Celebrating 25 years of World Soundtrack Awards, Film Fest Gent proudly presents this unique vinyl set – its 20th official album release – with music by a majority of the guests of honour and Lifetime Achievement Award recipients from 25 editions of the World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert.
The first three LP’s contain selections from every one of Film Fest Gent’s studio recordings over the years – from both the ‘For the Record’ and ‘Music for Film’ album series. The fourth is a bonus LP, featuring live recordings – all premiere releases on album – of memorable performances from two-and-a-half decades of WSA concerts.
Among the many highlights, the box set contains selections from the World Soundtrack Award-winning scores Frida, Life of Pi, Moulin Rouge! and Twilight, two pieces (by Rachel Portman and Gustavo Santaolalla) that were used in Film Fest Gent’s golden jubilee project ‘2×25’, a previously unreleased cue from Marco Beltrami’s Ben-Hur, and many special concert arrangements from Back to the Future, The Conversation, Homeland, The Imitation Game, Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles among other scores. Also included are Elmer Bernstein’s “World Soundtrack Awards Fanfare” and John Williams’s “Tribute to the Film Composer”.
All music on this album is performed by the Brussels Philharmonic and Vlaams Radiokoor, conducted by Film Fest Gent music director Dirk Brossé. On certain tracks the composers also feature as performing artists: Sean Callery, Eleni Karaindrou, Philippe Rombi, David Shire and Gabriel Yared on piano; Mark Isham on trumpet; and Cliff Martinez produced the electronics for Contagion. The vinyl set concludes with the late lyricist Alan Bergman’s performance of “The Way We Were”.
World Soundtrack Awards – 25th Anniversary Celebration contains pieces by guests of honour Craig Armstrong, Marco Beltrami, Terence Blanchard, Carter Burwell, Sean Callery, Mychael Danna, Georges Delerue, Alexandre Desplat, James Newton Howard, Alberto Iglesias, Mark Isham, Cliff Martinez, Rachel Portman, Max Richter, Philippe Rombi, Gustavo Santolalla, Howard Shore, Alan Silvestri, Shigeru Umebayashi, Debbie Wiseman, and World Soundtrack Lifetime Achievement Award honourees Angelo Badalamenti, Elmer Bernstein, Bruno Coulais, Frédéric Devreese, Patrick Doyle, Philip Glass, Elliot Goldenthal, Marvin Hamlisch, Eleni Karaindrou, Krzysztof Penderecki, Laurence Rosenthal, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Philippe Sarde, David Shire and Gabriel Yared.
Elmer Bernstein
World Soundtrack Awards Fanfare
Gabriel Yared
L’amant – Main Theme
Rachel Portman
Dancing Fruit – Bagatelle
Gustavo Santolalla
Pleiades (or Going Home) – Passing Through
Cliff Martinez
Contagion – Contagion – Bad Day to Be a Rhesus Monkey
Shigeru Umebayashi
In the Mood for Love – Yumeji’s Theme
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence – Main Theme
Elmer Bernstein
The Age of Innocence – The Age of Innocence
Patrick Doyle
Murder on the Orient Express – Never Forget
Alexandre Desplat
The Imitation Game – Suite
Craig Armstrong
Moulin Rouge! – Ascension – One Day I’ll Fly Away
Howard Shore
The Aviator – Suite
Krzysztof Penderecki
Symphony No 3 – Passacaglia – Allegro Moderato
Georges Delerue
Le mépris – Thème de Camille
Debbie Wiseman
Wilde – Suite
Terence Blanchard
25th Hour – Opening Title – Playground
Max Richter
On the Nature of Daylight
Philip Glass
Kundun – Sand Mandala
Alan Silvestri
Back to the Future – Suite
John Williams (arr.)
Tribute to the Film Composer
James Newton Howard
Red Sparrow – Overture
Elliot Goldenthal
Frida – Still Life
Alberto Iglesias
Hable con ella – Soy Marco
Mychael Danna
Life of Pi – Suite
Mark Isham
The Black Dahlia – Suite
Carter Burwell
Twilight – Bella’s Theme
Laurence Rosenthal
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – Main Title
Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies – Suite
Angelo Badalamenti
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me – The Voice of Love
Sean Callery
Homeland – Main Theme
Philippe Sarde
Le locataire – Thème principal
Eleni Karaindrou
Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow – The Weeping Meadow
Eternity and a Day – Eternity Theme
Marco Beltrami
Ben-Hur – Modeh Ani
Philippe Rombi
Jeux d’enfants – Suite: Overture / Love Theme
Frédéric Devreese
Benvenuta – Tango
David Shire
The Conversation – Theme
Bruno Coulais
Himalaya – Le lac
Marvin Hamlisch
The Way We Were – The Way We Were
