John Williams - Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Collector's Edition Soundtrack
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Artist: John WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Hindi (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1998-04-28
Music Label: Columbia Pictures
Soundtracks:
- Opening: Let There Be Light
- Navy Planes
- Lost Squadron
- Roy's First Encounter
- Encounter at Crescendo Summit
- Chasing Ufos
- False Alarm
- Barry's Kidnapping
- The Cover-Up
- Stars and Trucks
- Forming the Mountain
- TV Reveals
- Roy and Gillian on the Road
- The Mountain
- Who Are You People?
- The Escape - John Williams, Williams, Darryl "F
- The Escape - John Williams, Williams, Darryl "F
- Trucking
- Climbing the Mountain
- Outstretch Hands
- Lightshow
- Barnstorming
- The Mothership
- Wild Signals
- The Returnees
- The Visitors/Bye/End Titles: The Special Edition
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Nostalgia, it's one of those things that can overlook a lot of potentially negative objective criticism. I downloaded the mp3 version of Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Collector's Edition Soundtrack and I`m very happy with it. I recommend disabling any download accelerators; they caused problems with my download. Customer support was the fastest I've ever encountered (no pun indented.) Anyway save yourself some money and just do the download, you can always burn it to a CD and/or convert it to CD format.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Collector's Edition Soundtrack Poster
Steven Spielberg's extraterrestrial-themed follow-up to the Jaws phenomena cemented his reputation as a cinematic wunderkind capable of shameless emotional manipulation and continued blockbuster ticket sales. But Close Encounters (whose soundtrack is now gratifyingly back in print on Arista) also displayed Spielberg's wise confidence in at least one of his collaborators.Composer John Williams, fresh from the Wagnerian success of Star Wars, was allowed the unusual luxury of composing much of the Close Encounters score before principal photography began. Thus Spielberg was able (as had Sergio Leone with Morricone's Once Upon a Time in the West) to stage much of his action to the Williams music playing on the set in a rare way. The entire special-effects finale was in fact edited to match the composer's rhythms.
For his part, Williams composed arguably his most ambitious and accomplished score. Balancing his more obvious sentimental skills with refreshingly bracing doses of atonality (and just a nod to the modern Ligetti pieces Stanley Kubrick had wedded so well to 2001: A Space Odyssey). Williams produced a mature work that holds up remarkably well 20 years on; a true classic. --Jerry McCulley
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