OST Williams, John Schindler`s List 24 Karat Gold CD MCA Ultimate Masterdics NEU OVP Sealed

Produktinformation


Audio CD (1995)
Anzahl Disks/Tonträger: 1
Label: MCA MCAD-11313
         Tracks

Theme from Schindler's List (4:16)
Jewish Town (Krakow Ghetto - Winter '41) (4:40)
Immolation (With Out Lives, We Give Life) (4:43)
Remembrances (4:20)
Schindler's Workforce (9:08)
OYF'N Pripetshok and Nacht Aktion (2:56)
I Could Have Done More (5:52)
Auschwitz-Birkenau (3:40)
Stolen Memories (4:20)
Making The List (5:10)
Give Me Your Names (4:54)
Yeroushalaim Chel Zahav (Jerusalem of Gold) (2:17)
Remembrances (with Itzhak Perlman) (5:16)
Theme from Schindler's List (Reprise) (3:01)
Produktbeschreibungen

 
Seit seinen neoromantischen Filmmusiken zu Krieg der Sterne, Indiana Jones und Jurassic Park wird John Williams gerne in ein Klischee gezwängt: Abenteuerfilme. Dabei gerät das große Talent des Komponisten oft in Vergessenheit. Während Steven Spielberg seinen enormen Erfolg erfreulicherweise nutzte, um dieses Holocaust-Drama zu produzieren und in Szene zu setzen, nutzte sein langjähriger musikalischer Mitstreiter die Gelegenheit, um sowohl die Tiefe, als auch die Reife, die er seinem Talent und seiner Ausbildung zu verdanken hat, zu zeigen. Dieser Soundtrack, dessen traurige, evokative Melodien oft vom Violinenspiel des großen Itzhak Perlman getragen werden, ist reich an ethnischer Vielfalt und bringt die meisterliche Subtilität des Komponisten sowohl im choralen, wie auch im orchestralen Bereich voll zum Tragen. Dieses emotional fesselnde Werk Williams wurde auch mit dem Oscar fur die beste Filmmusik ausgezeichnet. --Jerry McCulley
 
Review by Evan Cater
When John Williams received his 29th Academy Award nomination for Schindler's List, he had already won Oscars for Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws, Star Wars, and E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial. He had long been an automatic nominee, but as Hollywood's most honored working composer it was generally believed that it would take an extraordinary addition to his legacy for the Academy to award Williams a fifth trophy. Schindler's List would prove to be that extraordinary work — and not just because of the enormous historical and social import of the film and it's subject, though those factors could only have strengthened Williams appeal to Academy voters. Schindler's List feels like his attempt at a magnum opus. Though even simpler in its melodies and themes than some of his famous sweeping popcorn movie scores, it carries the ambition of a major symphonic composition. This is especially true in the segments that are graced with exquisitely rich and evocative violin solos by world famous violinist Itzhak Perlman. Perlman's masterful performances give Williams' compositions an authenticity and grounding that offsets the composer's predilection for sentimentality and bombast. "Restraint" was the word that appeared most frequently in discussions of Steven Spielberg's Holocaust epic. The critical consensus was that the director had managed to depict the horrors of the greatest tragedy in world history without giving in to his customary urges to tug transparently at the heart strings of his audiences. In truth, Spielberg was only able to exercise restraint through the first two and a half hours of the film; he ended up throwing it out the window in the maudlin conclusion. Williams, too, is guilty of indulging in emotional excess. Which isn't surprising when you consider that his music has always been one of Spielberg's most effective heart-tugging tools. Like the film itself, his score is best at its simplest, deriving its emotional power from the events it depicts and bearing in mind that audiences do not need help from filmmakers and composers in order to be emotionally affected by the Holocaust.