Michael Collins (soundtrack)
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Elliot Goldenthal
's score for Michael Collins
was nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Original Dramatic Score".
Sinéad O'Connor
and the late Irish
tenor
Frank Patterson
both contributed to the soundtrack.
Elliot Goldenthal
Elliot Goldenthal is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a student of Aaron Copland and John Corigliano, and is best known for his distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways...
's score for Michael Collins
Michael Collins (film)
Michael Collins is a 1996 historical biopic written and directed by Neil Jordan and starring Liam Neeson as General Michael Collins, the Irish patriot and revolutionary who died in the Irish Civil War. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival....
was nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Original Dramatic Score".
Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....
and the late Irish
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
Frank Patterson
Frank Patterson
Frank Patterson was an internationally renowned Irish tenor following in the tradition of singers such as Count John McCormack and Josef Locke. He was known as "Ireland's Golden Tenor".- Early life :...
both contributed to the soundtrack.
Track listing
- "Easter Rebellion" (3:15) - Perf. by Sinéad O'Connor
- "Fire and Arms" (1:40)
- "Train Station Farewell" (1:55)
- "Winter Raid" (2:37)
- "Elegy for a Sunday" (3:07)
- "Football Match" (1:49)
- "On Cats Feet" (4:27)
- "Defiance and Arrest" (1:49)
- "Train to Granard" (1:30)
- "Boland Returns (Kitty's Waltz)" (1:18)
- "His Majesty's Finest" (2:11)
- "Boland's Death" (1:38)
- "Home to Cork" (1:19)
- "Civil War" (2:10) - Perf. by Sinéad O'Connor
- "Collins' Proposal" (1:25)
- "An Anthem Deferred" (1:44)
- "She Moved Through the FairShe Moved Through the Fair"She Moved Through the Fair" is a traditional Irish folk song, existing in a number of versions and which has been recorded many times.-Origins:...
" (4:55) - Perf. by Sinéad O'Connor - "Funeral/Coda" (4:32)
- "MacushlaMacushlaMacushla is an Irish song copyrighted circa 1910 with music by Dermot MacMurrough and lyrics by Josephine V. Rowe. The title is a transliteration of the Irish mo chuisle meaning "my pulse" as used in the phrase a chuisle mo chroí meaning "darling" or "sweetheart".It was used in the end credits of...
" (3'29) - Perf. by Frank Patterson
Crew/Credit
- Music Composed by Elliot GoldenthalElliot GoldenthalElliot Goldenthal is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a student of Aaron Copland and John Corigliano, and is best known for his distinctive style and ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and inventive ways...
(except 1,14,17 & 19) - Music Produced by Matthias Gohl
- Orchestrated by Robert Elhai and Elliot Goldenthal
- Conducted by Jonathan Sheffer
- Recorded and Mixed by Joel Iwataki and Steve McLaughlin
- Electronic Music Produced by Richard Martinez
- Choir Conducted by Rick Cordova