Track Listing

1. Dear Clarice (featuring Sir Anthony Hopkins)
2. Aria da Capo (From Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, Written by Johann Sebastian Bach--Performed by Glenn Gould)
3. The Capponi Library
4. Gourmet Vaise Tartare
5. Avarice
6. For a Small Stipend
7. Firenze Di Notte
8. Virtue
9. Let My Home Be My Gallows (featuring Sir Anthony Hopkins)
10. The Burning Heart (featuring Sir Anthony Hopkins)
11. To Every Captive Soul
12. Vide Cor Meum

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32299 in Music
• Released on: 2001-02-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Original language: English, Italian, Japanese
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 131 minutes

From Amazon.co.uk
After two of the most riveting thrillers ever set on American soil, the serial-killer Hannibal Lecter faces FBI agent Clarice Starling in Florence. Composer Hans Zimmer, following the success of Gladiator, is swiftly reunited with director Ridley Scott, and takes a very different musical path from Howard Shore's austere score for The Silence of the Lambs. Paying regard to the Viennese setting and Lecter's cultural refinement, Zimmer's music features many classical allusions. There are nods towards Mozart, an off-key, subtly disturbing Blue Danube and darkly beautiful choral passages evoking sacred mass and the Dies Irae. Alongside some particularly lush and effective string writing, and echoes of Jerry Goldsmith's Viennese thriller music for The Boys From Brazil, fear-laden, digitally pulsating soundscapes are kept to a minimum. Anthony Hopkins delivers three of Lecter's monologues which, while effectively done, will become less welcome with repeated playings. Both The Assassin and Beyond Rangoon demonstrated Zimmer's talent for haunting melody within a thriller context, and for Hannibal he has surpassed himself. There is a Gothic, melancholy grandeur to much of this score, the Wagnerian rapture of "To Every Captive Soul" and the serene, elegiac finale making this a morbidly enchanting musical dream. --Gary S. Dalkin

Chronique amazon.fr
Après leur collaboration sur Gladiator, Ridley Scott et Hans Zimmer ont décidé de remettre le couvert avec la suite du Silence des agneaux. Traitée d'une manière très sobre, la musique d'Hannibal, composée par Hans Zimmer, semble planer dangereusement autour des futures victimes du cannibale. Très esthétique et raffinée, d'inspiration classique, la partition dévoile une succession d'atmosphères – "Avarice", "Virtue" –, puis dévore par à-coups ses auditeurs – "For A Small Stipend". L'habillage électronique habituel du compositeur est néanmoins présent et impose un rythme enivrant au film. La musique oscille alors entre délicatesse et angoisse avec une maestria certaine. Un extrait de l'opéra "Vido Cor Meum" de Patrick Cassidy, spécialement arrangé pour l'occasion par un Hans Zimmer que l'on a rarement connu aussi classieux, conclut cette bande originale. Avez-vous faim de très bonne musique ?Didier Leprêtre