Eastern Promises [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
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Composer: Howard ShoreEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Music Label: Sony Classics
Soundtracks:
- Eastern Promises
- Tatiana
- London Streets
- Sometimes Birth And Death Go Together
- Trafalgar Hospital
- Vory V Zakone
- Slavery And Suffering
- Nikolai
- Kirill
- Anna Khitrova
- Eagle And Star
- Nine Elms
- Like a Place In the Bible
- Trans-Siberian Diary
Music reviews of Eastern Promises [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Music Review: The newest masterpiece from Howard Shore has arrived!
Rating: 5 Stars
I will try not to sound cheesy, but i can't help myself, when a new Shore-composition comes out. The master of music has turned to the softer, more simple melodies, and that is most understandable, after the grand opera of the Lord of the Rings. Shore transforms easily to the small pieces of Cronenberg, his long time collaborator of two decades. The Maestro (And I grant only him and John Williams the title "maestro")uses hungarian and russian folk insteruments, such as the tarogato and the cimbalom, and they sound so new, so different. As a hungarian, it's so nice for me to know that he incorporates these interesting, center-eastern european music into his sophisticated, intimate western tunes. The clarinet and the violin also get major parts in this score, and Shore prevails again with, in my opinion an Oscar-worthy effort. I highly recommend this CD, because it is one from the more hummable pieces of Shore, similar like the superb The Departed, but much more eastern flavored. These could be put together as siblings, because they represent a certain stage of Howard Shore's career. I wonder where he's going next, because the man is on top of his game most definately. But he and I (and millions of Shore-likers too) want to have him do the Hobbit or another great epic. Let's pray to the God of Music. Until then, listen to this wonderful work of the Academy Award winning composer, Howard Shore.
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Description of Eastern Promises [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.This soundtrack marks composer Howard Shore's 12th collaboration with director David Cronenberg, and it's safe to say the two men have an almost symbiotic relationship at this point. Like its immediate predecessor, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises is a crime drama; this time around, however, it is set not in a very American town but among Russian gangsters in London. Shore evokes the milieu by incorporating "slavic" touches from a cimbalom (a type of hammered dulcimer), a balalaika (a triangular stringed instrument), and a tárogatóto (a woodwind) in his orchestrations, but thankfully he doesn't overdo it and turn the score into cheesy folklore. This is a taut, somber CD, where the main themes are performed by a solo violin (check out in particular "Nine Elms"). But the most arresting track may well be the slow, majestic "Slavery and Suffering", a traditional revolutionary song performed by the Red Army Choir. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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