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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      General Discussion: The House of the Spirits (Hans Zimmer) - very good     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Dec 4, 2009 - 3:34 PM     By:   KevinSmith   (Member) It's one of his best scores of the 1990s and in the overall look at his career. The House of the Spirits is very easy to listen to, but it's depressingly beautiful in a dramatic way (an oxymoron in itself). If you ever think that Hans Zimmer can not write an intelligent score, listen to this. Again, a real orchestra was used with electronics on the side (it's better that way, rather than the other way around). Plus. there's a bonus with an ethnic sound with lovely guitars and rhythms. The source song in the final cue is annoyingly placed, RIGHT IN THE BLOODY MIDDLE of the cue!    Posted:   Dec 4, 2009 - 4:10 PM     By:   First Breath   (Member) Yes, this is a very nice score that I unfortunately STILL haven't got in my collection, I have only got a 10 minute suite on a compilation. The acoustic guitar-flavored track Pedro & Blanca (where Heitor Pereira makes an early apperaence?) is great, it reminded me of Green Card, and worked brilliantly in the film when I saw it in the theater in 1993. It's still one of my favorite films too, extremely powerful and touching stuff. I agree, Zimmer-bashers should really take a listen to this.    Posted:   Dec 5, 2009 - 2:19 PM     By:   Thor   (Member) For some strange reason, I sold this soundtrack many years ago. I don't remember why, because the main suite thingie is absolutely gorgeous. Melancholic bliss. I'm guessing it was in a period of my life where I wasn't really keen on "slow music". That must be it. I don't think there's any way I would have sold it today.    Posted:   Mar 21, 2010 - 5:20 AM     By:   KevinSmith   (Member) Yes, this is a very nice score that I unfortunately STILL haven't got in my collection, I have only got a 10 minute suite on a compilation. The acoustic guitar-flavored track Pedro & Blanca (where Heitor Pereira makes an early apperaence?) is great, it reminded me of Green Card, and worked brilliantly in the film when I saw it in the theater in 1993. It's still one of my favorite films too, extremely powerful and touching stuff. I agree, Zimmer-bashers should really take a listen to this. Actually the guitar solos are not Heitor Pereira, they are done by Michael Stevens.    Posted:   Mar 21, 2010 - 7:00 AM     By:   First Breath   (Member) Yes, this is a very nice score that I unfortunately STILL haven't got in my collection, I have only got a 10 minute suite on a compilation. The acoustic guitar-flavored track Pedro & Blanca (where Heitor Pereira makes an early apperaence?) is great, it reminded me of Green Card, and worked brilliantly in the film when I saw it in the theater in 1993. It's still one of my favorite films too, extremely powerful and touching stuff. I agree, Zimmer-bashers should really take a listen to this. Actually the guitar solos are not Heitor Pereira, they are done by Michael Stevens. OK. Quite unknown guy to me.    Posted:   May 5, 2011 - 7:47 PM     By:   KevinSmith   (Member) Yes, this is a very nice score that I unfortunately STILL haven't got in my collection, I have only got a 10 minute suite on a compilation. The acoustic guitar-flavored track Pedro & Blanca (where Heitor Pereira makes an early apperaence?) is great, it reminded me of Green Card, and worked brilliantly in the film when I saw it in the theater in 1993. It's still one of my favorite films too, extremely powerful and touching stuff. I agree, Zimmer-bashers should really take a listen to this. You should get on that.    Posted:   May 5, 2011 - 8:06 PM     By:   jfallon   (Member) Thanks for this post! I haven't listened to this one in 15 years so because of this I dusted it off and am listening to it now... good score! Thanks for reminding me!    Posted:   May 6, 2011 - 12:52 AM     By:   Martin B.   (Member) I managed to track down a copy of this a couple of years back and it is a very beautiful score. I like it a lot.    Posted:   May 6, 2011 - 2:31 PM     By:   Mike West   (Member) I loved that when it came out. The Mozartian theme works great, I later thought that was maybe inspired by the use of Mozarts clarinet concerto in Out of Africa. Interestingly, a few month ago I listened to a lot of orchestral music by Gabriel Fauré and I wondered, where did I hear a certain slow clarinet theme with long lines and a barely slight latin touch before. Don't know if that is by accident, but Zimmer uses the same melody. Nowadays I listen to the score very seldomly, but loved it when it came out.    Posted:   May 7, 2011 - 6:20 PM     By:   Oscarilbo   (Member) I think its time for an expanded edition on this one! at least I would love one! Thinking about that posibility is the reason I haven`t tried to get it.    Posted:   May 8, 2011 - 12:44 AM     By:   Mike West   (Member) I am not Thor And I don't have his sometimes singular but interesting position to things. But the old album is representing the score in very long, breathing suites. I like that very much, the melodies and themes get something like a symphonic treatment, that's great. Don't remember anything about the sound qualitiy though, but I do remember that I did not necesarily like the orchestral sound so much, due to performance or recording/mastering, I don't know. I feel to remember that the orchestra could perform much better and more inspired since the score relies heavily on colors, sound, long lines etc. But maybe for that reason a rerecording with a great orchestra like the LSO (how realistic... ) would be something which really lets the music flourish!    Posted:   May 8, 2011 - 6:49 AM     By:   First Breath   (Member) Here is the great 10-minute Pedro & Blanca-track. I love the subtle Green Card/Rain Man/World Apart-elements: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzGvS0qEkDs    Posted:   Jan 14, 2018 - 3:54 PM     By:   Peter Greenhill   (Member) Score has recently been released as a download including a lossless version. https://www.7digital.com/artist/hans-zimmer/release/the-house-of-the-spirits-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-7137876?f=20%2C19%2C12%2C16%2C17%2C9%2C2 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B077KHZZJS/ref=sr_1_1_rd?_encoding=UTF8&child=B077KJTM9W&qid=1515970251&sr=1-1%3C/a%3E    Posted:   Nov 30, 2024 - 12:08 PM     By:   Thor   (Member) "Very good" is an understatement. This is another one of Zimmer's best scores -- probably his most "classical" -- and I still beat myself up over selling the CD. The guitar stuff sounds like a precursor to MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2.    Posted:   Nov 30, 2024 - 12:54 PM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) I remember having a copy of it on tape/cassette and thinking it was very nice (was it when he got help from the likes of Fiachra Trench and Shirley Walker?). Don't know where the tape is and haven't heard it in years. Thor, from just a quick glimpse on eBay, the CD doesn't look rare at all. Copies abound for around 4-6 Euro's + postage.    Posted:   Nov 30, 2024 - 1:05 PM     By:   First Breath   (Member) It's Trench.    Posted:   Nov 30, 2024 - 1:26 PM     By:   Thor   (Member) I remember having a copy of it on tape/cassette and thinking it was very nice (was it when he got help from the likes of Fiachra Trench and Shirley Walker?). Don't know where the tape is and haven't heard it in years. Thor, from just a quick glimpse on eBay, the CD doesn't look rare at all. Copies abound for around 4-6 Euro's + postage. Thanks. €4-6 total, I could take, but I found none to that price on eBay (cheapest was €8.69, with the German "Geisterhaus" title; I'd rather have the English). Furthermore, it's €10+ in shipping alone for the cheapest options. To say nothing of possible customs on top of that. So we're looking at minimum €20 here, which is way out of my price league. But one day, I'll retrieve this -- and many of the other titles I've stupidly sold or traded off over the years.    Posted:   Nov 30, 2024 - 1:41 PM     By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member) Thanks. €4-6 total, I could take, but I found none to that price on eBay (cheapest was €8.69, with the German "Geisterhaus" title; I'd rather have the English) DAS GEISTERHAUS is actually the "original" title of the movie, as it is a German production (Neue Constantin Film was the production company) and Bernd Eichinger was the producer. Great score and a good movie, quite underrated (by me as well back in the day).    Posted:   Nov 30, 2024 - 1:58 PM     By:   jgb   (Member) Very good score - a surprise only because Zimmer thought the performing orchestra was terrible.    Posted:   Dec 1, 2024 - 12:21 AM     By:   BrenKel   (Member) £5 on iTunes and £6 on eBay with free postage from Germany. Might have to join the House of Spirits party as it’s a score I have not heard before, but enthused by all these positive comments.     General Discussion: The House of the Spirits (Hans Zimmer) - very good    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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