Favourite Movie Classics > Reviews > Music for all

Author's product rating:   

Originality	Definitely a cut above the rest
Lyrics	Not applicable
Quality and consistency of tracks	A couple of weak links
Value for Money

Advantages:	Some Excellent powerful songs
Disadvantages:	Some songs that I don't understand

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

The first thing you may feel about this is that its classical music and only for old people, but hey I’m only 22 and I like classical music.

This CD that I am reviewing is “Favourite Movie Classics”, to tell you the truth I got this CD for 1 song, I seem to do that quite a lot, the Level 42 CD I got and reviewed I only bought for a couple of songs, but I found that I have grown to like more of the songs over time.

As the name might give away this is a CD that contains classical music from different movies that you might or might not of heard and thought “I like that song”.

Track 1: The Ride of the Valkyries – Wagner
From Apocalypse Now and Excalibur
This is the whole reason that I bought this CD for as it is by far my favourite classical track as it is so powerful in the way the music is played. If you only listen to one classical track in your life I would recommend this one, you will not be disappointed.

Track 2: Adagio for Strings – Barber
From Platoon and The Elephant Man
This is a very moving, but sombre track. This is also an excellent piece of music that gives across a feeling of complete sadness and could bring people to tears I would imagine.

Track 3: Un’Aura Amorosa from Cosi Fan Tutte – Mozart
From My Left Foot
This is an opera track that to me seems to be bringing across a feeling of achievement and accomplishment, as I cannot understand the lyrics I can’t make out what it is really trying to say.

Track 4: The Blue Danube, Waltz OP.314 – Johann Strauss II
From 2001 – A Space Odyseey
This is a well known song for a well known film by a well known composer, this song bring across a feeling of grace as in the film it is used, if I remember correctly, when the ship is docking.

Track 5: Song to the Moon from Rusalka - Dvorak
From Driving miss Dasy
This track is another opera which I cant understand, it has a sombre feel but nothing like Adagio for Strings’ one.

Track 6: Dan cog the hours from La Gioconda – Ponchielli
From Fantasia
The start of this song bring across the feeling of something sneaking around then it goes on like something big has happened and it speeds up and gets more thunderous as the song gets to the end.

Track 7: Adagio from Clarinet Concerto in A, K622 – Mozart
From Out of Africa
This song also brings across a feeling of loss or something bad has happened as it is slow paced.
Track 8: The Thieving Magpie Overtune – Rossini
From A Clockwork Orange
This song it like its name suggests as its starts off slow, like the magpie is sneaking around and is looking for stuff then it gets very powerful like he has been spotted and is being chased.

Track 9: O Mio Babbino Caro from Gianni Schicchi – Puccini
From A room With A View
This is another opera, I cant actually place this song or what it is trying to get across. What ever it is trying to show it is a strong one.

Track 10: Adagietto from Symphony NO.5 – Mahler
From Death in Venice
This is yet another sad song that at the start is extremely quiet and it only gets a bit louder during the end, but it never changes the sombre feeling it gives.

Track: 11 Minuet – Boccherini
From The Lady Killers
This song you could easily sit down to dinner and listen to this as it is a very easy song to listen to that is not giving off to much power so it can be enjoyed by anyone, it has a slight uplifted tone to it.

Track 12: Warsaw Concerto – Addinsell
From Dangerous Moonlight
This song goes straight in with power and aggression Then it calms down to a more relaxed feeling then back up to the powerful aggression, finally an abrupt finish.

I may have put that the songs are from these films, but they were not written for them and were written a while before them, I should have put used in not from. I have put what they feel like to me but to you they might feel different. But it is what classical music does, it makes you feel. And is what classical music is all about.