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The Alamo [SOUNDTRACK]

Carter Burwell (Composer)
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Product Details

  • Composer: Carter Burwell
  • Audio CD (April 6, 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: Hollywood Records
  • ASIN: B0001NBN6G
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #40,980 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Flesh and Honor
2. 300 Miles of Snow
3. What We're Defending
4. Bexareno
5. Zandunga
6. Who Took Their Loved Ones
7. Listen to the Mockingbird Sing
8. Evacuation of Bexar
9. Calm After the Storm
10. Visitation of Saint Ursula
11. Quiet Mountain
12. They Ain't Bear
13. Bonham's Ride
14. Sell Our Lives Dearly
15. Night Falls on the Alamo
16. Deguello de Crockett
17. Last Night
18. Battle of the Alamo, Pt. 1
19. Battle of the Alamo, Pt. 2
20. Battle of the Alamo, Pt. 3
See all 26 tracks on this disc

On this CD:
  1. The Alamo, film score Flesh and Honor
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  2. The Alamo, film score 300 Miles of Snow
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  3. The Alamo, film score What We're Defending
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  4. The Alamo, film score El Bexareno
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  5. La Zandunga (as used in the Film The Alamo)
    Composed by Jennifer Hammond
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  6. The Alamo, film score Who Took Their Loved Ones
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  7. Listen to the Mockingbird Sing (as used in the film The Alamo)
    Composed by Craig Eastman
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  8. The Alamo, film score The Evacuation of Bexar
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  9. The Alamo, film score The Calm After the Storm
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  10. The Alamo, film score The Visitation of Saint Ursula
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  11. The Alamo, film score Quiet Mountain
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  12. The Alamo, film score They Ain't Bear
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  13. The Alamo, film score Bonham's Ride
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  14. The Alamo, film score Sell Our Lives Dearly
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  15. The Alamo, film score Night Falls on the Alamo
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  16. The Alamo, film score Deguello de Crockett
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  17. The Alamo, film score The Last Night
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  18. The Alamo, film score The Battle of the Alamo, Part 1
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  19. The Alamo, film score The Battle of the Alamo, Part 2
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  20. The Alamo, film score The Battle of the Alamo, Part 3
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  21. The Alamo, film score The Battle of the Alamo, Part 4
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  22. The Alamo, film score The Battle of the Alamo, Part 5
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  23. The Alamo, film score The Battle of the Alamo, Part 6
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  24. The Alamo, film score The Death of Crockett
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  25. The Alamo, film score Runaway Scrape
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell

  26. The Alamo, film score Blood, or Texas
    Composed by Carter Burwell
    Performed by The Alamo Musicians, Sandra Park
    with Laura Seaton, Alan Stepansky, Craig Eastman, Robert Rinehart, David Weiss, Lisa Kim
    Conducted by Carter Burwell


Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Carter Burwell cut his film scoring teeth on many a Coen brothers movie, quickly gaining a reputation for a quirky, human-scaled inventiveness that informed everything from jazz and folk to orchestral music and even the well-timed nod to Morricone. That often introspective sensibility is well paired to director John Lee Hancock's revisionist take on the legend of San Antonio's fabled doomed fortress, which focuses more on the conflicted human dimensions of its characters than familiar cardboard, pop culture heroics. Burwell's use of orchestral pomp is deliberate and decidedly restrained; more often the composer leans on spare, evocative passages of simple, though ever-inventive folk-based music (like the elegiac "Quiet Mountain") played by various combinations of guitar, banjo, and violin. Vintage traditional Mexican and American tunes are also given their atmospheric due via Jennifer Hammond's and Craig Eastman's arrangements of "La Zandunga" and "Listen to the Mockingbird Sing," respectively. But its Burwell's own peculiarly modernist instincts that inform both tradition ("Crockett's DeGuello") and his own masterfully understated cues, particularly the bleak, almost gothic emotional landscape of his six-part "Battle of the Alamo Suite" and its bittersweet coda, "Blood or Texas." --Jerry McCulley

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "FOR TODAY, REMEMBER THE ALAMO!", November 14, 2004
By Steven Hancock (Winston Salem, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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Carter Burwell's score for the epic Disney film "The Alamo" is a true example of great film music. It features a very interesting Mexican-Celtic blend of music, encompassing all the characters in the film (From the Mexican soldados to the Celtic-descendant Texans). Never is this mix more evident than in the track "Deguello de Crockett," where the Mexican brass music and David Crockett's soulful fiddle playing blend to make what can only be described as a "Mexican lamentation" that is part of what truly is the best scene in the movie. The rest of the score is solid, and belongs in the soundtrack collections of history and film buffs alike, and is the perfect background music to a superb historical epic! Grade: A
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Remember the Alamo, May 5, 2004
An excellent and fitting soundtrack for a superior movie. All selections captured the mood and setting of this outstanding film. However, the masterpiece on this soundtrack is the "Deguello de Crockett." This was a brilliant idea by John Lee Hancock for this particular part of the movie, surpassed only by the brilliance of the accompanying fiddle harmony created by Carter Burwell. This is one of those very rare moments in movies which is made unforgettable by the musical score. My only regret is that an unedited version of the "Deguello" was not on the CD.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars song title help for April 15 Collinsville, IL & review, May 1, 2004
By David W. Flack (San Antonio, TX USA) - See all my reviews
"Deguello," which loosely translated means "slit throat," was what Santa Anna's band played nightly, followed by a cannon barrage. Essentially the message was no quarter would be taken, and all would die. David Crockett accompanies it one night - hence the name "Deguello de Crockett" - for 60 seconds of battle-stopping music. My other favorite cut is The Visitation of Saint Ursula.

Really disagree with the negative reviews online - a wonderful addition of beautiful melodies and diverse music styles. The Celtic feel of lamentation in the movie captured my attention as an intelligent choice, and while in the theatre, decided to buy the soundtrack. Delighted to find "Listen To The Mockingbird Sing" and "La Zandunga" - now THAT is diversity. Carter Burwell was new to me as a composer.
Of course, as a native San Antonian, I'm pretty attached to The Alamo. Billy Bob Thornton was awesome as David Crockett, and quite different from the John Wayne portrayal 45 years ago.

If you're looking for just fiddle music, check out Dean Shostak on "Davy Crockett's Fiddle" at www.coastlinemusic.com (Williamsburg, VA) featuring the actual fiddle Davy Crockett played during his lifetime.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cinco estrellas for this one
Having seen the film and bought the DVD, I had to buy the soundtrack music, which is one of the most moving and appropriate to a film I've ever heard. David[! Read more
Published 2 months ago by Tara Lawrence-Stuart

5.0 out of 5 stars when did film music get this good?
Carter Buswell's eclectic score underscores the emotional urgency of the film it accompanied. Of the two products, it may prove the more enduring. Read more
Published 22 months ago by David A. Baer

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Remeber THIS "Alamo"
When making another version of a film that has already been made producers,directors,performers,and score composers are too often tempted to "do it differently",as if by twisting... Read more
Published on July 21, 2006 by Charles H. Levenson

4.0 out of 5 stars Defending the Alamo
I enjoyed the film and, in particular, the intelligent and sensitive portrayal of David Crockett but...so much had been cut by the time it was released as a DVD in England. Read more
Published on September 9, 2005 by H. G. Shearring

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent CD
This is an excellent CD. If you are interested in this CD you will love "Audio Tour of the Alamo and Old San Antonio of the Wild West". Read more
Published on June 21, 2005 by Dale J. Weaver

5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable a-typical score
Most war movies have underscore's that pulse with energy and power of battle. Carter Burwell takes another course. Read more
Published on March 4, 2005 by J. K. Moser

5.0 out of 5 stars None Better
A few comments about the movie The Alamo, if you would indulge me for a moment. It is pertinent. I didn't have high expectations for this film, the trailers I saw made it out to... Read more
Published on December 1, 2004 by Michael H. Moore

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent accompaniment to the movie
The Alamo soundtrack by Carter Burwell is an excellent score and a must have for fans of the movie. In his score, Burwell uses a lot of Celtic themes that have been used in a lot... Read more
Published on October 23, 2004 by T O'Brien

5.0 out of 5 stars Dequello de Crockett
This song, Dequello de Crockett, alone makes both the soundtrack AND the movie worth the money! It is the kind of music which moved my heart and made it swell with the unusual... Read more
Published on October 3, 2004 by Jeffrey A. Swanson

4.0 out of 5 stars 13 Days...of Glory or ignorance?
I know a well amount about this event, and how that person said there were 13 days of glory. Thats not glory, thats hiding. Read more
Published on September 26, 2004 by Perro

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