ARTIST: Craig ArmstrongTITLE: World Trade CenterLABEL: Sony BMGGENRE: SoundtrackBITRATE: 195kbps avgPLAYTIME: 0h 57min totalRELEASE DATE: 2006-08-08RIP DATE: 2006-08-08
Track List———-01. Alison Lawrance - World Trade 3:43Center Cello Theme (CelloSoloist)02. Craig Armstrong - World Trade 4:00Center Piano Theme03. Craig Armstrong - New York 2:29Awakes04. Craig Armstrong - The Drive 3:52Downtown05. Craig Armstrong - Rise Above 2:26The Towers06. Susie Stevens Logan - World 2:41Trade Center Choral Piece(Soprano Soloist)07. Craig Armstrong - John & Donna 1:25Talk About Their Family08. Craig Armstrong - Ethereal 5:2409. Craig Armstrong - John’s 1:38Woodshed10. Craig Armstrong - Marine 2:57Arrives At Ground Zero11. Craig Armstrong - Will And 1:53Allison In The Hospital12. Craig Armstrong - Allison At 1:07The Stoplight13. Craig Armstrong - Jimeno Sees 1:43Jesus14. Craig Armstrong - John And 5:05Will Found/Will Ascends15. Craig Armstrong - John’s 2:30Apparition16. Catherine O’Halloran - John 7:46Rescued/Resolution (SopranoSoloist)17. Craig Armstrong - Elegy 4:3918. Craig Armstrong - Ethereal 2:09Piano Coda (Piano Soloist)
Release Notes:
Composer Craig Armstrong has done arrangements for a variety of pop acts while building a reputation for both his own stand-alone neoclassical pieces and scores for the stage and film. Calling on him for this tricky assignment was a good move: Armstrong is a subtle musician who prefers understatement to grand gestures, and he’s set a tone that’s opposite the usual Hollywood symphonic grandstanding (typically, a cue is titled “Ethereal”). Avoiding pulling at the listener’s heartstrings in too obvious a manner, the string-heavy score is minimally somber, declining its theme mostly with cello and piano. (The downside is that it can be difficult to differentiate the tracks, which tend to meld into one another after a while.) You’re not going to whistle along to this CD–but neither would you want to.