Dinosaur: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack

Dinosaur: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack

Dinosaur: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
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Composer: James Newton Howard
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2000-05-02
Music Label: Walt Disney Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Inner Sanctum/The Nesting Grounds
  2. The Egg Travels
  3. Aladar & Neera
  4. The Courtship
  5. The End Of Our Island
  6. They're All Gone
  7. Raptors/Stand Together
  8. Across The Desert
  9. Finding Water
  10. The Cave
  11. The Carnotaur Attack
  12. Neera Rescues The Orphans
  13. Breakout
  14. It Comes With A Pool
  15. Kron & Aladar Fight
  16. Epilogue

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Free Music Review: A wonderfully epic score -- not the usual Disnay fare
Hit: 5 Stars

The score to Dinosaur is not your typical Disney animated fare. Except for perhaps Elmer Bernstein's Black Cauldron, and Jerry Goldsmith's Mulan, no Disney animation has had such a full and rich score worthy of the greatest live action movies. Ever since 1998, animated films have come out with massive full orchestral scores that were never attempted before. And Dinosaur is possibly the best of them all so far

There are so many great tracks on Dinosaur, I don't know where to begin. Right off the bat it starts off with a very pretty choir on top of gorgeuos harp and string work in 'Inner Sacntum - The Nesting Grounds'. Then the next track, 'The Egg Travels' eventually turns into a wonderful lush string piece, and finnally the first statement of the bold and bombastic main theme. This theme is heard all over the place, including in 'Raptors - Stand Together', 'Breakout', and 'Epilogue' (which also has that lush string theme). 'Raptors - Stand Together' as well as 'Across the Desert' also have my favortie theme, and even more bold brass theme. The third big theme, an African sounding thing, is heard in 'The Courtship' as well as 'It Comes With a Pool'

In fact, the score to Dinosaur relys alot on African rhythms and chants. The same voices that did the chants in The Lion King are back, heard extensively in 'The Courship', 'Across the Desert', and 'It Comes With a Pool'. Beyond all this, there is wonderful slow lush melodic material heard in 'Aladar and Neera' as well as 'Neera Rescues the Orphans'.

Overall, I can't say enough how good this music is. I highly recommend this to anyone, and it's great to see Disney finally releasing a soundtrack that not only has no songs, but most of the score on it. Hopefully this is a sign of great things to come from Disney and Howard, but for now, just buy this and enjoy the great music this CD has to offer.

Dinosaur: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack Poster

With his score to the effects-heavy Disney dazzler Dinosaur, James Newton Howard proves there's no emotion or action he's beyond evoking with convincing bravado through his prodigious command of melody. Beginning with the water-pure, exploratory, near new-agey opening track, "Inner Sanctum/The Nesting Grounds," Howard sets his listeners up for a range of emotions. Danger and adventure come with "The End of Our Island," a highly textured face-off between hunter and hunted with excellent cymbal- and timbale-driven percussion. "Raptors/Stand Together" has a creepy sense of stalking, and "The Carnotaur Attack," is every bit as ominous as the theme to Jaws. Then there's "Kron & Aladar Fight" with a clashing that suggests chaotic energy. A mood of triumph comes with the inspiring march "Across the Desert," and "Finding Water" satisfies with its quality of resolution. "Breakout" provides the unmistakable sense of succeeding at some Sisyphean task and attendant celebrations. Traditional African rhythms, as on "The Courtship," support vocal arrangements by Grammy- and Tony-Award winning Lebo M. (best known for his work on The Lion King) and sometimes chirpy, cheerful chanting, as in "It Comes with a Pool." Less gut-driven but not a pinch less powerful is the gentle, beautiful "The Cave," an orchestral piece well worth several punches of any CD player's Repeat button. For a closer, this 16-song CD's "Epilogue" sweepingly parts the clouds to reveal sunshine and hope as only Disney could and, as usual, it works. In a little less than an hour, the Dinosaur soundtrack succeeds in taking its listeners on a 65-million-year journey without a regrettable moment. --Tammy La Gorce

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