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Beloved: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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This soundtrack is absolutely stunning and captivating. From Beloved's Headstone to the final musical score, I was entranced and lost within my own complexities and traveled down roads not taken in years. I could relive each and every moment of the movie as if I were watching it while listening to the CD. A wonderful CD to accompany an excellent movie. LOVE YOUR HEART...MORE THAN THE LUNGS THAT BREATHE LIFE...MORE THAN THE PRIVATES THAT GIVE LIFE...LOVE YOUR HEART.

One of the reasons the movie Beloved lingers in your head for such a long time is the amazing score by Rachel Portman. Not only does the music compliment the movie perfectly the score stands alone as a work of art. One of the best peices of music is "Denver Goes Out yonder" this is a breakthrough for the character and the vibrancy of the music brings that out perfectly. The use of flutes and other instruments is extrordinary, as well as the vocals of Oumou Sangare as well as the African Children's choir. This soundtack along with the movie is a must own.

The soundtrack to BELOVED is amazing. It makes it onto my list of top ten soundtracks!!! The combonation of vocal talent (Oumou Sangare, The African Children's Choir) and creepy wind instruments, make for a haunting, beautifull soundtrack. It deserves more than five stars.

You can feel the haunted past of millions, and your own, while listening to the rich voices and instruments used on this soundtrack. It makes me feel like if I did one more mean thing, if I speak unkindly one more time to somebody, anybody, it could kill me. If you liked the movie, you'll like the CD.

If I had to describe this score in one word, it would be "haunting". There are moments on this amazing score that have moved me like no other score ever has. "Sethe Recognizes Beloved" is absolutly one of the most beautiful peices I have ever heard. Get this CD!

Sorry, I was expecting the complete soundtrack from the movie. I must have misread the description. What I received was the incidental music, which is nice, but a bit repetitious. What happened to the hymns, the ones the ladies sang outside the Baby's house? Perhaps they were incorporated into the music and not credited? I love the movie nevertheless-AC

Rachel Portman is well known and respected for her wonderfully sensitive and vibrant film soundtracks. Her art has graced the wonderful period classics EMMA, OLIVER TWIST and NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, but BELOVED has to be Ms. Portman's crowning achievement. Portman's BELOVED not only is a clear departure from much of her other works, but it excels into the realms of the mystical and eerie and is extremely reminiscent of the work of another veteran composer Thomas Newton. The film has major problems, but Portman's music does not! As a cd,alone, Portman's hauntingly elegant soundtrack stands as pure music apart from the Oprah Winfrey film. Absolutely one of the five top soundtracks in my book!

This lovely screen score has only whetted my appetite for more Rachel Portman music. As I write this I am listening to the music to Beloved. A quirky film with a transcendent musical motif. I highly recommend the cd.

Beautiful and well done pieces

Rachel Portman is one of my favorite film-music composers; however, I didn't like Beloved's score. I expected a pleasant orchestral music similar to other Rachel Portman's film scores, but I was very disappointed.