John Williams

John Williams - The Anthology Vol. 1 (1969-1990) is the first of three massive box sets from Sony Classical celebrating the soundtrack maestro in his 93rd year.  It sets an impressive bar for the series: with Williams' conducting work for the Boston Pops and others celebrated in a pair of box sets, this volume will offer a cross-licensed selection of Williams' most essential soundtracks - 22 discs containing material from 28 films. Williams' longtime archivist Mike Matessino is a co-producer for the project, and his high-quality remasters of many of the soundtracks are included here.  Some of the soundtracks reprise their expanded assemblies while others (most notably the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies) are presented in their familiar album presentations; for the Star Wars films, it's the original album presentations remixed from the original film recordings by Williams' engineer Shawn Murphy, while the Indy discs are identical to their 2008 expansions by Music by John Williams director Laurent Bouzereau.  Steven Spielberg, Williams' closest collaborator, pens a new foreword for the book, which will feature detailed essays on each score by Matessino and Williams authority John Takis.  When all three sets are complete, the collection will encompass 75 discs of Williams magic.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.​