Alexander (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Vangelis - Alexander (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 2004 Review by James Christopher Monger Academy Award-winning composer Vangelis fills Oliver Stone's epic rendering of the story of Alexander with such victorious bombast, that it may as well be a Jerry Bruckheimer production. What begins as a Blade Runner-esque wash of atmospheric, keyboard-driven subtlety quickly deteriorates into a thick wall of stock heroic motif, swelling bra, and thunderous percussion. Alexander's main theme is like a testosterone-charged update of Chariots of Fire; it's stirring in an over-the-top, destined-to-achieve-cult-status kind of way, but leaves the listener far too exhausted to warrant repeated listen. Vangelis goes the Hans Zimmer Gladiator route on the soundtrack's quieter moment, occasionally showing hints of the quiet grandeur he achieved on 1992's 1492: Conquest of Paradise, but Alexander is buried beneath far too many musical bodies to be heard as anything but future background music for Michael Bay trailer. Credits: Maria Bildea - Harp Christophe Briquet - Orchestra Contractor Jaap Buitendijk - Photography Budd Carr - Supervisor Philippe Colonna - Mixing Epris Polyphonic Ensemble - Vocals Chantal Feghali - Production Consultant Wahan Galstian - Duduk Irina Valentinova Karpouchina - Vocal, Transcription Christina Kline - Coordination Dominique Lemonnier - Violin Konstantinos Paloatsaras - Vocals Nic Raine - Conductor, Orchestration Joel Sill - Executive Roxanne Slimak - Art Direction Vanessa-Mae - Violin Vangelis - Arranger, Programming, Producer Stathis Zalidis - Photography Chart & Awards 2004 - Alexander (Soundtrack) - Top New Age Albums No 5 .

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