The Mission: Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture
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Free Music Notes for The Mission: Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture
Free Music Review: On Earth as It is in Heaven
Hit: 5 Stars
That track says it all about this soundtrack. And the first cue is the main reason to buy the soundtrack. It's a beautiful theme that has a great choir, Indian instruments, and some great violin playing. It's just awesome.Then there's the track "Falls" which is very pretty. It is just awesome. "Gabriel's Oboe" is another great track, and is a very pretty oboe piece. "Ave Maria Guarani" is a beautiful choir cue that is just beautiful. It's brings old church songs to your mind. "Brothers" is a good cue has guitar and flute playing very nicely. "Vita Nostra" in the movie is the first appearance of a wonderful motif that I can't really label. But's it's pretty and is built upon later in "The River" and in "On Earth as it is in Heaven" It's great! "The Mission" is a nice cue that sees the Falls theme continued in better detail. "River" is another outstanding edition of the motif experience before in "Vita Nostra" this one is a little better though. "Te Deum Gurani" is another piece like "Ave Maria" it's a little different. But it's very pretty. Then comes the battle scences that includes some great Indian instrumentation. of the highlights here are "Ascunsion", "Gurani", and "The Sword" which has "Gabriel's Oboe" in it with a twist. And "Miserere" is just plain sad. You have to listen to "On Earth as It is in Heaven" one more time, because in the movie it is actually is after "Miserere" in the movie.
A must have for any soundtrack lover!
Free Music Review: Ethereal
Hit: 5 Stars
This is Morricone at the height of his career. Here he created a score as mysterious and ethereal as the jungles and waterfalls depicted in the film "The Mission." Using a combination of flutes, oboes, strings, choral and other odd wind instruments, Morricone created both a unique and haunting experience that will leave you spellbound long after the last notes have faded from the air. The score could almost be classifed as a requiem, in this case a tribute to a people that are gone (the Guarani natives depicted in this film who were long ago driven from their homes) and the Jesuits who gave their lives to protect them. From the opening scene of the film, the score announces itself as the dominant character in the narrative, taking us from the lonely plight of a missionary on a cross, to the streets of colonial Asuncion, to the mist shrouded rain forest above the falls and the fateful mission where lives and beliefs will be tested to the core, combining native motifs with deep and sweeping string movements to fill in the places in the story where actors and the dialogue are silent, allowing the music to bring us down into an intimate place of reflection where we can embrace the sadness and the transformation that this film evokes. The only piece that I can compare this work to is Richard Strauss' "Death and Transfiguration," both works leave me shaken and nearly moved to tears. However, it's a deeply rewarding feeling to come in contact with works as profound as these. Buy "The Mission" and you will find yourself instantly transported to a place as rare as the bygone world the film depcits.
Free Music Review: haunting, beautiful, and timeless
Hit: 5 Stars
I remember coming to a full appreciation of this soundtrack whilst viewing the excellent film on a home video rental such a long time ago...I tried to record it putting a tape recorder as the final credits rolled...now many years later i was able to purchase this soundtrack on CD and it sounds timeless...the opening track pulls you in with it's eclectic old world chorus that has a touch of the exotic...andean type instruments that play along with the orchestra....Gabriel's Oboe was the haunting piece that has stuck with me forever...although you don't have to watch nor love the film to enjoy this soundtrack, everytrime I listen to this album images from the film appear...there are many other exquisite tracks here...some that you will perhaps skip over the first time but then return to, as they grow on you...this soundtrack was so inspiring that the Jesuits in Puerto Rico actually used it as the background to their recruiting ads...the soundtrack was so moving, so strong, that I even entertained the idea of becoming a Jesuit...that's how powerfuly this soundtrack swayed me...if you loved the film, you'll love the soundtrack..if you didn't watch the film there is still a good chance you'll love it as it stands on it own....Free Music Review: The Mission Succeeds
Hit: 5 Stars
I saw the Mission in 1987 when it first debuted. I loved it then and I love seeing it again on DVD two decades later. The music is beautiful; the story tragic, with a strong cathartic ending which enriches the story well-chosen. Robert De Nero and Jeremy Irons work well together here along with the Anglo-American-Irish and Latin American support cast.
The South American setting with its breath-taking scenery could not be improved upon anywhere else in the world.
The native tribes too are genuine and their story and lives are worth preserving for the sake of all humanity.
The human tragic story is life-affirming and not totally despairing.
The quotation from the gospel of John stating that the light of God's
love will not be dissolved by the darkness of this tragedy and others tragedies.
Our species on this planet needs to improve - two centuries later- and The Mission emphasizes this from beginning to end.
Free Music Review: buy this, it will reach inside you
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a truly fantastic soundtrack.
My personal favourite song is a small, overlooked gem, a short piece called "Brothers". A simple tune, flute and guitar. So clean, so soul-touching. It belongs to a relatively inconsequential scene of the movie, when Rodrigo is training his brother Felipe on his horseriding skills. It is a song that exudes tranquility, transmits the joy of living. In less than a minute and a half (even shorter in the movie).
I could listen to it all day long. It's not one of the "great" tunes in the movie (no big orchestra, no choir, no weight, no top scene to go with it), but if I had to keep only one song from this soundtrack, "Brothers" would be mine.
One of the nicest songs I have ever heard, a masterpiece. To me, the CD would be worth it if it were only for this song, but there's many more beautiful and more famous songs (Gabriel's Oboe, On Earth as it is in heaven, etc) of which the same could be said. Buy it.