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1	Immortal and Divine
2	War in the Heavens
3	Hyperion's Siren
4	Witness Hell
5	To MT. Olympus
6	Enter the Oracles
7	Theseus and Phaedra
8	Poseidon's Leap
9	This Is Your Calling
10	Theseus Fight the Minotaur
11	Theseus Fires the Bow
12	My Own Heart
13	Zeus Punishment
14	Ride to the Gates
15	In War Fathers Bury Their Sons
16	The Gods Chose Well
17	Fight So Your Name Survives
18	Battle in the Tunnel
19	Immortal Combat
20	Do Not Forsake Mankind
21	Apotheosis
22	Sky Fight / End Credits
23	[CD-ROM Track]

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With Trading Cards. IMMORTALS ORIGINAL MOTION SOUNDTRACK is 50+ minutes of original music from composer, Trevor Morris. Trevor just won an EMMY for his original music on the show THE BORGIAS.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.6 x 0.4 x 4.9 inches; 3.04 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Relativity Music 2
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 1
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2011
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ October 4, 2011
Label ‏ : ‎ Relativity Music 2
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005SD3YMA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Kaya Savas

Stylistic Action Score Where Trevor Morris Lets Loose And Has Fun With It

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 22, 2011

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Trevor Morris is on a serious roll and his music explodes onto the big screen in a very big way. While Trevor is no stranger to blockbusters this is indeed one of the biggest ones he's helmed on his own. If you know Morris' style then you know his love for lush orchestrations. Since mastering his style on shows like The Tudors, Borgias and Pillars Of The Earth he has embraced a great handling of big sounds executed with elegance. Even though the studio plastered 300 all over the movie don't expect anything like Tyler Bates' lackluster score.

The soundscape does play with the genre. This is a loud score, and when I say loud I do mean loud. Don't listen to this before going to bed or when others in your household are sleeping. The music is bold and intense but it's not chaotic. The score doesn't bash you over the head with loudness but rather builds to loud points to hammer in intensity. The score also has great quiet moments that demonstrate Morris' ability to craft delicate textures and sounds. The score has some a historical feel to it through its instrumentation. Maybe it was just some of The Tudors rubbing off, but it works in the overall balance of emotions. The one thing these types of scores tend to do is just be loud and chaotic with no structure, and that's not the case here. Trevor Morris handles the score superbly so it doesn't become an aimless assortment of sounds. Not everyone will be blown away by the music, but it's pure fun. It definitely kicks ass and that's what it's meant to do. The film is extremely stylistic so the music has to match that level. If you're a fan of grand choral work and huge brass sounds then this score will most likely appeal to you. It will definitely put a few hairs on your chest.

Immortals is a stylistic action film and the score somehow manages to be damn good even if the movie falls short. Trevor Morris brings it all here and you won't be disappointed. After hearing his style develop over his television career it was awesome to see him let loose in a grand fashion with Immortals.

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kuro

Excellent Seller

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 26, 2022

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Excellent seller and great soundtrack.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 16, 2011

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This is a great soundtrack to add to your collection. Some of the best pieces are those that accompany the action scenes in the movie. Sometimes soundtracks can be just a lot of background noise but this one has a great combination of horns and thunderous drums that capture the battles in the movie really well. Other selections are slower and help build the tension in the film and they are nice to listen to as well. The CD comes package with movie cards that illustrate characters and scenes from the movie. This is also an enhanced CD which allows you to view bonus content of composer interviews and the orchestra. If you are a fan of film scores, this is a great one to add to your collection.

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Kendra H.

Immortals

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 20, 2011

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I mostly agree with the persons view above me, my only pet peeve being the short play times. The music would have been even better if they were 3-5 minutes pieces.

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E. Munoz

Epic!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2014

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A great soundtrack that will make you relive the movie. Trevor Morris knows how to hit the epic chords while at the same time inspiring the listener.

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Robert Guttke

Morris conducts Zimmer

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 29, 2012

While watching this film- and trying with all my might to comprehend just what was going on while smothered with it remarkable CGI (ugh) eye candy (which doesn't include hard abs & butts & breasts)- I was pondering where I had heard a 'version' of this music before. And lo! It was Zimmer's score for King Arthur. Dollars to doughnuts that must have been the temp score for this heavy handed mockery of Greek mythology that strayed way too far. When the music is soft, it is unremarkable. When it is loud, it is something James Horner would admire: pilfered from another source.

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Jon Broxton

Morris hits the mainstream

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 23, 2011

Considering what a rich and vivid palette they have, and how much potential there is for great storytelling, there haven't been many great films made about Greek gods. In the past couple of years Hollywood has tried to work its way into that world, with films like Percy Jackson and the Olympians and the remake of Clash of the Titans, but found limited success. Unfortunately, Immortals continues the trend by being a film with a great deal of promise, but which is severely lacking in dramatic content. The film is directed by Tarsem Singh, and stars Henry Cavill as Theseus, a simple mortal man who is chosen by Zeus (Luke Evans), the king of the Gods, to put an end to the reign of Hyperion (Mickey Rourke), a ruthless tyrant who is searching for the mythical Epirus Bow, a weapon of such enormous power that it has the capability to release the Titans - vicious warriors who were enslaved by the Gods centuries ago - and with which he intends to wage war on the Gods themselves. The film, which also stars Stephen Dorff, Frieda Pinto and John Hurt, looks fantastic, as is always the case with Tarsem's films, but suffers from terrible pacing, especially in the film's first half, confusing interchangeable characters which make empathy difficult, and a curious lack of connection with the audience, which left me unexpectedly uninvolved and - at times - rather bored. Style over substance, it seems.

The score for Immortals is by the emerging Canadian composer Trevor Morris, who has been gradually been building a positive reputation for himself by writing the music for a series of excellent historical TV dramas, notably The Tudors, The Pillars of the Earth and The Borgias, picking up a couple of Emmys along the way. He first emerged onto the film music scene in the early 2000s, working with Hans Zimmer as a music editor, technical advisor and additional composer on projects such as the first two Pirates of Caribbean films, The Last Samurai, The Ring and King Arthur, and gradually began writing music of his own. Immortals is Morris's first major foray into the world of cinema as a solo composer, and parts of it are quite impressive indeed.

Tarsem Singh has generally had good musical sensibilities for his films: his debut, The Cell, featured a spectacularly challenging score by Howard Shore, while The Fall from 2006 had an equally outstanding effort by French composer Krishna Levy. For Immortals, Trevor Morris is clearly channeling Hans Zimmer and the now-familiar Remote Control "historical epic" sound that has been heard through scores like the aforementioned Clash of the Titans, and in the film the score comes off as being somewhat unfocused and overbearing, with little emotional content with which to connect. Initially, I dismissed the score in a similar fashion, but curiously Immortals is a score which actually works better on CD than it does in context, where you can hear Morris's interesting rhythmic ideas, choral textures and thematic elements much more clearly, away from all the clashing swords and grunting bare-chested Adonises. It took several listens for it all to reveal itself to me, but it was worth putting in the time and effort.

The score is generally large and powerful, making use of a large orchestra augmented (but thankfully not overwhelmed) by synth percussion, with featured solo moments for electric cellos, and a large choir that showcases both male and female soloists in prominent performances. The first cue, "Immortal and Divine", actually has a few things in common with the score for The Cell, with the chorus and orchestra combining and colliding in a quite chaotic manner that is quite startling, especially when the powerful horn blasts make their first unexpected appearance. Thereafter the score is pretty much a 50/50 split between large scale action material underscoring the numerous bloodthirsty battle and fight sequences, and lower-key thematic writing that tends to illustrate the more intimate relationships in the film - between Theseus and his mother, for example - and the heroism of the protagonists.

The action music has a dark, muscular quality, and despite being underpinned throughout by the now-familiar RC cello ostinato, actually takes its time to build up some more interesting textures and ideas. There's a recurring three-note rhythmic idea which seems to follow Theseus and his fellow warriors around, acting as a rallying call to battle. In one of the `stirring pre-fight speech' sequences the actors rap out the tattoo on their shields with their swords, and Morris takes this little rhythm and runs with it, building it into the percussive fabric of action cues such as "War in the Heavens", the spectacular "Theseus Fires the Bow", the second half of "Fight So Your Name Survives", "Battle in the Tunnel", and "Immortal Combat" to clever effect.

"Hyperion's Siren" is a darkly atmospheric piece that introduces the recurring motif for Hyperion and his evil army, a brutal descending brass motif that takes its lead from similar motifs Jerry Goldsmith wrote for films like The Edge and The Thirteenth Warrior, growling down in the belly of the orchestra. Other action cues, notably "Witness Hell", "Poseidon's Leap", the ferocious "Theseus Fight the Minotaur", "Zeus's Punishment" and the wonderfully propulsive "Ride to the Gates" keep the energy levels high, often incorporating a large and powerful chanting male chorus into the mix with the frantic action writing and regular restatements of the Hyperion motif, as if there wasn't already enough testosterone on display.

Some of the slower, nobler material in cues such as "My Own Heart", "In War Fathers Bury Their Sons", "Do Not Forsake Mankind" and especially the conclusive "Apotheosis" is quite stirring and powerful, notably when the electric cello makes a lamenting appearance. Electric cellos have become something of a film music cliché in recent years, but something about the way Morris uses them here is unexpectedly appealing, almost like hearing the instrument for the first time. Elsewhere, the passionate love theme for Theseus and Phaedra, the beautiful clairvoyant high priestess, has a lovely outing in the aptly-named "Theseus and Phaedra", one of the most attractive cues on the album.

In "To Mt. Olympus" Morris even finds time to work in some ethnic string and woodwind writing and a host of heavenly chorals to accompany the Gods as they watch the world from on high. There's a similar world music vibe to "Enter the Oracles" too, where the orchestra combines with sultry Middle Eastern instrumental textures and breathy, almost orgasmic female vocals to excellent effect.

The only thing really missing from the score is a strong and memorable theme for Theseus himself; there's a melody at the end of "My Own Heart" which could be Theseus's theme, but it's not really prominent enough to make its impression, and even here I could be misidentifying it. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a heroic theme for the protagonist buried in the middle of all the action cues, a heroic fanfare for the demi-god, but the very fact that I couldn't pick it out illustrates my point in itself. There's also a bit of temp-track bleed through from Wojciech Kilar's Bram Stoker's Dracula in both "The Gods Chose Well" and parts of the subsequent "Fight So Your Name Survives" which is a little distracting, but can be overlooked.

I think, on occasion, I have tendency to pre-judge scores based on what I think they will sound like rather than what they actually sound like, especially those written by people who currently, or used to, work for Hans Zimmer. I really need to stop doing this, especially when it comes to scores like Immortals, because when heard as a standalone listening experience it rises above many of its contemporaries, RC-inspired or not. The inventiveness in the percussion writing, the power of the choral writing, and the impressive scope of the score as a whole is enough to recommend it. It's not a world-beater by any means, but just don't do what I did initially and dismiss this is a cheap Zimmer knock-off, because it's really not.

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Billy

Good but a bit heavy for me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 1, 2014

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I enjoyed listening to this CD but found it quite heavy going. If I had previously seen the film/TV programme then I might have better understood this dramatic music.

Vincent Cowdrey

Ok soundtrack

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 19, 2015

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An ok soundtrack but I need to listen again when I get an opportunity.

david hamilton

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 17, 2015

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very good

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 5, 2016

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Excellent

Roberto Cavallaro

Historischer Soundtrack

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on June 20, 2014

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Gefiehl mir sehr gut,sollte den Film auch mal anschauen.Aber den Soundtrack kann man weiter empfehlen.Wer den film gesehen hat sollte.die späterauch kaufen.

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