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In the past year I have tried to seek out works by various film composers that they have done outside of the film world. Some things are easier to find, I have about five john williams concertos, I have that recent Goldsmith album Christus Apollo, a requiem and piano music by preisner, some orchestral stuff by kilar, a saxophone concerto and symphonic poem by Kamen,a symphony by Bernard Herrmann, and john barry’s two solo albums.
Elfman got me interested in film music a decade ago, but coming from a classical music listening background, I am also fascinated by music for the sake of music. I mean, I don’t think most people here wouldn’t want to see what danny might do when trying to write a symphony. I was intrigued just by the thought that he wrote or filled in cues for Apes, and excited by the possibility of Edward being a ballet.
Dunno, music for the sake of music?Danny once wrote a piano concerto in his Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo days. No doubt is was pretty wacky, and orchestrated using the Boingo players it would not be your normal piano concerto.
I would love to hear this, or anything else he has done.
Richard G, do you have Reel Life – the private music of film composers vol. 1?
It is full of wonderful chamber music from the likes of:
Bob James
Howard Shore
Michael Kamen
Bruce Broughton (the longest, and best piece on the CD)
David Raskin
Rachel Portmanno, never heard of it. Is it a in print CD? I had heard about that piano concerto…wasn’t it called something like piano concerto number 1 and a half or something. I think he mentioned it on the Pee Wee audio commentary.
I have to go replace my Spider-man score copy now to replace the stolen one.
I would suggest any of Elliot Goldenthal’s concert work, particularly FIRE, WATER, PAPER. Or is it FIRE, PAPER, WATER?
Ryan
Fire-Water-Paper
Yes, anything of Goldenthal’s is good!That’s a great Goldenthal recommendation — the second movement is killer. As far as I know the Reel Life CD is still in print because it only came out about a year ago. I would also recommend Michael Nyman’s MGV (a great piece of minimalist composition). It is my favorite classical composition written within the last 10 years. The CD with MGV also contains his Piano Concerto (which contains themes from “The Piano”). The performace on this piece is not the best recorded but I wanted it just for MGV (a piece for orchestra and Michael Nyman Band).
Nat
Since we’re all making film-composers-gone-classical reccomendations, I’ve gotta reccomend The Five Sacred Trees. About the second half of the CD is just random classical stuff by random classical composers that they threw in (though I really enjoy all of it), but the first half of the CD is a John Williams bassoon concerto, performed by Judith LeClair. I’m not her biggest fan (and I don’t know what the problem was with this CD . . . the bassoon doesn’t sound very bassoony), but it’s some great music. Track 2 is particularly fun
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