I give you some composers most people won't think of immediately, but who are highly recommended:

Akira Senju, japanese composer, look for his works at CDJapan or Arksquare,

Louis Crelier, swiss composer, CDs available at his own site,

Roque Baños, spanish composer, available at all good shops,

Dirk Brossé, belgian composer, also famous as a conductor, all shops,

Guy Cuyvers, from Belgium too, all good shops,

Krzesimir Debski, from Poland, all good shops,

Serge Franklin, french composer, look for newly recorded "L'Enfant des Loups" but his other scores too,

Marco Frisina, priest and film music composer from Italy, available at Intermezzo.com,

Christopher Gunning, english composer, all good shops,

Garry McDonald and Laurie Stone, composer duo from Australia, look at "One M One" ( 1M1) for their works,

José Nieto, spanish composer, everywhere available,

Rolf Wilhelm, german composer, look for his "Nibelungen" and "Und ewig singen die Wälder".

Well there are many more, but that's all for today, Folks !



birnam, February 10, 2005; 2:33 PM

Hello,
These are the composers I would recomend and some examples of some scores you might like.

1. John Scott - Scores - "Final Countdown" "Shogun Mayeda"
2. Elmer Bernstein - Scores - "Magnificent Seven" "Great Escape"
3. Miklos Rozsa - Scores - "King of Kings" "El Cid"
4. Lalo Schifrin - Scores - "Tango" "Four Musketeers"
5. Bill Conti - Scores - "Lock Up"
6. Luis Bacalov - Scores - "Il Postino" "
7. Basil Poledouris - scores - "Conan the Barbarian" "Starship Troopers"
8. Jean -Claude Petit Scores - "Return of the three Musketeers"
"Cyrano De Bergerac"

Hope this helps,
David
Phoenix, AZ.

deg63iami, February 10, 2005; 11:00 PM

Ennio Morricones soundtrack to "HUNDRA" and "RED SONJA" is in the symphonic genre

andy_n_johansen, April 13, 2005; 4:21 AM