- Prologue 1915-1923
- The Whammer Strikes Out
- The Old Farm 1939
- The Majors: The Mind Is A Strange Thing
- Knock The Cover Off The Ball
- Memo
- The Natural
- Wrigley Field
- Iris And Roy
- Winning
- A Father Makes A Difference
- Penthouse Party
- The Final Game
- The End Title
発売日:1989年2月10日(金)
レーベル:Warner Bros / Wea
レビュー (Amazon)Randy Newman's score for director Barry Levinson's 1984 adaptation of writer Bernard Malamud's baseball fable remains, like star Robert Redford's turn as the film's Roy Hobbs, somewhat mystic and decidedly larger than life. Newman's music flawlessly fuses overwrought Wagnerian grandeur with the more plaintive strains of Aaron Copland, arguably forming one of the film's most crucial narrative elements in the bargain. Perhaps because it's a score with a scale so broad and bold--the antithesis of Newman-the-songwriter's often terse, internalized musical monologues--the composer himself has since expressed reservations about the potent cues he's since dubbed "heromusik." Nonetheless,
The Natural remains an impressive tribute to Newman's musical professionalism, even if his masterful craftsmanship produced something he's always seemed a bit wary of: a bona fide crowd pleaser.
--Jerry McCulley