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As the head producer of our “Soundtrack” program on Saturday mornings, I am naturally a huge fan of composer Alexandre Desplat, author of some of the most colorful and charming music in Hollywood today. Don’t worry – Desplat’s music stands on its own, even if you’re not a film aficionado!

Weston Williams

Alexandre Desplat, the Academy Award-winning modern master of the film score, presents a double-album souvenir of concert performed at the Philharmonie de Paris in January 2025. The concert program featured new arrangements from 15 of his best-known film scores including a suite from three Wes Anderson films (Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The French Dispatch); a “Royal Suite” with music from Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech and two Stephen Frears films, The Queen and The Lost King; and music from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Godzilla, Argo, Syriana, and Little Women. The concert hall recording of Desplat conducting the Paris Orchestra from the two-day event stands as a brilliant summary of the French composer’s Hollywood career to date.

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