25th Anniversary Celebration

Celebrating 25 years of World Soundtrack Awards, Film Fest Gent proudly presents this unique vinyl set – its 20th official album release – with music by a majority of the guests of honour and Lifetime Achievement Award recipients from 25 editions of the World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert.

The first three LPs contain selections from every one of Film Fest Gent’s studio recordings over the years – from both the ‘For the Record’ and ‘Music for Film’ album series. The fourth is a bonus LP, featuring live recordings – all premiere releases on album – of memorable performances from two-and-a-half decades of WSA concerts.

Among the many highlights, the box set contains selections from the World Soundtrack Award-winning scores Frida, Life of Pi, Moulin Rouge! and Twilight, two pieces (by Rachel Portman and Gustavo Santaolalla) that were used in Film Fest Gent’s golden jubilee project ‘2x25’, a previously unreleased cue from Marco Beltrami’s Ben-Hur, and many special concert arrangements from Back to the Future, The Conversation, Homeland, The Imitation Game, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles among other scores.

Also included are Elmer Bernstein’s “World Soundtrack Awards Fanfare” and John Williams’s “Tribute to the Film Composer”. On certain tracks the composers also feature as performing artists: Sean Callery, Eleni Karaindrou, Philippe Rombi, David Shire and Gabriel Yared on piano; Mark Isham on trumpet; and Cliff Martinez produced the electronics for Contagion. The vinyl set concludes with the late lyricist Alan Bergman’s performance of “The Way We Were”.