John Williams - War of the Worlds
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Artist: John WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2005-06-28
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- Prologue (Narration: Morgan Freeman)
- The Ferry Scene
- Reaching The Country
- The Intersection Scene
- Ray And Rachel
- Escape From The City
- Probing The Basement
- Refugee Status
- The Attack On The Car
- The Separation Of The Family
- The Confrontation With Ogilvy
- The Return To Boston
- Escape From The Basket
- The Reunion (Narration: Morgan Freeman)
- Epilogue
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Free Music Review: A score that crawls up inside you and makes you shiver
Hit: 5 Stars
For War of the Worlds, John Williams reached for something not of this earth and composed a score that you feel on your skin, even before you become aware that you are actually hearing it. He has laid down a musical foundation of atmospherics and textural events, achieving a rhythmic propulsion that is so utterly primal it crawls up inside you and makes you wonder how one composer could make such a radical departure of style from such masterworks of melodic phrasing as the flying theme from E.T., to the enduring themes of the Star Wars series and come up with a new sound that gives War of the Worlds much of its ultra-realism. But that is the genuine genius of John Williams and the many characters he has played throughout a musical career that will never be equaled.
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John Williams continues his longtime collaboration with Steven Spielberg in this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel of the same name (previously filmed in 1953). Considering that the movie depicts a gigantic Martian invasion, you'd think Williams would have fully gone into his familiar bombastic mode, but he's refrained from doing so. While the composer makes full use of the outsize orchestra at his disposal, he prefers juxtaposing layers and building atmosphere rather than hitting you over the head with dramatic arias. "The Intersection Scene," for instance, begins slowly and minimally, then progressively builds into an ominous pounding; Williams then inserts spooky, otherworldly banshee-like effects that escalate into a frenzied pitch before abruptly disappearing as the track begins its descent back towards calm. The sound is genuinely scary and could lead to a spike in blood pressure among impressionable listeners without the help of visuals. "Probing the Basement" is another example of Williams masterfully building anxiety. War of the Worlds culminates with "Escape from the Basket," in which Williams methodically builds tension over close to ten minutes. And refreshingly, even when the action picks up, he mostly avoids the clich?d thundering timpani that often plague this type of score. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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