Back on the horse again
While I had indeed made my Silver Screen Star Trek and Man of Steel albums on the new computer, due to odd timing and equipment issues, I hadn't really gotten around to working on it since my grandfather died. A mix idea had been tossing about in my head, a piece that was inspired somewhat by the turmoil of the past few months. Today, I put all of the computer affairs in order and started working on a new album.
Most of the music here concentrates of being melodic and florid. The disc is along the same lines and my Songs of the Heavens and its follow-up, but I did not consider it part of that series. This album is also divided up into a "side one" and "side two," so as to break up the listening somewhat; each side opens and closes with a work by the same composer, Morricone in the case of side one and Barry in the case of side two. I like to give the mix a shape of its own. Otherwise, I'm not writing much in the way of notes for this disc as there wasn't much in the way of editing and I think that the track listing mostly speaks for itself.
C O N N E C T I O N S
8 1 : 2 4
- SIDE ONE
- ENNIO MORRICONE: Birth of a City (Once Upon a Time in the West) (4:20)
Orchestra Conducted by Ennio Morricone
Canti Moderni di Alessandroni Conducted by Alessandro Alessandroni
Edda Dell'Orso, vocals
- BARRINGTON PHELONG: Mirabelle's Story (Shopgirl) (2:47)
London Metropolitan Orchestra Conducted by Barrington Phelong
- SHIRLEY WALKER: Nick and Alice in Love (Memoirs of an Invisible Man) (2:25)
Orchestra Conducted by Shirley Walker
- BEAR McCREARY: Roslin and Adama (Battlestar Galactica: Resurrection Ship) (1:57)
Ensemble Conducted by Bear McCreary
Paul Cartwright, violin
- SERGE FRANKLIN: Petition the Wind (Children of the Wolves) (1:14)
FYSIO Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Mario Klemens
Kuhn's Choir Conducted by Pavel Kuhn
- ELMER BERNSTEIN: Runty Dead (Birdman of Alcatraz) (1:44)
Orchestra Conducted by Elmer Bernstein
- MICHAEL NYMAN: The Imperfect Enjoyment (The Libertine) (4:20)
Michael Nyman Orchestra Conducted by Michael Nyman
- BASIL POLEDOURIS: Jack Surfs Alone (Big Wednesday) (2:36)
Orchestra Conducted by Basil Poledouris
- ENNIO MORRICONE: Suite One (Bulworth) (17:40)
Orchestra Conducted by Ennio Morricone
Amii Stewart, Edda Dell'Orso, vocals
SIDE TWO
- JOHN BARRY: Vogel's Arrival (The Last Valley) (2:48)
Orchestra and Voices of Accademia Monteverdiana Conducted by John Barry
- PATRICK DOYLE: Harry in Winter (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) (2:50)
London Symphony Orchestra Conducted by James Shearman
- LEE HOLDRIDGE: Letting Buck Go (The Call of the Wild) (3:29)
American Film Symphony Orchestra and Choir Conducted by Lee Holdridge
- ZBIGNIEW PREISNER: Angel Falls (At Play in the Fields of the Lord) (3:28)
Polish Radio Grand Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Antoni Wit
- LAURENCE ROSENTHAL: Perseus and Andromeda (Clash of the Titans) (3:34)
London Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Laurence Rosenthal
- JAMES NEWTON HOWARD: Redemption (Flatliners) (4:17)
Orchestra Conducted by Marty Paich
Los Angeles Master Chorale Conducted by Paul Salumnovich
Paulist Boys Choir Conducted by John Wattenbarger
- ELMER BERNSTEIN: Cecil (Deep End of the Ocean) (1:54)
Orchestra Conducted by Elmer Bernstein
- JOHN SCOTT: Return to the Jungle (Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes) (3:02)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by John Scott
- JEAN-CLAUDE PETIT: Cyrano's Declaration (Cyrano de Bergerac) (2:30)
Orchestra Conducted by Jean-Claude Petit
- LAURENCE ROSENTHAL: The Benediction (The Return of a Man Called Horse) (1:35)
Orchestra Conducted by Laurence Rosenthal
- RACHEL PORTMAN: Sirens (Sirens) (2:47)
Orchestra Conducted by David Snell
- DEBBIE WISEMAN: The Selfish Giant (Wilde) (1:07)
Orchestra Conducted by Debbie Wiseman
- MARK ISHAM: Rocket Boys (October Sky) (3:38)
Orchestra Conducted by Ken Kluger
- JOHN BARRY: Finale (High Road to China) (5:05)
Orchestra Conducted by John Barry
Dedicated to the memories of
Stanley Rubin - Basil Poledouris - Shirley Walker