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Mission | 
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| Artist: Soundtrack
Label: EMI Music Canada
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 21.99
Buy New: CDN$ 11.49
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Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 368
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 86001
UPC: 077778600121
EAN: 0077778600121
ASIN: B000000WFZ
Release Date: January 1, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | On Earth as It Is in Heaven | | • | Falls | | • | Gabriel's Oboe | | • | Ave Maria Guarani | | • | Brothers | | • | Carlotta | | • | Vita Nostra | | • | Climb | | • | Remorse | | • | Penance | | • | Mission | | • | River | | • | Gabriel's Oboe | | • | Te Deum Guarani | | • | Refusal | | • | Asuncion | | • | Alone | | • | Guarani | | • | Sword | | • | Miserere |
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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 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
Chronique amazon.fr
Cette BO, composee par Ennio Morricone et citee aux Oscars, capture magistralement les conflits opposant, au XVIIIe siecle, en Amerique du Sud, les missionnaires jesuites aux marchands d'esclaves. Les premiers souhaitant le salut des indigenes, les autres leur avilissement. En accord parfait avec la gravite des themes traites dans ce film epique de Roland Joffe, la bande sonore est tantot sombre tantot lyrique ou tendue. Fidele a son genie innovateur, Morricone mele a des chants liturgiques des percussions indigenes ou des guitares hispanisantes. Leur affrontement, dans un meme morceau, insistent ainsi sur l'aspect dramatique de ces chocs culturels. On retrouvera aussi son lyrisme legendaire dans de superbes themes comme "Gabriel's Oboe" et "The Mission". Dans la lignee de ses oeuvres les plus celebres (Il etait une fois dans l'Ouest, Le Bon, la brute et le truand, etc.), Ennio Morricone signe ici une piece magistrale. --Heidi MacDonald
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| Customer Reviews: Read 56 more reviews...
a longtime favorite June 1, 2004
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 February 12, 2004
rodboomboom (Dearborn, Michigan United States)
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 January 9, 2004
Soworwon C Nyirady (Riverside, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 November 7, 2003
Luis M. Ramos (Caracas, Venezuela)
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 July 20, 2003
The No Evil Killer (Everywhere, Anywhere, Nowhere)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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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