Gerrard, Lisa Zimmer, Joe Sample :: Universal: The Ultimate Movie Album

Jonathan Gabrielle / Shorten, Hans / Gerrard, Lisa Zimmer, Joe Sample
Universal: The Ultimate Movie Album
Genres: Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

Track Listings (19) - Disc #1
1. Out of Reach (from film Bridget Jones's Diary)
2. Now We Are Free
3. One Day I'll Fly Away
4. When You Say Nothing At All
5. Dead Already
6. Main Theme - For the Love of a Princess
7. You're the first, the last, my everything
8. Down to the River to Pray, hymn
9. Vide Cor Meum, aria (for the film Hannibal)
10. Le Che soave zeffi
11. Windmills of Your Mind (from the film The Thomas Crown Affair (1968))
12. Adagio for strings (or string quartet; arr. from 2nd mvt. of String Qua
13. Unchained Melody, song (from the film "Unchained") [From Ghost]
14. The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'apprenti sorcier), symphonic scherzo for orche
15. Just dropped in (To see what condition my condition was in)
16. La mamma morte
17. The Hernando's Hideaway
18. Eighteen with a bullet
19. O mio babbino caro
Track Listings (19) - Disc #2
1. Cosmic Dancer
2. Pelagia's Song
3. Love Is All Around
4. Everything I Do
5. John Dunbar Theme
6. Any Other Name
7. The Battle (excerpt)
8. A
9. She
10. Son of a preacher man
11. Main Theme
12. Let the Draw Begin
13. Love Theme
14. Excerpt
15. Intermezzo
16. The End Credits Medley
17. Main Theme
18. The Ride of the Valkyries
19. Main Theme & March of the K

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CD Details

All Artists: Jonathan Gabrielle / Shorten, Hans / Gerrard, Lisa Zimmer, Joe Sample, Don / Overstreet, Paul Schlitz, Thomas Newman, James Horner, Barry White, American Traditional, Patrick Cassidy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Michel Legrand, Samuel Barber, Alex North, Paul [composer] Dukas, Kenny [1] Rogers, Umberto Giordano, Richard [Composer] Adler, Peter Wingfield, Giacomo Puccini, Marc Bolan
Title: Universal: The Ultimate Movie Album
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Polygram Int'l
Release Date: 11/20/2001
Album Type: Soundtrack, Import
Genres: Pop, Rock, Soundtracks
Styles: Adult Contemporary, Easy Listening
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPCs: 0731458571223, 731458571223, 766488103021

Synopsis

Album Description

UK compilation featuring a combination of hit songs & theme music from some great soundtracks. Tracks include, Gabrielle 'Out Of Reach' (Bridget Jones Diary), 'Now We Are Free' (Gladiator), 'Dead Already' (American Beauty), Alison Kraus 'Down To The River To Pray' (O Brother Where Art Thou), Ronan Keating 'When You Say Nothing At All' (Notting Hill) & many more. 35 tracks on 2 CDs. 2001.

CD Reviews

Highly recommended

W. Kunert | Sacramento, CA | 08/19/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This pricey UK import CD filled a lot of gaps in my music collection and is an excellent overview of notable music of (mostly) recent films. It's difficult to find consistently listenable soundtrack collections like this, by that I mean free from the obligitory Whitney Houston or Celine Dion embarrassments. Usually rights issues prevent comprehensive compilations like this in the US, too. While I enjoy a lot of soundtrack music, there aren't so many complete soundtracks that I would care to own, some examples of exceptions being Ennio Morricone scores and the About a Boy Soundtrack. While certainly most of these tracks are the actual recordings used in their respective films, I noticed that "La mamma morte" from Philadelphia is not the Maria Callas version. There might be other cases like this, I'm not sure. And "Unchained Melody" from Ghost is an orchestral version, not the pop song (but I consider this a plus). This collection seems to focus on the subtle and quirky, yet melodic music of indie films, with less emphasis on the loud sweeping orchestral scores of major Hollywood hits, but of course there are a few like Gladiator and Braveheart, which are welcome here because like I've said, I probably wouldn't listen to the whole score. I love the two Thomas Newman compositions from American Beauty, and it's good to have some music from films by the Cohen Brothers here. My only complaint would have to be the order of the songs. You would think they would avoid jumping back and forth between pop songs, orchestral scores, and quiet music, but it just seems thrown together by random. I would compare this collection to the excellent "Miramax Films Greatest Hits" but the makers of that album knew to group the two pop/rock songs at the end."

Ultimate Movie Album

Aaron Baker Cole | 02/14/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

"The album production is flawless; however, I believe it's scope should have been reduced in favor of presenting longer excerpts of the sound tracks. Listening to these short pieces is like listening to movie trailers."