Michael Nyman is a composer with an instantly recognisable sound, his music often being built upon stark, rhythmic orchestrations dominated by intense string writing. All these traits are instantly apparent in the composer's score for Neil Jordan's film of the autobiographical novel by Graham Greene, The End of the Affair. Featuring Ralph Fiennes, star of The English Patient, this is ...
Put the saga of history's greatest overachiever--Macedonian emperor Alexander the Great had conquered 90% of the pre-Christian world before his death at 32--in the hands of Hollywood's favourite over-reacher, Oliver Stone, and the result is three-hours of epic blood 'n' bathos. The soundtrack by Greek synth-score pioneer Vangelis Papathanassiou may be bookended by heroic orchestral/choral pomp of ...