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Audio CD (June 27, 2000)
Original Release Date: June 27, 2000
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Soundtrack
Label: Hollywood Records
Condition: Used (Very Good)
Rating: ####
Availability: In Stock
Price: RM20.00
Track Listings
1. The Patriot
2. Family Farm
3. The To Charleston
4. Colonial Cause
5. Redcoats at the Farm and the Death of Thomas
6. Ann Recruits the Parishoners
7. Preparing for Battle
8. The Ann and Gabriel
9. First Ambush and Remebering the Wilderness
10. The Tavington's Trap
11. Burning of the Plantation
12. The Facing the British Lines
13. Parish Church Aflame
14. Susan Speaks
15. Martin Vs. Tavington
16. The Yorktown and the Return Home
17. Patriot Reprise
Though Hollywood has long had a love affair with historical epics, it has sorely shortchanged America's own most compelling chapter, the War of Independence. And if this tale of a retiring Colonial hero whose family gets drawn into the war against the British has no shortage of production ironies--being helmed by a German director and starring Australian-raised Mel Gibson--its score is a solid, stirring effort by American John Williams. Largely eschewing typical bombastic epic fodder for a mostly understated score rich in his distinctive writing for brass and strings, Williams's music seeks out the story's emotional underpinnings as much as its battle-scarred action sequences. The haunting main theme here begins as a Celtic-flavored reel for guitar and violin, then wells into strings, martial drumbeats, and full-bodied brass. Much as he did for the Oscar-nominated Saving Private Ryan, Williams paints a mature, alternately abstract and pastoral portrait of armed conflict, often as not reinventing the genre's heroic traditions as he goes.
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