Seven Years in Tibet - Soundtrack 01 (Main Theme)

[YoiteAi]

precious * - *

[TheMusicalGirll]

Does anyone know where i can get the cello music for this please? Looked everywhere!

[TheSanitorium]

john williams and yo-yo ma are perfect together.

[SvStheShow]

my band is playing this so i thought id check it out

[Gyrbun]

If the picture to this video had been the painting of someone from the 1800s, similar to those typical ones of Mozart and Beethoven, no one would have argued it were in fact music from around that time. I swear I can hear bits of Camille Saint-Saëns and more general baroque in there.

[GGbreizh]

@Gyrbun You can hear baroque although this is romantical ?

[danebakiss]

Listening the songs of John Williams, you don't need images to watch the movie again. No other is like him.

[contrerados]

Don't forget Maurice Jarre

[Purplecatsoup30]

wonderful music, and wonderful movie. I think it was Brad Pitt's best.

[LAnonHubbard]

Heard this music on Classic FM a couple of mornings ago. Really liked it. Never heard of the film before.

[animemusicmonklover]

@LAnonHubbard you have to watch the movie its amazing!!!!!!!! It only recived two stars but its really good and alot better than that twilight crap... but then again everythings better than twilight!!! lol

[LAnonHubbard]

@animemusicmonklover I bought the film 2nd hand on Amazon a few days ago so will see it soon. I like landscapes and understand the film has them in abundance. Hopefully the story will be good too :)

[ohdontpanic42]

i have never seen the film but i know and love this piece, i always seem to hear it around. its so gorgeous, might have to watch seven years in tibet!

[daniboytheoneandonly]

i feel like i can hear elements of every other film score john williams has composed in this peice. does that make him a lazy composer or does it make this the epitomy of john williams??

[GGbreizh]

@daniboytheoneandonly If John Williams is lazy because of that reason, then Mozart was the laziest man in the world...

Great work, very different from Williams Cello Concerto, composed a few years sooner for Yo-Yo Ma.

[blackhawk917]

I am at a nearly complete loss for words. Absolutely stunning. I've never heard anything like it. This is the sort of the thing that only John Williams could ever dream of producing.

[blackhawk917]

Holy Crap.

[MrRopucha]

J. Williams is just...great...

[cjenkins73]

I love this film so much. Also, the music is so powerful and emotional.

[spas16]

As for Horner being overrated and that he repeats his own scores. Watch the Mask of Zoro after Anthony Hopkins yells on guard to Banderas. Very similar music can be heard in Troy( also by Horner) when the greeks finally enter the city and begin to destroy it.

[MrvelvetviruS]

What an incredible film, and such a sad tragedy that Tibetan people it's suffering right now...

[AMCStoof1]

YELLOW HEAD!

[elpresidio]

I love this score. It would be perfect in an ice skating routine.

[cloekeet]

A beautiful score.

[BlissLoveInc]

About 1-hr-20-min into the film, it showed the communist china's flag & official name but both were wrong. Both shown in the movie belonged to non-existent ROC( short-lived Republic of China, founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen,demised when CKS fled China to occupy Taiwan). Flag shown in movie is red-blue-white, but the ch. flag is all red w/ a few yellow stars.Country name (in Ch characters) showed in movie says "Republic of China (4 Ch characters) yet should be "People's Rep. of China"(7 Ch chrctrs).

[beveraii]

@BlissLoveInc Not really anything to do with this soundtrack tho......

[keetner]

Really lovely movie...I'm also really glad there was a biography the producers could go by (versus a few single events). Otherwise I think it would've been overly Hollywood-fied. The only thing I disliked was probably Brad Pitt's performance...a little rough here and there. Nonetheless, I enjoyed it =).

[jeffysj2]

Be free !!!!!!!!!!!

[polygonemusic]

♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♭ ♮ ♯

[liviamiawallace]

i love this film.

<3

[Kasino80]

This music always reminds me of the OSCARS...it would be perfect for when the winner walks up to the stage to accept the statuette.

[guntherlove54]

@Kasino80 How does music that was written to express the physical and emotional journey of Heinrich Harrer and his friendship with the Dalai Lama remind you of the oscars? The oscars are almost the antithesis of what this music tries to express. We are all entitled to our opinion, however I must disagree with yours.

[Kasino80]

@guntherlove54 it's not the entire song...it's just the opening. It's so pin point Oscar music...I think perhaps I heard it there first and simply connects the song to that...no disrespect for the Lama or anything.

[guntherlove54]

@Kasino80 Yeah, I guess I can see that. I played the opening a long time ago for a friend, not telling him what it was, and he immediately responded, "Sounds like movie music!" The cello soios are far too rich, even for the oscars :-p

[VitalMusic217]

just like the albinoni adagio... a feeling good song... you are nuts dude

[ReturnOfJackDawson]

i loved it, the survival, the glory of achievement, regrets.. i love it.

[tsacika]

hajrá Yo-Yo Ma.... :)

[Colt2571]

One of the best pieces Williams has ever done.

[Pinificationable]

amazing!!

[claaria451]

beautiful piano solo

[IceSkatingMadi]

I'm skating to this music

[elpresidio]

@IceSkatingMadi, I watched an ice skater in the Vancouver Olympics the other night skate to this music @2:37. This piece must be really inspirational to many ice skaters.

[louisDuPointeDuLaC]

The actors in this movie were fantastic! especially Brad pitt! he looks so attractive!

[lisa57122]

Excellent! mais oui un hommage mérité à tous ces auteurs compositeurs qu'ils seraient dommage de méconnaitre.

[roybatty100]

excellent soundtrack .

as always soundtracks are underrated

by public maybe because we only see the

actors and never the composers.

Maybe should start replacing some of the

lame television programmes at present

with documentaries about composers like

John Williams,and the late Jerry Goldsmith and Bernard Herrmann

[GusTube00]

@roybatty100 Totally agree!! Soundtracks eternalize their films but people only adds value to actors!

[1982mockingbird1982]

@roybatty100 What about James Horner?

[Kuntipac]

@1982mockingbird1982 of course not, have you not heard of hornerisms.

[1982mockingbird1982]

@Kuntipac What? James Honers awesome. He comes up wtih the best melodies and his use of chords are always really amazing. I think his hus captures the heart even if the movies they are used in dont

[Kuntipac]

@1982mockingbird1982 If you were a musicians, like myself, you would notice the blatant similarities in his music. Its like he copy and pastes his scores. Just compare Titanic and Avatar it might be hard for an untrained ear to notice, no offense, but its there. I mean, i enjoy his music but i hate the fact that people dont see that all his music is the same but different orchestration. His favorite is the 4 note riff: Starting on C going up a half step a major second and then a half step down!

[1982mockingbird1982]

@Kuntipac I do ear music and the only similarity I can notice between avatar and Titanic is the 1st 2 notes for the chorus of 'My Heart Will Go On' and the 1st 2 notes of the main Avatar theme(that appear in the chorus for 'I see you') are the same. But 2 notes is hardly a similairity. And the meldoy used in the Chorus My Heart Will Go On isnt even the main melody that appears throughout Titanic. The main theme is that panflute riff and thats completly different from avatar. Also Balto.....

[1982mockingbird1982]

@Kuntipac sounds nothing like any of his other scores and the 1st 3 notes of the Braveheart melody could appear similair to the Titanic riff, but theyre actually completly different notes, are timed differently and the chord structure for the themes are different. I guess Im saying theres enough variation in the notes sequences and chords to convince my ears that these are all distinct and unique melodies. But perhaps Ive missed or am unable to recognize the similarities youve noticed? :)

[Kuntipac]

@1982mockingbird1982 um, once again I am a musician. They are not different notes they are in fact the exact same pitches. If you own a piano try playing these: TITANIC: D-E-B-(Octave Up)-B-A-Ab-F#. AVATAR: D-E-Ab-A-Ab-F#. The reason why you might not hear the similarities is because the "riffs" aren't in the same key I transposed them. The soundtrack "Rose" is in Bb Major and Avatar in either in A Major or D But both "My Heart Will Go On" (riff above) and the Avatar main riff (above) are =.

[1982mockingbird1982]

@Kuntipac Avatar sounds about right but Im either playing Titanic incorectly or youve given me a different riff to the one I was reffering to, Im talking about this titanic riff (that Ive put in D):

D-E-F# E-D-E-A  G-F#-D B(lower)-A(lower)

[Kuntipac]

@1982mockingbird1982 yes, but I am not talking about that one. In My Heart Will Go On when she says: "Near, Far, Wherever you are.... "

[thebigrussian]

@roybatty100 Would this really be a good thing? The more popular something is, the more it tends to be mutilated in favor of profit over quality.

[davidoff9764]

@thebigrussian Don't talk rubbish, just listen to Yo Yo Ma and forget everything else,dammit.

[suserache]

@roybatty100 I totally agree !! I would love to see how they work. Soundtracks are sooo inspiring.

[dugger78]

@roybatty100 Wonderful!

[234313069]

@roybatty100 John Barry and Ennio Morricone, don't forget

[beckerqueiroz]

@234313069 Two of my favorites :) (Next to Mikos Rozsa and Victor Young)

[234313069]

@beckerqueiroz I also have my hopes very high on Michael Giacchino, he warms my heart

[divine604]

it should have been at least nominated for an oscar!

[divine604]

awesome!

[juli1796]

i love this music

[Buarfx]

I just LOVE this movie !

[ThePiano1991]

Proper Hollywood music!

[Ansemesser]

Soundtracks are the best!

[musicsoothesusall]

@Ansemesser

THEY CERTAINLY MAKE THE FILM...WITHOUT AN AWESOME SOUNDTRACK, THE FILM WOULD BE NOTHING....NO LIFE TO IT.

[musicluvr1974]

@Ansemesser Don't we know it!! I wish places like Pandora.com could find out that this is true--maybe then they'd put up more videogame soundtracks or movie soundtracks as options to build a station on... :(

[davidstighansen]

Haunting