Sony Masterworks will release the official score album for the prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. The album features the film’s original score composed by Academy Award nominee James Newton Howard (King Kong, The Sixth Sense, Signs, Maleficent, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Fugitive) who previously scored all four original The Hunger Games movies. Also included are three newly reimagined piano suites based on Howard’s past themes from the franchise performed by featured soloist Yuja Wang who also performs the piano on the new score. The soundtrack is set to be released digitally and as a 2-CD set on November 17. Click here to pre-order the digital version and visit Amazon to pre-order the CD version within the next few days.
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‘Summer in February’ Soundtrack Announced
UPDATE January 2014: The soundtrack has been released in the U.S. by Deutsche Grammophon and is available to order on Amazon.
Decca Records will release a soundtrack album for the British period drama Summer in February. The album includes the film’s original score composed by Benjamin Wallfisch (The Escapist, Conquest 1493) featuring piano solos by Yuja Wang. The soundtrack will be released in the UK on June 24, 2013 and is now available for pre-order as an import on Amazon. Summer in February is directed by Christopher Menaul and stars Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens and Hattie Morahan. The drama based on Jonathan Smith’s novel about love and loss among a bohemian colony of artists which flourished in the wild coastal region of Cornwall before the First World War will be released in the UK on June 14. No word yet on a domestic release of the film.