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Munich [Soundtrack]

~ John Williams (Artist)
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Product details

  • Audio CD (25 Jan 2006)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Universal Classics
  • ASIN: B000CEV8Z0
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 39,454 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Munich, 1972 2:37£0.59
Listen  2. The Attack At Olympic Village 3:00£0.69
Listen  3. Hatikvah (The Hope) 2:02£0.69
Listen  4. Remembering Munich 4:38£0.69
Listen  5. Letter Bombs 2:48£0.69
Listen  6. A Prayer For Peace 3:51£0.69
Listen  7. Bearing The Burden 8:11£0.69
Listen  8. Avner And Daphna 4:02£0.69
Listen  9. The Tarmac At Munich 3:59£0.69
Listen10. Avner's Theme 3:07£0.69
Listen11. Stalking Carl 4:24£0.69
Listen12. Bonding 1:57£0.69
Listen13. Encounter In London And Bomb Malfunctions 3:37£0.69
Listen14. Discovering Hans 2:47£0.69
Listen15. The Raid In Tarifa 2:03£0.69
Listen16. Thoughts Of Home 4:03£0.59
Listen17. Hiding The Family 1:25£0.69
Listen18. End Credits 4:06£0.69


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Steven Spielberg directs an international cast in Munich, a suspense thriller set in the aftermath of the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Five-time Academy Award-winner John Williams, lends his musical talents to the film by composing and conducting the magnificent soundtrack. For Munich, Williams has created some of the most powerful and enduring film music of our time. With his sweeping score, he puts forth a feeling of intense emotion that takes the listener on a thought-provoking journey. With a career spanning over four decades, Williams has received 46 Oscar® nominations (more than any living person) and has won 5 Oscars®, 18 Grammy® Awards, 4 Golden Globes, 4 Emmy® Awards and 6 BAFTA Awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A prayer for peace, 2 Feb 2006
I've often thought that John Williams' scores perfectly reflect Steven Spielberg's films.

If Spielberg delivers a great film, Williams delivers a great score (Jaws, Raiders, ET, Schindler); if the film's unmemorable, the score is unmemorable, but still worth a look (Always, Hook); ditto underrated but entertaining (Catch Me If You Can), operating on auto-pilot (Temple of Doom, Last Crusade), hugely popular (Jurassic Park) or dull but worthy (Amistad).

Once again, this is the case with Munich: the film and music alike are at once moving, compelling, dark and complex.

The stand-out tracks are:
Hatikvah (The Hope) -- lush strings drawl out an aching theme of deep sadness; wind instruments join in to flesh out this beautiful, elegant Israeli melody.

Remember Munich -- female vocals over strings. This track packs an emotional punch, with the voice almost wailing with anguish.

Avner's Theme -- the main leitmotif of the film, repeated in several places throughout the film. Here it is elegantly picked out on solo classical guitar. A stately melody with a a hint of dissonance in the repeated two-chord refrain, that reflects the moral confusion of the film's protagonist.

Avner and Daphna -- an oboe high and clear intones the same melody from 'Remember Munich' which develops middle-eastern nuances, before full strings take over along more dynamic and complex lines.

End Credits -- a knockout reprise of the Avner theme. A doleful solo cello leads into a short version of the theme for full strings and then a heart-breaking rendition for solo piano, before the strings return to join the piano. Simply beautiful, the music delivers the equivalent of an emotional body-blow.

There is also a minimalist recurring cue with a repeated steady and implacable beat implying much: the tension of impending tragedy, the inevitability of escalating violent reprisals and the pulsing of blood as passions flare and reason diminishes.

This is not quite John Williams at the top of his game, but it's not far off it. Like the film, the music is the work of a true talent delivering a vital and daring piece of art.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning piece of work, 17 Jan 2006
I don't really know what to say apart from Munich is a incredibly moving piece of work by John Williams and that you will not regret buying it. There have been only a few soundtracks that have personally moved me and this is definitely one of them.

I look forward to listening to the next John Williams soundtrack.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Williams at his best, 11 Feb 2006
By Mr. Warren M. Fisher (East Grinstead, West Sussex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Sometimes lush and emotional, at other times spare and tormented, this is Willimas at his very best. Stand-out tracks include 'Munich 1972' and 'Remember Munich' where the soaring worldless soprano is reminiscent of Lisa Gerrard, 'Hatikvah (The Hope)' where the composer reworks the Israeli national anthem, 'Encounter in London & Bomb Malfunctions' where orchestral strings shift uneasily above an insistent electrical pulse, and 'Avner's Theme' which features the work's leitmotif repeated throughout, a haunting, simple melody. Throughout Williams refences Middle Eastern music, but never slips into pastiche and his trademark soaring orchestrations are never sentimental, backed as they are by other spare, sometimes arhythmic and almost atonal cues. The soundtrack is as dark and complex as the film itself, and ultimately just as rewarding.

Nominated for an Oscar and undoubtedly among Williams's best work, functioning as a the accompaniment to a singular film and worthy of consideration as a stand-alone piece.

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