Star Trek - Nemesis

Jerry Goldsmith - Star Trek - Nemesis

Star Trek - Nemesis
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Artist: Jerry Goldsmith
Brand: GOLDSMITH,JERRY
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2002-11-26
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
  1. Remus
  2. The Box
  3. My Right Arm
  4. Odds and Ends
  5. Repairs
  6. The Knife
  7. Ideals
  8. The Mirror
  9. The Scorpion
  10. Lateral Run
  11. Engage
  12. Final Flight
  13. A New Friend
  14. A New Ending

Music reviews of Star Trek - Nemesis

Music Review: Dark and Sentimental
Rating: 5 Stars

Jerry Goldsmith has now scored exactly half of the Star Trek films and each one is a treasure in itself. His latest effort, "Nemesis," builds nicely on themes established in "The Motion Picture," "The Final Frontier," "First Contact," and "Insurrection" and blends them into a dark and driving original score. I can not wait to hear how this score plays in the theatre.

Goldsmith sets the audience up for a different listening experience in the first track by cleverly cutting off his familar arrangement of Alexander Courage's fanfare with the heavy "Remus" theme. Many of the tracks contain an almost military pulse to them (Think "Empire Strikes Back"), but there's also plenty of reflective sentiment here. Just listen to the tracks "My Right Arm," "Repairs," "Ideals" or "A New Friend." The classic main theme makes quite a few appearences, always a welcome touch.

A nice highlight of the score is that Goldsmith has at long last managed to combine the orchesteral and electronic elements so that the electronic pulses don't overpower (As in "The Motion Picture") or seem out of place (As in "Insurrection"). Though the earlier tracks make the most use of the electronic instruments, the delicate balance is maintained throughout. Goldsmith seamlessly weaves the different sounds. The real treat of the album is the final track, "A New Ending." Begining with a lovely and simple qoute from Irving Berlin's famous "Blue Skies," a very traditonal orchestration of the main theme then bookends probably the best piece of music on the album. It is a beautiful new piece that closes the album nicely with a great sense of dignity...and perhaps (sadly) finality.

If the album has any weakness it is that, like "Insurrection" before it, it is too brief. Though totally enjoyable as it is, I would have like to hear more of the lighter music. Only "My Right Arm" is a totaly quiet piece, but it's brief and is a reintroduction of a theme first established in "The Final Frontier." Still, if this turns out to be the last journey of the Next Generation crew, then Goldsmith has sent them out in stlye. However, if there are more journies to be had, I hope that Jerry Goldsmith goes along with them.

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Description of Star Trek - Nemesis

14 tracks Goldsmith score.
Alexander Courage may have given the sprawling Star Trek franchise its signature musical fanfare, but for two decades it's been composer Jerry Goldsmith who's periodically infused the film and TV cycles with their crucial musical heart and soul or, as in the case of this rousing masterwork, their fire and fury. Giving nearly free reign to his notably modernist muse, the veteran has turned in a dark and driving orchestral maelstrom that's relieved only by its edgy, occasionally synth-burnished passages of alien intrigue and mounting suspense. Underpinned by bracing blasts of massive brass worthy of Bernard Herrmann and powered by Goldsmith's passionate sense of drama and mastery of orchestral color and dynamics, it's a score that not only ranks among the best of the imposing Trek musical catalog, but certainly one of the composer's most accomplished sci-fi scores of the last 20 years. --Jerry McCulley

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