veröffentlichung Intrada: James Horner - Willow (Expanded)

[Dakota]

 

 

At last! Magnum opus fantasy score by James Horner receives expanded 2-CD set! A LucasFilm Production, Ron Howard directs, scripted by Bob Dolman, story by George Lucas who also executive produces with Val Kilmer, Warwick Davis sharing majority of the screen time with Joanne Whalley, Billy Barty, Jean Marsh all nearby. Evil sorceress Bavmorda imprisons all pregnant women in her domain to prevent birth of a baby prophesied to bring about the end of her reign. Said baby is born and cast adrift, with Bavmorda, her vicious Nockmaar Hounds and her army in pursuit. Enter Willow Ufgood and the Nelwyns, who find the infant. A perilous adventure ensues that involves the Brownies, a fairy queen, an aging enchantress… and flamboyant rogue and expert  swordsman Madmartigan.

James Horner took inspiration from rousing action and swordplay as well as fantastic special effects made by ILM, including landmark early use of digital morphing technology, a CGI breakthrough. Film unfolds with generous amount of dazzle dazzle and derring-do but also offers darker side to fantastic tale, especially in latter battle and climactic duel sequence. Horner showcases his energetic youthful big-orchestra vernacular on one hand while balancing with his newly-maturing severe, intense musical vocabulary, resulting in incredibly wide-ranging score. Richly drawn main theme anchors, makes key appearances, shares time with exhilarating theme for Madmartigan, takes back seat to ferocious sequences, then ultimately brings score home. Besides colorful array of material, score is also notable for several lengthy cues, amongst the longest of the composer’s career.

Massive pieces often play as movements of a symphony, developing ideas with cohesion, complexity, generating considerable tension, then relief - no easy feat: “Canyon Of Mazes” (7 minutes), “Tir Asleen” (10 minutes), “Bavmorda’s Spell Is Cast” (18 minutes), “Willow The Sorcerer” (12 minutes) are massive, masterful works for large symphony orchestra. Generous original 1988 album featured over 70 minutes of music but film’s wall-to-wall scoring included over 100 minutes of music! Finally, on this Intrada 2-CD presentation, some 107 minutes of music by Horner appears, with a wealth of previously unavailable cues, including aggressive, fierce “Death Dogs”, colorful and fantastic “Enchanted Forest”, and riveting and florid “Sled Ride”, all courtesy LucasFilm and Disney, mastered from original digital stereo mixes made by Shawn Murphy at the scoring sessions and beautifully preserved by engineer Simon Rhodes.

Front cover art by John Alvin, package design by Kay Marshall, booklet notes by Frank DeWald. Score recorded in January & February 1988 at Abbey Road Studios. Greig McRitchie orchestrates, James Horner composes, conducts. Intrada Special Collection 2-CD available while quantities and interest remain!"

CD 1
01. Elora Danan (9:45)
02. The Nelwyns (2:41)
03. The Nelwyns No. 2 (2:35)
04. Death Dogs (2:26)
05. Willow’s Journey Begins (5:26)
06. Bavmorda’s Castle (1:21)
07. Airk’s Army (3:26)
08. The Enchanted Forest (5:31)
09. Escape From The Tavern (5:04)
10. The Island (5:10)
11. Willow Captured (1:59)
12. Arrival At Snow Camp (1:17)
13. The Sled Ride (7:56)
CD 1 Total Time: 55:16

CD 2
01. Willow’s Theme (3:54)
02. Canyon Of Mazes (7:52)
03. Tir Asleen (10:47)
04. Bavmorda’s Spell Is Cast (18:11)
05. Willow The Sorcerer (11:55)
CD 2 Total Time: 52:58

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https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.12619/.f?sc=13&category=-113

[Dakota]

PLEASE NOTE - as expected we are experiencing a high volume of orders for Willow. If you placed your order before the "TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK" notice appeared, lucky you! But be aware that the earliest it will ship is likely between July 5 - 7, possibly even the following week. Also be aware that emailing Intrada to check on the status of your order will not make your order go out any faster - the only thing it will do is slow us down. We are REALLY hoping to have all of the Willow orders shipped by July 7. Please have mercy! As soon as we have an idea of when Willow will be back in stock, the information will be updated.

 

 

(TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK)
We will post estimates of when this title will be back in stock as soon as we know!

[Csongor]

vor 2 Stunden schrieb Dakota:

TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK)

We will post estimates of when this title will be back in stock as soon as we know!

Wow! Das ging aber schnell! ... Kein Wunder, es handelt sich immerhin um einen der besten Scores! 

Ich wünschte nur, die Partitur zu WILLOW würde neu aufgelegt werden.

[scorefun]

vor 16 Stunden schrieb Csongor:

Wow! Das ging aber schnell!

Naja, wer weiß schon, wie hoch die erste Pressung ausgefallen ist...1.000 St? (das war zumindest früher manchmal eine 2-Tage-Sold-Out-Auflage)

[Gast Stefan Jania]

Am 24.6.2022 um 20:48 schrieb Trekfan:

Dieser aktuelle Wunsch-Thread bei FSM spricht durchaus eine andere Sprache...

Doof. Dann bekomme ich diesen Holy-Grail-Horner-Track mit sehr viel Blasterbeam und noch mehr Star-Trek-Touch wohl nie in guter Qualität.

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[Csongor]

vor 13 Minuten schrieb Stefan Jania:

Doof. Dann bekomme ich diesen Holy-Grail-Horner-Track mit sehr viel Blasterbeam und noch mehr Star-Trek-Touch wohl nie in guter Qualität.

Es gibt 35 Minuten zusätzliche Musik hier ... vielleicht ist Dein Holy-Grail-Horner-Track mit sehr viel Blasterbeam und noch mehr Star-Trek-Touch auch dabei.

[Gast Stefan Jania]

Hä? Warum sollte ich diesen Track aus Battle Beyond The Stars auf der Willow-CD finden? Es ging um die Liste bei FSM.

Das neue Willow-Album kursiert seit Tagen schon durch das Netz. Da ist für mich keinerlei Überraschung drin.

[Csongor]

vor 1 Stunde schrieb Stefan Jania:

Hä? Warum sollte ich diesen Track aus Battle Beyond The Stars auf der Willow-CD finden? Es ging um die Liste bei FSM. 

Gegenfrage: Warum wird im Willow-Thread ein "Battle Beyond The Stars"-Stück debattiert? 

[Gast Stefan Jania]

Gegenfrage 1: Warum erkennst Du als Horner-Fachmann Battle Beyond The Stars nicht? Hast Du in Willow jemals den Blasterbeam gehört?

Gegenfrage 2: Hast Du die Beiträge weiter oben nicht gelesen?

[Stefan Jania]

Nun auch digital von Disney Records (obwohl mit dem Veröffentlichungsdatum der Intrada).