| View Larger Image | Angels in America | Audio CDby Thomas Newman
| List Price: | $18.98 | | Price: | $16.99 | | You Save: | $1.99 (10%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Format: | Soundtrack | | Studio: | Nonesuch | | Release Date: | December 02, 2003 | | Sales Rank: | 11,629th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Threshold of Revelation - Thomas Newman
- Track 2: Angels in America (Main Title) - Thomas Newman
- Track 3: Lesionnaire - Thomas Newman
- Track 4: Ellis Island - Thomas Newman
- Track 5: Acolyte of the Flux - Thomas Newman
- Track 6: Umdankbar Kind - Thomas Newman
- Track 7: The Ramble - Thomas Newman
- Track 8: Ozone - Thomas Newman
- Track 9: Pill Poppers - Thomas Newman
- Track 10: Quartet - Thomas Newman
- Track 11: Solitude - Duke Ellington
- Track 12: Bayeux Tapestry - Thomas Newman
- Track 13: Spotty Monster - Thomas Newman
- Track 14: Mauve Antarctica - Thomas Newman
- Track 15: Her Fabulous Incipience - Thomas Newman
- Track 16: The Infinite Descent - Thomas Newman
- Track 17: A Closer Walk With Thee - Lewis, George & His Ragtime Band
- Track 18: Broom of Truth - Thomas Newman
- Track 19: Submit! - Thomas Newman
- Track 20: Plasma Orgasmata - Thomas Newman
- Track 21: Delicate Particle Logic - Thomas Newman
- Track 22: The Mormons - Thomas Newman
- Track 23: Prophet Birds - Thomas Newman
- Track 24: More Life - Thomas Newman
- Track 25: Black Angel - Thomas Newman
- Track 26: Garden of the Soul - Thomas Newman
- Track 27: Heaven - Thomas Newman
- Track 28: Bethesda Fountain - Thomas Newman
- Track 29: The Great Work Begins (End Title) - Thomas Newman
- Track 30: Tropopause - Thomas Newman
- Track 31: I'm His Child - Zella Jackson-Price
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Amazon.com
Playwright Tony Kushner adapted his sprawling meditation on the AIDS epidemic of the 80's into an equally epic, Mike Nichols-directed HBO miniseries. But while Thomas Newman’s score spans that dramatic landscape with rich stylistic diversity, the young champion of the daunting Newman family musical tradition (his father was Fox legend Alfred; his brother fellow film scorer David; his cousin songwriter/composer Randy) never lets musical bombast get in the way of compelling emotional introspection. Anchored by a delicate wind and string-driven main theme that’s as mature as it is bittersweet, Newman proceeds to explore some of the same adventurous, rhythmically restless soundscapes that characterized his work on Erin Brockovich and American Beauty. But that typically moody experimentalism is leavened elsewhere by moments of neo-baroque choral exultation, smokey 30's jazz (courtesy of George Lewis and his Ragtime Band and Duke Ellington) and even flashes of gospel and orchestral post-modernism, all of it served up with a masterful sense of irony-free restraint that’s become one of the composer’s most refreshing hallmarks. It’s easily one of Newman’s -- and 2003's -- most accomplished and satisfying film scores. --Jerry McCulley |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 24 reviews)
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Great condition for CD by Jason C. Watson (Melbourne, Australia)  5 Stars
March 12, 2009
The CD was as new, in great condition. The teeth for the round bit that holds the CD in the centre was broken, but that was very minor flaw, everything else was pretty much perfect, the case was even scratch free. Pleasure doing business. And of course the CD itself: in perfect condition.
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Angels of America soundtrack missing something special! by Richard S. Lodato (Pa.)  3 Stars
December 04, 2008
It goes without saying that the music Tom wrote for this movie was amazing but I bought the cd for one reason only. I wanted the Elis Island piece that is on the DVD disc 1 at the end of the movie. It's not on there and it's by far the most beautiful version of that piece of music. I'm very disappointed. It only has the short version without the background violins and the effect on the lead obo. I hate it when they change things from what the movie has as a soundtrack. Needless to say, I didn't waste my money as I like all the music on the cd enough to buy it.
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Angels in America by Anthony Marshall (Wimbledon)  4 Stars
February 18, 2008
This is Thomas Newman at his very best with lush orchestration and sublime chords that are his trademark. The eerie vocals add a somewhat mysterious flavour to the album and embellish it enormously. Can't wait to now see the film .
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Some of his best work by Mr. G. Proctor (Isle of Man) 4 Stars
June 12, 2007
Most of us know Thomas Newman for his work on his more famous films like American Beauty, Shawshank Redemption, Scent of a Woman and Meet Joe Black, but this soundtrack to the HBO film is right up there with his best pieces of work. The whole album goes through various feelings, shades and emotions, the best tracks for me being Mauve Antarctica and Tropopause. If you're a Thomas Newman fan then you need this in your collection.
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Angels in America - Always Great! by B. Mathews 5 Stars
January 03, 2007
Love the film, the play and the soundtrack. If you find the topics of Angels in America interesting, thought-provoking and warm to your heart, you will LOVE this. As a man battling HIV, I find it outstanding. Thanks Amazon, for offering all the Angels in America products.
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