No, Howard Shore is scoring the upcoming "Twilight" film, "Eclipse". Carter Burwell did Twilight.

So, we just have to wait and see what Mr. Shore does with Eclipse.....

I actually liked the Twilight score better then i did with the New Moon score. And I'm not a huge fan of Twilight, but the score in the first was just beautiful like Bella's Lullaby and Stuck here like mom.

*bumps thread*

Guess what's heading my way in the mail?

I'm really excited about these, especially As You Like It, which I've only heard in the context of the film before now. I'll be sure to post my thoughts on those when I arrive.

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A post from PrinceCor004 in Ditto Town inspired me to go off on a soundtrack rampage recently. Here are some of the ones I've been listening to over the past few days:

Legends of the Fall. This was PC's recommendation, and I enjoyed it very much: it's beautiful, and definitely one of the best Horners I've heard so far. If I had seen the movie and thus had more of an emotional tie to it, I can see myself enjoying it as much as Braveheart. As it is, it's going to take another listen or two for me to pick out specific themes, etc.

Blade Runner. This one surprised me. I don't usually go for heavily electronic scores or anything of this sort, but while watching the movie I found the music quite fascinating. Tried the album out, and I still love Vangelis' work. I really don't like the way the album is put together, though. There are four pieces that aren't heard in the movie at all, and I'm not 100% clear on whether they were early themes that were later scrapped, or whether they were "filler" that Vangelis composed for this album. In either case, I think they belong at the end of the disc, not mixed in with the actual score per se. Not a huge fan of the blips of dialogue either, and so (as much as I like the movie score itself) I don't think I'll be buying the CD, maybe just a couple tracks online. Favorite song: "Love Theme." Gotta love that saxophone!

Legend. This is Tangerine Dream's replacement score, not the original by Jerry Goldsmith that was deemed lacking by the American distributors. I was hoping, given how much I liked Blade Runner electronic sound, that the magic would work again for me. It didn't. Blade Runner has a stronger main theme than Legend, I think, and is much edgier, darker, and more sophisticated. This one just struck me as rather cacophonous. Maybe I should give it another listen after I see the movie.

I've not heard anything from As You Like It, but I'm jealous of your second pick, Lys. Braveheart comes up a lot on my Pandora station and it's definitely on my list of soundtracks to acquire.

There are a lot of very good, cheap copies of Braveheart on Half.com. That where I ordered mine from.

Here's one of the best bits from As You Like It. Bryce Dallas Howard seems to inspire beautiful violin scores wherever she goes.

I'm currently slightly obsessed with the Sound of Music. It's such a classic, and I LOVE all the songs. I really want to buy the soundtrack, but I ran out of itunes money just the other day.

I recently was told that two of the songs "I have confidence" and "Something good" were not in the original musical - and rightly so! I didn't like those two all that much.

Wow! I haven't posted in this thread in a loooooong time . Thanks for the heads up Lys .

Glad you liked the Blade Runner soundtrack. Definitely one of my all time favourites. Yeah, some of the pieces were composed for the film but didn't actually end up in the film. Conversely, there are pieces in the film that didn't make it onto the soundtrack. This was rectified somewhat in 2007 with a 3 cd set to mark the 25th anniversary of the film. Unfortunately I don't have the 3 cd set .

I really like Tangerine Dream's score for Legend also. Mainly because I think it captures the atmospherics so well. And also just because I'm a huge fan of Tangerine Dream.

As a general rule I prefer Electronic Soundtracks for Sci Fi films (and TV) in particular (have ever since growing up with Dr Who). Ever since the film 2001, I think Orchestral Scores for Sci Fi films have been over-used.

GB

My favorite soundtrack composer, hands down, is Dario Marianelli. He's done Pride and Prejudice (2005), and Atonement, and I Capture the Castle--the latter two are my top soundtracks ever.
And I've recently been listening to the soundtrack for Revolutionary Road (James Horner, I believe) which is so.so.so. brilliant, seriously. :O Oh, and Defiance, I *think* it's also James Horner...? or I may be getting it mixed up with someone else

Defiance is definitely James Newton Howard. You can tell because he borrows from The Village. Not sure about Revolutionary Road.

I really like Marianelli too. I've only heard P&P and Atonement, and I enjoyed them both, especially the latter, which I would include among my ten or so favorite soundtracks. I'll have to check out I Capture the Castle too.

Gandalfs Beard, I plan to watch Legend (both the original cut w/ Tangerine Dream's score, and the director's cut with music by Jerry Goldsmith) pretty soon, and I'll revisit the Dream disc after that. We'll see what I think then.

To edit my previous post, you're right about Defiance being James Howard, but also Revolutionary Road is by Thomas Newman, not James Horner

Oh, do check out I Capture the Castle, lys! It's really pretty music, and has this warm "personable" feeling that really captures the book/movie.

I'm personally partial to Tangerine Dream's score Lys. But to be fair, Goldsmith's score is quite good, and I suppose Orchestral and Folksy scores might be more appropriate to a Medievalish setting. Though as it's fantasy, allowances can be made for ethereal and mystical sounding electronics.

GB

*stops by the thread and is slightly surprised at the recent activity*

@ Lys. Woohoo!! Congrats on the getting Braveheart and As You Like It! I suppose I should check out the latter as I've never heard of it....

Glad you enjoyed Legends of the Fall so much! It's definitely my all time favorite Horner work and just a great score all around. BTW, I had to read an overview of the plot and a review of the score to understand what theme's went with which characters.

*adds Blade Runner to his "to hear" list* Whenever I have tried listening to clips from this score, it's always been more dialogue than music. Guess I need to head over to youtube....

*is glad Lys disliked the Dream score to Legend* I'm really interested to read what your opinion of the Goldsmith score is once you have heard it. For me personally, I quite enjoyed it. One of the best combinations of synthetics with traditional orchestra that I've heard.

@ Val. Well, I was about to correct your first post, but I see you rectified that on your own.

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Well, tonight I'm hoping to order Outland (1981) by Jerry Goldsmith. It's another atmospheric score, more along the lines of Goldsmith's earlier Alien (1979) but with some synths mixed in and minus all the experimentation with ethnic instruments. Anyway, it sounds good and I'm looking forward to getting it.

*adds Blade Runner to his "to hear" list* Whenever I have tried listening to clips from this score, it's always been more dialogue than music. Guess I need to head over to youtube....

The dialogue on the CD is really unfortunate, but thankfully it's mostly limited to the beginning and end of a handful of tracks. It's not nearly as bad as the soundtrack for Nino Rota's Romeo and Juliet, where it seems that they just stripped the audio track from the movie and put it on a CD. When browsing YouTube, search for "Blade Runner Blues," the "Love Theme," and the End Credits music.

I got the Braveheart CD in the mail today! Thoughts on this, and on Morricone's The Mission, forthcoming.

I love the Bridge To Terabithia soundtrack - the music by Aaron Zigman, is amazing and it makes me feel like I'm going somewhere

Liberty, you are obsessed.

I've been listening to the Braveheart soundtrack in my car a lot, and I really love it overall. There's one track I tend to skip - #10 - because Horner tries to pair two melodies, in counterpoint, and it just doesn't work. The effect is rather odd, and the track sounds not so much dissonant as merely ... unfinished. But it's a small blemish on what I think is a very fine album. Perhaps PC is right in that it isn't Horner's most original score, and he certainly could have come up with more thematic material, but really, who cares when the existing themes are so very good? Track after track of this score gives me the feeling of being spent spiraling towards the heavens, and any soundtrack that can do that gets an automatic thumbs-up from me.

Also listened to The Mission recently, on PC's recommendation. Sorry, PC, but I can't call this one a total success either. I really liked the varied instrumentation - harpsichords, native drums, a chorus that sings both high church music and tribal rhythms - and the first track brought it all together beautifully for me. The choral work was surprisingly "rough," even in the high church sections, but I'm guessing that was a conscious decision on Morricone's part. I really didn't like the dissonant "action" tracks in the latter half of the score, and all in all, I didn't finish the CD humming any of the tunes. (Odd, as one of the main themes has been a staple of figure skaters for many years now! ) I'll come back to it, I'm sure, but as things stand, it's not a favorite.