Editorial Review:

Description:
Score by Award Winning Composers Hans Zimmer (Gladiator, The Lion King) and James Newton Howard (The Village, The Fugitive). Track Titles: 1. Vespertilio 2. Eptesicus 3. Myotis 4. Barbastella 5. Artibeus 6. Tadarida 7. Macrotus 8. Antrozous 9. Nycteris 10. Molossus 11. Corynorhinus 12. Lasiurus Total Run Time: 1:00:32

Amazon.com:
It's rare to see two marquee-name composers credited for a score, but perhaps two people were needed to come up with something that would stand up to the memory of Danny Elfman's work on the 1989 Batman. Just as director Christopher Nolan's back-in-black approach is quite different from Tim Burton's phantasmagorical one, Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard's take doesn't bear much kinship to Elfman's. (You'd be hard-pressed to find any recognizable theme here, for instance.) Mostly the composers remain conservatively subtle, though coming up with the expected pounding on grandiose, action-y selections such as 'Myotis' and 'Antrozous' (no, the poetic-sounding track names aren't lifted from old Cocteau Twins records but refer to various types of bats). Stand-out track 'Tadarida' incorporates some of the distorted vocal effects associated with the Scarecrow's drug-induced nightmarish visions. Atmospheric to the point of evanescence sometime, the individual tracks tend to meld into each other after a while. The sense of stylistic continuity helps establish an overall mood, but sometimes it's hard to distinguish between shades of black. --Elisabeth Vincentelli



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Disc 1:

1. Vespertilio
2. Eptesicus
3. Myotis
4. Barbastella
5. Artibeus
6. Tadarida
7. Macrotus
8. Antrozous
9. Nycteris
10. Molossus
11. Corynorhinus
12. Lasiurus

Rating: - Nice sounding album
If you're a fan of Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard then you'll enjoy this album. The movie was pretty good, but I was more interested in the music composed for the movie. Each one of these songs is heart throbbing, period. I think you will enjoy this album, particularly because of the design made by Zimmer and Howard. Another movie to compare to would be 'Black Hawk Down' by Zimmer. As usual, his soundtracks are some of the greatest. It seems these days that I listen to soundtracks more than typical music.

I often listen to artists like Andrea Bocelli and music by Zimmer, Howard, Isham, and Goldsmith (to name a few). I can't say enough about this album and am sure you will enjoy it. If you crank up the bass on your sub woofer, you'll experience an amazing throb of bass from the different songs.

You can also compare this album to Zimmer's 'Tears of the Sun', which by the way was also a great movie, including the soundtrack.

Enjoy.

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Rating: - The soundtrack to "Batman Begins" is brilliant!
The soundtrack to "Batman Begins" is brilliant! All of the tracks are brilliant! An impressive collaboration for Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard together.

Track Listing
1. Vespertilio
2. Eptesicus
3. Myotis
4. Barbastella
5. Artibeus
6. Tadarida
7. Macrotus
8. Antrozous
9. Nycteris
10. Molossus
11. Corynorhinus
12. Lasiurus

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Rating: - Better than I thought.
I didn't think this score would be fun on CD, after all there is not much of a theme to go with. But it is immense fun.

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Rating: - wow...
I couldn't possibly hope to write a review as eloquent as most of the others. I gather that I'm not the typical listener of music of this genre.

There's really not much I can say about this soundtrack. Its artistry is beyond what words can describe, but how "beautiful" and "magnificant" will suffice.

I've been a fan of Hans Zimmer since I bought the Gladiator soundtrack, on a whim. The pure enjoyment I've gotten out of the countless times I've listened to this CD, since I firt bought it, makes it probably my favorite of all of the CD's I own.

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Rating: - Great score
This is by far the best batman movie. and the best score heaps motivating. love it.