Mirrors (Osc) (2008)

Product Summary Label: LAKESHORE/RED UPC: 00780163402629 Release Date: 8/12/2008 Buy.com Sku: 208465928 Item#: M4CDGT Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Asturias*/Main Titles ~ Original Score 2. Subway ~ Original Score 3. Ben Carson ~ Original Score 4. First Night ~ Original Score 5. Handprints ~ Original Score 6. Fire ~ Original Score 7. Esseker ~ Original Score 8. Dressing Room, The ~ Original Score 9. Mayflower, The ~ Original Score 10. Angela's Death ~ Original Score 11. What Do You Want From Me? ~ Original Score 12. Asturias*/Investigation ~ Original Score 13. Mirrors Room, The ~ Original Score 14. Little Anna ~ Original Score 15. Asturias*/The House Is Safe ~ Original Score 16. Quest, The ~ Original Score 17. Farmhouse Basement ~ Original Score 18. Extending Mirrors ~ Original Score 19. Michael's Reflection ~ Original Score 20. Keep Your Eyes Closed ~ Original Score 21. Open Your Eyes ~ Original Score 22. Possession ~ Original Score 23. Escape ~ Original Score 24. Srorrim ~ Original Score 25. Asturias*/In The Mirror ~ Original Score   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Composer: Javier Navarrete. Veteran Spanish film composer Javier Navarrete makes his U.S. debut with his score for Mirrors, a horror film by French director Alexandre Aja that is not so much a remake of the Japanese movie The Mirror as a newly written story based on the same theme, which may be summed up as baddies who come out of mirrors to threaten a security guard played by Kiefer Sutherland. Navarrete has taken an unusually traditional approach, using a symphony orchestra to come up with his scary effects. It is the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, a group much recorded, probably because of its modest price, that frequently re-records classic film music for Silva Screen Records. This time out, the orchestra has all-new music to play, and Navarrete gets his money's worth out of it. There is a basic recurring theme, "Asturias," actually written by Isaac Alb?niz, that Navarrete arranges in various ways, early on making it sound like a minimalist John Carpenter piece and, by the end, like Beethoven. In between, he creates many short cues that typically range from the wistful to the suspenseful to the frightening. A lot of horsehair must have been sacrificed on the bows of the string players as they scraped unpleasantly along to keep up the tension. Navarrete manages to coax some fairly disturbing sounds from the orchestra, as if to challenge the notion that one needs synthesizers to work up a good fright these days. The softer passages get fewer toward the end, until, at the late cues "Possession" and "Escape," all hell breaks loose. Navarrete seems to have done his job efficiently here, musically embodying the terror on the screen. ~ William Ruhlmann   Associated Artists and Works California Dreams Original Soundtrack Original Soundtrack   Technical Info Release Date : 08/12/2008 Original Release Date : 2008 Catalog ID : LKS 340262 Label : Lakeshore Records Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00780163402629    Product Image