World Soundtrack Awards – 25th Anniversary Celebration vinyl set - PRE-SALE

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Celebrating 25 years of World Soundtrack Awards, Film Fest Gent proudly presents this unique vinyl set – its 20th official album release – with music by a majority of the guests of honour and Lifetime Achievement Award recipients from 25 editions of the World Soundtrack Awards Ceremony & Concert. 

The first three LP’s contain selections from every one of Film Fest Gent’s studio recordings over the years – from both the ‘For the Record’ and ‘Music for Film’ album series. The fourth is a bonus LP, featuring live recordings – all premiere releases on album – of memorable performances from two-and-a-half decades of WSA concerts.

Among the many highlights, the box set contains selections from the World Soundtrack Award-winning scores Frida, Life of Pi, Moulin Rouge! and Twilight, two pieces (by Rachel Portman and Gustavo Santaolalla) that were used in Film Fest Gent’s golden jubilee project ‘2x25’, a previously unreleased cue from Marco Beltrami’s Ben-Hur, and many special concert arrangements from Back to the Future, The Conversation, Homeland, The Imitation Game, Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles among other scores. Also included are Elmer Bernstein’s “World Soundtrack Awards Fanfare” and John Williams’s “Tribute to the Film Composer”. 

All music on this album is performed by the Brussels Philharmonic and Vlaams Radiokoor, conducted by Film Fest Gent music director Dirk Brossé. On certain tracks the composers also feature as performing artists: Sean Callery, Eleni Karaindrou, Philippe Rombi, David Shire and Gabriel Yared on piano; Mark Isham on trumpet; and Cliff Martinez produced the electronics for Contagion. The vinyl set concludes with the late lyricist Alan Bergman’s performance of “The Way We Were”.

World Soundtrack Awards – 25th Anniversary Celebration contains pieces by guests of honour Craig Armstrong, Marco Beltrami, Terence Blanchard, Carter Burwell, Sean Callery, Mychael Danna, Georges Delerue, Alexandre Desplat, James Newton Howard, Alberto Iglesias, Mark Isham, Cliff Martinez, Rachel Portman, Max Richter, Philippe Rombi, Gustavo Santolalla, Howard Shore, Alan Silvestri, Shigeru Umebayashi, Debbie Wiseman, and World Soundtrack Lifetime Achievement Award honourees Angelo Badalamenti, Elmer Bernstein, Bruno Coulais, Frédéric Devreese, Patrick Doyle, Philip Glass, Elliot Goldenthal, Marvin Hamlisch, Eleni Karaindrou, Krzysztof Penderecki, Laurence Rosenthal, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Philippe Sarde, David Shire and Gabriel Yared.

Released by Silva Screen Records during the 52nd edition of Film Fest Gent in October 2025, this collector’s box set is only available on vinyl.

Tracklist

LP 1 – SIDE A

Elmer Bernstein 
World Soundtrack Awards
Fanfare

Gabriel Yared
L’amant 
Main Theme

Rachel Portman 
Dancing Fruit
Bagatelle

Gustavo Santolalla
Pleiades (or Going Home)
Passing Through

Cliff Martinez
Contagion
Contagion
Bad Day to Be a Rhesus Monkey

Shigeru Umebayashi
In the Mood for Love
Yumeji's Theme

Ryuichi Sakamoto
Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence
Main Theme

LP 1 – SIDE B

Elmer Bernstein
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence

Patrick Doyle
Murder on the Orient Express
Never Forget

Alexandre Desplat
The Imitation Game
Suite

Craig Armstrong
Moulin Rouge!
Ascension
One Day I’ll Fly Away

LP 2 – SIDE C

Howard Shore
The Aviator
Suite

Krzysztof Penderecki
Symphony No 3
Passacaglia – Allegro Moderato

Georges Delerue
Le mépris
Thème de Camille

Debbie Wiseman
Wilde
Suite

LP 2 – SIDE D

Terence Blanchard
25th Hour
Opening Title
Playground

Max Richter
On the Nature of Daylight

Philip Glass
Kundun
Sand Mandala

Alan Silvestri
Back to the Future
Suite

 

LP 3 – SIDE E

John Williams (arr.)
Tribute to the Film Composer

James Newton Howard
Red Sparrow
Overture

Elliot Goldenthal
Frida
Still Life

Alberto Iglesias
Hable con ella
Soy Marco

Mychael Danna
Life of Pi
Suite

LP 3 – SIDE F

Mark Isham
The Black Dahlia
Suite

Carter Burwell
Twilight
Bella’s Theme

Laurence Rosenthal
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Main Title
Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies
Suite

Angelo Badalamenti

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
The Voice of Love

LP 4 – SIDE G

Sean Callery
Homeland
Main Theme

Philippe Sarde
Le locataire
Thème principal

Eleni Karaindrou
Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
The Weeping Meadow
Eternity and a Day
Eternity Theme

Marco Beltrami
Ben-Hur
Modeh Ani

LP 4 – SIDE H

Philippe Rombi
Jeux d'enfants
Suite: Overture / Love Theme

Frédéric Devreese
Benvenuta
Tango

David Shire
The Conversation
Theme

Bruno Coulais
Himalaya
Le lac

Marvin Hamlisch
The Way We Were
The Way We Were