- Audio CD (July 31 2001)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Soundtrack
- Label: Warner Bros
- Run Time: 146 minutes
- ASIN: B00005LLVS
- Other Editions: DVD Audio
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #55,481 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. The Mecha World |
| 2. Abandoned In the Woods |
| 3. Replicas |
| 4. Hide And Seek |
| 5. For Always |
| 6. Cybertronics |
| 7. The Moon Rising |
| 8. Stored Memories And Monica's Theme |
| 9. Where Dreams Are Born |
| 10. Rouge City |
| 11. The Search For The Blue Fairy |
| 12. The Reunion |
| 13. For Always (Duet) |
Product Description
From Amazon.co.uk
Packed with Big Ideas about the future of mankind and dispatched with a distant, often icy veneer, Steven Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence can scarcely camouflage its roots. Begun by the late Stanley Kubrick in the mid-1980s, Spielberg collaborated briefly a decade later, bowed out, then inherited it upon Kubrick's death in 1999. And while the late auteur's cold vision seems largely intact, it's safe to say that Kubrick's often challenging musical tastes would probably not have led him to composer John Williams's doorstep. Nonetheless, the acclaimed veteran again rises to the occasion. Setting the tone of the film's robotically enhanced not-so-distant future, "The Mecha World" crackles and glistens with Steve Reich's rhythmic urgency and John Adams's dense coloration, while "Abandoned in the Woods", "Hide and Seek" and "Rouge City" succeed by setting Williams's more traditional sense of melody against Phillip Glass's hypnotic arpeggios. There's also a sense that the composer has craftily evoked the ghost of Kubrick music past and 2001 in particular; "Replicas" and "Stored Memories" bring to mind Ligeti, while the mournful strings of "Cybertronics" seem a ghostly echo of Khachaturian's Gayane Ballet Suite. David Foster's ballad "For Always" (in a solo rendition by Lara Fabian and a duet between Fabian and Josh Groban) seems twice-included strictly to enhance the album's radio allure. Completists should also note that Ministry's dark contribution to the film's Flesh Fair sequence, "What About Us?", is not included on this soundtrack, but is available on their Greatest Fits compilation. Arguably Williams' most musically adventurous score since his landmark Close Encounters of the Third Kind, AI should take its place among the most distinctive of the composer's long and bounteous collaboration with Spielberg. --Jerry McCulley
Chronique amazon.fr
Initié par Stanley Kubrick, puis repris par Steven Spielberg, A.I. Artificial Intelligence permet au compositeur fétiche du papa de E.T, John Williams, de renouer avec les grandes expériences néo-contemporaines deRencontres du troisième type et Il faut sauver le soldat Ryan. Dès les premiers instants, John Williams impose sa patte classique avec le scherzo de "The Mecha World" suivi d'un lento – "Abandoned In The Woods" – d'une douceur rare. Le compositeur met ainsi en avant le piano solo, instrument privilégié de sa partition, répondant de la sorte à la relation entre le mécanique et l'organique, sujet du film. Afin de traduire la tristesse et la sensibilité qui émane des images, John Williams a fait appel à la soprano Barbara Bonney qui illumine de sa voix chaude des morceaux froids comme "Stored Memories" & "Monica's Theme". En jouant sur ce dilemme, John Williams confère à sa partition une intensité émotionnelle des plus délicates et "The Moon Rising" atteint les cimes de ce que la musique peut traduire comme expression solennelle. Note après note, John Williams explore l'âme humaine et la conjugue avec la particularité de la robotique – "Cybertronics" – ou l'organique – "The Search For The Blue Fairy". Il en résulte une partition qui, au-delà de son extrême séduction, provoque des émois inattendus. Le thème principal – "For Always" – conclut l'album et ce, en deux versions interprétées par notre Lara Fabian, seule ou en duo avec Josh Groban, le nouveau prodige de la scène lyrique américaine. Loin de ses habituelles partitions gigantesques – La Guerre des étoiles, Indiana Jones – John Williams crée une œuvre intime d'une puissance émotionnelle inimaginable. Un chef- d'œuvre qui place le contact et la relation entre les races, humaines ou non, au premier plan. --Didier Leprêtre
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Almost Impeccable,
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This review is from: A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) (Audio CD)
John Williams continues in the fine tradition of his previous work. This sondtrack is finely balanced, with delicate medleys, haunting themes, and some lullaby pieces that are almost enough to make one weep. Contrary to many of his previous works (Star Wars, Superman, et al,) Mr. Williams avoided writing loud, brassy fanfares that would have deeply conflicted with the dark, pensive nature of this film.Several tracks stand out in this masterpiece. The twin versions of "For Always," one featuring Lara Fabian and the other featuring Josh Groban in a duet with Ms. Fabian are wonderfully pure. In solo form, Lara's voice is wonderfully smooth and has a subtle almost untrained quality that lends a genuineness to her singing. In the duet, Mr. Groban's silky smooth baritone perfectly offsets Lara's clear soprano. The penultimate song, titled "The Reunion" is a stunning, gorgeous lullaby of a piece that features a plaintive, almost childish piano theme. The simplicity is subtlely complex as the theme winds through an entire emotional range, from triumphant happiness to simple joy to black despair, and finally back into an almost heartbreaking lullaby. Mr. Williams has displayed a wide variety of musical styles in this soundtrack. For fans of his that are desiring a "Star Wars" fanfare and overpowering orchestral pieces, this soundtrack is not for you. I personally prefer this collection to most of his other works.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Haunting,
By Diana L Plaisance (New Orleans, LA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) (Audio CD)
John Williams is always superb listening, but the plus on this one is the duet "For Always" featuring Josh Groban & Lara Fabian (which wasn't performed in the movie). Williams' powerful yet sensitive compositions give life to the A.I. who would be a boy and sweeps one through the full emotional range, exhilarating & exhausting at once. Yet it is the Groban/Fabian duet that even now, a year since I first heard it, rivets and leaves me breathless! A shame it wasn't released as a single.
5.0 out of 5 stars
about the missing songs,
By asturiaz (Belgium) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) (Audio CD)
The missing songs are:- Fred Astaire: Cheek to Cheek
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