Tristan & Isolde (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Soundtrack]

Anne Dudley (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 31, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B000E0OF98
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,721 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Young Tristan

2. The Irish Raid

3. The Queen’s Funeral

4. A Different Land

5. A King’s Lament

6. Isolde’s Dream

7. Two Loves Be One

8. Ambush In The Forest

9. A King’s Service

10. Love So Alike

11. Dangerous Game

12. Warriors Begin

13. Wedding Cortege

14. Leaving Forever

15. Back From The Dead

16. My Face In Thine Eye

17. The Tournament

18. Betrayal

19. I Dream Of You

20. Living Without Love

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: TRISTAN & ISOLDE
Title: TRISTAN & ISOLDE
Street Release Date: 01/31/2006
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Genre: SOUNDTRACK

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Anne Dudley's Highly Successful Alternative Score, May 1, 2006

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tristan & Isolde (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Audio CD)

Most motion picture musical score composers would find the task of writing music for the current TRISTAN & ISOLDE a daunting assignment. Who in their right mind would want to be set up as a comparison to the time-honored, exquisitely beautiful music from Wagner's opera of the same name? Well, Anne Dudley steps fully into the spotlight as a fine composer with this score for an altogether different version of the ancient tale of thwarted lovers. She has no reason to bow her head.

Dudley stirs the background of the scenic settings with subtle music than tastefully blends Celtic instruments and sounds with the regular orchestral instrumentation. She is able to cross back and forth across the water that divides Britain and Ireland, no mean feat but one of paramount importance in underlining the disparity of the two kingdoms that separate the love of Isolde and Tristan. The music is always supportive of the film's mood and storyline (it takes listening to this CD to actually hear some of the very fine episodes that rightly provided matrix to the action without calling attention to the tunes).

For this different version of a multifaceted and varying forms of an old Celtic legend, Dudley has provided music more redolent of the Dark Ages than of the soul-shattering eroticism of Wagner's version of the tale. For this listener her choices are exactly appropriate. Grady Harp, May 06

27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MUSIC SNOBS, April 28, 2006

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Colin Grimmett "Dan Brown is a hack" (Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tristan & Isolde (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Audio CD)

Once again we have a bunch of music snobs attacking the music from this film not because it is not good but because it doesn't pay homage to Wagner. There are upwards of 100 folk variations of this tale and most of those did not even incorporate a musical score....but we owe Wagner a walk on because of his opera? Please.....

The music in this movie is breathtaking and poignant. It mirrors the tale wonderfully, which if it were Wagner the other music Snobs would be saying "germanic music for a celtic storry???????"

This score is not good to fall asleep by.

The arguments of music snobs will perform that task just fine

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Goes beautifully with this heart-wrenching film, March 16, 2006

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Amalia "Wolf Girl" (Baxter, MN.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tristan & Isolde (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Audio CD)

I saw the movie twice and knew right away that I would have to have the soundtrack. I'm glad that I invested the money and bought it! The score is absolutely gorgeous, despite some comparisons to "elevator music" by other reviewers. Don't let the naysayers fool you. "Tristan & Isolde" is fantastic, a great CD to put on while you're having dinner with a sweetheart or just relaxing - it will both calm your jangled nerves after a long day and inspire you. It is very well composed. As to the mutterings that a nod to Wagner should have been included, this is the soundtrack to the movie, not the opera. It does a fine job of standing on its own. Don't miss out on this one!