ELMER BERNSTEIN NICHOLAS BRITELL 01 World Soundtrack Awards Fanfare 1:33 09 Succession (Suite) 4:25 JAMES NEWTON HOWARD MYCHAEL DANNA 02 Red Sparrow Overture 6:36 10 Monsoon Wedding (Suite) 3:15 CARTER BURWELL ALEXANDRE DESPLAT 03 Fear - Main Title 2:32 11 The Imitation Game (Suite) 4:33 ALBERTO IGLESIAS PATRICK DOYLE 04 Hable con ella - Soy Marco 2:17 12 Murder on the Orient Express - Never Forget (Instrumental Version) 4:12 ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL 05 Cobb - The Homecoming 6:16 MICHAEL GIACCHINO 13 Star Trek, into Darkness and Beyond (Suite) 7:23 GABRIEL YARED 06 Troy (Suite) 5:19 ANGELO BADALAMENTI 14 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me - JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON / The Voice of Love 4:02 RUTGER HOEDEMAEKERS 07 When at Last the Wind Lulled 2:13 JOHN WILLIAMS (Arr.) 15 Tribute to the Film Composer 4:25 JOHN WILLIAMS 08 Hook - The Face of Pan 4:06 Performed by BRUSSELS PHILHARMONIC & VLAAMS RADIOKOOR Conducted by DIRK BROSSÉ TWENTY YEARS OF WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS Twenty years ago the World Soundtrack Academy scores achieved an afterlife and gained new handed out the very first World Soundtrack meaning as the result of live performances in Awards. They have since become of paramount front of audiences. Film Fest Ghent has made it importance across the industry. The awards did their point of honour to perpetuate that afterlife not only strengthen Film Fest Ghent’s identity, in Ghent in a series of albums. they have been a composer’s stepping stone to the Oscars, Golden Globes and BAFTAS. If To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Europe is now the metropolis of film music, then WSA, the album consists of compositions by Ghent has been the inspiration for it. all winners of the Film Composer of the Year Award. Enjoy! By means of a competition focusing on the impact of music on film, screenings of silent Thank you to all whom, in one way or another, films with live music and concerts by maestros have contributed to WSA’s success story. Not such as Nino Rota, Bernard Herrmann, and least to the Brussels Philharmonic, Vlaams Ennio Morricone, Film Fest Ghent has been Radiokoor and our music director, maestro the favourite meeting point of composers since Dirk Brossé. 1985. Many of them wanted to solidify their friendship and professional contacts, which led to the birth of the World Soundtrack Academy. Marijke Vandebuerie Managing Director - Film Fest Ghent Thanks to the Academy and the annual awards ceremony, composers of film music were no Wim De Witte longer caged in their recording studios. Their Programme Director - Film Fest Ghent The “World Soundtrack Awards Fanfare” score specially written by Elmer Bernstein ELMER BERNSTEIN edited sequence, which includes a ballet MAESTROS OF Our album starts with the “World Soundtrack scene for which Howard’s music does double THE MILLENNIUM Awards Fanfare”, which Elmer Bernstein duty as both underscore and as source music, wrote especially for the awards ceremony seamlessly and impressively interweaving both (under the original title “For Flanders”) in 2002. types of film music. Bernstein considered himself to be a friend of Each year, during the festival in October, Film the festival, having been a guest in 1993 (to CARTER BURWELL Fest Ghent presents a new film music album, attend The Age of Innocence) and in 1998, The following cue, the “Main Title” from Fear a tradition that started in 2007. Usually, that when he conducted a selection of his music (1996), stays within the same genre. The film album focuses on the music of one of the guests at the concert The Birth of a Score II. He also is a stalker thriller in which a young Reese of honour at the World Soundtrack Awards received the first World Soundtrack Lifetime Witherspoon falls for the wrong boyfriend (Mark concert, featuring new recordings of some of Achievement Award in 2001. From the first Walhberg), ignoring her workaholic father’s that composer’s best film scores, performed by rendition in 2002 onwards, Bernstein’s “WSA warnings. The unreleased score is by Carter Brussels Philharmonic and conducted by Dirk Fanfare” has been the musical signature of the Burwell, a regular collaborator with the Coen Brossé. This year is exceptional: to celebrate WSAwards; this is the first studio recording of brothers and Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). He 20 years of World Soundtrack Academy and the piece. was Film Composer of the Year 2016 for Todd Awards, this anniversary album is devoted to all Haynes’s Carol and premiered his film music in thirteen composers who have won the coveted JAMES NEWTON HOWARD concert at the 2018 World Soundtrack Awards. World Soundtrack Film Composer of the Year James Newton Howard, winner of the WSAward The “Main Title” introduces Burwell’s lush and Award over the past two decades. for Film Composer of the Year in 2008 and guest cleverly multi-faceted theme, foreshadowing of honour at the 2012 WSAwards concert, the ominous nature of the romance ahead. The For this special occasion, our Tribute to the has in recent years reached a new audience percussion in the second part underscores Film Composer aims to highlight the diversity with his fantasy scores for the franchises The the father’s morning run, thematically setting of the film composers’ output, featuring almost Hunger Games and Fantastic Beasts. Earlier up the tribal showdown between father and exclusively premiere studio recordings of pieces he attracted acclaim with scores for a variety boyfriend at the film’s climax. that have never been released on an album. of film genres, including thrillers such as The Some of the tracks are concert arrangements, Fugitive and M. Night Shyamalan’s films. “Red ALBERTO IGLESIAS adapted by the composer for a life beyond the Sparrow Overture” is a concert arrangement Alberto Iglesias, two-time winner of the film or TV score. These suites assemble the best (and slightly abbreviated version) of the cue that WSA Film Composer of the Year (in 2006 material from the score into a new standalone opens Red Sparrow (2018), a thriller by Francis and 2012), is best known as house composer piece of music. Other tracks are new recordings Lawrence (who has worked with Howard on all for Pedro Almodóvar. His film Hable con of cues that have never been released on a his films since 2007) about a Russian ballerina ella (2002) is about a friendship in the most soundtrack album or which were not even used (Jennifer Lawrence) turning double agent. In unlikely of circumstances between Benigno in the film. the film, this cue underscores a long parallel- (Javier Cámara), a lonely nurse who criminally violates a comatose woman, and Marco (Darío GABRIEL YARED JOHN WILLIAMS Grandinetti), a sensitive journalist and writer 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award honouree If there is one film composer who does not need of travel literature. The cue presented here, Gabriel Yared was the very first guest of honour any introduction, it is John Williams. Among his “Soy Marco”, features Marco’s theme, used at the WSAwards back in 2001, and was awarded innumerable accolades, Williams received the throughout the film to focus on the character’s WSA Film Composer of the Year in 2004 for very first Film Composer of the Year Award (for relationships and in particular his emotional Cold Mountain, one of his many acclaimed A.I. Artificial Intelligence). Williams pretty much baggage, and accompanies the film’s finale, collaborations with Anthony Minghella in an pioneered a practice that has now become fairly when Marco learns of Benigno’s suicide and extraordinary career of composing music for common, namely to create special arrangements mourns him at his grave. cinema. Here we present a “Suite from Troy” – of his film themes specifically designed for the first time music from his score for Wolfgang performance in the concert hall. The piece on ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL Petersen’s 2004 epic can be heard on an album. this album originates from his score for Hook Elliot Goldenthal, known for his inventive The suite starts with the exquisitely tragic love (1991), Steven Spielberg’s lavish Peter Pan contemporary composing style applied to films theme he composed for Helen and Paris, and then adaptation (which was in its first stages planned such as Alien³, Batman Forever and Heat, won segues to the fugue and the battle motif from the as a musical). Williams reworked the cue for the the 2003 Film Composer of the Year Award for his sacking of Troy sequence. touching “You Are the Pan” scene, in which the score for Frida (one of his many collaborations Lost Boys finally recognise their previous leader with his partner Julie Taymor) and was also one JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON in the grown-up Peter Banning (Robin Williams), of the guests of honour at the 2011 WSAwards Throughout his career, which was sadly cut short into the concert version “The Face of Pan”, which concert. Among his many grand adagios written much too soon in 2018, Jóhann Jóhannsson appeared on the 1995 compilation Williams on for film is this perhaps lesser known piece combined classical and electronic elements to Williams: The Classic Spielberg Scores. The from the “Suite from Cobb”, a reworking of compose his minimalist and atmospheric scores arrangement on this album is a slightly revised “The Homecoming”. The film (1994) is a biopic for film. He won the WSAward for Film Composer version, which he premiered at a concert of the about the partnership between the baseball icon of the Year in two consecutive years (2017 and Young Musicians Foundation in 2013. Ty Cobb (Tommy Lee Jones) and his biographer 2018); at the 2018 ceremony one of his frequent (Robert Wuhl), and the latter’s struggle with collaborators, Hildur Guðnadóttir, paid an NICHOLAS BRITELL legend and truth: in the film this theme is first emotional tribute to her colleague and gracefully Nicholas Britell has made a name for himself heard when the ghostwriter decides to write a accepted the posthumous award in his stead.