The Genius of Film Music 1980-2000

JTI Friday Series

Excerpts from:
John Williams - Star Wars
Vangelis - Chariots of Fire
Hamlisch - Sophie’s Choice
Ennio Morricone - The Mission
Luis Enríquez - Bacalov Il Postino
Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks
E Bernstein - The Age of Innocence
Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas
John Powell/Harry Gregson-Williams - Chicken Run
Nicola Piovani - La Vita è bella
Goldsmith - Mulan
Don Davis - The Matrix
Hans Zimmer - Gladiator

Dirk Brossé conductor

‘If it weren’t for the movies’, multi-Oscar winning composer John Williams commented recently, ‘nobody would be able to write this kind of music any more.’ By which he meant the spectacular, colourful, evocative and defiantly ‘now’-feeling film scores written since the emergence of full-colour pictures and penetrating stereo sound. From Williams’s own supercharged soundscape for Star Wars to the high-jinks chases and jokes of John Powell’s music for Wallace and Gromit’s caper Chicken Run, this concert will unleash the power of the film score in all its orchestral brilliance.

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