Tracks:
Icarus
There Is No Great Genius Without Some Form Of Madness
Muirfield
H-1 Racer Plane
Quarantine
Hollywood 1927
The Mighty Hercules
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr.
America's Aviation Hero
7000 Romaine
The Germ Free Zone
Screening Room
Long Beach Harbour 1947
The Way Of The Future

Performer Notes:

• Composer: Howard Shore .
• Personnel: Howard Alden (guitar).
• Audio Mixer: Mark Willsher.
• Liner Note Author: Howard Shore .
• One would think that, after spending four years in Middle Earth providing Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy with its gargantuan Oscar-winning score, composer Howard Shore would take a little time off. Instead, the prolific Shore immediately set his sights on Martin Scorsese' s Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator. Shore wastes little time in discarding his last project's epic choral arrangements and thunderous percussion, opting for a neo-classical feel that conjures up images of old silent films and pre-Cold War Hollywood -- coincidentally, Shore's next project, Jackson's remake of King Kong, is set in the same sepia-toned period. This is Shore at his most elegant and free-spirited. From the dizzying "Icarus," with its Baroque tapestry of swirling strings giving sound to the wonder of flight, to the castanets that wander throughout, illuminating the Spanish influence that permeated the culture of 1930s southern California, The Aviator celebrates the "Golden Age" of cinema and music while simultaneously deconstructing it. ~ James Christopher Monger

Producer: Howard Shore, Howard Shore

Format: CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Country: USA

Studio/Live: Studio

Release Date: 11 January, 2005

Label: Decca

Dimensions: 14 x 14 x 0.6 centimeters (0.07 kg)