Universal Music France releases a monumental new collection dedicated to the music of John Williams as part of the “Écoutez le Cinéma” series produced by Stéphane Lerouge. 20 CDs – 22 hours – 60+ years of music … This set is the ultimate and essential box set: an exploration of all the territories of the Williams continent. Better: the quintessence of a legend.

Contents:

CDs 1 & 2: Boston Pops Highlights
Including music from: Star Wars; Superman; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; The Mission Theme (NBC News); Jane Eyre; Liberty Fanfare; Olympic Fanfare and Theme; Home Alone

CD 3: Early Scores
Checkmate; How to Steal a Million; Penelope; Not With My Wife, You Don’t!; Fitzwilly; Heidi

CD 4: Mark Rydell
Cinderella Liberty; The River

CD 5: The Disaster Movie Trilogy
Earthquake; The Poseidon Adventure; The Towering Inferno

CD 6: Clint Eastwood + Robert Altman
The Eiger Sanction; The Long Goodbye; Images

CD 7: Western
The Cowboys; The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing; The Missouri Breaks

CD 8: Jaws I & II

CD 9: Steven Spielberg: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial + Always + Hook

CD 10: Steven Spielberg: Jurassic Park + Minority Report

CD 11: Steven Spielberg: Schindler’s List

CD 12: Steven Spielberg: Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark; Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

CD 13: The Oliver Stone American Triptych
Born on the Fourth of July; JFK; Nixon

CD 14: Ron Howard
Far and Away

CD 15: Sydney Pollack + Martin Ritt
Sabrina*; Pete ‘n’ Tillie; Stanley & Iris
*w/ Sting

CD 16: John Badham + Brian De Palma
Dracula; The Fury

CD 17: Single Film Collaborations
Family Plot; Black Sunday; Monsignor; Sleepers; Seven Years in Tibet; Angela’s Ashes

CD 18: Anne-Sophie Mutter & John Williams: Across the Stars
- w/ Anne-Sophie Mutter, The Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles, John Williams

CD 19: Concert Works
Prelude and Fugue; Sinfonietta for Wind Ensemble; Concerto for Violin and Orchestra no.1; Elegy for Cello and Orchestra
- w/ The Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra; Eastman Wind Ensemble; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 20: Songs, Covers, & New Readings
- w/ André Previn; Ella Fitzgerald; Count Basie; Frank Sinatra; Alan Bergman; Henry Mancini; Lou Donaldson; Lou Donaldson; Luciano Pavarotti; and more