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Jan 31, 2015 - 6:11 AM
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bobbengan
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This is truly a magnificent score in so many regards, in all its various facets - From sweeping, breathtaking lyricism full of vitality and life and whimsy to heartfelt tragedy, heroic pomp, visceral terror, elegiac remembrance - It truly has it all.
I posted an extensive three-part suite on Youtube back in the day, the last movement of which is my personal favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY7keQA6sHs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_vqR4RyP9E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R7hJpDXrps
Years later, there are a handful of other cues I would have included as well, but this 30-minute suites really gives you a pretty encompassing view of things.
The final album cue, "On The Beach, Silently Weeping" is one of the most moving pieces of film music ever written - a deduction I made before seeing the (mostly pretty decent) TV movie itself. After such a varied musical journey that Gordon brings us on, it's just such a satisfyingly reflective and heartfelt closer, like the end of a life. The moment of silence before the final orchestral "breath" is released never fails to move me to tears.
This is film music - No, music PERIOD - of the highest order. If you haven't nabbed this one yet, people, hesitate not a moment longer. It's magnificent.
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Fourteen years later and I still love this score.
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