Hitchcock's North by Northwest is one of my favorite Hitch movies. Today I discuss the movie soundtrack.
It's engaging as a movie-accompaniment, in what I think the best Hitchcock soundtrack that there is. Hermann's music is engaging, full of suspense and actions, of mystery and romance. However, aside the great ouverture, I never listened to the full soundtrack alone, without the movie, as I don't own any of the CD versions, and youtube has only a few pieces.
I may borrow the cd from our library, or buy the most affordable and complete version that I can get.
The Lord of the rings movie trilogy soundtrack's my favorite music for any movie and for any type, ever. Howard Shore's composition is so rich, intricate and engaging, that it's an integral part of the movies ; Yet, I also love listening to it independently.
This kind of experience is actually quite interesting, because without the added sounds of dialogues, fights, footsteps and general ambiance from the movie, the soundtrack offers a pure musical field, which I love listening to either on headphones, or, better yet, on the 7.1 hifi setup, even if the CD's only in stereo, as the speakers take over the entire range.
Off course, if I had the full recording editions (which i'll discuss further in this entry), I'd get a 'superior' sound but even a simple CD spread over 7.1 channels is quite impressive in itself.
Hans Zimmer's composition for Christopher Nolan's Interstellar is
absoluetely fabulous : it has it's very own personnality and accompanies
beautiflluly the imagery in that movie. For my review, here's the
direct link
Hans even plays the piano, accompanied by no less than 42 other musicians as you can read on Wiki
