Ned Kelly [Soundtrack] [Import]

ned kelly [soundtrack] [import]

On this CD:

Shelter For My Soul (for the film Ned Kelly)
Composed by Bernard Fanning
Performed by Isobel Griffiths
with Bruce White, Anthony Lewis, Jonathan Evans-Jones, Mark Berrow
Conducted by Rick Wentworth, Gavyn Wright

Ned Kelly, film score
Composed by Klaus Badelt
Performed by Tim Jones, Isobel Griffiths, Henning Lohner
with Peter Lale, Ian Balmain, Susie Webb, Alexandra Hill, Eric Rigler, Katy Stephan
Conducted by Gavyn Wright, Rick Wentworth

Moreton Bay
Composed by Traditional
with Bernard Fanning, Jack Moncur, John Bedggood
Conducted by Rick Wentworth, Gavyn Wright

Ned Kelly, film score Doomed
Composed by Klaus Badelt
Performed by Tim Jones, Isobel Griffiths, Henning Lohner
with Peter Lale, Ian Balmain, Susie Webb, Alexandra Hill, Eric Rigler, Katy Stephan
Conducted by Gavyn Wright, Rick Wentworth

Ned Kelly, film score Outlaws
Composed by Klaus Badelt
Performed by Tim Jones, Isobel Griffiths, Henning Lohner
with Peter Lale, Ian Balmain, Susie Webb, Alexandra Hill, Eric Rigler, Katy Stephan
Conducted by Gavyn Wright, Rick Wentworth

Ned Kelly, film score The Jerilderie Letter
Composed by Klaus Badelt
Performed by Tim Jones, Isobel Griffiths, Henning Lohner
with Peter Lale, Ian Balmain, Susie Webb, Alexandra Hill, Eric Rigler, Katy Stephan
Conducted by Gavyn Wright, Rick Wentworth

Ned Kelly, film score Father
Composed by Klaus Badelt
Performed by Tim Jones, Isobel Griffiths, Henning Lohner
with Peter Lale, Ian Balmain, Susie Webb, Alexandra Hill, Eric Rigler, Katy Stephan
Conducted by Gavyn Wright, Rick Wentworth

Ned Kelly, film score The Glenrowan Inn
Composed by Klaus Badelt
Performed by Tim Jones, Isobel Griffiths, Henning Lohner
with Peter Lale, Ian Balmain, Susie Webb, Alexandra Hill, Eric Rigler, Katy Stephan
Conducted by Gavyn Wright, Rick Wentworth

Ned Kelly, film score Remembering Ned Kelly
Composed by Klaus Badelt
Performed by Tim Jones, Isobel Griffiths, Henning Lohner
with Peter Lale, Ian Balmain, Susie Webb, Alexandra Hill, Eric Rigler, Katy Stephan
Conducted by Gavyn Wright, Rick Wentworth

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
2003 soundtrack to the film starring Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Naomi Watts and Geoffrey Watts. The soundtrack features a very warm and original folk song by Powderfinger's Bernard Fanning. 15 tracks. Decca.

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Ned Kelly [Soundtrack] [Import]

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Badelt's most underrated effort
4.5 Stars for Klaus Badelt's Most Underrated Score
4.5 Stars - Beautiful!

Ned Kelly
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Decadance UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000091A6Y
Release Date: 2003-10-28

Tracks:

Shelter For My Soul - Bernard Fanning
Saving A Life
Ned Kelly
Destiny
The Light
Julia
Stringybark Creel
Back Home
Moreton Bay
Doomed
Outlaws
The Jerilderie Letter
Father
The Glenrowan Inn
Remembering Ned Kelly

Album Description

2003 soundtrack to the film starring Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Naomi Watts and Geoffrey Watts. The soundtrack features a very warm and original folk song by Powderfinger's Bernard Fanning. 15 tracks. Decca.

Customer Reviews:

Badelt's most underrated effort.......2005-11-09

If you're any kind of film score fan, then you need to pick yourself up a copy of this album - even if it is second hand. The biggest problem with this album is that it isn't so readily available in the US as it is in Australia, and that does an injustice to Klaus Badelt, who here presents us with some extremely engaging and touching music.

The score is written mainly for a fairly decent sized orchestra with a strong emphasis on the strings, with the brass acting only as an accent on the strings, as evidenced in the third track 'Ned Kelly' where we have the main theme stated in full. It sounds so cliched, but everytime I listen to this track it sends shivers up my spine. Every single time. I love it!

The album also features two songs performed by Bernard Fanning. The first 'Shelter for my Soul', opens the album and fits in quite nicely with the themes and tone of Badelt's work (Badelt wrote and arranged the strings for this piece as well). The second piece is a traditional Australian folk piece called 'Moreton Bay'. Like the review below states, because this song is right in the middle of the album, it really detracts from the experience of Badelt's work, and should have been saved for the end of the album.

Badelt has written some very bittersweet themes that are both hopeful and mournful by turns. I believe Badelt is underrated for the many electronic and synth-influenced scores he has produced, but the writing in tracks such as 'Ned Kelly', 'The Light', 'Back Home' and 'The Jerilderie Letter' only confirm that he is a very deft hand at writing for a full orchestra. His solos are beautifully placed as well - an Irish whistle is used only occassionally, but is most appropriate when it does show up, and roots the score in its Australiana setting. The score also features viola and trumpet solos that are generally featured during the more character-driven moements of the film (of which there are many) and make for a fairly intimate score at times.

If you don't expect any big, racey action writing, and are after an orchestral score with heart, then Ned Kelly comes highly recommended.

4.5 Stars for Klaus Badelt's Most Underrated Score.......2003-11-01

I first heard the music to Ned Kelly when I travelled to Australia and watched the movie. While I was a tad dissappointed, I went out and bouth the CD immediately, and have been moved like no other score can do ever since. Klaus Badelt has been one of my favourite composers since his VERY early work on Extreme Days, but I found this CD to be something completely different. In the tracks such as Ned Kelly and my personal favourite, The Glenrowan Inn, Badelt uses such a tragic heroic musical theme that stands outside the movie as a work of art. Like the first reviewer stated, this is not typical action-music fare, which I can't get enough of, but it is so beautiful, haunting, and moving that I swear you will not be dissappointed by this score, although you might be by the movie.

4.5 Stars - Beautiful!.......2003-05-09

This is the music composed by Klaus Badelt for the 2003 released film 'Ned Kelly'. Klaus Badelt was also responsible for the music from The Time Machine, The Recruit and K-19: The Widowmaker and has a steadily increasing catalogue of very successful solo scores under his belt now. Don't expect the usual Media Ventures synth and percussion assault (which I love to death) but do expect some of the most well written film music of the last year or so. Synths have been used through the score, but the bulk of it is performed by a real orchestra and several solo instruemtns have beenemployed as well (violin, viola, cello, trumpet, flutes and pipes)

The music he has written for Ned Kelly is, in a word, beautiful. The film wasn't intended to be an action romp through the countryside of Victoria, but instead it made an attempt to reflect on Kelly's feelings, emotions and reasoning behind some of his actions, and Badelt's score suits this view perfectly.

The CD contains two songs by Bernard Fanning (lead singer/songwriter from the Australian band Powderfinger) and the disc opens with his track 'Shelter For My Soul' which is used in the end credits of the film. It's a well constructed piano piece that speaks about how actions have consequences. Badelt has also lent a hand on this piece by arranging the accompanying strings. This leads us into the next two tracks 'Saving a Life' and 'Ned Kelly' which are performed together to form one nine minute piece that sets up the main themes for the rest of the disc. It is a very bittersweet theme that brings to life the mistakes Ned makes, but the guilt and sorrow he feels for what he has done and the path it has led him to. It's a very moving theme and while it isn't a bombastic orchestral assault, it is very powerfully performed. These two pieces nearly have me in tears I find them so moving :P

'Destiny' is a very sombre theme that is used to set up that sense of foreboding in the film. It incorporates the use of an irish pipe which gives us a sense of the Kelly family's Irish ancestry, but the instrument isn't over used which was a sensible decision from Badelt. 'The Light' is a more upbeat piece which again uses the irish pipes in a very uplifting cue, and 'Julia' isn't the sweet feminine theme you'd usually associate with similarly titled pieces. The sense of foreboding picks up here as the orchestra builds on the theme set up in the previous piece.

'Stringybark Creek' features the solo trumpet and flute amongst the orchestra for a slower interpretation of the two main themes at the beginning of the disc, while 'Back Home' features more of the irish pipe from 'Destiny' and some short violin passages before it drops to a solo trumpet passage and the first of the real action cues from the film.

'Moreton Bay' is the second track offered by Bernard Fanning, and this is the only really dissapoint piece on the album. It is a reworking of a traditional Australian folk song and while the style has it's place some scenes of the film, it is totally out of context on this CD, especially in the middle of the disc. Bernard Fanning also probably wasn't the best choise either, but he is Austraian, and lends that particular quality to his viocal performance. This is where the album lost half a star for me.

From this point on, the situation the Kelly Gang finds themselves in is growing darker, and the score reflects this change by turning some of the themes upside down and. There is still that bittersweet theme running through out, but it is perhaps more accuate now as Ned realises that what he has done, even if he didn't want to or was forced todo it, is going to have consequences he can't escape. 'Doomed' and 'Outlaws' nicely capture the gang on the run and trying to find a way out as the law gets closer and closer to them.

'The Jerilderie Letter' is the scene in the bank where the hostage are offering up names to call the governer. It begins lightheartedly, but as Ned's speech get progressivly more serious, the tone of the music matches and the piece ends on a sharp rise.

'Father' is simply a short piece of reflection and quite before the storm of 'The Glenrowan Inn'. The piece charts the whole end scene from the gang arriving at the inn and anxiously waiting for the poilce, to the shoot out itself, and then the aftermath the next morning and Ned makes his last stand and is finally captured. Again, this piece is another watery-eyed experience for me. The album ends with 'Remembering Ned Kelly' which is a simple two minute solo from the viola. Again just a very retospective piece.

Tracks:

Ned Kelly - Waylon Jennings
Such Is Life - Mick Jagger
The Wild Colonial Boy - Mick Jagger
What Do You Mean I Don't Like - Mick Jagger
Son Of A Scoundrel - Kris Krstofferson
Shadow of the Gallows - Waylon Jennings
If I Ever Kill - Mick Jagger
Lonigan's Widow - Waylon Jennings
Stoney Cold Ground - Kris Krstofferson
Ladies & Gentlemen - Mick Jagger
The Kelly's Keep Comin' - Kris Krstofferson
Ranchin' In The Evenin' - Waylon Jennings
Say - Mick Jagger
Blame It On The Kellys - Waylon Jennings
Pleasures Of A Sunday Afternoon - Waylon Jennings
Hey Ned - Tom Ghent

Customer Reviews:

Kelly music rings true.......2007-06-14

The making of the movie caused something of an uproar in Glenrowan Town - Mick Jagger, a skinny pommie rock singer playing our Ned, a true blue big fella Ozzie bloke. Forget the movie, this soundtrack has been ringing in our ears ever since. No other music has captured the essence of the people, places & history of the stringybark country as this soundtrack has. Shel Silverstein's words & music, Waylon Jenning's gravelly voice & Kris Kristofferson's 'The Kelly's Keep Comin' - its said to this day on the ranges between Benalla and Glenrowan a tall shadowy figure walks thru' the mist of each dawn clanging in his armour, laughing deeply . . . rings true

Where's the script?.......2006-12-28

There were some good things about this movie: the photography was nice. The action scenes weren't too bad. I somewhat liked the music.

If only there had been a real screenplay to hold it all together. I can't tell whether the acting was any good, because they had so little to work with. As for historical content, it's amazing that so much of it was incorrect, given how little of it there was.

I'd recommend this only if you think Mick Jagger looks good with that beard. Otherwise I'd say buy a book on the Kelly gang if you want to learn more, buy the soundtrack if you want the music, or watch the Heath Ledger version.

GREAT SOUNDTRACK!.......2005-05-22

I bought this video for the Waylon Jennings soundtrack. The songs are SUPER! But the movie had too much violence for my taste. So I will look for a Waylon soundtrack CD just to hear the music.

Marked as a child.......2004-08-21

I first saw this movie as a small child. Now, 3 decades later, I have been unable to forget it.

An Australian legend, similar to Brittain's Robin Hood, or America's Jessie James, "Ned Kelly" is a shockingly graphic depiction of freedom and justice.

Waylon Jennings and the soundtrack music is unforgettable. While having an aversion to mick jagger, I believe he contributed much to the feel of this film, and this may be his finest performance.

the music is the thing.......2003-07-15

Okay so Mic Jagger was an odd choice to play Ned Kelly but so what? Before this movie came out most of the world didn't know who the Kellys were. Perhaps the movie made people decide to learn more which is why we now have at least two very good books on Ned Kelly's life. But this is supposed to be about the sound track and I'll get to that. Waylon Jennings was brilliant on this album. Every song moves the movie along and actually comments on the action on the screen. Once you hear it you'll never forget Blame it On the Kellys or Daddy Does His Ranching (Dad's a cattle thief) in the Evening.

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