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A children's fantasy like The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep gives free rein to James Newton Howard's most grandiose music impulses -- this kind of project is a perfect fit for the composer's over the top sentimentality and unabashed histrionics, and for all of its excess, it's one of his most creative and heartfelt scores. With its soaring strings, broad melodies, and lush Celtic instrumentation, The Water Horse luxuriates in a kind of mystical otherness essential to Howard's musical vision -- heroic strings, sledgehammer brass, and eruptions of percussion all vie for space in the overstuffed arrangements. Despite its sheer density, the score works: Howard summons a genuine sense of childlike wonder sure to override even the most jaded listener. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
12/04/2007 | Sony Classics
All Music Guide Review
Track Listing
Credits
- Sinéad O'Connor
- Vocals
- Anthony Pleeth
- Cello
- Frank Ricotti
- Percussion
- David Theodore
- Oboe, Cor Anglais
- Geoff Foster
- Recording
- Dermot Crehan
- Irish Fiddle
- Helen Tunstall
- Harp
- Peter Lale
- Viola
- Jennie O'Grady
- Choir Master
- Mike Smith
- Drums
- Tony Mangurian
- Drums
- Simon Rhodes
- Score Mixer
- John Parricelli
- Guitar
- Jeff Atmajian
- Conductor
- Richard Chappell
- Mixing, Recording
- Peter Davies
- Tenor Trombone
- Jean Kelly
- Irish Harp
- Gráinne Hambly
- Irish Harp
- Denise Luiso
- Music Supervisor, Executive in Charge of Music
- Roxanne Slimak
- Art Direction
- Lia Vollack
- Executive in Charge of Music
- Pete Anthony
- Conductor
- Richard Watkins
- Horn
- Jim Weidman
- Score Producer, Supervising Music Editor
- Andrew Dudman
- Engineer
- Richard Lancaster
- Scoring Crew
- David Lai
- A&R
- Lewis Jones
- Recording
- Chris Cozens
- Auricle Programming
- Rosemary Warren Green
- Orchestra Leader
- Owen Slade
- Tuba, Cimbasso
- Triona Marshall
- Irish Harp
- Karen Jones
- Flute
- Julie Andrews
- Bassoon
- Bill Lockhart
- Tympani (Timpani)
- Ian Balmain
- Trumpet
- Chris Laurence
- Double Bass
- Justin "Bumper" Reeve
- Music Coordinator
- Chris P. Bacon
- Technical Score Advisor
- Robin Baynton
- Scoring Crew
- Julia Newmann
- Scoring Assistant
- Pamela J. Sollie
- Score Coordinator
- David Olson
- Music Editor
- Nicholas Bucknail
- Clarinet, Clarinet (Bass)
- Simon Chamberlain
- Piano, Celeste
- Ray Cooper
- Percussion
- Richard E. Grant
- Auricle Programming
- Isobel Griffiths
- Orchestra Contractor
- Skaila Kanga
- Harp
- Daniel Lanois
- Producer, Mixing, Telecaster
- James Newton Howard
- Score Producer
- The Chieftains
- Band
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