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Now And Then: Original Motion Picture Score

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I should begin by confessing that I absolutely adore a great amount of film music, and usually "listen to" more than "watch" films. I own hundreds of such albums and I will sometimes make up my own soundtrack directly from a film. I purchased this CD from Amazon and told myself that if I were to like it, which I expected to, being already familiar with Eidelman's "sound", then I would review it, because the other review, not being in English, will be of little use to most shoppers visiting this site.

The music here is almost all of a piece. It's quiet, plaintive, consoling, mostly gentle piano accompanied by strings (or vice-versa), with a little clarinet here, a bit of oboe there. I recall two swells that utilize some brass. It's very linear. The sound is similar to (the late) Elmer Bernstein in FRANKIE STARLIGHT or TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, or (likewise) Michael Kamen in WHAT DREAMS MAY COME. The feel is pastoral and hymnlike. It's comfortable with itself and immediately pleasing. For those who know other of Mr. Eidelman's film scores, I would compare this to A SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE or FREE WILLY 3, but it is decidedly more inward than the latter. I believe most people would simply describe it as "calming", which it most certainly is.

I got this CD used and I could almost feel guilty for having gotten something so lovely for so little. I highly recommend it. Cliff Eidelman is a wonderful composer!

Cliff Eidelman hat für "Now and Then" eine gefühlvolle Musik komponiert, die zu Herzen geht. Der "Main Title" enthält ein freudiges aber auch sehnsuchtsvolles Thema, dass durch das Klavierostinato zu Beginn ein weing an das Haupthema von Alan Silvestris Thema aus Forrest Gump erinnert, jedoch sich Thematisch anders entwickelt. Auch sind einige Anleihen an seine Musik zu "Free Willy: The Rescue" (Free Willy: Die Rettung) zu vernehmen. Das Hauptinstrumentarium das Cliff Eidelman hier verwendet, besteht aus Flöte, Obe, Klarinette, Klavier und Streichern. Leider ist die CD von der Länge her kurz ausgefallen, nur etwa 33 Minuten ist sie lang. Jedoch kann ich sie vom emutionalen Gehalt empfehlen, deshalb die fünf Sterne. Demjenigen, dem die Musik zu "Forrest Gump" von Alan Silvestri, "The Spitfire Grill" von James Horner und "Free Willy 3: The Rescue" von Cliff Eidelman gefallen hat, ist diese CD besonders zu empfehlen.