Track Listing

1. Main Titles
2. Suite - Episode #1
3. Suite - Episode #3-10
4. the Mission Begins
5. Swamp
6. Spier's Speech
7. Fire On Lake
8. Parapluies
9. Boy Eats Chocolate
10. Bull's Theme
11. Winters On Subway
12. Headscarf
13. Buck In Hospital
14. Plaisir d'amour
15. Preparing For Patrol
16. String Quartet
17. Discovery Of Camp
18. Nixen's Walk
19. Austria
20. End Titles

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3421 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack

Amazon.co.uk Review
When Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks collaborated on the Academy Award-winning Saving Private Ryan, an abiding passion to further honour the young fighting soldiers of WWII was born in both men, resulting in Band of Brothers, an ambitious 10-part mini-series based on historian Stephen Ambrose's account of a 101st Airborne regiment as it fought its way across Europe. In scoring the sweeping project, Michael Kamen has eschewed much of the martial music familiar from past war epics in favour of the quiet, largely introspective sound that has informed modern battle films from Platoon through Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line. And if his reverential, often somber tones capture the dignity of the soldiers and the gravity of the events, they sometimes do so at the expense of other human dimensions--and the lively pop music of the 1940s. Still, Kamen's work strikes an impressive balance, fusing the pastoral with subtle modern rhythm touches and utilising spare piano solos, a darkly ironic use of Beethoven's String Quartet in C-Sharp Minor, and a memorable, elegiac main theme. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

Band of Brothers (Kamen) [Soundtrack].
If you liked the series you will love the sound track. You will end up in a world of your own plus it's so relaxing just make sure you don't leave the kettle on!

Fans of the Show
This rating is based on the fact that I'm a big fan of the series. The music is wonderfully evocative and is great for easy listening background music.

If the Theme music for the series moves you then this is for you especially if you like classical music.

Unmatched Accompaniment to a Majestic Series
Since purchasing this album, I've listened to virtually nothing else. The Main Theme alone is probably one of the most moving pieces of music written in the last fifty years; the two Suites are admirable and vastly 'listenable' alternative takes on the rest of the score, and the selection that makes up the rest of the album is superb. The string quartet is enough to make you cry, and the final track, featuring a choral accompaniment to the main theme is strangley uplifting. The TV series is the ultimate statement of there being no glory in war, only infinite sadness, and this album echoes and enhances that sentiment without becoming mawkish. I know of no other soundtrack that both matches its source perfectly, yet remains a masterpiece in its own right. Utterly, utterly wonderful.