- The Golden Seal - John Barry & Dana Kaproff : Beautiful themes

- Millennium - Mark Snow: Incredible ambient scores

- A Study In Terror / Greystoke - John Scott : Always have a couple of Scott's CD in my player
!

- Prince Of The City - Paul Chiara : I need a 70's score !

- Concert Works - Maurice Jarre : One of the CD's I have really loved since its release and
before the passing of Jarre

michel, April 17, 2009; 4:38 AM

I'm just playing my latest arrival (the parcel arrived about 2 hours ago): Maurice Jarre's GORILLAS IN THE MIST. It's an interesting mixture of the exotic, symphonic and electronic music although not likely to become a part of my Jarre top 10.

EDIT: The Jarre just ended and I put on another recent purchase, Michael J. Lewis' THEATRE OF BLOOD. The main theme is a pure bliss !

Dorian

42zaphod, April 17, 2009; 9:19 AM

The Egyptian (Herrmann/Newman) - on FSM. The soundquality leaves a little to be desired ( I
should pick up the Stromberg re-recording soon). The older I become, the more I appreciate
this score. It's got little to do with ancient Egypt but what glorious Herrmann themes! Nefer,
Nefer, Nefer on the re-recorded LP-version (with a reduced orchestra) is among the best work
he's ever done. 'Party's End/The Offering/The Harp Player' is part of that track. The music was
so mixed up in the various releases that I lost track of what's where so I will try to make the
confusion complete by adding the Marco Polo/Naxos re-recording. Some tracks are only on
the FSM release, but that is also not complete as about half an hour of the total 100 minutes
of original soundtrack was damaged beyond restoration.

Juana La Loca (José Nieto) - I saw this film on TV the other day and quite liked it. I knew
Nieto only from his 'Crusades' score for Terry Jones's TV-series, but this is so much better.
Excellent score, full marks.

Nightwing (Mancini) - I've had a bit of a Mancini revival even before his excellent Nightwing
score was announced by Varese. This was the one I was looking forward to, I really liked the
theme that was on his Mostly Monsters compilation CD. I recently bought Lifeforce (the 2-
disc set on BSX), that is also very good.

The Molly Maguires (Mancini) - I found this on GEMM, a release on a Brazilian label 'Omega
1707'. Unfortunately the sound is very bad and even sounds mono. It's almost certainly a
vinyl-transfer and quite possibly illegal, maybe even a CDR with a screen-printed label. It's too
bad the Bay Cities release of this score is so expensive (a copy sold on eBay this week for USD
72), so I hope a re-release will show up someday soon. The music is excellent, it's one of
Mancini's best scores.

Hanover Street (Barry) - I got this with 'Nightwing' and 'Lure of the Wilderness'. It sounds,
well, like Barry. The theme is very good but what I heard so far is exactly like about a dozen
other Barry scores I have. I sometimes find it hard to tell them apart. But I don't listen that
much to Barry. I should hear this a couple more times before I judge it.

Mannix (Schifrin) - This is the recent (2008) 'Collectors' Choice' CD-release from the 1960-s
re-recorded LP, apparently much better than the re-recorded recent Aleph CD (that I don't
know). I really like this 60-s jazzy stuff.

Battle of Britain (Goodwin/Walton) - This is the Ryko disc with the miraculously preserved
original William Walton recording. The Goodwin score has it's moments although I don't care
much for the military marches, but Walton's march is hardly militaristic, it is imperial pomp
and circumstance as the booklet points out. The Walton music is great stuff. 'Scramble/Battle
in the Air' is so good, the orchestra doing a realistic throttle of the Spitfire's engine as we lift
up in the sky and "the music becomes headlong - accelerating, darting, scurrying, spurring,
rasping - as the pride of the Luftwaffe issystematically destroyed, with the resolute coda
identifying a German plane spiraling to destruction" as James Fitzpatrick describes it in the
booklet. Thanks to Eric Tomlinson for saving these historical recordings in his garage!

chris, April 17, 2009; 11:09 AM

1. Die Hard Michael Karmen Very Good Soundtrack *****
2. Lethal Weapon Michael Karmen Good Soundtrack***1/3

Bughunt34, April 17, 2009; 7:31 PM

Minority Report- John Williams
And I ordered "Legends of the Fall" by James Horner today.

colvin, April 17, 2009; 7:59 PM