The Legend of Zorro [Soundtrack]

the legend of zorro [soundtrack]

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    The Legend of Zorro, film score
    Composed by James Horner
    with Sarah Thornblade, Kazu Matsui, Andrew Shulman, Ramon Stagnaro, Brian D. A. O'Connor, Phil Ayling, George Doering, Songa Lee-Kitto, Ana Landauer, Alan Grunfeld, Peter Limonick, Richard Altenbach, Kevin Konnolly, Armen Anassian, Tamara Hatwan, David F. Walther, Eric J. Hosler, Anatoly Rosinsky, Robert L. Becker, Devan Torfeh, Oscar Hidalgo, Victoria Miskolczy, Scott Hosfeld, Susan Ranney, Robert Levine Sanders, David Duke, David Shostac, Bruce Dukov, Marc Sazer, Dane Little, Dan Greco, Mark Adams, David Low, Heather Clark, Julie Gigante, Roger Wilkie, Paul Cohen, Jacqueline Brand, James Sawyer, Michael Fisher, Lorand Lokuszta, Ann Atkinson, Bill Booth, Michael Valerio, Katia Popov, Kenneth Yerke, Dmitri Bovaird, Gary Bovyer, Alyssa Park, Drew Dembowski, Aimee Kreston, Anthony Hinnigan, Sarah Parkins, Dean Parks, Daniel Kelley, Sebastian Toettcher, Tomas Raney, Nico Carmine Abondolo, Phillip Edward Yao, Timothy Landauer, Mark Robertson, Jo Ann Turovsky, Karie Prescott, Timothy Morrison, Edward Meares, Miran Kojian, Donald Foster, Christian Kollgaard, David Parmeter, Keith Greene, Simon Oswell, Victor Lawrence, Rafael Rishik, Darrin McCann, Clayton Haslop, George Kim Scholes, Jim Self, Steve Gordon, Rowena Hammill, Lisa Sutton, Timm Boatman, James Thatcher, Randy Kerber, Liane Mautner, Marina Manukian, Paul Klintworth, Federico Ramos, Bob Zimmitti, Joel Derouin, Pamela Goldsmith, Ian Underwood, Leslie Reed, Amy Hershberger, Joshua Ranz, Cassandra Richburg, Kenneth Munday, Rene Mandel, Thomas Diener, Shawn Mann, Marcia Dickstein, John Walz, Roberto Cani, Dennis Karmazan, Eun-Mae Ahn, Bruce Morgenthaler, Shanti D. Randall, Mike Nowak, Matthew Funes, Miwako Watanabe, Brian Dembow, Sungil Lee, Stan Sharp, Robert Berg, Cecilia Tsan, John Reynolds, Jon Lewis, Don Williams, Jeanne Evans, Andrew Thomas Malloy, Dimitrie Leivici, David Riddles, Marlow Fisher, Ishani Ohoola, Earle Dumler, Antony Cooke, Chris Ermacoff, Michael O'Donovan, Geri Rotella, Paula Hochhalter, Brian Kilgore, David Washburn, Ralph Williams, Roland Kato, Allison Allport, Natalie Leggett, Endre Granat, Stephen Erdody, Douglas Davis, Rick Gerding, David H. Speltz, Phillip Levy, Irina Voloshina, Steven Edelman, Jennie Hansen, Andrew Picken, Barbara Northcutt
    Conducted by James Horner

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The Legend of Zorro [Soundtrack]
The Legend of Zorro
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Very stirring Spanish music
  • Everything you want it to be
  • Excellent sound track
  • "Horner, the legend has returned!"
  • Great Fun!
 The Legend of Zorro

Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000BF0DTC
Release Date: 2005-10-25

Tracks:

  1. Collecting The Ballots
  2. Stolen Votes
  3. To The Governor's... And Then Elena
  4. This Is Who I Am
  5. Classroom Justice
  6. The Cortez Ranch
  7. A Proposal With Pearls/Perilous Times
  8. Joaquin's Capture And Zorro's Rescue
  9. Jailbreak/Reunited
  10. A Dinner Of Pigeon/Setting The Explosives
  11. Mad Dash/Zorro Unmasked
  12. Just One Drop Of Nitro
  13. The Train
  14. Statehood Proclaimed
  15. My Family Is My Life...

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Very stirring Spanish music.......2007-01-10

This CD makes you want to put a rose in your teeth and flamenco dance.

5 out of 5 stars Everything you want it to be.......2006-04-20


I just bought this soundtrack last night after listening to bits of it on iTunes, and it is such a beautiful score. I've seen the film... gosh, I don't keep count anymore, but every time, I always take in the music. And how can you not? James Horner is a wonderful composer, yet the music seems to take on a life of its own.
The opening number gets you right away: the Spanish-style guitar strum, the frenzied tap dance, and the horns. One thing you can definitely credit music to do is build, be it suspense or emotion. The tap dance builds and builds until the guitar takes over.
The second number begins with drums like thunderclaps, violins still keeping the tension. The horns and claps enter, and you have Zorro's theme again. Percussion picks back up around the two-minute mark, and it keeps a nice tempo.
I like to think that this soundtrack is like a Spanish version of Pirates of the Caribbean, another of my favorite films. But the horns always let you know, with special clarity, that this is Zorro.
Whether or not this soundtrack is good is entirely up to the person listening. Then again, if you don't like it, why are you listening in the first place? If you want to hate it, then it's terrible. But if you appreciate all the orchestrations, this soundtrack is a masterpiece. Enjoy.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent sound track.......2006-02-24

The soundtrack for the movie "Legend of Zorro" is far and away greater than the soundtrack for the original movie. It is the perfect piece for putting on in the background while you work or resting your thoughts. There is just the feeling of a fine wine when it's playing. I love the Spainish sound of guitar and orchestration. My office partner finds it wonderful to listen to also. For those who like soundtracks this is a must, and if you just like wonderful music, again, it is a must.

5 out of 5 stars "Horner, the legend has returned!".......2006-02-08

With "Collecting the Ballots" we are reintroduced to the awesome prelude Horner composed for The Mask of Zorro. The difference is that after the tap dancing and clapping, there's no loud bang of the main theme. The theme is expanded a bit and later makes its soft, heroic appearance.

The talk and hype of this album is the longest track: "The Train." Horner composes many long tracks for other works but this is one of, if not, his longest action track to date. It starts hard and fast with a Spanish trumpet, tapping and percussion all leading up to the very Spanish, fun Zorro theme at the 1-minute mark. From there it's non-stop action to the very end. This is one sweeping, swashbuckling ride of a score.

If you enjoyed the first Zorro music, you'll enjoy this one. However, there are no new themes only a multiple amount of use of the romantic theme from the first Zorro. This could be good or bad. It depends on your taste.

The action tracks really make this an awesome score. It's difficult to pick one composition over the over; Mask of Zorro or Legend of Zorro?

This is James Horner's best action score of the year. Add this one to your collection!

4 out of 5 stars Great Fun!.......2005-11-23

"The Legend of Zorro"
The movie comes at an unusual time, seven years after it's predecessor. Why one only has to wonder what took them so long to get around to it, it's provided us with a new James Horner score at the very least. The first score was one of his best action scores... fun, inventive, and with excellent themes. Everyone raved about Horner's creativity, how much different it was from the rest of his work. He's now returned for a sequel (he doesn't do many of those, he's only scored sequels for "An American Tail", "Cocoon", "48 Hrs" and "Star Trek") to "Zorro" and like his other sequel scores ("An American Tail 2" excepted), it's quite similar to the first one. The opening track, "Collecting the Ballots" begins with the same hard guitar strum as the first, and the notes of clapping that follow are identical to the original score as well... fortunately, it's not a complete repeat after that. The same themes are utilized throughout the score, there's no significant new ones (aside from a "false love theme", you'll understand when you see the movie), but Horner uses them in different enough ways to make this score interesting. The instrumentation is the same (clapping hands, stomping feet, tambourines, guitars, ethnic pipes, and blaring horns) but the rhythms and paces are different.

The overall feel of the score is slightly more playful than the original, but it never feels cartoonish. It's simply more fun and less threatening than the original score. Whether this is a pro or con I will leave up to you. The love theme is used more often than the main theme this time around, and it's featured in stunning arrangements several times, but the focus of this score is action music. The action is a lot of fun, and if you enjoyed the first score, you will likely enjoy this one as well. The album is refreshingly free of Horner's cliches while simultaneously sounding like a Horner score... mostly. The highlight track of the album, and there are a few to choose from, is probably "The Train". The longest cue, it's a nearly non-stop action piece that is superbly exciting and epic in structure. Near the end, though, it seems that Horner got so creative he actually jumps out of his own musical borders and seems to be channeling John Williams in "Revenge of the Sith" mode, without ever directly stealing from him. Fascinating. Another bonus is that we have no annoying pop song here, rather, we get an end credits suite (My Family is My Life) that goes back and forth between the main theme and the love theme in various forms. As you probably have noticed, Horner likes to end his scores on a quiet note... his end credits tend to finish the themes, and then fade off into oblivion with quiet, gentle, wandering strings or flutes. Not here. In a bold move not heard since the likes of "Star Trek" or "The Rocketeer" (some might include "Ransom"), Horner brings his score to a close with a mighty brass trill, finishing off his action adventure with a bang. Cool!

Okay, I'll stop raving and make my obligatory complaints. The score is only prevented from reaching a five-star level due to it's derivative nature. There are no new themes here of note, and a novice might have a hard time telling it from the original. But on it's own, it's excellent, and unlike John William's second "Harry Potter" score, this is a score that doesn't pale in comparison to the original. It may not have quite as many highlights as the original score, but it's a more consistently well-written and quality listen. Plus the end credits suite is far more satisfying than that silly song. I've heard better scores this year in "Kingdom of Heaven", "Hostage", "Star Wars", "The Greatest Game Ever Played", "Corpse Bride", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", and others, but few of them have been as much pure orchestral fun as "The Legend of Zorro." Recommended.
Rating: ****
The Legend of Zorro
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Thrilling and evocative James Horner's Music
 The Legend of Zorro
James Horner
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CC3SDM
Release Date: 2006-01-03

Tracks:

  1. Collecting the Ballots
  2. Stolen Votes
  3. To the Governor's... and Then Elena
  4. This Is Who I Am
  5. Classroom Justice
  6. Cortez Ranch
  7. Proposal with Pearls/Perilous Times
  8. Joaquin's Capture and Zorro's Rescue
  9. Jailbreak/Reunited
  10. Dinner of Pigeon/Setting the Explosives
  11. Mad Dash/Zorro Unmasked
  12. Just One Drop of Nitro
  13. Train
  14. Statehood Proclaimed
  15. My Family Is My Life...

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Thrilling and evocative James Horner's Music.......2007-05-10

Oscar Winner composer James Horner, follows his musical saga for ZORRO

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