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Jerry Goldsmith: His Final Recordings

Jerry Goldsmith: His Final Recordings

Varese Sarabande (302 066 788 2 / VSD-6788)

Release Date: February 13, 2007

Format: CD

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Disc 1: Star Trek: Nemesis
1. Remus
2. The Box
3. My Right Arm
4. Odds and Ends
5. Repairs
6. The Knife
7. Ideals
8. The Mirror
9. The Scorpion
10. Lateral Run
11. Engage
12. Final Flight
13. A New Friend
14. A New Ending
Disc 2: Timeline
1. The Dig
2. Cornflakes
3. No Pain
4. To Castlegard
5. Find Marek
6. The Rooftop
7. A Hole In the Wall
8. Move On
9. Setting Up
10. Be Careful
11. Ambushed
12. Greek Fire / Light the Arrows
13. Prepare for Battle / Victory For Us
14. To My Friends
Disc 3: Looney Tunes: Back in Action
1. Life Story
2. What's Up?
3. Another Take
4. Dead Duck Walking
5. Out of the Bag
6. Blue Monkey
7. In Style
8. The Bad Guys
9. Car Trouble
10. Thin Air
11. Area 52
12. Hot Pursuit
13. We've Got Company
14. I'll Take That
15. Paris Street
16. Free Fall
17. Tasmanian Devil
18. Jungle Scene
19. Pressed Duck
20. Re-Assembled
21. Merry Go Round Broke Down
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February 10, 2007 would have been Jerry Goldsmith's 78th birthday. Sadly, we lost this legendary composer in the summer of 2004.

This year we remember Mr. Goldsmith with a specially compiled 3 CD set comprising the composer's final three film scores: Star Trek Nemesis, Timeline and Looney Tunes: Back In Action.

Star Trek Nemesis (2002) allowed Goldsmith to revisit his famous Star Trek themes for a final time. Along with this fond look back and farewell to the Enterprise and it various crews, Nemesis also received a stunningly beautiful new theme that captured the romance of space exploration in such an unexpected and brilliant way.

Goldsmith's score for Star Trek Nemesis was followed by an extended period of work on the Richard Donner directed film Timeline (2003). The project allowed Goldsmith to compose an epic work in the style of his magnificent for Lionheart (1988) and First Knight (1995). Timeline also reunited Goldsmith with Donner for the first time since the composer had won an Oscar for his landmark score for The Omen in 1976. Timeline was written by none other than Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park), another long-time friend and collaborator of Mr. Goldsmith's.

Extensive reediting of the film, after the point where the score had been recorded, lead to a new composer and a new score being composed. Goldsmith's grand, penultimate opus found exposure only on the posthumous CD release of his music—a release he personally requested, for his fans.

The score that turned out to be, unthinkably, Jerry Goldsmith's final film score, was Looney Tunes: Back In Action. While seemingly an unusual film to cap such a historic career, Looney Tunes did allow Goldsmith the opportunity to work one last time with his long-time friend, director Joe Dante. The two had previously joined forces for the blockbuster Gremlins (1984), The 'Burbs (1989), Small Soldiers (1998) and many others.

The score for Looney Tunes: Back In Action showed Goldsmith to be full of energy and wit. It's an enormously fun score with depth, complexity and intelligence. To end a career exhibiting so much enthusiasm for his art and showing so much genuine creativity is, in fact, very much in keeping with what one would hope from the legendary composer of such classics as Patton, Planet of the Apes, Chinatown, The Omen, The Sand Pebbles, Alien, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Basic Instinct, LA Confidential, The Mummy and so many more!

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