Finally after all these years we get an official release of Bill Conti's beautiful and emotionally charged score from Quartet Records. The release comes with a beautiful cover and a lavish and informative 20-page booklet sporting detailed liner notes by Daniel Schweiger as well as lots of stills. Interestingly the Main Titles feature a different string arrangement than the film version (starting at 4:00). But the film arrangement is included at the end of "It's All Right Malachi / Malachi's Murder" (5:28). It's great that this Bill Conti score finally gets some attention. I noticed some music in the film which I didn't hear on the CD, but it sounds great nevertheless. For anyone interested in a strictly chronological track order, this would be it:
1. Main Titles (different string arrangement, film arrangement at the end of track 8) 2. The Raid 3. Graveside Hit 4. Martin Waits / Martin's Confession / Billy & Jenny 5. Malachi's Meeting 6. Martin Meets Anna / Meehan the Malevolent 7. Trashing the Church / Da Costa's Agony / Message for Martin 8. It's All Right Malachi (track 8, 0:00 - 1:41) 9. Martin & Anna 10. Billy Goes Away 11. Malachi's Murder (track 8, 1:41 - 2:35) 12. Meehan at Church 13. Meehan Gets Anna / The Boat 14. Martin & Meehan / Martin on the Cross 15. End Credits
Possibly my favourite Bill Conti score. Just brilliant from start to finish. I have both editions of the score (the old boot and the Quartet legit release) and it's another PREDATOR where the boot sounds better than the legit release to my ears.
Possibly my favourite Bill Conti score. Just brilliant from start to finish. I have both editions of the score (the old boot and the Quartet legit release) and it's another PREDATOR where the boot sounds better than the legit release to my ears.
I too thought that the Concorde edition sounded better.
Here's another Conti I've only known by name over the years, but never got around to....until now. It's really great. A little bit of religioso, a little bit of experimental textures. Beautifully melancholic. A gem and a keeper, this.
[Oops, just saw there was another, previous thread for this, but it didn't come up in my Google search]
