Search - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra :: Music from the Star Wars Saga

Should have been longer, double cd like LOTR

tjguitar | 05/30/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is a good compiliation, as usual the City of Prague Orchestra is fantastic with there re-recordings. My biggest complaint is, well, only 1 track form episode 2, one track from episode 6, and all the tracks from episode 1 are on "The Sci Fi album vol 1" and "Space 3: beyond the final frontier". Other tracks were already released on various space and beyond compiliations from silva as well. I think they should have waited until after episode 3 and released a double album..maybe they will...that would be cool. This is a good cd by all means, I just think it should have been longer, a double cd set like the star trek album and lord of the rings. But for what is here, it is performed wonderfully."

"Big Sound in a small package ~ Star Wars Saga"

J. Lovins | Missouri-USA | 09/10/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Silva America and The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra featuring Paul Bateman (conductor), with Crouch End Festival Chorus featuring David Temple (choir master) work magic with the film score by John Williams...George Lucas hit series of the "Music from the Star Wars Saga", powerful with every cue that falls on the ears ~ orchestration is spectacular more thrilling than ever, with the themes that we've come to love over the past three decades.



More amazing is how fresh all of this sounds in this 13 track package ~ Maestro Williams is a genius as he demonstrates with samples from each film of the saga...overwhelming intricate and exciting action tracks that will keep you spellbound with this less than one hour sampling ~ our composer creates visual moods for each special film he scores, strings, brass and lush-velt arrangements overlay each cue in his distinctive signature style ~ musical movements fit the story and must resolve rather quickly as each cue of the film passes in a split second ~ Williams has the ability to emphasis music in a similar fashion as classical compoer Holst...use of strings sets the mood and brass is inclusive to make the whole scene come together...not an easy task, but our legendary film scorer hits the mark everytime.



Take a bow for this album credits ~ James Fitzpatrick(producer), Reynold da Silva(executive producer), David Stoner(release co-ordinator), Rick Clark(sleeve notes) and of course Silva America for releasing this gem ~ Paul Bateman and David Temple a special thank you with City of Prague Philharmonic and Crouch End Festival Chorus making all these performances memorable...just the way "film-score-buffs" like 'em...gotta love it!



Total Time: 56:49 on 13 Tracks ~ Silva America 1163 ~ (09/07/2004)"

My son loves it

L. Dobkins | Reno, NV | 09/11/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"My six-year old has become a huge fan of Star Wars and enjoys listening to this disc. It has the best tracks of each episode."