Back To Titanic [Soundtrack]

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Fans of the Titanic soundtrack will undoubtedly appreciate this sequel, a collection of original music and background tunes not found on the first disc. They won't be disappointed. The newly composed "Titanic Suite" and "Epilogue: The Deep and Timeless Sea" are patchwork quilts of James Horner's most moving themes from the movie. Despite a few awkward transitions in "Suite" (where melodies move from somber to uplifting), the compositions--played by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Choirsters of King's College, Cambridge--work well. There's also a lot of diversity here, such as Gaelic Storm's lively "An Irish Party in Third Class" and chamber group I Salonisti's "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "Nearer My God to Thee." The misses are few: the breathy Maire Brennan's "Come Josephine, in My Flying Machine" is lethargic, and the movie dialogue peppering several songs (including Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On") is more distracting than effective. --Jason Verlinde

Entertainment Weekly
This second dip into Titanic's musical waters is more varied than the first, since it includes the film's Irish jigs and string-quartet tunes.

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The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra needs a guitar player!
Persuaders Theme!
A Variety Of Classics!
Incredible Barry Collection
" one of cinema's greatest composers...John Barry"

John Barry: The Collection

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ASIN: B00005BADD
Release Date: 2001-05-22

Tracks:

Zulu
From Russia With Love
From Russia With Love - 007
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The Knack
Mister Moses
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Born Free
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The Man With The Golden Gun
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The Tamarind Seed
King Kong
Eleanor And Franklin
Robin And Marian
The Deep
Hanover Street
The Black Hole
Moonraker
Somewhere In Time
Raise The Titanic
Body Heat
Frances
Octopussy
The Cotton Club

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High Road To China
A View To A Kill
Out Of Africa
The Living Daylights
Dances With Wolves
Dances With Wolves
Chaplin
Moviola
Indecent Proposal
The Specialist
The Scarlet Letter
Cry The Beloved Country
Mercury Rising
The James Bond Theme

Customer Reviews:

The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra needs a guitar player!.......2006-11-09

Granted, they only need it for one composition (the last one, "The James Bond Theme") but still, without the guitar it's just not the same. Barry didn't compose this one so I suppose it was a bonus and I shouldn't complain, really. The rest of the music on all the CDs is fantastic. Some of the stuff I had heard before without realizing who had composed it. Very enjoyable, to say the least.

Persuaders Theme!.......2006-03-02

Buy it for the Persuaders theme, probably the best TV theme song ever written.

A Variety Of Classics!.......2005-12-06

John Barry has been composing film scores for over forty years and this is only scratching the surface of his productions. Never mind that the entire set is recorded by the Prague Philharmonic; it's pure to Barry's themes. While John Williams compositions ("Star Wars", etc.) are wild and flamboyant and Jerry Goldsmith's (Hoosier's, etc.) are mood pieces, John Barry crosses over all barriers and is amazingly diverse. Barry has recorded most of the exciting James Bond themes, melodramatic classics like "The Lion In Winter' and moody theme hits like "Midnight Cowboy". He also tugs at the heartstrings with compositions from, "Somewhere In Time", "Frances" and "Out Of Africa". He varies his themes for all types of films and few composers capture it so well.

There is over four hours of music in this set with a colorful and informative booklet.

Incredible Barry Collection.......2004-03-11

Any fan of movies will absolutley love this collection. Being a movie buff I couldn't wait to get this boxed set. Knowing Barry from all the James Bond movies, I did not realize his involvement with so many others. The orchestra is magnificent in all these themes. I'm listening to "High Road to China" right now and I'm drifting in the clouds in a Tiger Moth with Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong. If you are familiar with a movie it will definitely have you seeing it again, if not the scores are still beautiful. Any fan of classical music will be pleased as well. Travellers will defintitely enjoy it for a long drive. I know from when I use to travel that music like this made the miles float by faster. I highly recommend these four CDs even if you just know a handful of the songs.

" one of cinema's greatest composers...John Barry".......2001-07-06

This collection of four compact discs...are worth their weight in GOLD! Barry creates visual moods for each film he scores...romantic, sentimental, action, adventure, suspense and mystery...the list could go on. Strings, brass and lush-velvet arrangements overlay each cue in his distinctive style of legendary scoring...we have ~ "John Barry:The Collection", Silva Screen's release traces 40 years of film music, featuring "The City Of Prague Philarmonic Orchestra" ~ conducted by Mr. Nic Raine (outstanding)..."Crouch End Festival Chorus" ~ David Temple, Choir Master...perform 56 selections, over four hours of symphonic suites with a full orchestra sound...all individually wrapped-up into one neat package...just the way "film-score-buffs" like 'em!

Must ask the following to take a bow ~ James Fitzpatrick (compilation producer), always in their pitching, Reynold da Silva (executive producer), Nic Raine (conductor, arranger, orchestrator & associate producer), a tremen!dous asset to every project he undertakes...and the man who made it all possible...a legendary icon always leading the way in film scoring ~ JOHN BARRY!

Total Time: 258:76 on 56 Tracks ~ SSD-1128 ~ (2001)

You might try other albums from Silva Screen, all worthy of a good listen ~ "The Essential James Bond" (SSD-1034)..."Bond:Back In Action" (SSD-1100)..."Bond:Back In Action 2" (SSD-1119)..."Zulu" (SSD-1095)..."Raise The Titanic" (SSD-1102)..."Walkabout" (SSD-1120)...check out my reviews on amazon.com/music.

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Good for Fanatics
Wait! Haven't I heard this before?!
Leftovers and inspired by's
Wonderful... for the most part...
I know Im late but......

Back To Titanic

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Titanic Suite - LSO/Choristers Of King's College, Cambridge
An Irish Party In Third Class - Gaelic Storm
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A Building Panic - Back To Titanic
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Epilogue-The Deep And Timeless Sea - LSO/Choristers Of King's College, Cambridge

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Fans of the Titanic soundtrack will undoubtedly appreciate this sequel, a collection of original music and background tunes not found on the first disc. They won't be disappointed. The newly composed "Titanic Suite" and "Epilogue: The Deep and Timeless Sea" are patchwork quilts of James Horner's most moving themes from the movie. Despite a few awkward transitions in "Suite" (where melodies move from somber to uplifting), the compositions--played by the London Symphony Orchestra and the Choirsters of King's College, Cambridge--work well. There's also a lot of diversity here, such as Gaelic Storm's lively "An Irish Party in Third Class" and chamber group I Salonisti's "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "Nearer My God to Thee." The misses are few: the breathy Maire Brennan's "Come Josephine, in My Flying Machine" is lethargic, and the movie dialogue peppering several songs (including Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On") is more distracting than effective. --Jason Verlinde

Customer Reviews:

Good for Fanatics.......2007-06-14

This is an elegant compilation of James Horner's music from the film Titanic; however, it was not meant to be the primary score. Titanic fans who couldn't get enough out of the original score drove Horner to produce Back to Titanic. The songs are beautiful, the use of the orchestra is brilliant, but the songs are not orthodox-Titanic. Probably two or three tracks actually were derived from the film--the rest sound like fillers. I recommend this album to Horner/diehard Titanic fans, but if you're just seeking the Titanic music, settle for the original.

Wait! Haven't I heard this before?!.......2007-03-17

Quite a bit of this cd relies on tracks with dialogue from the movie embedded in the background, such as 'An Irish Party In Third Class' where you can hear both Rose and Jack talking to each other as they dance. This makes the songs unlistenable for the most part because you're not listening to just music, but pretty much the same as if you had the movie on, weren't watching it, and were just hearing it whilst you did something else.
The songs which don't have dialogue are nothing special, you could probably find the similar on the first soundtrack.

The beauty of the whole album is the lovely version of 'Come Josephine In My Flying Machine' (again, ruined by Rose's movie quotes) but it's enough to make you glad you bought the album.

However, unless you're a dedicated classical music fan who likes long strung-out piano pieces and organs, you'd be best to steer your ship away from this album which was only made to create more wealth for James Cameron and his crew, and stick with the original soundtrack.
A 'shelf-sitter' for the most part, how many times you'll feel the need to put this on, I doubt there will be an overwhelming urge.
More of the same, less of the power.

Noteworthy tracks: 'A Building Panic', 'Nearer My God To Thee', 'Titanic Suite'.

Leftovers and inspired by's.......2006-10-18

I'm not ashamed to admit that Titanic remains my favorite movie ever. I'm also not ashamed that i'm a big fan of the song "My heart will go on." even after listening to it hundreds of times. Upon seeing this CD avaliable for less then three bucks (thank goodness for being able to buy used!), I just couldn't pass it up.

Well...you get what you pay for I guess.

If I had to sum up Return to Titanic, I would say "It's the leftovers that got cut out of the first musical score, and has music that isn't in the movie". This musical CD is, for me, a dissapointment through and through, though your opinion on it may vary.

Back to Titanic has a very heavy irish motif running through almost all the tracks. Pretty much all of them feature bagpipes and while nice and charming, it does wear thin on your nerves after a while, especially if you don't like bagpipes in the first place. But along with this irish theme, you'll notice something else: Many of the tracks aren't even from the movie. "Come Josephine", "Lament", "Jack Dawson's luck" and "A shore never reached" aren't even from the film. It is just me, or is it really irritating when you buy a movie music CD and don't get music from the film? Though to be fair, the music does parallel the themes from the film pretty well.

In addition to the irish motif and music that wasn't in the film, Back to Titanic has another interesting trait: It reuses a lot of the music from the first CD. The titanic suite and "The deep and endless sea" are long tracks made up of most of the non-sinking music from the first effort, patched together and from a new performance. Yes it's nice and all, but I really don't feel like listening to nineteen minutes of music that I've already heard before.

So, what is new music that WAS in the film? We've got five tracks. The first, "An Irish Party In Third Class" is the music that played during Jack and Rose's trip down to the third class dance. Fine if you don't mind heavy irish dancing music, but I personally don't care for it. Next up, we have "Alexander's Ragtime Band" which is most easily heard when Rose is recalling how she saw her life flash before her eyes (just before meeting Jack for the first time). Simple and pleasant, this makes for good old time background party music. I personally am neutral towards it. The (apparently) most praised track that's new is "A building panic" which covers the early stages of Titanic sinking. However, compared to the sinking pieces heard before, this seems pretty tame and low-key to me. Maybe i'm a fan of big disaster music, but this track diddn't move me either way. Has some nice moments, but it's personally not up to my taste.

Out of all the tracks on this CD, only two really stand out in my opinion. The first, "The portrait" is a simple piano suite that was played during...guess what? the scene where Jack draws Rose. It's simple yes, but Mr. Horner is quite good at the piano and manages to tell the Titanic theme very well. Simple, yet highly effective. The second track that deserves mention is "Nearer My God To Thee - I Salonisti". Remember that incredibly moving moment where the band plays it's final piece as the front half of the ship goes under? This is that song, and it's just as moving here as it was in the film (though I personally could do without the movie dialoge at the very end).

Aside from these five tracks, what else do we have? Well, we have a fairly boring alternate version of "Nearer my God to thee" that has no interest for me whatsoever. And we also have a new recut of "my heart will go on." I really do like the original version of this song, but other reviewers have talked about this paticular piece at length, so i'll add only this: Hopefully, the people at Sony have learned that you DONT stick movie dialoge into your big song numbers.

So...that's it. Five new movie pieces, only two of which hold my attention, four pieces of music that wern't in the movie that are to me, boring, an uninteresting recut of a popular song, an alternate and weaker version of "nearer my God to thee" and two long suites that re-use 98% of the music from the last CD.

Pffft.

Even with all this music, we STILL don't get the two best pieces of the film: The haunting opening title track, and the heartwrenching ending piece (one reviewer has said that the latter is in the first suite, but it diddn't sound like it to me). Some have commented that this CD is better then the first one, both overall and emotionally, but I honestly can't see how that's possible. The first music CD has the overwhelming majority of material from the film, and all of the best, most dramatic moments (save the two previously mentioned tracks). As a titanic fan, this CD is a dissapointment. If you must buy it, buy it used for less then five dollars.

If nothing else, this CD has inspired me to make my own CD of the music from the film...which does have the two best tracks that have yet to be released officialy.

Wonderful... for the most part..........2006-08-31

This soundtrack is wonderful because it has all of the music that the movie soundtrack didn't. In addition, these are all the songs I was looking for but could not find in the movie soundtrack, the songs that give the true "feelings" of Titanic. Also, James Horner is a magnificent artist and I suggest looking into his other soundtracks.

However, there is one downfall, which I don't know if theres a similar soundtrack that comes without it, but the voices of the characters are distracting to the music and I feel should not have been put in it. During most of the songs, characters such as Jack and Rose say some of their lines.

I know Im late but.............2006-02-16

.....I LOVE this movie AND the soundtrack. (I am listening to Hymn of the Sea as I type this!) I am NOT a classical music person by any means but this soundtrack is exceptional, as was the movie. My mom teases me because, although Titanic is 3hours & 22minutes long, I watch it at least once a week, LOL....OK maybe not that much but OFTEN, believe me. I have the special edition DVD (if you dont have it GET IT!!) & the special effects are amazing. I watch that DVD then watch the movie to see where they were inserted. I also go to the movie mistakes website & there are hundreds of movie mistakes, fact errors, etc so I try to look for them in the movie if I can. Bad habit of mine. This is the most relaxing soundtrack ever, I go to sleep to it. Try it sometime!

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Six Decades of Film Music
Excellent collection with fine performances
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Customer Reviews:

Six Decades of Film Music.......2007-05-13

This is film music for the classical music lover. The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra presents excellent arrangements of a number of classic film themes (although several pieces of the 56 film classics selected for this 4 CD set are not orchestral arrangements, but rather specialty arrangements). Besides great film composers such as John Williams, Elmer Bernstein, Ennio Morricone, and James Horner, classical composers such as Richard Strauss and Pietro Mascagni make an appearance. On several of the numbers the Crouch End Festival Chorus adds the human voice to the power of the full symphonic orchestra to create true movie magic. If you like the sound of a full symphony orchestra playing some of the most recognized themes ever written, you'll love these CDs.

Excellent collection with fine performances.......2007-03-28

Silva Screen Records, based in England, has been issuing some fine collections of film scores, more in one box than we have the right to expect. This four-CD box contains scores by many of the best writers, including Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Dimitri Tomkin, Kenneth J. Alford (The Bridge on the River Kwai), Elmer Bernstein, Maurice Jarre, Ennio Marricone, John Barry, Nino Rota, John Williams, James Horner, and more. We can all think of additional film scores we wished were included, but then there's no way this collection could be all-inclusive. The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, supplemented by Crouch End Festival Chorus on some numbers, does a very competent job...The liner notes give the basic information without any commentary, and as far as I can see, contain only one error. Am I wrong or are tracks 9 and 10 on the fourth CD mislabeled? Track 9, which runs 7:33, seems to have the excitement of "Pirates of the Caribbean" (which I did not see) and track 10, which runs 4:22, the more sedate "The Girl with the Pearl Earring (which I also did not see). Listings seem to have them reversed.

"essential film scores from 1939 to 2004 ~ Incredible Music".......2005-05-16

When I think of the "Golden Age" of Hollywood, many composers come to mind...you gave the usher your ticket in the theater and sat down, knowingly you were going to get your moneys worth...when the curtain opened and you heard those first few notes...you sat back, watched and listened as the film score and orchestra worked their magic...now we have the ultimate from Silva Screen Classics "The Incredible Film Music Box", featuring a four disc set of the essential film scores of the past 60 years...covering several decades from 1939 through and up to the present 2004

There are compilations and then there are "Compilations" beginning with a classic that even the youngsters today recognize "GONE WITH THE WIND" (1939) (Max Steiner), sweeping score that captures the tragic history of the South during the Civil War, one great cue after another, it doesn't get any better than this, nominated by the Academy for Best Original Score...and closing on Disc 4 with "THE INCREDIBLES" (2004) (Michael Giacchino), the big hit in computer animation from Walt Disney & Pixar that once again pit Super-Heroes against the forces of evil...our family of five Supers prove crime doesn't pay, but box-office receipts do...gotta love it!

Silva Screen Classics as usual, has put quality into this 4-CD-Set featuring The City Of Prague Philarmonic Orchestra and the Crouch End Festival Chorus conducted by Kenneth Alwyn, Bill Ashton, Paul Bateman, James Fitzpatrick, Mario Klemens, Derek Wadsworth, and Nic Raine. Recorded in "Dolby Surround" with the new technology of "HDCD", this is a "film-score-buffs" dream, one to treasure now and years to come.

Some selections are missing, but when you think of what Silva has included, it is impossible to please everyone...was happy to see "TOUCH OF EVIL" (1958) from composer Henry Mancini, as I feel this composer deserves all the recognition that has been overlooked recently in the music world...This collection is aimed directly at the "Serious Film Score" music fans and collectors...Silva is as always, perfect in every way...just the way we like 'em!

Total Time: 4-CD-Set ~ Silva America 1181 ~ (5/10/2005)

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