What are you listening to now?
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Nick, the Shostakovich is a lovely choice. I made the huge mistake of choosing the slow movement to play at my brother’s funeral eleven years ago (in December, as it happens) and have only in the last couple of years been able to deal with hearing it again.
I’ve reached the 12th symphony in the Michael Sanderling boxset.
I’ve always loved Richard Robbins’ merge of minimalism and classical-isms (classicisms?). He was doing ‘post-minimalist romanticism’ before it was a thing. The Merchant/Ivory productions are obviously his best, and while my absolute favourite (both score and film) is THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, the others are great too, inclduding A ROOM WITH A VIEW. Other Robbins scores worth checking out are MAURICE, HOWARD’S END, JEFFERSON IN PARIS, A SOLDIER’S DAUGHER NEVER CRIES and THE GOLDEN BOWL. I once owned SURVIVING PICASSO on CD as well, but (stupidly) traded it away, and now I can no longer find it in digital file format.
Interesting around A Room With A View I found how Julian Sands managed to fuck up his career so brillantly afterwards. I mean, this was such a great start and a template for sensitive romantic heroes. And it seemed to me that he made some really bad casting decisions afterwards going rather for cheap horror movies.
I love the ALIEN scores, great film music. Every single one of these scores is my favorite of the respective composers, and I always loved this recording as well.
ALIEN is crazy amazing, as I talked about in this thread. I just had a lecture two days ago about Ridley Scott and ALIEN.
But that is an underrated album, Nick. Amazingly, ALIEN 3 is not available for streaming, so you have to make do with that album in that respect.
Interesting around A Room With A View I found how Julian Sands managed to fuck up his career so brillantly afterwards. I mean, this was such a great start and a template for sensitive romantic heroes. And it seemed to me that he made some really bad casting decisions afterwards going rather for cheap horror movies.
I wasn’t aware of Sands’ career trajectory. Thanks!
But that is an underrated album, Nick. Amazingly, ALIEN 3 is not available for streaming, so you have to make do with that album in that respect.
Great album indeed.
I didn’t know ALIEN isn’t otherwise available for streaming, but unfortunately a lot of great film music isn’t.I wasn’t aware of Sands’ career trajectory. Thanks
I mean, that’s probably just my personal view. But I thought, after RWAV he could have had a career of the scale of Helena Bonham-Carter.
But he went for these b-movie horror flicks.I didn’t know ALIEN isn’t otherwise available for streaming, but unfortunately a lot of grrat film music isn’t.
Which of course helps our niche to still sell CDs 😉
True. The only way specialty niche labels like Intrada, La-La Land, Quartet, Music Box etc. can survive is by selling CDs. There is just no money to be made by them from either streaming or digital downloads. Digital downloads, which I quite like, are even more niche than CDs.
The problem with streaming is that not only is not everything available on streaming, sometimes stuff gets withdrawn. As far as soundtracks are concerned, I know Pino Donaggio’s DOMINO and Jerry Goldsmith’s EXTREME PREJUDICE were all available on streaming services such as Qobuz, Tidal, Spotify, and were then withdrawn… so tough if you want to listen to them. (Unless, of course, you bought them as a digital download or on CD.)Digital downloads, which I quite like, are even more niche than CDs.
Yeah, sad but true.
The problem with streaming is that not only is not everything available on streaming, sometimes stuff gets withdrawn.
Same for downloads, too. Seem to be some contractual limits in play.
That’s true, of course, download offers disappear just like streaming. However, I actually did buy DOMINO and Intrada’s EXTREME PREJUDICE from Qobuz, so I still have them, but you cannot currently buy them any more.
I mean, that’s probably just my personal view. But I thought, after RWAV he could have had a career of the scale of Helena Bonham-Carter.
But he went for these b-movie horror flicks.Yes, but also some good ones now and then – like NAKED LUNCH and LEAVING LAS VEGAS. Appears he died in 2023, somehow that must have passed me by.
Yes, but also some good ones now and then – like NAKED LUNCH and LEAVING LAS VEGAS. Appears he died in 2023, somehow that must have passed me by.
Yes, absolutely. Naked Lunch was one of my greatest movie experiences ever. Love that movie.
But Sands had rather small parts in these movies.
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