Composer/former Buggles keyboardist Hans Zimmer helped pioneer the fusion of traditional orchestral music with synthesized sounds that both seamlessly mock and supplement the traditionally acoustic. What listeners sometimes mistake for a symphony orchestra in full voice is often but shrewdly manipulated digital samples. Thus, this concert performance (recorded at the 2000 Flanders Film Festival) adds a welcome, truly organic dimension to the best of Zimmer's canon. The … mehrcomposer is featured as a performer (with Dirk Brosse conducting the fine efforts of the VRO Flemish Radio Orchestra), as are many of his frequent collaborators; Lisa Gerrard adds her distinctive vocals to the included Gladiator excerpts, while guitarists Pete Haycock and Heitor Pereira add their familiar flourishes to cues from Thelma and Louise and Mission: Impossible 2, respectively. Reworked music from The Lion King and The Power of One supplement the already familiar, but it's Zimmer's haunting, emotionally compelling "Journey to the Line" (from The Thin Red Line score) that is the collection's unlikely high point. --Jerry McCulley weniger
1 - Gladiator: Now We Are Free
2 - Gladiator: Am I Not Merciful
3 - Driving Miss Daisy: Driving
4 - Thelma & Louise: Thunderbird
5 - The Thin Red Line: Journey To The Line… mehr
6 - Mission: Impossible 2: Nyah And Ethan
7 - The Lion King: Lea Halalela
8 - Power Of One: Mother Africa
9 - Nine Months: Suite
10 - Rain Man: Main Theme
11 - True Romance: Main Theme
12 - The Lion King: Busa weniger