Howard Shore - The Fly (from "The Fly")
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This album presents highlights from key scores by Howard Shore, a multi-award-winning Canadian composer.
- The Fly
- Naked Lunch
- Ed Wood
- Crash
- Eastern Promises
- The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
This new album features diverse soundtracks by Howard Shore, conducted by Ludwig Wicki and Bastien Stil, while Mike Schäperclaus conducts Le Balcon ensemble in the chamber works.
- Howard Shore was working as Saturday Night Live’s first musical director when he wrote his first film score – for his friend David Cronenberg’s The Brood.
- Since then, his music has graced dozens of movies (including 16 more directed by Cronenberg) and won him a string of awards.
The rich variety resulting from this approach is reflected on this album – a generous compilation of works heard during Radio France’s 2023 “Week-End Howard Shore”.
- Suites from some of his earlier film scores help demonstrate his multifaceted talents.
- There are the dark, sinister tones of The Fly; the cool sax lines created for Naked Lunch (with Stéphane Guillaume ably taking the solo part made famous by Ornette Coleman);
- The mysterious ambience of Ed Wood, where Lydia Kavina plays the theremin;
- The eerie metallic sounds of harps and electric guitars heard in Crash.
Howard Shore summed up his feelings at the end of the Radio France weekend: “I was overwhelmed by the dedication of the performers to study the music and play it so well, and I’m thrilled by the collaboration with Radio France and Deutsche Grammophon.”
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