[Nils Jacob Holt Hanssen]

That was a great concert! (is it available in the NRK app/website, Thor?) I remember they were quite faithful to Goldsmith’s originals, including live echoplex effects during PATTON, for instance.

And wow – it’s been 14 years already! 😮

Edit: This was a reply to Thor’s post from 12th March about the ‘Jerry Goldsmith Live’ concert with the Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra. I thought the original post including the picture would be included when I used ‘Reply’ on the post, but apparently not.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Yeah, the “reply” function isn’t the same as on other boards. You have to copy/paste.

But YES….great concert! Did we go together? I can’t remember.

[Nils Jacob Holt Hanssen]

Did we go together? I can’t remember.

We sure did! And had a beer or two afterwards. 🙂

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Cool! I’ve learned since then that it’s better to have beers afterwards rather than before (due to toilet breaks). WINE is the way to go beforehand. Incidentally, I wrote a concert review on Montages, it seems, which is available here (Google-translated). And if I shared that before, I’m sorry.

As far as I know, it’s not available anywhere. I got an audio copy from an NRK acquaintance. Let me know if you want a copy.

[Nils Jacob Holt Hanssen]

As far as I know, it’s not available anywhere. I got an audio copy from an NRK acquaintance. Let me know if you want a copy.

Sure – would love to!

Thanks also for the link to your Montages review. I must have read that back in the day, but I see now that you wrote that PATTON did not have echoplexed trumpets – while my recollection, as I mentioned above, is that they had! 😀 Guess we’ll have to listen to the recording to settle that. 🙂

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Yeah, I thought it was computerized. But I could be wrong. I’ll send you the concert asap, via Wetransfer.

[Nils Jacob Holt Hanssen]

Thanks, Thor!

[Thor Joachim Haga]

I was just alerted to this! As I don’t have ANY Kabiljo in my collection, and as he died just a short while ago, I decided to check out his stuff. And wow, this is a brilliant sampler with that spacey, acidic electro sound that I dig so much in Artemiev’s work of the era. Cool and hypnotic Soviet block-era grooves, man!

[Thor Joachim Haga]

This 2002 album is, I think, the last full album John Williams worked on that was not related to his own music (not counting a couple of “cameos” later on). Unless they merely used some of Williams’ old Gerswhin arrangements, of which there are plenty. But I think they’re new. Pretty free-form interpretations, with the famous melodies tucked neatly away, but swingin’.

[Nick Zwar]

[Eirik Myhr]

Maybe the best version of Fauré’s Requiem I’ve heard (can’t decide between this one and the one by Herreweghe on Harmonia Mundi).
Such a breathtakingly beautiful work.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Except for “Pavane”, which is on every “best of” compilation of classical music, ever, I must admit I haven’t heard much Fauré. What’s a good intro album?

[Sigbjørn]

Maybe the best version of Fauré’s Requiem I’ve heard (can’t decide between this one and the one by Herreweghe on Harmonia Mundi).
Such a breathtakingly beautiful work.

Thanks for the recomendation. I haven’t checked it out yet, but for now I haven’t heard a recording with a better soloist than Lisa Beckley on Naxos.

[Sigbjørn]

[Thor Joachim Haga]

I eventually got hold of his delightful, loungey, folksy score for one of my favourite comedies of all time (although culture collision comedy is not PC these days), probably some 5-6 years ago. It’s the only film score by Johnny Boshoff I’m aware of. Any other fans?

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