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(19 customer reviews) 30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Three cheers! It's back in the catalog!,
August 13, 1999 By A Customer
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This review is from: Barry Lyndon (Audio CD)
Kubrick's magnificent Barry Lyndon was up against The French Connection for Best Picture, and noise won out over subtlety. The movie was said to be "slow paced" -- but the pacing was not so much slow as unhurried-- and Kubrick's gorgeous visuals (often he would frame shots that repeated famous paintings of the period) were given soul and depth by his choice of music. From the brilliant traditional Irish music of the Chieftains, long before "Celtic Music" became trendy, to his wonderfully chosen Classical pieces, the music is magnificent. Handel's brooding, even violent, Sarabande (who said Classical music was wimpy??)-- the luscious and deep sonorities of the cello, first in the exquisite Andante of Schubert's E-flat Piano Trio, underlined by the insistent march-like rhythm of the piano, with its cadential trills that hit you deep in your nervous system, -- to the subtle melancholy and moving line of the Siciliano of Vivaldi's E Minor Cello Sonata,...Read more
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
stunning movie, exquisite soundtrack,
May 1, 2005 tuberacer (Honolulu, Hi.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Barry Lyndon (Audio CD)
An absolutely superb selection of music. Again and again Kubrick revealed his genius in moviemaking with every detail, including his choice of musical accompaniment. The Handel is bold and poignant in all its variations. The rivetting Schubert Trio in E-flat IS the scene in the movie, and remains the scene on the soundtrack and is played eloquently and flawlessly with that odd droll depth which was sometimes characteristic of the Baroque. A truly amazing listen. It will transport you out of the bussle of the 21st Century with such profound delicacy. This one work alone would be worth the price of the CD, but there's so much more. There's also a Mozart march, a wonderful Bach Adagio for duel harpsichords, a gorgeous cello concerto by Vivaldi, and the hypnotically exquisite Cavatina by Pasiello. There are a couple of rare modern sublimes as well, Sean O'Riada's amazingly ethereal "Tin Whistles" and his "Women of Ireland." And then there's a few works of period traditional music which...Read more
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
A great soundtrack--rich, dark, eclectic and ironic.,
September 26, 1999 K. K. Woofter "karwinwalpole" (Montreal, QC Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Barry Lyndon (Audio CD)
I've been searching for this soundtrack of Rosenman's rich and dark arrangments of the Handel source ("Sarabande") for about seven years now. The music on the soundtrack is varied and eclectic and, as always with Kubrick's film music, ironic. It's a great soundtrack.
