Soundtracks and Film scores, your favourites


 I love the cinema and some of my favourite albums are from films, TV and shows. There seem two basic variants, a score written for the film and compilations of existing tracks, used in the film. So what are your favourites? I'll start.

 Original scores:

  Hard to avoid Hans Zimmer and why would you want to.

   Hans Zimmer, "The thin red line"   Not his best known, but a great score.

   Honourable mention:

    Korngold, "The Sea Hawk"

Compilation scores:

   "Dead man walking" A really great film too.

    Honourable mentions:

      "Philadelphia"

      "The Sopranos" That's the original from the first series

 I am sure you can all think of better ones.


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Showing 1 response by pryso

It was mentioned a couple of times in the link Al suggested, but I'll emphasize it here again.

I've used the LP of "The Mission" for more than 20 years as a revealing test record and for pleasure.  It is very spacious with a very wide soundstage, dynamic, and includes a wide variety of instruments plus choir to evaluate tonalities.  And the music if fun, particularly if you remember the film.

Unfortunately a couple of friends who heard it here bought CD versions and those pale in comparison.

Of course there are many other recordings in the soundtrack category with great and sometimes exciting music.  But no point in repeating those again after this and Al's link posts.