The most eagerly anticipated movie of 1999, if not the decade, The Phantom Menace was also a mouth-watering prospect for soundtrack fans. Star Wars, after all, has become arguably the best-known and most influential movie score ever written, so a new instalment from John Williams, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, was always going to be a cause for celebration. And if the ...
Manufacturer: Sony
Manufacturer: Classical
While Steven Spielberg's sci-fi detective thriller Minority Report revolves around the intriguing premise of future cops arresting criminals before their crimes, beneath its hi-tech veneer it begs a simple but infinitely powerful question: do we have the power to alter our own destiny? Coming on the heels of the director's posthumous collaboration with Stanley Kubrick, A.I., ...
Manufacturer: Dreamworks
Anchored by his Mormon Tabernacle-charged "Call of Champions" (theme of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games) and the sweeping, emotionally rich six-part title suite (originally written for Washington, DC's millennium celebrations and appearing here for the first time as a complete concert piece), this rousing, unabashedly patriotic collection from John Williams seems doubly timely, given America's ...
Manufacturer: Sony Classical
Manufacturer: Philips
Manufacturer: Polygram
Film and TV composer and orchestrator Don Davis has taken on a daunting task: updating John Williams's iconic Jurassic Park themes and integrating them seamlessly into his own furiously modern take on scoring. The composer has followed director Joe Johnston's lead, matching the director's darker, more tension-wracked vision of the mega-successful dino series with an accomplished score that ...
Manufacturer: Decca
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
