Restoration: Music From The Miramax Motion Picture Soundtrack

Product Details
Original Release Date: January 16, 1995
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Soundtrack
Label: CreateSpace
Condition: Used (Very Good)
Rating: #####
Availability: In Stock
Price: RM25.00


Track Listings
1. If Love's a Sweet Passion - James Newton Howard, Purcell, Henry
2. Main Titles
3. A Frost Dance in C - James Newton Howard, Purcell, Henry
4. Night With Lulu
5. Minuet in G - James Newton Howard, Purcell, Henry
6. Here the Deities Approve - James Newton Howard, Purcell, Henry
7. Creature of the New Age
8. The Overture in D - James Newton Howard, Purcell, Henry
9. Wedding
10. Hornpipe in D Minor - James Newton Howard, Purcell, Henry
11. The Arrival in Bidnold
12. The Cabinet of Curiosities
13. The Land of Mar
14. A Lie
15. New Ground (in E Minor) - James Newton Howard,
16. Merivel Woos Celia
17. Katharine Sleeps
18. Taking Bidnold Back
19. The Muzett 1 in a Minor - James Newton Howard, Marais, Marin
20. The Right Knowledge
21. Plague
22. Katharine's Death
23. Night Sweats
24. Hospital
25. Doctor Merivel
26. The Listening to Celia's Heart
27. Fire
28. Allegro from Sinfonia (Act II) - James Newton Howard, Purcell, Henry
29. Your Child I Believe
30. Newcastle - James Newton Howard, Traditional
31. 2nd Overture in D - James Newton Howard, Purcell, Henry


The soundtrack to "Restoration" is an uncannily seamless blend of orchestral and chamber music (mostly Henry Purcell) with the modern-day scoring of the peerless James Newton Howard. Purcell's "King Arthur" and "The Fairy Queen" are used here, and Howard melds his work with Purcell's so beautifully that I think somewhere in heaven, Purcell must be smiling down at Howard.
It's an astonishing soundtrack, filled with gorgeous music that suggests floral tapestries, lutists wandering through a grassy field, richly appointed thrones, crowned heads, corseted ladies and bewigged gentlemen, but most of all, an urgency implied by love and ardor. It's just magnificent.


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