Jerry Goldsmith is, of course, best known as one of Hollywood's most prolific and celebrated composers, having scored more than 250 movies since the late 1950s. Christus Apollo, the major work on this disc, is one of his rare concert commissions, a cantata setting of a text by sci-fi author Ray Bradbury scored for narrator, mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra. Goldsmith takes an ...
One of Jerry Goldsmith's great strengths as a composer is his ability to reflect the psychological profile of a film. This gift came in handy when he agreed to score Paul Verhoeven's erotic thriller Basic Instinct (1992). Featuring the streamlined, John Barry-esque aesthetic that Goldsmith perfected in the 1990s (substituted for the composer's dense, harmonically complex style of the 1960s ...
Though it won more critical praise than any film in 1997, L.A. Confidential, director Curtis Hanson's smart adaptation of James Ellroy's gritty crime novel, was ultimately iced at the Oscars by Titanic, that overwrought cross between Love Story and The Poseidon Adventure. Scored by Jerry Goldsmith in a style reminiscent of his great work on Chinatown, L.A. ...
As soon as John J Rambo has been rescued from prison, briefed and suited up, Elliot Goldsmith's score rarely lets up its enthusiastic charge. There's lots of spying and creeping through jungle vines, where various unique electronic effects rattle and hiss to suggest his snakelike stealth. For the majority of the running time however, a battery of percussion serves to propel the man-mountain ...