Trevor Jones - Excalibur [Original Soundtrack]

Great music, poor release

By Paul M  Apr 19, 2006 | 1 out of 1 found this Excalibur [Original Soundtrack] review helpful

Pros: Only place to get Jones' score

Cons: Unfortunately it is a bootleg!

Excalibur was Trevor Jones' first major motion picture assignment (he was 32 at the time). But the composer kind of got the short shrift as director John Boorman used classical music for most of the film's key sequences. Jones' Excalbur ...score finally saw a release on this 1994 CD (which also includes the classical selections). While it is nice to have Jones' original music for the film, this is actually an illegal "pirate" CD, made without the permission of the studio, publishers or composer. Production quality is crude; Wagner's "Siegfried's Death" is cut-up and re-edited to reflect how it was use in the film. Clearly the producers of this pirate CD are film geeks, not people who love (and respect) music. The Wagner and Orff pieces heard on this CD are NOT the same performances used in the film. And Jones' "Wedding" cue is simply taken strait off the film itself, crudely edited to exclude the dialog (tho not the sound effects). Hopefully one day a legitimate CD of Trevor Jones Excalibur music will be released. But this aint it. Read more Less