2000 Today (A World Symphony For The Millennium) - BBC Concert Orchestra & New London Childrens Choir/London Vo

Uplifting music for troubled times

Advantages: Rousing melodies, interesting percussion and infusion of Celtic instruments
Disadvantages: This version of the film soundtrack is slightly condensed, and there's no vocal tracks

ago I was only interested in grunge and rock, so when I heard the track, 'A Gift of A Thistle', on Classic FM I immedialtely went and downloaded the complete album it was part of, the Soundtrack to Braveheart by James Horner, and I didnt regret doing so. Listening to the album as a complete work you are really taken into a magical, mystical world. The piece is performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and they are dazzling in their playing, using choral elements, strings, horns, pipes, flutes, and bellowing drums. The album really flows and feels connected and well thought out as a piece of work, it appears to eddy and bubble like a stream in places and rages like a waterfall in others, when the action gets going in the film obviously.The opening track "Main Title" sums up the rest of the work to follow, an atmospheric celtic pipe opening ...

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Review of Braveheart - London Symphony Orchestra

The music that can make grown men cry...

Advantages: Beautiful music from award winning movie
Disadvantages: Not something to listen to alot

**What Is It?** Braveheart the CD is the Soundtrack to accompany the award winning movie. It is by the talented London Syphony Orchestra. It has a total of 18 tracks. **Artists** The London Symphony Orchestra are the stars of this CD. The composer is James Horner who famously conducted Titanic and did a re-recording of the Star Trek Soundtrack. Martin Neary is the co-conductor (so he would have done some of the tracks) and also the very talented Abbey School Choirsters. So you have an excellent amount of talent put towards this soundtrack. **Cover** The cover is of the old DVD cover of the movie. It's of William Wallace (Played By Mel Gibson) and Princess Isabel (Played by Sophie Marceau) They are, as all Braveheart fans will know, the main characters in the story. It has a dark black backround with a font (sorry don't know ...

scotlandizdabest 16.09.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Braveheart - London Symphony Orchestra

The first style icon of the new millennium

Advantages: Amazing amount of material that can be carried around in one place, reliable
Disadvantages: Desirable to thieves! Wheel can be a bit fiddly initially

= WHY I HAVE AN IPOD = I have never been one of those described by marketing psychologists as an early adopter. Equally, I am invariably wary of products which seem to put style above substance. As a result, I was a late convert to the virtues of Apple's iPod, one of the first technological and style icons of the new millennium. However, just over a year ago, I bought an 80Gb iPod, on which I listened to predominantly audiobooks, radio podcasts and spoken word, mainly in the car on the regular long journeys I have to undertake for work. Then last week when on holiday in the UK, car thieves stole my iPod, I had no hesitation in seeking to replace what had by now become an essential part of my car. A cursory glance at the apple website showed me that that the 160Gb classic iPod was cheaper than the amount I paid 13 months ...

lobourse 14.02.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Apple iPod classic 160 GB