I definitely recommend it. It's one of my favorite scores by him, and with Screen Archives selling it for less than five bucks I don't see how you can go wrong.
I definitely recommend it. It's one of my favorite scores by him, and with Screen Archives selling it for less than five bucks I don't see how you can go wrong.
Agree with EACH word! Great score with fantastic orchestration and great themes. And for so funny price - it's like robbery! You'll get jewel for your collection for $5!!!
Does anyone here have the 'promo' CD of this score and can they recommend it ? Very underrated composer.
No, I haven´t got the promo cd, but the suite on his cd "Orchestral Film Music" is wonderful, and I If you don´t have that cd, I certainly recommend you to buy it. He is indeed a very underrated composer.
Does anyone here have the 'promo' CD of this score and can they recommend it ? Very underrated composer.
No, I haven´t got the promo cd, but the suite on his cd "Orchestral Film Music" is wonderful, and I If you don´t have that cd, I certainly recommend you to buy it. He is indeed a very underrated composer.
I have 'Orchestral Film Music' a superb collection of the composer's work. It contains a track from 'Hounds' called 'Dartmoor' which is wonderful, that is why I'm curious about the promo CD.
Thanks to everyone for their help...very much appreciated.
It's a GREAT score. The main theme is very evocative and a perfect companion piece for his THEATRE OF BLOOD theme, but for me the real deal here is the love theme, which plays out with devastatingly operatic beauty over the end title - and it never sounded better than on that 2-disc promo set, where the much larger orchestra (and newly written guitar counterpoint) takes it to sublime levels. Delerue himself could not have written a melody that speaks more directly to the heart.
That 6-minute rerecorded suite was on Youtube for a long time but now I can't seem to find it, unfortunately.
The whole film is on Youtube (in German, at least):
The score is great but I really do have to stress how phenomenal the re-recorded suite with the larger ensemble is on Lewis' self-financed promo. It's worth picking up for this and his amazing unreleased score to JULIUS CEASAR alone - And there's still oodles of brilliant music to be heard elsewhere on the set!
The whole film is on Youtube (in German, at least):
The score is great but I really do have to stress how phenomenal the re-recorded suite with the larger ensemble is on Lewis' self-financed promo. It's worth picking up for this and his amazing unreleased score to JULIUS CEASAR alone - And there's still oodles of brilliant music to be heard elsewhere on the set!
I already have the 2CD promo of Lewis's collected works (which is ridiculously good) I will now be buying 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' promo CD. This stuff is absolutely sublime !
The whole film is on Youtube (in German, at least):
The score is great but I really do have to stress how phenomenal the re-recorded suite with the larger ensemble is on Lewis' self-financed promo. It's worth picking up for this and his amazing unreleased score to JULIUS CEASAR alone - And there's still oodles of brilliant music to be heard elsewhere on the set!
I already have the 2CD promo of Lewis's collected works (which is ridiculously good) I will now be buying 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' promo CD. This stuff is absolutely sublime !
Try to have the Medusa Touch as well as The Passage and The Naked Face (among other). Michael J. Lewis is a top composer, with a very recognisable style as John Barry had. You know it’s Lewis when you hear his music. I agreed then Julius Ceasar must have a complete release. Love The Sphinx score too as well as Ffolf (North Sea Hijack) and the non-score The Romantic Splendour of Wale. I will post the chronological order of The Hound of Baskerville as soon as I can.
The whole film is on Youtube (in German, at least):
The score is great but I really do have to stress how phenomenal the re-recorded suite with the larger ensemble is on Lewis' self-financed promo. It's worth picking up for this and his amazing unreleased score to JULIUS CEASAR alone - And there's still oodles of brilliant music to be heard elsewhere on the set!
I already have the 2CD promo of Lewis's collected works (which is ridiculously good) I will now be buying 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' promo CD. This stuff is absolutely sublime !
Try to have the Medusa Touch as well as The Passage and The Naked Face (among other). Michael J. Lewis is a top composer, with a very recognisable style as John Barry had. You know it’s Lewis when you hear his music. I agreed then Julius Ceasar must have a complete release. Love The Sphinx score too as well as Ffolf (North Sea Hijack) and the non-score The Romantic Splendour of Wale. I will post the chronological order of The Hound of Baskerville as soon as I can.
Also I hope that one day I'll see full score for 11 Harrowhouse. Mr. Lewis promo (sadly!) contain only excerpts from score. But if the rest is in same key (and I have no doubts about this!), I'll get it as soon as anyone will release it.
Also I hope that one day I'll see full score for 11 Harrowhouse. Mr. Lewis promo (sadly!) contain only excerpts from score. But if the rest is in same key (and I have no doubts about this!), I'll get it as soon as anyone will release it.
Now I get to agree with every word you said! There is no Michael J. Lewis score I would like more of than 11 Harrowhouse.
I already have the 2CD promo of Lewis's collected works (which is ridiculously good) I will now be buying 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' promo CD. This stuff is absolutely sublime !
Yea, it really is, the end title alone is worth the dirt cheap price it can be found at SAE for, and the variation on that same melody that bookends the cue "Fiddler on the More" is just fantastic - which, of course, is to say nothing of the sinuous main theme itself, as heard in the video Ford posted.
The whole score really nails that modal, darkly romantic mysterious sound the source material begs for. Crying shame Lewis, who's still alive and well (and lives in Austin, Texas nowadays for God-knows-what-reason) isn't scoring films anymore, and hasn't for almost 25 years now...
Deeply depressing to me that the currently most active thread on FSM is about Zimmer's RAIN MAN and yet a score this beautiful and *crafted* can barely get a handful of replies.
I remember seeing this film on Showtime back in the day, along with the other Ian Richardson Holmes movie, The Sign of Four. Love both interpretations and was sad that they didn't continue (think it was a funding issue). There was another thread regarding this score which alerted us about SAE having copies of it - I snatched one up as soon as I read it was available. Love it and am glad that I can revisit it whenever I want. Now, I just wish that I could get my hands on Harry Rabinowitz's score for The Sign of Four.
Deeply depressing to me that the currently most active thread on FSM is about Zimmer's RAIN MAN and yet a score this beautiful and *crafted* can barely get a handful of replies.
Very depressing.
I fully agree, just bought the promo CD of 'Baskervilles' one of the most beautiful scores I've ever heard in my life, the track 'Fiddler on the Moor' is an absolute revelation ! A truly Magnificent and underrated Masterpiece that deserves a 'proper' release.
