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Mine is Max Steiner, followed by bernard Herrman. Bot are inventive and prolific and have scored many a classic.
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I can't believe I forgot about this guy."Who?" you say.
The composer for the Coens - from Blood Simple to Fargo. Miller's Crossing. O Brother Where Art There...et al.Burwell also does Spike Jonze's movies (Being John Malkovich).
He did excellent scores for Bill Condon's Kinsey and Gods & Monsters.
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-Bill
I like Brian Eno a LOT. Like many others who are very progressive, some of his stuff doesnt do much for me, but when he gets it right, there is nobody better. One disk available (Music for films) is a collection of pieces written for various film or TV spots, is a good listen by itself, however, when heard on the video they were written for, it is remarkable how perfectly it fits. 'Apollo', another disk of music written for a film, is another example of the music being a perfect fit. Find the DVD 'For All Mankind' to hear this music put to film. This was originally a National Geographic video, but the rights are now owned by someone else. A very good DVD, in my opinion.
I believe that I have his "Music for Film" Lp and I know that I have "Music for Airports" as it is so weird!
-Bill
I didnt mention his non-film stuff, but I am a big fan of it as well, for the most part. Music for Airports was the disk that really turned me on to Brian Eno. Its funny, but when I first brought the LP home and listened to it, it did nothing for me. Then, about 6 months later, I put it on again, and it hit me just right, and I have been a big fan ever since. Its interresting to read the liner notes on that disk, from his original idea for the concept, as well as his audio/visual experiment at the airport (forget which). His collaborations with other artists is worth exploring as well. I am really fond of Laurie Anderson, who has worked with Brian on a few pieces (Bright Red/Tightrope is the best, I think). Quite an interresting artist, overall. Too bad he is not doing as much music as he used to.
...especially since I met him once, long ago, on Roxy Music's first US tour (in Chicago).
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Korngold wrote great orchestral scores for MGM, including many of Errol Flynn's swashbucklers. Great stuff with or without the movie.
...his violin concerto? Many great themes from favorite Korngold movies found their way into this entertaining concerto.I love the version by Gil Shaham on DG, which has a nice coupling of the beautiful Barber violin concerto plus Korngold's charming incidental music to Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Highly recommended.
Apart from some of the names already mentioned here, I like:
Frankie Chan: Ashes of Time
Joe Hisaishi: Totoro, Kikujiro, Hana-Bi, Sonatine
Trevor Jones: Last of the Mohicans
Susumu Hirasawa: Berserk
Not strictly score only, but songs as well:
A.R. Rahman: Bombay, Dil Se, Lagaan
Jatin-Lalit: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Mohabbatein, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
Nino Rota: la Dolce Vita, Godfather, Il Gattopardo, Romeo and Juliet
Ennio Morricone: almost everything he's ever done
Hans Zimmer: Crimson Tide, main theme from True Romance, and as Harmonia says, Gladiator (although Lisa Gerrard may have a lot to do with the latter)
Not strictly film, but game ost:
Akira Yamaoka: incredible one-man show on Silent Hill 2Lots more!
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Copland's few forays into film produced great music. Check out his "Music for Films", Slatkin & St. Louis, on RCA.I don't think of him as mainly a film composer, but as a composer who did a few films. (Ditto Walton).
VERY few movies have score that raises to that level.He wrote score for 75 films, among the best known onces is Romeo and Juliett.
I woudl submit to you that this is different caliber of score composing.
Nevsky is a fabulous score.I don't normally think of Prokoviev as a film composer, but he certainly composed a couple of the greatest ones in history.
Perhaps my blind spot is due to not having seen many Russion films scored by him, excepting the famous Eisensteins.
To which Rome & Juliet are you referring? The Ullanova ballet film or a different, non dancing version of R&J?
I have only seen the Russian version. Of course back then Ulanova was a household name - you couldn't go about your life without hearing her name every day.
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Quite a famous film was made of this ballet very early after its creation and widely shown, both in Russia and eventually in the west.It was the first look dance lovers (outside the Soviet Union) had of the great ballerina Ullanova,who, although apporaching middle age, gave a radiat performance as Juliet. It was a very influential film in its time within the dance/arts world since this was before the great Soviet companies were allowed to tour the West.
This version is seldom performed outside Russia today - the British choreographre Kenneth Macmillen's version of R&J is better known now.
starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. I am not sure who did the music but it used a lot of pop and rock songs from recent past with the original bands performing.
I like weird stuff and so in addition to having that soundtrack, I also have a couple from David Lynch films. He used a great, modern composer who does some pretty spooky sounding tunes, Angelo Badalamenti. Even the name is creepy!
-Bill
...as it was in a version which has been shown everywhere: both excellent, none of them a true film.Regards
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and the 1995 RCA Temirkanov/St. Petersburh Nevsky is one of the finest recorded orchestral performances I have ever heard. Clearly one of the finest movies ever made, and I believe the single greatest film score.
It sounds like you have seen the film, so you remember how well the music is integrated into it.
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His scores for The Straight Story and Twin Peaks were both outstanding. In fact, I think hes done all of Lynch's films except Eraserhaed (No score in that one I think).A third for Danny Elfman and also a second for Randy Newman. I've liked what I've heard from Ry Cooder. His Suuthern Comfort (mediocre film) score was excellent
I like the Thin Red Line composer, too.
...and of course the great master, Bernard Herrman, along with Korngold, Rota and Steiner too. Those would be my top guys.Elmer Bernstein has a special place in my affection, especially for To Kill A Mockingbird, but also for Man With The Golden Arm, The Magnificent Seven, The Grifters, The Age of Innocence, My Left Foot, The Field, Hud, The Great Escape, True Grit, The Sweet Smell Of Success...heavens I've just realized he scored Animal House!
John Williams has written some brilliant film music - as some music I find repetitive and/or overblown - but I loved his recent scores to Catch Me If You Can and HP3/POA. Both of those were very fresh and sympathetic to the respective movies.
Jerry Goldsmith, uneven but when he's good, he's great.
I'm rather keen on Thomas Newman. I find his music supports the films he scores in subtle and interesting ways. You may know him from American Beauty, Oscar & Lucinda, Road To Perdition, The Green Mile, Finding Nemo and Six Feet Under.
James Newton Howard has done some things I quite like, as has Howard Shore (long before Peter Jackson took him on - remember all those scores for Cronenberg's films?).
Randy Newman is another film composer with whom I have a love/hate relationship. I like his scores to the Toy Story movies, The Paper, James & The Giant Peach and Babe Pig In The City. But Forest Gump and Seabiscuit - ugh.
Ennio Morricone - talk about iconic! My favorite is the score to the Untouchables.
Phillip Glass - I normally hate him but think his scores to Kundun and The Hours were quite fitting.
Michale Nyman - his work with Peter Greenaway is sympatico and special.
Angelo Badalamenti - the music to watch Lynch by.
I don't much like Hans Zimmer but he did interesting things for The Thin Red Line, plus I goota admit his main theme for Gladiator is...memorable.
I also like Randy Newman's score for 'The Natural'. This was the first film score I ever heard by Randy Newman (was it his first?), and was realy suprised, considering my experiences with his popular music up until that time.
Recently, Howard Shore with the Lord of the Rings soundtrack, never get tired of listening to it
Danny Elfman, Men in Black 2Bernard Hermann, just about anything. In the movie "Signs" M. Night Shyamalan had a great Bernard Hermann like opeining score.
I am liking some of Jerry Goldsmith's stuff more, but I think he was inconsistent. I really liked the original "Alien" soundtrack.
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Just for shear memorability, and because I grew up with him: Ennio Morricone.
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Who?? Well, the Coen Brothers films for a startGrins
along with...Franz Waxman
John Williams
Jerry Goldsmith
Randy Newman
Danny Elfman
Elmer Bernstein
Erich Korngold
James Horner
Ennio Morricone
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