http://www.soundtrackcollector.com Recent news on SoundtrackCollector.com. en-us Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:31:38 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2205 <![CDATA[ ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2205 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2204 <![CDATA[ Lakeshore Records has released The Darkest Hour,&nbsp;the story of five young people who find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack. The 3D thriller highlights the classic beauty of Moscow alongside mind-blowing special effects. &ldquo;This music reflects the headspace of our survivors as they navigate their way through an alien-infested Moscow,&rdquo; said Tyler Bates. &quot;The score is largely electronic &ndash; comprised of a palette of modular synthesizer experiments and propulsive rhythms featuring a vintage Synare at its core. Its atonal voice is an extension of the eerie electrical sound design that often makes one&rsquo;s hair stand on end.&rdquo;&nbsp; Sonic architect Bates designed a score utilizing nontraditional instrumentation. He described &ldquo;The decision to make this journey without the aid of choir and brass melodies required me to delve deep into the complexity of the non-orchestral aspect of the music in effort to convey the essence of Moscow&rsquo;s desolate streets through sound and music. The vast expanse of a micro-waved Moscow, void of human life, allowed for emotional themes to be stated entirely with solo instruments.&rdquo; The score is available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany. ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2204 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2203 <![CDATA[ MovieScore Media is&nbsp;proud to announce that they have released the legendary Michael Kamen's original orchestral score from the German fantasy animation Back To Gaya on CD and online. The completion of the score was an extraordinary achievement as the composer tragically, in the midst of composing the music for the film, passed away. Committed to fulfil the vision of Kamen, complementing the music he had written specifically for Back To Gaya with a selection of his unused compositions from previous film projects, a team of composer and orchestrators headed by Kamens long-time associates Steve McLaughlin (producer/recording engineer) and Christopher Brooks (producer/music editor) finalized the score to fit the film perfectly. MovieScore Media's album features 62 minutes of grand orchestral, adventurous and highly entertaining Michael Kamen music performed by the London Metropolitan Orchestra. In honour of the late maestro. For more info, soundclips and ordering, visit MovieScore Media.&nbsp; ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2203 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2202 <![CDATA[ Var&egrave;se Sarabande has released the score for In The Land Of Blood And Honey. Set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War that tore the Balkan region apart in the 1990s, the movie tells the story of Danijel (Goran Kostic&acute;) and Ajla (Zana Marjanovic&acute;), two people from different sides of a brutal ethnic conflict. Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, and Ajla, a Bosnian held captive in the camp he oversees, knew each other before the war, and could have found love with each other. But as the armed conflict takes hold of their lives, their relationship grows darker, their motives and connection to one another ambiguous, their allegiances uncertain.&nbsp;In The Land Of Blood And Honey portrays the incredible emotional, moral and physical toll that the war exerts both on individuals and people as a whole, and the terrible consequences that stem from the lack of political will to intervene in a society stricken with conflict. In addition to three cues of score by Academy Award-winning composer Gabriel Yared (The English Patient), the album also features &ldquo;Miss Sarajevo&rdquo; by U2 side project Passengers featuring Luciano Pavarotti, Yared&rsquo;s powerful song &ldquo;When My Heart Dies&rdquo; as performed by Natasa Mirkovic - De Ro, and a selection of Balkan songs from the film&rsquo;s soundtrack. The score is available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany.&nbsp; ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2202 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2201 <![CDATA[ La-La Land Records presents the latest release in&nbsp;their Expanded Archival Collection, renowned composer Elliot Goldenthal's&nbsp;original score to the 1995 Warner Bros. blockbuster film Batman Forever. Goldenthal's robust orchestral score honors The Caped Crusader with a powerful theme that is pitch perfect whether appearing as a stalwart march or brooding character study. The rest of the score follows suit, effectively supporting the film's array of characters and large-scale action with complex, memorable themes and motifs. This remastered release has been radically expanded, more than doubling the running time of the original 1995 score soundtrack release. (The remastered 1995 score album is presented here as well). Produced and supervised by Elliot Goldenthal, produced for La-La Land Records by Neil S. Bulk and Dan Goldwasser, and mastered by James Nelson, this 2-CD limited edition release features exclusive, in-depth liner notes from film music writer John Takis and is a must-have for any film-music enthusiast. This is a Limited Edition of 3500 copies. For more info and ordering, visit La-La Land Records. ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2201 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2200 <![CDATA[ Perseverance Records has released the score for Animals United (Konferenz der Tiere), their second album with David Newman. This animated feature follows in the footsteps of classics such as his &quot;Anastasia&quot; and &quot;Ice Age&quot;. It's the story of&nbsp;a group of animals waiting for the annual flood they rely on for food and water. Than they&nbsp;discover that the humans, who have been destroying their habitats have built a dam for a leisure resort.&nbsp; In style similar to Newman's &quot;The Air Up There&quot;, this score features sweeping melodies, battling drums and an African choir. The album contains the complete orchestral score and is different from the previous European release inasmuch as it doesn't have the songs by Naturally 7 and Xavier Nadoo. Produced by David Newman and Robin Esterhammer. For more info and ordering, visit Perseverance Records.&nbsp; ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2200 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2199 <![CDATA[ Disques Cin&eacute;musique has released Les Premiers 45 Tours De Georges Delerue, once again some of early Georges Delerue's recordings that were still unavailable on digital support. The specialized labels based in France have overlooked the early extended 45 rpm records in their various compilations devoted to the composer, keeping only one track from Les Jeux De L&rsquo;amour and two from Le Farceur and Une Aussi Longue Absence. In addition,&nbsp;the program includes Le Bel &acirc;ge, Une Fille Pour L'&eacute;t&eacute; (A Girl For The Summer) and Marche Ou Cr&egrave;ve (March Or Die). These EPS - extended plays - offered the core of the music heard in the feature film : about ten minutes usually spread over four tracks. Their content in entirety deserved to be preserved. Classical Cl oriented compositions that bear the distinctive Delerue stamp alternate here with popular dances, cool jazz and blues pieces, fields in which the maestro from Roubaix excelled but was not specializing in, unlike many of his colleagues: Alain Goraguer, Serge Gainsbourg, Michel Legrand, Georges Garvarentz, Martial Solal and Michel Magne, to name only a few. For more info and ordering, visit Disques Cin&eacute;musique.&nbsp; ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2199 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2198 <![CDATA[ From Var&egrave;se Sarabande comes the score for Albert Nobbs. A witty Irish-set period drama about the lives of staff at Dublin&rsquo;s most luxurious hotel: the illegitimate child of a maid, a beautiful couple&rsquo;s impossible love, and Albert &hellip; a woman who pretends to be a man to survive. 19th Century Ireland: for a woman to be independent and single, she must deceive everyone &ndash; by pretending to be a man. Albert, a shy butler who keeps himself to himself, has been hiding deep secret for years &mdash; &lsquo;he&rsquo; is a woman who has had to dress and behave as a man all her life in order to escape a life of poverty and loneliness. When a handsome painter Hubert Page arrives at the hotel, Albert is inspired to try and escape the false life she has created for herself.&nbsp;Irish composer Brian Byrne delivers a stunning score, sure to make a powerful introduction for this composer on the international film music scene. It&rsquo;s beautiful and truly inspired. The soundtrack album also features &ldquo;Lay Your Head Down&rdquo; &mdash; the film&rsquo;s original end title song &mdash; co-written with Glenn Close herself and sung by Sin&eacute;ad O&rsquo;Connor. The score is available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany. ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2198 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2197 <![CDATA[ Sony Masterworks has released&nbsp;the original motion picture soundtrack of Shame, an award-winning psychological drama from writer and director Steve McQueen (Hunger). At the 2011 Venice Film Festival, Shame received the Critics Choice award as well as the Best Actor accolade for Michael Fassbender.&nbsp;This movie &ndash; described as &ldquo;a cinematic jolt&rdquo; with &ldquo;a brilliant, ferocious performance&rdquo; by The Hollywood Reporter &ndash; is the story of Brandon (Michael Fassbender), a handsome and successful New Yorker who spends his days and nights navigating the reckless terrain of sexual obsession, on an inevitable path towards self destruction. For the original music, McQueen turned to Harry Escott, a young London-based composer best known for the original scores for Hard Candy, A Mighty Heart, Deep Water, and Shifty. Escott&rsquo;s compositions focus on the potential for music to function as a storyteller with the ability to convey meaning and emotion. However, this soundtrack includes much more, adding in powerful tracks from a variety of genres: from classical to rock and blues. Available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany.&nbsp; ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2197 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2193 <![CDATA[ Kronos Records has released Africa To-day. This is&nbsp;for the first time ever on CD a library music collection of tracks by legendary Maestro Pieri Umiliani.&nbsp;The tracks present on this compact disc were previously issued between 1971 and 1975 on three privately issued vinyl LP's on Umiliani's own label Liuto as Omicron: Africa (1971),&nbsp;Polinesia (1972) and Continente Nero (1975) and recorded at SoundWorkShop Studios in Rome.&nbsp; The pieces of this collection blend jazz, funk, world music and progressive rock with percussive breaks, marimba solos, piano riffs and moog licks in a state of the art performance&nbsp; by Piero and his orchestra. Piero Umiliani was a great traveler and has done so with the eyes and ears of the musician.&nbsp; Listening to Africa To-day is not&nbsp; just a musical experience,&nbsp; it is a journey into the infinite world&nbsp; of&nbsp; Piero, a journey through his love for music and life. For more info and ordering, visit Kronos Records. ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2193 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2192 <![CDATA[ MovieScore Media has released the score for&nbsp;Capit&aacute;n Trueno&nbsp;Y El Santo Grial (Captain Thunder and the Holy Grail). Captain Thunder &ndash; or Capitan Trueno in Spanish - is one of the most popular comic book heroes in Spain and the long-awaited film version depicting his adventures calls for nothing less than a truly epic, big and heroic orchestral score.&nbsp;MovieScore Media is&nbsp;happy to work with yet another brilliant Spanish composer &ndash; Luis Ivars &ndash; on this album, presenting a very exciting score that will be appreciated by fans of such esteemed action maestros as Alan Silvestri, Hans Zimmer and Basil Poledouris. Of particular notice is the catchy Captain Thunder Theme, but there are many other thematic ideas to be explored in this complex work, which balances beautiful orchestrations and ethnic colourings with subtle electronic elements. For the domestic Spanish market, new film music company Leitmotiv Music will distribute the CD. For more info and ordering, visit MovieScore Media.&nbsp; ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2192 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2191 <![CDATA[ Perseverance Records has re-released the score for Exorcist II: The Heretic. Ennio Morricone is among the legends of film music composers. He has sold over fifty million albums worldwide and written music for over 500 movies, television shows and classical recordings over the course of 6 decades. His best known works include five Oscar nominations (as well as a lifetime achievement award) for Days Of Heaven, The Mission, Bugsy, The Untouchables and Malena. Perseverance Records is proud to reissue this album as well as offer it at a really low price -&nbsp;$12.98.&nbsp;This soundtrack is&nbsp;the first release in Perseverance's new series.They want to make sure these kinds of releases get the light of day at reasonable prices. There are many other consumers out there who aren&rsquo;t avid collectors and simply buy a film score because they saw the movie on TV or heard it someplace.&nbsp;They want to provide you a chance to own these releases at a reasonable price versus the crazy sums of money speculators try to charge. For more info and ordering, visit Perseverance Records. ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2191 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2190 <![CDATA[ Colosseum Records has released the score for Als Der Weihnachtsmann Vom Himmel Fiel. During a violent thunderstorm, Santa Claus Niklas Julebukk (Alexander Scheer)&nbsp;falls, just before Christmas, with his trailer from the sky and lands unceremoniously in Nebelweg ... And so begins for&nbsp;the children Ben (Noah Kraus) and Charlotte (Jadea Mercedes Diaz), a fantastic Christmas adventure with car chases, false Santas, nutcrackers, and much more.... The music plays a big role in the film&nbsp;and two very famous actors and voices contribute pieces: Volker Lechtenbrink and Alexander Scheer. There are two tracks in English, including one sung by JD Nicholas (Commodores). The orchestral score was&nbsp;composed by Peter Wolf (The NeverEnding Story III, Father's Day, Inspector Rex) and performed by the Vienna All Stars Orchestra. Peter Wolf has been nominated for the German Film Prize&nbsp;for the score to the animated film Nutcracker And Mouse King. The score is available from Amazon Germany, Amazon UK and Amazon France. ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2190 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2189 <![CDATA[ Sony Music has released the soundtrack of My Week with Marilyn,&nbsp;a film about a week in the life of the legendary Marilyn Monroe. The movie is based on the books by Colin Clark, who as an assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl in the summer of 1956 gave Monroe (Michelle Williams) an introduction to British life. Monroe was actually on her honeymoon with playwriter Arthur Miller (Daugry Scott), but when Miller had to leave the country, Clark was her companion on a week-long escape from the pressures of life as a Hollywood luminary.&nbsp;The themes of shooting a high-profile film, the complicated emotional life of Marilyn Monroe and 1950s Britain provide irresistible material for a diverse and entertaining soundtrack. The score was written by Conrad Pope, one of the USA&rsquo;s leading arrangers, conductors and composers of film music. His recent credits include work on a.o.&nbsp;three of the Star Wars films, the Harry Potter series, and Pirates of the Caribbean. &ldquo;Marilyn&rsquo;s Theme&rdquo; was contributed by Alexandre Desplat, winner of a Golden Globe (The Painted Veil, 2006) and a British Academy Film Award (The King&rsquo;s Speech, 2011). The score is available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany. ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2189 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2188 <![CDATA[ Johnny Depp&rsquo;s company Infinitum Nihil has released The Rum Diary&nbsp;through Lakeshore Records. The soundtrack features original music by Christopher Young (Spiderman 3, Drag Me To Hell) with some songs, and a duet performed by Johnny Depp with JJ Holiday. Based on the debut novel by Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary&nbsp;tells the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp). Tiring of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper, The San Juan Star, run by downtrodden editor Lotterman (Richard Jenkins). Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Paul soon becomes obsessed with Chenault (Amber Heard), the wildly attractive Connecticut-born fianc&eacute;e of Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart). Christopher Young, a former jazz drummer, was influenced by the large jazz bands of the 50s and 60s. &quot;Most of the tracks on the CD were presented as thematic possibilities for the film,&quot; said Young. &quot;This gave me a chance to pour out music that has been inside of me all these years.&quot; The score is available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany. ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2188 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2187 <![CDATA[ Colosseum Records has released the score for Die Verlorene Zeit (Remembrance). It&nbsp;depicts a remarkable love story that blossomed amidst the terror of a German concentration camp in 1944 Poland. This impossible passion fuels the courage of a Polish prisoner who manages to rescue his Jewish girlfriend. Against all odds, they escape the camp and survive a treacherous journey to freedom. But during the chaos of the end of the war, they are forcibly separated and each is convinced that the other has died. More than thirty years later in New York, the happily married 52-year-old woman accidentally finds out that her former Polish lover is still alive. And she has to see him again. The music is written&nbsp;by Julian Maas and Christoph M. Kaiser, winner of the German Film Critics Award 2010 for the music for The Next Few Days and the German Television Award 2008 for the ZDF series KDD - Kriminaldauerdienst. The score is available as download from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany. ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2187 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2186 <![CDATA[ Sony Music has released the score for the computer-animated adventure film, Puss In Boots. It's a spinoff prequel to the Shrek series that follows the character Puss in Boots on his adventures before his first appearance in Shrek. A notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss in Boots becomes a hero when he sets off on an adventure with Kitty Softpaws and Humpty Dumpty to save his town. This is the true story of The Cat, The Myth, The Legend&hellip;The Boots. Composer Henry Jackman is best known for his movie scores for The Dark Knight and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man&rsquo;s Chest. For the Puss In Boots score, Jackman utilizes folk instruments from traditional Latin music. Inspired by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla, Jackman blends guitars and Latin percussion with an orchestral sound influenced by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. The album includes two tracks from Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela. A fixture on the world music circuit, they are known for their nimble-fingered guitar work and diverse background. Score is available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany. ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2186 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2185 <![CDATA[ Howe Records has released the score for Hugo. The movie&nbsp;tells the story of Hugo Cabret, a boy who lives behind the walls of a Parisian train station. Howard Shore&rsquo;s music is composed for two ensembles &ndash; one nested within the other &ndash; to create a sense of layering in the musical palette. Inside a full symphony orchestra resides a smaller ensemble, a sort of nimble French dance band that includes the ondes Martenot, musette, cimbalom, tack piano, gypsy guitar, upright bass, a 1930s trap-kit, and alto saxophone. &ldquo;I wanted to match the depth of the sound to the depth of the image,&rdquo; says Shore. The Hugo score is based around a family of primary musical themes. &ldquo;The themes are used for clarity of storytelling and they develop over the course of the film,&rdquo; says the composer. The score&rsquo;s central theme is a Parisian waltz that develops into the song &ldquo;Coeur Volant.&rdquo; Howard Shore invited renowned French singer Zaz to collaborate with Elizabeth Cotnoir and him on the song, which captures the lyrical essence of the world of Hugo. The score is availavle from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany. ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2185 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2183 <![CDATA[ Var&egrave;se Sarabande&nbsp;celebrates the 100th birthday of&nbsp;one of film music&rsquo;s immortal masters &ndash; the legendary Bernard Herrmann! We&rsquo;ve been celebrating all year long, but now it is time for the grand finale of&nbsp;the 2011 Bernard Herrmann salute. And it&rsquo;s a whopper!&nbsp;Var&egrave;se Sarabande&nbsp;concludes&nbsp;their Bernard Herrmann centenary celebration with the most important chronicle of Bernard Herrmann&rsquo;s music that has ever been assembled ... Bernard Herrmann at 20th Century Fox. Eighteen scores, representing an 18-year relationship with 20th Century Fox are all included here, and each one of them sounds better than they ever have before! Four scores are making their premiere appearance. Never before have Herrmann&rsquo;s original recordings of The Snows of Kilimanjaro, White Witch Doctor, 5 Fingers or Hangover Square appeared on CD. But the premieres contained herein by no means stop with these four. The collection opens with one of the most significant of all restorations. Jane Eyre appears in its entirety for the very first time, nearly doubling its previous length. Along with the significantly improved sound, the expansion makes this presentation a revelation in every way. This 14 CD boxed set includes&nbsp;seven double CD slim line jewel boxes,&nbsp;a 108 page full-color, hardcover book featuring an introduction by Robert Townson, extensive notes on all of the films and scores by Julie Kirgo and Bernard Herrmann biographer, Steven C. Smith, a huge selection of film stills, rare recording session photos and a historic selection of photographs of Bernard Herrmann himself! This is a limited edition of 1000 copies.&nbsp; For more info and pre-ordering, visit Var&egrave;se Sarabande or Colosseum Records (for Europe). ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2183 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2184 <![CDATA[ Sony Music has released&nbsp;the original soundtrack for The Artist, specially composed for director Michel Hazanavicius&rsquo; acclaimed tribute to a bygone era in Hollywood. Set in 1927, this film is the story of a love affair between George Valentin, a superstar of silent movies (Jean Dujardin in a role that earned him the Best Actor award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival) and the young extra Peppy Miller (B&eacute;r&eacute;nice Bejo). With the arrival of sound in the movies, the end of George&rsquo;s career is in sight, while Peppy is destined for stardom. The Artist has delighted lovers of classic silent cinema thanks to superb black-and-white photography &ndash; and also due to the quality of the music composed by Ludovic Bourse.&nbsp;Available as&nbsp;a CD+DVD including a documentary, trailers and images of the film with a 12-page illustrated libretto. Given the outstanding role that the music plays in The Artist, this is one of those films where no-one who loved it in the cinema will want to be without the soundtrack recording. In Ludovic Bource&rsquo;s words: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a tribute, a declaration of love to the great composers of great Hollywood films.&rdquo;&nbsp; The score is available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany.&nbsp; ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2184 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2181 <![CDATA[ Quartet Records has released&nbsp;in their Solisterrae Music series&nbsp;the score for Verbo. Verbo is one of the most expected Spanish film of the year. A mixture of adventure, dark fantasy, interior drama, and hip-hop aesthetics. It is the directorial debut of Eduardo Chapero-Jackson, filmaker winner of the F&eacute;nix Award from the European Film Academy for his short film Alumbramiento. The powerful, unusual and surprising score is composed by Pascal Gaigne (Gordos, Castillos de cart&oacute;n, Omert&aacute;, 80 Egunean), representing a major shift register on his musical style. Wild tribal percussions, electronic ambiences, electric guitar and hip-hop rhythms are assembled with the sound of the superb musicians of the Bulgarian Symphony&nbsp;Orchestra and Chorus, creating an electrifying and captivating musical atmosphere. The score is available from Quartet Records.&nbsp; ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2181 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2182 <![CDATA[ Alhambra Records has released the score for Moby Dick. In the expensive&nbsp;- 18 million Euro - remake of the classic&nbsp;Moby Dick, Captain Ahab is this time played by William Hurt. The role of the first Officer is played by Ethan Hake. The director&nbsp;is Mike Barker, who also&nbsp;has filmed Der Seewolf. At his side again&nbsp;is&nbsp;Richard Mitchell, who also wrote the music for Der Seewolf. The maritime music&nbsp;of more than 70 minutes was recorded with the Chaigley Symphony Orchestra and Choir. The&nbsp;music&nbsp;is a dense atmospheric music that feels like the listener him/herself is on the high seas, hunting Moby Dick.&nbsp;At the end of the more than 72-minute CD, there is the&nbsp;folk tune &quot;Lowlands.&quot; This is film music in his best style that also&nbsp;works well&nbsp;without seeing the film. The score is available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany. ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2182 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2177 <![CDATA[ ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2177 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2180 <![CDATA[ Naxos Music has released in their Film Music Classics series a new recording&nbsp;of New Babylon (Noviy Vavilon). This recording of New Babylon, one of Dmitry Shostakovich&rsquo;s most inventive and truly symphonic film scores, is the first complete recording of all the surviving music from the original &lsquo;lost&rsquo; manuscript full score and the first to use five solo string players only, as conceived by the composer. A remarkable collage of marches, can-cans, carnival music, tumultuous rhythms and musical quotations, New Babylon bristles with witty dissonance and brassy ebullience, emphasizing the film&rsquo;s content rather than its visual surface. Mark Fitz-Gerald&rsquo;s two previous Naxos world premi&egrave;re recordings of Shostakovich&rsquo;s film scores for Alone and The Girlfriends&nbsp; have been highly acclaimed. This is a 2 CD-set. Available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany. ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2180 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2176 <![CDATA[ ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2176 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2178 <![CDATA[ Normal Records has released the score for Fenster Zum Sommer. The story: together with her &#8203;&#8203;new love, August (Mark Waschke)&nbsp;Juliane (Nina Hoss) is&nbsp;on the way from Berlin to their ancient homeland Finland. One summer night she falls asleep on the shoulder of her lover, but wakes up in the morning in the winter in Berlin. Juliane realized that half a year she has traveled back in time into a phase where she still is together with her &#8203;&#8203;ex-boyfriend Philip (Lars Eidinger), and their friend Emily who has&nbsp;died in an accident in the spring&nbsp;but who&nbsp;still lives. To meet her new beloved friend August, she wants to do everything again as before, but at the same time prevents the death of her friend. The&nbsp;score to Hendrik Handloegten &quot;magically beautiful film&quot; is written by Finnish composer&nbsp;Timo Hietala. Nina Hoss sings the opening song in Finnish. The score is available from Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany. ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2178 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2179 <![CDATA[ From Universal Music France comes Georges Delerue Partitions In&eacute;dites / Unused Scores. Fans of Georges Delerue have long hungered to hear these two rejected scores: Regarding Henry (1991) and Something Wicked This Way Comes&nbsp;(1982). The actual scoring sessions for each clocked in at around an hour each, so it was with great trepidation that&nbsp;we listened to this disc which runs a little over an hour for BOTH scores. Regarding Henry presents mostly the best tracks and with excellent sound, apparently culled from the Paramount vault. Delerue has written very wistful music which the studio rejected for, perhaps, not accurately mirroring Henry's personality change. Something Wicked This Way Comes also salvages most of the best cues, including some electronic effects and interesting &quot; stings &quot;. However the music comes to us from Delerue's own personal library copy - which we're advised in the notes, is &quot; the only form in which the score survived, after refusal.&quot; Hence we're not listening to studio vault copies here, and so the music quality is mostly acceptable. Available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany. ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2179 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2174 <![CDATA[ From Screamworks Records comes the score for The Awakening. Starring Rebecca Hall and Dominic West and opening in UK theatres on November 11, Nick Murphy&rsquo;s supernatural thriller&nbsp;created a lot of buzz during the Toronto Film Festival where Studiocanal sold the US distribution rights to Cohen Media Group for &ldquo;a seven-figure sum&rdquo; according to Variety. The film takes place in 1921 England and is a ghost story where the storytelling and visuals is beautifully underlined by a large, gothic orchestral score composed by Daniel Pemberton, who won the 2010 Ivor Novello Award for Best Television Soundtrack (Desperate Romantics). Dark orchestral sonorities, haunting vocals and elements of almost operatic choir writing form the backbone of the this thorouoghly elegant and engaging score. Particularly memorable is &ldquo;The Awakening Theme&rdquo; which is used throughout the score, an instantly memorable arpeggio motif that has the same effective &lsquo;hook&rsquo; as many of the most famous horror scores in the history of film music. The&nbsp;first edition of the CD is limited to 1000 copies. For more info and ordering, visit Screamworks Records. ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2174 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2175 <![CDATA[ ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2175 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2173 <![CDATA[ Var&egrave;se Sarabande has released the score for Real Steel,&nbsp;a gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech. The movie&nbsp;stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback. Real Steel is directed by Shawn Levy (Night At The Museum franchise and Date Night). In a score that mixes guitar with symphony orchestra and choir, composer Danny Elfman returns to cinemas with this Fall action blockbuster. The score is available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany.&nbsp; ]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=2173