Sony Classical will release the new record Beyond the Screen – Film Works on Piano by Rachel Portman featuring some of the composer’s most cherished film music for solo piano. The album was recorded in Berlin, with occasional accompaniment by cellist Raphaela Gromes and consists of 20 curated pieces that span Portman’s illustrious career, arranged to form an emotional and musical journey. Among the titles included are suites from the composer’s Academy Award-winning score for Douglas McGrath’s Emma, her Academy Award-nominated scores for Lasse Hallstrom’s The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, as well as her music for Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go, Lone Scherfig’s One Day and Saul Dibb’s The Duchess. The album will be released digitally and physically on March 3, 2023 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Check back on this page for the pre-order links for the CD version and vinyl edition and listen to six tracks from the record after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Rachel Portman’s ‘Beyond the Screen – Film Works on Piano’ Album Announced
Posted: December 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Rachel Portman
Eduard Artemyev (1937-2022)
Posted: December 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Eduard Artemyev
Eduard Artemyev has passed away at age 85. The Russian composer was best known internationally for his scores for the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, including the 1972 sci-fi classic Solaris, 1975’s Mirror and 1979’s Stalker. He also composed the music for numerous movies directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, including At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own, A Slave of Love, Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano, Close to Eden, Burnt by the Sun, The Barber of Siberia and 12. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for ITV’s ‘Without Sin’ Released
Posted: December 30, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: ITV, Lindsay Wright, score, Soundtrack, Tawiah, Without Sin
Madison Gate Records has released a soundtrack album for the ITV drama Without Sin. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Tawiah and Lindsay Wright (The Walk-In, The Whistleblowers, This Is Joan Collins, The Mystery of D.B Cooper). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Without Sin is written by Frances Poletti, directed by Al Mackay and stars Vicky McClure and Johnny Harris. The 4-part psychological thriller produced by Left Bank Pictures explores the relationship which develops between a grieving mother and the man she believes murdered her daughter. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Grimcutty’ Soundtrack to Be Released
Posted: December 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Grimcutty, Hulu, John William Ross, Sara Barone, score, Soundtrack
Hollywood Records will release a soundtrack album for the horror thriller Grimcutty. The album features the film’s original music composed by Sara Barone (After Masks). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 30 and will be available to stream/download here, where you can also check out audio samples. Grimcutty is written and directed by John William Ross and stars Sara Wolfkind, Callan Farris, Usman Ally, Shannyn Sossamon, Alona Tal and Kayden Koshalev. The 20th Digital Studio production follows a suburban teen girl and her little brother who must stop a terrifying internet meme brought to life by the hysteria of their parents. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Hulu’s ‘Welcome to Chippendales’ to Be Released
Posted: December 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Hulu, score, Siddhartha Khosla, Soundtrack, Welcome to Chippendales
Hollywood Records will release a soundtrack album for the Hulu limited series Welcome to Chippendales. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Emmy Award nominee Siddhartha Khosla (Only Murders in the Building, This Is Us, Runaways, Looking for Alaska, Queenpins). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, December 30 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. The label has previously released the original song The Manster (Dr. Hunkenstein’s Theme) co-written by Khosla last week. Welcome to Chippendales is created by Robert Siegel and stars Kumail Nanjiani, Murray Bartlett, Juliette Lewis, Annaleigh Ashford, as well as Quentin Plair, Robin de Jesús, Spencer Boldman, Nicola Peltz Beckham, Andrew Rannells and Dan Stevens. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Joe Berlinger, Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street, Netflix, score, Serj Tankian, Soundtrack
Netflix Music will release the official soundtrack album for the streamer’s original documentary series Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Grammy Award-winning System Of A Down lead singer Serj Tankian (Truth to Power, Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields & The Time Square Killer, I Am Not Alone, Furious). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 30 and will be available to stream/download here. Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street is directed by Joe Berlinger and follows the rise and fall of financier Bernie Madoff, who orchestrated one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in Wall Street history and reveals the truth behind the ways in which a willfully blind financial system allowed it to flourish for decades. Read the rest of this entry »
Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Kaleidoscope’ to Be Released
Posted: December 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Dominic Lewis, Kaleidoscope, Netflix, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music will release the official soundtrack album for the streamer’s limited series Kaleidoscope. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Dominic Lewis (Bullet Train, Peter Rabbit, Violent Night, The Man in the High Castle, Money Monster, The King’s Man). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 30. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the album. Kaleidoscope is created by Eric Garcia and stars Giancarlo Esposito, Rufus Sewell, Paz Vega, Jai Courtney, Rosaline Elbay, Tati Gabrielle and Peter Mark Kendall. The crime drama revolves around a master thief and his crew as they attempt an elaborate heist worth $7 billion dollars – but betrayal, greed and other threats undermine their plans. Read the rest of this entry »
‘A Man Called Otto’ Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: December 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: A Man Called Otto, Marc Forster, score, Soundtrack, Thomas Newman
The full details of the soundtrack album for the comedy drama A Man Called Otto have been revealed. The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award nominee Thomas Newman (American Beauty, 1917, The Shawshank Redemption, Finding Nemo, Road to Perdition, Skyfall, Wall-E). Also included is the original song Til You’re Home written by Rita Wilson & David Hodges and performed by Wilson & Sebastián Yatra (already available as a digital single). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, December 30 by Decca Records’ Mercury Classics Soundtrack & Score and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. A CD version is set to come out on March 31 and is available for pre-order here. Read the rest of this entry »
Yuval Ben-Ami’s Hebrew Cover Version’s of ‘Fight Song’ from ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ Released
Posted: December 29, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Eve Nelson, Fleishman Is in Trouble, FX, Hulu, Yuval Ben-Ami
Hollywood Records has released the (Hebrew) cover version of Rachel Platten’s Fight Song from the FX limited series Fleishman Is in Trouble. The song (originally written by Platten & Dave Bassett) is produced by Eve Nelson and performed by Yuval Ben-Ami and is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Also listen to the track after the jump. As previously reported, a full soundtrack album featuring Caroline Shaw’s original score from the drama is also being released today. Read the rest of this entry »
Fil Eisler Scoring Phillip Noyce’s ‘Fast Charlie’
Posted: December 28, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Fast Charlie, Fil Eisler, Phillip Noyce
Composer Fil Eisler (Empire, Outer Banks, UnReal, How to Be Single, Thunder Force, Superintelligence, The Titan) is reteaming with director Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger) on the upcoming action thriller Fast Charlie. The film starring Pierce Brosnan, James Caan & Morena Baccarin follows a hitman who sets out to avenge his aging mob boss friend after he is assassinated by a rival mob. Richard Wenk (The Equalizer, The Magnificent Seven) wrote the screenplay based on the crime novel Gun Monkeys by Victor Gischler. Read the rest of this entry »
