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Soundtrack: Brassed Off

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Artist: Soundttrack
Title: Brassed Off
Released: 1996
Label: RCA Victor
Time: 48:57
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Appears with:
Category: Blues
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2001.03.02
Price in €: 15,92
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[1] Death or Glory (Hall) - 2:49
[2] A Sad Old Day (Jones) - 0:48
[3] Floral Dance (Moss) - 2:59
[4] Aforementioned Essential Items (Jones) - 0:32
[5] En Aranjuez con Tu Amor (Rodrigo) - 4:04
[6] Years of Coal (Jones) - 0:35
[7] March of the Cobblers (Barrett/Siebert) - 3:09
[8] There's More Important Things in Life (Jones) - 1:47
[9] Cross of Honour (Rimmer) - 2:14
[10] Jerusalem (Blake/Parry) - 2:23
[11] Florentiner March (Fucik) - 4:47
[12] Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) (Traditional) - 3:07
[13] We'll Find a Way (Jones) - 3:25
[14] Clog Dance (Marcangelo) - 2:40
[15] Colonel Bogey (Alford) - 3:15
[16] All Things Bright and Beautiful (Alexander/Monk) - 2:04
[17] William Tell Overture (Rossini) - 3:23
[18] Honest Decent Human Beings (Jones) - 1:37
[19] Pomp and Circumstance (Elgar) - 3:19

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David Arnold
Mark Arnold
Paul Bennett
Trevor Jones - Conductor, Producer, Performer, Orchestration
Isobel Griffiths - Orchestra Contractor
Paul Hughes
Paul McDonald
Mike Sheady - Engineer
Gavyn Wright - Leader
Paul Davies
Jeffrey Kimball - Executive Producer
Maurice Murphy - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Simon Rhodes - Engineer, Mixing
Geoffrey Alexander - Orchestration
Bob Weinstein - Executive Producer
Harvey Weinstein - Executive Producer
Kirsty Whalley - Synthesizer
David Appleby - Photography
Scott Greenstein - Executive Producer
Victoria Seale - Music Coordinator
Jillian Warburton
Robert Archer
Andrew Armstrong
Adrian Brooke
Alan Hobbins
Bill Lyon
 

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1997 CD RCA 68757



Brassed Off covers some of the same subject matter as the more popular The Full Monty, released a year later in 1997, but the soundtracks are polar opposites. Brassed Off tells the story of a group of Yorkshire coal miners who face an end to their livelihood when it appears their mine is going to be shut down. To keep some semblance of normalcy in their lives, the miners play in the colliery band, and these performances make up the bulk of the soundtrack, a mix of traditional brass-band music, transcriptions (Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez with a solo flügelhorn replacing the guitar), and orchestral selections. Alternately rousing and touching, the soundtrack is all the more poignant because the music is played by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, a real-life ensemble that struggled to survive when its mine was closed.

David Horiuchi, Amazon.com



This roaring, brassy album, with incidental music by Trevor Jones, is so ingratiating it's almost too good to miss. The film, about a fictional Yorkshire mining town (slyly named Grimley, in reference to Grimethorpe) faced with the closure of its pit, and threatening to retaliate with the disbanding of its champion brass band, called for a soundtrack that features brass numbers. Among the selections heard in the film and on this CD, several (Rodrigo's "Concerto de Aranjuez," Alford's "Colonel Bogey," and Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance," among them) will be well known, even if the arrangements for brass give them a new luster. Other lesser known tunes provide pleasant discoveries. In the mix, Trevor Jones' touching, haunting cues seem swallowed, but are equally enjoyable and on the button.

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