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Much use is made of the same lush and festive orchestrations and emotion found in The Polar Express: tolling bells, processional timpani, dancing chimes and nearly royal-sounding brass chorales resonate with symphonic might, clarity and dignity heard all too little in modern film scoring, and the resulting musical flavour is a delicious, sparkling one indeed, and it proves significantly more entertaining than Silvestri's other blockbuster scores of 2009, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian and G.I. Joe.
That theme, besides being previewed extensively in the opening cue, is most fully heard in "Let Us See Another Christmas" (a tender woodwind variation), the dancing and playful "Flight to Fezziwig's" (which contains a brief but extraordinary choral outburst of the theme) [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the concluding two score cues before being fully realized in song form in “God Bless Us Everyone,” performed affably by Andrea Bocelli.
Original Theme and Material in A Christmas Carol
The approach taken thematically in A Christmas Carol is definitely more traditional and religion-based, however, as well as more emotionally diverse, resulting in a more well-rounded holiday score.
Traditional Approach in Silvestri's Festive Score
At times, Silvestri even quotes his carols in an entirely literal sense, with lengthy passages given over to fully-realized and robust classic renderings, such as "Hark the Harold Angels Sing," heard in the joyous "Touch My Robe."
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The "Main Title" cue is a superb survey of Silvestri's overall approach to the score, acting as a magnificent suite of traditional carols arranged seamlessly with one another [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with Silvestri's own original theme for the film weaving in and out of the enchanting mix.
These dark and diabolical cues, along with the aforementioned “Carriage Chase,” provide some welcome and compelling balance to the cheery, fluent optimism heard in the score's lighter cues; of which a memorable and lovely one is &ldqu
Following on the heels of Robert Zemeckis' previous motion-capture endeavors, The Polar Express and Beowulf, A Christmas Carol is a lavish and spectacular motion picture, and much of its irrepressible spirit and wonder is owed to Alan Silvestri's extroverted and uninhibited musical score.
The theme's tone is very conservative in its celebratory tone and traditional carol structure, allowing it to interact perfectly with the other carols used in the score.
The remainder of Silvestri's original material is quite satisfying in its diversity and development, with amazingly macabre passages explored in “Marley's Ghost,” “The Clock Tower,” “This Dark Chamber,” and “Who Was That Lying Dead?”, all of which exhibiting some of the most sinister orchestral and choral menace heard in any holiday film; these are cues brimming with deep chanting choirs [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], devilish violin solos and fiendish brass outbursts.
Indeed, Christmas carols are used here with a perhaps not-too-surprising frequency, and their integration into the body of the score is often ingenious: note the gorgeous harp-and-choir rendition of "O Come All Ye Faithful" in "The Ghost of Christmas Past," as well as the minor-key tune of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," transformed into an ominous, churning action motif in the breathlessly climactic "Carriage Chase."
Surprisingly Well-Balanced Christmas Soundtrack