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Dragonheart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | 
 enlarge | Creator: Randy Edelman
Label: MCA
Category: Music
Buy New: $13.98
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 21299
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 11449
UPC: 008811144920
EAN: 0008811144920
ASIN: B000002P19
Release Date: May 28, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | World of the Heart (Main Title) | | • | To the Stars | | • | Wonders of an Ancient Glory | | • | Einon | | • | The Last Dragon Slayer | | • | Bowen's Ride | | • | Mexican Standoff | | • | Draco | | • | A Refreshing Swim | | • | Re-Baptism | | • | Bowen's Decoy | | • | Kyle, the Wheat Boy | | • | The Connection | | • | Flight to Avalon | | • | Finale |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
Dragonheart - Soundtrack to the movie October 7, 2008
I purchased the Dragon Heart soundtrack in the beginning of September. My son's High School Marching Band is performing the music during their fall marching band season. I thought it would be a good idea for him to listen to the soundtrack in hopes that it would help his own performance. I don't know if I would have listened to it otherwise but I have really enjoyed it. My youngest son who is 8 - has been overheard sitting at the kitchen table - doing his homework - humming the soundtrack to himself. Beautiful music - I recomend it.
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Lush, Beautiful Score April 11, 2008
I'd been trying to figure-out the source of the music used during those Academy Award best picture montages for many years now. This is it! It's also a gorgeous score that stands alone incredibly well, even if you haven't seen the film.
Good soundtrack! June 8, 2007
This has music full of the theme from the main theme. If you liked the main theme, you will like this album. Although it's more of the same stuff, it's varied enough to be interesting.
 In all honesty... October 18, 2006
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
Randy Edelman's score to 'Dragonheart', throughout most of its entirety, is pretty dreadful. Edelman never knew how to write for an orchestra, and 'Dragonheart' is no exception. And, not only that, but what this score really lacks is an extensive range of theme. Then again, it doesn't matter, for we all know why the music from 'Dragonheart' has become as notable as it has, and it's for those handful of moments on the score that evade the nasty categorizations the rest of the album can't escape.
Edleman's main theme for 'Dragonheart' is, simply put, weep-inducing, at least in its most powerful arrangement, heard in 'To the Stars'. When I was younger, there were a handful of scores that drew me into the world of film music, from a number of composers; John Williams' 'Star Wars', 'Jurassic Park'; James Horner's 'The Land Before Time'; Silvestri's 'Back to the Future'; Fiedel's 'Terminator' scores; Hans Zimmer's 'Crimson Tide'... By and large, scores which featured themes of simplicity as well as an exuded strength and memorability, touching the most obvious of emotions (yet avoiding nasty pretense, which I'd learn of those same theme's as I grew older). Edelman -- and I thank him for this -- hit me with two bangs -- 'Gettysburg' and, of course, 'Dragonheart'. The main themes for both of these films are memorable and commanding, unashamedly melodramatic and affecting. Where 'Gettysburg' struck a chord with hits heroism, though, 'Dragonheart' places its hand on your heart. 'To the Stars' -- again, the highlighted rendition of the film's main theme -- is so aptly titled, because every time I choose to really sit down and focus whilst listening to it, I see it as a hymn to one who's fallen. It's been so long since I've seen the film, I don't even recall specific scenes, but I do recall the death of the dragon, Draco; and so the imagery the track births is fitting. More specifically, a felt hymn not only of sadness but of remembrance and a kind of majestic glory. It's one of those universally powerful pieces of music that's able to survive such a wide range of contexts (and hence its place in so many movie trailers) because of its intuitive revealing of emotions. It gets me every time.
I don't want to comment to much on the rest of the score, suffice to say it's pretty bad. Again, Edelman has never been an artisan of great orchestral works, but he's usually, at minimum, up to throwing in a number of satisfying themes for any given film ('Kindergarten Cop', 'Gettysburg', 'Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story'). 'Dragonheart', at most, has a few moderately amusing themes, and nothing more (and I'm leery of calling them themes; they're really just extended motifs that fade from memory by the time they end). Worse still is that while Edelman's orchestrations and use of synths are often grating in his overall work as a composer, 'Dragonheart''s artificial stylings are perhaps the most horrendous of his I can recall. When the strings aren't the prominent force of any given moment (and even seem inorganically synthetic), he just seems to have the worst knack for throwing in awful sounds and mind-numbing loops. Bizarre, really. Maybe the whole production spent so much on the computer generated graphics for the dragon they left Edelman to his own devices by and large... who knows.
In conclusion, the theme here is 'Dragonheart''s beating heart (as if I need to reinstate that fact). Every other portion of its body has been mutilated or disfigured, and it's not a pretty sight.
FINALLY, I FOUND IT!! February 5, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have wanted to find this music since I heard it on the 1998 Oscars ceremony television broadcast when it was used as background music during the "70 Years of Oscars" montage. Dragonheart was on TV today and I heard a few seconds of the music as I was flipping through the channels. I jumped off the couch and yelled, "there it is, I finally found it!" I should have known it was a Randy Edelman score. I loved his "Gettysburg" score and can hear some similarities with this one. I have no idea how many times I have heard this music used for all kinds of things. I would rank this as my second favorite Edelman soundtrack (2nd to "Gettysburg"), and every film music fan MUST own it!!
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