Original Soundtrack - The Road To Perdition (Newman) (Music CD)

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Road To Perdition, The (Thomas Newman)

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Specifications

• Original Soundtrack - The Road To Perdition (Newman) (Music CD) available on September 14 2018 from Base for 11.89
  
• Road To Perdition, The (Thomas Newman) available on October 13 2015 from Amazon for 7.16
  
• UPC bar code 044001716720 ξ3 registered September 14 2018
  
• UPC bar code 044001716720 ξ2 registered October 13 2015
  
• UPC bar code 044001716720 ξ4 registered July 08 2015
  
• UPC bar code 044001716720 ξ1 registered July 03 2012
  
• Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - Soundtracks Audio
• Manufacturered by Decca U.S.
  

• Product weight is 0.21 lbs.
  

Director Sam Mendes's much-anticipated follow-up to his Academy Award®-winning American Beauty found him exploring the period gangster film--but with a moral fiber and undercurrent of family tragedy familiar from his Oscar® triumph. As he did with Beauty, Mendes again wisely entrusts the film's music to Tom Newman, a composer with an instinctive knack for getting inside a film's characters via innovative and often orthodox methods. As many of Newman's preceding scores have been rhythmically driven and rife with improvisation-driven experimentalism, its good to hear his equally distinctive writing for orchestra largely take center stage here again. But Newman's inquisitive musical instincts can't be denied, and his melancholy string writing is leavened first with subtle uilleann pipe flourishes that echo the characters' Irish-American roots, then with savory, yet ever-restrained touches of his own ethnic-defying instrumental color and rhythmic accents. It's another moody and introspective gem, seasoned with some lively period jazz (courtesy of the Charleston Chasers, Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra, and Chicago Rhythm Kings) and a warm, final surprise: a duet of John M. Williams's autumnal title track performed by none other than stars Tom Hanks and Paul Newman. --Jerry McCulley

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References

^ Road to Perdition Music from the Motion Picture UPC 044001716720 (revised Jul 2012)
^ Road to Perdition [Music from the Motion Picture] by Thomas Newman (CD, Jun-2002, Universal Distribution) UPC 044001716720 (revised Oct 2015)
^ Original Soundtrack - The Road To Perdition (Newman) (Music CD) Base. UPC 044001716720 (revised Sep 2018)
^ (2002). Road To Perdition, The (Thomas Newman), Decca U.s.. Amazon. UPC 044001716720 (revised Oct 2015)