The Mission: Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture
|
List Price: Our Price: $5.65 You Save: $6.29 (53%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $2.74 (click here) Category: Music CD See more new music releases 
|
|---|
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Free Music Notes for The Mission: Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture
Free Music Review: Pretty Awesome
Hit: 4 Stars
I originally fell in love with the piece "Gabriel's Oboe" before ever seeing the movie "The Mission". This soundtrack reiterates the Gabriel's Oboe theme throughout, and the great vocals of the native tribe groups are inspiring.
Free Music Review: Simply Divine
Hit: 5 Stars
Its hard to put into words what Morricone accomplished on this soundtrack. He simply touched the divine. This is a master of his craft in top form. He manages to capture the essence of what the film was about in such a way that it transcends the film entirely.
This is one of those rare cases where the score elevates and propels the script of a film to heights unaccessable by the film alone.
A true masterpiece.
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: Marvellous, but sill flawed
Hit: 3 Stars
The CD is another example of what popular music is, its truly great failure. Lack of development. Repeating itself. The superficial variety of the music is quite great: here there is a quite wellcome assemby of different musical idioms: the peaceful way (à la New Age) of "Falls" and "The Mission", the neobaroque of "Gabriel's oboe" (resembles the lyricism of the famous slow melody of the Marcello's oboe concerto, which was played in the preliminary version of the film which was presented to Morricone to induce him to write the score), the impulsive, vital and protean force of "primitive" people ("the river") and the idiom of the XX century music ("Refusal", "Alone"; some passages I find quite similar to Bartok's style). This last aspects may be less appealing to some people but I find them spiring and paradoxically the least flawed. And some tracks combine them eg the 1st juxtaposes the "gabriel" with the "river" themes. Other music present is choral sound, choral themes, very beautifull, sung by a choir which does not sound so polite (as villages must have sung that at that time).
What about the bad news? Morricone may create ravishing melodies but does not know to develop them and he repeats them several times with very little modifications. Other film music eg Lord of the rings or star wars can be more sofisticated without pretending him to be Beethoven (listen to the 1st mov of his famous 5th symphony: the 1st theme is based on the universally known ta-ta-ta-tooo and the sencond one on ta-re-ra-ro-ti-re-ra-ro; and he builds a 7 or more minutes movement with this, a much, much, much poorer material than "gabriel's oboe" tune. I think, which lasts 2 min).
Even though this failing aspect (with the same ideas a more competent composer could have written much more successful music) the scope of this score is far greater than that of "Cinema Paradiso", which is so awfully repetitive after listening to the CD soundtrack.
Free Music Review: The Mission: Beautiful Music
Hit: 5 Stars
One of the best soundtracks for a film ever - truly beautiful music that enhanced the narrative throughout the film.