Music Composed, Arranged & Produced by Hans Zimmer
Soundtrack Album Compiled by Bob Badami Executive in Charge of Music for Columbia Pictures: Lia Vollack Executive Album Producers: Ron Howard, Brian Grazer & John Calley Violin Solos by Joshua Bell
Additional Music by Lorne Balfe & Atli Örvarsson Ambient Music Design: Mel Wesson Orchestration: Bruce Fowler Music Supervision: Bob Badami Music Editor: Daniel Pinder Assistant Music Editor: Letitia Rogers
Soloists Guitar: Heitor Pereira Cello: Martin Tillman Percussion: Ryeland Allison & Satnam Ramgotra Synthesizers: Hans Zimmer
Music Arranged by Julian Kershaw Synth Programming: Matthew Margeson, Howard Scarr, Jacob Shea & Noah Sorota Music Conducted by Nick Glennie-Smith Music Recorded & Mixed by Alan Meyerson Sequencer Programming: Thomas Broderick & Peter Oso Snell Digital Instrument Design: Mark Wherry Additional Recording by Geoff Foster, Todd Whitelock, Slamm Andrews, Jeffrey Biggers & Greg Vines Music Production Services: Steven Kofsky Score Coordinator: Andrew Zack Sample Development: Claudius Bruese, Sam Estes & Michael Hobe Technical Assistant: Andrew Kawczynski Assistant Engineers: Katia Lewin & Adam Schmidt Music Preparation: Booker White Orchestra Contractor: Peter Rotter Music Recorded at Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City, CA & Clinton Recording Studio, New York, NY
Music Mixed at Remote Control Productions, Santa Monica, CA
Studio Manager for Remote Control Productions: Czarina Russell
For Sony Classical General Manager: Alex Miller A&R: David Lai Product Marketing: Leslie Collman-Smith Product Development: Jennifer Liebeskind & Laura Kszan Business Affairs: Tara Bruh
Hans Zimmer would like to thank: Suzanne Zimmer & the Mini Z's, Zoe Zimmer & Brigitte Zimmer
Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Todd Hallowell, Dan Brown, Akiva Goldsman, John Calley, Louisa Velis, Dan Hanley, Mike Hill, Chic Ciccolini, Daniel Pagan, Tom Fleischman, Lia Vollack, Raul Perez, Tiffany Bordenave, Becky Bentham, Alison Burton, Scott Camilli, Ronni Chasen, Heidi Frederick, Teese Gohl, Esobol Gomez, Michael Gorfaine, Gavin Greenaway, Cheryl Howard, Kathy Keegan, Patrick Kim, Steven Kofsky, Kai Krause, Christina Mansky, Mike Rizzuto, Lee Rossignol, Jeff Sanderson, Sam Schwartz, Talley Singer, Shalini Singh, Chris Strong, Angie Teo, Nikki Walsh, Mindy Weissman, Andrew Zack & Matthew Zelle
Thanks to: Tim Ahlering, Shelly Bunge, Valerie Caton, Rod Davis & Paul Friedman
Release date : 05/12/2009
160 BPM (6:42) Hans Zimmer
God Particle (5:20) Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe, Atli Örvarsson, Mel Wesson
Air (9:08) Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe, Atli Örvarsson, Geoff Zanelli, Mel Wesson
Fire (6:51) Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe
Black Smoke (5:45) Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe, Mel Wesson
Science And Religion (12:27) Hans Zimmer
Immolation (3:38) Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe
Election By Adoration (2:12) Hans Zimmer, Nick Glennie-Smith
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It sounds great but I expected a different theme cause, after all, 'Angels and Demons' isn't neither a prequel nor a sequel of 'The DaVinci Code'. But wait and listen...
The movie trailers section of Apple.com has a sneak peek at Hans scoring the film, with a new variation on the Da Vinci Code theme. Check it out, it sounds great!
160 BPM probably means 160 Beats per Minute. This could mean the music has a very fast tempo ! I know Zimmer like to "comment" his own music in the track titles ("A Small Piece for Doumbek and Strings", "The Jablonsky Variations on a Theme by HZ", "Too Many Notes, Not Enough Rests"...) :P
So funny to see all these people exiting on this cd to be released !! As for me, I would wait to here it before rating the score ... but as each Zimmer's a masterpiece is coming...
Thanks to DemonStar and to everybody!!! So there is a lots of mistery in the titles too...too cool Hans!!! However, I hope that this CD will sell a lots of copies!!!
Assuming that Hans was indeed inspired to get violin solos on this project by James Newton Howard's work on Defiance, then perhaps he should talk to Michael Giacchino at some point to get some inspirations for track titles too!
i don't think hans will take any substantial time off till after the third batman installment. he's currently got projects already on his plate for release this year and in the future. another james brooks film (2009 release maybe) and an animated film called rango (2011 release) from gore verbinski, just to name a few.
i suspect the tracks are 5 - 10 mins on average, with full orchestration and solos on the same tracks. this should be a good one, as i expect a lot of new material. does hans bring back the "thinking" theme for tom hanks' character? does he reprise chevaliers de sangreal? is the version in the trailer (which is different than da vinci) a peak at the new and expanded version? time will only tell.
Non pensavo ci fossero così tanti Italiani fan di Hans Zimmer!!! Sono molto contento!!! Ehi, mi raccomando, comprate il CD originale!!! ;-)
However, thanks to Falconet and DemonStar, I've seen only today that the Cover is ready and the tracklist too!!! I think it's really good!!! But it's a bit stange to see "Violins solos"...what kind of music will be with "violin solo"?! I've read on Wikipedia that Joshua Bell is one of the most important violinist now!!! Great!!!
However I've read the book and now I think that some track name are very strange...for example: the first and the last one: what is their meaning?!! I don't know...Then I waited a longer tracklist, but as DemonStar says, they should be very long...I hope it!!! Bye!!!
I hope the album will be a good balance between action and melodic music, and I hope Hans doesn't remove the action tracks like JNH did with Defiance. But I wholeheartedly applaud Hans for his decision to include violin solos because the plot and character emotion does get very complex near the end of the book, and I really want the music to reflect that.
So Hans, if you're reading this, don't forget to give us a fair amount of that dashing gothic choir action music on the CD too! ;)