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My latest box set is this:
It’s 12 discs of the music of Pierre Boulez plus one disc with an interview. Perhaps I am strange, could be, but I really enjoy quite a bit of Boulez’ compositions. When I first encountered them, I admit, I was puzzled… His first piano sonatas sounded at first to me like random notes…
It was “Sur Incises” that made me really listen… it was a composition that “clicked”, and it’s one of my favorite works of modern music. I don’t know why, but I find at least some of Boulez’ compositions highly “soothing” in a strange way. I find Boulez was an interesting personality and I’ve seen him a couple of times in concert as a conductor. So while this box doubled up on a few things I already had, I had to get it.I have the following:
JERRY GOLDSMITH AT FOX
BERNARD HERRMANN AT 20TH CENTURY FOX
SUPERMAN THE MUSIC (FSM)
RON JONES: STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION-FSM
ELMER BERNSTEIN FILM MUSIC COLLECTION -FSM
THE BURTON-ELFMAN BOX SET
STAR TREK- TOS COLLECTION- LLL
MIKLOS ROZSA TREASURY -FSM
CHARLES GERHARDT- CLASSIC FILM MUSIC COLLECTION
STAR WARS COLLECTION
JOHN WILLIAMS CONDUCTOR SONY BOSTON POPS
DISASTER MOVIE SOUNDTRACK COLECTION -JOHN WILLIAMS
THE X FILES VOL. 1
MEDAL OF NONORS COLLECTION- LLL
LORD OF THE RING -THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING-CC
LORD OF THE RINGS- THE TWO TOWERS -CC
LORD OF THE RINGS- THE RETURN OF THE KING- CC
HARRY POTTER THE JOHN WILLIAMS SCORES
THE ADVENTURES OF INDIANA JONES -Concorde
STAR WARS TRILOGY- ANTHOLGY
JOHN WILLIAMS THE BOSTON POPS/ PHILIPS COLLECTIONELMER BERNSTEIN FILM MUSIC COLLECTION -FSM
There are some I would like to have if not funds would always get in the way. Might not help you but the Bernstein Collection at least is – I think – completely available digitally.
Here it is, with additional releases of these specific recordings of Torn Curtain and To Kill a Mockingbird added to the end of the playlist (I don’t know if they use the same master).
That’s a great box. I don’t have it, but I have some of the titles individually. In some cases, the only version I’d like to own of said score. Like THE SILVER CHALICE (although I also have the suite on the LEGENDS OF set) and YOUNG BESS.
You have them on LP or digitally? I’m not aware of any of the albums having been released individually on CD.
Anyone gotten the new Barry box set from Quartet Records, The Polydor Years? How is it?
I don’t have that. But as you mention that I remember that I have that 6-disc boxset THE MUSIC OF JOHN BARRY – THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION with recordings of the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
That’s a great box, if you are mainly interested in the essentials. I find, with Barry mainly the themes are interesting. Generally, I am not super interested in Barry’s underscore. Of course there are exceptions.Does this Silva/Prague box contain only newish recordings, or do they go all the way back to the 80s/90s when this team produced a lot of shoddy recordings?
I see, although I was referring to the playing, not the sound. Some of their older recordings give the impression they only had time/budget for one take, with little time for practising.
Bear McCreary’s LOTR music appears to be coming out in a box now. Anyone planning on getting that?
I like some of his music for this show, but I’m more than content with my whittled, 63-minute playlist of the first soundtrack in digital file format. There’s a lot of meandering inbetween, so I can only imagine what a box would be like.
You mean the box for season 2 or is there even another box?
I saw the ads for the season 1 box. And I didn’t long for more music than what was alread, on the 2-disc OST. But in many ways I thought, that this box represented in optimal form what a lot of soundtrack fans are longing for. If I were such a huge fan this box would have been a dream come true.
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