Mission

Product Details

Artist : Soundtrack
Format : Soundtrack
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0077778600121
Label : EMI Music Canada
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1990-01-01
UPC : 077778600121

ASIN : B000000WFZ

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. On Earth as It Is in Heaven
2. Falls
3. Gabriel's Oboe
4. Ave Maria Guarani
5. Brothers
6. Carlotta
7. Vita Nostra
8. Climb
9. Remorse
10. Penance
11. Mission
12. River
13. Gabriel's Oboe
14. Te Deum Guarani
15. Refusal
16. Asuncion
17. Alone
18. Guarani
19. Sword
20. Miserere

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Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.co.uk

Ennio Morricone's Academy Award-nominated score captures the conflict between 18th-century Jesuit missionaries trying to convert the native Indians, and the slavers who want to destroy them. In keeping with the serious subject matter and epic scope of Roland Joffe's film, the score is by turns grave, lyrical, and tense. Ever inventive, Morricone mixes liturgical chorales, native drumming, and Spanish-influenced guitars, often in the very same track, to capture the drama of the culture clash. His trademark lyricism also comes through, notably in the beautiful themes for "Gabriel's Oboe" and "The Mission". Not as over-the-top as his well-known spaghetti western scores, The Mission shows Morricone at his dramatic best. --Heidi MacDonald

Amazon.com essential recording

Ennio Morricone's Academy Award-nominated score captures the conflict between 18th-century Jesuit missionaries trying to convert the native Indians, and the slavers who want to destroy them. In keeping with the serious subject matter and epic scope of Roland Joffé's film, the score is by turns grave, lyrical, and tense. Ever inventive, Morricone mixes liturgical chorales, native drumming, and Spanish-influenced guitars, often in the very same track, to capture the drama of the culture clash. His trademark lyricism also comes through, notably in the beautiful themes for "Gabriel's Oboe" and "The Mission." Not as over-the-top as his well-known spaghetti Western scores, The Mission shows Morricone at his dramatic best. --Heidi MacDonald

Chronique amazon.fr

Cette BO, composée par Ennio Morricone et citée aux Oscars, capture magistralement les conflits opposant, au XVIIIe siècle, en Amérique du Sud, les missionnaires jésuites aux marchands d'esclaves. Les premiers souhaitant le salut des indigènes, les autres leur avilissement. En accord parfait avec la gravité des thèmes traités dans ce film épique de Roland Joffé, la bande sonore est tantôt sombre tantôt lyrique ou tendue. Fidèle à son génie innovateur, Morricone mêle à des chants liturgiques des percussions indigènes ou des guitares hispanisantes. Leur affrontement, dans un même morceau, insistent ainsi sur l'aspect dramatique de ces chocs culturels. On retrouvera aussi son lyrisme légendaire dans de superbes thèmes comme "Gabriel's Oboe" et "The Mission". Dans la lignée de ses oeuvres les plus célèbres (Il était une fois dans l'Ouest, Le Bon, la brute et le truand, etc.), Ennio Morricone signe ici une pièce magistrale. --Heidi MacDonald

Customer Reviews

a longtime favorite (2004-06-01)

I have loved this CD for about as long as it's been available--about 15 years. Some tracks are so uplifting, and all are wonderful.

Enchanting Soundtrack (2004-02-12)

Certainly the music made this movie spectacular, gracing and moving one as the eyes were privy to the spectacular cinematography.

Morricone's compostion here is fluent with three distinct musical tributaries which play so well with the plotline: oboe, tribal, and religious.

How about the beauty of "Gabriel's Oboe?" Simply magnificent!The earthiness of the tribal drums and windflute are simply captivating.

The religious chanting and other inspirational sounds are fitting and well done.

All this superbly performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra and choirs of London Voices and Barnett Schools Choir.

The music that touches your soul (2004-01-09)

This soundtrack was given to me as a gift. I had never seen the movie previously but when i started playing it the music just flowed around me and i honestly started tearing! No music has ever touched me like this has. It is so dear to my heart that i actually used Gabriel's Oboe for my processional when i got married. I highly recommend this music to anyone. It will move you.

Good For Its Religious Motif (2003-11-07)

I really think that "The Mission" is one of the most important works by Ennio Morricone. Important in the sense that the Italian maestro presents us a work of strange beauty, especially with the London Voices chanting the Latin words in the opening cue 'On Earth As It Is In Heaven', a wonderful and powerful piece that fits perfectly in the marvelous landscapes surrounding the Iguazu Falls and the Indians who inhabitted it during the Spanish colonial settlements in the age of the discovery of the New World. Beneath the chanting and the ethnic percussion, the theme for Padre Gabriel (Jeremy Irons) is heard. A lovely composition played on the flute on that opening track, and later played on oboe in the prettiest representation of the theme in the two versions of 'Gabriel's Oboe'.The theme for "The Mission" is also truly spectacular and it's heard in the shots of the falls.In spite of other attractive choral moments like 'Ave Maria Guarani', there is something that bothers me about this CD, and it's the overabundance of dark motives that foreshadow the final tragic moment of the film. Tracks such as 'Penance', 'Alone', 'Guarani', and 'The Sword' make me feel gloomy every time I listen to the album.I wish there had been a good balance between the glorious and the dark moments in "The Mission", but I have to admit that Ennio Morricone created one interesting and experimental score.

Must Buy Now (2003-07-20)

Everyone in the world must own this CD. It has like some of THE BEST music that will ever exist on it. Ennio Morricone is an absolute genius and it¡¯s his score to this movie that inspired Hans Zimmer to be a film composer. Tracks like Falls, Vita Nostra and Remorse will make your life complete. It for reasons like this that music exists.

You must get this CD, it will take you to another world, it¡¯ll make you sad, it¡¯ll make you happy. It¡¯s joyous, it¡¯s morose. It¡¯s an immortal part of history. The Mission can me matched, but it will never be bettered.

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