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Album: The Wings of a Film: The Music of Hans Zimmer
# Song Title   Time
  "Gladiator" - Music From The Motion Picture
1)    Now we are Free More Info... 5:13
 
2)    Am I not merciful? ["Gladiator" - Music from the Motion Picture] More Info... 6:47
3)    Driving [Driving Miss Daisy] More Info... 5:40
4)    Thunderbird [Thelma & Louise] More Info... 7:47
5)    Journey to the Line [The Thin Red Line] More Info... 9:54
6)    Nyah and Ethan [Mission: Impossible 2] More Info... 6:48
7)    Lea Halalela [The Lion King] More Info... 6:00
8)    Mother Africa [Power of One] More Info... 5:46
9)    Suite [Nine Months] More Info... 5:14
10)    Main Theme [Rain Man] More Info... 5:05
11)    Main Theme [True Romance] More Info... 3:31
  The Lion King
12)    Busa More Info... 4:00
 
2)    Am I Not Merciful (Gladiator) More Info... 0:06
3)    Driving (Driving Miss Daisy) More Info... 0:05
4)    Thunderbird (Thelma & Louise) More Info... 0:07
5)    Journey to the Line (From 'The Thin Red Line') More Info... 0:10
6)    Nyah And Ethan (Mission: Impossible 2) More Info... 0:06
7)    Lea Halalela More Info... 0:06
8)    Mother Africa (Power Of One) More Info... 0:05
9)    Suite (Nine Months) More Info... 0:05
10)    Main Theme (Rain Man) More Info... 0:05
11)    Main Theme (True Romance) More Info... 0:03
12)    Busa (The Lion King) More Info... 0:04
 
Album: The Wings of a Film: The Music of Hans Zimmer
# Song Title   Time
  "Gladiator" - Music From The Motion Picture
1)    Now we are Free More Info... 5:13
 
2)    Am I not merciful? ["Gladiator" - Music from the Motion Picture] More Info... 6:47
3)    Driving [Driving Miss Daisy] More Info... 5:40
4)    Thunderbird [Thelma & Louise] More Info... 7:47
5)    Journey to the Line [The Thin Red Line] More Info... 9:54
6)    Nyah and Ethan [Mission: Impossible 2] More Info... 6:48
7)    Lea Halalela [The Lion King] More Info... 6:00
8)    Mother Africa [Power of One] More Info... 5:46
9)    Suite [Nine Months] More Info... 5:14
10)    Main Theme [Rain Man] More Info... 5:05
11)    Main Theme [True Romance] More Info... 3:31
  The Lion King
12)    Busa More Info... 4:00
 
2)    Am I Not Merciful (Gladiator) More Info... 0:06
3)    Driving (Driving Miss Daisy) More Info... 0:05
4)    Thunderbird (Thelma & Louise) More Info... 0:07
5)    Journey to the Line (From 'The Thin Red Line') More Info... 0:10
6)    Nyah And Ethan (Mission: Impossible 2) More Info... 0:06
7)    Lea Halalela More Info... 0:06
8)    Mother Africa (Power Of One) More Info... 0:05
9)    Suite (Nine Months) More Info... 0:05
10)    Main Theme (Rain Man) More Info... 0:05
11)    Main Theme (True Romance) More Info... 0:03
12)    Busa (The Lion King) More Info... 0:04
 
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  • Personnel includes: Hans Zimmer (conductor, keyboards); Lisa Gerrard, Lebo M (vocals), Heitor Pereira (acoustic guitar); Pete Haycock (electric guitar); VRO Flemish Radio Orchestra.
  • Engineers include: Alan Meyerson, Peter Brandt, Steven Maes.
  • Recorded at the Flanders International Film Festival, Flanders, Belgium in October 2000.
  • Personnel: Hans Zimmer (piano, keyboards); Lisa Gerrard (vocals, yang-chin); Lebo M. (vocals); Heitor Teixeira Pereira (acoustic guitar); Peter Haycock (electric guitar); Bruce Fowler (trombone); Gavin Greenaway, Rupert Gregson-Williams (keyboards); Ralph Salmins (drums, percussion); John Powell , Luis Jardim (percussion).
  • Audio Mixer: Alan Meyerson.
  • Arrangers: Geoff Zanelli; Bruce Fowler; Jim Levine.
  • This is an album of excerpts from Hans Zimmer's film scores, performed at a concert at the Flanders International Film Festival by Zimmer with the VRO Flemish Radio Orchestra conducted by Dirk Bross‚ and featuring many guest soloists. Zimmer, a German-born veteran of the 1970s and '80s British rock scene (he was a member of the Buggles of "Video Killed the Radio Star" fame), broke into film scoring in the early '80s, and by late in the decade had become a prolific A list movie composer, eventually taking home an Oscar for The Lion King. He is responsible for dragging film composing into the synthesizer and computer era, but is equally capable of writing sweeping orchestral music, as is apparent here in the orchestra's performances of portions of his scores for Gladiator, Nine Months, and True Romance. Still, his most characteristic writing may be his minimalist work on Rain Man, which brought him his first Academy Award nomination, and which he performs here. His work on The Lion King, here featuring co-composer Lebo M, seems less impressive in retrospect, a pale imitation of South African mbaqanga music, though it certainly worked well in the film and on the Broadway stage. The music from Driving Miss Daisy remains attractive and melodic, even if one is reminded that it was noticeably anachronistic in the film itself. But perhaps a real sense of Zimmer's roots is provided in "Thunderbird" from Thelma & Louise, an orchestral setting for an extended electric guitar solo played by Pete Haycock, which is drenched in British progressive rock and sounds like it could have come from a Pink Floyd album. The excerpts add up to a clear portrait of a musician with the versatility and talent to be what he is: one of the world's top film composers. ~ William Ruhlmann
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