Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: Hans Zimmer Title: The Wings of a Film: The Music of Hans Zimmer Members Wishing: 3 Total Copies: 0 Label: Decca Original Release Date: 1/1/2001 Re-Release Date: 6/19/2001 Genres: New Age, Soundtracks Style: Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 028946774922 |
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Composer/former Buggles keyboardist Hans Zimmer helped pioneer the fusion of traditional orchestral music with synthesized sounds that both seamlessly mock and supplement the traditionally acoustic. What listeners sometime... more » |
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Amazon.com Composer/former Buggles keyboardist Hans Zimmer helped pioneer the fusion of traditional orchestral music with synthesized sounds that both seamlessly mock and supplement the traditionally acoustic. What listeners sometimes mistake for a symphony orchestra in full voice is often but shrewdly manipulated digital samples. Thus, this concert performance (recorded at the 2000 Flanders Film Festival) adds a welcome, truly organic dimension to the best of Zimmer's canon. The composer is featured as a performer (with Dirk Brosse conducting the fine efforts of the VRO Flemish Radio Orchestra), as are many of his frequent collaborators; Lisa Gerrard adds her distinctive vocals to the included Gladiator excerpts, while guitarists Pete Haycock and Heitor Pereira add their familiar flourishes to cues from Thelma and Louise and Mission: Impossible 2, respectively. Reworked music from The Lion King and The Power of One supplement the already familiar, but it's Zimmer's haunting, emotionally compelling "Journey to the Line" (from The Thin Red Line score) that is the collection's unlikely high point. --Jerry McCulley Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsBig disappointment chuck wood | Pendleton, OR USA | 11/28/2002 (1 out of 5 stars) "Ever buy a CD you had high hopes for and when you got it - it became one you quickly decided you would only listen to once? That would be my experience with this. Over-orchestrated, there is nothing subtle about this recording, it is loud and bombastic. Many of my favorites - such as the Lion King pieces -were reworked and changed miserably. I absolutely loved Zimmers' ~ Millennium: Tribal wisdom and the modern world." It's Zimmer and it's Live! Mike | 06/20/2001 (4 out of 5 stars) "What more can you want.A compilation CD of Zimmer from his live concert. The music is brilliant and powerful with the emotion that comes from a live performance. Unfortuanatley I cannot give this album five stars because the CD misses a number of tracks from the concert which would have made the CD so much better.That said what is one the CD is great. A selection of some of Zimmer's best work. Nothing new. But it's great hearing the tracks live a good way of getting a sample of Zimmer's work. I didn't have the separate soundtracks for all the cues so for me the CD is excellent and refreshing.Journey to the Line and Mother Africa are two of the most powerful tracks and my favourites but none of it is bad. Definatley recommended." Bliss Jacob Schuster | Roseville, MN United States | 09/25/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "I had been looking for the instrumental music from Thelma and Louise since I saw the film in 1991. Ten years later, on a whim, I found The Wings of a Film and as soon as track four began playing, tears streamed down my face for I had found it. Hans Zimmer is a musical and emotional genius and this is a must have for music lovers. When I saw the preview for Pear Harbor, it brought me to tears only because of the compelling score. I bought the soundtrack, and although it was good, it was not the emotion invoking music of the preview. However in The Wings of a Film, track five is from the Thin Red Line and it too was the song I had sought. I am thrilled with this purchase and suggest it to all with a soul for music."
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