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There Will Be Blood (Music from the Motion Picture)
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Track Listings
1 | Open Spaces |
2 | Future Markets |
3 | Prospectors Arrive |
4 | Eat Him by His Own Light |
5 | Henry Plainview |
6 | There Will Be Blood |
7 | Oil |
8 | Proven Lands |
9 | HW / Hope of New Fields |
10 | Stranded the Line |
11 | Prospector's Quartet |
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Guitarist Jonny Greenwood has composed a hauntingly dramatic instrumental score for Oscar-nominated writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's ambitious new film, "There Will Be Blood." The soundtrack will appeal to serious movie-music fans, who will appreciated this rare find: an intelligent, beautiful and deeply cinematic orchestrated score - performed by the BBC Orchestra and London Sinfonietta - that can hold its own next to the classic work of such composers as Bernard Herrman, Elmer Bernstein and Ennio Morricone
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This album marks Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood's first high-profile soundtrack--and one that's also easily among the most striking offerings of 2007. Music is particularly important for director Paul Thomas Anderson (remember Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love?) and here, his choice of Greenwood is a gamble that more than paid off. The score is extremely string-heavy, and tension (of which there's plenty in the Upton Sinclair-based movie) derives from them instead of the usual percussive Hollywood tropes (indeed, percussions are almost entirely absent from the CD). "Henry Plainview" and "Proven Lands" are part of a larger piece, Popcorn Superhet Receiver, that Greenwood wrote as Composer-in-Residence at the BBC; both cues display the musician's imaginative use of strings, suggestively scary on the first, pounding and creepy on the second. But Greenwood also knows when to bring in a new instrumental voice, as with the Satie-like piano on "Prospectors Arrive." Equally at ease writing for a string quartet and for a larger orchestra, Greenwood has come up with compositions closer to the new-music world that to the vast majority of scores coming out of Tinseltown--something we should be really grateful for. This is a new, exciting direction for film music. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 4.88 x 5.67 x 0.28 inches; 1.55 ounces
- Manufacturer : Nonesuch
- Original Release Date : 2007
- Date First Available : October 16, 2007
- Label : Nonesuch
- ASIN : B000XA50MK
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #43,266 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #453 in Movie Scores (CDs & Vinyl)
- #963 in Movie Soundtracks (CDs & Vinyl)
- #18,919 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
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I was disturbed when I learned the Greenwood score was not nominated for an Oscar. All other nominated scores, including the very pretty, ambitious one for Atonement, sound so forgettably conventional! Subsequently I learned that Jonny's does not qualify according to Academy rules because chunks of it consist of music he had previously composed and published, never-you-mind how artfully they are worked into the film. Pity, because recognition of the highest order is obviously deserved. Director and Music Editor are also deserving of highest praise.
Greenwood is that rare breed, a thoroughly classically trained musician (and violist) who "crossed-over" to become a superb rock guitarist now perhaps coming back to his classical roots. I'm rather glad he seems to finally be firmly out of his classical closet. Jonny Greenwood deserves a statuette of some sort.
In There Will be Blood I was totally mesmerized . As wonderful as DDL was in My Left Foot ,a brutally difficult role ,to play physically or
The butcher in Gangs Of Ny, he actually reaches another move up the ladder that you didnt think had another rung in this film,
In this movie about turn of the century oil wild catters in Ca. you feel the grime of the oil ,and being manipulated as he does with all that are around him. You see his extremely subtle gestures that you just know mean danger is around the corner .When he catches on that a man playing at being his brother there is the slightest of gesture that lets the watcher know something terrible is about to happen . Whether he reaching the audience with these very subtle moves or is screaming in your face ,you are petrified at what this man is capable of doing.
Who ever choose the haunting melodies or the exuberance of a violin just added to this tremendous performance.
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To buy it on vinyl though, the sound quality makes it a whole lot deeper (especially using surround sound)
Für Zitatesammler: Man vergleiche "Henry Plainview" bzw. "There Will Be Blood" (Titel 5 u. 6) mit "After The Rain" von Barry Guy (1992). Darüberhinaus "Proven Lands" (Titel 8) mit "Natures mortes" von Georg Friedrich Haas (2003).
Anspieltipp: Tracks 1 und 8
Abschließendes Urteil: Kaufen und genießen!
A. V.