edit: I see that Justin mentioned it in his post. Sorry, I goofed. I must have posted just after you did. No, you're not on my ignore list. I just missed it. Again, my apologies.
I'm very fond of Alex North's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, and more recently, I was really blown away by David Shire's APOCALYPSE NOW. I sometimes struggle connecting with music that I can't match up to the images and emotions I'm already accustomed to in the film, but not with those two.
Michael Nyman - PRACTICAL MAGIC - 1998 In my top 5 favorite scores ever, possibly my single favorite score ever. There are a few cues from the actual rejected film score to be found on YouTube:
Beware, the "complete" score on YouTube doesn't appear to be any such thing, it only contains 23 tracks, when there should be 48, and some of the tracks on YouTube are not from Nyman's score.
Nyman also conducted two orchestral suites for the first pressing of the soundtrack album. The album was quickly recalled and repressed with two tracks from Silvestri. The album tracks have very different orchestration from the film cues. This album track is my single favorite film score track ever:
The release of that unused score is one of my Holy Grails. I can't believe they rejected it at the very last minute. It would certainly have improved this flat film and made it at least watchable.
