The BFG

The BFG (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the score album for the 2016 film of the same name, directed by Steven Spielberg. It featured a musical score composed by Spielberg's regular collaborator John Williams and was released on July 1, 2016 (the same date as the film's release) by Walt Disney Records. Background John Williams could not score for Spielberg's war drama film Bridge of Spies (2015), citing health issues and handed the scoring duties to Thomas Newman, but agreed to compose for The BFG. While writing the score, Williams compared the film to "a child's ballet where there are dances involved," elaborating that it "tries to capture dreams with his net and does something that almost looks like a Ray Bolger or Fred Astaire dance; it is an amazingly musical and choreographic sequence which required the orchestra to do things that are more associated with musical films." Williams found similarities with the scoring of Home Alone, due to the "lightheartedness and fun of it", further admitting that writing music for the film "was really an opportunity to compose and orchestrate a little children's fantasy for orchestra." Williams began recording the score during February 2016 and completed that June. During the sessions, he apparently recorded 90 minutes of the score at the Sony Scoring Stage in California. 85-members from the Los Angeles Philharmonic performed the score, including the virtuosic parts for the flute section, as Williams "to animate these little dreams that flit about the screen with flutes and harps and wispy harmonies". At an interview published in the summer issue of D23's (Disney fan club) official magazine, Spielberg complimented Williams' score saying "Every moment is accompanied by a little bit of a musical reminder that there is another layer of story being told." Track listing