Cinematic Sound Radio Podcast

On this week’s episode, we present an early bonus episode of CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO as we are proud to play for you newly recorded music from a brand new album from Sony Classical called THE SPIELBERG/WILLIAMS COLLABORATION PART III. This album, due out on March 17th, features music from such scores as THE ADVENTURE OF TINTIN, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, WAR H...

On this week’s episode, we’re going to celebrate the release of KONG SKULL ISLAND with music from the film composed by Henry Jackson. We’ll also be playing music from the original 1933 classic KING KONG with original score by Max Steiner. And at the end of the program we’ll play for you a KONG SUITE featuring music from three films featuring the 8th wonder of the world. Also, you’ll hear new music...

On this week’s episode of CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO, we’ll be featuring the five scores nominated for the BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards. The five scores are JACKIE by Mica Levi, LION by Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka, MOONLIGHT by Nicholas Britell, PASSENGERS by Thomas Newman and LA LA LAND by Justin Hurwitz. During our second hour we will be playing music from previous Oscar...

On this week’s episode of CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO, we’ll be featuring music from 4 brand new albums. You’ll hear selections from Benjamin Wallfisch’s A CURE FOR WELLNESS, Jeff Russo’s score to the television series LEGION, Raiomond Mirza’s NOCTURNE and a new recording of music by Hans Zimmer called HANS ZIMMER: THE CLASSICS. Our video game selection of the week is Frida Johansson and Henrik Oja’s UN...

On this week’s episode of CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO, we’ll be featuring music from 5 brand new albums. You’ll hear selections from Ramin Djawadi’s THE GREAT WALL, Paul Haslinger’s RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER, and Lorne Balfe’s LEGO BATMAN. Our re-recording of the week is Varese Sarabande’s new album featuring the piano music of Bruce Rowland called THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER AND OTHER THEMES FOR PI...

On today’s episode, we will conclude our TOP 20 FAVOURITES SCORES OF 2016 program with the remaining ten scores on our list. This second and final part of our countdown celebrates selections 10 through to 1 featuring the music of Laurent Perez Del Mar, Michael Giacchino, Benny Oschmann, Daniel Hart, Christopher Young, Marco Beltrami, Bear McCreary, Alexander Cimini, Andy Hull, Robert McDowell and...

On today’s episode, we are finally presenting our TOP 20 FAVOURITES SCORES OF 2016 program. This first part of our countdown celebrates selections 20 through to 11 featuring the music of Alexandre Desplat, Chad Seiter, Abel Korzeniowski, Ramin Djawadi, Austin Wintory, Rob Simonsen, James Newton Howard, Naoki Sato, Ye Xiaogang, Chad Cannon and Dario Marianelli. This is a hefty 3-hour show but it’s...

Happy New Year and welcome to CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO's first episode of 2017. Today, we'll be playing music from some 2016 left overs. You'll hear selections from LA CORONA PARTIDA by Federico Jusid, MOONLIGHT by Nicholas Britell, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA by Lesley Barber and PASSENGERS by Thomas Newman. During our second hour, you'll hear music from Christopher Wong's YELLOW FLOWERS ON THE GREEN GRAS...

On this week’s episode of CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO, we’ll be presenting our annual Christmas Special featuring music from some yuletide classics and some non-traditional Christmas favourites. You’ll hear music from the 1999 adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL with music by Shephen Warbeck. You’ll also hear music by Jerry Goldsmith from THE HOMECOMING: A CHRISTMAS STORY, Williams Ross and Jerome Leroy’s O...

On this week’s episode of CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO, we’ll be featuring music from STAR WARS scores not composed by John WilliamsWe open the program with music from Michael Giacchino’s new score to ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY. We’ll also be featuring music from CARAVAN OF COURAGE: AN EWOK ADVENTURE by Peter Bernstein, SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE by Joel McNeely and STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS by Kevin KinerW...

On this week’s episode of CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO, we’ll be featuring music from 10 brand new albums. We open the program with music Abel Korzeniowski’s music from erotic thriller NOCTURNAL ANIMALS. Mica Levi scores only her second film with JACKIE. Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka collaborate on the LION. Panu Aaltio provides an old school adventure score for ROLLI AND THE SECRET OF ALL TIME. Naoki S...

On this week’s episode of CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO, we’ll be featuring music from 8 brand new albums. We open the program with James Newton Howard’s new fantasy adventure score to FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM. You’ll also hear Jóhann Jóhannsson’s inventive score to ARRIVAL. Alan Silvestri continues his lengthy collaboration with Robert Zemeckis on the World War II espionage thriller ALLIED...

Welcome to part 2 of my two-part countdown of my ten favourite scores of all time. Back in September, I featured my first 5 favourite scores. If you haven’t listened to that program yet then I highly recommend do so first before listening to this one. On the program today, you will hear selections 5 through to 1. Just like our last show, you will hear recorded messages from loyal listeners and I w...

CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO is proud to be the distributor of the second part of Jason Drury’s epic tribute to James Horner. A few months ago Jason premiered the first episode of his radio documentary THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF JAMES HORNER, a brilliant program researched and produced by Jason featuring fascinating insight into one of the world’s great film music composers. It featured exclusive interviews w...

On November 8, 2006, the film music world lost one of its most cherish and beloved heroes, Basil Poledouris. It has been ten years since his sudden passing from cancer and on today’s program, CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO is proud to present a program dedicated exclusively to the work of the Emmy Award-winning composer. On the show, you will hear music from 25 scores including BIG WEDNESDAY, CONAN THE DES...

Welcome to CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO’s annual Halloween Special. This is one of my favourite shows to produce featuring only music from Halloween themed film, TV and video game scores. This week’s show is a special one as I will be reading for you excerpts from a brand new book called SCORED TO DEATH: CONVERSATIONS WITH SOME OF HORROR’S GREATEST COMPOSERS. In the book, author J. Blake Fichera intervie...

Welcome back to the CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO TOP 10. On the program today, and to continue CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO’s 20th-anniversary celebration, I’m going to play for you my ten favourite soundtrack cues of all time. You'll hear selections from such composers as John Debney, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, David Arnold, Michael Giacchino, Robert Folk, Franz Waxman and more. Cinematic So...

On September 21, 2016, CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO officially turned twenty years old. To celebrate this momentous occasion I've decided to produce a two-part program dedicated to my ten favorite scores of all time. I honestly can't remember the last time I presented a show on this topic but I hope you enjoy these two very personal episode starting with part one. On the program, you will hear selections...

On this week’s episode of CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO, we’ll be featuring music from six brand new scores. We open with a wonderful effort by Laurant Perez Del Mar for the animated film THE RED TURTLE. You’ll also hear Roque Banos’ inventive score from the thriller DON’T BREATHE. The new documentary THE TRADE features an atmospheric score from newcomer Mimi Page. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis deliver a dar...

Welcome back to the CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO TOP 10. This week’s theme was voted on by you last week on Twitter. We’ll save the favourite love themes Top 10 program for another day. On the program today, and in celebration of STAR TREK’s 50th anniversary, which was on September 8th, you will hear my favourite STAR TREK cues (and a few honourable mentions) featuring the music of Ron Jones, Jerry Golds...

Welcome back to the CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO TOP 10. Last week's inaugural episode was such a success that I'm proud to announce that this will be a new weekly program that I produce for you as I take you on a journey through my film music collection playing single tracks that fit a particular theme. This week's theme comes from Jason Drury, who wanted to hear my Top 10 favourite rejected scores. Tha...

On this week’s episode of CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO, we’ll be featuring music from six brand new scores. We open with music from one of the finest scores of the year, PETE”S DRAGON by Daniel Hart. You’ll also hear brand new music from the Netflix TV series STRANGER THINGS by Kyle Dixon, and Michael Stein. THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS features one of Alexandre Desplat’s best scores. Christopher Lennertz an...

The CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO top 10 is a quick run through my film music collection dedicated to a particular theme. If this is something you like (you can leave feedback below in the comment area) then every week or every other week I will pick a topic that I either choose or you a suggestion for me. Again, email me or send me a Tweet with suggestions. The top 10 can be about anything. Favourite Ala...

I wasn't planning on preparing a show this week since I'm on vacation but I had some free time Thursday morning so I just threw this two-hour program together. At least you have SOMETHING to listen to until the regularly scheduled show returns. So, in about five hours this show was written, recorded and edited. I decided to play really LONG tracks this week. I've done this type of show int he past...

On this week’s episode of CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO we will be shining the spotlight on film, TV and video game re-recordings… or as James Fitzpatrick of Tadlow Music likes to call them “new recordings of previously existing scores.”Of the top of the program, and to celebrate its 30th anniversary, we are going to be playing music from James Horner’s classic score to James Cameron’s ALIENS.You also hea...