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Music : Mansell - Requiem for a Dream
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Mansell - Requiem for a Dream by: Kronos Qt List Price: £15.99 CD-Charts Price: £10.48 You Save: £5.51 (34%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075597961126 Format: Soundtrack Label: Nonesuch Manufacturer: Nonesuch Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Nonesuch Release Date: November 06, 2000 Studio: Nonesuch Sales Rank: 24805 MPN: 79611 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Mansell previously worked with director Darren Aronofsky on Pi where the electronica was powerfully raw. Enlisting the Kronos Quartet, this is proof of a far more intellectual process to create a through-scored piece. Both on screen and album, the music undergoes a perceivable development. Here it is given three sections ("Summer", "Fall" and "Winter"), and therefore attempts an almost symphonic form. "Summer Overture" introduces a repeatedly impressive central motif. The quartet excels in its sawing performance of it, and by the time of the first of two congas closing this initial seasonal section, you'll be prepared for the unexpected explosions of dissonance to follow. The final third ("Winter") puts a new motif through inventive stages of growth. From "Southern Hospitality" to "Meltdown" the sampled strings incessantly build in pitch until the desired unnerving effect has been well and truly achieved. This is music to match the most unshakeably nightmarish of dreams. --Paul Tonks Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Original stuffOf course the much-heard Requiem theme is absolutely brilliant, and this soundtrack centres largely upon that theme. It combines the wonderful ringing of the string quartet with electronic beats and mellower moments and this creates quite a unique soundtrack. It's highly recommended! In my opinion, it could have branched out a bit more. I ADORE the main theme of course but I think more variations on it would have been good - so much could be done with it and sometimes I felt the tracks didn't go far enough to expand on the original thematic content, but it's still a great CD. Rating:  - Sooooo DisapointedAfter reading the reveiws of this album / soundtrack on here I was so Dissapointed with this album when I played it, what a load of crap all arty farty sh** !! Rating:  - An amazing scoreBrilliant, amazing, sublime, fantastic. take your pick they all apply. Clint mansell and the kronos quartet have outdone themselves. Its so good that despite being from a low key movie this sound track is one of the most recognisable peices of music composed in the last 20 years. OK this is inpart to the reqiuem for a tower recording but credit to the composers. Rating: - A Beautiful and Haunting Score You Will NEVER Forget...I immediately purchased this soundtrack the day after seeing the film. As soon as I heard the music for the opening credits I remember saying to myself, "I'm getting this soundtrack tomorrow." And I did, and since then I have lost track of the number of times I have listened to it. Composed by Clint Mansell, with the Kronos Quartet and their great violin playing and such, "Requiem for a Dream" is an outstanding score that really gets into your head. It's a score full of dread, sorrow, pain, sadness, fear and paranoia. It has an industrial quality mixed with haunting violins to enhance it even more. (Imagine music by Trent Reznor with violins added to the mix.) A lot of the tracks are short and some are repetitive, but I had no problem ... Read More: Rating: - A new form of musicMy album of the year for 2001. I thought the film was outstanding, capturing Selby's horrific but humanitarian worldview and adding revolutionary editing techniques. But the star of the movie was the soundtrack. I was shocked to hear Clint Mansell was behind it. To me he was always head goon in PWEI. His additions to the Pi soundtrack stood up well to his more revered trackmates but this is miles ahead of anything he has ever been involved with. The use of the Kronos Quartet is inspired and as ever they play brilliantly and are superbly produced to fit Mansell's own I love the use of strings, breakbeats and electonica. Of course, The film's structure leads to the OSTs symphonic, coherent structure. It's divided into three sections with ... Read More: |
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