May’s show was a birthday self-indulgence (it’s my birthday on 3rd May, and yes I know I missed May the 4th by a whisker!). I absolutely love science fiction: movies, books, plays, all of it. So I picked classical music inspired by or belonging to a sci-fi movie or tv show. It’s a show with mainly modern classical music and lots of fusion with electronica, synths and weird instruments (listen out for two pieces with a Theramin).
Many film and TV pieces have no performer attributed but here’s the playlist plus the film or TV show listed.
Alan Silvestri – Back to the Future – Back to the Future [3:15]
The Outatime Orchestra
Murray Gold – Theme – Doctor Who (Series 5) [1:04]
London Music Works
Astor Piazolla – Suite Punta Del Este: Intro – 12 Monkeys
Astor Piazolla Quintet & Orquesta de Cámara de Caraca
Air – Moon Fever – Voyage Dans La Lune [3:34]
Air
Harry Gregson-Williams – Science the S* Out of This – The Martian [2:17]**
Perry Montague Mason (cello) and Caroline Dale (cello)
Alexander Courage – Where No Man Has Gone Before – Star Trek: The Original Series [2:23]
Michael Giacchino – Star Trek – Star Trek (2009) [1:01]
Hollywood Studio Symphony & Tim Simonec
Richard Strauss – Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30: Prelude (Sonnenaufgang) – 2001: A Space Odyssey [1:44]
Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
David Arnold – Stargate Overture – Stargate (Unreleased) [8:04]
The Sinfonia of London and the Chameleon Arts Chorus, conducted by Nicholas Dodd
Max Steiner & Bernhard Kaun – Frankenstein Main Title [1.18]
Moscow Symphony Orchestra & William Stromberg
John Williams – Wild Signals – Close Encounters of the Third Kind [4:13]
John Williams
James Horner – Bishop’s Countdown – Aliens [2:50]
James Horner & London Symphony Orchestra
Ludwig Göransson – Hey Mando! – The Mandalorian [2:14]
Ludwig Göransson
Bear McCreary – Main Title (UK Version) – Battlestar Galactica [1:05]
Bear McCreary
Ludwig Göransson – Wakanda – Black Panther [2:20]
Ludwig Göransson & Baaba Maal
Hans Zimmer – Dream Is Collapsing – Inception
Hans Zimmer & Johnny Marr
Don Davis – Main Title / Trinity Infinity – The Matrix [3:55]
The Hollywood Studio Symphony & Theo Lebow
Lalo Schifrin – THX1138 Main Theme – THX1138 [7:47]
Atli Örvarsson – SILO Main Title – SILO
Atli Örvarsson
Eric Serra – Lucia di Lammermoor (feat. Inva Mula) – The Fifth Element
Eric Serra – The Diva Dance (feat. Inva Mula) – The Fifth Element
Inva Mula, Eric Serra
Fred Karlin – The Gunslinger Westworld movie
Ramin Djawadi – Main Title Theme – Westworld: Season 1
Ramin Djawadi
Danny Elfman – Introduction and Main Title – Mars Attacks! [4:03]
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernie Leadon and The Eagles/Joby Talbot – Journey of the Sorcerer – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy [1:15]
Bernie Leadon and The Eagles/Joby Talbot
