Fanfare, May 1st, 2008
GOLDSMITH Alien * Lionel Newman, cond; Natl PO * INTRADA 7102 (2 CDs: 126:20) This is a critically important album for film music aficionados and Jerry Goldsmith fans. When you consider the seminal importance of the Alien score (which has been called the anti Star Wars), composed at the peak of Goldsmith's career, and compare that with the shabby treatment the music received in the final version of the film, it was important that this definitive two-CD album, formulated and constructed by elite producers Michael Matessino and Nick Redman, be released. The composer felt that "working on Alien ...
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