For those who could not get a ticket to one of the sold-out concerts, or live outside of Europe, you will still be able to hear the brilliant musicians playing Zimmer’s music, by listening to this album. Obviously, the logistics of playing live are not the same for, say, a solo rock guitar player than for a classical composer or, in this case, a film music composer, as in these last examples they need an orchestra and all the subsequent massive logistics deployment to make a worthy live rendition of their compositions. Speaking of Zimmer, Nolan said: “To me, there is no composer working who has done more to define the sound of contemporary films. Additionally, his favorite shows include The Office, New Girl, The Haunting of Hill House, and Survivor.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The album makes listening to the actual music more accessible and personal, and it also makes me appreciate the craft of Zimmer’s band even more. In "Live In Prague", Zimmer joined 72 musicians, including long time close collaborators, the likes of Nick Glennie- Smith (Keyboards), solo artists of international reputation, like Tina Guo (cello) or Rusanda Panfili (violin)… and, surprisingly enough (or not, as we are speaking of Zimmer), the electric guitars of Johnny Marr, of The Smiths fame, and the amazing Guthrie Govan, a true virtuoso and one of the most amazing guitar players currently out there, whose guitar created some of the magic deployed along one of my favourite albums of all time (Steven Wilson´s "Hand. Zimmer has completed highly successful “Hans Zimmer Live” tour stops around the globe and most recently concluded the first leg of his European tour in April 2022.Together, this bunch reviews not only some of Zimmer´s best known efforts, like "Inception", "Interstellar", "Gladiator", "The Thin Red Line", "The DaVinci Code", "The Dark Knight" Trilogy… but also some of his less known works, like "Rain Man", "Crimson Tide", "True Romance" or "Driving Miss Daisy".

The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. Therefore to learn that Hans Zimmer, one of my all-time favourite film music composer was going to release a live album were really good news in my book. The album was recorded during the highly successful same-named concert tour in Europe in the spring of 2022 for which Zimmer created new 'suites' from some of his most recognizable themes and melodies from the Oscar-winning scores for 'Dune' and 'The Lion King', as well as such contemporary classics as 'The Dark Knight', 'X-Men: Dark Phoenix', 'Dunkirk', 'Gladiator', 'Inception', 'Interstellar', 'The Last Samurai', 'Man of Steel', 'James Bond: No Time to Die', 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Wonder Woman 1984'. His fandom has led him to have near-encyclopedic knowledge of franchises like Marvel, Pokemon, Survivor, and more which makes reporting on them a breeze.

Zimmer created new “suites” from some of his most recognizable themes and melodies from the OscarÒ-winning scores for Dune and The Lion King, as well as such contemporary classics as The Dark Knight, X Men: Dark Phoenix, Dunkirk, Gladiator, Inception, Interstellar, The Last Samurai, Man of Steel, No Time to Die, Pirates of the Caribbean and Wonder Woman 1984. The Lion King”), Loire Cutler (“X Men: Dark Phoenix”), cellist Tina Guo (“Wonder Woman”) and Nick Glennie-Smith (musical director of the band). Hans Zimmer has been busy these last couple of years, but if you look at his IMDB page, his output has gone down over the years. For the tour and album, Zimmer took some of his most iconic themes and created new “suites” for them, delighting fans with new twists on the scores they already love. In 2019, Zimmer scored the live-action remake of The Lion King, for which he received a Grammy ® nomination for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media.