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Titus [SOUNDTRACK]

~ Elliot Goldenthal
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (21 Aug 2000)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Sony Classical
  • ASIN: B00003W7Z4
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 196,198 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Victorius Titus (Vocal)Elliot Goldenthal 2:58£0.69
Listen  2. Procession & Obsequis (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 3:00£0.69
Listen  3. Revenge Wheel (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal0:52£0.69
Listen  4. Tribute & Suffrage (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 4:17£0.69
Listen  5. Arrows Of The Gods (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 1:31£0.69
Listen  6. An Offering (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 2:03£0.69
Listen  7. Crossroads (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 3:24£0.69
Listen  8. Vortex (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 1:32£0.69
Listen  9. Swing Rave (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 1:53£0.69
Listen10. Ill-Fated Plot (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 2:20£0.69
Listen11. Pickled Heads (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 5:05£0.69
Listen12. Tamora's Pastorale (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 1:13£0.69
Listen13. Titus Vow (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 3:42£0.69
Listen14. Mad Ole Titus (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 2:27£0.69
Listen15. Philimelagram (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 1:45£0.69
Listen16. Pressing Judgement from "A Time To Kill" (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 3:32£0.69
Listen17. Aaron's Plea (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 2:01£0.69
Listen18. Coronation (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 1:53£0.69
Listen19. Apian Stomp (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 1:32£0.69
Listen20. Adagio (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 2:24£0.69
Listen21. Finale (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 8:33£0.69
Listen22. Vivere (Instrumental)Elliot Goldenthal 3:33£0.69

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Adapted from Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Julie Taymor's debut feature is a visionary, maverick work comparable more to Apocalypse Now and Fight Club than conventional cinema. Consequently, composer Elliot Goldenthal (who is also the director's husband) has delivered a wild, iconoclastic score that stands not only as his own best film work but also among the most genuinely innovative soundtracks in years.

Goldenthal is not new to Shakespeare, and his score compliments and expands on his approach to the ballet Othello. Titus opens with a massive, overwhelming Latin choral chant, "Victorius Titus", before accompanying the titular anti-hero's bloody rampage with everything from snarling, decadent 1930s-style big band jazz, to atmospheric electronics (including a track lifted from his A Time to Kill score), and, in "Pickled Heads", thrash metal. Essentially though, Titus is an epic orchestral score, building to the fatalistic intensity of the eight-minute "Finale" with exceptional power and imagination. Just as the film fuses images across the centuries, Goldenthal assimilates his past film work, including particular references to the agitated string motifs from Alien 3. Yet out of this pastiche something new emerges, something shocking, exhilarating, raw and bloody-boned. A challenge to other directors and composers to go to the edge and jump right over. --Gary S Dalkin

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5.0 out of 5 stars An epic fusion of genres., 1 Oct 2000
By Ian Armer (Lancashire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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The score for TITUS is not only Goldenthal's best work since his groundbreaking score for ALIEN 3, but his finest work full stop. A fusion of swing, rock, dance, vast orchestral arrangements and jazz, TITUS is, and this is no word of a lie, a crazed, often alarming, darkly humourous and yet deeply moving masterpiece. The opening track "Victorius Titus" is suitably atmospheric with the chanting male choir, heavy brass and swirling strings. This segues into the track "Procession & Obsequis" that alternates between a darker, subterranean male choir (as is fitting for the sequence it accompanies), but also brings forth tragic sweetness and joy in the "Obsequis" movement, picked up again and again in other tracks. The swing/jazz is used in the film to convey the orgiastic Roman decadence, the rock and dance for scenes concerning Demetrius and Chiron, villians both, as well as the evil Aaron, who, along with tamora, is the downfall of Titus Andronicus and his family. All beautifully reflected in this wonderful music; tragedy, violence, insanity (mental and physical), tenderness and revenge too far, all ingredients mixed together to make TITUS a worthy purchase. You've never heard anything like it. The sad thing is you probably never will again...
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5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Genius, 25 Jun 2008
By Mr. Warren M. Fisher (East Grinstead, West Sussex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Titus (Audio CD)
This groundbreaking score cemented Goldenthal's reputation as one of the finest film composers at work today. Dark, barbaric and haunting, as befits Shakespeare's bloodiest play, this is a unique work, whose influence can be heard again and again right up to today (Tyler Bates' '300' score to name just one). I can even forgive the couple of dodgy big-band numbers that seem out of place beside the savage rock and tormented, ecstatic post-minimalist classical.

If there is any doubt lingering, this erased it, Elliot Goldenthal is a stone-cold genius.
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