Film score recommendations?

On an iTunes buying spree. I like very lush, evocative orchestral scores. My latest purchases are Elmer Bernstein's Age of Innocence, Bernard Hermann's Vertigo and Ryuichi Sakamoto's The Last Emperor.

• [quote]I like very lush, evocative orchestral scores. I'll say it first...MARY!

• John Addison's Bafta-winning score for A Bridge Too Far is simply gorgeous.

• Ennio Morricone - Malena

• Rachel Portman's score for THE CIDER HOUSE RULES is certainly lush. I find the film overly sentimental and cloying but the score is lovely to listen to on its own. Gabriel Yared's score for POSSESSION is gorgeous. Also love Thomas Newman's scores for LITTLE WOMEN, HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT, and ANGELS IN AMERICA, though his style probably wouldn't be called lush. It's hard to go wrong with Herrmann. If you like VERTIGO (which is one of his materpieces), you might enjoy his score for DePalma's homage film OBSESSION.

• The Portrait of a Lady- Wojech Kilar. Mediocre film. Great score.

• "The Moderns" soundtrack by Mark Isham is my favourite. It's jazzy, so OP probably wouldn't like it.

  http://www.amazon.com/The-Moderns-Original-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B00000DR5C

• Elmer Bernstein's "Taxi Driver"

• Excuse me, "Taxi Driver" was Bernard Herrmann's last score, not Elmer Bernstein's. Lush, violent interpretation of what is going on in Travis Bickle's mind, in any case.

  R7

• Gattaca.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DTXeBe2XQDZg

• "The Man With the Golden Arm" -- Shorty Rogers and His Giants with Shelly Manne

• Any Bernard Herrmann scores. I love his space and fantasy material. Alfred Newman scores if you love stings.

• Ennio Morricone, The Mission. Gorgeous. Maurice Jarre, Lawrence of Arabia.

• BIRTH - Alexandre Desplat

• Nathan Barr's soundtracks from Hostel and Hostel 2 are, surprisingly, very good.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DFc__KBzRtNk

• Last of the Mohicans. Obvious one's like Gladiator,The Piano, The Mission. the Untouchables. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Once upon a time in America End of the Affair. Rocky!!

  Went%20to%20see%20Ennio%20live%20in%20Verona%21

• Chinatown - Jerry Goldsmith L.A. Confidential - Jerry Goldsmith Body Heat - John Barry Thomas Crown Affair - Michel Legrand and another vote for Bernard Herrmann's Obsession - an incredible score.

• Gone With The Wind. Ben Hur. Bridge on the River Kwai.

• If you don't mind French lyrics, "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg."

  NYStud

• Bernard Herrmann-The Essential Film Music Collection (2 Discs)

  http://www.amazon.com/Bernard-Herrmann-Essential-Music-Collection/dp/B000F9038K/ref%3Dsr_1_13%3Fs%3Dmusic%26ie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1353240903%26sr%3D1-13%26keywords%3Dthe+essential+film+music+collection

  Anonymous

• Pino Donaggio's scores for Dressed to Kill and Carrie are wonderful. Don't listen to them at the gym, the stalking museum music from Dressed to Kill will give you anxiety. Philip Glass's score for The Hours is gorgeous. I find myself listening to the score for Waking Life quite often. I like the music more than I liked the movie.

• Angelo Badalamenti's score in David Lynch films SUPERB!

  http://www.mp3girls.ru/uploads/posts/2011-07/1310229174_davidlynchandangelobadalamenti_radiocityapril42009.jpg

• I like the Days of Heaven soundtrack

• La Califfa - Ennio Morricone

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU4Mp22DKUY

• Anything Harold Faltermeyer. Also Quincy Jones on 'The Anderson Tapes' - amongst everything else he's composed for film.

• A Very Long Engagement

• To Kill a Mockingbird How to Make an American Quilt Walk on the Wild Side I Want to Live! How the West was Won The Great Gatsby Days of Heaven Picnic including "Moonglow" Exodus Doctor Zhivago pretty much anything by composer Maurice Jarre. Raintree County Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Ben Hur Gone With the Wind The Wizard of Oz two disc set includes all the music and is quite fun.

• [quote] How to Make an American Quilt MARY!

• Days of heaven, Out of Africa, Somewhere in Time, Diva, Witness, Amacord

• The Cardinal Hurry Sundown Washington Square The Secret Garden Meet Joe Black

• CLOUD ATLAS It's the 2012 homage to old movie scores.

• The Cell - Howard Shore

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DKUly7GRsprQ

• Almost anything by Morricone, including "Days of Heaven." Also: "Born on the Forth of July" (Williams) "Glory"-(Horner) Here's some "Glory":

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D2EgOpIlZcTs

• The Bruce Lee Story

  Thread%20closed.%20

• The Nathan Barr scores to Hostel and Hostel 2 are--surprisingly--very good.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D0_wR8bzl5T4

• Dragonheart - Randy Edelman

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqbj1k6vt8g

• Have you heard of Erich Korngold? You'll love it.

  Opera%20light.%20Lush%20heavy.%20

• In the Mood for Love, though it's difficult to find, let alone the 2-disc version of the soundtrack. I had to track down about 26 clips from youtube. I'm not about to spend $60+ on some used import from a second-hand seller on Amazon.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DfIgU9aNpb9k%26feature%3Drelated

• Say what you will about the film R27, but the main theme is beautiful.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM5G3a-XOjU

• More In the Mood for Love. Gorgeous.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DK9Jtx-DJJ1A

• 'Chouans!' by Georges Delerue is perfect. In general, i consider Georges Delerue one the greatest film composers. 'Le Mepris' 'L'important c'est d'aimer' are also two soundtracks of Georges Delerue that reached perfection.

• Granada TV's version of Dr. Zhivago with soundtrack by Ludovico Einaudi - the cd is only available in the UK but it is amazing.

  Anonymous

• John Barry Out of Africa and The Lion in Winter Nino Rota Amarcord Adolph Deutsch The Apartment Maurice Jarre Ryan's Daughter Max Steiner Now, Voyager Charlie Chaplin Modern Times Ennio Morricone The Mission Richard Rodney Bennett Murder on the Orient Express Bernhard Hermann Vertigo

• I was just coming over here to recommend Murder on the Orient Express. I admit to loving most of Alan Silvestri's work (well, okay, I'm sick of Forrest Gump). A Christmas Carol is one of my holiday listening favorites. Also loved Philip Glass's soundtrack for Notes on a Scandal, but although it was perfect for the movie it does become kind of an earworm.

• Melancholia, a classical score by Wagner, not in the same category, but it's so beautiful and is perfect for the movie.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dn23lgG1Xbdc

• I'll second and third the recommendations for Gattaca and Out of Africa.

• Anything by Laura Karpman.

• It's only one piece of music but I'm loving the music from the new Disney short film Paperman by Christophe Beck.

  http://soundcloud.com/tresorsdisney/christophe-beck-paperman-score

• Anything from Georges Delerue is gorgeous. Agnes of God, Crimes of the Heart, Rich in Love. But his most melodic and beautiful has to be his score for RICH AND FAMOUS, the last movie by George Cukor. It's a pretty trashy movie, but Delerue scores it like the height of romantic drama. Love it.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DVkHr5DiYUKk

  Jacqueline%20Bisset

• Basil Poledouris' "The Blue Lagoon" is the most beautiful score in movies. I could see a Ballet company doing this. Ridiculous it wasn't even nominated and the score (which is the background music, not individual songs) to "Fame" won. Just listen for two minutes....

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JbqqXwL8C0&feature=plcp

• Another vote for Portrait of a Lady Camille Claudel -- Gabriel Yared The Draftsman's Contract -- Michael Nyman Lord Jim and Mutiny on the Bounty -- Bronislau Kaper Planet of the Apes, Papillion, and Logan's Run -- Jerry Goldsmith Cleopatra -- Alex North El Cid, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, and Providence (among others) -- Miklos Rozsa