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Blue Lagoon and It's My Party my two more treasured Basil scores. Of course all the other stuff is wonderful and great great and wonderful, but BL and IMP are my tops, absolutely gorgeous stuff.
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Yeah, I miss him too.
I got into film music via Pino Donaggio and Poledouris was the next best thing I discovered.
Red Dawn is immense. Amerika is sublime. Conan is pretty good too 
Blue Lagoon is THE music of love. I could go on, but I'm sure you get the drill.
Some unreleased scores by him from the various labels would be nice.
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I remember going to Times Square to see "Big Wednesday" the week it opened -- jeez which theater was it -- torn down now -- on Broadway around 45th Street -- a bit seedy but it had a huge screen and stereo sound -- could it have been the Rivoli? -- and that awesome, gorgeous score just enveloped and wowed me. It was my first encounter with his music. The FSM release is one of my all time favorite soundtrack releases. And then there were so many more films and scores over the years -- all of them so richly imagined and perfectly attuned to the project at hand. Hard to pick favorites -- Big Wednesday, Red Dawn, Amerika, both Conans, The Legend of Butch and Sundance, Flesh & Blood, Quigley Down Under -- so many. I will play the Ubeda DVD tonight in his memory.
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DmD, I consider IT'S MY PARTY to be one of Basil's great underrated works. Stripped down to just a piano, performing it all himself, Basil's musical ability still shone through.
You might also enjoy his score to THE WAR AT HOME, which is in a similar vein. Hopefully that score will get an official release someday.
Thanks buddy, I'll have to definitely check that score out if I can find a "copy" somewhere.
Speaking of composers and piano's, I also think one of Michael Kamen's most beautiful scores is his The Winter Guest, just him at a piano on most tracks then, if I remember a VERY VERY small ensemble on a couple tracks.
Horner's The Portrait, cue from Titanic with just him at the piano was breathtakingly beautiful, if you ask me.
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