This week, and to stick with our theme from last week’s program of presenting lesser known Horner scores, we’ll be playing music from eight film scores and one concert work.
You’ll hear music from one of Horner’s very first scores, BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, all the way through to his last, THE 33. As mentioned, you’ll also hear a lengthy suite from a concert work James Horner composed for violinist and cellist Mari and Hakon Samuelsen called PAS DE DEUX.
NOTE – This program is dedicated to CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO listener Sandra Arnold and her late husband, Peter. Sandra is a new listener of the program thanks to fellow film music radio presenter, Jason Drury, who introduced the show to her. Jason informed me earlier today that Sandra was diagnosed with terminal Pancreatic Cancer back in March and was given only a few months to live. She is still with us today so on behalf of CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO and all of our fantastic fans we dedicate this very special program to you, Sandra.
And with that, please enjoy the show and I would love to read your thoughts about James Horner in the comments section below
And please check out Jason Drury’s brilliant first part of his in-depth radio documentary dedicated to James Horner by clicking HERE!
PLAYLIST • BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS • UNCOMMON VALOR • VIBES • AN AMERICAN TAIL: FIEVEL GOES WEST • BALTO • ALL THE KING’S MEN • PAS DE DEUX • SOUTHPAW • THE 33
Hallo Eric!
What a great surprise for me, to hear my short post at the end of part from 2 your great 2016 James Horner special.
Here I have very exiting James Horner news:
– Sony classical will release James Horners last composition to the new western from Horners friend A. Fuqua “The Magnificent 7” on CD in September 2017! You can read a lot more news about that here:
http://jameshorner-filmmusic.com/category/news/
– On the webside from the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MOVIE “Living In The Age Of Airplanes” I found the promise, that there will be a soundtrack release from James Horners score in October 2016!!!
“Will you be releasing a soundtrack? -Yes! Look for it around the same time the film is released on DVD and Blu-ray.”
– Tony Hinnigan, the important man behind the ethnic flutes, was a close friend to James Horner. Tony Hinnigan played flutes also in the mowie “Far And Away” 1992 for John Williams and on the Academy Award nominated score “The Mission” in 1986 for Ennio Morricone.
Tony very kindly wrote in an answer to me: “…I first worked with James on the film “Willow”, directed by George Lukas and recorded at Abbey Road Studio 1 with the London Symphony Orchestra. James had heard the work I and my band, Incantation, had done on “The Mission”. James and I were close personal friends. He was a very private person, and I respected that and continue to do so. I can say that, if I had to select any scores from the many I have had the good fortune to be a small part of, they would be “Field of Dreams”, “The Devil’s Own” and “Apocalypto”, mainly for the intelligence and instinctive feel for film-making of the three directors – respectively Phil Alden Robinson, Alan J Pakula and Mel Gibson. …”
André