First Knight: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Artist: Jerry Goldsmith
Label: Sony
Category: Music

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Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 074646727027
EAN: 0074646727027
ASIN: B000002B91

Release Date: 1995-07-04

First Knight: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Tracks:

Arthur's Fanfare
Promise Me
Camelot
Rain On Leonesse
A New Life
To Leonesse
Night Battle
Village Ruins
Arthur's Farewell
Camelot Lives

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Customer Reviews:

Crown Goldsmith as King.......2007-02-21

This is definitely one of my favorite Goldsmith scores. It has everything you expect from the maestro, ranging from full-blown brass fanfares, exciting, thunderous action music, as well as a delightful love theme and a heroic main theme. Goldsmith always keeps things interesting in each cue so that the listener does not get bored.
"Arthur's Fanfare" opens the soundtrack with a 6-note trumpet fanfare along with horn counterpoint. It is bold and dynamic, but is featured in much better full-scale performances in later tracks. The love theme, which is a great one, is found in "Promise Me", among others and features lovely string and woodwind performances. The best music on the album is without a doubt, the action music, of which Goldsmith excels beyond expectations.
Tracks such as "Raid on Leonesse", "Night Battle", and "Arthur's Farewell" are epic in scope with strident brass, pounding percussion, and a blaring chorus in the latter of the 3 tracks mentioned. "Camelot Lives" concludes the soundtrack with a final, awe-inspiring performance of the main theme complete with full orchestra and chorus. It definitely will produce goosebumps, I promise you that, especially when turned up real loud with a great surround sound system.
It is sad that Goldsmith is no longer with us, but he is without a doubt, a legendary composer, capable of composing in any genre of film, and this is that type of genre in which he excels. Do NOT pass this one up!!

Hail, King Goldsmith.......2005-03-13

"First Knight" is one of the most triumphant scores ever written by Jerry Goldsmith. The theme for Arthur -or Camelot, according to the way you want to put it -is spectacular, touching, and catchy. The love theme is bittersweet, yet very romantic.
But what makes me give this album four stars is its length. At forty minutes, you get to hear Arthur's theme triumphantly, together with the love theme, in 'Camelot Lives' and 'Promise Me', and a piece of spectacular battle music for orchestra and chorus in 'Arthur's Farewell'. However, there is music missing in the album, you feel like kinda incomplete. This is a great Jerry Goldsmith composition that truly deserves an expanded edition.

Exellent Goldsmith Score.......2004-10-11

First Knight is one of the late Jerry Goldsmith's most successful scores. In the movie it makes the film much more compelling and helps the movie to rise above a mediocre script, and as a cd it makes for a great if short listening experience. It is among the top scores composed by Goldsmith and one of the most recent to contain no electronic instruments. Anyway, I highly recommend this music to anyone who enjoys a good score ;).

Goldsmith at his triumphal best.......2003-08-18

There are certain film composers--Goldsmith, Bernstein, Williams, Horner--whose CD's I buy whether I've seen the movie or not (more usually not, given the movies they make nowadays, but I digress). This one is a prime example of why Jerry G. is on that list. No one but John Williams does brassy, triumphant, lift-you-out-of-your-chair music better. Almost every track here is filled with the kind of music that evokes the pride and pageantry of knightly times. Yet he can also deliver moments of poignancy, as in the contemplative "Village Ruins." If you don't know Goldsmith's work, this is a great CD to start with. If you do, you won't be disappointed.

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