Showing posts with label John Williams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Williams. Show all posts

Monday, 22 January 2024

Sound Of Cinema - 406. Spielberg And Williams


SOUND OF CINEMA - 406. SPIELBERG AND WILLIAMS (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)

BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 30th December 2023

Matthew Sweet celebrates 50 years of one of cinema's greatest collaborations - that of director Steven Spielberg and his composer of choice, John Williams.

With music from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Indiana Jones, Jaws, Schindler's List and Jurassic Park. Matthew gives us a close encounter with the music for Close Encounters Of The Third Kind as he analyses the scene of humanity's first contact with the alien mothership.

John Williams - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Escape/Chase/Saying Goodbye [Geffen]
John Williams - Jaws (1975) - Main Title and First Victim [Decca]
John Williams - The Sugarland Express (1974) - Title Theme [Sony Classical]
John Williams - Indiana Jones: Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) - Washington Ending/The Raider's March [Walt Disney]
John Williams - Empire Of The Sun (1987) - Jim's New Life [Warner]
John Williams - Hook (1991) - We Don't Wanna Grow Up [Sony Classical]
John Williams - Jurassic Park (1993) - Theme From Jurassic Park [Geffen]
John Williams - Schindler's List (1993) - Jewish Town (Krakow Ghetto, Winter '41) [Geffen]
John Williams - Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Revisiting Normandy [Geffen]
John Williams - A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) - The Mecha World [Warner]
John Williams - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - The Mothership [Arista]
John Williams - Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) - Wild Signals [Arista]
John Williams - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - The Visitors/Bye/End Titles [Arista]
John Williams - Lincoln (2012) - The People's House [Sony Classical]
John Williams - The Fabelmans (2022( - The Fabelmans [Sony Classical]

Sunday, 2 August 2020

Sound Of Cinema - 284. John Williams - The Scores You'd Forgotten

SOUND OF CINEMA - 284. JOHN WILLIAMS - THE SCORES YOU'D FORGOTTEN (320kbs-m4a/134mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 4th July 2020

John Williams is one of the most successful and most identifiable of all Hollywood composers, with the likes of Star Wars, Harry Potter, ET, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List to his credit. But what might the Williams legacy be had Steven Spielberg and George Lucas turned to other composers to write their scores? Matthew looks back over John Williams’ long career and celebrates his associations with the likes of Oliver Stone, Robert Altman, Irwin Allen and Alfred Hitchcock. The programme features music from ‘How To Steal A Million’, Lost In Space’, ‘Land Of The Giants’, ‘The Valley Of The Dolls’, ‘Images’, ‘The Long Goodbye’, ‘The Towering Inferno’, ‘Black Sunday’, ‘Family Plot’, ‘The Fury’, ‘Dracula’, ‘The Witches Of Eastwick’, ‘Home Alone’, ‘Memoirs Of A Geisha’, ‘The Book Thief’ and ‘Jane Eyre’. The Classic Score of the Week draws on music for Oliver Stone’s ‘Born On The Fourth Of July’.

Henry Mancini - Peter Gunn (1958-61) - Theme [Rhino]
John Williams - How To Steal A Million (1966) - Main Title [20th Century Fox]
John Williams - Lost In Space (1965) - Theme [TVT]
John Williams - Land Of The Giants (1968) - Theme [Silva Screen]
André Previn - Valley Of The Dolls (1967) - The Gillian Girl Commercial [Stateside]
John Williams - Images (1972) - In Search Of Unicorns [Prometheus]
John Williams - The Long Goodbye (1973) - Variations On A Theme [Silva Screen]
John Williams - The Towering Inferno (1974) - An Architect's Dream [Varese Sarabande]
John Williams - Black Sunday (1977) - The End [Film Score Monthly]
John Williams - Family Plot (1976) - End Titles [Silva Screen]
John Williams - The Fury (1978) - Theme [Silva Screen]
John Williams - Dracula (1979) - Night Journeys [MCA]
John Williams - The Witches Of Eastwick (1987) - The Dance Of The Witches [Perseverance]
John Williams - Home Alone (1990) - The House [CBS]
John Williams - Born On The 4th Of July (1989) - Cua Viet River, Vietnam 1968 [MCA]
John Williams - Born On The 4th Of July (1989) - Theme [MCA]
John Williams - Memoires Of A Geisha (2005) - Sayuri's Theme [Sony Classical]
John Williams - The Book Thief [Sony Classical]
John Williams - Jane Eyre (1977) - Theme [Silva Screen]

Wednesday, 4 July 2018

The Film Programme - John Williams

THE FILM PROGRAMME - JOHN WILLIAMS (128kbs-m4a/26mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 14th April 2006


Francine Stock visits Hollywood for a special interview with composer John Williams, whose memorable scores for Stephen Spielberg include Jaws, Star Wars, ET and Schindler's List.