Search - Hans Zimmer, City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Crouch End Festival Chorus :: Film Music Of Hans Zimmer

Just get the albums

Mr. N. J. Sherring | Birmingham, UK | 08/06/2007

(2 out of 5 stars)

"I am a big fan of Zimmer in general, he has done some of my favourite scores. however i don't think this double CD is really worth buying unless you are new to Zimmer and want a brief overview of some of his work. There's seems a couple of odd choices on here when there is so much classic stuff to choose from, and i would thoroughly recommend getting the scores seperately to any film you may have seen which caught your ear.I don't think the arrangments here particularly add anything to the experience either, and if like me yuo enjoy the scores partyl as a memory of the film, i think you're better off with the original tracks and arrangments.

Shame, could have been better."

All the Silva Zimmer tracks under one roof

tjguitar | 06/27/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Silva's newest composer compilation is a great addition to it's "Essential" line of CD releases.



There are plenty of new tracks here conducted by producer James Fitzpatrick (Crimson Tide, The Thin Red Line, Thelma & Louise, The Da Vinci Code, Green Card, Driving Miss Daisy, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.)



Recycled tracks from previous Silva Screen CDs are:

Gladiator - Symphonic Suite - 2002's The Fantasy Album and 2005's EPICS

Gladitor - Now We Are Free (Vocal) - 2005's Epics

The Da Vinci Code - Kyrie for the Magdelene - 2006's Greatest Cinema Choral Classics

Rain Man - 1994's Music from the Films of Tom Cruise

Days of Thunder - 1994's Music from the Films of Tom Cruise

Pearl Harbor - 2004's Longest Day: Ultimate World War Themes

The Last Samurai - 2005's EPICS

Batman Begins - 2006's Comic Strip Heroes

Hannibal - 2001's Cinema Choral Classics III

The Rock - 1998's Hollywood Stars: Music from the Films of Sean Connery

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl - 2005's EPICS

Gladitor - Now We Are Free (Instrumental) - 2004's Reel Chill





Highly recommended for fans who are not familiar with Hans Zimmer's music, or those who want to hear a different take on it.



Producer James Fitzpatrick states in the informative liner notes that "the orchestrators, arrangers and myself decided to go for a totally symphonic approach and treatment of the music : as if the music has been arranged for the concert hall....Other tracks are all essentially orchestral but with a few subtle synthetic additives, mostly in the "bottom end" and the percussion department."



Definitely worth a spin, and a welcome release to put all the Silva Zimmer tracks in one fine collection.



Edited to add: Mark Ayres provides (uncredited) additional keyboards and percussion on "The Rock"."