Angels in America

Angels in America Artist: Thomas Newman
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music


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


UPC: 075597983722
EAN: 0075597983722
ASIN: B0000TAZB0


Release Date: 2003-12-02

Angels in America


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Tracks:

  1. Threshold of Revelation - Thomas Newman
  2. Angels in America (Main Title) - Thomas Newman
  3. Lesionnaire - Thomas Newman
  4. Ellis Island - Thomas Newman
  5. Acolyte of the Flux - Thomas Newman
  6. Umdankbar Kind - Thomas Newman
  7. The Ramble - Thomas Newman
  8. Ozone - Thomas Newman
  9. Pill Poppers - Thomas Newman
  10. Quartet - Thomas Newman
  11. Solitude - Duke Ellington
  12. Bayeux Tapestry - Thomas Newman
  13. Spotty Monster - Thomas Newman
  14. Mauve Antarctica - Thomas Newman
  15. Her Fabulous Incipience - Thomas Newman
  16. The Infinite Descent - Thomas Newman
  17. A Closer Walk With Thee - Lewis, George & His Ragtime Band
  18. Broom of Truth - Thomas Newman
  19. Submit! - Thomas Newman
  20. Plasma Orgasmata - Thomas Newman
  21. Delicate Particle Logic - Thomas Newman
  22. The Mormons - Thomas Newman
  23. Prophet Birds - Thomas Newman
  24. More Life - Thomas Newman
  25. Black Angel - Thomas Newman
  26. Garden of the Soul - Thomas Newman
  27. Heaven - Thomas Newman
  28. Bethesda Fountain - Thomas Newman
  29. The Great Work Begins (End Title) - Thomas Newman
  30. Tropopause - Thomas Newman
  31. I'm His Child - Zella Jackson-Price

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Amazon.com

Playwright Tony Kushner adapted his sprawling meditation on the AIDS epidemic of the 80's into an equally epic, Mike Nichols-directed HBO miniseries. But while Thomas Newman's score spans that dramatic landscape with rich stylistic diversity, the young champion of the daunting Newman family musical tradition (his father was Fox legend Alfred; his brother fellow film scorer David; his cousin songwriter/composer Randy) never lets musical bombast get in the way of compelling emotional introspection. Anchored by a delicate wind and string-driven main theme that's as mature as it is bittersweet, Newman proceeds to explore some of the same adventurous, rhythmically restless soundscapes that characterized his work on <I>Erin Brockovich</I> and <I>American Beauty</I>. But that typically moody experimentalism is leavened elsewhere by moments of neo-baroque choral exultation, smokey 30's jazz (courtesy of George Lewis and his Ragtime Band and Duke Ellington) and even flashes of gospel and orchestral post-modernism, all of it served up with a masterful sense of irony-free restraint that's become one of the composer's most refreshing hallmarks. It's easily one of Newman's -- and 2003's -- most accomplished and satisfying film scores. <I>--Jerry McCulley</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Angels in America - Always Great!.......2007-01-03

Love the film, the play and the soundtrack. If you find the topics of Angels in America interesting, thought-provoking and warm to your heart, you will LOVE this. As a man battling HIV, I find it outstanding. Thanks Amazon, for offering all the Angels in America products.

5 out of 5 stars GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-11-01

There are not enough stars on the selection for me to say how good this CD is! It is so beautiful and like classical music. I listen to it all the time!

5 out of 5 stars The Celestial Xpression of Thomas Newman.......2005-08-31

...well, to only write a review is not enough to describe the impressive sound in this record. it is necessary to listen to it. Thomas do not scrimp in efforts to assemble this wonderful musical work. in fact, each one of the melodys, agreed, and instruments (mainly those of wind and strings) even are perfectly connected and performed in litle some more of 70 minutes of music. Transitions from the quietness of a melody to the loudest human chorus, may be hear is this soundtrack (tipically from the original Serie, that I have too in DVD). But everything is not perfect. Must be had included the Henry Mancini song: "Moon River" contained in one of the most sentimental scenes in the film/serie (that i think at least). In a plus, if you are an lover of this kind of productions, it does not have to lack in its collection the "Angels in America Soundtrack". Buy and enjoy it..!

5 out of 5 stars Amazing work.......2004-11-28

After working in film scoring for the past decade, Thomas Newman has finally achieved his masterwork with the soundtrack to "Angels in America." It is a culmination of the different techniques and themes he has worked on in the past, along with a completely new orchestral sound that perfectly underlies the depth and scope of the film. It is a very rare score in that it conveys all the happiness, pain, pessimism and hope that Kushner's work is all about, simply through the nuanced way Newman has written and arranged it. It is an incredibly entertaining score that stands well on its own. A must for any fans of Newman or the film.

3 out of 5 stars Very good, but on par with Newman's best. .......2004-10-02

I know many might grill me for giving anything Newman makes less than 5 stars, but the simple fact of the matter is that this soundtrack, although very good, does not measure up with Newman's greater scores. In truth, out of all the Newman soundtracks I have, Angels in America is on the lower tier. Here they are, in order of how I would list them:

#1. The Shawshank Redemption
#2. How to Make an American Quilt
#3. The Green Mile
#4. The Horse Whisperer
#5. Road To Perdition
#6. Little Women
#7. Scent of a Woman
#8. Fried Green Tomatoes
#9. American Beauty
#10. In the Bedroom
#11. Meet Joe Black
#12. Angels in America *
#13. Flesh and Bone
#14. Pay it Forward
#15. Six Feet Under
#16. The Salton Sea

(these are only the ones I own - doesn't include Erin Brokavich and some others).

All the scores that were listed ahead of Angels in America were better in my opinion and while many of those soundtracks possessed multiple layers and solid tracks, Angels in America only has - in my opinion - two standout tracks and only about three or others that border on solid.

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