The Truman Show: Music From The Motion Picture [Soundtrack]

Burkhard Dallwitz (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Burkhard Dallwitz
• Audio CD (June 2, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Milan Records
• ASIN: B000007OAP
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97,282 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Trutalk - Burkhard Dallwitz

2. It's A Life - Burkhard Dallwitz

3. Aquaphobia - Burkhard Dallwitz

4. Dreaming of Fiji

5. Flashback - Burkhard Dallwitz

6. Anthem (Part 2)

7. The Beginning

8. 2. Romance - Larghetto [Second Movement from Piano Concerto No. 1 in E

9. Drive

10. Underground

11. Do Something!

12. Living Waters

13. Reunion

14. Truman Sleeps (for the film "The Truman Show")

15. Truman Sets Sail

16. Underground / Storm

17. Raising the Sail (for the film "The Truman Show")

18. Father Kolbe's Preaching (for the film "The Truman Show")

19. Opening

20. A New Life [*]

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Music That Carries A Great Movie, January 6, 2001

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Daniel A. Fincke "thegreatfandincke" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Truman Show: Music From The Motion Picture (Audio CD)

This is easily one of the best soundtracks I own. Like Star Wars and Edward Scissorhands, this is one of those rare movies in which the music plays an indispensable role in creating a uniquely distinctive feeling to scenes throughout the movie, witha powerful effect on the viewer, whether or not he is conscoius of it at the time. Every track here is spectacular. The only disappointment is the unfortunate omission of Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca which made its own important contribution to the feel of the film.

Highlights of this top notch disc include the Anthem--Part 2 which conveys in music Truman's awakening suspicion in a key turning point scene in the movie, as he symbolically goes through the revolving doors of his office building only to keep revolving until he is outside again, breaking the cycle of his life for once and signalling the beginning of his observant attention to the conspiracy around him. His hyjinks in the hospital trying to confront his wife while conspirators frustrate his attempts to see her are interpreted terrifically in "The Beginning." The hypnotic and ironic "Living Waters" powerfully communicates the scope and power of the conspiracy in which Truman lives at another key scene in which the viewer feels that irony most poignantly. "Drive" helps communicate in the film the comic daringness of Truman's attempted escape with Meryl at the wheel, "Underground" makes Truman's capture by the radiation suited actors, as seen from hidden cameras at bizarre angles, as diabolical and inhuman feeling a scene as the kidnapping of E.T. and Eliott in "E.T." In contrast to these pieces, Chopin's Larghetto is the perfect music for Truman and Sylvia's beautiful, few moments together on the beach.

"Trutalk" with its raising violins and world spanning feel juxtaposed against "Reunion" which precedes it with the mock intimacy of a TV show's music, makes for an eerie experience as the viewer discovers in a brilliant way the extent of the exploitation of Truman and his life by Christof and the world. Then after the intimate and passionately bitter phone confrontation between the two people who claim to love Truman most, Christof and Sylvia, we see them both caressing TV screens of Truman's face as he sleeps to the touching music of "Truman Sleeps." Immediately following the world spanning "Trutalk" in the film, the intimacy of the moment (and, poignantly and ironically, the alienation of it all---their being only able to touch him through TV screens) is amplified.

Then there is the ending, carried along by a series of perfect musical underscorings, the inspiring "Truman Sets Sail," followed by the threatening "Underground/Storm," then the serene triumph of "Raising The Sail," and then finally the amazing "Father Kolbe's Preaching" which follows the confident yet subdued yet optimistic piano and violins with slow steady pounding piano chords whichset the most powerful musical tone, as Truman similarly pounds against the azure boundary of his world, while soaring violins express the human spirit's passion to overcome the boundaries against which it pounds. All this provides for the sense of sublime existential anguish that leaves me with a lump in my throat almost every time. Such incredible music from Mr. Kilar here.

And then, as Truman tells Christof, "good afternoon, good evening and good night" for the last time, "Opening" conveys just that, a sense of anticipation of a great opening, yet also with the triumph of an ending. Perfect music, key to this perfect movie.

Nota bene: Particularly effective throughout this movie and its CD is the minimalist technique in Philip Glass and even, somewhat, in the pieces by Dallwitz and Kilar, which set up hypntotic patterns over against which the emergent melodies are made that much stronger. Whether or not one likes this kind of music normally, in the setting of story telling, in the Truman Show it works powerfully for making a subtly making a scene captivating.

Oh yeah, and Twentieth Century Boy is a fine bit of rockabilly which fits so nicely in the film and here on this disc. Only, it should be placed where it belongs in the story, between tracks 7 and 8 of course.

Overall, I'd say this is worth buying. And if you are a fan of the movie as I am, then there really is not much choice about it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic idea+passionate music+best release=a masterpiece, August 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Truman Show: Music From The Motion Picture (Audio CD)

A very original idea for the film story. Came true by director who knows how to tell the story, realized by producers who made the best release. Followed by composers who can feel the story and have talent to express and integrate it in music. This is how a fantastic idea arise to a masterpiece! Soundtrack.... Dinamic, almost saturated with emotions, but relaxing and fulfilling, so everyone who like good avant-garde music in excellent performance must enjoy. I love this music. It's simply wonderfull. And I found myself in listening it almost every day for the last two months, besides hunderts of others in my rich collection. And I'm going to do it for the next ? months. Until somebody release some more. Wondering about the "great" reason not to incorporate (Mozart's)"Turkich march", but glad to read how people enjoy my favorite Philip Glass music.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A moving and satisfying musical portrait., October 16, 1998

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"bjdonohue" (WALDORF, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Truman Show: Music From The Motion Picture (Audio CD)

The soundtrack to THE TRUMAN SHOW is a patchwork quilt featuring music from Dallwitz, Glass, Kilar, even Chopin. Primarily composed by Dallwitz and Glass, somehow this all comes together into a satisfying whole. The clever, TV show within a movie, benefits from this dual use of composers. When you see it again, notice how the music of Dallwitz underscores the film. Its the music chosen by director Peter Weir to score his film. Then, notice how most of Glass' music is used to score the "TV show." This is music chosen by director Christof to score the "show." Quite a clever and not an as obvious as it might seem concept. The inclusions of the Chopin piece and the music by Kilar are to be appreciated. All in all, one of the better soundtracks of the year.