needed some music for a promotional short and asked Williams to come up with something. It may come as a surprise to learn that Williams wasn’t necessarily going to score these films. A plethora of photos and beautiful graphic design (even on the CDs themselves) round out a set where clearly no expense has been spared, reflected in the price, around $105 on the label’s website,. Everything is contained within a sturdy, handsome slipcase. Another “master” booklet contains all the track listings, plus comments from the directors and John Williams himself. Matessino - the point man for many other La-La Land special editions - also provides exemplary, detailed liner notes for each film, contained within beautifully produced booklets that accompany each separately packaged soundtrack. John Williams conducting at Abbey Road Studio 1 (In the new Disney+ documentary about Abbey Road, If These Walls Could Sing, Williams rhapsodizes about recording in Studio 1 with the LSO and other British musicians). I wish all classical digital recordings of full orchestra were this luminous. No surprise here, given who the engineers were: Simon Rhodes for the first two films and Shawn Murphy for the third. Those original elements are all digital, but the quality of the recordings, done mainly in Studio 1 at Abbey Road, is exceptional. The heart of the set lies in the full scores themselves, beautifully remastered by Mike Matessino from the original elements. This set is chock full of music, with many surprises along the way. La-La Land Records is one of several specialty soundtrack labels that have consistently been doing stellar work reissuing newly remastered editions of a huge range of film scores, incorporating unreleased cues and any ancillary musical material (promotional spots, concert suites etc.) they can lay their hands on. A couple of years later it reappeared, sold out again, and now it is thankfully available once more, so no need to pay double or triple the asking price on the second-hand market. Labelled a “Limited Edition” it quickly sold out. However that all changed when La-La Land Records first put out this deluxe 7-CD set in 2018. Vinyl editions jumping on the vinyl revival bandwagon were nothing to write home about either. Those CDs left out a ton of music, their liner notes were minimal, and the sound was merely serviceable. But you wouldn’t necessarily have known that to judge from the somewhat parsimonious manner in which the soundtrack scores were originally issued. Koules added, "Listen, we're the idiots that killed off the lead after Saw III.Diving Deep into the John Williams' Harry Potter Film Scores La-La Land Records’ Essential Deluxe Limited Edition is Back In Stock!Įven within the context of his catalogue of one classic film score after another, the three films that John Williams scored for the Harry Potter franchise - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) - occupy a very special place. That might have been a mistake," said producer Mark Burg. "If I had to do it again, I might not have killed Tobin Bell in Saw III. Bell's return to the franchise in a leading role is likely due to the fact that Saw producers Mark Burg and Oren Koules regret killing John so early in the franchise. However, Saw X will feature the iconic antagonist more than ever before since it is set between Saw and Saw II. So I feel dang lucky that the way this franchise shaped up, is that the music has become kind of an indispensable part of what makes it a Saw movie." Saw X Features More Tobin Bell Than Previous MoviesĮven though Bell's John Kramer/Jigsaw was killed in Saw III, he has appeared in every film other than 2021's Spiral: From the Book of Saw. You can't make a Saw movie without some of these pieces of music. "As actors, directors, and writers have come and gone in the franchise, somehow the music that I wrote for the first one had become sort of almost like Tobin Bell's character. "It's pretty amazing that the music for the Saw franchise has become sort of a character in the films," he said. Leading up the release of Saw X, which comes out almost 20 years after the first film, Clouser reflected on how important his music is to the Saw franchise. RELATED: Saw X First Reactions Praise the Movie as One of the Best in the Franchise
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