Favorite Soundtracks

[Modigliani]

I'd have to agree, Comedian. Good God. The taiko drumming in that soundtrack is fabulous. And 'Farewell' always strikes a deep chord in my heart.

I am embarrassed to say I rather like the synthesized epic scores composed by Hans Zimmer -- 'Gladiator' in particular.

More later when I'm not procrastinating.

[Janine]

I'd have to agree, Comedian. Good God. The taiko drumming in that soundtrack is fabulous. And 'Farewell' always strikes a deep chord in my heart.

I am embarrassed to say I rather like the synthesized epic scores composed by Hans Zimmer -- 'Gladiator' in particular.

More later when I'm not procrastinating.

Oh wow Modi, don't be embarrassed at all. I love Gladiator soundtrack! I like Zimmer's SD's, too. Fine scores indeed.

I like the soundtrack to Last of the Mohicans by Trevor Jone, Randy Edelman.

I like soundtracks by Horner as well.

Here are some of the soundtracks I own and enjoy:

Movies - Soundtrack Recordings

Amelie
Anna and The King
Batman Returns
Dances with Wolves
Deep blue ~ George Fenton
Don Juan DeMarco
Elizabeth
English Patient, The
Ever After
Forever Young
Free Willie
Gladiator
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone
Hope Floats
Horse Whisperer, The
Hours,The
I am Sam
I Dreamed of Africa
Last of the Mohicans
Legends of the Fall
Life is Beautiful
Lord of the Rings ~ Return of the King
Merlin
Message in a Bottle
Mirror Has Two Faces, The
Nostradamus
Out of Africa
Pianist, The
Piano, The
Room With a View
Schindler's List
Shakespeare in Love
Somersby
Somewhere in Time
Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace
Titanic ~ James Horner
Three Musketeers, The


Kenneth Branagh films

By Patrick Doyle

Much Ado About Nothing
Love's Labours Lost
Hamlet
Henry V
Sense and Sensibility
As You Like It
Dead Again
Frankenstein

Othello ~ Charlie Mole
The Proposition ~ Stephen Endelman

I think I have more than this now since I have added to this list since I compiled it.

I also have Broadway play film SD's. I will list those soon.

Odd, sometimes I have hated the movie and loved the soundtrack! haha....well, at least there was some saving grace to the experience.

[Lynne50]

One of my all time favorite soundtracks is Room with a View, however, I didn't like the film at all.

Favorite Disney soundtrack is Beauty and the Beast.

[rimbaud]

Favorite Disney soundtrack is Beauty and the Beast.

that's my fav Disney too, soundtrack and movie

as for the disney songs I also liked "A whole new world" from Aladdin, and "Once upon a December" from Anastasia

[Janine]

One of my all time favorite soundtracks is Room with a View, however, I didn't like the film at all.

Favorite Disney soundtrack is Beauty and the Beast.

Hi Lynne! Room with a View is one of my favorite SD's, too; but unlike you, I love the movie. Did you ever read the book? Only thing about the movie, that I didn't like was Cecil; played by Daniel Day-Lewis; he seemed like such a nit-wit! I couldn't imagine Lucy even looking twice at him, let alone agreeing to marry him. Odd that I failed to mention Room With a View; I thought that was in my Opera section and I was thinking about it when I did list the first ones...apparently I just failed to put it on the list.

I hated the film Legends of the Fall and recently found the soundtrack to be great.

Here's my Disney favorites an my Film/Broadway show soundtracks.
My favorite Disney one is also Beauty and the Beast. The Lion King is pretty great, too.

Here's some more of my soundtracks:

Disney

The Lion King
Beauty and the Beast
Fantasia

Others composers (New Age)~ Movies/Films

El Greco ~ Vangelis
Themes ~ Vangelis
Chariots of Fire ~ Vangelis
Antarctica ~ Vangelis
Blader Runner ~ Vangelis

Musicals - Movie Soundtrack Recording

Annie Get You Gun
Oklahoma
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music (Revival Cast)
The King and I
Moulin Rouge
The Man of La Mancha
Camelot
Carousel
South Pacific
South Pacific (Original Broadway Cast)
Miss Saigon (Original London Cast)
Dralion Cirque Du Soleil
Love (Beatles arrangements) Cirque Du Soleil
Les Miserables
Phantom of the Opera
Kismet

Opera

Madame Butterfly (Richard Troxel and Ying Huang)


Other/Mixes

John Williams by Request
Broadway's Greatest Love Songs
The Definitive Performances - Movie Music (2 Discs)

[rimbaud]

I've been listening to the RocknRolla soundtrack, since these days I'm watching Guy Ritchie movies, and it's pretty cool

[DanielBenoit]

Just saw The Third Man again. May I please say again that its zither soundtrack is the greatest use of music in a film?

I looove Wendy Carlos's re-synthesizing of Beethoven and Rossini in A Clockwork Orange

Also, I'm lovin' the score from Psycho and the poetically despairing score from Bela Tarr's Werkmeister Harmonies is utterly mezmerizing, as is the movie.

Don't mean to change the subject, but how about uses of silence (or lack of music) in films? Prime examples that come to mind are:

The encounter with the Nazi general in The Pianist
The climax of Goodbye Solo
The emergency exit scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey (possibly the greatest)
The whole of No Country for Old Men
The whole of The Conversation
The climax of Rear Window
The hospital mob scene from Werckmeister Harmonies

will think of some more

[Pryderi Agni]

Kill Bill! God, that's awesome!

[ennison]

Wouldn't call it a favourite but I like the soundtrack from "The Last of the Mohicans".
Goes well with the mountains and forests and sounds good on the pipes too.

[Hurricane]

The soundtracks to "Enemy at the Gates" and "Last of the Mohicans" are awesome, but probably my all time favorite is the soundtrack to "Black Hawk Down". Parts of that soundtrack are just gut-wrenching.

[Emil Miller]

I have to agree with Daniel Benoit about The Third Man soundtrack. No other music could have better accompanied this story of corruption in divided post-war Vienna. Here is the poignant ending to the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5icX835oyh4

Another British film that was a huge success and made about the same time was The Legend of the Glass Mountain with a soundtrack by the great Nino Rota who later worked on many of Fellini's films. A loosely told narrative is written over the scenic pictorialisation of the video; which erroneously gives the composer as Ron Goodwin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNfU0gv7Dw8

[BlueSkyGB]

The Commitments

all that soul music, does a body good....

[Janine]

The soundtracks to "Enemy at the Gates" and "Last of the Mohicans" are awesome, but probably my all time favorite is the soundtrack to "Black Hawk Down". Parts of that soundtrack are just gut-wrenching.

enisson and Hurricane, I was going to mention "Last of the Mohicans"...I love that soundtrack!

I was watching "Lawrence of Arabia" last night and for an epic soundtrack, that is one of the best ever! The music and photography make that movie...truly stunning and sweeping epic music - love it!

I like the soundtrack to "Cider House Rules", "The Piano", and "Schindler's List"....I will think of more. I collect as many as I can.

[Virgil]

I'm no movie buff. The only one that sticks out for me is Saturday Night Fever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBhR...rom=PL&index=3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69VsA...eature=related

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I'm a woman's man, no time to talk.
Music loud and women warm.
I've been kicked around since I was born.
And now it's all right, it's O.K.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man.
Whether you're a brother
Or whether you're a mother,
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Feel the city breakin'
And ev'rybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.
Stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.
etc....

[Janine]

I'm no movie buff. The only one that sticks out for me is Saturday Night Fever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBhR...rom=PL&index=3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69VsA...eature=related

Virgil, I loved that one too, back in the day! Good one to bring up. I also loved the soundtrack to "The Graduate" and a lot of other films from around that era. I will watch the Youtube clips later; cooking dinner now.