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NP: TESTAMENT OF YOUTH (Max Richter)

Probably the most 'commercial' score he's done so far. I like it, but I would have liked it even more if it were more "Richter".

NP: SOUTHPAW (James Horner)

Hypnotizing. I like it, although it's rather untypical Horner in many ways.

The CD booklet doesn't state anything to the contrary, so I assume that it is Horner's composition.

Must give this another listen, when I listened to my copy on it's arrival it just made me appreciate how well put together and focused the original release was. More often that not I think Goldsmith's work really benefits from the C&C treatment (And I don't think most film music does) but in this case it just made it feel like an unfocussed mess.

Unfocused mess? No it's just Jerry's creativity working non stop and giving us too much information for our little brains to handle. Today my brain just went along with all the goofy craziness, resulting in me bobbing along, smiling almost non-stop and feeling all giddy inside. That doesn't happen too much anymore.

It works brilliantly as a film score and suits the film to perfection.

I just think they did a great job making that crazy, all over the place score work as a cohesive listen on it's own away from the picture on the original album.

Definitely going to give it another listen in the next few days though as I was in a distracted mood when I listened to it, which in hindsight is probably the worst way to listen to this score!

I just love Gremlins 2! I had to sell my house to pay for it though due to the American dollar being where it is just now. But it's sooooo worth it! It's a silly, fun but very fine score by Mr. G!





Okay, I paid $48 Australian dollars for it and I'm listening to it in my comfortable house. All good.

I just listened to that for the first time, recently. I was surprised at how aggressive and cacophonous so much of it was. The flight cue I had heard before, and it is excellent, but so too is the final track.

NP: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Bernie Leadon / The BBC Radiophonic Workshop

I don't think, the music to the series has ever been released on CD. I just edited a one minute suite of two pieces I recorded off my DVDs. I used the main theme (Journey of the Sorcerer) and a tiny snippet of music that plays at the very end of Restaurant following Armstrong's "Beautiful World". It leads to a rather bombast crescendo.

Volker

NP: OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE (Alan Silvestri)

Glorious Synclaviers! Yes, this is a 20-minute bootleg, as it has no commercial release yet.

You know those moments when a piece of music hits you harder than it ever has and really makes you stop whatever you're doing and bask in its awesomeness? That just happened to me while listening to "All Is Lost" from THE NEW WORLD. What an incredible composition! The build-up that starts at 3:23 is one of my new favorite Horner moments. It starts with just a piano, repeating a simple idea, and adds a cello (I think) with an ascending line, then some higher strings, then more. The melodies and harmonies multiply and grow into something that is just insanely gorgeous, and then it climaxes into a wonderful statement of the "Listen to the Wind" theme. FANTASTIC. I've been impressed by the track before, but somehow I had never recognized how wonderful it was until just now.

Well to each his own. These are concert suites and as such open to interpretation as is every piece of orchestral music. I don't regard the original recording as a template never to divert from. (Which doesn't mean that you do.)

I agree but Previn's conducting on this album is brutal.

-Erik-

SWING KIDS - Horner

I've listened through this three times now. Most of it is fine, but I'm not connecting with more than a couple tracks. "The Letter," and "Swing Heil" are my kind of Horner music. The latter especially is very moving.