The first CD is called Top 10 Soundtracks and contains tracks from Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Gladiator, Chariots of Fire, Schindler’s List, Pirates of the Caribbean, Dr. Zhivago, The Mission, Out of Africa and Dances with Wolves.
Looking at the composers, there is Howard Shore, (Lord of the Rings),
Howard ShoreHans Zimmer, (Gladiator),
Hans ZimmerEvangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou better known as Vangelis, (Chariots of Fire),
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Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou better known as VangelisKlaus Badelt, (Pirates of the Caribbean),
Klaus BadeltMaurice Jarre, (Dr. Zhivago),
Maurice Jarre (father of Jean Michel Jarre)
Ennio Morricone
John Towner Williams
John Barry
Whilst I enjoy much of the music which is written especially for films, I find it hard to relate to it as classical music. It was not written as a piece of classical music. It was written to support the visual images of a film i.e. to be the SOUNDTRACK. Perhaps somewhere the difference between classical music and soundtrack music has become blurred because a lot of soundtrack music is performed by a full scale symphony orchestra – indeed some of the more famous of our resident English Orchestra’s make a lucrative living from recording the soundtracks to films. Exciting and entertaining as the above mentioned pieces are (they are well written too!) and they will stand listening to without the film they have come from, at the end of the day they are not pieces of classical music!
Maurice Jarre (father of Jean Michel Jarre)Ennio Morricone, (The Mission),
Ennio Morriconetwo John Williams compositions (Star Wars and Schindler’s List)
John Towner Williamsand two John Barry compositions (Out of Africa and Dances with Wolves).
John BarryWhilst I enjoy much of the music which is written especially for films, I find it hard to relate to it as classical music. It was not written as a piece of classical music. It was written to support the visual images of a film i.e. to be the SOUNDTRACK. Perhaps somewhere the difference between classical music and soundtrack music has become blurred because a lot of soundtrack music is performed by a full scale symphony orchestra – indeed some of the more famous of our resident English Orchestra’s make a lucrative living from recording the soundtracks to films. Exciting and entertaining as the above mentioned pieces are (they are well written too!) and they will stand listening to without the film they have come from, at the end of the day they are not pieces of classical music!
The second CD is called Classics at the Movies and contains classical music which has been used on film soundtracks.
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