Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture

Normally I would post a review on an album like this for the original release, but I'm choosing to be different today. ;-)Picked this up because my original copy got scuffed up pretty good half way through AND I've been working away on a book on the topic of Titanic anyway.James Horner lives to produce epic soundtracks. He easily works on the same level as John Williams. If you're paying close attention to the Amazing Spider-Man score, you just might notice some familiar sounds from Titanic.Horner never misses!! The original album re-mastered is great. It plays out like a long memorial to the fallen ship with its Irish-like tones and bagpipes. I've always loved listening to bagpipes, just not when you're in the same room as the instrument. I have a cousin who played one during a Sunday School lesson, and it was like listening to the accordion!Horner brilliantly portrays the vast glory of the Titanic with a backed up choir that actually goes up and down the scales enough for warming up your voice if you're vocally inclined. Soundtracks that are based off a song almost always hit the nerve mark, and Titanic doesn't disappoint. The only downer about his score is Hymn To The Sea. While it's great for the soundtrack, it doesn't actually sound like a hymn that's set apart from the rest of the album. Maybe it should've been called something else.BONUSHere's a fun fact for Titanic movie lovers - Michael W. Smith produced and wrote a song called In My Arms Again that was specifically for the 1997 movie. I wouldn't be able to tell you who was originally slated to score the film, but since they got James Horner to do the score, it's a completely different direction from his song, My Heart Will Go On, seeing that it is written from the perspective of the leading male role, Jack Dawson. You could probably find it on Amazon for download, or if you're going to search the song by album, it's on Smitty's Live The Life album.

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Someone stole my CD,I had to buy it again.The music is TIMELESS.The photos,iconic.James Horner,one of my favorite composers FOREVER.

At a beach rental one summer, it was nighttime and I was listening to a regular cd of Titanic. The rental was a block away from the shore so I could hear the waves breaking as well as the music. Listening to this version reminded me of that but this time I heard it “around” me.

Titanic soundtrack to the film of the same name was composed, orchestrated and conducted by James Horner. The soundtrack was released by Sony Classical on November 18, 1997, became the highest-selling primarily orchestral film score in history. Number one in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, with worldwide sales surpassing 30 million copies.Horner is noted for frequent use of Celtic musical elements, and the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores, in certain tracks, Horner made use of a digital choir instead of a real one.Celine Dion sang the film's signature song "My Heart Will Go On" written by James Horner and Will Jennings, this ballad won four Grammy Awards and reached number-one in more than twenty-five countries.I'm rating this music CD with 5 stars !

As a fan of classical-styled film scores, I've developed an affinity for the works of various composers who work mostly in this genre. Topmost among these artists is, of course, John Williams, but as moviegoers and music lovers know so well, there are other, just as equally talented composers who enhance the moving images we see on those theater screens with their compositions. I first became aware of James Horner when Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan premiered in June of 1982. Director Nicholas Meyer, anxious to give his entry in the Star Trek franchise its own identity apart from the less-than-acclaimed first motion picture, commissioned the young Horner to write a score that evoked the nautical traditions Meyer wanted to infuse into his vision of Starfleet and the starship Enterprise. He asked for, and got, music that calls to mind seagoing sailing frigates and the age of Horatio Hornblower, albeit with a 23rd Century backdrop of dueling starships. Considering Horner's penchant for composing scores with nautical or exploration-adventure themes (Clear and Present Danger, Apollo 13), it's not surprising that director James Cameron would ask the now-established composer to write the music for his 1997 tale of star-crossed love aboard the even more star-crossed Titanic. And why not? Horner uses all his expertise with seafaring and action-adventure themes in creating one of the most popular film scores in history and the one that would earn the composer an Academy Award for Best Original Score in March of 1998. Starting with Celtic-inspired motifs that evoke both the nautical theme and the haunting realization that the Titanic went to the bottom on that cold April night in 1912, Horner's score runs the gamut from excitement and wonder (track 3, Southampton) to love and romance (track 4, Rose, which is the melody for My Heart Will Go On), confidence and exuberance (track 6, Take Her to Sea, Mr. Murdoch), and finally to disaster and doom (track 10, Death of Titanic) after the fatal collision between the late, great White Star liner and that iceberg. Horner strived mightily to give the music a certain level of timelessness, avoiding overuse of period-music in the film except when absolutely necessary, yet steering away from styles that place the material in the late 1990s. Here it worked very well, except for the inclusion of Celine Dion's syrupy rendition of My Heart Will Go On. Yes, it was played only during the end credits, and yes, it was wildly popular and helped this album become THE top-selling original soundtrack record of all time, but (a) I think it was overexposed, and (b) Celine is a nice singer but she's not one of my favorite chanteuses. She tends to over-emote at times, so for me My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme from Titanic) is sheer torture. My other quibble is that for a film that lasts over three hours, Sony Classical's initial Titanic soundtrack album is relatively skimpy. Obviously no one involved in the making of this very expensive film imagined just how successful it would become, so a barebones soundtrack was released shortly before the film premiered in December of 1997. Later, realizing that there was gold in dem dere CD bins and watching this album's sales go through the roof, Sony Classical released Back to Titanic, a one-disc supplement with unreleased cues by Horner and source music (material that would have been heard by the film's characters) such as the Irish jig played in steerage and the hymn Nearer My God to Thee.

It arrived on time and as described. As for the content, who can beat James Horner as a composer?

A few weeks ago, I read the Obituary for James Horner in the Washington Post.In that eulogy, the thought process that James Horner used to compose hisFilm Scores, and the one Compilation of his Serious Work--inspired me to orderthe Scores for two films...and the eventual CD of his serious work. He would view the film before he wrote the score, and it would help him to"hear" the path of sounds that the music would take in each part of the film. Well, that's my personal reason for purchasing the recording of the musiconly. I have never actually seen the movie, but I believe I have "felt" it throughhis music.

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Great music , though make sure you watch the film first!

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