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I will buy from Amazon again. This soundtrack has great epic music, and I would definitely recommend it. The shipping was prompt and the item was just as described. I like the way Amazon lists all of the tracks on each CD.
Gladiator the movie is one of my all time favorites. The first three compositions flowed from one piece to the next. The sound was so moving, it brought tears to my eyes. OMG. Now that I have listened to the soundtrack it likewise moves to my list of top music selections. I felt like I had attended a symphony concert after hearing the music. This soundtrack is a masterpiece. All instruments of the orchestra were utilized.
(especially track 3) :) It is THAT good. This CD has helped me get through my entire higher education. I will continue to listen to it while I work for the rest of my life.
If you own one Hans Zimmer soundtrack, get Gladiator. Whenever I listen to it, it evokes images from the movie. This is Hans Zimmer's masterpiece and will probably go down as his greatest soundtrack. The music really evokes the fury of battle and the majesty of ancient Rome.
Powerful motion picture scores, like Gladiator, create the catharsis for the listener and for the viewer of the film: on many levels of classical accomplishment. Linguistic irony abounds in this brilliant soundtrack. This film was so honored because it truly was a masterpiece, in the tradition of Ben-Hur and the great composer Miklos Rozsa. We go back again and again to this movie, I think, because the soundtrack is superb; the epic tragedy is superior for its time; and our moments alone with the hero, Maximum Decimus Meridius, could leave an lasting impression on our psyche. The Romans conquer the Germanic tribes in the Prologue to this motion picture; yet the major influences throughout Acts I, II, III and the Epilogue are, in fact, Latin-based and Germanic-influenced languages that work in silhouette to the musical score; Irish voices, Roman voices, Germanic voices, shades of antiquity, uplifting the fallen hero even as he drops to his knees before his crucified wife and son; shocking treatment of a commanding general's family (after he had led the Roman army to a victorious battle). Dramatic irony abounds throughout the score as well; partly because of the rich Irish-Latin-Germanic merge of songs, mournful chants, in-the-pit-of-death chords, compassionate voices (feminine, filled with empathy; con dolore), the conveyance of crescendo, decrescendo, diminuendo with the tongues of the vanquished; our hero had conquered the very people whose sorrowful tongues would mourn in Greek chorus the loss of his beloved wife and child; the Hans Zimmer score so laced with irony to render deep emotion.In this redemption story, the chorus must echo the pain of the hero through voices that elevate the drama in its ascent through the first slaughter of the Germanic warriors, then through the second slaughter (above stated); if in mourning the chorus escorts the hero con grazia from his fallen state (he was dead with grief; then he was rescued; then he was glorified by gladiator feats), the voices of antiquity from many tongues with distinct, cultural nuances (history preserved) serve to uphold the magnificent instrumental orchestration (adhering to the Greek tragedian model) until our hero dies and joins his departed wife and son in the hereafter.
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