Music Composed by Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard
Additional Music by Lorne Balfe Ambient Music Design: Mel Wesson Music Arranged by Henry Jackman Album Produced by Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard Album Co-Produced by Alex Gibson & Lorne Balfe Soloists: Ryeland Allison, Michael Levine, Heitor Pereira, Satnam Ramgotra & Martin Tillman Synth Programming: Hans Zimmer & Howard Scarr Sequencer Programming: Thomas Broderick, Jacob Shea & Noah Sorota Music Editors: Alex Gibson & Daniel Pinder Assistant Music Editor: Ryan Rubin Technical Score Engineers: Peter "Oso" Snell & Stuart Thomas Technical Assistant: Chris Bacon Digital Instrument Design: Mark Wherry Sample Development: Claudius Brüse, Zain Effendi & Michael Hobe Orchestrators: Bruce Fowler, Jeff Atmajian, Brad Dechter, Elizabeth Finch, Kevin Kaska, Randy Kerber, Suzette Moriarty & Walter Fowler Orchestra Contractor: Isobel Griffiths Assistant Orchestra Contractor: Charlotte Matthews Score Coordinator: Becky Bentham Music Preparation: Mark Graham, JoAnn Kane Music Service, Los Angeles, CA & Dakota Music, London, UK
Score Recorded at Air Lyndhurst, London, UK, Remote Control Productions, Santa Monica, CA & James Newton Howard Studios, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Music Recorded by Geoff Foster Assistant Engineer: Chris Barrett
Music Conducted by Matt Dunkley, Bruce Fowler & Gavin Greenaway Orchestra Leader: Rose Warren-Green
Principal Viola: Peter Late Principal Cello: Anthony Pleeth Principal Bass: Mary Scully Percussion: Frank Ricotti, Gary Kettel & Paul Clarvis Horn: Richard Watkins Trumpet: Maurice Murphy Trombone: Pete Davies Tuba: Owen Slade Synthesizers: Hans Zimmer Piano: James Newton Howard & Simon Chamberlain
Music Production Services: Steven Kofsky Score Mixed by Alan Meyerson Score Mixed at Remote Control Productions, Santa Monica, CA
Additional Recording by Jeff Biggers Assistant Engineers: Katia Lewin & Greg Vines Album Compilation: Daniel Pinder Album Mastered by Louie Teran at Marcussen Mastering Studios Production Coordinator for Hans Zimmer: Andrew Zack Scoring Coordinator for James Newton Howard: Pamela Sollie Studio Manager for Remote Control Productions: Czarina Russell Album Business Affairs: Keith Zajic, Marc Cimino & Lisa Margolis Music Administration for Warner Bros. Pictures: Debi Streeter
Special Thanks: Christopher Nolan, Alan Horn, Jeff Robinov, Kevin McCormick, Greg Silverman, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, & Thomas Tull
Hans Zimmer would like to thank Tiffany Bordenave, Ben Burfield, Ronni Chasen, Sibylle Engel, Will Greig, Andrew Kawczynski, Allie Lee, Christina Mansky, Tom Rann, Jeff Sanderson, Adam Schmidt, Shalini Singh, Chris Strong & Dr. Helge Topka. Special thanks to Suzanne Zimmer & the mini Z's, Zoe Zimmer & Brigitte Zimmer
James Newton Howard would like to thank: Annica Ackerman, Anouk Ackerman, Jackson & Hayden Howard
Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard would like to thank: Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, Lee Smith, Chris Barrett, Becky Bentham, Alison Burton & the staff at Air Studios, Phil Cirocco, Fiona Cruickshank, Ramin Djawadi, Geoff Foster, Doug Frank, Michael Gorfaine, Isobel Griffiths, Urs Heckmann, Richard King, Steven Kofsky, Abbie Lister, Lisa Margolis, & Sam Schwartz
Thanks: Rebecca Aguilar, Carter Armstrong, Ivona Belda, Maria Belli, Joseph Bille, Lor Blackstone, David Blaikley, Candace Carlo, Suzi Civita, Stephanie Comfort, Patti Connolly, Pamela Cresant, Kevin Delanoy, Suzanne Fritz, Diane Gascoigne, Kerrylyn Genetive, Jordan Goldberg, Danny Gould, Eileen Hale, David Hall, Dirk Hebert, Darren Higman, Carla Holt, Jay Hughen, Natalia Jacke, Gita Jackson, Ernie Johnston, Sue Kroll, Melisa Levine, Kris Little, Kathy Malloy, Nigel McCorry, Kari Miazek, Kristin Moffett, Melissa Musson, Joe Palmer, Keren Poznansky, Xavier Ramos, Kari Rohr, Susan Shapiro, Niki Sherrod, Jennifer Sink, Jodi Tack, Shane Thompson, Bobby Thornburg, Michele Wilcox & James Wood
Release date : 07/15/2008
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dude, your an idiot! van gogh never had any fans, he only sold one painting his entire life.. And by Beethovens 9th symphony he was completely deaf so he wouldnt hear anyone anyways... Why don't read a book once in a while!!
...joker theme, by the way, works great in the movie!
me: "I want to hear this "real theme" that HZ and JNH had composed for this film and it either didn't make it on the album or wasn't used at all."
Me, the theme you're looking for, i.e. the Batman heroic theme is heard in Track 8: "Like a Dog Chasing Cars", in Track 12: "Introduce a Little Anarchy" and Track 14: "A Dark Knight". Listen to those three tracks one after another and you'll notice it. BTW, the theme is outstanding!
A Sentient Being, thanks for the info. After listening to those tracks a couple of times, the theme really stood out. The more I listen to it, the more this album is becoming my favorite HZ album, even though he didn't compose all of the pieces solely.
I love what i've heard of the extracts here but, the i'm not a hero track that i've listened to a few times elsewhere in links from this site. is not done justice here. I think it's the one track i really want to hear more of. I can see where zimmer has held back on going all out on a few of tracks, almost like someone has told him, now Mr ZImmer i like your work, i like it a lot, but the things is with this Batman movie, i don't wan't it going all Armageddon on me!! If you know what i mean!! We want people leaving the theatre thinking Batman kicks ass! not Batman saves the day again, isn't he great!!
The score is rather masterfull, the score captures that inner psycological fued that is seething beneath Bruce Wayne and the city of Gotham. As far as being a bombastic piece that is just fun to listen to it just won't be most people's cup of tea. For those seeking an emotional exploration of your deeper and much darker inner self then this score sounds about right. The score may not stand out for now, but once the movie has been seen I think people will associate the images with the music and thus improve the candor of the "batman" music schema. As the films evolve and the characters in them then the music will follow (as long as it's the same two composers) and enhance the experience. It does appear that Hans Zimmer has been using the same musical elements in his more recent scores, but that just means that soon these ideas will be mastered, whereas if he kept trying to "reinvent" either the musical genre or his own compositional style then we would continually be intrigued but unfulfilled. It still sounds like people are whining because there is no "batman theme" like elfmans...I like this better, my brain gets to do more of it's own work.
Well, being a Batman fan since childhood, I feel it fits the tone of the film perfectly and though it may not be as good a listening experience as, say, Elfman's Batman scores (what can you expect if Nolan doesn't WANT it to have a big theme?) but I still get goosebumps listening to parts of it. "Why So Serious", in my very humble opinion, fits the Joker's character perfectly! And "Like a Dog Chasing Cars" is probably one of the best action tracks of the year. The Harvey Dent track is also gorgeous.
Okay, lets get this straight. Zimmer's work is by no means boring. He is my favorite composer of all time and I am a huge collector of anything he has a part of. And I don't want an Elfman score for these Batman films. Zimmer/Howard's work fits perfectly in these films and enhances the experience when watching. I guess I'm just greedy, but I want to hear this "real theme" that HZ and JNH had composed for this film and it either didn't make it on the album or wasn't used at all. This is a fantastic score, much better than the first. Like A Dog Chasing Cars is one of the best action pieces ever written. Zimmer's work is amazing and James Newton Howard is fastly becoming one of my favorite composers. Okay, maybe that clears things up.
I'm probably the last person on this board to listen to this one. To me, The Dark Knight is an example of a good score written for the film and not for album. It functions well in its purpose as it emphasizes the film's dark tones but standing alone, it does not make for a memorable listening experience. At least not for me.
THE DARK KNIGHT OST is great. Love all the themes, all the suites, and all the sweeping scores. A true treasure for any fan of orchestrated original soundtrack music.
Let me say this. It met my expectations, but did not surpass them. If Christopher Nolan desides to do a third Batman film and he signs both Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard for the score, lets hope they finally use the "theme" that was almost used on this film. Great album, still waiting for that 10/10 album.
I hav to agree with Me and Sylvos. Im sure the score is gonna sound great in the film, especially in IMAX, but it isnt enough to stand on its own. And we were promised this full, magnificent theme and all we got are the same two notes as the last album (which Jablonsky used in the Island) the Harvey Dent theme is well done, props to JNH, but the album is already sittin on my shelf... 3 out of 5!
Just echoing ronin's question - does anyone know the difference between the standard and limited edition releases yet? Is it just the jewel case vs. digipak, or is there gonna be some extra music? Warner's site doesn't have any extra info yet...
01 - batman 02 - legend 03 - are you ready to begin 04 - wayne empire 05 - folletto!...folletto! (from opera mefistofele) 06 - the wayne tragedy & training 07 - revenge 08 - facing fear 09 - bat cave 10 - return of bruce wayne 11 - fox department 12 - base jump 13 - first attack 14 - capture 15 - scarecrow 16 - batsuit 17 - escape 18 - chase 19 - unmasked
CD//2
01 - ...all that's left 02 - immortal 03 - invasion 04 - attack on gotham 05 - train fight 06 - aftermath 07 - final 08 - end credits 09 - medley suite 10 - lasiurus (bonus track) 11 - barbastella (album edit) 12 - macrotus (album edit) 13 - eptesicus (album edit) 14 - preparation 15 - augustus (trailer music #1) 16 - monk with bell (trailer music #2) 17 - nightwatcher (veigar music from the trailer) 18 - backend (veigar music from the TV spot)
This one seems to be the most complete version Ive come across. It must be out there somewhere. Only thing is the sites I found this on only had the artwork/track listing etc
DISC I
01 OPENING TITLE/YOUNG BRUCE 02 MEETING WITH DUCARD 03 TRAVELLING THE WORLD 04 LEAGUE OF SHADOWS 05 GOTHAM 06 FATEFUL NIGHT 07 TRAINING 08 YOUR ANGER GIVES YOU GREAT POWER 09 NOT HOME FOR LONG 10 VENGEANCE PT1 11 VENGEANCE PT II 12 WE DON’T NEED TO SEE THIS 13 THIS CITY IS ROTTING 14 SHAME 15 CONFRONTATION WITH FALCONE 16 TRAVELS 17 THE HEIST 18 WHAT IS NECESSARY 19 COURT 20 BRUCE SEES RACHEL 21 THE CAVE PT1 22 WAYNE ENTERPRISES 23 MEETING WITH LUCIOUS FOX 24 THE CAVE PT II/COSTUME MONTAGE PT I/MEETING WITH GORDON 25 BRUCE SPIES FALCONE/COSTUME MONTAGE PT II 26 “WHERE ARE YOU?” 27 “I’M BATMAN” 28 ATTACK ON RACHEL/FALCONE ARRESTED
DISC II
01 THEFT ON WAYNE ENTERPRISES 02 IT’S WHAT YOU DO THAT DEFINES YOU 03 CRANE & FALCONE 04 ON THE ROOF 05 ONE MORE CONTAINER/THE KID 06 LIGHTEN UP (FILM VERSION) 07 LIGHTEN UP (ALBUM VERSION) 08 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRUCE 09 BATMAN PREPARES 10 YOU’RE FIRED 11 RACHEL & CRANE/ESCAPE 12 ASYLUM FIGHT 13 POLICE 14 BACKUP 15 THE CHASE 16 RACHEL IN THE CAVE 17 RA’S AL GHUL AT THE PARTY 18 CONFRONATION WITH RA’S AL GHUL 19 ALFRED SAVES VRUCE 20 YOU STILL HAVEN’T GIVEN UP ON ME? 21 VAPORISATION 22 BATMAN JOINS NARROWS 23 A NARROWS RESCUE 24 TRAIN FIGHT 25 IT’S OVER 26 REBUILDING 27 END CREDITS
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