Hostage [Soundtrack]

Alexandre Desplat | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 7, 2005)
• Original Release Date: March 11, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Superb Records
• ASIN: B0009F7E64
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #284,152 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Child's Spirit

2. Hostage

3. Canyon Inn

4. The Watchman

5. The Waterfall

6. Crawl Space

7. Talley's Theme

8. Drive

9. Breaking In

10. The House

11. Tommy's Theme

12. The Secret Place

13. House on Fire

14. The Negotiation

15. The Choice

16. Talley's Plan

17. Screens and Shades

18. FBI

19. Mars' Theme

20. The Trade

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Outstanding score", October 10, 2005

By 

F. M. Swensen (Santa Ana, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hostage (Audio CD)

Truly a remarkable achievement. There are lyrical moments, but the score impresses with its powerful expressiveness and fascinating orchestration. Alexandre Desplat is undoubtedly France's best-known and most successful composer of music for films in recent years. His work outside of France has included music for "The Luzhin Defense", "Girl with a Pearl Ear-Ring", and "Birth", although he has an extensive list of film credits to his name at home and has just won the top award at the International Film Festival in Berlin for his score to "De battre mon coeur s'est arręté". The present recording is an excellent example of his work as composer, orchestrator and conductor, as well as producer, since the music is presented in such a way as to form a cohesive emotional symphonic experience. Even if you have not seen the film, and even if you are not necessarily interested in film music, you will enjoy this fascinating score, beautifully played and recorded.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Phenomenal", June 30, 2005

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Frank Pandel (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hostage (Audio CD)

Alexandre Desplat is a composer to be reckoned with. This is the unconditional standard by which all others can be judged. Mr. Desplat is the composer as well as conductor for this spectacular movie and score. Played with precision by the London Symphony Orchestra. I suspect it is his daughter or wife who shares with us her beautiful voice.

You can almost consider this work a symphonic synthesis in 24 "spectacular" movements. I can not imagine why any filmakers consider Hans Zimmer for composing, pretending to make his synthesizer sound like an orchestra.

I don`t recall any soundtrack before this that can compare on all counts.

Highly Recommended!

Frank Pandel

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Unexpectedly Good, September 2, 2005

By 

Scott Hunter "www.dominusanimae.com" (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hostage (Audio CD)

The film looked intriguing enough, but at the title credits you realize that people put an awful lot of care & attention into this project. The music is no exception. Very unexpectedly melodic (and good) score gives film additional depth, flavour.