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Amazon.com: John Williams: Great Movie Soundtracks: CDs & Vinyl
Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone - Harry's Wonderful World
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: End Credits
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Dartmoor, 1912
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Sabrina: Theme
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Theme from 'Far and Away'
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I Immigration and Building
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II the Country at War
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III Popular Entertainment
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IV Arts and Sports
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V Civil Rights and the Women's Movement
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VI Flight and Technology
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Sayuri's Theme
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Going to School
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The Chairman's Waltz
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Brush on Silk
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Chiyo's Prayer
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Becoming a Geisha
Disc: 2
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Heme from 'Jaws' Out to Sea
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The Shark Cage Fugue from Jaws
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Adventures on Earth from 'Et'
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Flying Theme (From 'Et the Extra-Terrestrial')
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The Adventures of Tintin
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The People's House
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I Theme from 'Born on the Fourth of July'
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II Cua Viet River, Vietnam 1968
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III Massapequathe Early Days
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Theme (From 'Schindler's List')
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Theme (From 'Jurassic Park')
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Cadillac of the Skies from 'Empire of the Sun' Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Excerpts)
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When You Wish Upon a Star (Interpolated)
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Theme from 'Sugarland Express'
Disc: 3
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Episode I - Star Wars Main Title and the Arrival at Naboo
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The Flag Parade
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Episode I - Qui-Gon's Noble End
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Jango's Escape
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Yoda and the Younglings
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General Grievous
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Anakin's Dark Deeds
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Imperial Attack, Ben Kenobi's Death
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Tie Fighter Attack
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Yoda and the Force
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The Clash of Lightsabers
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Sail Barge Assault
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End Title from 'Star Wars Episode Vi'
Disc: 4
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Air and Simple Gifts
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Song for World Peace
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Summon the Heroes (For Tim Morrison)
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Hymn to New England
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I Eo Mugna
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II Tortan
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III Eo Rossa
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IV Uisnig Craeb
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Dathi V
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Sound the Bells!
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Elegy for Cello and Orchestra
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The Mission Theme (Theme for NBC News)
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March from 1941
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The Olympic Spirit
Editorial Reviews
A 4 CD extravaganza of John Williams' soundtrack and film score music joins the 12th batch of box sets released as a part of the Sony Classical Masters Series and provides a colossal reminder of Williams' prodigious breadth and ubiquity of his works in some of the most culture defining films of the recent Hollywood era. With a disc devoted to his Star War scores, and another to his orchestral works and Olympics inspired works; the collection also features popular orchestras and soloists including Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic and more.
Product details
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer
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No
Language
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English
Product Dimensions
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5.2 x 5.28 x 0.71 inches; 4.44 Ounces
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Essential John Williams, but an odd - and inanely random - choice of selections. Sigh...Where to begin?
The most obvious place to start is with the title of this box set: "John Williams: The Great Movie Soundtracks". First, discs 1 and 2 are a miss-mash, cobbled-together collection of excerpts from numerous albums of suites that Mr. Williams recorded with various orchestras in the 90s, most with the Boston Pops. Therefore, these are not "soundtracks" at all. Second, disc 4 is not even movie music. It contains "other orchestral works by John Williams" (as labeled on the sleeve).
Misleading, misguided title aside, here's what you get. This 4-disc set is essentially a reissue of the 3-disc, 2012 SONY set, entitled: "The Music of America John Williams", with a 4th disc of Star Wars excerpts thrown in. (For clarification, the 3 non-Star Wars discs are not identical to that 3-disc set, although very close: some selections have been shuffled around a bit with just a couple of extra tracks included, bringing the playing time of disc 1 up a bit.)
As to the Star Wars disc (disc 3 in this box), it contains just 55 minutes of excerpts from all 6 films. These are indeed taken from the original soundtracks. What is frustrating about this disc is that nowhere does SONY tell us these are original soundtracks (thus differing significantly from the other 3 discs) nor from which film the selections are taken. Instead we are only provided simple, rather meaningless titles, such as "Flag Parade" or "General Grievous", etc. Most unhelpful. And why only 55 minutes from 6 full-length soundtracks? Surely they could have filled up the disc and given us more music. Finally, none of the most familiar/beloved selections is included. We hear mostly unfamiliar excerpts that one would not normally single out to listen to. In a way, I'm actually glad about that - it was enjoyable to hear some of the less over-played music from these films. But, others (such as those casual listeners for whom this box is primarily intended) may justifiably disagree wholeheartedly.
The remastering of the meager selection of items from the original 3 films is very successful here. Although I did not compare these tracks directly to the 2007 DSD remastered 8-disc set of the complete soundtracks, this 24-bit remastering sounded fuller, more open and dynamic, (yet still refined and sounding not at all its age), than I remember the DSD set sounding. But, alas, it's been several months since I listened to that and aural memory can be deceptive.
Final verdict: this is a nice box set of orchestral music by John Williams. If only SONY had put some thought into it and titled it correctly, labeled it more helpfully/thoroughly, and included more music, it would be better than it is. For the true collector and/or movie-music connoisseur, this box won't do it in any way. But for the non-collector who enjoys John Williams, this would be a lovely gift. It is attractively presented, the remastered sound is uniformly excellent, and it will provide over 4 hours of entertaining music while cleaning the house.
Great film music but very amorphus spacy "movie" sound without orchestra directional or instrument clarity. I prefer the orchestra concert sound of Williams' music he recorded with the Boston Pops, or that of the Cincinnati Pops.on Telarc discs.
Great soundtracks. Very classical. They remind me of the past. A lot of movie scenes have appeared in my mind. It looks like as if I watch all of them again.
Una selección amplia que va más allá de los típico temas de John Williams (aunque también los incluya) en grabaciones espectaculares desde cualquier punto de vista.
En realidad el título podría llevar a engaña, pues no solo incluye bandas sonoras de películas: el cuarto cd incluye otras obras orquestales del compositor.
This offers a great mixture of movie music with other items written for the concert hall, which confirm the composer's all round ability. I have often compared John Barry with John Williams and the more I listen to both, the more I am convinced that John Williams is the better composer, in that he can write in different styles with equal conviction. In short, I would urge you to buy this compilation to see what a range he has.
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