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Track Listings
1 | Progeny |
2 | The Wheat |
3 | The Battle |
4 | Earth |
5 | Sorrow |
6 | To Zucchabar |
7 | Patricide |
8 | The Emperor Is Dead |
9 | The Might Of Rome |
10 | Strength And Honor |
11 | Reunion |
12 | Slaves To Rome |
13 | Barbarian Horde |
14 | Am I Not Merciful? |
15 | Elysium |
16 | Honor Him |
17 | Now We Are Free |
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Media Type: CD
Artist: GLADIATOR
Title: SCORE
Street Release Date: 04/25/2000
Domestic
Genre: SOUNDTRACK
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Most modern Hollywood films have musical "temp tracks" laid in as they're edited, usually classical standards or music from other soundtracks that helps shape the dramatic and emotional intentions of works in progress. Sometimes these temp tracks become the score (as in "2001"), but more often they serve as a template for the film's eventual scorer. That said, we'll boldly climb out on a limb and opine that director Ridley Scott was listening to a whole lot of Holst's The Planets as he was cobbling together his modern gladiator epic. Credit Hans Zimmer for taking "Mars, the Bringer of War" and hammering its familiar harmonic and rhythmic Sturm und Drang into something serviceably fresh; cohort Lisa Gerrard generally handles the more ethereal, atmospheric passages. As epic in scope as its thematic inspiration (and with enough occasional nods to "authenticity" to make it work), this is nonetheless a work of often surprising nuances, and one that recasts the traditional heroic orchestral score in deliciously dark and ominous tones. Warning: repeated listening may inspire the invasion of neighboring countries. --Jerry McCulley
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.91 x 5.12 x 0.39 inches; 3.25 ounces
- Manufacturer : Decca
- Item model number : 1991968
- Original Release Date : 2000
- Run time : 2 hours and 35 minutes
- Date First Available : December 14, 2006
- Label : Decca
- ASIN : B00004STPT
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #10,826 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #78 in Movie Scores (CDs & Vinyl)
- #210 in Movie Soundtracks (CDs & Vinyl)
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I am also surprised how intense the music is without the movie.
The cd arrived unbroken and works well. I am considering buying a second one for a friend.
You take that journey through the music - the strength and honor of the Roman soldiers, the code of the gladiators, the love, the deception. There are common themes running through the music, and yet each piece represents and entirely different slice of the world that was the Roman Empire. There are other similar soundtracks that I've loved - those to Excalibur and Conan the Barbarian come to mind - but in those cases they often just lifted classical works known for their power. In this case Zimmer created entirely new works which pay homage to those classics but bring them to a new level, tailoring them to fit within the pathway of the movie.
There's even a second CD you can get if you want more of the music, but this one is a definite must-have. You don't get familiar with the tunes as you replay them. Instead, you find even more nuance, even more meaning in the songs you thought at first were 'less good'. I consider this a masterpiece up with my favorite classical music CDs.
I suggest that one should not be bothered by Zimmer's borrowing from Holst and Wagner -- Williams is notoriously guilty of it as well, although in a sneakier way (he hides his thematic borrowing while Zimmer makes no attempt to cover his tracks.) I have come to view this technique in film music more as an homage to great classical music from the past. In fact many great composers from the past borrowed thematic elements from each other.
In the end one should judge a musical score not as an original music composition, rather for its ability to establish the mood and enhance the dramatic tension of what is happening on screen. In this regard, this music is supremely successful. Trust me that this movie would be much weaker without this musical score. This is one of the finer musical scores to come along in years.