Customer Reviews

Fall of Troy

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This is beautiful, exciting, heart-pounding, dramatic music. You can just see the horses racing across the desert during some of these tracks. Madsen once again shows his mastery and versatility as a composer.

My 15 year old son swiped my copy of this CD from me, and for several days it was played repeatedly. I swiped it back, and put it on whenever I want a dramatic interlude This is a lush, dramatic collection of pieces, demonstrating once again Gunnar Madsen's musical genius. Consider it a soundtrack for all of your adventures!

I really love some of the tracks from this CD. The 'Wrath of Achilles' is probably the best on the album. It's not how I visualize (or audialize?) Achilles but it does work well. I think of Achilles as hot-blooded and aggressive and at first I was disappointed in this track since it is just a slow steady beat. But it keeps going in a way that can only be described as relentless. It seems a cold sort of anger for Achilles but is such a heartless and focused anger as to offer a rather disturbing vision of the man. I can easily envision him walking slowly through a mass of enemies to this music. 'A Thousand Ships' and 'Hector's Last Battle' are also quite good. The rest are rather hit and miss. Worth it if you can find it. The price on here is reasonable. Despite the rather odd and cheap looking cover this is a professional release in a cardboard case and not a jewel case.

Soaring, moving, epic, inspirational. Well done!
Suitable as CNN's theme piece for the impeachment trials of George Bush.