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MUSIClassical.com editor, RACampbell's recent choices of  mostly symphonic filmscores

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HeroTan Dun straddles the very different worlds of concert music and film scores, winning admirers in both. He's perhaps best known for his score to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which shares with Hero a visual poetry that transcends the sword-filled action film genre.

Ennio Morricone is well-known to moviegoers. His soundtracks for The Mission, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in America, Cinema Paradiso, and others are invariably warmly melodic and superbly suited to the films they graceThe Motorcycle Diaries [SOUNDTRACK] by Gustavo SantaolallaMost everything Hans Zimmer composes is of excellent quality, and this soundtrack is no exception. It is dark yet hopeful, with Moya Brennan's arching vocals.James Newton Howard, possesses a true gift of being able to infuse so much character and emotion into each film that he composesThe Door in the Floor (Score) by Marcelo ZarvosOk, the tigers are cute, the story is so COOL! The soundtrack is only music, but, in my opinon, it's really great music!Hans Zimmer does a nice job of giving the movie its own style of musicVanity Fair, the new film version of the classic novel by William Makepeace ThackerayLuckily, the music by Trevor Jones has legs. It summons its adult tourguides with the right sort of away-we-go spirit.


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