War Horse [Original Score]

War Horse [Original Score] - Sony Classical - SNYC 75282 - 886979752825

Label: Sony Classical
Catalog No: SNYC 75282
Format: CD
Release Date: 2011-11-21
Number of Discs: 1
Running time: 1 hr. 5 min.
Mono/Stereo: Stereo
UPC Code: 886979752825

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>Williams, John : War Horse, film score
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Recording information: Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City, CA.

The plot points in director Steven Spielberg's 2011 film adaptation of the children's novel War Horse (which is separate from the stage adaptation that won the 2011 Tony Award for best play) are traced in the background score composed, as usual for a Spielberg project, by veteran John Williams. Williams' early cues, starting with "Dartmoor, 1912," have a warm Celtic feel, the full symphony orchestra playing a theme that recalls folk tunes like "Danny Boy" and "Greensleeves." The warmth continues with "Bringing Joey Home, and Bonding," the second part of which employs a playful bassoon theme. But the bucolic mood gradually darkens in this story of a boy and his horse that takes a turn in a track called "Ruined Crop, and Going to War." After Joey, the horse, is sent off to World War I, Williams' music naturally takes on tension-filled and action-defining sections, particularly in "The Charge and Capture." After something of a respite in "Joey's New Friends," the height of violence seems to be reached in "No Man's Land," a thrilling performance. Thereafter, Williams slowly returns to the Celtic tones from the outset, finally restoring the main theme for the closer, "The Homecoming." This is certainly not one of Williams' light adventure scores à la Star Wars or Raiders of the Lost Ark, nor horror music such as Jaws. Rather, it contains both homey and disturbing parts, within the overall context of an old-fashioned orchestral movie soundtrack. ~ William Ruhlmann



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>Williams, John : War Horse, film score
  • Performers: Victoria Miskolczy (Viola); James Thatcher (Horn); Timothy Morrison (Trumpet); Louise Di Tullio (Flute); Heather Clark (Flute); Phillip Levy (Violin); Kenneth Yerke (Violin); Michael O'Donovan (Bassoon); Dimitrie Leivici (Violin); Kenneth Munday (Bassoon); Robert Brophy (Viola); David Weiss (Oboe); Matthew Funes (Viola); Steven Schaeffer (Percussion); Allen Savedoff (Bassoon); William Reichenbach (Trombone); Miwako Watanabe (Violin); Sarah Thornblade (Violin); Phillip Keen (Trombone); David Washburn (Trumpet); Dave Walther (Viola); Aimee Kreston (Violin); Mark Adams (Horn); Lisa Sutton (Violin); Louise Dillon (Flute); Pedro Ustache (Flute); Jessica Pearlman (Oboe); Dylan Hart (Horn); Ana Landauer (Violin); Jennie Hansen (Viola); George Thatcher (Trombone); Shawn Mann (Viola); Katia Popov (Violin); Clayton Haslop (Violin); Alex Iles (Trombone); Roland Kato (Viola); Randy Kerber (Piano); Steven Ecknell (Horn); Jeanne Skrocki (Violin); Robert Berg (Viola); Barbara Northcutt (Oboe); Malcolm McNab (Trumpet); Andrew Duckles (Viola); Tereza Stanislav (Violin); Donald Williams (Percussion); Rafael Rishik (Violin); Darrin McCann (Viola); Jenny Kim (Horn); Henry Gronnier (Violin); Jim Self (Tuba); Sara Parkins (Violin); Natalie Leggett (Violin); William Lane (Horn); Helen Nightengale (Violin); Robert Frear (Trumpet); Dave Everson (Horn); Alma Fernandez (Viola); Jo Turovsky (Harp); Nina Eutuhov (Violin); Irina Voloshina (Violin); Anatoly Rosinsky (Violin); Tamara Hatwan (Violin); Luke Maurer (Viola); Steve Gordon (Viola); Jacqueline Brand (Violin); William Booth (Trombone); Richard Altenbach (Violin); Alyssa Park (Violin); Eun Ahn (Violin); Daniel Kelley (Horn); Alan Estes (Percussion); Justin Hageman (Horn); Serena McKinney (Violin); Geraldine Rotella (Flute); Marc Sazer (Violin); Kevin Connolly (Violin); Michael Nowak (Viola); Alan Grunfeld (Violin); Jay Rosen (Violin); Gary Bovyer (Clarinet); Judy Chilnick (Percussion); Sarah Weisz (Flute); Eric Hosler (Violin); Bruce Dukov (Violin); Julia Gigante (Violin); Donald Foster (Clarinet); Jerry Williams (Percussion); Keith Greene (Viola); Barry Perkins (Trumpet); Thomas Diener (Viola); Marlow Fisher (Viola); Gloria Cheng (Piano); Gregory Goodall (Percussion); Stuart Clark (Clarinet); Kenneth McGrath (Percussion); Andrew Malloy (Trombone); Amy Hershberger (Violin); Joshua Ranz (Clarinet); Roberto Cani (Violin); Ralph Williams (Clarinet); Rose Corrigan (Bassoon); Brian Dembow (Viola); Marcia Dickstein (Harp); Judith Farmer (Bassoon); Dean Parks (Guitar); Roger Wilkie (Violin); John Goux (Guitar); Peter Limonick (Percussion); Armen Anassian (Violin)
  • Conductor: John Williams
  • Running Time: 3 min. 36 sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary
  • Form: Film Score
  • Written: 2011