Track Listing

1. Theme From Schindler's List - Itzhak Perlman, Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams
2. Jewish Town (Krakow Ghetto, Winter '41) - Itzhak Perlman, Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams
3. Immolation (With Our Lives, We Give Life) - Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams
4. Remembrances - Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams
5. Schindler's Workforce - Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams
6. Oyf'n Pripetshok / Nacht Aktion - Ronit Shapira, Giora Feidman, John Williams, The Li-Ron Herzeliya Children's Choir
7. I Could Have Done More - Itzhak Perlman, Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams
8. Auschwitz-Birkenau - Itzhak Perlman, Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams
9. Stolen Memories - Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams
10. Making The List - Itzhak Perlman, Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams
11. Give Me Your Names - Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams
12. Yerushalaim Shel Zahav (Jerusalem of Gold) - Hana Tzur, The Ramat Gan Chamber Choir, Tel-Aviv
13. Remembrances - Itzhak Perlman, Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams
14. Theme From Schindler's List (Reprise) - Itzhak Perlman, Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3201 in Music
• Released on: 2002-03-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Original language: English, German, Hebrew, Polish
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 64 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Because he's long been stereotyped by the rousing neo-romantic adventure scores for the Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Jurassic Park franchises, it's easy to forget that composer John Williams is hardly idiomatically challenged. When Steven Spielberg gratifyingly used the clout of his enormous commercial success to produce and direct this brave Holocaust drama, his long-time musical collaborator used the opportunity to display both the depth and maturity of his musical gifts and training, producing a score with sad, evocative melodies frequently carried by the violin of the great Itzhak Perlman. Rich with ethnic nuance and showcasing the composer's masterful orchestral/choral subtlety, Williams's emotionally compelling score for Schindler's List also won the Academy Award for Best Dramatic Score. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

unparalled in its audacity
Spielberg and Williams have a brilliant track record in both the eyes of critics and commercial success. That is the power that these two have when a movie is credited with both of them. However, Williams' success in his other works such as that of the Star Wars Saga, Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones to name but a few have never really had the pure emotion and haunting score of Schindler's List. This is simply his finest work, achieving great success at numerous awards including the academy award for best original score in 1993, and well deserved.
Schindler's List has the audacity to stand on it's own as a classical masterpiece that so many scores attempt to be. Williams' and Spielberg not enough, Perlman on the violin brings the most beautiful yet deeply haunting score of Williams' to life. I must admit that i am one for melancholic and depressing scores, nothing moves me more, and this ranks on the top of my list.
There are however some criticisms that this score has received, however these are also its strength. There is a high degree of repetition, but the melody is so beautiful that the yearning is still not satisfied, the melody in solo by violin or piano has such an oppressing overtone that one cannot hold back the tears. Yet it seems that the solos are interpreted with a small hope that seems to be held on to so tight in desperation and in oppression, and this small hope is what really drives the score.
This is quite simply a classic of scores and no movie score collection will ever be complete without this masterpiece.

Although lacking variety, it subtly hooks the emotional ear.
A rather low key, sombre soundtrack (hardly surprising considering the film's subject matter). Williams' soundtrack has been criticised for using a palette of few tonal colours. However, I can promise you that this music has a cumulative effect upon the listener. There is a degree of repetition, with two themes in particular arising in a number of variations, but when listening to the soundtrack as a whole these become more moving and powerful, drawing you into the melancholy atmosphere that is so convincingly established. At the heart of this music lies a tremendous dignity that echoes the ultimate mood of the film (despite its many horrors). Perlman's violin playing beautifully expresses the haunting main melody which grows in emotional power on subsequent playings. For me the world created within this soundtrack is large enough (the bombastic marches of Williams' action scores would be alien here)to deliver a very fulfilling listening experience indeed

Schindlers List
A truly beautiful piece of music, from start to end, and totally deserved of the best music academy award for John Williams. Mr Williams has written a lot of tripe over the years but this is a piece of classical modern genious, helped by the superlative playing of one of the finest violinists of our age, Mr Itzak Perlman. This is a piece of music which in it you can hear the agonies of those terrible, terrible times. It is uplifting yet angst ridden, and is full of memorable unforgettable themes. As I have said this disc won the oscar for best music, the Piano, by Michael Nyman ran it a close second, which is also a fantastic piece, only for Shindlers List the Piano would have won the oscar against any contender. It really was a shame that two great scores had to go head to head in the same year. Schindlers List (both film and music 10/10). Tony