Composer John Williams and director Steven Speilberg have long had one of the most symbiotic relationships in Hollywood. They've helped each other become the most well-known, most successful, and most powerful men in their respective fields. Speilberg has hired Williams to score nearly every movie he's ever made. Meanwhile, at the end of the 20th century Williams had earned three of his five Academy Awards and ten of his staggering 37 Oscar nominations for Speilberg films. The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration was a 1991 ...
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Composer John Williams and director Steven Speilberg have long had one of the most symbiotic relationships in Hollywood. They've helped each other become the most well-known, most successful, and most powerful men in their respective fields. Speilberg has hired Williams to score nearly every movie he's ever made. Meanwhile, at the end of the 20th century Williams had earned three of his five Academy Awards and ten of his staggering 37 Oscar nominations for Speilberg films. The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration was a 1991 attempt to encapsulate the fruits of their alliance. It contains some of Williams' best work in appropriately sweeping performances by his Boston Pops Orchestra. Particularly noteworthy are his famous themes for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial. Speilberg has expressed the opinion that the latter is Williams' finest effort, and it's hard to disagree with his assessment. The magical piano solo "Over the Moon" provides the necessary balance between the bombastic Sousa-esque marches from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and 1941. Excess bombast, as well as saccharine sentimentality, are common occupational hazards for Williams and Speilberg, and this CD is laced with occasional overdoses of both. Moreover, it is less satisfying as a retrospective of Williams' career than some of the other compilations on the market because its focus on the Speilberg scores precludes the inclusion of landmark works like Star Wars, Superman, and Home Alone. It is also out of date, released too early to include some of the finest Speilberg scores. The score from Oscar winning Schindler's List is missing, as are the scores from Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, Jurrassic Park, and Hook. Consumers interested in a true greatest hits compilation would be better served by one of the more recent discs. ~ Evan Cater, Rovi
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