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Mastadge Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jun '99	Date Posted: 2/2/08 8:52am Subject: Image Albums
	I'm interested in more Joe Hisaishi scores, but most of them are imports and available in two version: the OST, and the Image Album, which generally seems to be a more symphonic arrangement -- taking the themes of the film and working them into a concert piece that stands better on its own. I'm curious: which does anyone recommend? Given my own taste I'm leaning toward trying the Image Album releases, but it's hard to justify, when paying import prices, paying for 20 fewer minutes of music. But if it's a better arrangement, then I think that's what I'll do. Any suggestions? -----signature----- "This will be our reply to violence: To make music more intensely, More beautifully, More devotedly than ever before." - Leonard Bernstein
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Darth_Vader-Anakin Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 2/2/08 9:11am Subject: RE: Image Albums
	Everyone needs more Hisaishi in their collection, as far as I'm concerned! He is a fantastic composer who very few people hear enough of. He's one of the few working composers with an instantly recognizable style. About the image albums - they aren't exactly symphonic arrangements. They are pieces of music that Hisaishi writes before seeing the finished film. He sees early drawings and sketches and interprets them and writes music before actual scoring begins. Sometimes the music is very reflective of the final film and sometimes it isn't. I think almost all of his scores stand up very well on their own and would recommend these first -- Spirited Away, How's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, Le Petit Poucet, Le Mecano de la General, Brother, Laputa - Symphony, Kikujiro, and The Story of the First King's Four Gods. There are many others, but those are some his best that I have heard.
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Mastadge Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jun '99	Date Posted: 2/2/08 9:15am Subject: RE: Image Albums
	I've got Spirited Away and the Symphonic Suite of Mononoke, and I've ordered Four Gods. There appears to be a second disc of Four Gods with a substantial number of tracks -- do you know if this is enough good material to warrant the purchase, or is it the leavings from the first disc? -----signature----- "This will be our reply to violence: To make music more intensely, More beautifully, More devotedly than ever before." - Leonard Bernstein
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Darth_Vader-Anakin Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 2/2/08 9:50am Subject: RE: Image Albums
	I only have volume 1, so I can't really say, but based on the track titles for vol 2, there seems to be healthy amount of material.
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Mastadge Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Jun '99	Date Posted: 2/6/08 12:09pm Subject: RE: Image Albums
	It seems that Four Gods is a 24-hour series, with a huge budget (oddly, it's not listed on IMDB, and this score isn't listed on SoundtrackCollector), so it would make sense that there would be 2 CDs worth of score to be released. -----signature----- "This will be our reply to violence: To make music more intensely, More beautifully, More devotedly than ever before." - Leonard Bernstein
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