^^^ thanks for the tip; just bought one! :)

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CD rip of the Varese Sarabande "deluxe edition" release of Jerry Goldsmith's score for 1997's L.A. Confidential. This release includes the 28 actual scene/sequence cues used in the film in addition to the 11 tracks that constituted the original soundtrack album.

I remember that in his review of the original soundtrack album, The Absolute Sound's Harry Pearson dissed the work as a rehash of Goldsmith's score for 1974's Chinatown, implying that the use of a mood-conveying solo trumpet in certain L.A. Confidential scenes was the composer merely copycatting himself. But, as Tim Grieving points out in the deluxe edition's program notes, the Chinatown trumpeter was directed to communicate "bad sex," while in L.A. Confidential the trumpet conveys loneliness.

To these ears, a listening comparison to Chinatown (also released on Varese Sarabande) validates Grieving's assessment. And the overall thrust of L.A. Confidential's stark, predominantly pulse-pounding score strikes me as a case of HP getting it wrong.

Grieving's notes also state that the electronic instruments used in L.A. Confidential were not recorded separately from the acoustic instrument ensemble--as apparently is the case in many film score recordings--but were included as part of the ensemble in the recording sessions. As a consequence, there's a distinctive integrated feel to the orchestral presentation.

A lot of gut-thumping percussive energy in this release. So if your woofers need a workout...

Picked this one up a while back.

Master and Commander is a fine soundtrack.

Almost Famous. Great movie


https://www.tunefind.com/movie/almost-famous

Indeed. And this one is quite good also.

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Reissued limited-edition CD of a 2015 remastered Music Box Records release of Bernard Herrmann's soundtrack for director Brian De Palma's 1976 homage to Alfred Hitchcock, Obsession.

I hear faint echoes of Vertigo, Citizen Kane, and even The Devil and Daniel Webster in a spot or two, but the symphonic-leaning score is palpably more original than derivative Herrmann, who in various places uses organ, harp, and/or human chorus to underscore the plot's tantalizing mystery.

Excellent sonics.

A great bop jazz soundtrack from the 1960 Swedish film "Mental Cruelty" by a group lead by pianist George Grunz.

The movie was released but legal rights to the music was in tied up in court litigation for over 30 years before Grunz won the case and released the album.

If you like the early sixties jazz vibe, this is top tier:

https://youtu.be/ojtkYOrnk4w?si=0rTsPZpRmg_JkjHQ

I posted in the classical section also but I guess it’s appropriate here also

Good friend spent Covid writing an original score to the 1922 silent film Häxan. He released it today synced with the film

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c0duAfyDJTY

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The October AA giveaway selection.

My first exposure to Malcolm Arnold's music occurred, unknowingly, as I watched the British film Breaking the Sound Barrier (the U.S. title) as a 12-year-old in a San Francisco theater. Neither the filmmakers nor--officially, at least--anyone else knew that Chuck Yeager had conquered what The Right Stuff called "the Demon" in a Bell X-1 five years earlier. And the solution the scriptwriter conjured up to deal with the buffeting that threatened loss of control as the featured aircraft (a Vickers-Supermarine Swift incapable of supersonic flight) approached Mach 1 in a shallow dive--pushing the stick forward--would have splattered plane and pilot over acres of terra firma. Nonetheless, the film registered. And so did the score. I've been an Arnold aficionado since.

I've seen all but one of the Arnold-scored films (Hobson's Choice) featured on this now-ripped CD. Richard Hickox (who died at age 50) conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in spirited performances of each one, and the Chandos sonics are wide-open expansive.

Thanks a bunch, Ivan.