I wasn’t planning on preparing a show this week since I’m on vacation but I had some free time Thursday morning so I just threw this two-hour program together. At least you have SOMETHING to listen to until the regularly scheduled show returns.
So, in about five hours this show was written, recorded and edited. I decided to play really LONG tracks this week. I’ve done this type of show int he past. Click HERE to listen to my 15 anniversary, where I played 15 minutes long cues. On this week’s program, I added an extra few minutes and decided to play tracks that are 16-17 minutes in length – tracks that are no shorter than 15 minutes 59 seconds and no longer than 18 minutes. Don’t ask why. It’s just for fun and I hope you enjoy the selections.
The six scores you will hear are THE DARK KNIGHT by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, POLTERGEIST by Jerry Goldsmith, THE MISSING by James Horner, THE ADVENTURES OF CONAN: SWORD AND SORCERY SPECTACULAR by Basil Poledouris, SON OF THE MORNING STAR by Craig Safan and the Academy Award-winning score for THE RED VIOLIN by John Corigliano.
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PLAYLIST • THE DARK KNIGHT (Zimmer/Howard) • POLTERGEIST (Goldsmith) • THE MISSING (Horner) • THE ADVENTURES OF CONAN: SWORD AND SORCERY SPECTACULAR (Poledouris) • SON OF THE MORNING STAR (Safan) • THE RED VIOLIN (Corigliano)
Great idea for an episode, and excellently executed, as ever! And now you’ve got me thinking I really need to see POLTERGEIST some time. I don’t like horror movies, but I’ve heard a lot about how great Goldsmith’s score is, so…!
Enjoy your vacation!
(PS. I am curious – Was the Cinematic Sound fanfare recorded by a live orchestra, or is it sampled? I can’t tell — and it sounds great either way!)
Thanks Mike. Poltergeist is a classic. There are some genuinely scaring moments… but also moments of ethereal beauty and tenderness. Great script! Great effects! IMO, it’s still holds up today because it makes you care for the characters, which is what makes the film so terrifying. Goldsmith’s score is spectacular!
As for David’s fanfare. That’s all samples! So convincing!
Poltergeist is one of my favourite scores. And its of course one of the best scores to a movie with scary or funny or romantic “real” ghosts. Ghost movie scores – that could be a great show too (with The Uninvited from Victor Young [still avaiable on the Marco Polo Label with the moscow symphpny orchestra under Stromberg – great re-recording and the only release of this classic good score], Bernsteins Ghostbusters, Jerr Goldsmiths Poltergeist 1 & 2, Goldsmith The Haunting (1999), James Horners Casper and George Fentons High Spirits are my favourite ghost scores). You can eventally do a show like that(for example in Halloween week).
Greetings from Germany
André E.