Titanic is first and above all a love story. The passion, the
intimacy and the heartbreak one feels in watching a love story on
film are created largely by the actors, but we help out where we can
with cinematography, set design and the other crafts. Of course music
is the most important addition to the actors' work for increasing the
emotional impact of the film.
James Horner's score for Titanic is all I had hoped and prayed it would be and much more. It deftly leaps from intimacy to grandeur, from joy to heart wrenching sadness and across the full emotional spectrum of the film while maintaining a stylistic and thematic unity. The music spans time, making immediate the actions and feelings of people 85 years ago with full emotional resonance without falling into either of the two dreaded traps: the sweeping conventional period picture score, or the inappropriately modern and anachronistic "counter program" score.
James has walked the tightrope by using synthesizer, vocals and full orchestra to create a timeless sound which tells us that these people were not so very different from us. Their hopes, their fears, their passions are like ours. In the film I have tried to accentuate the universality's of human behavior, rather than focus on the quaint differences between this other time and our own. James has done the same thing, bridging the gap of time and making these people seem so alive, so vibrant, so real that the dreaded event, when it finally comes, is terrifying in its authenticity.
And most importantly, he has made us one with Jack and Rose, feeling the beat of their hearts as they experience the kind of love we all dream about, but seldom find.
-- James Cameron
What Sony Classical says:
Music from the Motion Picture TITANIC....the #1 album in America, from the #1 movie America! This amazing original score album from award-winning composer James Horner, featuring "My Heart Will Go On" performed by Celine Dion, is proving to be the ultimate souvenir of the film for movie-goers everywhere. Winning Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song, the TITANIC album has already shipped multi-million units to record stores around the United States and is breaking sales records around the world. That's because Horner's incredible music brings listeners right back to TITANIC and all the romance, heartbreak and passion that comes with it. As the film's writer, director, and producer James Cameron said during the Golden Globe ceremonies: "James Horner's TITANIC score still breaks my heart, even though I've heard it 1000 times." The first soundtrack to hit the Number One Position on the Billboard chart since "Chariots of Fire" in 1982, TITANIC is a must-have for anyone touched by this amazing film.
The second Titanic soundtrack Back to Titanic is out now! I bought it the day it came out and I listen to it all the time. I think it's just as good as, if not better than, the first one.
Track Listings for the 1st soundtrack-
1. Never an Absolution
2. Distant Memories
3. Southampton [ Real Audio || sample wav 1.26MB. 1 minute long. ]
4. Rose [ Hear the Full Length version in Real Audio || Full song wav format. 1.26MB. ]
5. Leaving Port [ Real Audio || sample wav 1.26MB. 1 minute long. ]
6. "Take Her To Sea, Mr. Murdoch"
7. "Hard To Starboard" [ Hear the FULL LENGHTH version in Real Audio ]
8. Unable To Stay, Unwilling To Leave [ Real Audio || sample wav 1.26MB. 1 minute long. ]
9. The Sinking
10. Death Of Titanic
11. A Promise Kept
12. A Life So Changed
13. An Ocean Of Memories
14. My Heart Will Go On (by Celine Dion) [ Hear the FULL LENGTH version Real Audio || Remix 1 || Remix 2 || Remix 3 || Remix 4 || sample wav 1.26MB. 1 minute long. ]
15. Hymn To The Sea
