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LEE HOLDRIDGE - mists of avalon

No matter how many times i listen to this, the reaction is always

One of the best post 2000 scores. It's so full of energy and themes, it's actually irresistible!

Ah yes, almost Easter! Means I will visit The Passion of the Christ (and symphony) soon again!

And Passion, by Peter Gabriel...are you familiar with it?

nop! i know the movie, and who scored it, but never came around watching this.

Thanks for the tip, i'll check it out!

Does 13th Warrior count?

Clannad's Robin of Sherwood

Nascimbene's The Vikings.

Herrmann's Jason and The Argonauts

Rosenthal's Clash of The Titans


Just off the top of my head.

John Williams - Saving Private Ryan

In the mood for some elegant and respectable Americana.

When I heard the release for the first time, I dismissed Williams's score as boring. It grew on me a lot, even if I realized a lot of it is nothing more than a variation on Copland's Lincoln Portrait piece. The writing is very good. The brass parts are pure Americana beauty. Williams went lengths not to go over the top.

I always wondered though if the film needed any score. I think it would very good without music, with the exquisite hymn (one of the best if not the best Williams theme of the 1990s, yes, considering Hook, Jurassic Park and Schindler's List, which, along with The Thin Red Line, is my all-time favorite score) left solely for the End Credits as a remembrance piece. The score does add honorability and respect to a gritty film and doesn't detract from it, but doesn't give too much I think and if anything, the question should be asked to Spielberg, rather than Williams, which did his best to give the movie what it was needed.

Very good, respectable, elegant and, in some way, actually relaxing music and the Hymn deserves a strong compilation album. I don't think any re-recording would do the piece justice though.

I think music helped the training scenes and the great shots of flying planes, right before the hell drops.

In Band of Brothers, I couldn't imagine the discovery scene without the score. Pure inspiration on ALL sides of the camera.

NP:The Last Samurai (Hans Zimmer).

It's far from a perfect score. from the annoying synthetic action tracks (the second half of Red Warrior is terrible) to the uninspired Algren's theme. From thoseeeeeeeeeeeee large notes to the little sense of real japanese music.

But then, there are SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL STUFF ZIMMER HAS EVER COMPOSED : " A way of life" (with Red Warrior theme played with synthetiser to represent the spirit of the taka's death husband), To Know My enemey (with this amazing statement of the samurai theme), "Idilly's End" or the powerful "Taken".

I do really love this navajo chants in Red Warrior, It is one of the best moments of Zimmer's career.

This score has the peace, and the strenght.

King of Kings -- Rozsa


Doesn't get much better than this.

NP: God of War III - Gerard Marino / Jeff Rona / Ron Fish / Mike Reagan / Cris Velasco

The usual mix of thumping percussion, strings and choir that seems to be the norm for high-profile games.

Luckily I really enjoy this sort of thing so I'm lapping it up at the moment: a great overture to start things off. Rona's (three) tracks fit into this style well, with a nod to his Rome ethnic orchestrations in "Lure of A Goddess". Cris Velasco's "Pandora's Song" also has that Rome feel about it.

Definitely worth a listen if you enjoyed Rona's Rome.

Yes, I have. I remember Dante's Inferno (at least) getting some bad press here. But, as far as I'm concerned both Dante's Inferno and Darksiders are very good indeed. And now that God of War III is here, this is just continuing the trend of great sounding game scores. Along with Greg Edmonson's Uncharted 2. The list goes on...

As for the bad press, it was from a couple of members or so...i, personally, loved especially Dante's Inferno and Bioshock 2...the man has the ability to write some very complex and grippingly modern stuff for the orchestra!