HANS ZIMMER: LIVE IN PRAGUE [2016 / 2017] [Blu-ray] [UK Release] The Hans Zimmer Concert Featuring Exhilarating Light Effects! Hans Zimmer’s Performance Mesmerized The Masses!
HANS ZIMMER is one of the most successful film music composers working today. His multi-award winning career reaches back to the mid-eighties and he has developed close working relationships with renowned directors such as Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Michael Bay, Ron Howard, Gore Verbinski and Christopher Nolan. His credits include some of the biggest blockbuster movies of all time along with acclaimed TV series such as The Crown and Planet Earth II.
This concert was filmed on 7th May, 2016 at the O2 Arena in Prague, Czech Republic. During Hans Zimmer’s hugely successful European concert tour. Hans Zimmer was accompanied by a band, orchestra and choir, 72 musicians in total, including guitarist Johnny Marr. The staging was spectacular with a ground breaking light show, stunning visuals and a state of the art sound system. With Hans Zimmer performed on multiple instruments and giving introductory insights to many of the pieces during the concert. This show is a treat for lovers of both great film music and great movies.
Musicians and Singers: Hans Zimmer [Conductor, Guitar, Banjo and Piano], Yolanda Charles [Electric Base], Mike Einziger [Guitar], Nick Glennie-Smith [Keyboards], Guthrie Govan [Guitar], Tina Guo [Electric Cello], Richard Harvey [Woodwinds], Andrew Kawczynski [Synth], Gary Kettel [Percussion], Lucy Landymore [Percussion], Holly Madge [Percussion], Johnny Marr [Lead Guitarist], Steve Mazzaro [Keys and Guitar], Lebo M [Vocals], Rusanda Panfili [Violinist], Andy Pask [Upright Bass], Satnam Ramgotra [Drums and Tabla], Czarina Russell [Vocals and Tubular Bells], Ann Marie Simpson [Violinist], Nathan Stornetta [Malletkat], Mel Wesson [Synthesize] and Buyi Zama [Vocalist]
Director: Tim Van Someren
Producers: Harvey Goldsmith CBE, Jeremy Azis, Jiska Heinen, Martin Sebik, Peter Worsley and Steven Kofsky
Composer: Hans Zimmer
Musical Director: Nick Glennie-Smith
Cinematography: Rolf Dekens (Director of Photography)
Image Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audio: English: 2.0 LPCM Stereo Audio
English: 7.1 Dolby ATMOS
English: 7.1 Dolby TrueHD Surround Sound
Subtitles: English, German, Spanish and French
Running Time: 138 minutes
Region: All Regions
Studio: Eagle Rock Entertainment
Andrew’s Blu-ray Review: The Eagle Rock Entertainment is proud to release this Blu-ray disc of ‘HANS ZIMMER: LIVE IN PRAGUE.’ Hans Zimmer is one of the most successful film music composers working today, and Hans Zimmer has won one Academy Awards® for ‘The Lion King’ and been nominated on nine other occasions. Hans Zimmer film music scores have also won 2 Golden Globes; 4 Grammys Awards; 4 Satellite Awards; 3 Saturn Awards and 3 Classical Brit Awards along with many more nominations.
The ‘HANS ZIMMER: LIVE IN PRAGUE’ concert show features themes from films like: ‘GLADIATOR;’ ‘INTERSTELLAR;’ ‘THE DA VINCI CODE;’ ‘PIRATES OF THE CARRABBEAN;’ ‘SHERLOCK HOLMES;’ ‘THE DARK KNIGHT;’ ‘THE LION KING;’ ‘CRIMSON TIDE;’ ‘INCEPTION;’ ‘RAIN MAN;’ ‘DRIVING MISS DAISY’ and much more!
Hans Zimmer’s multi-award winning career reaches back to the mid-eighties where he has developed close working relationships with renowned directors such as Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Michael Bay, Ron Howard, Gore Verbinski and Christopher Nolan. His credits include some of the biggest blockbuster films of all time along with acclaimed TV series such as ‘The Crown’ and ‘Planet Earth II.’ This concert was filmed on the 7th May, 2016 in Prague during Hans Zimmer’s hugely successful European Concert Tour. Hans Zimmer was accompanied by a band, orchestra and choir, 72 musicians in total, including guitarist Johnny Marr. Hans Zimmer revealed it was Johnny Marr who convinced him to leave the studio and finally hit the road for his spectacular concerts.
You will see the staging of a totally spectacular ground breaking light show, stunning visuals and a state of the art sound system via your Home Cinema set up. Hans Zimmer performs on a multiple of instruments and gives introductory insights into many of the pieces he conducts during the concert. Hans Zimmer treats this joyous soundtrack concert in films, which erupts like a generous-spirited rock concert than a recital. A spirit of good-time camaraderie prevails as band-mates appear on the stage one by one while Hans Zimmer performs ‘DRIVING MISS DAISY’ in a frisky rag time on the piano. Hans Zimmer effortless slides into the music for the film SHERLOCK HOLMES’ and with the film ‘MADAGASCAR’ Hans Zimmer flaunts his dynamism to great effect, which becomes a masterclass in virtuoso showmanship as a curtain lifts to reveal the orchestra, drawing a standing ovation from the audience.
From here on, the concert builds with a roaring momentum, range and energy through monolithic, emotive and exuberant film music scores such as ‘CRIMSON TIDE,’ ‘GLADIATOR,’ ‘THE LION KING’ and many more. With Hans Zimmer he does a brilliant multi-tasking, especially front-of-stage and is totally livewire more than just being a conductor. When Johnny Marr joins the ensemble, the energy levels hit a high note, especially when we hear the film soundtrack of ‘INTERSTELLAR’ goes into overdrive especially towards the homage of other superhero and sci-fi film music scores. ‘THE DARK KNIGHT’ suite throbs with strobing menace and ‘INTERSTELLAR’ musical score touches the sublime, before the film soundtrack for ‘INCEPTION’ washes over the crowd like a wave of emotion.
Hans Zimmer has scored more than 120 films, which have, combined, and grossed over $24 billion dollars at the worldwide box office hits. Hans Zimmer was personally involved with the animated film project of the DreamWorks Animation ‘THE BOSS BABY.’ Achievements for his impressive and influential body of work, including in receiving his Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010, and in 2014 was honoured with the Zurich Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, Hans Zimmer completed his first ever concert tour in the United Kingdom with the “Hans Zimmer Revealed,” at the Eventim Hammersmith Apollo in London and is an entertainment venue with a Grade II listed building and was designed by Robert Cromie in an Art Deco style and it opened in 1932 as the Gaumont Palace, and has finally been renamed the Hammersmith Odeon in 1962.
Throughout 2017 Hans Zimmer has toured across Europe and he has taken his show to North America and he has also written the film music score for director Christopher Nolan film ‘DUNKIRK,’ which was one of the biggest films of 2017. ‘HANS ZIMMER: LIVE IN PRAGUE’ is both a celebration of a rare talent and a treat for lovers of both great music and great films. But with this stunning 1080p Blu-ray disc, you will experience something totally unique and you will also feel you are actually in the audience with the mind blowing 7.1 Dolby TrueHD Surround Sound, where you will feel the totally realistic ambience sounds that you will experience with all of your speakers, this is truly a 10 star rating Blu-ray disc, so well done Eagle Rock Entertainment for producing something out of this world.
HANS ZIMMER: LIVE IN PRAGUE MUSIC TRACK LIST
‘DRIVING MISS DAISY’ Opening Medley: Driving [‘DRIVING MISS DAISY’] / Discombobulate [‘SHERLOCK HOLMES’] / Zoosters Breakout [‘MADAGASCAR’]
‘CRIMSON TIDE’ Medley / 160 BPM [‘ANGELS AND DEMONS’]
‘GLADIATOR’ Medley: The Wheat / The Battle / Elysium / Now We Are Free
Chevaliers De Sangreal [‘THE DA VINCI CODE’]
‘THE LION KING’ Medley: Circle of Life (Prelude) / King Of Pride Rock (Reprise)
‘PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN’ Medley: Captain Jack Sparrow / One Day / Up Is Down / He's A Pirate
You're So Cool [‘TRUE ROMANCE’]
Main Theme [‘RAIN MAN’]
What Are You Going To Do When You're Not Saving The World? [‘MAN OF STEEL’]
Journey To The Line [‘THE THING RED LINE’]
The Electro Suite [Themes from ‘THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2’]
‘THE DARK KNIGHT’ Trilogy Medley: Why So Serious? / Like A Dog Chasing Cars / Why Do We Fall? / Introduce A Little Anarchy / The Fire Rises
AURORA [Including an introduction by Hans Zimmer with regards to those who lost their lives with the deadly shooting in Aurora, Colorado and all proceeds from the film ‘THE DARK KNIGHT’ will go the charity established to assist the victims and their families that were affected by the tragedy]
‘INTERSTELLAR’ Medley: Day One / Cornfield Chase / No Time For Caution / Stay
‘INCEPTION’ Medley: Half Remembered Dream / Dream Is Collapsing / Mombasa / Time
Blu-ray Image Quality – Eagle Rock Entertainment brings us this totally brilliant ‘HANS ZIMMER: LIVE IN PRAGUE’ that has been brought out with the best top quality 1080p image presentation with this Blu-ray format, that gives you the impression that you are watching a 4K Blu-ray disc, that gives you a visual technique that are out of this world, where you will observe amazing images that is characterised by highlighting totally sharp colours that really blows you away, which is displayed together with a brilliant sharpness in image quality rendering something that is more than perfect. Without going on about the 1080p image, this is a totally perfect for the Blu-ray format and gives us a lot of surprises, I can freely write that the quality of the image reproduction value is given to us in a totally sensational recorded ultra-realism, that will also blow you away with such awesome stunning images, that to me is without doubt on par with other recorded concerts I have in my other Blu-ray discs and the ‘HANS ZIMMER: LIVE IN PRAGUE’ concert, and is definitely 100% reference quality for Blu-ray images, that will blow away any visitors who view this Blu-ray disc. So all in all I was blown away in what I viewed and was totally awe struck that what you will view will be the icing on the cake I should image the audience felt it was even more spectacular being there totally live! Take for example the medley that opens the concert, which is ‘DRIVING MISS DAISY’ Opening Medley: Driving [‘DRIVING MISS DAISY’] / Discombobulate [‘SHERLOCK HOLMES’] / Zoosters Breakout [‘MADAGASCAR’] and you see everyone walk onto the stage and the Medley starts off fairly quiet and then as time goes by each person with their instrument builds to make a massive wall of sound that is an absolutely mind blowing experience and really sets the bar high for the rest of the concert and you get to hear all the instruments work their magic and all the speakers get a really good workout with clear precise positioning of all the instruments and the Blu-ray really highlights all the instruments so distinguished and sharp with the 1080p image quality. Technical prowess is totally natural and more than anything, once again the quality of the bright stunning colour images took my breath away and is a totally amazing experience and certainly captures why Blu-ray discs always gives us the awesome stunning images we deserve and offers a deep record in the sense of space and dynamics that are a resounding success for this awesome Hans Zimmer concert that will make you feel you are actually there and this Blu-ray disc that will not disappoint, in fact you will want to do a regular repeat viewing of this totally awesome Blu-ray disc, that again you will think you are watching a 4K Blu-ray disc, that is totally spectacular and will give you also a totally spine tingling experience and caused me to get very emotional in what I was viewing. But be warned if you are affected by lots of flashing and strobing lighting, as there is a vast amount of this type of lighting effects.
Blu-ray Audio Quality – With this Eagle Rock Entertainment Blu-ray disc, you experience a totally spectacular audio soundtrack, which is brought to you in an even more awesome sound design with English: 7.1 Dolby ATMOS, English: 7.1 Dolby TrueHD Surround Sound and English: 2.0 LPCM Stereo Audio which is okay, but not so spectacular. But for those who cannot view the Blu-ray with the 7.1 Dolby ATMOS audio experience, then the 7.1 Dolby TrueHD Surround Sound audio experiences is something I can assure you will take your breath away with this audio total perfection, especially as everything is facilitated by the fact that it is a technically managed masterpiece. With the orchestration and the voices of choral singers is so totally natural in this particular concert environment and gives you effect that you are hearing it like an actual studio recording, but of course live and totally realistic! So, all in all it is so technically and professionally impressive, and as always you get total technical brilliance collaboration from the engineers and together it is 100% perfectionists. The dynamics sounds you experience is also totally delicious, the voices are well placed and the sound mixing those singers with the orchestra is a very enjoyable experience and you get experience totally brilliant professional musicians that really captures the whole concert experience a very professional post production that is 100% near on total perfection of sound reproduction and especially with sincerity. Overall, the work of the 7.1 Dolby TrueHD Surround Sound track is a totally mind blowing event, but the 2.0 LPCM Stereo Audio track seemed very simplistic in comparison. Anyway, since you have the choice of the 7.1 Dolby TrueHD Surround Sound and the 2.0 LPCM audio track it is of course a matter of choice, but I will always go for the7.1 Dolby TrueHD Surround Sound track, as this really shows you how a concert of this calibre should be heard. This Blu-ray is of course a total MUST for all concert aficionados who want to experience the best results from an awesome ultimate concert as this one! And one that is also an amazing technical innovation that the press had reported with the Hans Zimmer Concert Tour saying that was a feast of joyous experience and it was a riveting meditation, to say with nothing but respect, and added a depth to the night that reminded everyone why Hans Zimmer’s music is so impactful. But to simply remind you that because of this Blu-ray format it brings a real bonus in terms of sound quality and it is brilliantly more defined, and more importantly, those extra exclusive information on the Blu-ray disc is a brilliant technical specifications of the highest standard experience of a totally awesome ambient sounds that are produced and again totally envelopes you with all your speakers giving you an audio experience that you will not forget in a very long time. So well done Eagle Rock Entertainment. But be warned, there are some musical interludes in the concert that gets very loud and make sure your neighbours are not around, as your walls will shake from the loud sounds that enemata from your speakers.
Blu-ray Special Features and Extras: Sadly there are no Special Features or Extras, which is a crying shame, as I am sure they must have some behind-the-scene filming and interviews from all involved in the concert?
BONUS: Beautiful 12-page full colour booklet, with full information about the concert, full listings of the music programme, full technical details, full listings of the musicians and stunning images from the concert.
PLUS: Beautiful printed double sided Blu-ray sleeve.
Finally, Hans Zimmer’s ‘HANS ZIMMER: LIVE IN PRAGUE’ set features music spanning his multi-decade career including music from ‘THE LION KING,’ ‘PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN,’ ‘THE DARK KNIGHT,’ ‘INCEPTION’ and others. The famed composer Hans Zimmer, whose concerts are famous around the world for the multi-layered extravagant sound experience for the concert goers and is also a must-see concert event spectacular, featuring the career-spanning music from Hans Zimmer's multi-decade career. The extensive tours received rave reviews in every city where the concerts were performed, which featured re-imagined versions of some of the other classic film scores that you will want to experience with this totally awesome brilliant Blu-ray disc. Very Highly Recommended!
Andrew C. Miller – Your Ultimate No.1 Film Aficionado
Le Cinema Paradiso
United Kingdom
