| 1. Main Title 2. Phillipe's Escape 3. The Search for Phillipe 4. Tavern Fight (Phillipe) 5. Tavern Fight (Navarre) 6. Pitou's Woods 7. Phillipe Describes Isabeau 8. Bishop's Procession 9. Wedding Music 10. Navarre's Ambus 11. Imperius Removes Arrow 12. Chase/Fall/Transformation |
13. Cezar's Woods 14. She Was Sad At First 15. Navarre Returns To Aquila 16. Turret Chase/The Fall - Film Version 17. Wolf Trapped In Ice 18. Navarre And Isabeau's Dual Transformation 19. Navarre And Marquet Duel 20. Marquet's Death 21. Bishop's Death 22. Final Reunion/End Title 23. Ladyhawke Theme: Single Version |
Source: Filmtracks.com
Ladyhawke: (Andrew Powell) This soundtrack is so poorly constructed that I actually laugh when I listen to it. Which is sad, because it has such a wonderful theme. My problem resides in the fact that the score is for a fantasy film, but it constantly breaks into 1970's television music. Anyone who's heard it must know what I'm talking about --the soundtrack can go from chants to corny TV music to full orchestral sequences and then back to the synthesized TV music again. It is a re-release which includes a wealth of previously unrecorded music. I add an extra star for the finale music with the great theme, but otherwise, this score is sad. **
Source: Moviemusic.com
comments made by Lancelot on 11/20/2001
Bet you weren't expecting a contemporary score in a period fantasy, eh? This amazing score is for fans of the action in Nick Glennie-Smith's The Man in the Iron Mask, and fans of the romance of James Horner's Braveheart. GNP Crescendo deserves much credit for restoring this score to its virtual entirety. Excellent work!
Andrew Powell's score opens in a mysterious crescendo that breaks into an epic and energetic main theme. Electric guitars were never employed so effectively in a score! (at least not until the advent of Trevor Rabin). This score, like the film, is always in motion, whether following the galloping hoofbeats of horses, or the nimble escapades of Matthew Broderick's Philippe Gaston, "The Mouse."
The film premise: A soldier, Ettiene, is cursed by a corrupt Bishop to walk as a man by day and a wolf by night, as his love, Isabeau, is cursed to live as a hawk by day and a woman by night. They are always bound to each other, though they cannot ever see each other.
A truly romantic and magical score accompanies the film, as the themes are never allowed to "gush" as the lovers reminisce about each other in their human forms ("She was sad at first" underscores Philippe's verbal recollection of Isabeau to Ettiene). Only following the dark climax does the romantic musical element finally explode in unabashed emotion.
Also hidden "gems" here include the period source music used within the film, the Wedding Music and the Bishop Procession. The former, a medieval dance played on period instruments, and the latter, a solemn Latin chant.
This score is not what you expect of a swashbuckling tale -- and perhaps that is a good thing, in the end.
