GUEST HOSTS: TIM BURDEN & TOM SMYTH On August 25th, 2010, Academy Award winning actor Sean Connery turned 80 years old. Connery, of course, is best known for his role in six JAMES BOND films as well as his Academy Award winning portrayal of veteran Chicago cop, Jimmy Malone, in…
GUEST HOSTS: ROBERT DANIELS Introduction by Robert Daniels: As a film music collector as well as a radio host I love to search record stores and CD shops for the most unusual scores I can find. Sometimes you find them in not just music stores either but in the oddest…
This is a curious little score from MovieScore Media that's an interesting mix of Desplat meets Williams meets Goldsmith. The opening cue contains these lovely flute flutters that instantly brings Desplat to mind. The second cue, “Finding Gwen,” heads into WAR OF THE WORLDS territory with choppy, aggressive string ostinatos…
GUEST HOST: TIM BURDEN Guest host Tim Burden returns with another fascinating FILM MUSIC MIX special. Tim continues to explore the music from foreign films this time featuring French composers Frederic Talgorn and Georges Delerue. The Talgorn section of the show will feature music from such fine scores as ASTERIX…
With a running time of just under 40 minutes this one flies by quickly. There’s a lot of compilation favorites here... "Parade of Charioteers" from BEN-HUR, "Overture" from NORTH BY NORTHWEST and "The Ride of the Cossacks" from TARAS BULBA. Also included is the rousing "Conquest" from CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE…
James Horner’s re-recording of his score to Brainstorm clocks in at just over 30 minutes. But within these 30 minutes is some of the most impressive and original material Horner has ever created. There's a wonderful clash of emotions right off the top of the album opening with angelic female…
This energetic, high tempo score was composed by Christopher Drake who has become one of the most impressive new composers I’ve heard from in the past few years. His work on BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT was superb. Drake doesn’t fool around with his new score to WONDER WOMAN as he knocks…
Creative, complex, daring, smart, inventive, emotional... Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 (as well as the rest of the series) is one of the finest modern day scores I've heard in the past 10 years or so. I was at first dismissive of Richard Gibbs and Bear McCreary's approach to scoring this…