Winter's Tale - Soundtrack.

Gregson-Williams and Zimmer have crafted a truly touching score. The score is subtle, drifting onto the scene with "Look Closely" with lush string-work and delicate piano. The work has a very pleasant tone: understated, but immensely pleasant to the ear, punctuated by moments of stunning beauty. "What's the Best Thing You've Ever Stolen" is delightfully romantic, and "I Love Blood on the Snow" will catch you by surprise with sudden but beautiful urgency on the strings, before exploring the complex main theme.This main theme is curious, particularly coming from the RC school of scoring. It exists in two parts, first on strings, which then pass to a simple but pleasant piano melody. The theme's best performances come in a quiet and subtle form in the second half of "Can You Hear Your Heart?" (the highlight of the work) and a full ensemble performance at the end of "Becoming Stars". "The Girl With the Red Hair" is also noticeable for an inspiring orchestral outburst, accompanied by some gleefully fluttering woodwinds."Winter's Tale" is a delightful and fanciful romantic score that doesn't have a single distasteful cue. The only thing holding it back from a full 5 star rating is the fact that some segments, though still immensely listenable, are not particularly interesting or unique. Also, a few of what I assume to be action cues are a bit standard. For its beautiful highlights, though, "Winter's Tale" is worth a purchase for fans of scores.

Winter’s Tale is a film that has all the ambition but none of the execution. Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman makes his directorial debut with this fantastical fairy tale misstep, and he enlisted Hans Zimmer and Rupert Gregson-Williams to craft the lush score that accompanies it. Hans and Rupert have worked together in the past on many projects, and honestly this was a breath of fresh air to hear Rupert behind something other than an Adam Sandler vehicle. What we have here is a score that has tons of wondrous elements. There are delicate nuances of budding love, deep lush strings, impending danger and is all wisps together for a wonderful journey. However there just seems to be a lack of focus behind it all that prevents it from really pulling together a meaningful emotional journey. The film does have a truly fantastical plot that includes Lucifer, Lucifer’s henchman, a guardian angel horse, reincarnation and love to weave it all together. So this is indeed a “tale”, and I think Hans and Rupert successfully approached it that way.You can almost imagine the music saying “Once upon a time...” as we get the story under way, and what follows is a story that will take you to some wonderful places. The music has a gentle side to it, but at times can be harsh and aggressive. The piano is featured prominently in the score, and the melodies do a wonderful job of painting the characters in the music. The score contains some big swells and large moments as we move along the journey, which do a great job of pulling you in. Since this story is in an essence a fairy tale, the music does tend to get melodramatic. At times the music pushes extremely hard, and then at times pulls really far back. This back and forth created a lack of focus for me, and as a result affected the emotional flow of the journey here. When the music becomes grand and lush with a sense of ethereal mystery is really when the score is at its best. You truly feel lost in the music, you feel the sense of danger and the stakes. But it’s as a whole journey where by the end you don’t feel like it was as smooth of a ride as it could have been. All if the issues can be chalked up the film’s pacing and structure, but that does affect the score and it does affect Winter’s Tale.Winter’s Tale isn’t the hopelessly romantic fairy tale that the trailers are making it out to be. You have a story with love, death, life, and the devil. The music can be wondrously lush and romantic, but also aggressively threatening. It’s all part of the story though, and it is a very great score. It’s just that the pacing can be awkward at times, and the dramatic structure isn’t built in a way that will really evoke the emotional response you were hoping for. Hans Zimmer and Rupert Gregson-Williams have done a very admirable effort here that is definitely worth exploring. Especially since it’s a score that feels fresh and different than what we’re normally used to hearing from both composers lately.

It's Hans Zimmer, what's not to like? I have read the book many times over and was reluctant to see the movie. The movie captured the essence of the book in that it focuses on the love story between Peter Lake and Beverly - the few new elements introduced in the movie worked well (otherwise the movie would have been three times the length - although what's the downside to that? actually, I'd like to see it as a TV series something along the lines of Once Upon Time.........or Bitten......). The sound track is subtle and captures the romance of the movie.

I bought this score mainly because of the names of the composers. I have great faith in Hans Zimmer's ability to create music for a wide variety of genres. This score further solidified faith in his scoring abilities. Zimmer and Gregson-Williams created a very powerful, beautiful score for this film. The score has a simple, elegant theme played with piano and strings or even the full orchestra. Like all scores, it has its more tense pieces, but like "I Am Legend" or Lady In the Water's" scores, it is focused on the simple, emotional, beautiful aspect of music. I expected a good, quiet score, but this one exceeded my expectations, becoming one of my favorite quieter scores. The theme is beautiful, even though it is not extremely memorable, using mainly piano and dustings to convey elegant beauty. This is an excellent score for those who love the softer side of instrumental music, and a great way to diversify a soundtrack collection for film score lovers.Overall Rating: 4.68Favorite Songs:Look CloselyYou Don't Quit Me, BoyPrincess BedWhat's the Best Thing You've Ever Stolen?

Hans did a great job on this one. You can tell it's one of his, and the high moments are thoroughly separated by a lot of emo-mellow background, but the quality is noticably higher than most of these kinds of soundtracks.

Beautiful music makes me smile to hear it play

Very good

I bought this for my cousin. She loved it, and the music is beautiful, like the movie!

great music

I bought this as I am a Zimmer fan. As with his other collaborations, this is as expected and fantastic.

Absolutely beautiful. Bought it after seeing the film and instantly fell in love with the music

cd consigliato a chi ha visto il film . consegna un po' lunga . è arrivato con la confezione leggermente sbeccata ma funziona benissimo

Marvelio livre toujours des produits neufs ( présence de deux étiquettes sur l'emballage du cd ), ce qui fait de lui un vendeur d'exception !! En plus de cela, le prix est largement correct pour ce service de qualité !! Tout est vraiment parfait !!

I have not seen the film but am a fan of Hans Zimmer.This is probably the worst effort from Hams Zimmer to date.

Lovely music, only problem when listening some of the songs very soft, so turn up the volume, then the music goes to loud so have to turn down.