Kingdom of Heaven

Kingdom of Heaven Artist: Iestyn Davies (connter-tenor) , Catherine Bott (soprano) , and Harry Gregson-Williams
Label: Sony
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 827969441923
EAN: 0827969441923
ASIN: B00080EUN0


Release Date: 2005-04-26

Kingdom of Heaven


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Tracks:

  1. Burning the Past
  2. Crusaders- Harry Gregson-Williams
  3. Swordplay
  4. A New World
  5. To Jerusalem
  6. Sibylla
  7. Ibelin
  8. Rise a Knight
  9. The King
  10. The Battle of Kerak
  11. Terms
  12. Better Man
  13. Coronation
  14. An Understanding
  15. Wall Breached
  16. The Pilgrim Road
  17. Saladin
  18. Path to Heaven
  19. Light of Life (Ibelin Reprise)- Harry Gregson-Williams

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Filmmaker Ridley Scott has long been intrigued by historical events and their contemporary echoes, a fascination that evinces itself again here in the violent tale of Balian of Ibelin (Orlando Bloom), a Jerusalem blacksmith who rallies his people against foreign invaders during the Crusades of the 12th century. Breaking with a successful modern collaboration with Hans Zimmer that yielded such eclectic riches as <I>Gladiator</I>, <I>Hannibal</I>, <I>Black Hawk Down</I>, and <I>Matchstick Men</I>, Scott turned here to fellow Englishman/former Zimmer associate Harry Gregson-Williams for his new film's music. The composer, perhaps weary of the electronica-suffused action film cliches he's so often been associated with, rises admirably to the occasion with a sweeping orchestral score that masterfully trades on a wealth of disparate historical and stylistic influences. Gregson-Williams echoes the film's religious and cultural conflicts via the tense musical axis at the soundtrack's core, one that sets the invading Church's medieval choral ecclesiastics on a collision course with the ancient Arabic modalities of the film's hero. The resulting score may occasionally trade on hoary Hollywood romantic traditions, but the composer infuses them with such bracing doses of historical/ethnic antecedents—and his own decidedly contemporary instincts—as to create a compelling new whole. Even the obligatory, pop-oriented version of Ibellin's Theme ("Light of Life") by Natacha Atlas shimmers with Middle Eastern-inflected enticement. <I>--Jerry McCulley</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars better than the film.......2007-05-24

the music was the best thing about the film. But when you listen to it i can't recall anything from the film at all. Oh well.

5 out of 5 stars Amazing Music from Harry-Gregson Williams.......2007-03-12

There is too much to say concerning this score, so I will keep my review rather curt. This is one of the best action/epic film scores ever written. Williams wrote the music for the Chronicles of Narnia in the same year as Kingdom of Heaven, and although the Narnia score was excellent, it cannot compare to the wonderfully artful music delivered in Kingdom of Heaven. I own over 200 film soundtracks and this is one that spins in my CD changer most often.

5 out of 5 stars Awesome music!.......2007-01-06

My 13 year old daughter took this from me, and now has loaded it in her ipod. she loves it, and I hear it coming from her earphones all the time. (That makes me happy considering some of the junk out there) I personally love it too! The music brings back the memories of the wonderful movie, but it is beautiful to listen to regardless. I definitely recommend for anyone who enjoys beautiful music.

4 out of 5 stars "Borrows" from the late Jerry Goldsmith's "The 13th Warrior".......2006-12-27

I am an avid collector of film scores (Over 160 thus far) and many are VERY rare/valuable. I personally do not own this Gregson-Williams score (I've seen the movie) but it works quite well in the film. There is only one thing I want readers to know: Just as the final, climactic battle sequence is beginning, Orlando Bloom is giving a speech to his brothers in arms....listen to the music at that moment. If you're an avid collector such as I am, you'll notice that the music playing is actually the piece entitled "Valhalla/Viking Victory" from Jerry Goldsmith's "The 13th Warrior". I don't know how Gregson-Williams got permission to use excerpts from that piece in this film, considering Goldsmith passed away in 2004 (Before Kingdom of Heaven was released). Anyway, not EVERYTHING heard in the film is original Gregson-Williams music. I do not know if the piece is also heard on the CD.

5 out of 5 stars The Path to Heaven.......2006-12-02

The chopped up theatrical release of this film fell short of the Oscar gold of Ridley Scott's previous epic, Gladiator, whereas the director's cut showed us what might have been, a much more complex masterpiece than that film.

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