Wonderful Sophisticated Original Score

Hans Zimmer is my favorite score composer. I find that when I first listen to a new score of his I anticipate it being like his other scores that are favorites of mine. Usually I'm pleasantly surprised by his forays into new styles. This was certainly the case with The Da Vinci Code. If I were to compare this score to others of his I would say it's closest to Thin Red Line, Hannibal, and Batman Begins.

Zimmer's most mature and complex score ever.Thanks Hans!!

I'm fan of Zimmer's scores since 1992 (my favourite composer with Jerry Goldsmith).I have all his scores and I will go to Madrid to see him.

Zimmer's Musical Decoding of "The Da Vinci Code"

We will not know for some ten days whether Hans Zimmer's score for Ron Howard's much atticipated film version of Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" will work for the film, but it seems a good fit. Indeed, one might have wished to have this music as background for reading or re-reading the controversial novel. An early review of the score seemed disappointed, but this is a solid piece that clearly stands well as a soundtrack album, and it may well be a musical cipher to the code. Yes, there is an abundunce of "somber strings," ominous even menacing undertones and mystery, "compelling choir," and dramatic currents that abound. It is hardly quiet, save where it needs be, and perhaps lacks a thematic zinger (though a typical version of a Zimmer theme emerges late in the score rising to a crescendo in "Chevlaliers de Sangreal"), but it is quite effective, and indeed quite beautiful in places. This is the kind of score that usually works well on the screen but often does not translate into a good listen at home in the den. Zimmer has woven his strings, undertones, bells, piano, percussion, currents and crosscurrents, and his choral variations into an impressive score. Over the next few days this writer fully intends to read the novel again (not for enlightenment, but for fun) and this recording is the perfect companion for it, and it will almost surely work with Howard's film adaptation. A very good recording, and nicely packaged by Decca.