The album is certainly front loaded with quality; Dona Ana from Don Juan de Marco is even better than Everything I Do and the gentle strings and piano of You're the One from Circle of Friends is a delight. Despite, as it were, sinking without trace, Kamen provides a grave theme for Crusoe with a prominent part for solo 'cello. It welcomes comparison with Alan Silvestri's theme for the more recent Cast Away, but Kamen's is perhaps the finer in its sense of melancholy desolation. It's unfortunate that Highlander is almost entirely associated with Queen's songs (no offense to Queen who were a superb rock group) as Kamen's score became rather subservient to the rock. However, Kamen still manages to introduce his decent main theme, spine tingling when the orchestra takes full flight.
The ensuing cues are less flashy, less engaging or both. The Next Man is not a film I've heard of and while Magic City is a nice enough, low key piano led track, it's not exactly compilation material. I recall finding The Winter Guest extremely dull, although the main theme is rather good (and borrowed from Kamen's Saxophone Concerto) and made even more enjoyable by Kamen's own rendition of it on horn. This is one case where the orchestration has been increased appropriately and is more interesting than the piano based original. The Die Hard films are represented by one pretty anonymous cue in Tagaki Dues while Nuclear Train from Edge of Darkness includes some edgy strings and an electric guitar that recalls his concerto for the instrument in tone, if not in quality.
Rather curiously, the album concludes with Brazil from the film of the same name, performed by the ever reliable Kate Bush and composed by the distinctly not Michael Kamen, Ary Baroso. It's a good songs, but surely another cue by Kamen could have been included instead, especially given the disc's relative brevity. Even at the time of the album's recording, some good material is omitted - The Three Musketeers, Licence to Kill, even some more light hearted entries such as The Adventures of Baron Munchausen or 101 Dalmations and maybe even, Danny Elfman style, he could have included his terrific theme for the animated X-Men series. Still, I think Kamen was attempting to take his duties seriously and so only more adult entries are included, but the performances are good and the track by track liner notes interesting.
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Total Time ~ 48:43