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Media Type: CD
Artist: WILLIAMS,J.
Title: GREATEST HITS
Street Release Date: 11/02/1999
Domestic
Genre: SOUNDTRACK COLLECTIONS

The dramatic countryside of Dartmoor has inspired John Williams to compose a score of such beauty and quiet majesty that one might think the earth was speaking through him, much as the heavens have done for nearly five decades. When I first heard John s sketches of the four central themes for War Horse, I didn t need my memories of the film to underscore the feelings I was having. The music was a stand-alone experience and it affected me deeply, as have so many of John s scores during our nearly 40-year collaboration. I feel that John has made a special gift to me of this music, which was inspired not only by my film but also by many of the picturesque settings of the poet William Wordsworth, whose vivid descriptions of the British landscape inspired much of what you are going to hear.

2009 two CD set. John Williams' awe-inspiring music has been heard by anyone who has ever entered a movie house or seen a Spielberg film on TV. This fantastic collection brings you the very best of his themes, from ET to Harry Potter, Indiana Jones to Jaws and Star Wars to Catch Me If You Can. 28 tracks. Metro.

The combination of John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra is a winner!

Released to mark the 80th birthday of this much-lauded American composer, conductor and pianist who celebrates his 80th birthday on 8 February 2012.

This 2-CD compilation presents almost 2 ½ hours of memorable tunes in magnificent arrangements performed with tremendous verve and panache by this incomparable combination. Derived from the many albums recorded for Philips the first CD is devoted chiefly to music from famous films and includes several numbers by Williams himself -- and what is more arresting and has achieved greater global fame than the main theme from Star Wars which opens the disc? CD 2 is devoted mainly to overtures and popular numbers from shows and opens with one of the most effervescent overtures ever written -- that to Bernstein's Candide.

Even if you may think you don't know a piece by its title every track in this program is instantly recognizable so sit back and enjoy!

From The Royal Alcázar Palace

ISSAC ALBÉNIZ (1860-1909)
Sevilla (Sevillanas) from Suite Española, Op.47 (arr. John Williams)

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
Prelude from Lute Suite No. 4 in E Major

DOMENICO SCARLATTI (1685-1757)
Sonata in D Minor, K 213 (arr. John Williams

ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741)
Concerto in D Major for Lute, 2 Violins and Basso continuo, RV93, I. Allegro giusto • II. Largo • III. Allegro

YUQUIJIRO YOCOH (1925-)
Sakura Variations

NIKITA KOSHKIN (1956-)
Usher Waltz, Op. 29 – After Edgar Allen Poe

ISSAC ALBÉNIZ
Asturias (Leyenda) from Suite española, Op. 47 (arr. John Williams)

GUSTÍN BARRIOS MANGORÉ (1885-1944)
Sueño en la Floresta

JOAQUÍN RODRIGO (1901-)
Adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez

JOHN WILLIAMS – GUITAR
ORQUESTRA SINFÓNICA DE SEVILLA
Conducted by JOSÉ BUENAGU.

THE FILM PROFILE

Including music By Francisco Tarrega, J.S. Bach , Peter Sculthorpe, Toru Takemitsu, Agustín Barrios Mangoré , Johannes Brahms, Domenico Scarlatti, Isaac Albeniz, Stanley Meyers

Other performers featured: Paco Peña , Sebastian Bell, Andrés Segovia

Locations: London and Manchester (U.K.), Sydney, Melbourne, Glenn Innes, Kakadu National Park, the Olgas and Ayers Rock (Australia), Granada, Seville and Cordoba (Spain).

Original score to the 2011 motion picture composed by John Williams. Sony Classical.