With a running time of just under 40 minutes this one flies by quickly. There’s a lot of compilation favorites here... "Parade of Charioteers" from BEN-HUR, "Overture" from NORTH BY NORTHWEST and "The Ride of the Cossacks" from TARAS BULBA. Also included is the rousing "Conquest" from CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE…
James Horner’s re-recording of his score to Brainstorm clocks in at just over 30 minutes. But within these 30 minutes is some of the most impressive and original material Horner has ever created. There's a wonderful clash of emotions right off the top of the album opening with angelic female…
This energetic, high tempo score was composed by Christopher Drake who has become one of the most impressive new composers I’ve heard from in the past few years. His work on BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT was superb. Drake doesn’t fool around with his new score to WONDER WOMAN as he knocks…
Creative, complex, daring, smart, inventive, emotional... Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 (as well as the rest of the series) is one of the finest modern day scores I've heard in the past 10 years or so. I was at first dismissive of Richard Gibbs and Bear McCreary's approach to scoring this…
Christopher Young’s new score to Drag Me To Hell is sending shivers down my back!. Horror is a genre Young is VERY comfortable in and this time (unlike The Uninvited) Young reinvents himself and hits a home-run... no, a 9th inning 2 out World Series clinching grand-slam with this one.…
I have a very limited collection of music by Dimitri Shostakovich but from what I have heard he has failed to disappoint. Once this album crossed my desk I knew I was in for something special. I'm a big fan of Chandos' film music collection and this is the second…
I clearly remember the day that I saw the Star Wars 4CD Box Set sitting high on a shelf behind the counter at Cheapies in Hamilton back in 1996. I was relatively new to soundtrack "collecting" so I had no idea that this legendary box set was released back in…
This is a wonderful fantasy video game score composed by Andrew Barnabas and Paul Arnold. The score is brimming with majestic themes and gothic soundscapes performed by The City of Prague Philharmonic who sounds surprisingly good here. The female solo vocal during the Opening Title and Jen Meets Arella is…