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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Decca U.S.
Salesrank: 9633
Released: December 11, 2001 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Score Track Listing:
1. Kaleidoscope of Mathematics
2. Playing a Game of "Go! "
3. Looking for the Next Great Idea
4. Creating "Governing Dynamics"
5. Cracking the Russian Codes
6. Nash Descends into Parcher's World
7. First Drop-Off, First Kiss
8. Car Chase
9. Alicia Discovers Nash's Dark World
10. Real or Imagined?
11. Of One Heart, of One Mind
12. Saying Goodbye to Those You So Love
13. Teaching Mathematics Again
14. Prize of One's Life... The Prize of One's Mind
15. All Love Can Be - Charlotte Church
16. Closing Credits
Editorial Review:
This Ron Howard film parlays the troubled story of Nobel laureate John Forbes Nash Jr., a gifted Princeton mathematics professor tormented for decades by paranoid schizophrenia, into something considerably richer than typical Hollywood triumph-against-all-odds fare. Howard has teamed here again with frequent collaborator James Horner, and it's the composer who deftly shades the film's difficult emotional landscape and helps impart a compelling humanity. Horner's first task is not inconsiderable: musically portraying the arcane realm of mathematical theorems that are the story's backdrop. In doing so, the composer leans heavily on modern minimalist technique, bright flourishes that recur briefly throughout an orchestral score that increasingly reflects Nash's bleak inner landscape in its quietly somber and brooding tones. And while Horner has frequently been accused of excessively repeating himself in his scores, the neo-minimalist gambit employed on this reflectively pastoral, postmodernist soundscape neatly nips such criticism in the bud. Nash's triumph is ultimately an intensely personal one, well reflected in Welsh soprano Charlotte Church's lilting performance of the Horner/Will Jennings ballad "All Love Can Be." This enhanced CD also features notes by the director and composer, as well as exclusive photos and the film's trailer. --Jerry McCulley
A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Score Reviews:
A Beautiful Soundtrack 
2009-09-28 - This is a simply amazing Soundtrack. James Horner combines flowing vocals (Charlotte Church), with an intense orchestral sound. This is culminated best in "Alicia Descends into Nashes Dark World", in which a four-note theme is repeated for seven minutes, without growing old or repetitive. This is a simply amazing soundtrack. Buy it!
A Beautiful Soundtrack
2009-08-17 - I knew that I had to own this soundtrack when I first heard the music in the film. Haunting and emotional, I like listening to it when I'm in the right mood. I wouldn't classify it as "background music" to set a pleasant atmosphere in a room, because it demands attention--but not in an obnoxious way.
wonderful music
2009-06-20 - Some of the best classical music being written these days is movie scores.This score is first rate.
Another Excellent Work by James Horner 
2008-12-16 - When watching A Beautiful Mind for the first time several years ago, I was immediately drawn into the musical score and felt that it brought an extra dimension of depth and emotion to the film. I love the fact that they got Charlotte Church to provide the voicing and she adds a great deal of beauty to the various pieces. Listening to the score brought back those feelings and now I can't wait to watch the film again. Bravo James Horner!
great book, good picture, good musical score
2008-03-19 - They took some liberties with the story the drama was well done and apparently was satisfactory to the Nash's. At first I was infuriated because the scenes with the CIA agent seemed so real that you thought Howard was suggesting that some of Nash's illusions were real. But far into the story you learn that the best friend character and the CIA agent are imaginary.
Very good actimg by Russell Crowe. This is enjoyable even for those who don't have an interest in mathematics. I took my children (10 and 12) and they enjoyed it also with the help of some adult explanations. The music was excellent also.
