Triumph Of The Spirit (1989 Film) [Soundtrack]

Cliff Eidelman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 10, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B000003TE6
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #545,207 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Title

2. Love In Wedlock

3. Dark Tunnel To Auschwitz

4. There Was A Time

5. Answer Us

6. Mi Dyo Mi

7. Avram Refuses To Work

8. Longing For Home

9. A Hard Felt Rest

10. Hell Realization

11. Elena's False Dreams

12. There Was A Memory

13. Begging For Bread

14. The Mourning

15. The Slaughter

16. It Was A Month Before We Left

17. Hunger

18. Mercy On To Us

19. Salamo Desperately Finds Allegra

20. Allegra's Punishment

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cliff Eidelman's "Triumph"!, November 6, 2000

By 

John Dziadecki (Louisville, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Triumph Of The Spirit (1989 Film) (Audio CD)

At once soaring, introspective, powerful, brooding -- hauntingly and achingly beautiful -- Cliff Eidelman's score is -- well -- a triumph!

I've never seen the film for which this was written but the music is a contemporary masterwork, written for orchestra and choir, that deserves to join the concert repertoire.

I was puzzled by the language sung by the choir. Then I found that in 1995, Eidelman wrote to Filmus-L in response to a query:

"Rabbi Bernard Savitz wrote poems based on what I thought the the scenes emotional needs were. Then he translated the text into Ladino, which is a mix of Hebrew and Spanish. The Greek Jews in Spain and Eastern Europe spoke it at the time of the second World War. Now no one speaks Ladino anymore. I then put the text to my music. Of all my film scores, this one is my personal favorite and I am thrilled that this work which was released on Varese in 1989 has reached some people. This work will be re-released in the future."

Eidelman's other scores include "Christopher Columbus: The Discovery" and "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country".