Film Music

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Carl Davis - The Film Music of Charles Chaplin (1996)

Charles Chaplin - The Film Music of Charles Chaplin (1996)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted by Carl Davis

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 371 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 211 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Orchestral Score, Film Music | Label: BMG | # 09026 68271 2 | Time: 01:18:09

This CD contains selected themes from five of Chaplins brilliant films. The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), The Circus (1928), City Lights (1931) and Modern Times (1936). If you love the music from these films then you will love this album. Carl Davis has been very sensitive when rerecording the original scores. The music sounds amazing and he has remained true to Chaplins own styles and tempo's. The thing that will strike you more than anything is how amazing these scores really are in Stereo! They really do sound very good indeed. It also fully demonstrates just how good a composer Chaplin really was, and his talent for marrying music to film. As music it is beautiful from the harshness of "Gold Rush" to the haunting "Modern Times" and not forgetting the swinging "City Lights". Magical stuff! 5 out of 5, 10 out of 10 etc… But if you are planning on listening to this 80 minute album from beginning to end, you'd better make sure you have some Chaplin films close to hand because you WILL want to watch them all again. Nostalgia at its very best.
Michel Legrand - The Essential Michel Legrand: Film Music Collection (2005)

Michel Legrand - The Essential Michel Legrand: Film Music Collection (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 421 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 208 Mb | Scans included
Soundtracks, Score, Easy Listening | Label: Silva America | # SILCD 1185 | 01:17:55

Reynold da Silva's Silva Screen Records has been constructing a series of "essential" collections of major film composers' scores usually by making new recordings of portions of those scores or compiling recordings previously made for other projects, most often employing the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. For this Michel Legrand album, the label has actually enlisted Legrand as conductor of the Flemish Radio Orchestra (whose contributions are not noted until you examine the CD booklet), with a few additional jazz musicians, plus Legrand himself on piano and (during the extended suite from The Go-Between) harpsichord. Still, these are new recordings, made in December 2004, and should not be confused with actual soundtrack recordings. Legrand oversees excerpts from some of his most popular scores, leaning heavily on the major themes, such as "I Will Wait for You" from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, "Theme from Summer of '42," and "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair.

British Film Music : Musical Traditions in British Cinema, 1930s–1950s  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by readerXXI at Oct. 29, 2021
British Film Music : Musical Traditions in British Cinema, 1930s–1950s

British Film Music : Musical Traditions in British Cinema, 1930s–1950s
by Paul Mazey
English | 2020 | ISBN: 3030335496 | 221 Pages | PDF | 4.7 MB

Identifying and Interpreting Incongruent Film Music  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by arundhati at Oct. 30, 2020
Identifying and Interpreting Incongruent Film Music

David Ireland, "Identifying and Interpreting Incongruent Film Music "
English | ISBN: 3030005054 | 2018 | 260 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 4 MB

DOT. Film. Music. Lifestyle - Oktober 2021  Magazines

Posted by sammoh at Oct. 17, 2021
DOT. Film. Music. Lifestyle - Oktober 2021

DOT. Film. Music. Lifestyle - Oktober 2021
Deutsch | 84 pages | PDF | 13.5 MB
Michael Nyman - The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover: Soundtrack To The Film By Peter Greenaway (1989)

Michael Nyman - The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Soundtrack To The Film By Peter Greenaway

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 218 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 104 Mb
Label: Venture | # DBEBN 55(4) | Time: 00:40:24 | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score, Avant-Garde, Minimalism

For this, his seventh soundtrack for director Peter Greenaway, Nyman deftly orchestrates a mix of strings, horns, and voices to produce another of his fetching and romantic minimalist backdrops. The opening "Memorial" is the highlight of the lot and drives along with stuttering saxophones, an insistent string arrangement, elegiac brass solos, and the soaring vocals of soprano Sarah Leonard (Leonard would be featured on a large part of the Prospero's Books soundtrack). The piece was originally inspired by a 1985 Belgian soccer match tragedy, in which 39 Italian fans were killed. Nyman utilized a death march in his earlier Greenaway collaboration, Drowning by Numbers, and revives the scheme to great effect here for what would become the main theme of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. Nyman contrasts the piece's climatic quality with two relatively sedate yet brooding numbers.

The Film Score Orchestra (VA) - Movie Love Songs (1997)  Music

Posted by Designol at March 11, 2024
The Film Score Orchestra (VA) - Movie Love Songs (1997)

The Film Score Orchestra - Movie Love Songs (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 452 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 186 Mb | Scans included
Soundtracks, Pop, Soul, Easy Listening | Label: Going For A Song | # GFS024 | Time: 01:16:06

20 great songs. 'Up Where We Belong', 'Take My Breath Away', 'I Just Called to Say I Love You', 'Time of My Life', 'Stand by Me', 'What a Wonderful World', 'It Must Have Been Love', '(Everything I Do) I Do It for You', 'The Crying Game' and more, and more…
Toru Takemitsu - Film Music by Toru Takemitsu (2006) {7CD Box Set Victor Entertainment Japan VICG-60593~9}

Toru Takemitsu - Film Music by Toru Takemitsu (2006) {7CD Box Set Victor Entertainment Japan VICG-60593~9}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (image)+CUE+LOG -> 2.25 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 1.07 Gb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 92 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2006 Victor Entertainment Japan | VICG-60593~9
Classical / Film Score / Contemporary Classical / Avant-Garde / Modern Composition

These are probably the rarest Takemitsu recordings around. Toru Takemitsu composed music for at least 70 films (I have read that it's actually around 90 but I haven't researched this) and the music can be exceptionally wide-ranging: traditional Japanese soloists and ensembles, Western classical tradition, avant-garde and everything in between (jazzy lounge and space age music, anyone?) I feel that some of his best film scores are those which have his delicate Debussian touches combined with traditional Asian music and soloists.
Eric Serra - The Lady: Bande Originale du Film (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2011)

Eric Serra - The Lady: Bande Originale du Film (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2011)
EAC | FLAC (Tracks) + cue.+log ~ 407 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 206 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score, World Fusion | Label: EuropaCorp/Sony Music | # 88691905382 | 01:11:14

Soundtrack from the French-English co-production directed by Luc Besson, starring Michelle Yeoh. Music composed by Eric Serra.

Film Music: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), 2nd Edition  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by First1 at Aug. 24, 2023
Film Music: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), 2nd Edition

Film Music: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), 2nd Edition by Kathryn Kalinak
English | September 1st, 2023 | ISBN: 0197628036 | 176 pages | True EPUB | 1.52 MB

The rich and deeply moving sounds of film music are as old as cinema. The first projected moving images were accompanied by music through a variety of performers–from single piano players to small orchestras–that brought images to life. Film music has since become its own industry, an aesthetic platform for expressing creative visions, and a commercial vehicle for growing musical stars of all varieties.