Festival album 'Elliot Goldenthal: Music for Film' honoured with prestigious IFMCA Award
Following six previous nominations, the album Elliot Goldenthal: Music for Film, produced by Film Fest Gent, was crowned with the IFMCA Award for Best Archival Recording. The album, released during the 51st festival edition in October 2024, features newly recorded works by renowned composer Elliot Goldenthal, performed by Brussels Philharmonic and conducted by Maestro Dirk Brossé. Goldenthal received the World Soundtrack Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024, during Film Fest Gent, for his unprecedented contribution to the history of film music.
Receiving the award for the album Elliot Goldenthal: Music for Film, and winning from no less than ten nominees, feels like "an appreciation of Film Fest Gent's entire Music for Film series, which has been celebrating the artistic value and impact of film music for the past two decades." For that series, Film Fest Gent annually delves into the archives of prominent film music composers and records an album full of brand new studio recordings of both leading and lesser-known work. Previous albums featuring work by Alan Silvestri (2015), Carter Burwell (2018), Marco Beltrami (2019), Gabriel Yared (2021) and Laurence Rosenthal (2023) have already earned nominations for the IFMCA Award for Best Archival Recording.
The album Elliot Goldenthal: Music for Film includes music from some of Goldenthal’s most iconic works, such as his Academy Award-winning score for Frida (2002), which also earned him a Golden Globe and two World Soundtrack Awards. The compilation also presents two concert suites recorded in a studio for the first time. The “Grand Gothic Suite” features highlights from Goldenthal’s Grammy-nominated score for Batman Forever (1995) and his previously unreleased score for Batman & Robin (1997). The “Final Fantasia” suite celebrates his music for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001). Other notable works on the album include a suite from Alien³ (1992), Goldenthal’s ASCAP Award-winning score for Interview with the Vampire (1994), and selections from Michael Mann’s Heat (1995) and Public Enemies (2009). The album also includes the compelling “Finale” from Titus (1999), honouring Goldenthal’s enduring collaboration with director Julie Taymor.
