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Martin Scorsese's energetic, visually rich biopic of billionaire industrialist Howard Hughes shrewdly eschews the strange, cloistered existence of the enigma's last quarter century to focus on his exploits as reckless heir, Hollywood playboy and record-setting aviator. The film's pop 'n' jazz oriented song-score colours its era and locales, but this rich, Golden Globe-nominated orchestral soundtrack by veteran Howard Shore explores the complex emotional landscape of its central character. Utilizing an orchestral palate that initially wends from the bright, neo-baroque promise of "Icarus" to the foreshadowing bombast of "Hollywood 1927" before turning ever more angular, modern and brooding, Shore's music increasingly gets beneath the skin of Hughes the man. It's a masterful symphonic portrait of an enfant terrible fighting a losing battle with his own demons, even as he's conquering every realm he chooses. --Jerry McCulley
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A new classic,
By Enoch Sneed "Enoch Sneed" (Lisbon, Portugal) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Aviator (Audio CD)
In the days when so many "soundtracks" are just compilations of pop tunes it is a relief to find an orchestral soundtrack that harks back to the glory days of composers such as Bernard Herrmann. Howard Shore's music for "The Aviator" is as good as *that*. It contains broad sweeps of excitement ("H-1 Racer Plane") and sinister, disturbing pieces ("Quarantine") reflecting Hughes's mental deterioration. The first track ("Icarus") has the qualities of a Bach fugue.
Highly recommended - and if you prefer the other type of soundtrack there is the "Music from The Aviator" album where you can hear the contemporary music of the 1920's, etc.
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4.2 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews) 27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Missing Song from Hells Angels War Scene & XF-11 Crash,
By Brandon Daniels - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Aviator (Audio CD)
There is a song that is not included on the CD, which is first used in the Hells Angels War Scene. It is also used at the beginning of the XF-11 Test Flight Scene before the plane crash. It is:
Composer: J.S. Bach Song: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 The part in the movie is actually the Fugue portion of the piece. There is good and accurate version of it on the album Bach Greatest Hits which is sold on amazon.com at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000003F5A/qid=1141862907/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9310035-0679004?s=music&v=glance&n=5174 Enjoy! 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Shore triumphs again!,
By James Luckard - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Aviator (Audio CD)
Howard Shore was one of Hollywood's most underrated composers for years before the Lord of the Rings trilogy finally brought him the wide acclaim he had always deserved. Any man who can summon up the bleak hopelessness of Seven and the charming whimsy of Mrs. Doubtfire is a true musical genius.
The Aviator is yet another Shore masterpiece. Listen to the first track and you could be forgiven for thinking you are listening to the work of a great classical composer. In truth, you are. The movie studios are the new patrons of orchestral composing, just as wealthy individuals and the church were in the time of Mozart and some of the best music in the world is out there among film scores if you look for it. Shore's score is bold and joyful. His main theme for the film especially is muscular and propulsive and beautifully orchestrated. His use of castanets is dazzling, hinting at both the Spanish influence on Hollywood at the time and at Hughes's growing madness. This is one of the great modern film scores. The film's producers should be commended for releasing it, and not just tacking a few score tracks at the end of the soundtrack album, as happens all too often. 10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Shore Soars the California Skies With "The Aviator",
By G M. Stathis - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Aviator (Audio CD)
Martin Scorsese's new epic film "The Aviator" makes broad use of a good deal of source material, songs and music from Hollywodd in the transitional period from the 1920s to the 1940s, a period also considered the "Golden Age" of Hollywood in general, and film scoring in particular. The source music is well represented on the "soundtrack" album. The film is also very indebted to an orchestral score by Howard Shore who has clearly now come into in his own. In the wake of "The Lord of the Rings," Shore would have been allowed something of a weak encore, but instead we have another musical triumph. Though not on a scale with "The Lord of the Rings," Shore's music for "The Aviator" proves again that Howard Shore is one of the great composers of film music(we cannot wait for his score for Peter Jackson's "King Kong"). The underlying motif here is the early growth of aviation in general and indeed in film through the life of Howard Hughes, all spectacular stories in and of themselves. Shore's score does indeed soar to this end with a grand main theme that is in the heroic category. The opening of the album has been described as a take on the Baroque, but in fact as that section and the rest of the score develops it is much more akin to what could be called contemporary classical music such as that of Paul Hindemith who did some of his best work in that so-called "Golden Age," the 1930s and the 1940s (note Hindemith's "Symphonic Metamorphisis of Themes by Carl Maria Von Weber" for instance-especially the "March"). As such Shore has done something quite remarkable, original but subtly reflective of the period depicted in the film (his inclusion of Spanish motifs is also in this vein). This is a dynamic, exciting and dramatic score that seems perfect for the time, the place, the figure, and the story. Sadly, some of the Shore music was replaced in the film with classical and source material. The album works quite well on its own, and is nicely produced and packaged by Decca. By the way, Shore conducts The Flemish Radio Orchestra. The performance is flawlewss, but this will be the answer to a trivia question sometime this year. A Golden Globe winner for Best Score, but amazingly left out of the running for the Academy Awards. The soundtrack album is ok but quite different than the "Original Score" album reviewed here.
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