John Williams - Empire of the Sun - Score (2014) FLAC

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LIMITED EDITION 4000 UNITS

EXPANDED REISSUE PRODUCED BY MIKE MATESSINO
MASTERED BY MIKE MATESSINO
LINER NOTES BY MIKE MATESSINO
ART DIRECTION BY JIM TITUS

released June 24th 2014

About
La-La Land Records, WEA and Warner Bros. proudly present the remastered and expanded, limited edition 2-CD set of John Williams’ Academy Award Nominated original score to the 1987 feature film EMPIRE OF THE SUN, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Christian Bale, John Malkovich and Miranda Richardson. Heralded as one of the acclaimed composer’s finest works, Mr. Williams’ masterful orchestral score seeks no less than the openness of the human heart, mind and soul – the perfect compliment to this powerful and indelible film about a young English boy’s emotional and physical struggle to survive the Japanese occupation of China during WWII.

This deluxe re-issue was produced, assembled and mastered by Mike Matessino in cooperation with John Williams, Steven Spielberg and the film’s co-producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall. Disc 1 contains a full presentation of the film score, including never-before-released music, while Disc 2 pulls back the veil of the creative process with a selection of alternate cues and other additional music. A 28-page CD booklet features handsome art design by Jim Titus and Matessino’s exclusive, in-depth essay, approved by the director and composer.

Tracklist:
CD1
01 - Suo Gan (extended version)** (performed by The Ambrosian Junior Choir)
02 - Home and Hearth**
03 - Trip Through the Crowd
04 - Imaginary Air Battle
05 - Japanese Infantry*
06 - Lost in the Crowd
07 - Alone at Home*
08 - The Empty Swimming Pool*
09 - The Streets of Shanghai
10 - The Plane
11 - Jim's New Life
12 - The Pheasant Hunt
13 - The British Grenadiers (traditional)
14 - Cadillac of the Skies
15 - Mrs. Victor and James*
16 - The Return to the City
17 - Seeing the Bomb**
18 - Bringing Them Back*
19 - Liberation: Exsultate Justi
20 - Suo Gan (performed by The Ambrosian Junior Choir)
21 - Exsultate Justi (extended version)**
* - previously unreleased
** - contains previously unreleased music

CD2
01 - Chopin: Mazurka, Op. 17 No. 4 (excerpt)*
02 - Imaginary Air Battle (alternate)*
03 - Alone at Home (alternate)*
04 - The Streets of Shanghai (film version segment)*
05 - The Streets of Shanghai (alternate segment)*
06 - Chopin Again*
07 - The Plane (alternate)*
08 - Cadillac of the Skies (alternate)*
09 - The Return to the City (alternate)*
10 - Exsultate Justi
* - previously unreleased


Biography

The most popular film composer of the modern era, John Williams created music for some of the most successful motion pictures in Hollywood history — Star Wars, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park are just three of the credits in his extensive oeuvre. Born February 8, 1932, in Long Island, NY, he was himself the son of a movie studio musician, and he followed in his father's footsteps by studying music at UCLA and Juilliard; initially, he pursued a career as a jazz pianist, later working with Henry Mancini to compose the score for the hit television series Peter Gunn. Williams then went solo to pen a number of TV soundtracks for series including Playhouse 90, Wagon Train, and Bachelor Father; in 1959 he ventured into film with Daddy-O, and spent the majority of the 1960s alternating between the silver screen (The Killers, The Plainsman) and its smaller counterpart (Gilligan's Island, Lost in Space).

In 1968 Williams earned his first Academy Award nomination for his work in Valley of the Dolls; in 1970, he garnered nods for both The Reivers and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and two years later finally won for Fiddler on the Roof. A slew of Oscar nominations followed, for features including The Poseidon Adventure, Images, Tom Sawyer, and The Towering Inferno. In 1974 he first teamed with a young filmmaker named Steven Spielberg on a movie titled The Sugarland Express; the two frequently reteamed over the years to come, with often stunning results — Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Jurassic Park, and Schindler's List were just a few of the Spielberg/Williams pairings, with Jaws, E.T., and Schindler's List all winning the composer Academy Awards.

Williams' other most frequent collaborator was George Lucas; beginning with 1977's Star Wars — yet another Williams Oscar winner — they later teamed for 1980's The Empire Strikes Back and 1983's Return of the Jedi, with the composer agreeing to score Lucas' subsequent Star Wars films as they went into production in 1997. He even celebrated his 30th anniversary of working with Steven Spielberg with 2002's Minority Report soundtrack. Other scores of note included 1979's Superman, 1987's The Witches of Eastwick, 1988's The Accidental Tourist, 1991's JFK, and 1995's Nixon. In 1980, Williams also took over for the late Arthur Fiedler as the conductor of the Boston Pops.