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 | Title : Road to Perdition (Music from the Motion Picture)
Author : Thomas Newman
Release Date : 20020625
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $18.98
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Editorial Reviews :
Director Sam Mendes's much-anticipated follow-up to his Academy Award®-winning American Beauty found him exploring the period gangster film--but with a moral fiber and undercurrent of family tragedy familiar from his Oscar® triumph. As he did with Beauty, Mendes again wisely entrusts the film's music to Tom Newman, a composer with an instinctive knack for getting inside a film's characters via innovative and often orthodox methods. As many of Newman's preceding scores have been rhythmically driven and rife with improvisation-driven experimentalism, its good to hear his equally distinctive writing for orchestra largely take center stage here again. But Newman's inquisitive musical instincts can't be denied, and his melancholy string writing is leavened first with subtle uilleann pipe flourishes that echo the characters' Irish-American roots, then with savory, yet ever-restrained touches of his own ethnic-defying instrumental color and rhythmic accents. It's another moody and introspective gem, seasoned with some lively period jazz (courtesy of the Charleston Chasers, Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra, and Chicago Rhythm Kings) and a warm, final surprise: a duet of John M. Williams's autumnal title track performed by none other than stars Tom Hanks and Paul Newman.
Buyer Reviews :
People who know me consider me a collector of the finest soundtracks. They know that I have hundreds of soundtracks ranging from 'Cruel Intentions' to 'Air Force One' to 'Indiana Jones' and even every Disney movie ever made (almost). Not only that, but I almost worship the great movie composers such as the legendary John Williams and the indefatigable Danny Elfman. Thomas Newman, although well known for other projects, has created a soundtrack with no equal. Although the sounds of Elfman's 'Nightmare Before Christmas' have always been, in my mind, the most superior, it is definitely surpassed in several ways by 'Road to Perdition.' ALthough 'Nightmare' is still the greatest in my opinion, 'Perdition' is on a completely different level. Opening with an extremely haunting and very moving 'Rock Island, 1931,' you can instantly tell 'Perdition' will move you. Through chillingly beautiful themes, almost spooky 'bad guy' music, and classic jazz, 'Perdition' comes across as the greatest soundtrack I have ever heard, especially for a cd created about such a magical era as the 1930's. There are too many great songs to talk about on this cd, so I will leave to your imagination. Let it be said, however, that 'Perdition - Piano Duet' is gorgeous, and will sit in your mind for a long time. Although it is very short, it has an aura around it that stirs the soul. And to boot, it was actually played by the brilliant Tom Hanks and the legendary Paul Newman. In my opinion, a soundtrack is what truly makes a movie memorable. Hanks and Newman's performances are genius, but the music is what will truly help 'Road to Perdition' earn the Academy Awards that it will most certainly get. Thus, 'Road to Perdition' is six out of five stars excellent and I strongly suggest it to all!
(by trappedinthecage)
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