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Thomas Newman, Rob Maxey, Liam Aiken, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Craig Spidle, Ian Barford - Road to Perdition (Score)

Thomas Newman, Rob Maxey, Liam Aiken, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Craig Spidle, Ian Barford - Road to Perdition (Score)

Band: Thomas Newman, Rob Maxey, Liam Aiken, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Craig Spidle, Ian Barford Title: Road to Perdition (Score) Rating: Release Date: 25 June, 2002 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Rock Island, 1931 2: Wake 3: Just The Feller 4: Mr. Rance 5: Bit Borrowers 6: Murder (In Four Parts) 7: Road To Chicago 8: Reading Room 9: Someday Sweetheart 10: Meet Maguire 11: Blood Dog 12: Finn McGovern 13: The Farm 14: Dirty Money 15: Rain Hammers 16: A Blind Eye 17: Nothing To Trade 18: Queer Notions 19: Virgin Mary 20: Shoot The Dead 21: Grave Drive 22: Cathedral 23: There'll Be Some Changes Made 24: Ghosts 25: Lexington Hotel, Room 1432 26: Road To Perdition 27: Perdition - Piano Duet

Editoral Review As he did with Beauty, Mendes again wisely entrusts the film's music to Tom Newman, a composer with an instinctive knack for getting inside a film's characters via innovative and often orthodox methods. Director Sam Mendes's much-anticipated follow-up to his Academy Award®-winning American Beauty found him exploring the period gangster film--but with a moral fiber and undercurrent of family tragedy familiar from his Oscar® triumph. As many of Newman's preceding scores have been rhythmically driven and rife with improvisation-driven experimentalism, its good to hear his equally distinctive writing for orchestra largely take center stage here again. But Newman's inquisitive musical instincts can't be denied, and his melancholy string writing is leavened first with subtle uilleann pipe flourishes that echo the characters' Irish-American roots, then with savory, yet ever-restrained touches of his own ethnic-defying instrumental color and rhythmic accents. It's another moody and introspective gem, seasoned with some lively period jazz (courtesy of the Charleston Chasers, Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra, and Chicago Rhythm Kings) and a warm, final surprise: a duet of John M. Williams's autumnal title track performed by none other than stars Tom Hanks and Paul Newman. --Jerry McCulley .. You can see a complete list of all Thomas Newman, Rob Maxey, Liam Aiken, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Craig Spidle, Ian Barford discography, or go back to the Thomas Newman, Rob Maxey, Liam Aiken, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Craig Spidle, Ian Barford tabs