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 Great music, unimpressively played. Oct 10, 2009
First, the good points.
John Barry's amazing music - which is hard to mess up.
The music choices are excellent - rather than the obvious main themes, sometimes the far more expressive and moving minor moments from soundtracks are chosen, giving the collection more of a sense of continuity and making it very moving.
But there are bad points too.
Sadly - this orchestra are not up to playing the music very well. It often sounds like they are just reading the music and rehearsing, rather than really feeling it and blending instruments like on the originals. It feels a little cheaply-made and amateur in places - although it does improve as the CDs move towards Barry's later work.
Overall, I am sad to say that I think this collection does a disservice to Barry's amazing work, by making it sound plodding and pedestrian in places, when the originals were anything but.
 John Barry the collection Jun 05, 2008
great cd and it makes a great gift for those who can appreciate his james bond themed music
Varied Collection of Show Tunes Jan 22, 2008
I got this album for my wife as a Yule present. I got the idea from one particular tune, Walt Disney's The Black Hole Theme. She has played the tunes and liked it a lot, especially since many of these are themes of films that were not familiar to her and so represented something different from what she had been used to.
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The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra needs a guitar player! Nov 09, 2006
Granted, they only need it for one composition (the last one, "The James Bond Theme") but still, without the guitar it's just not the same. Barry didn't compose this one so I suppose it was a bonus and I shouldn't complain, really. The rest of the music on all the CDs is fantastic. Some of the stuff I had heard before without realizing who had composed it. Very enjoyable, to say the least.
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Persuaders Theme! Mar 02, 2006
Buy it for the Persuaders theme, probably the best TV theme song ever written.
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