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Angels in America
by Nonesuch
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Audio CD
Score
Publisher: Nonesuch
Format: Soundtrack
Playwright Tony Kushner adapted his sprawling meditation on the AIDS epidemic of the 80's into an equally epic, Mike Nichols-directed HBO miniseries. But while Thomas Newman’s score spans that dramatic landscape with rich stylistic diversity, the young champion of the daunting Newman family musical tradition (his father was Fox legend Alfred; his brother fellow film scorer David; his cousin songwriter/composer Randy) never lets musical bombast get in the way of compelling emotional introspection. Anchored by a delicate wind and string-driven main theme that’s as mature as it is bittersweet, Newman proceeds to explore some of the same adventurous, rhythmically restless soundscapes that characterized his work on Erin Brockovich and American Beauty. But that typically moody experimentalism is leavened elsewhere by moments of neo-baroque choral exultation, smokey 30's jazz (courtesy of George Lewis and his Ragtime Band and Duke Ellington) and even flashes of gospel and orchestral post-modernism, all of it served up with a masterful sense of irony-free restraint that’s become one of the composer’s most refreshing hallmarks. It’s easily one of Newman’s -- and 2003's -- most accomplished and satisfying film scores. --Jerry McCulley
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| Great condition for CD |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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The CD was as new, in great condition. The teeth for the round bit that holds the CD in the centre was broken, but that was very minor flaw, everything else was pretty much perfect, the case was even scratch free. Pleasure doing business. And of course the CD itself: in perfect condition.
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| Angels of America soundtrack missing something special! |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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It goes without saying that the music Tom wrote for this movie was amazing but I bought the cd for one reason only. I wanted the Elis Island piece that is on the DVD disc 1 at the end of the movie. It's not on there and it's by far the most beautiful version of that piece of music. I'm very disappointed. It only has the short version without the background violins and the effect on the lead obo. I hate it when they change things from what the movie has as a soundtrack. Needless to say, I didn't waste my money as I like all the music on the cd enough to buy it.
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| Angels in America |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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This is Thomas Newman at his very best with lush orchestration and sublime chords that are his trademark. The eerie vocals add a somewhat mysterious flavour to the album and embellish it enormously. Can't wait to now see the film .
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| Some of his best work |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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Most of us know Thomas Newman for his work on his more famous films like American Beauty, Shawshank Redemption, Scent of a Woman and Meet Joe Black, but this soundtrack to the HBO film is right up there with his best pieces of work. The whole album goes through various feelings, shades and emotions, the best tracks for me being Mauve Antarctica and Tropopause. If you're a Thomas Newman fan then you need this in your collection.
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| Angels in America - Always Great! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Love the film, the play and the soundtrack. If you find the topics of Angels in America interesting, thought-provoking and warm to your heart, you will LOVE this. As a man battling HIV, I find it outstanding. Thanks Amazon, for offering all the Angels in America products.
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Threshold of Revelation - Thomas Newman
Angels in America (Main Title) - Thomas Newman
Lesionnaire - Thomas Newman
Ellis Island - Thomas Newman
Acolyte of the Flux - Thomas Newman
Umdankbar Kind - Thomas Newman
The Ramble - Thomas Newman
Ozone - Thomas Newman
Pill Poppers - Thomas Newman
Quartet - Thomas Newman
Solitude - Duke Ellington
Bayeux Tapestry - Thomas Newman
Spotty Monster - Thomas Newman
Mauve Antarctica - Thomas Newman
Her Fabulous Incipience - Thomas Newman
The Infinite Descent - Thomas Newman
A Closer Walk With Thee - Lewis, George & His Ragtime Band
Broom of Truth - Thomas Newman
Submit! - Thomas Newman
Plasma Orgasmata - Thomas Newman
Delicate Particle Logic - Thomas Newman
The Mormons - Thomas Newman
Prophet Birds - Thomas Newman
More Life - Thomas Newman
Black Angel - Thomas Newman
Garden of the Soul - Thomas Newman
Heaven - Thomas Newman
Bethesda Fountain - Thomas Newman
The Great Work Begins (End Title) - Thomas Newman
Tropopause - Thomas Newman
I'm His Child - Zella Jackson-Price
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