One of Jerry Goldsmith’s final film scores comes to the CD Club in a long-awaited Deluxe Edition: Along Came a Spider (2001), Paramount Pictures’ second film adaptation of James Patterson’s Alex Cross thriller novels, although taken from the first book. Morgan Freeman reprised his role as Cross (from Kiss the Girls), teaming up with Monica Potter as a Secret Service agent in search of a U.S. Senator’s daughter, who is kidnapped by a twisted adversary.
Goldsmith reteamed with New Zealand-born director Lee Tamahori, for whom he scored The Edge (1997), and provided a tense, taut score in his thriller wheelhouse. From his earliest days scoring television, to 1970s landmarks like Capricorn One and Coma, to the granddaddy of the 1990s sex thrillers, Basic Instinct, no composer was as fluent or effective with the thriller genre as Goldsmith. By 2001, the composer had modernized and refined his suspense style to the point where there was not a single wasted note. Along Came a Spider pulses and twitches with uneasy throbs, lurching into orchestral action for moments of shock and violence, and nobly sets a powerful French horn theme (for the forces of good) against a brooding tapestry of darkness?all while the clock ticks away on a young victim’s life.
Released as a 35-minute CD by Varese Sarabande at the time of the film, Along Came a Spider is expanded for the Deluxe Edition to the complete 64-minute score, in film sequence. A bonus track of outtakes (including Goldsmith’s chit-chat on the scoring stage) is curated by Goldsmith’s longtime friend, recording engineer and album producer Bruce Botnick. Limited to 1,500 copies.--- *レーベルより抜粋
VARESE CLUBの限定盤！ 『コレクター』に続くジェームズ・パターソン原作「犯罪心理捜査官アレックス・クロス（モーガン・フリーマン）」シリーズの第2作。ジェリー・ゴールドスミスのフルスコアを収録したデラックス・エディションがついにリリース！これぞ映画音楽のプロ！とうならされる素晴らしさは必聴！従来盤は３５分の収録でしたが、今回はシーン順に沿った６４分のフルスコアを収録。ボーナストラクとしてゴールドスミスと長年の盟友ブルース・ボトニック（レコーディング・エンジニア）との会話も聞こえてくるアウトテイクも収録。 限定1500枚。
トラックリスト警戒厳重なワシントンD.C.の一流私立学校キャシドラル・スクールから一人の生徒が誘拐される。誘拐されたのはローズ上院議員の聡明な娘ミーガン。犯人は２年間も教師になりすました末、この到底不可能と思われる誘拐計画を遂行した。著名なワシントン市警の犯罪心理捜査官アレックス・クロスの著作に精通する犯人は、クロス自身が捜査を担当するよう要求する。そして、ミーガンをマザーグースの童話の主人公になぞらえた手掛かりを残してクロスを挑発する。なぜ犯人はミーガンを選んだのか。そして、犯人の真の狙いとは……。
監督：リー・タマホリ、出演： モーガン・フリーマン、モニカ・ポッター、マイケル・ウィンコット。2001年米。
One of Jerry Goldsmith’s final film scores comes to the CD Club in a long-awaited Deluxe Edition: Along Came a Spider (2001), Paramount Pictures’ second film adaptation of James Patterson’s Alex Cross thriller novels, although taken from the first book. Morgan Freeman reprised his role as Cross (from Kiss the Girls), teaming up with Monica Potter as a Secret Service agent in search of a U.S. Senator’s daughter, who is kidnapped by a twisted adversary.
Goldsmith reteamed with New Zealand-born director Lee Tamahori, for whom he scored The Edge (1997), and provided a tense, taut score in his thriller wheelhouse. From his earliest days scoring television, to 1970s landmarks like Capricorn One and Coma, to the granddaddy of the 1990s sex thrillers, Basic Instinct, no composer was as fluent or effective with the thriller genre as Goldsmith. By 2001, the composer had modernized and refined his suspense style to the point where there was not a single wasted note. Along Came a Spider pulses and twitches with uneasy throbs, lurching into orchestral action for moments of shock and violence, and nobly sets a powerful French horn theme (for the forces of good) against a brooding tapestry of darkness?all while the clock ticks away on a young victim’s life.
Released as a 35-minute CD by Varese Sarabande at the time of the film, Along Came a Spider is expanded for the Deluxe Edition to the complete 64-minute score, in film sequence. A bonus track of outtakes (including Goldsmith’s chit-chat on the scoring stage) is curated by Goldsmith’s longtime friend, recording engineer and album producer Bruce Botnick. Limited to 1,500 copies.--- *レーベルより抜粋
1. Night Talk (3:07)
2. Testing (2:10)
3. Alone (1:03)
4. Megan’s Abduction (3:19)
5. The Message (:52)
6. A Closed Book (1:49)
7. Re-Play (:45)
8. Watching (:36)
9. Hello Megan (1:04)
10. The Missing Picture (4:20)
11. The Photos (2:25)
12. Please Help (:38)
13. Megan Overboard (4:51)
14. Cyber Meeting (1:52)
15. No Guard (1:15)
16. Cop Killer (3:50)
17. Missing Girl (1:07)
18. The Ransom Pt 1 (4:36)
19. The Ransom Pt 2 (2:51)
20. Hi Alex (:47)
21. Where’s Megan? (2:29)
22. The Rat (:55)
23. Not Alone (1:50)
24. Profiling (3:46)
25. Open The Door (1:02)
26. Not My Partner/The Ransom (End Credits from the motion picture Along Came A Spider) (10:38)
27. That’s It! (2:13)