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A
commentary from Ed Zwick: |
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At
the heart of every story is a sound - somthing so deep that it resonates
like a pressure in your chest. It is this feeling that the film composer
seeks to make heard; not merely to undersocer the chases, clinches,
climaxes, or to smooth over the directional inadequacies of soft cuts
and shaky transitions, but to give voice to an inner life - it's soul,
if such a thing can be said of film. I first worked with James Horner
on Glory. What he evoked with the piping voices if Harlem Boys Choir
endowed its images with a grace and tragedy no dialogue could ever
express. As we began work on Legends of the Fall, we talked a lot
about its atavistic nature - the dark and the bloody heart, a love
both overwhelming and destructive, the strunggle of brothers for their
birthright. We also talked a great deal about the melodies of the
"old" place (Cornwall, England) from which these people
had come;and the sounds of the new place (Montana, it's native rhythms,
its wildness) which had come to represent family and the ties that
bind.
All I can say is that somehow James managed to distill all these lofty
conversations into a score that is once brooding and lush, redolent
of both love and loss, and that touches that secret place of awe I
had experienced only once before - upon my first reading of Legends
of the Fall.
I wish to add my thanks to two soloists who joined James in the perfomance
of this score: Jay Ungar, whose fiddle solos so elevated Ken Burns'
documentary, The Civil War; and Kazu Matsui, perhaps the world's foremost
interpreter of the Japanese wood flute, the shakuhachi. |
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Epic
Soundtrax EK 66462
THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Music Composed, Conducted And Produced by JAMES HORNER
Orchestrations by Thomas Pasatieri and Don Davis
1. Legends of the Fall (4:17)
2. The Ludlows (5:40)
3. Off to War (5:55)
4. To the Boys (2:49)
5. Samuel's Death (8:24)
6. Alfred Moves to Helena (3:01)
7. Farewell/ Descent Into Madness (8:13)
8. The Changing Seasons/ Wild Horses, Tristan's Return (5:11)
9. The Wedding (3:06)
10. Isabel's Murder, Recollections of Samuel (3:58)
11. Revenge (6:20)
12. Goodbyes (3:12)
13. Alfred, Tristan, The Colonel, The Legend... (15:09)
TOTAL TIME (75:17)
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Review:
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It's
the most perfect sountrack I have ever heard. The emotivity and
the sensibility are presents in this great music that it can't never
be hard to listen. Like somebody told me "If music is emotivity,
Legends of the Fall is the clue to know what is music. |
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Score:
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Tecnical
information |
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TRI STAR
PICTURES
Directed by Edward Zwick
Screenplay by Susan Shilliday and Bill Wittliff
Exective producer Patrick Crowley
Producer by Ed Zwick, Bill Wittliff and Marshall Herskovitz
Music by James Horner
Cast:
Brad Pitt
Anthony Hopkins
Aidan Quin
Julia Ormond
Henry Thomas |
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