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I agree with the call Ridley Scott and his editor made re: Goldsmith's main title. Not quite so convinced they made the right decision with respect to the end title though.

My girlfriend finds "Towards the unknown" a sexy cue. I personally think it's the least listenable on the album, but I still kinda like it. The finale I think is the best sequence in recent film score history. The movie was kinda cheesy, but the music somehow makes me connect emotionally to it.

The first 5½ minutes of this utube clip illustrates the awesomeness of this score quite well-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92UrCSI0vlk

Peter

I would totally agree with that Bregt, there's a lot to get your ears around and I'm looking forward to giving it a second listen.

Wow. That's like really old.


Casino Royale | David Arnold

What a score! 'African Rundown' and 'Miami International' are two of the coolest action cues Arnold's ever composed.

NP: John Williams Conducts John Williams- Star Wars Trilogy

Great concert arrengements, and the only way to hear this themes with today's recordings technology

Next I will play: ST.Insurrection

THe main theme makes me cry, and the action stuff is recorded as heaven, very clearly.

The best ST score since the original, the only problem is some action stuff is too on autopilot

I just got back from watching the film and the score's even better there than on the album, which is saying something. Desplat completely nailed it - and the film's a million miles better than I expected/feared (though isn't perfect).

Imagine how many themes we would discover if we listen more closely to Michael Clayton, 21 Grams, The Clearing, The Forgotten, or all scores by Haslinger.

James, although I'm 10 hours in front of you, you always seem quicker to the punch like that!

Since you've seen GC, perhaps you can say - any major cues not on the album?

NP: 'Night of the flying horses' by Osvaldo Golijov

When this one whips up into a Slavic frenzy, this one is fantastic.

NP:The Ring ( Zimmer )

Even having the recording sessions , I prefer play the first 3 tracks from the Decca realease wich are basically the best music from the first movie.

The Well (11:24)
Before you die you see the Ring (7:09)
This is going to hurt (2:47)

Is this album the Skywalker Symphony recording? I seem to recall - strangely enough for a record trying to showcase a recording venue - that the sound is kind of flat. And that extended 'Throne Room' concert suite is not Williams at his best... the shorter STAR WARS edit is more to the point, even if it lacks the beauty of the Force theme on its own. (Williams should probably have done a concert arrangement of that theme on its own anyway.)

Lair | John Debney & Kevin Kaska

I absolutely love this score.

Nope. My whole family could follow it without difficulties. I hear this kind of comment a lot around this movie, readers of the book worrying non-readers getting the story, but it doesn´t seem to be that problem at all. I think the script did a wonderful job to focus on certain aspects and to make those absolutely clear. There may be things missing, but it didn´t feel that way, and I didn´t find it too fast-paced. The Golden Compass managed all this a lot better than the Potter movies, which are so totally rushed and never care to explain things in a proper way for non-readers. Not that I would need it, since I´ve read all the books beforehand, but a lot of people I know, who never read any of them, were totally lost by what happened in part 5, and I can totally understand it.

I love it too. One of this year´s best.
But now you mention it, which parts are Kaska´s work, if you (or somebody else) know it? I have 4 tracks of the score labeled as Kaska´s ("Main Menu", "Blood River", "Breaking the Ice" and "Bridge of the Ancients"), but I don´t know if it´s a reliable info. And I assume that even if those tracks are by Kaska, they are based around Debney´s themes? Too many doubts too soon this morning