Rome: Music from the HBO Series
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Composer: Jeff BealEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2007-02-20
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
- Rome Main Title Theme
- The Forum
- Terrible News
- Niobe's Theme
- The Battle Has Begun (Caesar's Theme)
- Octavian & Octavia's Themes
- Riot In The Senate, Pullo Finds The Gold
- Caesar Reunites With Servilla
- Janus Breaks
- Marshall Law, The Temple
- Caesar's Seizure
- Hell Hath No Fury
- Vorenus Made Evocati, Servillia's Curse
- Farwells, The Storm
- The Raft
- The Death Of Pompey
- Octavia Seduces Octavian
- Cleopatra Seduces Caesar
- Triumph
- Mark Antony & Atia
- Vorenus Saves Pullo
- The Murder Of Julius Caesar
- Niobe's Fate
Free Music Notes for Rome: Music from the HBO Series
Free Music Review: Excellent, outstanding, beautiful work by Jeff Beal!
Hit: 5 Stars
I've just received my CD today (22 Feb, 2007) and am sampling it for the first time. If you're a fan of HBO's "ROME" this soundtrack brings all of the resonance, texture and fabric of the series to life for your pleasure anywhere. If you haven't seen the series, this album is good enough to stand alone as wonderful background while you work, read or relax. Each individual track is strong and characteristic of it's particular part of the story. For the historical minded, it's raw pagan sounds bring ancient Rome to life. There are even bits of dialogue sprinkled amongst the tracks. I highly recommend it as musicianship at it's most creative.
From the album booklet, Bruno Heller, producer: "We asked Jeff for a score that does all the things scores are meant to do; evoking tension, pity, fear, pathos, irony, joy; but yet a score that felt like it might have been made by Romans, something strange and beautiful. Jeff delivered exactly what we asked for - powerful music, both strange and beautiful, that conjures up a very real but long-lost world."
Rome: Music from the HBO Series Poster
After Carnivŕle, Jeff Beal has given HBO another Emmy-nominated score, this time for the tale of sex, politics, and togas known as Rome. There's a long history of fabulously grand scores in the sword-and-sandals genre (Miklós Rózsa's Ben-Hur, Alex North's Cleopatra) but according to Beal HBO wasn't interested in classic big orchestral compositions, so he worked on a smaller--yet still lush--scale that emphasizes the ethnic instruments that could be found in the farther reaches of the Roman Empire. A Middle Eastern influence, for instance, can clearly be heard on "Rome Main Title Theme," "The Forum" and "Janus Breaks," among many others. If there's one signature sound on the CD, it's the recurring use of the flute, which can suggest emotions ranging from romantic ("Octavian & Octavia's Themes") to melancholy (paired with strings on "Farewells, the Storm") to dread (combined with percussion on "Caesar's Seizure"). The album starts running out of steam about two thirds of the way through, however, making one pine for a bit of orchestral bang for one's buck. --Elisabeth VincentelliPop Music CDs
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