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It is a pretty great listen, although a lot of it is quite close to a somewhat obscure ballet by William Walton, The Quest (which is well worth a listen in its own right) and Xizor's Theme is one of the Dance of Knights variants from Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet (is there any great orchestral score that doesn't have something from that?!). I wouldn't normally mind (and sorry to poop this party) but this did strike me as an opportunity for him to write something different, somewhat unencumbered by a temp track. On an unrelated note, I listened to his Avengers score and that's absolutely terrific and massively more original and inspired (at least, as far as I know!).
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Never mind. Me no reading comprehension good.
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I recently found out McNeely had no time for SHADOWS....which is both odd & unfortunate.
I love the album in spite of temp-fu. RSNO with their trademark powerhouse playing. I love all their work for that reason, a lot of passion in their performance.
I have that Walton piece, off to listen!!!
Agreed, it is very odd and unfortunate that he didn't have longer. I mean, he used similar "inspiration" as Williams did for the original scores, the Throne Room is famously very Walton-esque, but plenty of Williams' other mannerisms hark back to Walton, notably his harmonies and off kilter rhythms, yes, coupled with Williams' jazz background before anyone says!
However, yeah, I love Shadows of the Empire, guess it just surprised me given that you imagined that McNeely had free reign, but if he was under pressure, then perhaps not. Odd that they would rush something like that. It's a great appendix to the Star Wars musical universe, sitting happily just below Solo and above Rogue One in my estimation.
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Interesting. I'm actually about to listen to that sometime relatively soon....listened to it only once before a long time ago...
Personally I always found that the 'The Seduction of Princess Leia' cue reminded me a lot of La Valse by Ravel,
So it does! McNeely at least borrows from the best!
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I wonder when Thaxton is going to come back to apologise to Spymaster about his snarky WRONG attitude and info?
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