Star Wars London Philharmonic

One of the pillars of film scoring and the most popular film composer of his era, John Williams has created music for some of the most successful motion pictures in Hollywood history – Star Wars, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, and Harry Potter are just a handful of selections from an extensive catalog that has included over 50 Academy Awards nominations. After getting his start in television in the late '50s, Williams worked more steadily on feature films by the early '70s, impressing with his stirring orchestral scores for blockbuster disaster films like The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Earthquake (1974), and The Towering Inferno (1974), as well as through his work with such emerging directors as Robert Altman (1973's The Long Goodbye) and Steven Spielberg (1974's The Sugarland Express).

This gorgeous, over-sized hardcover has 220 pages packed with over 400 incredible color and black and white photos from some of cinemas best movies. To accompany these amazing photos are 8 cds containing the memorable music from the films that have left their mark on the silver screen. This book is an absolute must-have for any film/ music enthusiast. –blurrpy.com, July 2015
The book itself is great, but the music (included on eight accompanying CDs) is the real star.The book is arranged in a way that is aesthetically pleasing and makes logical sense you will never lose track of where you are in Movies because it's laid out so well. –rebeatmag.com, September 2015 Layer that impressive collection of sound with some 400 photographs from classics and 216 pages and the result is a highly desirable tome. [It] oozes production value and has a surprising amount of insight on the featured music themes and movies…what a perfect gift it would be for any cinema buff. –geeknative.com, September 2015

N a career that spans five decades, John Williams has become one of America's most accomplished and successful composers for film and for the concert stage. He has served as music director and laureate conductor of one of the country's treasured musical institutions, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and he maintains thriving artistic relationships with many of the world s great orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Mr. Williams has received a variety of prestigious awards, including the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honor, the Olympic Order, and numerous Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards. He remains one of our nation's most distinguished and contributive musical voices. John Williams Conducts is a new CD box set that features all of his definitive recordings for Sony Classical including The Star Wars Trilogy, The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration, Yo-Yo Ma Plays the Music of John Williams, American Journey, Summon the Heroes.

This gorgeous, over-sized hardcover has 220 pages packed with over 400 incredible color and black and white photos from some of cinemas best movies. To accompany these amazing photos are 8 cds containing the memorable music from the films that have left their mark on the silver screen. This book is an absolute must-have for any film/ music enthusiast. –blurrpy.com, July 2015
The book itself is great, but the music (included on eight accompanying CDs) is the real star.The book is arranged in a way that is aesthetically pleasing and makes logical sense you will never lose track of where you are in Movies because it's laid out so well. –rebeatmag.com, September 2015 Layer that impressive collection of sound with some 400 photographs from classics and 216 pages and the result is a highly desirable tome. [It] oozes production value and has a surprising amount of insight on the featured music themes and movies…what a perfect gift it would be for any cinema buff. –geeknative.com, September 2015

Ministry Of Sound Presents Ministry Of Sound: The Score [3CD] album 54 original hits and the original artists. Includes tracks by London Symphony Orchestra, John Barry, John Williams / The Boston Pops Orchestra, James Horner, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and more.

This instalment of the popular 'NOW 100 Hits' series comprises 5 discs of tracks that have featured in motion pictures over the years, including the iconic 'My Heart Will Go On' (Titanic), '(I've Had) The Time of My Life' (Dirty Dancing), 'Rocket Man' (Rocket Man), any many more.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was, twice over and in two separate areas, one of the most renowned musical figures of the 20th century. Beginning at age seven, he was a celebrated performing prodigy, with a level of technical development and an understanding of music that awed such giants of the musical world as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, who delighted in his prodigious talent. Greeted in such circles as a new Mozart, from his teens until his thirties Korngold was the author of a series of compositions – orchestral works, operas (most notably Die Tote Stadt), and chamber works – that were uniquely popular and among the most critically acclaimed of their era.

Gustav Holst was among those few classical composers to exert a major influence on rock music and popular music in the mid- to late- 20th century – which is all rather ironic, since he passed away in 1934. Holst was part of the early- 20th century school of English composers usually referred to as post-Romantics – along with his friend Ralph Vaughan Williams, with whom he shared a common interest in English folksong, he helped advance the cause of distinctly English orchestral music far beyond the boundaries of England; but much of Holst's music, as distinct from that of his contemporaries, was also steeped in Eastern influences that made it unique. Born in Cheltenham in 1874, Holst survived a childhood blighted by poor health (including painful neuritis in his right hand), the death of his mother when he was eight years old, and an overly demanding father.

Gustav Holst was among those few classical composers to exert a major influence on rock music and popular music in the mid- to late- 20th century – which is all rather ironic, since he passed away in 1934. Holst was part of the early- 20th century school of English composers usually referred to as post-Romantics – along with his friend Ralph Vaughan Williams, with whom he shared a common interest in English folksong, he helped advance the cause of distinctly English orchestral music far beyond the boundaries of England; but much of Holst's music, as distinct from that of his contemporaries, was also steeped in Eastern influences that made it unique. Born in Cheltenham in 1874, Holst survived a childhood blighted by poor health (including painful neuritis in his right hand), the death of his mother when he was eight years old, and an overly demanding father.