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Track Listing
1. 3200 Years Ago
2. Troy
3. Achilles Leads the Mymidons
4. Temple of Poseidon, The
5. Night Before, The
6. Greek Army and Its Defeat, The
7. Briseis and Achilles
8. Trojans Attack, The
9. Hector's Death
10. Wooden Horse and the Sacking of Troy, The
11. Through the Fires, Achilles...And Immortality
12. Remember Me - (featuring Josh Groban/Tanja Tzarovska)
Album Notes
Composer: James Horner.
Additional personnel: Josh Groban, The Bulgarian Women's Choir (vocals).
Recording information: 2004.
Throbbing drums, wailing chants, and ominous strings herald the onset of TROY, James Horner's sweepingly atmospheric score to Wolfgang Petersen's Homer-based epic. Horner excels at evoking celluloid in sound, be it folksy sentiments in the baseball fantasy FIELD OF DREAMS or all-consuming shipboard romance and tragedy in the period nautical-disaster movie TITANIC.
Here he skillfully sets the scene with the heraldic opening salvo of "3200 Years Ago," followed by the shining city splendor of "Troy." Horner is also a master of the tense musical preamble, as evidenced by the brooding arrangement of "The Night Before," which foreshadows tragedy in "The Greek Army and Its Defeat." There's some relief from the unremitting tension in the romantic "Briseis and Achilles," but since this is a Greek myth, the tale shifts the proceedings back to the battle for Troy, to the sound of much lamentation and full orchestral accompaniment.
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