For email updates and information please visit SOURCE Sony Classical In the USA, Sony Classical is represented by the Sony Masterworks label group. Sony Classical is the home of artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Lang Lang, Joshua Bell, Murray Perahia and Vittorio Grigolo, as well as containing the musical legacy of Glenn Gould, Arthur Rubinstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Arturo Toscanini and Leonard Bernstein. Prior to his film music career, Jackman spent several years in the record industry, collaborating with producer Trevor Horn on the Art of Noise album "The Seduction of Claude Debussy." Jackman also worked with Seal, co-writing and producing "This Could Be Heaven" for the motion picture "The Family Man." This gained the attention of prominent film composers Hans Zimmer and John Powell, and Jackman received additional music credits on their scores to: "The Dark Knight," "The Da Vinci Code," "Kung Fu Panda," "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End", "Hancock," "It's Complicated," "The Holiday," and "The Simpsons Movie." His upcoming projects include "Winnie the Pooh" (Walt Disney Animation Studios) and "Puss in Boots" (DreamWorks Animation).įor more information, visit Sony Classical is the label group in charge of classical music within Sony Music Entertainment, based in New York and Berlin and responsible for the international productions of Sony Classical, RCA Red Seal and Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, as well as a vast catalogue that goes back to Enrico Caruso. Aliens" (DreamWorks Animation), and "Henry IV." Henry Jackman previously collaborated with X-MEN: FIRST CLASS director Matthew Vaughn, having written the score for "Kick-Ass." Jackman's other film scores include "Gulliver's Travels," "Monsters vs. Like all great X-Men stories, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS takes on ambitious themes and issues while offering a rich and personal look at an unusual superhero team. As the first class discovers, harnesses, and comes to terms with their formidable powers, alliances are formed that will shape the eternal war between the heroes and villains of the X-Men universe. X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, which has received some of the strongest reviews of the year, brings together the epic scale and action of a summer blockbuster with a character-driven story that unveils the beginning of the X-Men saga - and a secret history of the Cold War and our world at the brink of nuclear Armageddon. "The sheer scope of the film and Matthew Vaughn's uninhibited sensibility allowed me to unleash what I hope is an exciting score," stated Jackman.
In composing for a movie in a high-profile series - it follows X-Men (2000), X-Men 2: X-Men United (2003), X-Men 3: The Last Stand (2006) and X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) - Jackman landed his biggest commission to date and has the talent and experience for this task. Henry Jackman has composed an exciting accompaniment to the action in this film, the eagerly awaited prequel to the blockbuster X-Men series. NEW YORK, J/PRNewswire/ - Sony Classical is pleased to announce the release of the original motion picture soundtrack of X-MEN: FIRST CLASS available digitally on May 31st and on CD on June 28th.