WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS - 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 5th December 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

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 LPs 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”.

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.

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