Jonathan Elias Children Of The Corn (original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [25th Anniversary Edition] (2009)

Finally! The only Planet of the Apes score to not have an album of its own finally does! Jerry Goldsmith returned for the third film in Twentieth Century Fox's Planet of the Apes saga. For Franklin J. Schaffner's original classic, Goldsmith wrote one of the all-time GREAT films scores. Remarkable in every way and truly groundbreaking, there was no topping what he had done previously. So Jerry Goldsmith did what he always did in that situation… he wrote something completely new! And once again he soared! For Escape From The Planet of the Apes (1971) Jerry miraculously brought Planet of the Apes to the 1970s and gave it a groove! That's not to say his original score didn't have plenty of groove itself, but in a very different way. Here he added an electric guitar, a steel drum and a sitar to his orchestra! And what fun it all was! Previously available only as an abbreviated "bonus track" on our own Planet of the Apes CD, this release of the complete score from Escape From The Planet of the Apes finally plugs one of the of the most important holes in Jerry Goldsmith's discography.

Hanover Street is a 1979 Anglo-American wartime romantic film, written and directed by Peter Hyams, and starring Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down and Christopher Plummer. The original score composed by John Barry.

John Barry's sinister score from the 1984 suspense thriller, Mike's Murder. Often overlooked in Barry's career, this is one of those rare chances to listen to the late maestro write some powerful material. Very stylish and highly recommended.

La-La Land Records, WEA and Warner Bros. proudly present the remastered and expanded, limited edition 2-CD set of John Williams’ Academy Award Nominated original score to the 1987 feature film EMPIRE OF THE SUN, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Christian Bale, John Malkovich and Miranda Richardson. Heralded as one of the acclaimed composer’s finest works, Mr. Williams’ masterful orchestral score seeks no less than the openness of the human heart, mind and soul – the perfect compliment to this powerful and indelible film about a young English boy’s emotional and physical struggle to survive the Japanese occupation of China during WWII. This deluxe re-issue was produced, assembled and mastered by Mike Matessino in cooperation with John Williams, Steven Spielberg and the film’s co-producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.

For his superb and terrifying film, the filmmaker William Friedkin finds in the catalog of the Virgin label, the main theme of his Exorcist, an instrumental track that the British Mike Oldfield had previously composed for his album Tubular Bells. The filmmaker completes his soundtrack with various classic pieces by Anton Webern but above all Krzysztof Penderecki, surprisingly all in phase with his fantastic tale. Choices that played an essential role in the ultimate success of this great horror classic.

Academy Award-winning composer Michael Giacchino grew up fascinated with both movies and music and has gone on to a successful career writing scores for acclaimed films, television series and video games. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Giacchino started his career composing scores for a number of successful video games including the Medal of Honor and Call of Duty franchises. In 2001 producer J.J. Abrams invited Giacchino to write the music for his television series, Alias and later the music for the hit cult series, Lost, for which Giacchino won the Grammy Award for Outstanding Dramatic Score in 2005.

Alex North had his roots in the American stage but achieved his greatest fame in the epic film genre: his scores for Spartacus (1960), Cleopatra (1963) and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) are beloved for their scope and grandeur. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) was to be another North epic but ended up with Stanley Kubrick's selections of classical music. Later in 1968 North was able to use some of his 2001 ideas in M-G-M's The Shoes of the Fisherman, a colossal modern-day tale about the first Russian Pope. The Shoes of the Fisherman was based on a novel by Morris L. West and starred Anthony Quinn as Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner who rejoins the Vatican after his release. When the Pope dies, Kiril emerges as an unlikely successor, and must set the course for the Vatican's role in a current world crisis. The film also starred Laurence Olivier as the Soviet Premier, David Janssen as an American journalist, and Oskar Werner as a Jesuit philosopher and friend of Kiril's.

For his superb and terrifying film, the filmmaker William Friedkin finds in the catalog of the Virgin label, the main theme of his Exorcist, an instrumental track that the British Mike Oldfield had previously composed for his album Tubular Bells. The filmmaker completes his soundtrack with various classic pieces by Anton Webern but above all Krzysztof Penderecki, surprisingly all in phase with his fantastic tale. Choices that played an essential role in the ultimate success of this great horror classic.

Daniel Pemberton is an Ivor Novello winning and multi-BAFTA nominated composer well known for embracing a wide range of musical mediums – from electronic to orchestral – throughout his work. After more than a decade establishing himself as one of the most inventive and experimental voices in British television – scoring countless Emmy and BAFTA award winning dramas and documentaries such as Complicit, Peep Show, Upstairs Downstairs, Desperate Romantics, Space Dive, Occupation and Hiroshima – Pemberton moved into the world of film with the period supernatural thriller The Awakening (2011). Ridley Scott hired the composer to score his feature The Counselor (2013) and The Vatican (2014). This work, alongside scores to other features such as Blood (2012), In Fear (2013) and Cuban Fury (2014), led him to be named ‘Discovery Of The Year’ at the prestigious World Soundtrack Awards 2014.