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I also prefer the original album in this case. All in all the score is a bit too operatic an sugary for my taste. Did you compile your playlist from the two official releases or did you did you use unnameable sources?

Volker

Same here. However 'You Are The Pan' is an outstanding track.

Hooknapped and Presenting the Hook are utterly brilliant tracks as well.
In fact, I pretty much love every single track from the movie's first half. Magic! Some of Williams' very finest work!

I made my own after my first listen of the LLL album, about which I felt disappointed. I corrected The Ultimate War, which was a labor of love, so no more extreme jumps in volume here. It fully rocks, Williams all-time best rollicking action cue... I don't understand how the guys over at LLL decided to release half of that sequence in a butchered state.

As far as I remembered Williams himself got involved in editing the LLL release and that he had final say on what was released. Also I remember the source situation was complicated. Not everything was available in the desired form. Seems like LLL was faced with a situation to release the album in its present form or to abandon the project for good.
About those jumps in volume: This seems to be the film mix that is adjusted to dialogue and sound effects. I don't know whether an adjustment of volume would have hurt the sound otherwise. I'm sure the pros at LLL have considered that and checked it out. Also there are loops. As I said, not every cue was available in a form that one would have wished for.

You tell him dude ! Though I won't ever claim to be a professional music editor, I'm damn proud of that.

In any case, LLL probably cannot edit the original cues in any way, besides using remastering techniques. Are these specialty labels even allowed to tinker with tracks to improve them? Williams should have allowed that for the film stems that ended up on the expansion.

Henry Jackman - Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

I'm much warmer to the composer than most of guys here, but this is my favourite score of his. As traditional he can go on this side of animation (where he's essentially a bit of a John Powell-lite), shows that he's a rare bird there who actually knows what an orchestra is.

I believe that and that's fine and dandy. But why did LLL release what they did. (And would it have been better to not release anything at all.)

Volker

The Last Guardian - Takeshi Furukawa

Adore this video game score, a good blend of ethereal Thomas Newman-like wonder and exciting ostinati-driven action. Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and London Voices no less.

NP: THE NEON DEMON (Cliff Martinez)

"The Demon Dance":

As I've said before, I like my own personal, 30-something minute playlist of BvS (not the whole thing). But it pales compared to MAN OF STEEL.

NP: Superman Returns (2006) - John Ottman, John Williams

I own and love both releases of this score. This time I opted for the original album.

Volker

Scott of the Antarctic - RVW

Second attempt of the Dutton Vocalion release... better this time, and I don't plan to end it half-way through.

The recording is stellar, but I have nothing to compare it with, so I take it this is the best it has ever sounded. About what's on the disc itself, a more abstract film score than I'm used to, not the adventurous, emotional kind, filled with fanfares and full-on thematic hooks I grew up with. But it's interesting music still. More classical sounding, and that's maybe why my initial listen was so disappointing. But to be honest this is too long at 80 minutes, will have to trim it down to about 50 minutes for future listens.

Agreed and I don't care about the classical influences at all. I watched he film last year and I actually wonder if in some cases they are intentionally meant to comment on the action, I remember thinking that there's no way the direct quotes of the trapping the wolf motif from 'Peter and the Wolf' for the trapping of the T-Rex at the end of a children's story is not 100% intentional!