Music > Specialty Stores > Custom Stores > Archives > General > Alternative Rock - British Alternative - General

	buying more than one thing? add to bookbag(uses Multi-Item Price Optimization™) ...or intereact!

Gladiator
Lisa Gerrard, Hans Zimmer
Retail Price (not our price): $18.98
Release Date: 2000-04-25
Manufacturer: Decca U.S.
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1

Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...

Disc 1

Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
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

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) Absolutely phenomenal!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
It was all I expected and more. A great collection and mixture of intense, up beat, high action musical sequences, and soft, sad, slow portions that are truly beautiful.

2) great soundtrack   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Beautiful music and the whole cd is good. Nice movie soundtrack, and just very enjoyable. Many times soundtracks are only partly good, but in this movie the compositions were wonderful all the way through.

3) Great soundtrack   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Does anyone feel that some of the vamps from the fight scenes sound awfully similar to those in Pirates of the Caribbean?

4) The best soundtrack of   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I could listen to this cd over and over again. I even have it on my iPod. I love it. It is one of the best.

5) Not as good as I had hoped   [Rating: 3 out of 5]
Although the music is good, there is a lot that is not what I hade expected. I was watching the movie when I purchased the CD and I wanted to have the same music on the CD that I was listening to at the time. Not all of the songs that you'd like are on it. Thats my complaint.