some of his music for the 2002 musical theatre production "The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular" (which toured Australian capital cities — twice). The Original Cast Album of the show won the ARIA Award for Best Cast / Show Album). In 2003, Bruce Rowland won the ARIA Award for his score for the musical

NBC Sports also uses some of the music from The Man from Snowy River soundtrack for their coverage of The Players Championship.

Some of Rowland's early work was in television, where he was musical director for ATV0's The Go!! Show, Fredd Bear's Breakfast-A-Go-Go and the Magic Circle Club, then Adventure Island for the ABC.

Bruce Rowland was educated at Caulfield Grammar School, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He learned piano and was a keyboard player for Australian music groups, and singers.

Great compilation:




CD1:
http://rapidshare.com/files/159575798/CD_1horsie.rar

CD2:
http://rapidshare.com/files/159585155/CD_2horsie.rar

Password: idgie

Listen the suite for Return To Neverland, very impressive.

Bille - Thanks a lot for sharing that album!! I shall listen to it tomorrow and post comments.

Garcia27 - El Greco is a solid album I really enjoyed listening to with a number of solid vocal and orchestral tracks. Caravans is an absolute joy to listen to over and over again!! As you noted, the main theme is wonderful and I love the vocal song as well. Your uploads are much appreciated.

Also I updated my original post for perfume with some information on the trio who scored it for those interested. It is hard to find stuff because Tykwer is the director first and so he is not so much a widely acclaimed composer.

Garcia27 - El Greco is a solid album I really enjoyed listening to with a number of solid vocal and orchestral tracks. Caravans is an absolute joy to listen to over and over again!! As you noted, the main theme is wonderful and I love the vocal song as well. Your uploads are much appreciated.

Thanks for your comments, however the first one is not El Greco, similar historic period but two different movies. If I remember well the composer for El Greco was Vangelis, this other work is from a new spaniard composer, Alejandro Vivas. I have El Greco but I didn't have the chance to hear it. Alexander (his previous work) was very good in my opinion. Let's hope that El Greco will be similar.

About The Perfume really it was a surprise, a very good work. Probable the best of Heil-Klimek duo, in this case together with Tykwer.

Best.

Thanks for your comments, however the first one is not El Greco, similar historic period but two different movies. If I remember well the composer for El Greco was Vangelis, this other work is from a new spaniard composer, Alejandro Vivas. I have El Greco but I didn't have the chance to hear it. Alexander (his previous work) was very good in my opinion. Let's hope that El Greco will be similar.

About The Perfume really it was a surprise, a very good work. Probable the best of Heil-Klimek duo, in this case together with Tykwer.

Best.
Haha yeah, i got them mixed up because el greco is so awesome. You should really listen to el greco, it is amazing. Also glad you like The Perfume :3

Billie: Thanks a bunch for Andre. This is quite a rare score, so it's very welcome. And the story of this movie is so moving!


Garcia: Thank you for all your recent posts, they're very much appreciated. Great, great music indeed. As soon as I can, I'll post some comments about them.


Sirusjr: just started listening to the Perfume. Wow! Detailed comments after listening.

Request from Sirusjr, this soundtrack invested heroical with an adventurous, arcane, a little dark and mighty background

Enjoy everyone ^^

Disney presents Eight Below - Soundtrack



composed by Mark Isham

Kbps: 320

01. Eight Below Overture (3:48)
02. The Journey Begins/The Crevasse (5:37)
03. Storm Coming (1:10)
04. The Search (2:50)
05. The Rescue (4:53)
06. Pulling Through (3:02)
07. Fifteen Days (2:27)
08. Bird Doggin' (3:45)
09. Southern Lights (6:37)
10. The Dogs Who Saved My Daddy (3:12)
11. Leopard Seal (4:12)
12. Ice Bound (1:59)
13. The Lamborghini Of Snow Cats (1:28)
14. Black Ice (2:25)
15. Almost Perfect (4:54)
16. My Best Girl (4:37)
17. Eight Below End Credits (03:21)

Total Album Time: 60:17

Eight Below (http://rapidshare.com/files/182873402/Eight_Below.zip)

Information to the Movie (Wikipedia)

Plot

In 1993, Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker) is a guide at an Antarctica research base under contract with the National Science Foundation. UCLA professor, Dr. Davis McClaren (Bruce Greenwood) arrives at the base and presses Shepard to take him to Mount Melbourne to attempt to find a rare meteorite from the planet Mercury. Shepard does so against his own intuition, which tells him that it is too late in the season (January) to complete such a treacherous route. Worried about the snowmobiles breaking through the thinning ice or falling in a crevasse, Shepard tells his boss and McClaren that the only way to get to Mount Melbourne is by dog sled.

Shepard and McClaren make it to Mount Melbourne but are immediately called back to base camp due to an approaching storm. McClaren begs for some time, and Shepard gives him half a day. McClaren finds what he was looking for and the two head back to the sled.

Shepard pauses to patch up one of the dogs (Old Jack) whose paw is bleeding. McClaren, while walking around to get a better radio connection with base, slides down an embankment when a soft ledge gives way. His landing at the bottom cracks the thin ice and McClaren ends up breaking through. Shepherd is able to get his lead dog Maya to bring a rope to McClaren and the dog team pulls him from the water.

Now, battling hypothermia, frostbite and near whiteout conditions, it is the dogs' stamina and keen sense of direction that get Shepard and McClaren back to base. They are immediately evacuated, along with all other personnel, due to the storm, which is expected to intensify. With too much weight in the plane to carry both people and dogs, the human team medically evacuates Shepard and McClaren with a plan to return later for the dogs. The dogs are temporarily left behind, but the storm is worse than expected and it soon becomes apparent that no rescue will be attempted until the next spring.

Back at home, Shepard experiences angst about leaving his dogs and stops working as an Antarctic-conditions guide. Five months later, and after a heart-to-heart session with an older, veteran guide, Shepard decides to throw his all into rescuing the dogs. Before leaving for the trip, Shepard patches things up with McClaren, and tells him about his intentions to rescue the dogs. McClaren learns that Shepard does not have enough money to pay for the trip, but tells him that he cannot help him. Soon afterwards, McClaren sees a drawing of the dog team made by his young son, with the title: "My Hero is... THE DOGS WHO SAVED MY DADDY." McClaren realizes the magnitude of his ingratitude and uses the remaining balance of his grant money to finance a rescue mission.

The dogs' story

Four days after the dogs were left at base camp, they eventually break free of their chains, except for Old Jack, who's too old to go with the others on their journey and dies at base camp. The dogs now begin hunting in order to keep from starving. However, one night whilst looking at the Southern Lights, one of the dogs, Dewey, falls off a steep slope and is fatally injured. The dogs show their affection for their teammate, but eventually have to move on. The youngest dog, Max, stays with Dewey a little longer and is separated from the rest.

Max finds his way back to where McClaren fell into the ice earlier and spots a dead Orca. At first, he has a nibble until he realizes that nearby is a leopard seal that fiercely guards its meal. The other dogs also find their way to the dead Orca and Max decides to get the leopard seal's attention so the rest can eat. But the leopard seal quickly sees what's happening, bites Maya in the leg, and nearly kills her. Max and the other dogs fiercely chase him off. Maya manages to survive, but her leg is seriously injured.

The dogs manage to find their way close to the base camp where Shepard and his rescue team are arriving. Shepard and the dogs, including a well Maya, have a happy reunion. The final scene shows a grave for Old Jack and Dewey.

Thanks for Eight Below Billie!!

Also, Andre is absolutely wonderful. I am very happy to have it on my zune!

FSM support.

Yep, many thanks as well, Billie. I really liked the track in your Animalistic Soundtrack.

Also thanks a lot for such a remarkable and detailed presentation, it's very appreciated.

I'm really glad, that you like my soundtracks, arthierr, sirus and argo1naut.
Maybe i make another special compilation for you, guys...any wishes?

Thanks for Eight Below Billie!!

Also, Andre is absolutely wonderful. I am very happy to have it on my zune!

You are very welcome ^______^

How about a collection of slow and relaxing orchestral songs. Those are always the best study music.

@sirusjr: okay, i search for these orchestral songs...

to all: more wishes?

maybe...hehe, i have an idea... �.�

I just realized the final track in The Swan Princess soundtrack is J-pop... who knew?

http://sharebee.com/fe243e01

I'm really glad, that you like my soundtracks, arthierr, sirus and argo1naut.
Maybe i make another special compilation for you, guys...any wishes?

Agreed for a Special Relaxing Music Pack (although it's not in the original trend of this thread!). Thanks in advance.

By the way, I announced some time ago the releasing of an Orchestral Horror Pack 2, but I won't release it, because when I listened to it, it was so scary, disturbing and insane (but musically superb) that I felt the urge to listen to something calm, cheerful and in the major key.

So I prefer not to release it to avoid giving nightmares to people and driving them into madness.

Agreed for a Special Relaxing Music Pack (although it's not in the original trend of this thread!).

By the way, I announced some time ago the releasing of an Orchestral Horror Pack 2, but I won't release it, because when I listened to it, it was so scary, disturbing and insane (but musically superb) that I felt the urge to listen to something calm, cheerful and in the major key.

So I prefer not to release it to avoid giving nightmares to people.

can�t be worse than most of eric serra scores.(excluding arthur and the invisibles and hopefully its upcoming sequels)

Guess what, I've found a MPC VBR version. The quality is extremely high, close to lossless.

As I agree that this score is truly fantastic, I'll post it ASAP.
Hey arthierr, any update on posting this? :)

Agreed for a Special Relaxing Music Pack (although it's not in the original trend of this thread!). Thanks in advance.

By the way, I announced some time ago the releasing of an Orchestral Horror Pack 2, but I won't release it, because when I listened to it, it was so scary, disturbing and insane (but musically superb) that I felt the urge to listen to something calm, cheerful and in the major key.

So I prefer not to release it to avoid giving nightmares to people and driving them into madness.
Awww...what about us masochists who want to be driven into madness???

Agreed for a Special Relaxing Music Pack (although it's not in the original trend of this thread!). Thanks in advance.

Okay, in the next days comes my relaxing music special compilation


So I prefer not to release it to avoid giving nightmares to people and driving them into madness.

Hehe, it's really nice from you not to drive us in madness *grien* *hug* *whisper* i don't like horror XDD, because i'm a really scared girl XD

Awww...what about us masochists who want to be driven into madness???
And what about us psychopaths who are already there? :P

Hey arthierr, any update on posting this? :)

This week-end.

Joel McNeely


Official website:
http://www.joelmcneely.com/


IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006193/


From Wikipedia:

Joel McNeely was born in Madison, Wisconsin. Both of his parents were involved in music and theater, and as a child he played the piano, saxophone, bass, and flute. He attended the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, studied jazz at the University of Miami, and earned a masters degree as a composition major at the Eastman School of Music.

Lucasfilm chose McNeely to compose the soundtrack to the 1996 Star Wars novel Shadows of the Empire. This was an experimental project where he conveyed general moods and themes instead of writing music to flow for specific scenes.

He is also notable for conducting a series of re-recordings of Bernard Herrmann, Franz Waxman, John Barry and other's scores under the label of Var�se Sarabande, notably Vertigo, Psycho and Citizen Kane, and selected scores from the Twilight Zone television series, among others. He also composed the score for The Avengers and the theme and music for FOX's Dark Angel also scored the movies Terminal Velocity, Iron Will, Flipper, Gold Diggers, Samantha, Virus, I Know Who Killed Me (2007). He also scored a multitude of Disney animated films (Mulan II, Peter Pan: Return to Neverland (2002) and many others).


Personal remarks:

Let's be honest, I have to admit that McNeely is one of the worst plagiarists I've heard. You can actually hear many bits of Williams, Horner and probably others in his various scores. BUT, the guy is a true symphonist, he knows how to compose for an orchestra, how to orchestrate and how to conduct. No doubt about it. So let's be indulgent and agree on the fact that even if not totally original, his scores are very well done and highly enjoyable to listen to for us orchestral music enthusiasts.

And if you want the proof of all that, here's the amazing compilation of suites posted by Garcia27 (Thanks, man!).


Great compilation:




CD1:
http://rapidshare.com/files/159575798/CD_1horsie.rar

CD2:
http://rapidshare.com/files/159585155/CD_2horsie.rar

Password: idgie

Listen the suite for Return To Neverland, very impressive.

Here is a track from the TV series Masada, composed by Jerry Goldsmith.
It's an heroic fanfare march, based around the Masada main title theme.
One of the highlights of this soundtrack.



Album: Masada
Artist: Jerry Goldsmith
Track: The Road To Masada

This might be a little off-topic in the purpose of the thread, but it was announced today by the International Film Music Critics, it's nominees for the 2008 awards.
They will announce the winners on February 18.
http://filmmusiccritics.org/2009/01/ifmca-announces-its-2008-nominees-for-scoring-excellence/

This might be a little off-topic in the purpose of the thread, but it was announced today by the International Film Music Critics, it's nominees for the 2008 awards.
They will announce the winners on February 18.
http://filmmusiccritics.org/2009/01/ifmca-announces-its-2008-nominees-for-scoring-excellence/
Those nominees are SOOOO much better than the golden globes.

Sanico, do you happen to have the entire Masada soundtrack available for download? I've been looking for it. Thanks!

Sanico, do you happen to have the entire Masada soundtrack available for download? I've been looking for it. Thanks!

Would you like the original varese release, or the complete non-official soundtrack?
I have never heard the complete score, so I cannot guarantee you if the music is clean of fx, or how is the sound quality overall.
That track i posted above, is from the original soundtrack.

This might be a little off-topic in the purpose of the thread, but it was announced today by the International Film Music Critics, it's nominees for the 2008 awards.
They will announce the winners on February 18.
http://filmmusiccritics.org/2009/01/ifmca-announces-its-2008-nominees-for-scoring-excellence/

The sheer number of categories makes the awards seems rather insignificant. I like that they have FILM MUSIC COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR just so Giacchino's Roar! Overture could be nominated.

Ladies and Gentlemen, here is my

Special Romantic Compilation

with a really relaxing background ^^, but maybe a little bit to sad



01 Empty Store, composed by George Fenton, 'You�ve got Mail' -> calm, fluent, warm (2:51)
02 A Happy Ending, composed by Randy Edelman , 'While You Were Sleeping' -> warm, cheerful, gentle (2:22)
03 My Annies Gone, composed by Alan Silvestri, 'Father Of The Bride' -> sad, warm, gentle (1:18)
04 Jane's Home, composed by Basil Poledouris, 'For Love Of The Game' -> fluent, gentle, graceful (04:52)
05 First Kiss, composed by John Debney, 'Cutthroat Island' -> gentle, warm, loving (01:55)
06 A Happy Ending, composed by Mark Knopfler, 'The Princess Bride' -> warm, sweet, gentle (01:54)
07 Farewell, composed by Miklos Rozsa, 'Ivanhoe' -> gentle, sad, loving, mysterious (02:35)
08 I Want You (Love Theme), composed by James Newton-Howard, 'French Kiss' -> dolce, gentle, warm (02:05)
09 Putting It All Together, composed by John Williams, 'Stanley & Iris' -> warm, affable, gentle (01:46)
10 I Met Someone, composed by Nicholas Pike, 'Return To Me' -> sad, loving, gentle (03:43)
11 Maestro, composed by Hans Zimmer, 'The Holiday' -> hopeful, gentle, cheerful (03:53)
12 Sibylla, composed by Harry Gregson-Williams, 'Kingdom Of Heaven' -> heavy, sad, gentle (with Choir) (01:51)
13 End Titles, composed by Angelo Badalamenti, 'A Long Engagement' -> sad, fluent, graceful (06:53)
14 End Title, composed by Andrew Powell, 'Ladyhawke' -> mighty, warm, powerful (05:53)

The Special Romantic Compilation by Billie (http://rapidshare.com/files/184931314/The_Special_Romantic_Compilation_by_Billie.zip)

Oh thank you Billie.
Most of those tracks i have never heard before.
I'll take a listen and give an opinion later. :)

EXCELLENT IDEA! :D :D :D

The Love Theme is a classic exercice in movies. Bravo for having chosen this for your Compilation, it's a very interesting suject, and I'm surprised that it didn't appear in this thread before (probably because we were only between dudes before you came... ;)).

Thank you very much, Billie. Comments later as usual.

Ps: maybe if I have enough romantic themes, I could post my own Compilation...

hey Billae, thanks a ton. Im leaving for a 20 hour train ride upto Oregon from California and im going to load this onto my Zune right now just mere hours before my departure :) :)

Im going up to see the lovely girl im going to Marry this year, and we were planning on having a lil one on one private dance session so I was pretty happy to find your post actually, cuz this might just be exactly what i wanted :D

anyways TTYL be back in a week... sorry I dont post more in this thread, I seem to be busy busy...

Peace :D <3

PS - do MORE love/romance compilations ;)
should be interesting :D

I found this on demonoid and have yet to listen to it but since it is orchestral I thought I'd share with you guys.
Kirby Superstar Orchestral
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WIRR0PD1
I uploaded it before I checked the tags but the file order is miraculously alphabetical. Anyway give it a listen.

Also Billie thanks a lot for a romantic compilation. That is exactly what I meant to imply. That also ties right in with another one of my favorites that I will post later today!!

Would you like the original varese release, or the complete non-official soundtrack?
I have never heard the complete score, so I cannot guarantee you if the music is clean of fx, or how is the sound quality overall.
That track i posted above, is from the original soundtrack.
The original soundtrack is just fine, thank you! :)

The Painted Veil Score - Alexandre Desplat

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5POY6QZI

This score is slow and relaxing with a heavy emphasis on piano. The melody it has makes the score more memorable than it would be otherwise.

An exerpt of a review of the score from Soundtrack.net
http://www.soundtrack.net/albums/database/?id=4342

Even so, I find the opening cue, "The Painted Veil," to be the strongest overall. It is created out of numerous, small, repeated lines that are slowly layered on top of one another. These lines sparkle and shimmer, creating a deep but not dense sound. On top of these ostinati, Desplat weaves lush melody after lush melody. All his timbral forces are in play in this cue, from the bamboo flute, to various Chinese bells and percussion, to the piano, to the raspy voice of the electric cello. In other words, the score's players, both instrumental and thematic, are all presented for us up front so we can follow their journey.

All in all, The Painted Veil is a subdued score. It lacks the overwhelming power and audacity of Hostage, the charm of The Queen, and the urgency of Syriana, but it more than holds its own with the sweep of its vision and depth of its sound. Lang Lang adds the perfect delicate touch throughout, blending perfectly with the score's aesthetic. It is a strong score that continues to grow with each listening and makes me eager to see Desplat recognized for it. It even has me getting my hopes up when I know I shouldn't.

A little something about Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Michel Gerard Desplat (born August 23, 1961) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning film composer. Desplat was born to a French father and Greek mother who met at UC Berkeley, California. After their marriage they moved to France where Alexandre was born. At the age of five, he began playing piano and also became proficient on trumpet and flute. He studied with Claude Ballif, Iannis Xenakis in France and Jack Hayes in the USA. Desplat's musical interests were wide and he was also influenced by South American and African artists and teachers, among whom were Carlinhos Brown and Ray Lema. Desplat swiftly became skilled not only as a performer but also as a composer.

Desplat has extensively composed for films, first in France and later in Hollywood, including scores and incidental music for some 100 films among which are Lapse of Memory and Family Express (both 1992), Regarde Les Hommes Tomber (1994), Les P�ch�s Mortels (1995), the C�sar nominated Un H�ros Tr�s Discret (1996), Une Minute De Silence and Sweet Revenge (both 1998), Le Ch�teau Des Singes (1999), Home Sweet Home and Reines D'Un Jour (both 2001), the C�sar nominated Sur Mes L�vres (2002), and Rire Et Ch�timent (2003), among others.

He most recently scored the music for the film adaption of David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass and Zach Helm's directorial debut Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium with American composer Aaron Zigman. Other scores include the Ang Lee movie Lust, Caution, The Luzhin Defence, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Syriana, Birth, Hostage, Casanova, The Nest and The Painted Veil, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, LosAngeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music, and the 2006 World Soundtrack Award. He won the 2007 BMI Film Music Award, 2007 World Soundtrack Award, 2007 European Film Award, and received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for The Queen. He also won the Silver Berlin Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for Best Film Music in The Beat that My Heart Skipped.
(Taken from Wikipedia)

The original soundtrack is just fine, thank you! :)




Masada - Jerry Goldsmith



Review at movie-wave.net (http://www.movie-wave.net/titles/masada.html).

Jerry Goldsmith's incursions into television have been pretty rare over the last thirty years or so, but the results have invariably been superb. From his epic, breathtaking music for the miniseries QB VII to his superb theme for the series Star Trek: Voyager, it is always worth taking note when Goldsmith writes for television - the project must be something he really cares for in order to agree to do it.
And Masada is the best thing he's written for television.

It was a four-part miniseries first shown in 1981, concerning the siege of a Roman fortress in Palestine by Judean rebels just after the death of Christ, starring the great Peter O'Toole. It was nominated for just about every Emmy going - and won two, one for Supporting Actor (David Warner) and one for the second episode's music (you know who). (Goldsmith only scored the first half of the miniseries, with the second half scored by his friend Morton Stevens, based around his themes - and Stevens himself was nominated for an Emmy for the fourth episode.)

The main theme may take you by surprise, being a somewhat jaunty march, but it is truly a fantastic theme (one of Goldsmith's very best) and I'm surprised he doesn't perform it in concert these days - it's a crowd-pleaser, certainly. Its greatest use is in "The Road to Masada", one of the top cues in the composer's career - the main theme alternates with another great theme in a seven-minute tour-de-force that no other film composer would have been capable of producing. Also prominent in the score are various Jewish motifs which give a great sense of time and place.

"Night Raid" is a thrilling piece of action music in Goldsmith's grandest tradition. "The Old City" sees Goldsmith managing to convey both the sense of desperation of the people and the place with some of his most strikingly beautiful writing. "Our Land" is stunning, with another theme being performed by strings with Golden Age-style vibrato. A style not often employed by Goldsmith, but a joy to behold. And when the main theme appears in a subtle arrangement, played by an oboe, in "The Encampment", it could break your heart. And so could the concluding "The Slaves", an understated but beautiful way to close the album.

This is probably the best music that's ever been written for television, and right up there with the best of Goldsmith's film scores.


More reviews:
FilmMusic.pl (http://www.filmmusic.pl/index.php?act=recki&id=104)
Goldenscore (http://www.goldenscore.fr/revue.php?numero=455&numSite=5)
Movie Music UK (http://www.moviemusicuk.us/masadacd.htm)
Mundo BSO (http://www.mundobso.com/fichapeli.asp?codigo=B1754)
Music From The Movies (http://www.musicfromthemovies.com/review.asp?ID=1423)
Radio Soundtrack F-M (http://users.telenet.be/soundtrack-fm/Reviews/Jerry_Goldsmith/masada/masada.htm)

Thanks very much, Sanico! :)

Guys, you are wonderful.

Thanks a bunch for providing so much interesting informations and making such great posts. After having red your presentations, I'm litteraly drooling to listen to these scores.

Bravo!

Thanks for Masada!

Is this the definitive version of this score, or is there some sort of bootleg floating around? I thought I heard discussion of this once...

As requested, here's the reposting of With Fire & Sword (Ogniem I Mieczem) by Krzesimir Dębski in very HQ (MPC VBR). I'd like to thank Garcia27 for having posted it in the first place, thus allowing us to discover this marvelous score.



http://anonym.to/?http://rapidshare.com/files/186459086/Krzesimir_Debski_-_Ogniem_I_Mieczem_Ost__1999___Mpc_q8_.rar


From variety.com (http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117499843.html?categoryid=31&cs=1)

Writer Henryk Sienkiewicz's mighty trilogy of 17th-century Poland finally reaches cinematic completion in "With Fire & Sword," reputedly the largest production in Polish film history. An all-time record-breaker on home turf, with a claimed 6 million admissions since opening in February, the $8.5 million, three-hour widescreen movie will delight auds who pine for the days of Central Euro historical blockbusters, even if they'll be bemused a lot of the time about what is actually going on. Complex story of love and strife between Poles, Cossacks and Asian hordes reps a difficult sell nowadays in mature markets; more business is likely to come the way of the four-hour miniseries version, lensed separately.

Still, the solidly commercial pic at least has no pretensions of being an art movie, and for viewers content simply to sit back and enjoy the costumes, battles (lavishly staged) and manly horsing around, the running time is no stretch, with every cent of the budget up on the screen. The widescreen compositions are always filled with detail, Krzesimir Debski's choral-symphonic score sweeps the visuals along (with exciting use of massive Cossack drums), and Helena's wardrobe alone is worth the price of admission.




Krzesimir Dębski - Read full bio (http://www.teatrwielki.pl/ludzie.php?action=search&full=1&id=116&nlang=en)

Krzesimir Dębski has been almost completely engrossed with classical music. Meanwhile, it is cinema and beautiful songs from television series, which the composer insists he considered absolutely marginal, that have defined his identity to the artistic public. The broad public can feel satisfaction: through Dębski, people experience elite contemporary music, but at the same time his melodies are easy to remember, and even to whistle while shaving. Dębski, who is over 50 years old, has a sporty look, a charming smile and a frank manner, jumps - as if he were mounted on his favourite steed - from entertainment and mass culture right up to the greatest heights of artistic achievement. He practises the music profession in a style that reflects the present state of turmoil in a culture dominated by media and the imperative of commercialism. This comes easily to him, as his talent displays a rare versatility.

Thanks for Masada!

Is this the definitive version of this score, or is there some sort of bootleg floating around? I thought I heard discussion of this once...

If you mean official release, yes. This is the definitive version of Masada for now.
But there is a complete non-official soundtrack, that i don't know if have sound FX or if the sound quality is any good, as i haven't heard that version before.

Masada Complete (Thanks to the original uploader)
http://rapidshare.com/files/148347115/Masada.rar

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

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

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

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

Youth

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

Background

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

Broadway

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

Politics

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

Comedies

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

Cape Fear

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

Awards

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

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

Death

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Track listing


Disc/Cassette 1

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

Disc/Cassette 2

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

Total Duration: 02:19:31

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

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

Track listing

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

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

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

Track listing

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

Total Duration: 00:40:59

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

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

Track listing

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

Total Duration: 00:41:36

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

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

Track listing

Disc/Cassette 1

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

Disc/Cassette 2

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

Total Duration: 01:27:44

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

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

Track listing

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

Total Duration: 01:11:26

Amazing, just amazing. Bravo Garcia, another first-class post. :)

Bernstein has been quite an heavyweight in the film music industry. He composed numerous classic scores, which profoundly marked generations of music and movie enthusiasts.

I particularly appreciate the posting of Heavy Metal, because my copy was an old 128k version. Although the tracklist seems different, gotta check this out.

Mat I ask you a favor, though? You should edit your post to write the name of the albums, because in this board (and in many boards, in fact) people searching for a specific title will use the 'Search' feature, and this only functions if the name of the album searched has been written in a post.

Thanks again!

No problem. I added the tittles to this post.

The Heavy Metal score is the last edition from FSM published just this year. The quality is 320 Kbps

Best !!!

Fantastic! Thanks very much for all the new music. Arthierr, the Ogniem hi-Q rip is greatly appreciated. :)

Hey guys, I just updated my list of scores. Thanks to everyone in here who contributed to that so if anyone sees anything they want feel free to request. The list is in my sig and http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1131788&postcount=3407 I won't post it all here because it is so long.

Sirusjr, I'd like some infos about Bernard Hermann - Concert Suites: duration, tracks, bitrate...

Can you please describe it a bit?

It is a 320 kbps 4cd release played by the London philharmonic orchestra and the national philharmonic orchestra with suites from many of his famous scores such as Psycho, Sinbad, Citizen Kane, Etc... It contains full scans of the booklet with the release including information about Bernard Herman and the individual scores. I seem to remember it having a few annoying audio glitches of sorts on a few tracks but it isn't anything too major if i recall. Some of the suites are a good 15 minutes long. I would gladly upload it here if you are interested.

Errrr... How to say this... Mmh...

I AM EXTREMELY INTERESTED!!! Please upload!

Bernard Herman - Concert Suites



http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y8HL3BG4
More scans in the music folder when you download it.

Arthierr can you please reupload tracks 19 and 27 of With Fire and Sword? I got corrupt file errors both times I extracted it.

Same here, actually. I'm trying to get these onto my iPod, so if you have a 320kb/s or max-Q VBR version that would be great too. Either way though, those two tracks aren't working...I tried extracting on two different computers.

Thanks!

Well, that's weird, because when I tested my archive it said track 16 is corrupt but the others are ok.

As I want to have a clean copy too, I'll just redownload it, test it, and then reupload. This will take some days as I got it from an "unconventionnal" download source.

Sorry for that. Repost soon.


Sirusjr: Thanks a lot for your last up. There's a Special Hermann Post coming soon...

*blush* tehehe, i'm really surprised, that you all like my music-compilation. I'm glad, that the compilation was good enough for you guys *blink* XD. Maybe i have an another one with harmony-stuff, but not love-themes.

@melkoret
uaaah, sweet, i hope you have a great wedding and i wish you all the best for you and your sweetheart

@garcia
what a great collection, awesomeness in a great degree, thank you so much for the western-stuff, i love western *____*

@sirusjr
oooh, thank you so much for the bernard herrmann - collection *hug*

@arthierr
oh i hope the link comes very soon, but take your time ^^

@sanico
thank you very much for masada, great stuff

I am glad you guys enjoy the bernard herman collection.
Billie - You are so pleasently polite *hug*

Bernard Herrmann


Official website:
http://www.bernardherrmann.org/


IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002136/


From moviemusicuk.us: (http://www.moviemusicuk.us/herrmann.htm)

Bernard Herrmann was a child prodigy who wrote his first major composition in his teens, and formed a chamber orchestra aged 20. In the 1930s, Herrmann formed a close friendship with an up-and-coming director called Orson Welles, and agreed to write some incidental music for a radio play Welles was planning. The radio play in question was the classic, panic-inducing broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" in 1938, which led directly to Welles being head-hunted by Hollywood. Herrmann followed Welles to Los Angeles, and made his film score debut in 1941 with the classic "Citizen Kane".

During the thirty years which followed, Herrmann composed some of the most astounding and ground-breaking scores the cinema had ever known. Herrmann's filmography contains so many great scores that one hardly knows where to begin: "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942), "Anna and the King of Siam" (1946), "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (1947), "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951), "Vertigo" (1958), "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad" (1958), "North By Northwest" (1959), "Psycho" (1960), "Cape Fear" (1962) and "Jason and the Argonauts" (1963) were all created by Herrmann's great genius.

Throughout the 1940s and 50s Herrmann was the chief conductor of the CBS Symphony Orchestra, and in this role contributed to many successful television shows, including "Gunsmoke", "Rawhide" and "The Twilight Zone". He also remained involved in the classical world, giving important premieres to music by composers including Ralph Vaughan Williams and Charles Ives, and writing his own concert hall music, which included his "First Symphony" and a dramatic cantata based on Herman Mellville's novel "Moby Dick".

Although Herrmann was a notoriously prickly character prone to fits of rage, he nevertheless maintained many successful composer-director relationships throughout his career, the most notable being his near-legendary collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock - an association which ended when the great director rejected Herrmann's score for "Torn Curtain" (1966) and replaced it with one by John Addison. A new breed of directors, notably Martin Scorsese and Brian De Palma - were discovering Herrmann's talents in the 1970s, but sadly Herrmann died just hours after completing the final recording sessions for his powerful score for "Taxi Driver" on Christmas Eve 1975.

Many of his classic scores have been re-recorded and re-released in the full glory of stereo sound, and the recent re-makes of "Cape Fear" and "Psycho" re-used his original underscore. Many people maintain that Bernard Herrmann was the greatest film music composer who ever lived. His legacy, in terms of musical structure, use of innovative instrumentation, and compositional style, is unmatched, and his impact on the way in which films were scored is incalculable.



Now about Sirusjr's fantastic post, which you can download here:
http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1202078&postcount=1199




From Scoredaddy:

In my opinion, Masters Film Music’s 1989 CD box entitled Bernard Herrmann: The Concert Suites is one of the monumental achievements in the short history of digital reissues of important film scoring. A four disc set, this essential collection includes ALL the recordings Bernard Herrmann conducted in London of his OWN film music for the Decca International record label in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s (of course, Herrmann recorded, at that time, many other composers’ work). The orchestras performing under Herrmann’s leadership are the London Philharmonic and National Philharmonic Orchestras.

Many listeners have complained about Mr. Herrmann’s tempos on these records (which are occasionally ponderous in comparison to the original soundtrack recordings) but I consider these versions definitive in that the composer interpreted his own work as he saw best… and for me, the performances are smashing. The boxed set from which this music is derived has been out of print for over 15 years and is estimated to be valued at approximately $350.00. Some of these suites have been released on various Herrmann CD’s but here we have ALL of them, and in top quality 320Kb sound! I hope everyone will enjoy these recordings (nearly three hours of GREAT music), which should be part of any serious film music library.

Here's the complete description:

Bernard Herrmann: The Concert Suites

Released 1989 by Master Film Music/Varese Sarabande

This is the 1969-1975 London Phase 4 Stereo recordings with Herrmann conducting the National Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. A limited edition box of 4 CDs.


Music from Great Film Classics (1970)

Bernard Herrmann, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Jane Eyre (all)

1. Selections from the film 'Jane Eyre' (13:12)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (all)
2. Interlude (6:35)
3. The Memory Waltz (4:13)
Welles Raises Kane (all)
4. Overture (2:45)
5. Variations ('Summer-Night Serenade', a 'Sunday Promenade') (5:40)
6. Ragtime ('Streed Scene', 'Saturday-Night Band Concert') (1:49)
7. Finale ('Persuit and Happiness') (2:57)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (suite) (all)
8. Sleigh Ride (1:53)
9. Swing Your Partners (2:37)

The Fantasy Film World of Bernard Herrmann (1973)

Bernard Herrmann, National Philharmonic Orchestra

Journey to the Center of the Earth (all)

1. Mountain Top and Sunrise
2. Prelude
3. The Grotto
4. Salt Slides
5. Atlantis
6. The Giant Chameleon and the Fight
7. The Shaft and Finale
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (all)
8. Overture
9. The Duel with the Skeleton
10. Baghdad
The Day the Earth Stood Still (all)
11. Outer Space
12. Radar
13. Gort
14. The Robot
15. Space Control
16. Terror
17. Farewell and Finale

Fahrenheit 451 (all)

18. Prelude
19. Fire Engine
20. The Bedroom
21. Flowers of Fire
22. The Road and Finale

Music from the Great Movie Thrillers (1968)

Bernard Herrmann, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Psycho (all)

1. A Narrative for Orchestra (14:27)
Marnie (all)
2. Prelude and Hunting Scene (10:06)
North by Northwest (all)
3. Overture (3:03)
Vertigo (all)
4. Prelude
5. The Nightmare
6. Scene d'amour
The Trouble with Harry (all)
7. "A Portrait of Hitch" (8:15)

The Mysterious Film World of Bernard Herrmann (1975)

Bernard Herrmann, National Philharmonic Orchestra

Mysterious Island (all)

1. Prelude (1:58)
2. The Balloon (2:53)
3. The Giant Crab (3:37)
4. The Giant Bee (2:52)
5. The Giant Bird (3:06)

Jason and the Argonauts (all)

6. Prelude (2:35)
7. Talos (2:20)
8. Talos's death (2:41)
9. Triton (3:22)
The Three Worlds of Gulliver (all)
10. Overture (2:26)
11. Minuetto - Wapping (2:03)
12. Hornpipe (1:19)
13. Lilliputians 1 & 2 (3:22)
14. Victory 1 & 2 (1:28)
15. Escape (0:40)
16. The King's March (2:00)
17. Trees (2:25)
18. The Tightrope (3:02)
19. Lovers (2:54)
20. The Chess Game (1:25)
21. Pursuit (1:48)
22. Finale (1:05)

hello,

I've tried severa; times downloading this but it continues giving me an error,


can it be reuploaded via Rapidshare?


pleeeeeease???



I really want this one so bad

thanks

First, Bentoons, can you PLEASE edit your post to remove the quoted part. It REALLY looks bad, and it's useless because I see excatly what you're talking about.

Now, what error do you get precisely?

First of all Bentoons, you should quote (and subsequently edit out the links to the pictures) my post not Arthierr's post linking to my post in requesting a re-upload.
Second, if you edit your request post to remove the quoted text I will gladly put up alternative links when I have the time if megaupload isn't working for you. I simply posted by megaupload initially because that way I could get the entire thing in one upload and I hate parts especially with some site's wait times in between downloads. I also suggest that you first try to figure out a resolution to whatever errors you are getting via megaupload because I tend to favor uploading on megaupload for a variety of reasons specifically I refuse to use rapidshare because of the legal action they are involved with and rapidspread started making bad links causing me to re upload. If you have a preference besides the three above mentioned upload sites then by all means suggest it and I will give it a shot becaue you asked politely.

man you guys,

sorry to have upset you guys for my quote,

wasn't my intention at all.

I feel like crap now. sorry


here's the error message

BHCS.rar.part could not be saved, because the source file could not be read.

Try again later, or contact the server administrator.


sorry for the inconvenience again.

Mmh, I just try and it downloads ok, but extremely slowly (6-20k), maybe it's a server problem, in which case you should just do what they say: Try again later.

Ps: sorry to insist, but please remove the quoted part, thanks.

Bentoons - my question still stands, do you have a preference for another upload site besides Rapidspread, Rapidshare, and Megaupload? I gave up on the first 2 and the third seems to not work in this case so choose one and I will get to it soon. Also no offense taken, your editing is more than enough appology.

no preference,

I like rapidshare, but it would be too much of a hassle for you,

so I'll try Megaupload again at a later time and hopefully it will work.


thanks again!

About that Concert Suites, I just listened to Journey to the Center of the Earth suite, and I have to say, the similarity with Elfman's Batman Main Title is striking. Wow, that's quite a surprise.

Bernard Herrmann was a Brilliant Composer.

Bernard Herrmann was a Brilliant Composer.

Agreed, heartily.

Herrmann... the only composer who approaches my absolute, unwavering devotion to Goldsmith. Thank you for making this available. :)

Shuki Levy knows his stuff: http://web.me.com/toridori/Shuki_Levy_Online/Music_from_Digimon.html

Is it possible to get the whole score to this?

If you're not frightened by sfx and some terrible songs, here's a full rip of the score:

Thread 63330

Just reposted With Fire & Sword (Ogniem I Mieczem) by Krzesimir Dębski in very HQ (MPC VBR). This time I tested it before uploading and there's no error.

Here it is:

http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1201911&postcount=1189

Billie - You are so pleasently polite *hug*

Hehehe...http://www.anikaos.com/041-msn_red_fox_smilies/fox_emoticons/fox_emoticons-16.gif you think so? thanks http://www.anikaos.com/041-msn_red_fox_smilies/pyong_raposa_fox/pyong_raposa_fox-25.gif


@arthierr
hey, that was fast, thank you very much http://www.anikaos.com/041-msn_red_fox_smilies/msn_red_fox_smilies-16.gif

Thanks a lot arthierr!!

Billie - Those fox emoticons are soo KAWAIIII!!!!

Billie - Those fox emoticons are soo KAWAIIII!!!!

Hehe, yeah, i think so, too, it's superduperkawaii! http://www.anikaos.com/041-msn_red_fox_smilies/smilies_msn_zorrito/smilies_msn_zorrito-02.gif

Here is the side with the supercute foxies: Anikaos (http://www.anikaos.com/0041-msn_red_fox_smilies.html)

Mates, maybe you've noticed that this thread has become quite huge, with an enormous amount of music posted everywhere, so, as suggested by Billie (thanks, fraulein! ;)), I've decided to edit the first post to list all the big contributions made here.

This will take some days given the fact I'm busy, but it'll be done soon.

Please check the first post from time to time to see if you've missed some good stuff. Personally I'm extremely impressed by the quantity and quality of what has been posted in this thread. Bravo everybody!

@arthierr
hehehe, you are always welcome
maybe i can help you by this job?

Thanks for the Ogniem re-up! :D

maybe i can help you by this job?

This is very kind, thanks for proposing, Billie :). But it's ok, I'll do do it all right (and you must be busy too). It'll be very amusing to dive back in the (great) history of this thread.

I've already started and 1) I'm amazed by all the fantastic music, and 2) I'm surprised that many links are still there, after so many months.

okay, but when you need my help, i'm right here ^^

Thank you so much. :)



Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, i'm glad to see you all
I have a animalistic gift for you

The Animalistic Soundtrack by Billie (sorry for the really big picture)



01 Main Title from 'Black Beauty', composed by Danny Elfman -> oppressive, graceful, fluent
02 Flicka Comes Home from 'Flicka', composed by Aaron Zigman -> calm, fluent, proud
03 Escape from N.I.M.H from 'The Secret of Nimh', composed by Jerry Goldsmith -> busy, mysterious
04 Opening Escape from 'Chicken Run', composed by Harry Gregson-Williams -> gigantic, powerful
05 Seal Ballet from 'Andre', composed by Bruce Rowland -> warm, graceful
06 Eight Below Overture from 'Eight Below', composed by Mark Isham -> vivid, grand
07 A Big Ending from 'Horton Hears A Who!', composed by John Powell -> grand, powerful
08 A Fateful Meeting from 'King Kong', composed by James Newton-Howard -> warm, driving, curious
09 A New Family from 'Free Willy 3', composed by Cliff Eidelman -> warm, graceful, hopeful
10 Dieses Land (This Land) from 'The Lion King', composed by Hans Zimmer -> powerful, mighty, grand
11 Moby Dick Theme from 'Moby Dick', composed by Christopher Gordon -> impressive, grand
12 Main Title from 'Seabiscuit', composed by Randy Newman -> calm, fluent, sad
13 End Credits - The Rescuers Down Under from 'The Rescuers Down Under', composed by Bruce Broughton -> vivid, cheerful

Animalistic Soundtrack by Billie (http://rapidshare.com/files/182136798/The_Animalistic_Soundtrack_by_Billie.zip)

Excellent and very original subject for this compilation, Billie. Here are my favs:

Black Beauty: Wonderful! This is a facet of Elfman we don't hear often. Most of the time he does epic, (super) heroic, action-filled scores. This cue reminds us that he can also compose Horner-like beautiful pastoral cues.

Andre: It's a great discovery. I didn't know this score and this composer. Marvellous warm, heartfelt piece.

Eight Below: Isham is mostly known for his jazzy / electronic music, but here he shows us he can also write for an orchestra, and pretty nicely.

King Kong: what can I say? JNH shows us once again that he's among Hollywood's best composers with this very subtle and gracious piece.

Moby Dick: this piece is masterfully composed and performed. As I don't know Christopher Gordon, I googled his name and found out that he has a very big oeuvre! Concert music, events music, arrangements... Please visit his site, it's impressive: http://www.christophergordon.net/index.htm




Ladies and Gentlemen, here is my

Special Romantic Compilation

with a really relaxing background ^^, but maybe a little bit to sad



01 Empty Store, composed by George Fenton, 'You�ve got Mail' -> calm, fluent, warm (2:51)
02 A Happy Ending, composed by Randy Edelman , 'While You Were Sleeping' -> warm, cheerful, gentle (2:22)
03 My Annies Gone, composed by Alan Silvestri, 'Father Of The Bride' -> sad, warm, gentle (1:18)
04 Jane's Home, composed by Basil Poledouris, 'For Love Of The Game' -> fluent, gentle, graceful (04:52)
05 First Kiss, composed by John Debney, 'Cutthroat Island' -> gentle, warm, loving (01:55)
06 A Happy Ending, composed by Mark Knopfler, 'The Princess Bride' -> warm, sweet, gentle (01:54)
07 Farewell, composed by Miklos Rozsa, 'Ivanhoe' -> gentle, sad, loving, mysterious (02:35)
08 I Want You (Love Theme), composed by James Newton-Howard, 'French Kiss' -> dolce, gentle, warm (02:05)
09 Putting It All Together, composed by John Williams, 'Stanley & Iris' -> warm, affable, gentle (01:46)
10 I Met Someone, composed by Nicholas Pike, 'Return To Me' -> sad, loving, gentle (03:43)
11 Maestro, composed by Hans Zimmer, 'The Holiday' -> hopeful, gentle, cheerful (03:53)
12 Sibylla, composed by Harry Gregson-Williams, 'Kingdom Of Heaven' -> heavy, sad, gentle (with Choir) (01:51)
13 End Titles, composed by Angelo Badalamenti, 'A Long Engagement' -> sad, fluent, graceful (06:53)
14 End Title, composed by Andrew Powell, 'Ladyhawke' -> mighty, warm, powerful (05:53)

The Special Romantic Compilation by Billie (http://rapidshare.com/files/184931314/The_Special_Romantic_Compilation_by_Billie.zip)

Another great compilation. Sometimes a bit too sad and slow for me, but the music is excellent anyway.

Cutthroat Island: Debney revisits the Golden Age Classics with this piece (and this whole score too). He does it with such a talent that it's almost too good.

The Holiday: yes, you red this correctly, a Zimmer piece is among my favs! Seriously, this piece is ravishing, and the use of high strings at 1:42 is chilling.

Kingdom of Heaven: the medieval and religious tone of this piece makes it very interesting. Good intimistic, emotional piece.

Ladyhawke: although the presence of a modern beat is rather... surprising for such a medieval movie score, the music is very melodious and cheerful, so it's quite enjoyable presented out of context.

First, one of my favorites Gordon's themes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQbBo0Fwpe8

And now some stuff:

On The Beach

(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1857845.html)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CX7P3HDB

Track listing

1. The World At War (04:07)
Part I: "On The USS Charleston"
2. A New Day (01:22)
3. A Matter Of Months (00:56)
4. Melbourne Decays (01:46)
5. Decommission (01:39)
6. Nordstrom's Theory (01:08)
7. Through The Darkness (02:26)
Part II: "Melbourne"
8. Moira And Towers Meet (02:36)
9. Christmas Memory (01:17)
10. On The Jetty (01:45)
11. The Great Ocean Road (04:03)
12. The Beginning Of The End (01:03)
Part III: "On the Beach"
13. Prepare To Dive (01:29)
14. Voyage North (03:15)
15. Anchorage (05:46)
Part IV: "Message From The North"
16. Alien Landscape (04:52)
17. Swain Returns Home (03:24)
18. The Vote (02:29)
19. At The Taj Mahal (00:49)
Part V: "San Francisco"
20. Homecoming (00:48)
21. Hirsch (03:51)
22. Flight Through The Apostles/Elegy (05:57)
23. Final Farewells (04:55)
24. Lacrimosa (02:53)
25. Lux Perpetua (02:25)
26. From The Beach, Silently Weeping (06:34)
Part VI: "The Burial Cloud"

Total Duration: 01:13:35

Moby Dick

(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1857879.html)

http://rapidshare.com/files/187978166/_1998__Dick.rar.html

Track listing

1. Call Me Ishmael (02:36)
2. Queequeg (01:49)
3. Silhouettes (01:28)
4. Nantucket Docks (01:03)
5. The Pequod (01:19)
6. The Harpooner (00:36)
7. Jonah And The Whale (02:03)
8. Farwell (00:24)
9. The Voyage Begins (01:54)
10. Devoured, It Was (01:50)
11. The Crow's Nest (01:41)
12. Alah (00:46)
13. This Gold Ounce (00:59)
14. An Indissoluble League (02:26)
15. The God Fugitive (01:10)
16. I Am The Prophet (00:55)
17. Beware The Blashermer's End (01:17)
18. There She Blows! (04:30)
19. The Devil Himself (01:46)
20. Midnight Sea (04:25)
21. Man Overboard (02:12)
22. Ye Hairy-Hearted Ghouls (01:34)
23. Bad Magic (01:39)
24. Onward To Nowhere (01:43)
25. Ice (03:10)
26. Ye Shall Will It! (01:30)
27. Queequeg's Prophecy (00:46)
28. Captain Pip (01:04)
29. The Shadow Of A Knife (01:05)
30. Apparition (01:02)
31. At The Helm (02:08)
32. St. Elmo's Fire (03:22)
33. Forty Years (03:43)
34. Lower The Boats (02:07)
35. The Pilot (01:28)
36. Fate's Luitenant (01:34)
37. Eternal Rest (00:56)
38. Queequeg's Death (01:31)
39. The Pequod Burns (01:33)
40. Orphan Of The Sea (01:06)
41. Moby Dick Theme (02:01)

Total Duration: 01:12:11

Melbourne 2006 - The Opening Ceremony

(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1857930.html)

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yckwg3gmmch

Track List

01 - Countdown.Mp3 00:49 Christopher Gordon
02 - Journey To The Stadium.Mp3 02:21 Christopher Gordon
03 - Welcome To The Mcg.Mp3 03:26 Christopher Gordon
04 - Raising Of The 3 Nation Flags.Mp3 01:12 Christopher Gordon
05 - The Arrival Of The Head Of The Commonwealth.Mp3 02:10 Christopher Gordon
06 - The National Anthem.Mp3 01:52 Christopher Gordon
07 - Welcome To Melbourne.Mp3 04:58 Christopher Gordon
08 - Boy On The Bay.Mp3 08:18 Christopher Gordon
10 - Under The Milky Way.Mp3 06:14 Christopher Gordon
12 - Queen's Baton Relay.Mp3 02:42 Christopher Gordon
13 - Raising Of The Cgf Flag.Mp3 03:42 Christopher Gordon
15 - Finale.Mp3 03:24 Christopher Gordon

Salem's Lot

(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1857936.html)

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jeutdgyj2ry

Track listing

1. SALEM'S LOT ARIA (06:25)
Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy
2. THANKSGIVING (03:19)
3. JERUSALEM'S LOT (02:48)
4. IN THE WOODS (02:25)
5. STRAKER (02:49)
6. DUD AND BARLOW (02:58)
7. EVA'S STORY (03:54)
8. MIKE RYERSON (08:28)
9. BLOODY PIRATES (03:04)
10. MARK'S ESCAPE (03:11)
Gordon/Gerard
11. APPROACHING THE MANSION (02:31)
12. IN THE CELLAR (04:34)
13. CONVERTING THE PRIEST (05:31)
Gordon/Gerard
14. BARLOW (02:31)
15. MUTANS EVAE NOMEN and THE MANSION BURNS (04:03)
16. FREE IN SPIRIT (02:25)
Gerard
17. SALEM'S LOT THEME (02:10)
Gordon/Gerard

Total Duration: 01:03:06

Master and Commander

(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1858020.html)

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

Track listing

1. The Far Side of the World (09:19)
2. Into the Fog (02:12)
3. Violin Concerto No. 3 "Strassburg" K.216, 3rd Movement (01:19)
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4. The Cuckold Came Out of the Amery (Traditional) (03:27)
5. Smoke N'Oakum (05:27)
6. Fantsia On a Theme ByThomas Tallia (05:14)
Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
7. Adagio From Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 8 in G Minor (01:56)
Composed by Arcangelo Corelli
8. The Doldrums (02:46)
9. Prelude (From the Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007) (02:28)
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
10. The Galapagos (01:39)
11. Folk Melody Traditional (05:12)
O'Sullivan's March, The Cuckold Comes Out of the Amery, Mothern Hen, Mary Scott, Nancy Dawson
12. The Phasmid (02:34)
Contains elements of Ghost of Time and Endless Ocean
13. The Battle (05:07)
14. La Musica Notturna Delle Strade De Madrid, No. 6, Op. 30 (09:23)
Composed by Luigi Boccherini
15. Full Circle (01:36)

Total Duration: 00:59:39

Christopher Gordon Unreleased Titles

(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1858050.html)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4CJ90ZMT

Track list

01 - Ward 13 - Suite.mp3 12:23 Christopher Gordon
02 - Credeaux Canvas (Anna Torv, Vocal).mp3 02:33 Christopher Gordon
03 - Up In The Sky.mp3 04:16 Christopher Gordon
04 - Theme From Milk.mp3 04:05 Christopher Gordon
05 - Baba's Birthday - Movement 1.mp3 02:18 Christopher Gordon
06 - Baba's Birthday - Movement 2.mp3 07:08 Christopher Gordon
07 - Baba's Birthday - Movement 3.mp3 02:24 Christopher Gordon
08 - Much Ado About Something - Even In The Mouths Of Men (Sanctus).mp3 01:23 Christopher Gordon
09 - Much Ado About Something - Canterbury.mp3 01:02 Christopher Gordon
10 - Much Ado About Something - The Apostates.mp3 01:36 Christopher Gordon
11 - Much Ado About Something - The Hand That Writ.mp3 00:41 Christopher Gordon
12 - Much Ado About Something - Dawn At Stratford.mp3 01:22 Christopher Gordon
13 - Much Ado About Something - As You Like It.mp3 02:40 Christopher Gordon
14 - Much Ado About Something - The Globe Theatre.mp3 01:11 Christopher Gordon
15 - Much Ado About Something - But Be Contented.mp3 02:06 Christopher Gordon
16 - Much Ado About Something - My Name Be Buried.mp3 04:15 Christopher Gordon
17 - Much Ado About Something - The Coward Conquest.mp3 04:46 Christopher Gordon
18 - Much Ado About Something - No Longer Mourn For Me.mp3 01:12 Christopher Gordon
19 - Much Ado About Something - My Spirit Is Thine.mp3 00:17 Christopher Gordon
20 - Much Ado About Something - And This With Thee Remains.mp3 03:27 Christopher Gordon

Interesting post Garcia27, never heard of Christopher Gordon. I loved Master and Commander and one of those has lisa gerard so i'll give them a listen!

Garcia: extremely impressive post! And very, very much appreciated because after having listened to Billie's post, I really wanted to hear more from Christopher Gordon.

Your post has a perfect timing and really brings a lot to this thread and to the people frequenting it.

Bravo, my friend!

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wow, so much music-stuff, i'm in heaven http://www.anikaos.com/041-msn_red_fox_smilies/pyong_emoticons/pyong_emoticons-07.gif

okay, i have a new compilation for you ^^ (only animestuff)

World Masterpiece Theater Compilation



01 from 'Watashi no Ashinaga Ojisan' or the english title 'Daddy-Long-Legs' -> vivid, deep, beautiful, graceful
02 from 'Watashi no Ashinaga Ojisan' or the english title 'Daddy-Long-Legs' -> beautiful, cheerful, hovering
03 from 'Haha wo Tazunete Sanzen Ri' or the english title '3000 Leagues in Search of Mother' -> brightful expactant, vivid (a really little orchestra, only a guitar and a flute)
04 from 'Haha wo Tazunete Sanzen Ri' or the english title '3000 Leagues in Search of Mother' -> gentle, hopeful, sad (a really little orchestra, only a guitar and a flute)
05 from 'Akage no An' or the english title 'Anne of Green Gables' -> gentle, sad, hovering (the first part until to the middle from the file played only a guitar)
06 from 'Akage no An' or the english title 'Anne of Green Gables' -> gentle, graceful, sweet
07 from 'Trapp Ikka Monogatari' or the english title 'Trapp Family Story' -> expactant, gentle, sad, cheerful
08 from 'Trapp Ikka Monogatari' or the english title 'Trapp Family Story' -> gentle, lovely, nostalgia
09 from 'Wakakusa Monogatari Nan to Jousensei' or the english title 'Tale of Young Grass: Nan and Miss Jo' -> gentle, sad, lovely
10 from 'Wakakusa Monogatari Nan to Jousensei' or the english title 'Tale of Young Grass: Nan and Miss Jo' -> hopeful, expactant, narrative
11 from 'Nanatsu no Umi no Tico' or the english title 'Tico of the Seven Seas' -> cheerful, vivid, merry
12 from 'Nanatsu no Umi no Tico' or the english title 'Tico of the Seven Seas' -> sad, farewell, graceful
13 from 'Purinsesu Sera' or the english title 'Princess Sarah' -> sweet, sad, slow
14 from 'Purinsesu Sera' or the english title 'Princess Sarah' -> sad, deep, gentle

World Masterpiece Theater Compilation (http://rapidshare.com/files/188648670/WMT_Compilation.zip)

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Info to the Anime Watashi no Ashinaga Ojisan (Track 1 + 2)(Wikipedia)

My Daddy Long Legs (私のあしながおじさん, Watashi No Ashinaga Ojisan) is a 1990 Japanese anime television series based on the novel Daddy-Long-Legs written by Jean Webster. The series was awarded the Excellent Movie Award for Television by the Japanese Agency of Cultural Affairs for Children in 1990.

Webster's story had been adapted into anime previously by Tatsunoko Productions in 1979 to the TV special Ashinaga Ojisan, which was directed by Masakazu Higuchi. The aforementioned special was dubbed in English and released in the US and is otherwise unrelated to this television series.

Premise

Judy Abbott is an orphan who has been given the opportunity to study at the prestigious Lincoln Memorial high school by a mysterious benefactor whom she only knows as "John Smith". She has only seen his shadow once, and because of his long legs, she calls him "Daddy Long Legs". The only payment she is to give her benefactor is that she write him letters every month, with no expectation of them being responded to[1].

The anime covers 3 years of Judy's life, starting with her leaving the John Grier Home orphanage, and ending with her finishing high school.

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Info to the Anime Haha wo Tazunete Sanzen Ri (Track 3 + 4) (Wikipedia)
3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (母をたずねて三千里, Haha o Tazunete Sanzenri) is an anime series directed by Isao Takahata and aired in 1976. It is loosely based on a small part of the novel Heart (Cuore) by Edmondo De Amicis, i.e. the monthly tale (racconto mensile) From the Apennines to the Andes (Dagli Appennini alle Ande), widely expanded into a 52-episode epic.

The series was broadcast on the World Masterpiece Theater, an animation staple that showcased each year an animated version of a different classical book or story, and was originally titled "From the Apennines to the Andes". Nippon Animation, producers of the World Masterpiece Theater, would adapt Cuore into a second TV anime series in 1981, although this second series was not part of the WMT.

A summarization movie was released in the 1980s using edited footage from the TV run. Nippon Animation also re-animated 3000 Leagues as a feature-length film in 1999, with a theme song performed by Scottish pop superstar Sheena Easton ("Catch a Dream").

The series was dubbed into several languages and became an instant success in some countries, such as Portugal, Brazil, Spain, Venezuela, Chile, the Arab world and Israel. In Hebrew, the series is called HaLev, meaning The Heart (the name of the novel which the series is based on). In some European and in Latin American countries the series is simply known as Marco, in Arabic the series was a huge success , it was called " Wada'an Marco ","وداعاً ماركو"," Goodbye Marco".

Plot

The plot of the series focuses on Marco, a young boy who lives with his family in the harbor city of Genoa, Italy during a depression period in 1881. Marco's father, Pietro Rossi, is a doctor that dedicates his time to treating poor patients, and therefore the family has financial difficulties. His beloved mother, Anna Rossi, goes to Argentina to work as a maid to earn money for Marco. When the letters from his mother stop coming after an indication that she is sick, Marco fears the worst for his mother's fate, and since his father is too busy working in his clinic and his older brother Tonio was sent off to train as a locomotive driver in Milano, he is the only one free enough to go search for her.

Marco takes with him his older brother's pet monkey, Amedeo and together they sneak aboard the Andrea Dora, a ship bound for Brazil. In Brazil Marco boards an immigrant ship and finally arrives in Buenos Aires, where he meets a puppeteer called Peppino and his family, whom he knew from Genoa. They accompany him to Bah�a Blanca in order to try and locate his mother.

In Bah�a Blanca he discovers his uncle stole the letters which his mother had sent him. He returns to Buenos Aires, and sails off on a ship to Rosario, there he tries to figure out how to get on a train to C�rdoba. Marco's Italian friends collect enough money and buy him a train ticket. Marco arrives in C�rdoba, and successfully manages to locate the agricultural engineer Mister Mequinez. He tells Marco that his mother works for his brother in Tucum�n, and gives him enough money for a train ticket. But Marco ends up giving the money to a Doctor to save the life of a poor girl he meets. Marco sneaks on the train but he gets caught and tossed off the train in the middle of nowhere. A group of travelling gipsies rescue him and give him an old donkey.

After a few days the donkey dies and Marco continues to walk to Tucum�n by foot. He eventually arrives to his destination hungry and tired and finds his mother. His mother is very sick and needs an operation but she is too weak. As soon as she sees Marco she strengthens and she manage to pass to surgery successfully. At the end of the series Marco and his mother return to Genoa where the family is reunited.

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Info to the Anime Akage no An (Track 5 + 6) (Wikipedia)
Anne of Green Gables'' (赤毛のアン, Akage no An?, literally "Red-haired Anne") is an animated television series, part of Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater. It was adapted from the novel Anne of Green Gables by Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery. Produced by Nippon Animation in 1979, it was first broadcast on Fuji TV from January 7, 1979 to December 30, 1979. Fifty episodes were produced in total.[1]

It has been exported to neighbouring Asian countries and also to Europe and Canada (Anna dai capelli rossi in Italian, Anne la maison aux pignons verts in French, Ana de las tejas verdes in Spanish, Ana dos Cabelos Ruivos in Portuguese and Anne mit den roten Haaren in German). As with the novels, the animated version of Anne is much beloved in Japan to this day.

Story

Anne Shirley, a girl raised in an orphanage, is accidentally sent to Miss Marilla Cuthbert and Mr. Matthew Cuthbert, who had originally requested a boy. She gradually becomes an irreplaceable member of their family.

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Info to the Anime Trapp Ikka Monogatari (Track 7 + 8) (Wikipedia)
Trapp Family Story (トラップ一家物語, Torappu Ikka Monogatari) is a Japanese anime series from 1991 by Nippon Animation.

It was based on the novel The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, which has also inspired the world famous musical The Sound of Music.

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Info to the Anime Wakakusa Monogatari Nan to Josensei (Track 9 + 10) (Wikipedia)
Little Women II: Jo's Boys, also known as Wakakusa Monogatari Nan to Jō Sensei (若草物語ナンとジョー先生, Wakakusa Monogatari Nan to Jō Sensei "Tale of Young Grass: Nan and Miss Jo") is a 1993 Japanese animated television series based on Louisa May Alcott's Little Men, produced by Nippon Animation. The series is the sequel to the studio's 1987 Little Women, an adaptation of Alcott's novel of the same name.

Plot

Josephine March has grown into womanhood about ten years since "Little Women" and is now married to the German Professor, Friedrich Bhaer. In the Plumfield farm-house that Aunt March had left her, Jo Bhaer has established a new school for her two sons, Robby and Teddy, nephews and a gang of orphaned children including Nan Harding and a rough, street-wise adolescent named Dan. With the experience of a model childhood and a faithful and caring husband, Jo guides her pupils in their young lives; with song, music and play, the children are led through the joys and sorrows of life, work and play, rewards and punishments, getting involved in all sorts of mischief and adventure.

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Info to the Anime Nanatsu No Umi No Tico (Track 11 + 12) (Wikipedia and Anime News Network)
Tico of the Seven Seas (七つの海のティコ, Nanatsu no Umi no Tiko) is a Japanese anime series by Nippon Animation. It is about a girl of eleven with her best friend Tico, a female orca.

Plot

Nanami Simpson is a young girl. Her mother dies when she is young, and she goes to live with her Father, Scott Simpson, on board a Marine Research Vessel , the Peperonchino. Her Father is a Marine Biologist, and he is in search of a creature known as the Glowing Whale. When He finds the bones of one of these, he is saddened, and resolves to change his mission towards preserving and caring for the creatures. Nanami befriends an Orca which she names Tico, and She goes swimming with it every day. Eventually, she learns to breathe Underwater which astounds her Father. Nanami nearly drowns one day, and one of the glowing whales saves her from certain death and returns her to the vessel, where her Father finally gets to see it.

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Info to the Anime Purinsesu Sēra (Track 13 + 14) (Wikipedia)
Princess Sarah (小公女セーラ, Purinsesu Sēra?) was a 1985 Japanese anime series produced by Nippon Animation, based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel, A Little Princess. Spanning 46 episodes, it originally premiered in 1985 across Japan on Fuji Television as the 11th series of Nippon Animation's famous World Masterpiece Theater staple.

It was also later aired across huddersfield by the anime television network, Animax, who also later broadcast the series across its respective networks worldwide, including its English language networks in Southeast Asia and South Asia, dubbing and translating the series into English. Animax's adaptation was the series' only English translation, and the series has yet to be commercially released in the United States. It was translated to many different languages including French, Italian, Arabic and Spanish.

In the Philippines, it was aired by ABS-CBN in the early 1990s, and was a runaway success, even spawning a live action movie and a teleserye.

In the Pan-Arab region, it became the most successful anime based on a novel adaptation in the 90s.

This anime has been selected by voters as one of the best and most popular 100 japaneese anime of all times by tv asahi

Story

Princess Sarah tells the story of Sarah Crewe, a young daughter of a wealthy British family in Huddersfield, who starts attending an all-girl's boarding school in London, where she excels in her studies and is loved deeply by many of her friends and classmates. However, tragedy soon strikes when Sarah's father passes away and her family goes bankrupt, leaving her to be a poor orphan. The school's headmistress, Miss Minchin, takes advantage of this situation and makes her a maid in the school, trying hard to make her life as miserable as possible. However, Sarah, with the help of her friends, perseveres and tries to endure all her hardships until redemption comes at last.

and thank you for the sweet comments, my friend arthierr *HUUUUUG*

I'm sorry.
Wrong post. Forgive me.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, here is my

Special Romantic Compilation

with a really relaxing background ^^, but maybe a little bit to sad


The Special Romantic Compilation by Billie (http://rapidshare.com/files/184931314/The_Special_Romantic_Compilation_by_Billie.zip)

Billie, i listened a couple of times your compilation.
You focused more at light and happy love themes, with most of the tracks based around piano and woodwinds, which creates that warm and familiar mood.
I especially liked the Poledouris track, and "A Happy Ending" by Mark Knopfler.
Overall a very nice compliation you made, perfectly adequate for those sunny afternoon walks on the park :)

I'm really glad, that you like my romantic compilation, sanico ^^

here is an another soundtrack, for the animal lover under us XD

Walt Disney Pictures Presents BOLT (heroic, mighty, graceful)





Track listing

01. I Thought I Lost You (03:36) performed by Miley Cyrus & John Travolta
02. Barking at the Moon (03:17) performed by Jenny Lewis
03. Meet Bolt (01:49)
04. Bolt Transforms (01:00)
05. Scooter Chase (02:29)
06. New York (01:44)
07. Meet Mittens (01:25)
08. The RV Park (02:14)
09. A Fast Train (02:38)
10. Where Were You on St. Rhino's Day? (01:58)
11. Sing-Along Rhino (00:42)
12. Saving Mittens (01:02)
13. House on Wheels (03:07)
14. Las Vegas (02:01)
15. Friend in Need (01:13)
16. Rescuing Penny (03:09)
17. A Real Live Superbark (00:46)
18. Unbelievable TV (01:20)
19. Home at Last / Barking at the Moon (Reprise) (01:29)

Total Duration: 00:36:59

BOLT (http://rapidshare.com/files/188800872/Bolt.zip)

Information to the movie ->> Bolt (2008 Movie) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_(2008_film))

Romantic Compilation

And this is another romantic compilation.
I added just only one track per composer, which was a bit hard to choose because i left so many good tracks that could be here.
Anyway hope you like it.

Download (http://rapidshare.com/files/185220265/Romantic_Compilation_-_Sanico.zip)

1. Ilia's Theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Jerry Goldsmith
2. Shipping News from The Shipping News by Christopher Young
3. Wifeing from Conan The Barbarian by Basil Poledouris
4. Spartacus Love Theme from Spartacus by Alex North
5. Comptine D'un Autre �t�: L'apr�s Midi from Le Fabuleux Destin D'Am�lie Poulain by Yann Tiersen
6. Amarcord from Amarcord by Nino Rota
7. Moon River from Breakfast At Tiffany's by Henry Mancini
8. Nobody Does It Better (Instrumental) from The Spy Who Loved Me by Marvin Hamlisch
9. Lovers (Flower Garden) from House Of Flying Daggers by Shigeru Umebayashi
10. Love In Distance from Hero by Tan Dun
11. Love Remembered from Bram Stoker's Dracula by Wojciech Kilar
12. Lara Says Goodbye To Yuri from Doctor Zhivago by Maurice Jarre
13. Love Theme From Superman from Superman by John Williams
14. Kowloon Bay from Tomorrow Never Dies by David Arnold
15. Paul Meets Chani from Dune by Toto
16. The Kiss from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within by Elliot Goldenthal
17. Conversation Piece from North By Northwest by Bernard Herrmann
18. Esther from Ben-Hur by Mikl�s R�zsa
19. Somewhere In Time from Somewhere In Time by John Barry
20. C'era Una Volta Il West from Once Upon A Time In The West by Ennio Morricone

I see your bolt and raise you a Tale of Despereaux by William Ross (Heroic, Epic, Grand)

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

A little info on William Ross (Couldn't find any reviews of the soundtrack itself)
A talented composer, conductor, orchestrator and arranger, William Ross began his career as an arranger in the pop and rock world, and over the years has worked with artists ranging from as Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Michael Jackson and Barry Manilow to Celine Dion, LeAnn Rimes, Jennifer Lopez, Whitney Houston and Cher. He first entered the film music world in the late 1980s, writing episodic scores for TV shows such as "McGyver", "Matlock", "Beauty and the Beast", and Steven Spielberg's "Tiny Toon Adventures", before moving into feature films primarily as an orchestrator for Alan Silvestri. Having made a name for himself working with Silvestri on successful films such as “The Bodyguard”, “Father of the Bride”, “Death Becomes Her”, Ross quickly became one of the most in-demand orchestrators in Hollywood, and subsequently worked on numerous high-profile films with composers ranging from Danny Elfman, Michael Kamen and Christopher Young to Bruce Broughton and David Newman. During this time, Ross undertook occasional scoring assignments on his own, achieving modest success with titles such as "Look Who's Talking Now" (1993), "The Little Rascals" (1994), "Tin Cup" (1996), "The Evening Star" (1996) and "My Dog Skip" (2000), but really came into his own in 2002 when he wrote the score for "Tuck Everlasting", and adapted and conducted John Williams's music for the second Harry Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". Now concentrating primarily on composing, he has since written the music for a number of successful films, notably “Ladder 49” (2004) and “The Game of Their Lives”, while continuing to collaborate with Alan Silvestri (they have now worked together on over 40 films!) Away from film music, Ross is also a prolific composer of music for theme parks, having completed assignments for Disneyland, Sony Entertainment in Germany, and Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia. He wrote a ballet, "Blue Suede Shoes", for a dance company in Cleveland, and has arranged music for many special events, including the Gala Inauguration of President Bill Clinton, the Superbowl telecast, and various awards ceremonies.
From http://www.moviemusicuk.us/ross.htm

Billie: Wow, so much music for us! Many thanks.

Your Anime Pack is lovely. You seem to be a big fan of old cute animes. I really enjoyed some of them years ago, and I remember their charming, heartfelt music.

Thank you too for BOLT, it seems very interesting because Disney + Powell = very likely a LOT of action and humor.



Sanico: thank you for your Romantic Compilation. Don't worry about the fact that you chose only one track, because the important thing here is that you chose cues having a good Love Theme, or displaying a nice romantic ambience. I haven't still listened to your pack, but seeing some cues I know very well I can tell that you chose some really exemplary ones. Comments later as usual.

Now that you and Billie posted your Romantic packs, I suppose I'll have to post my own soon...



Sirusjr: another brand new score for us! Thanks a lot. I don't know this one, but as it seems to be in a medieval context, I'll probably like it because I'm fond of Medieval-Fantasy-Magical scores (Relly enjoyed Inkheart).

William Ross is a very talented composer with great orchestral skills, but he's too much underrated, so it's good to see him scoring a recent big movie.

Ps: if you have some time, please add some infos or a review to your post, thanks!



Thank you all again, mates! :)

Year One From The North by Mishiru Oshima

(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-folder-1869061.html)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S5LCIFJM

Track listing

1. Year One In The North – Main Title (03:24)
2. The Decision of Husband and Wife (05:41)
3. Winter In The North (03:09)
4. The Flower of Awaji (06:46)
5. The Refugees of The Time (03:01)
6. Reluctance To Move On (02:31)
7. Dreams Come True (02:33)
8. Kurazou's Thought (01:49)
9. The Pleasures of A Happy Home (02:13)
10. A Small Miracle (01:56)
11. The New World (00:49)
12. A Bright Future (01:41)
13. The Attack of The Locusts (07:40)
14. A Heartrending Cry (02:08)
15. The Hand That Knows Trouble (02:50)
16. The Day of A Decisive Battle (02:07)
17. Our Country – Confrontation (03:33)
18. A Surprise Attack (01:32)
19. As Far As I Dream (08:28)
20. A Miracle To Hope (05:59)

Total Duration: 01:09:50

Some information about the composer:

(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1869041.html)

Michiru Ōshima (大島ミチル‎, Ōshima Michiru?, born March 16, 1961 in Nagasaki, Nagasaki), is a Japanese composer who has worked on several video game, movie, and television titles. Her works include composition for the video games Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Gray Wolf for Super Nintendo,[1]Ico for PlayStation 2, Legend of Legaia for the Playstation (and its Playstation 2 sequel, Legaia Duel Saga, for which she collaborated with eminent Japanese game composers Yasunori Mitsuda and Hitoshi Sakimoto), Arc the Lad III, and an orchestral arrangement of a Zelda medley for the Wii and Gamecube game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. In addition to video game music, she has composed music for the Godzilla movies and scores for numerous anime television series, including Fullmetal Alchemist (and the motion picure Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa), Queen Emeraldas, Xam'd: Lost Memories, Arc the Lad, and Weathering Continent.

http://www.michiru-oshima.net/

Hi, I would like ask if someone of you knows a FREE software to convert MPC to Mp3 format.

Thanks in advance.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AFW0B7PL
MPC Batch encoder is a simple software that encodes and decodes from mpc files then you can compress separate.

Thanks a lot for the software Sirusjr

Best!

Christopher Gordon


Official website:
http://christophergordon.net/index.htm


IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0330090/


A very interesting interview:
Conversation with Screen Composer Christopher Gordon - Sculpting Sound: New Bell Designs and Attitude (http://www.mca.org.au/web/content/view/17/6)


From moviemusicuk.us:

"British-born composer who has spent the majority of his working career in Australia. Was a member of the Australian Boys Choir as a child, but received no formal music training; despite this, he began working in the film music industry in Australia in the mid 1980s, on small-scale TV movies of his own, and undertaking orchestration and conducting duties for other composers, notably Mario Millo and Roger Mason. First came to prominence internationally in 1998 with the “Moby Dick”, the first of several scores he wrote for the American cable channel Hallmark, and has since gone on to build a small but high quality filmography that includes titles such as “On the Beach” (2000) and the multi Oscar-winning “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” (2003). He also continued to provide support to other composers working in Australia, having conducted the score for “Moulin Rouge” (2001) on behalf of Craig Armstrong, and “Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course” (2002) for Mark McDuff. In addition to his film work, Gordon has also written music for the concert hall, arts festivals and special events that include the Sydney Harbour Millennium Celebrations, the Australian Centenary of Federation celebration and the recent Rugby World Cup."


I just recently discovered this composer, thanks to Billie and her delightful Animalistic Soundtrack (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1198487&postcount=1133), where she posted one of his cues: Moby Dick Theme. This piece was so good that I wanted to hear a lot more from Christopher Gordon, and just at that moment Garcia27 had the good idea to generously bring us a bunch of scores and events music by him:

- On The Beach
- Moby Dick
- Melbourne 2006 - The Opening Ceremony
- Salem's Lot
- Master and Commander
- Christopher Gordon Unreleased Titles

So, once again thanks a lot to Garcia27 for his great contributions. These posts are available higher in this page, here (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1203936&postcount=1228). Enjoy this high level orchestral music! :)

Thanks a lot for Year One From The North by Mishiru Oshima, Garcia. :) There are many fans of her here, she a fantastic composer who does some really sweeping beautiful orchestral scores. This post is highly appreciated (I didn't even know it existed).



Hi, I would like ask if someone of you knows a FREE software to convert MPC to Mp3 format.

Thanks in advance.

Yes, the app provided by Sirusjr (thanks!) is good for that. But as I said somewhere else, it's strongly advised not to convert a lossy format to another. But if you really need it in mp3, then you should use the highest quality possible for your conversion (Lame 3.98 insane), to avoid excessive quality loss.

Yes, the app provided by Sirusjr (thanks!) is good for that. But as I said somewhere else, it's strongly advised not to convert a lossy format to another. But if you really need it in mp3, then you should use the highest quality possible for your conversion (Lame 3.98 insane), to avoid excessive quality loss.

What player do you use to play these mpc files?

I cannot play them neither with media player nor with winamp.

Probably this has been posted around but...

Alone In The Dark by Olivier de Riviere

(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-la-1873066.html)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JWL5D1BZ

Track listing

1. Prelude to an End (01:33)
2. Edward Carnby (02:36)
3. The Fissure (03:43)
4. Collapsing Floors (04:35)
5. The Fa�ade (04:59)
6. Reception Hall (04:39)
7. The Humanz (04:26)
8. Who Am I? (02:25)
9. Central Dark (01:24)
10. Crying New York (02:36)
11. Loneliness (02:03)
12. Bethesda Fight (02:02)
13. Killing the Fissure (03:47)
14. No More Humans (04:40)
15. Truth (01:11)
16. Niamam (01:00)
17. The Light Carrier Test (05:51)
18. Shto Li (a cappella) (02:20)
19. The Final Gate (05:08)
20. The Choice (01:35)
21. An End for a Prelude (04:11)

Total Duration: 01:06:44

Foobar 2000 can play MPC files but if you want to put them on a portable media player (Ipod or Zune) then you need to convert them to mp3 thus why I understand your need to convert.

What player do you use to play these mpc files?

I cannot play them neither with media player nor with winamp.

For Winamp, you need the Winamp MPC Plugin:

http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=win

Just put it in your Winamp Plugins folder, then open Winamp, go to 'options' > 'preferences' > 'file types' and make sure MPC is selected. Now close Winamp and it'll be ok.


Thanks for Alone In The Dark! Yes, it has been posted, but the mirror is welcome. Nice score for a game, but a bit heavy on choir sometimes (and the choir has a weird timbre).

Thanks both for your advice.

Sanico

Can you please tell me what version and in what quality is your: The Dark Crystal?

I recently red a review of it, and I'd like to rediscover this score, as it's been a very long time I heard it.