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Saving Private Ryan: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0600445004627
Format: Soundtrack
Label: Dreamworks
Manufacturer: Dreamworks
MPN: 50046
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Dreamworks
Release Date: July 21, 1998
Studio: Dreamworks
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Editorial Review:
What appears on screen during the World War II movie Saving Private Ryan suggests that director Steven Spielberg has studied the hyperviolence of Quentin Tarantino, John Woo, and Stanley Kubrick (think Full Metal Jacket). What you hear, however, assures that Spielberg still collects Norman Rockwell paintings. Composed by Spielberg's long-time musical companion, John Williams, Ryan denies the pair's penchant for ebullience in favor of funereal grace. Rather than mirror the visual kinetics, Williams lends the gunfire a tone-poem aura. Oliver Stone's Platoon makes the best comparison; remember how Barber's Adagio for Strings accompanied its most bloody moments? Williams later worked with Stone on JFK and Nixon, providing scores so somber, they qualified as morose. They remain two of his best, and Saving Private Ryan shares their restraint. --Marc Weidenbaum
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Amazon ,Go!
Saving Private Ryan is a wonderful film, but the music from it is really something that comes along only once in a long while. It is superb music, and so perfectly suits the subject. It is brilliant music worthy of belonging to the classical era.
Rating: - SAVING JOHN WILLIAMS-TO MY PLAYLISTS
Saving Private Ryan is by far my favorite film and to have recently experienced "classical crossover," the soundtrack by John Williams astounds me. His music sets EVERY mood that puts a fine edge to the film. I have shuffled this soundtrack many times within my easy listening playlists and the music never gets old.
Rating: - Williams And Spielberg Remember D-Day
The long and exceptionally fruitful collaboration between director Steven Spielberg and composer John Williams reached an incredible high in 1998 with the release of Spielberg's epic World War II drama SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. Few films that have ever delved into the fighting aspects of this, the last real all-out classic War, have ever been as honest, brutal, and blunt as SAVING PRIVATE RYAN was. And Williams understood this as much.
But whereas in decades past he might have turned on ... Read More
Rating: - soul-stopping
One wonders what people will say about John Williams in, say, the year 2050. The man just keeps producing scores that, if it were possible, surpass the prior one in elegance, emotional weight, and sheer, gorgeous, spellbinding beauty?
Gushing?
I don't think so. Listen to this soundtrack before you conclude that this reviewer has gone out-of-his-mind starry.
Williams embellishes a great movie with a superlative soundtrack that is memorable not for its fireworks ... Read More
Rating: - MY REVIEW OF "SAVING PRIVATE RYAN" SOUNDTRACK
THERE ARE SEVERAL RENDITIONS THAT ARE MORE MOVING THAN SOME OF THE PATRIOTIC SONGS WE SING AND HEARD SINCE WE WERE CHILDREN. THE TITLE SONG WAS THE BEST. SEVERAL OF THE SONGS WERE "NOT SO HOT", BUT OVERALL, IT WAS A GREAT MOVIE AND MY PURCHASE OF THE SOUNDTRACK WAS WELL WORTH THE PRICE. I WOULD GIVE THIS ALBUM A "B" OVERALL, AND THE TITLE SONG A "A PLUS"
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