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A Beautiful Mind (soundtrack)

A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind cd.jpg
Film score by James Horner
Released December 11, 2001 (2001-12-11)
Recorded 2001
Genre Classical, jazz, stage & screen
Label Decca 440 016 191-2
Producer James Horner, Simon Rhodes
James Horner chronology
Enemy at the Gates
(2001)
A Beautiful Mind
(2001)
Iris
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Filmtracks.com 4/5 stars
Soundtrack.net 3/5 stars

A Beautiful Mind is the original soundtrack album, on the Decca Records label, of the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly (who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as "Alicia Nash"), Christopher Plummer and Paul Bettany. The original score and songs were composed and conducted by James Horner.

The album garnered nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Music critics felt that the musical score fit the film well, but believed it to be similar to several of Horner's previous films.

Composer James Horner is a frequent collaborator with Ron Howard, the director of A Beautiful Mind. Horner desired to feature vocals reminiscent of being midway between a girl and woman, and wrote the score specifically for 15-year-old Welsh singer Charlotte Church. In an interview, she stated that it was "one of the most haunting and beautiful [things] I have ever performed." To convey "the beauty of mathematics," Horner decided to use the idea of a kaleidoscope, as its "patterns are always changing, and things move very quickly, but in moving so quickly, they create other patterns that move very slowly underneath." He added that these changing patterns were conveyed with the piano and Church's voice.

Writing for Empire magazine, Danny Graydon gave the soundtrack four out of five stars. He thought the score contained elements of Horner's previous films Sneakers (1992) and Bicentennial Man (1999), but said "if you can forgive that, this is a clever, masterful and romantic score that captures a brilliant mind in conflict." In the tracks "Creating Government Dynamics" and "Cracking The Russian Codes", Graydon opined that Church's "poignant vocals mix well with the frenetic piano and strings to represent Nash’s brilliance," and wished that her voice had been used more in the film.


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