A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Score | James Horner

A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Score | James Horner | A Beautiful Soundtrack

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	A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Score James Horner Decca U.S., 2001 average customer review:based on 72 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This Ron Howard film parlays the troubled story of Nobel laureate John Forbes Nash Jr., a gifted Princeton mathematics professor tormented for decades by paranoid schizophrenia, into something considerably richer than typical Hollywood triumph-against-all-odds fare. Howard has teamed here again with frequent collaborator James Horner, and it's the composer who deftly shades the film's difficult emotional landscape and helps impart a compelling humanity. Horner's first task is not inconsiderable: musically portraying the arcane realm of mathematical theorems that are the story's backdrop. In doing so, the composer leans heavily on modern minimalist technique, bright flourishes that recur briefly throughout an orchestral score that increasingly reflects Nash's bleak inner landscape in its quietly somber and brooding tones. And while Horner has frequently been accused of excessively repeating himself in his scores, the neo-minimalist gambit employed on this reflectively pastoral, postmodernist soundscape neatly nips such criticism in the bud. Nash's triumph is ultimately an intensely personal one, well reflected in Welsh soprano Charlotte Church's lilting performance of the Horner/Will Jennings ballad "All Love Can Be." This enhanced CD also features notes by the director and composer, as well as exclusive photos and the film's trailer. --Jerry McCulley

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a beautiful score

James Horner's soundtrack for A BEAUTIFUL MIND is as psychologically intense as the film it so effectively embellishes.

Charlotte Church provides an appropriately eerie and largely non-verbal soprano to this remarkable motion picture score, yet one that would seem only quirky were it not so beautifully embedded in a musical stream that draws one inexorably and almost vicariously into the emotional turbulence of the Princeton mathematician John Nash.

There is an angelic nature to the shape and texture of this music, one that is able to turn demonic as the story line requires. Both by brilliance and by dementia, Nash seems the object of external forces, rising with supreme heroism (at least in the film's version of events) to conquer. The music is there at each score, coaxing the viewer into empathic solidarity with this deeply troubled man and his long-suffering and preternaturally beautiful wife.

This is mood music of the deeply engaging variety. Its lush tonal landscape is achieved under the baton of the composer himself. The score's vast range of volume and expression would certainly have made it a joy to watch in performance.

Alas, we don't have that.

But we have this.

An ethereal, compelling, even gripping tone poem. Buy it.

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A Beautiful Soundtrack

I am a big fan of James Horner's music. I often watch movies, he has scored; i.e. Titanic, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, simply to enjoy the music. Having seen "A Beauriful Mind" many times, I decided to purchase the soundtrack. While listening, I can envision the scenes that accompany the beautiful, haunting melodies that Mr. Horner has wtitten. It is a total experience that I truly enjoy...

great book, good picture, good musical score

They took some liberties with the story the drama was well done and apparently was satisfactory to the Nash's. At first I was infuriated because the scenes with the CIA agent seemed so real that you thought Howard was suggesting that some of Nash's illusions were real. But far into the story you learn that the best friend character and the CIA agent are imaginary.
Very good actimg by Russell Crowe. This is enjoyable even for those who don't have an interest in mathematics. I took my children (10 and 12) and they enjoyed it also with the help of some adult explanations. The music was excellent also.

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Undoubtedly his best in years....

For over twenty years, Mr. James Horner has delivered so many breathtaking, beautiful scores, helping to bring the screen to life.
The Land Before Time, Braveheart, Casper, The Mask of Zorro and Titanic. I believe his final was A Beautiful Mind.
A Beautiful Mind, from beginning to end, is filled with emotion and power. From the amazing descending piano montages to Charlotte Church's hauntingly angelic voice....everything so majestic and expressive.
The whole first half of the CD are my favorite tracks. Not to say, I didn't like the last half...it's just the first half is my favorite..haha
This is a definite need-to-own score, even for those who don't think much of Mr. Horner..

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Haven't I heard this before?

As other reviewers will tell you yes this is another Horner machine made soundtrack. But it still sounds good! If you are a Horner fan by all means buy it otherwise "at your own risk"!

And another thing that gets me is no one even bothered to mention "Alicia Discovers Nash's Dark World" I happened to like this one this is the song that plays when he is in the hospital.

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Tracks
A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics | Playing A Game Of Go! | Looking For The Next Great Idea | Creating "Governing Dynamics" | Cracking The Russian Codes | Nash Descends Into Parcher's World | First Drop-Off, First Kiss | The Car Chase | Alicia Discovers Nash's Dark World | Real Or Imagined? | Of One Heart, Of One Mind | Saying Goodbye To Those You So Love | Teaching Mathematics Again | Prize of One's Life... The Prize of One's Mind | All Love Can Be - Charlotte Church | Closing Credits

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