Listen to one entire piece from HANS ZIMMER's "SCHERLOCK HOLMES" [CD] release details

Click HERE.

More info on the official release of [CD] for 'SHERLOCK HOLMES' cd by Hans Zimmer

Hans' official Facebook page says the score will be released as a digital download on the 22nd, and the physical CD will be released on January 12.

More info, on amazon.com HERE.

UPCOMING SCORES - NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2009

List of upcoming scores, November 2009 / December, from MoviescoreMagacine.zom, original link HERE.

Alan Silvestri: The A-Team.
Mathias Weber: Brooklyn to Manhattan.
Eef Barzelay: Janie Jones.
Terence Blanchard: Red Tails.
Edmund Butt: Garrow’s Law.
Jeff Cardoni: See You in September.
Carles Cases: Negro Buenos Aires.
Bruno Coulais: Tête de turc.
Charles Denler: Henry and Me • Counterswirl.
Pino Donaggio: Sisi (tv).
Justin R. Durban: The Way to Dance.
Lucio Godoy: El corredor nocturno.
Andrea Guerra: Extraordinary Measures.
Paul Haslinger: The Wolfman.
Andrew Hollander: An Invisible Sign of My Own.
Mark Kilian: Legacy.
Daniel Licht: The Deep End (tv) • Romantically Challenged (tv) • Single White Millionaire (tv).
Dario Marianelli: Eat, Pray, Love.
Alan Menken: Rapunzel.
Nicola Piovani: L’uomo nero.
John Powell: Rio (with will.i.am and Sérgio Mendes).
Theodore Shapiro: Diary of a Wimp Kid.
Michael Wandmacher: Point Break Indo.
Alex Wurman: Overnight.

GRAMMY AWARDS 2009 - Nominees' Announced

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

(Award to the Artist(s) and/or Producer(s) of a majority of the tracks on the album, or to the individual(s) actively responsible for the concept and musical direction and for the selection of artists, songs and producers, as applicable.)
CADILLAC RECORDS QUENTION TARANTINO’S INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE TRUE BLOOD TWILIGHT


Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

(Award to Composer(s) for an original score created specifically for, or as a companion to, a current legitimate motion picture, television show or series or other visual media.)

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (Disc 1), Alexandre Desplat HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE, Nicholas Hooper MILK, Danny Elfman STAR TREK, Michael Giacchino UP, Michael Giacchino


In other categories, Michael Giacchino picked up two other nominations from his UP score

“Married Life” is nominated for Best Instrumental Composition
“Up With End Credits” is nominated for Best Instrumental Arranging

Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

(A Songwriter(s) award. For a song (melody & lyrics) written specifically for a motion picture, television or other visual media, and released for the first time during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.)

The Climb (From HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE) Jessi Alexander & Jon Mabe, songwriters (Miley Cyrus) Decode (From TWILIGHT) Josh Farro, Hayley Williams & Taylor York, songwriters (Paramore) Jai Ho (From SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE) Gulzar, A.R. Rahman & Tanvi Shah, songwriters (A.R. Rahman, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Mahalaxmi Iyer & Vijay Prakash) Once In A Lifetime (From CADILLAC RECORDS) Ian Dench, James Dring, Amanda Ghost, Beyoncé Knowles, Scott McFarnon & Jody Street, songwriters (Beyoncé) The Wrestler (From The Wrestler) Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)



List compiled from this article HERE (which you can visit for more info) and HERE.

MICHAEL GIACCHINO scoring animated tv christmas special, DISNEY'S "PREP AND LANDING"

Prep and Landing (Official title: Disney's Prep and Landing) is a computer animated television special, based on an idea by Chris Williams at Walt Disney Animation Studios and developed by Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers into a half-hour Christmas special for December 8th, 2009 to air at 8:30 PM ET/PT on ABC.

The film tells the story of two inept Elves, Wayne (Dave Foley) and Lanny (Derek Richardson), sent by Christmas Eve Command Center coordinator Magee (Sarah Chalke) to prepare houses for Santa's visits. The original premiere date was scheduled for December 1st; however, a speech at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York on military strategy by President Barack Obama delayed the special's debut one week. The special will also air on ABC Family at 7 PM ET/PT December 18th as part of the network's annual "25 Days of Christmas" programming stunt, and will air on Disney Cinemagic in the UK starting December 13th 2009.

(source: wikipedia)

Check out this VIDEO SPECIAL, including references on Giacchino's music for the tv special.

Alan Silvestri slated to score ‘The A-Team’

Veteran composer Alan Silvestri has just announced a new major film scoring assignment on his newly opened official web site. According to the site, Silvestri “has been slated” to compose the original score for The A-Team, the feature film version of the 1980s television series.

For more info, check out this link HERE.

The A-Team is an upcoming feature film based on The A-Team television series. Its release is planned for June 11, 2010, and is produced by 20th Century Fox. As of January 28, 2009, director Joe Carnahan is set to direct and Ridley and Tony Scott are set to produce.The plot will involve a shift from Vietnam to the Middle East, and both Jules Daly and series creator Stephen J. Cannell are involved in the project.

According to writer Michael Brandt, the adaptation will be more in vein of Die Hard, The Bourne Identity, and Casino Royale.

[wikipedia]

ANNIE AWARDS 2009

Music in a Television Production
• Michael Giacchino Prep and Landing — Walt Disney Animation Studios
• Kevin Kiner Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Weapons Factory — Lucasfilm Animation Ltd.
• Guy Moon The Fairly OddParents: Wishology-The Big Beginning — Nickelodeon

Music in a Feature Production
• Bruno Coulais Coraline — Laika
• Michael Giacchino Up — Pixar Animation Studios
• Joe Hisaishi Ponyo — Studio Ghibli
• John Powell Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs — Blue Sky Studios

More at the official site, HERE.

More AVATAR goodies!

Check out a FULL MINUTE OF EACH TRACK in audio samples, HERE.

Tracktimes for the score CD:


1. "You Don't Dream In Cryo...." 6:09
2. Jake Enters His Avatar World 5:24
3. Pure Spirits Of The Forest 8:49
4. The Bioluminescence Of The Night 3:37
5. Becoming One Of "The People", Becoming One With Neytiri 7:43
6. Climbing Up "Iknimaya - The Path To Heaven" 3:18
7. Jake's First Flight 4:50
8. Scorched Earth 3:32
9. Quaritch 5:01
10. The Destruction Of Hometree 6:47
11. Shutting Down Grace's Lab 2:47
12. Gathering All The Na'vi Clans For Battle 5:14
13. War 11:21
14. I See You [Theme from Avatar] 4:20

Also check out this new 25-minute interview with James Horner about AVATAR, hosted HERE.

And also check out this very interesting article on Horner scoring Avatar, quoting "his most difficult job to date", clicking HERE.

THE GOLDEN SATELLITE AWARDS 2009

Here's this year's list of Best Original Score noms -

Amelia (Gabriel Yared)
The Informant! (Marvin Hamlisch)
Public Enemies (Elliot Goldenthal)
Up (Michael Giacchino)
Up in the Air (Rolfe Kent)
Where the Wild Things Are (Carter Burwell & Karen O.)

More info on the awards, HERE.

James Horner ‘Avatar’ radio interview up

An extensive radio interview with composer James Horner on his score for James Cameron’s Avatar is now available for streaming and download at Film Music Magazine. The nearly 30 minute interview is the most in-depth look at the score available so far.

Tune into moviescoremagazine.com, HERE for the whole article.

‘Eat, Pray, Love’ gets Dario Marianelli score

Ryan Murphy’s film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, will be scored by Dario Marianelli, the Academy Award-winning composer of Atonement, Pride and Prejudice, The Brothers Grimm, The Soloist and the current Agora and Everybody’s Fine. The film, which tells the story of a woman who embarks on a journey around the world when she realizes that she needs a change of direction in life, stars Julia Roberts, James Franco, Javier Bardem and Viola Davis and is produced by Columbia Pictures for release next year.

Tune in moviescoremagazine.com's link here for more.

Tracklisting announced for DARIO MARIANELLI's "EVERYBODY'S FINE" [CD]

Tracklist of Everybody's Fine is up

1. Frank’s Journey Begins (1:51)

2. Trains (1:05)

3. You Will Become an Artist (2:07)

4. Leaving New York (1:50)

5. Hole in One (:52)

6. Telephone Poles (3:08)

7. Robert’s Rehearsal (3:33)

8. Some Nightmares (3:29)

9. Why Did You All Lie to Me? (4:22)

10. A Hospital Visit (3:48)

11. David’s Painting (5:54)

12. Christmas Together (2:08)

HANS ZIMMER's "SHERLOCK HOLMES' on [CD]

Tracklisting

1. Discombobulate

2. Is It Poison, Nanny?

3. I Never Woke Up In Handcuffs Before

4. My Mind Rebels At Stagnation

5. Data, Data, Data

6. He's Killed The Dog Again

7. Marital Sabotage

8. Not In Blood, But In Bond

9. Ah, Putrefaction

10. Panic, Shear Bloody Panic

11. Psychological Recovery... 6 Months

12. Catatonictes

More info at play.com

HANS ZIMMER's "it's complicated" [CD] release gets cancelled

IT'S COMPLICATED

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Music Composed by Hans Zimmer and Heitor Pereira

Due to insufficient music in the final cut of the film, this release has now been canceled.

Source: varesesarabande.com

ALAN SILVESTRI's "BACK TO THE FUTURE" coming from Intrada as a 2CD SET

BACK TO THE FUTURE (2 CD SET)

Label: Intrada Special Collection Volume 116

Date: 1985

Tracks: 39

Time = 89:08

QUOTING FROM INTRADA.COM

Wow! At last! Alan Silvestri's complete orchestral soundtrack for legendary Robert Zemeckis movie, released by Universal, produced by Steven Spielberg, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd. Spectacular 2-CD set offers every cue Silvestri fashioned for landmark movie, presented from complete multi-track scoring session masters. CD 1 features now-iconic score used in movie. (Songs can be found on MCA label release.) But there's more! Many film fans know movie underwent changes in lead actor & serious tone of initial production. Find out now how Silvestri made changes as well! CD 2 presents early sessions featuring entire score Silvestri recorded before re-scoring with now-familiar one. Early version features darker, more serious tone in music than final version. Cool alternate scoring highlight: powerful trombone chords for initial version of Marty arriving in "Peabody Barn". Another powerful highlight: lengthy, intense action music for "George To The Rescue". Highlighting both discs, of course: early and final versions of complete "Clocktower" sequence, a genuine cinema-scoring milestone. Authoritative notes by Michael Matessino on background of production, scoring details, session dates plus great color stills complete package. Both early version and familiar "famous" version of score offer non-stop excitement! Alan Silvestri conducts. Note: While this is a limited release, we don't want anyone to miss out on this important album. For that reason, we are electing not to specify a quantity, but our Agreement allows us to exceed the usual 3000 limit. There should be more than enough to go around!

Complete Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

01. Logo 0:20

02. DeLorean Reveal 0:46

03. Einstein Disintegrated 1:22

04. ’85 Twin Pines Mall 4:43

05. Peabody Barn; Marty Ditches DeLorean 3:09

06. ’55 Town Square 1:18

07. Lorraine’s Bedroom 0:47

08. Retrieve DeLorean 1:15

09. 1.21 Jigowatts 1:37

10. The Picture 1:09

11. Picture Fades 0:17

12. Skateboard Chase 1:39

13. Marty’s Letter 1:20

14. George To The Rescue – Pt. 1 0:50

15. Marvin Be-Bop 2:25

16. George To The Rescue – Pt. 2 2:34

17. Tension; The Kiss 1:33

18. Goodnight Marty 1:31

19. It’s Been Educational; Clocktower 10:30

20. Helicopter 0:19

21. ’85 Lone Pine Mall 3:46

22. 4 x 4 0:40

23. Doc Returns 1:14

24. Back To The Future (End Credits) 3:16

CD 1 Total Time 49:24

The Creation Of A Classic... Alternate Early Sessions

01. DeLorean Reveal 0:40

02. Einstein Disintegrated 1:25

03. Peabody Barn 2:17

04. Marty Ditches DeLorean 1:56

05. ’55 Town Square #1 (Trumpet Open) 1:35

06. ’55 Town Square #2 (Trumpet Mute) 1:35

07. Retrieve DeLorean 1:16

08. 1.21 Jigowatts 1:36

09. The Picture 1:08

10. Skateboard Chase 1:40

11. George To The Rescue 4:13

12. Tension; The Kiss 1:42

13. Clocktower 11:02

14. ’85 Lone Pine Mall 3:50

15. Doc Returns 1:19

Alternate Scoring Session Time = 37:41

Bonus Tracks

Unused Source Cue From The Scoring Sessions

16. Ling Ting Ring 2:01

CD 2 Total Time = 39:44

Click HERE to visit INTRADA's store and listen to the whole CD's.

MASSIVE MIKLÓS RÓZSA TREASURY OF M-G-M SCORES TO ARRIVE ON 15-CD BOX SET

Complete scores to Quo Vadis, Madame Bovary and The Power highlight

Film Score Monthly’s magnificent collection celebrating a true giant of film music

Linden, VA – November 23, 2009 – An upcoming release from Film Score Monthly is destined to become one of the most essential soundtrack collections of all time.

FSM presents the Miklós Rózsa Treasury (1949-1968), a 15-CD set celebrating one of the giants of film music. In this single package FSM makes available virtually every surviving, as-yet-unreleased note from the composer’s fertile and productive association with M-G-M.

At the core of the set are the first-ever complete releases of Madame Bovary and Quo Vadis (reconstructed with sound effects), two of the most sought-after titles in the composer’s filmography. Scores that have previously circulated in pirated editions – Young Bess, The Story of Three Loves and All the Brothers Were Valiant – are included with professional mastering and comprehensive bonus tracks. There are also complete (or near-complete) scores that have never appeared in any prior format, such as The Light Touch, Crisis, The Asphalt Jungle, Tip on a Dead Jockey, Something of Value and Crest of the Wave, plus surviving cues from The Red Danube, The Miniver Story and East Side, West Side. All this – and more: the U.K. recording of Knights of the Round Table is included for the first time complete (an abridged version was released by Varèse Sarabande), and Rózsa’s uncredited contribution to Beau Brummell is presented alongside the full original score by Richard Addinsell.

Extensive bonus tracks throughout the set shed light on both the filmmaking and composing processes, allowing fans to see how certain ideas were developed and changed over time.

The Treasury “closes the book” on previous FSM releases Knights of the Round Table and Lust for Life with additional bonus tracks; and also includes bonus tracks from King of Kings and Ivanhoe for which there was not room on their earlier Rhino editions.

This amazing set also makes available several score re-recordings conducted by Rózsa himself, including El Cid, The V.I.P.s and the first genuine stereo CD release of King of Kings. And for the first time ever on CD, listeners can hear the “greatest hits” album Rózsa recorded for MGM Records in 1963: Great Movie Themes Composed by Miklós Rózsa.

Crowning this magnificent achievement is the premiere release of the complete score to The Power – previously available only in abridged form, now with extensive bonus tracks and mastered for the first time from the newly discovered, original 35mm scoring masters.

The three clamshell cases come in a deluxe box with a 48-page booklet containing a short essay and complete track listings. Online you will find free extensive notes in the finest FSM tradition by regulars Lukas Kendall and Al Kaplan, plus Rózsa Society members Frank K. DeWald and John Fitzpatrick. There are also original LP notes and a few surprises.

This is a set to be loved and cherished by Rozsaphiles past, present and future. With only 2,000 being pressed, it is sure to become a treasured collector’s item.

More on JAMES HORNER's "AVATAR"

Brief ‘Avatar’ interview with Horner posted

Hollywood Dailies has posted a brief interview with composer James Horner, shot during the last day of scoring sessions for the much anticipated James Cameron sci-fi epic Avatar. The video features several quick glimpses of the big orchestral score, with the 56-year old Horner conducting the orchestra wearing a baseball cap. Horner says that he was allowed to work exclusively on the film for about a year and that Cameron didn’t want him to work on other projects during the time. “He did’t want me to dilute it,” Horner comments.

Click HERE to view the video interview, originally linked at moviescoremagazine.com

Also, check out a first review of the score, hosted on empireonline.com

"As you would imagine — and even on the tiny speakers we heard them on — the music is huge in scope and heart. Mirroring the film’s dynamic of technology vs. the spiritual, the music splits between synthesised and acoustic instruments, the entire orchestra getting a thorough workout: everything from South American instrumentation to solo violin, choral chanting to driving percussion gets a chance to shine."

Read the full article here, at Empire.

Also there are FULL SOUND CLIPS FROM EVERY TRACK of the score CD, by going to this website HERE.

ILAN ESHKERI's "Ninja Assassin" comes on CD on Demand

Track Listings

1. Ninja Assassin - Ilan Eshkeri
2. Training - Ilan Eshkeri
3. Kiriko Runs - Ilan Eshkeri
4. Mika's Apartment - Ilan Eshkeri
5. First Kill - Ilan Eshkeri
6. Skyscraper Rain - Ilan Eshkeri
7. Escape From Safehouse - Ilan Eshkeri
8. Healing - Ilan Eshkeri
9. Soldiers Attack - Ilan Eshkeri
10. Raizo vs Ozuno/Freedom - Ilan Eshkeri
11. Being Boiled - The Human League
12. Helden - David Bowie
13. Shazam! - Spiderbait
14. The MC Remix - Ryuzo
15. Legacy - Raekwon feat. Xzibit & Murs

Product Details

* Audio CD (November 24, 2009)
* ASIN: B002UNMPZI

Product Description
Raizo is one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them...and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge. The soundtrack includes music from David Bowie, The Human League, Spiderbait, Ryuzo and a new song by Raekwon featuring Xzibit and Murs. The album also includes music composed by Ilan Eshkeri.

This product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

JESPER KYD's "BORDERLANDS" on [CD]

Product Details

* Audio CD (December 8, 2009)
* Original Release Date: November 24, 2009
* Number of Discs: 1
* Format: Soundtrack
* Label: Gearbox/Sumthing Else

Borderlands is a science fiction role-playing shooter (a first-person shooter with RPG elements) that was developed by Gearbox Software for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

AUDIO: On The Score With Alexandre Desplat

ON THE SCORE, original source:

There’s a gift for rich, cinematic melody that seems to be a French birthright, one that such Gallic composers as Georges Delerue to Maurice Jarre have imparted to Hollywood with such scores as “Steel Magnolias” and “Ghost.” And there’s no doubt their successor at imparting American films with lush, magical themes is Alexandre Desplat. The Greek-born composer would have dozens of scores behind him before getting his first English-language outing with the chess drama “The Luzhin Defense,” the first of many art films that came calling for his inventive sense of old-school melody, as his acclaimed and inventively haunting scores for “Girl with the Pearl Earring” and “Birth” would lead Desplat to apply his unique approach to such stalwart American films genres as female-centric comedy (“The Upside of Anger”), political thrillers (“Syriana”), gritty crime drama (“Hostage”), period epics (“The Painted Veil”) and effects-filled fantasy (“The Golden Compass”).


But whatever the musical genre, Alexandre Desplat’s scores have always seemed to take place in another, lushly magical world where ethereal electronic textures and strings reign. It could be heard as he hauntingly regressed Brad Pitt in his Oscar-nominated score for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” or in the emotional romance of this summer’s trio of Gallic girl power movies “Cheri,” “Julie and Julia” and “Coco Before Chanel.” Now for the fall, Desplat finds one of his most eccentric and wondrous scores with his combination of Spaghetti western stylings and rustic barnyard magic for Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” But even the fandom of “Fox”’s original author Roald Dahl can’t compare to the teen legions who follow “The Twilight Saga,” an impossibly romantic world of love struck teens and ageless vampires whom Desplat meets fangs-on with a swooningly romantic score, one that bestows old-school Gothic eroticism to this young adult take on the bloodsucking mythos. It’s a series that Desplat bestows with stunning, dark beauty. And that’s just the tip of a scoring future that includes Terence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” and Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost.”

Now on a new edition of On the Score, Alexandre Desplat reveals what it’s like to be France’s next big import to the Hollywood scoring scene, and how his music has continued to find a universally affecting melodic language for both intimate films and the studio mainstream.

Click HERE to be transferred to the original source and listen to the interview.