World premiere 2-CD release of James Horner score for Oscar-nominated Ron Howard film!
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World premiere 2-CD release of James Horner score for Oscar-nominated Ron Howard film! Highly regarded, award-laden film chronicles eventful Apollo 13 mission to the moon, heartbreakingly aborted late during trip due to an explosion aboard command module that jeopardized lives of crew and their ability to return safely back to earth. Universal releases, Imagine Entertainment presents, Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan give top-notch portrayals, Dean Cundey photographs, Brian Grazer produces, Ron Howard directs. Film is drawn from Astronaut Jim Lovell’s book “Lost Moon”, written with Jeffrey Kluger. Hanks plays Lovell in nine-time Academy Award-nominated film, including nominations for Picture and James Horner score, winning Oscars for sound and film editing. Director Howard describes film not as one of action or distress but of “absolutely brilliant professionalism and quiet nobility”. Though Howard championed two separate albums for release from the soundtrack, incredibly just a “souvenir” release featuring the songs, dialog highlights, sound effects and limited selections from Horner’s score became commercially available through the MCA label. Horner did prepare a disc of 59 minutes of his music for internal Academy Award consideration but it never saw commercial release. Subsequently a special “Gold” edition of the soundtrack was issued but it remained the song and dialog album. Finally, through the combined cooperation of UMG, Universal Studios and Imagine Entertainment, Intrada proudly presents for the first time ever the entire score by Horner, both in the versions heard in the film lasting 76 minutes on CD 1, and in the selections Horner prepared for promotional purposes running 59 minutes which included several alternate versions and different performances of certain cues on CD 2. Album producer Mike Matessino has also assembled the 9 minutes of music Horner scored for electronics, following the orchestral score on CD 1. The number of highlights in this important work are numerous but easily commanding a spotlight is the rich Americana flavor throughout, movingly provided by elegiac trumpet work from acclaimed soloist Tim Morrison. Lengthy musical journey includes moments of stunning power such as 10-minute “All Systems Go - The Launch”, terror (“Master Alarm”, “Manual Burn”), dynamic “Re-Entry And Splashdown”. Special mention is due Horner’s brilliant musical architecture, opening with trumpet and snares, then mirroring variety of dramatic onscreen events with emotionally overwhelming music before finally cadencing all with haunting simplicity of just solo trumpet alone. Poetic and sublime! Graphic design by Kay Marshall features flipper covers showcasing both film’s striking advance key art campaign, subsequent release style with star Hanks. Detailed notes from John Takis plus “tech talk” from producer Matessino bring additional weight to dramatic package. Horner’s gift for writing magnificent, emotionally rich music has never been on better display. Shawn Murphy records at Todd-AO, Steve Bramson & Horner orchestrate, Annie Lennox provides haunting wordless “End Credits” vocal, James Horner composes, conducts. Intrada Special Collection 2-CD release available while quantities and interest remain!
ELECTRONIC CUES 17. Marilyn’s Nightmare (0:58) 18. Canister Explosion (0:24) 19. Reactant Valves (1:09) 20. Out Of Control (1:08) 21. Power Off (0:57) 22. A Square Peg (3:49) 23. Cosmic Connection (0:44) Total Time: 9:08 CD 1 Total Time: 76:07
CD 2 COMPOSER’S SOUNDTRACK ASSEMBLY 01. Main Title (2:40) 02. Lunar Dreams (2:41) 03. All Systems Go – The Launch (10:21) 04. Docking (2:26) 05. Master Alarm (3:06) 06. Into the L.E.M. (5:10) 07. The Dark Side Of The Moon (5:17) 08. Carbon Dioxide (5:45) 09. Manual Burn (1:57) 10. Four More Amps (3:20) 11. Re-Entry And Splashdown (9:15) 12. End Credits (6:59) CD 2 Total Time: 58:58
Tech Talk From The Producer…
This Intrada Special Collection release presents James Horner’s score in two incarnations. CD 1 offers the music as heard in the film, with the main program consisting of all the orchestral cues, while the wholly electronic cues (most of which are short and atmospheric and were added later in the production) are grouped as a separate collection at the end of the CD. Listeners may, of course, create a playlist incorporating these cues in narrative sequence using the following track order: 1, 2, 17, 3, 4, 5, 6, 18, 7, 19, 8, 20, 21, 9, 22, 10, 11, 12, 13, 23, 14, 15, 16
CD 2 marks the first commercially available presentation of Horner’s originally planned 59-minute album. Created with engineer Shawn Murphy for release on MCA Records, this assembly features some performances and cues that vary slightly from the film versions (notably, “Master Alarm,” which is completely different). The album never materialized commercially, however, as the filmmakers opted for a CD that incorporated dialogue and sound effects highlights as well as pop songs from the period that could be heard in the film itself, alongside a reduced presentation of Horner’s Academy Award-nominated score. This official release was effectively a “souvenir” album, which included such luminous voices and performers as Walter Cronkite, Neil Armstrong, James Brown, Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Hank Williams and The Mavericks, as well as those of the film’s stars: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise and Brett Cullen.
This new release was sourced from 192k 24bit high-resolution transfers of ½" stereo masters of Shawn Murphy’s original mixes, with all performance edits meticulously recreated for this newly mastered presentation of one of James Horner’s best known and most engaging scores..
—Mike Matessino
Composed and Conducted by James Horner. Recorded on March 24th, 25th, 29th, 30th and May 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, and 12th, 1995 at TODD-AO SCORING, Studio City, California.
VIOLINS Clayton Haslop
Eun-Mee Ahn
Richard L. Altenbach
Arnold Belnick
Robert L. Brosseau
Lily Ho Chen
Bonnie J. Douglas
Bruce Dukov
David Ewart
Ronald Folsom
Berj Garabedian
Julie Ann Gigante
Galina Golovin Zherdev
Endre Granat
Alan H. Grunfeld
Tamara L. Hatwan Chang
Patricia Johnson
Karen Jones
Miran Haig Kojian
Eun-Sun Lee
Dimitrie Leivici
Isabella Lippi
Rene M. Mandel
Gregory D. Moore
Ralph Morrison III
Robin Olson
Sid Page
Claudia Parducci
Katia K. Popov
Rafael Rishik
Rachel Robinson
Jay Rosen
Anatoly Rosinsky
Sheldon Sanov
Haim Shtrum
Paul C. Shure
Sheryl Staples Centanni
Polly H. Sweeney
Roger D. Wilkie
Kenneth Yerke
VIOLA Pamela Goldsmith
Brian Dembow
Miriam Dye
Marlow G. Fisher
Rick Gerding
Steven A. Gordon
Keith Greene
Scott Haupert
Carrie Holzman-Little
Roland Kato
Janet Lakatos
Donald McInnes
Victoria E. Miskolczy
Dan Lionel Neufeld
Maria L. Newman
Michael Nowak
Robin R. Ross Chineduh
Linn Subotnick
Mihail Zinovyev
CELLI Douglas L. Davis
J. Antony Cooke
Matthew Cooker
Christine Ermacoff
Barbara George
Rowena Hammill
Todd Hemmenway
Barbara Jane Hunter
Dennis Karmazyn
Armen Ksajikian
Timothy E. Landauer
Dane R. Little
David Low
Earl Madison
David Speltz
Sebastian Toettcher
John A. Walz
BASSES Charles Domanico
Arni Egilsson
Nico C. Abondolo
Timothy C. Barr
Drew D. Dembowski
Steve Edelman
Richard Feves
Edward Meares
Bruce P. Morgenthaler
Susan A. Ranney
Paul J. Zibits
FLUTES Sheridon W. Stokes
Louise M. DiTullio
David Shostac
James R. Walker
OBOES Barbara Northcutt
Phillip Ayling
Thomas G. Boyd
Kathleen T. Robinson
CLARINETS Gary G. Gray
James M. Kanter
Emily Bernstein
Gary S. Bovyer
Michele Zukovsky
BASSOONS Kenneth E. Munday
Rose Corrigan
Patricia Kindel-Heimerl
Michael R. O'Donovan
John Steinmetz
FRENCH HORN James W. Thatcher
Steven B. Becknell
David A. Duke
Todd L. Miller
Brian D. A. O'Connor
John A. Reynolds
Richard J. Todd
TRUMPETS Warren H. Luening, Jr.
George Burnette Dillon
Timothy G. Morrison
TROMBONES Richard Nash
William C. Booth
Alan L. Kaplan
Robert F. Sanders
TUBA James M. Self
DRUMS/PERCUSSION Robert J. Zimmitti
Dale L. Anderson
Alan Estes
Gregory Goodall
Peter Limonick
Thomas D. Raney
Donald J. Williams
Jerry D. Williams
HARP Gayle Levant
Jo Ann Turovsky
KEYBOARDS/SYNTH Randy M. Kerber
Ian R. Underwood
Ronald Aston
Michael Fisher
Ralph E. Grierson
COPYISTS Robert Bornstein
Emmet Estren
Kirby Furlong
David A. Izzard
Robert W. Joles
Jeffrey Hoyt Jones
Steven Juliani
Jon K. Marquart
Margaret J. Maryatt
Laurie Robinson
Victor Sagerquist
Kendall Schmidt
Roy Wood