Brassed Off: film score [SOUNDTRACK]

Product Details

Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0090266875726
Label : RCA
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2000-12-18
UPC : 902668757268

ASIN : B000003G8M

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Death Or Glory
2. Sad Old Day
3. Floral Dance
4. Aforementioned Essential Items
5. En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor
6. Years Of Coal
7. March Of The Cobblers
8. There's More Important Things In Life
9. Cross Of Honour
10. Jerusalem
11. Florentiner March
12. Danny Boy
13. We'll Find A Way
14. Clog Dance
15. Colonel Bogey
16. All Things Bright And Beautiful
17. William Tell Overture
18. Honest Decent Human Beings
19. Pomp And Circumstance

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review

Mark Herman's tragi-comedy set among the fictional coal-mining community of Grimley revolves around the exploits of the local colliery's brass band and its struggle to survive imminent pit closure. Among the film's virtues are a bitter-sweet (with an emphasis on "bitter") script, strong performances all round--including Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald and Ewan McGregor--and a superb soundtrack. Grimley's real-life counterpart is the Penine town of Grimethorpe, and, entirely uncoincidentally, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band were chosen to perform the music. Having themselves survived pit closure to become one of the top brass bands in Britain, the Grimethorpe band know all about playing from the heart. But the script's subject-matter aside, the album is actually an uplifting, entertaining selection of classic "lollipops", including the Floral Dance, Colonel Bogey, and a meltingly good arrangement of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez ("That's Orange Juice to you", says Postlethwaite in the movie) for solo flugelhorn. Trevor Jones contributes an attractive and pleasingly low-key score, but it's the band tracks that are the real selling-point here, making Brassed Off an ideal introduction to popular brass band music. --Mark Walker

Customer Reviews

Brassed Off Sound Track (2007-08-22)

Excellent product. I really love brass band band music and this CD brought a lump to my throat.Bridgeoverday

OST - Brassed Off (2004-05-07)

This is a beautiful cd, to accompany the film brassed off.

The film is one based on the mining era in briton, and tells how brass brought people together.

This is a brillient collection. The music is stunning, the pieces are riviting and the instruments are spin tingaling.

Whether Brassed Off is one of your film collection of not, you want this lovely album.

10/10

A wonderfully evocative soundtrack ! (2001-11-11)

The Grimethorpe Colliery Band has always been one of my favourites, and this soundtrack 'hits the bulls-eye'. As far as I'm concerned, music is primarily a story telling tool, and this score certainly captures the tragi/comedy atmosphere of the film 'Brassed Off'.

A Moving soundtrack equal to the film (2001-02-22)

If you have seen the film then you will understand where this music comes from, the heart and soul of those involved. You may think that the music echoes back to grim days in Yorkshire with flat caps and fish and chips, with chirpy little ditties to keep your spirits up. You will be disappointed, the music is much more than that, it is beautifully performed and executed and moving to listen to, especially when you know the background to the Band is similar to that in the film.

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