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Enigma - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

~ John Barry
4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (5 Feb 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Universal Classics
  • ASIN: B00005OC0B
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 33,790 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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    #24 in  Music > Classical Instrumental > Performers > A-Z > C-D > Concertgebouw Orchestra
    #47 in  Music > Soundtracks > Composers > Barry, John

Track Listings

1. Main Title
2. Where Does One Pee?
3. Police Chase
4. The Quarry
5. Tom Explain's Enigma
6. Is That What Happned?
7. Wigram Arrives
8. The Convoy
9. Waiting for Signals
10. Tom Goes to Cottage
11. She Moved On
12. Simply Wonderful / Finding Crib
13. Trip to Beaumanor
14. At Beaumanor
15. The Train
16. Goodbye to Hester
17. Puck Dies
18. London 1946
19. End Credits
20. The Black Bottom
See all 22 tracks on this disc

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
For Enigma, John Barry's first score of the 21st century, Britain's most successful film composer returns to the espionage genre with which he made his cinematic name. However this story of code-breaking during World War II is far removed from James Bond, and Barry's score is very much in the romantic vein he has explored since Robin and Marion (1976). Founded on a warmly nostalgic yet distant piano theme, a sense of English pastoral melancholy runs throughout, lyrical cues mixing with low key suspense cuts such as the slow-burning five minutes of tension which is "The Convoy". Significant to the score is an extract from Vaughan Williams' Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus, a series of English folksong variants written just before the outbreak of World War II, the combination of folk and classical elements clearly influencing Barry's own musical sensibility. It is only to be regretted that the full piece was not included, as there is ample space remaining on the 56-minute disc. The programme is completed by two period tunes--the exciting big band jazz of "Big Bottom" by Benny Berigan and his Orchestra and the heartfelt love song, "You'll Never Know", sung by Anne Shelton. Not classic John Barry, but an album with much to reward the composer's many fans.--Gary S Dalkin

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5.0 out of 5 stars After a 2 1/2 year wait Barry comes up with another winner, 16 Oct 2001
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John Barry's last new release was the wonderful jazz score, 'Playing by Heart' in April 1999. Now we have his score for 'Enigma' and it is well worth the wait. Two beautiful melodies for the female characters in the film plus some wonderful Barry spy mood music make this a CD which gets better each time it's played. There are those who complain that recent Barry scores are just retreading old ground but this music suits the film perfectly and is beautifully crafted by one of the true greats of late 20th/early 21st century music. Nearly 40 years after he worked on 'The James Bond Theme' for Dr.No, John Barry continues to produce film music as good as, or better than anyone else working in the field.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Spy music for a spy film, 30 Oct 2001
By A Customer
Nobody does this musical genre more niftily than long-time film composer John Barry. As with so many films on which he has worked, if this project had had a different composer, (one that went in for the kind of rampant overproduction currently so popular), then this film would not have had half the tension it does.

Barry makes full use of his techniques for generating mystery and suspense, shifting effortlessly from a warm romantic piano theme to the literal enigma underlying the story represented by changes of key and an insistent xylophone motif.

Although not at all sassy or twangy in the way Barry's work used to be, this is proper spy music for an Eagle comic type spy adventure, and it makes you realise how empty the recent Bond films are without it.

Go on, buy it!

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