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Review: Varèse Sarabande: A 30th Anniversary Celebration
Posted in Reviews on Jul 19, 2008 at 8:30 PM

Rating: 5 stars

Varèse started releasing compilation sets for their 25th anniversary and now five years later they have released a set for their 30th anniversary. The set includes four discs with each disc having its own theme. Interestingly, if I was to order the discs by my favorites I would order them the same way they appear in the set.

Disc one includes inspirational/uplifting/triumphant music. Howards, Peter Pan, Debney's Elf, Isham's Racing Stripes, and Zigman/Desplat's Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium are just a few highlights. For someone who can't afford to buy all of these scores you are getting some of the best tracks on each album.

Disc two includes ethnic/choral music. This is probably my second favorite disc of the set featuring some really nice pieces. Danna's The Gospel of John, Zimmer's Tears of the Sun, Badelt's Beat the Drum, and Debney's Duma are highlights.

Disc three includes a variety of action pieces. This disc was hit and miss with me. Some I really liked and other tracks I guess will take some more getting used to or not. In the latter category are BT's Stealth (who is BT anyway?), Rodriguez's Grindhouse Planet Terror and Sin City, and Tyler's Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift. I really liked Giachinno's take on Mission Impossible, Debney's Evan Almighty, Tyler's Annapolis, as well as several others.

Disc four contains a collection of melancholy tracks. Again another disc that was hit or miss for me. I especially liked the James Horner pieces, Ottman's Gothika, Yared's 1408, Kloser's Day After Tomorrow, and Frizzell's The Reaping.

Overall and for the majority or people, this set is well worth the money and highly recommended. The previous 25th anniversary set's first volume went out of print , although it is back in print I believe until the end of the year. Pick the 30th anniversary set up before it to goes out of print.
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