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Star Tracks 2

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from: Telarc

Release Date October 25, 1990
I really love this CD, is one of my favorites included in my collection of Kunzel recordings. It contains lots of hard to find music (Bill Conti's The Right Stuff) and also original material composed by musitians of the orchestra.

CD-Charts Position 42
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Sony Classical: Great Performances 1903-1998

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from: Sony

Release Date October 12, 1999
While I like this sort of recording I bought it only because it was quite cheap in the used section. It has some very interesting moments, but of course is little more than a "sampler" if you will, and one that is too stuffed with a variety performers that don't necessarily work well one against the other. To be specific, when Victor put out this sort of thing it would be "The First 100 Years at the Metropolitan Opera", and that traced just that. All the singers from 1903 until the 1983 release date. Its hardly perfect, but at least it has a purpose.

EMI did a similar reissue, but it contained one CD at a time, so one could think carefully about that which they wanted to buy.

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CD-Charts Position 43
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Tomita's Greatest Hits CD

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from: RCA

Release Date October 25, 1990
As far as I know, Isao Tomita is not an original artist in the sense that he composes new works. He is, however, an original artist who puts a new spin on existing compositions and reinterprets them in a new and, mostly, delightful way.

The selection on this album come right out of a "pops" concert given by any symphony orchestra but they are not performed my symphonic orchestras. They are performed electronically by Tomita. This results in some parts being more emphasized than one would expect to hear in a concert hall. It is a new experience.

This work is new and different in its presentation. It is quite enjoyable.

CD-Charts Position 44
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Star Wars: The Corellian Edition

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from: Sony Classics

Release Date October 02, 2007
A supposed greatest hits package, this CD contains a mere 54 mintues of music - leaving 25 minutes of blank disc - and contains such a random sampling that someone may as well have thrown darts to pick them. A "Favorites" CD with no Imperial March, Asteroid Belt, Cantina Band, Han & Leia love theme, or Duel of the Fates? Don't waste your time with this one.

CD-Charts Position 45
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Return of the Jedi: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Special Edition)

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by: John Williams, London Symphony Orchestra

Release Date March 11, 1997
Reviewing the RCA/Victor 1997 "Special Edition" soundtrack of Return of the Jedi, one finds that it is the best soundtrack for the 1997 edition of the film, and perhaps the best soundtrack for Jedi overall. It gets five stars for the music, four for musical presentation, and five for packaging.

Nearly all of the music from the film is presented here, including some concert suites and diagetic Ewok music. However, a lot of the 1983 music is missing, including every version of Lapti Nek (there are at least three extant), every version of the Ewok song (two?), Jabba's suite, and all the original music from Max Rebo's Band (one or two cues). In their place, one finds the listenable Victory Celebration and the terrible Jedi Rocks. Some of the missing cues ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 46
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Horowitz Plays Mussorgsky, Scriabin, Prokofiev, and others

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from: RCA

Release Date March 10, 1992
This recording was made in 1947 and the recording quality reflects that. It sounds like the CD was made from a scratchy record with no clean up.

I have heard better Horowitz performances. This one is very mechanical, without much color or feeling.

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Classical Hits

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from: Sony

Release Date September 11, 2001
I must say I enjoyed pretty much all of the songs on this album. "Victory" by Bond was the only thing they shouldn't have included, since it doesn't quite qualify as "classical" and wasn't what I would call a hit, anyway. True, it was instrumental, but real classical music is of a higher caliber. ("Now We Are Free" isn't quite classical either but it's not 'commercialized' like "Victory.") I really liked "Duel of the Fates," "Maria," "Now We Are Free," and "O Fortuna." Those were my favorites out of a great selection of songs. I would recommend this to anyone who doesn't really care for full-blown classical.

CD-Charts Position 48
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Fantastic Journey

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from: Telarc

Release Date January 30, 1990
This CD has been around for a while now but it is still truly a good compilation of Science Fiction film music given a new dimension by being recorded digitally. The BATMAN selections composed by Danny Elfman are very powerful combing rousing elements with moody enigmatic passages. Most of the other selections are short or confined to one piece. The selections from TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE, STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER and POLTERGEIST all composed by Jerry Goldsmith are all performed with passion and demonstrate Goldsmith's great versatility. Bernard Herrmann's "Outer Space" from THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is brief but in effect makes it all the more powerful by its great innovation and lasting impact. The WAR OF THE WORLDS "Prelude" by Leith Stevens was a great surprise.

CD-Charts Position 49
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Encore!

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from: Philips

Release Date June 15, 2004
This CD has been around for a while now but it is still truly a good compilation of Science Fiction film music given a new dimension by being recorded digitally. The BATMAN selections composed by Danny Elfman are very powerful combing rousing elements with moody enigmatic passages. Most of the other selections are short or confined to one piece. The selections from TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE, STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER and POLTERGEIST all composed by Jerry Goldsmith are all performed with passion and demonstrate Goldsmith's great versatility. Bernard Herrmann's "Outer Space" from THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is brief but in effect makes it all the more powerful by its great innovation and lasting impact. The WAR OF THE WORLDS "Prelude" by Leith Stevens was a great surprise.

CD-Charts Position 50
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Lord of War

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by: Antonio Pinto

Release Date September 20, 2005
I've viewed this film three times and each time I find it more powerful. You really can't say what it's about and without watering down the impact that the story weaves by connecting all the parts of its whole. The performances are masterful, the subject matter grisly and the movie mesmerizing.