Academy Award-winning composer Vangelis fills Oliver Stone's epic rendering of the story of Alexander with such victorious bombast, that it may as well be a Jerry Bruckheimer production.
What begins as a Blade Runner-esque wash of atmospheric, keyboard-driven subtlety quickly deteriorates into a thick wall of stock heroic motifs, swelling brass, and thunderous percussion.
Alexander's main theme is like a testosterone-charged update of Chariots of Fire; it's stirring in an over-the-top, destined-to-achieve-cult-status kind of way, but leaves the listener far too exhausted to warrant repeated listens.
Vangelis goes the Hans Zimmer Gladiator route on the soundtrack's quieter moments, occasionally showing hints of the quiet grandeur he achieved on 1992's 1492: Conquest of Paradise, but Alexander is buried beneath far too many musical bodies to be heard as anything but future background music for Michael Bay trailers.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IntroductionVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 01:31 | 3 MB | 0 MB |
| 2 | Young AlexanderVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 01:35 | 3 MB | 0 MB |
| 3 | TitansVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 03:59 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 4 | The Drums of GaugamelaVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 05:19 | 12 MB | 0 MB |
| 5 | One Morning At PellaVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 02:10 | 4 MB | 0 MB |
| 6 | Roxane's DanceVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 03:24 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 7 | Eastern PathVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 02:58 | 6 MB | 0 MB |
| 8 | Gardens of DelightVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 05:23 | 12 MB | 0 MB |
| 9 | Roxane's VeilVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 04:40 | 10 MB | 0 MB |
| 10 | Bagoas' DanceVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 02:28 | 5 MB | 0 MB |
| 11 | The ChargeVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 01:40 | 3 MB | 0 MB |
| 12 | PreparationVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 01:41 | 3 MB | 0 MB |
| 13 | Across the MountainsVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 04:12 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 14 | ChantVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 01:38 | 3 MB | 0 MB |
| 15 | ImmortalityVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 03:18 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 16 | Dream of BabylonVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 02:40 | 6 MB | 0 MB |
| 17 | Eternal AlexanderVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 04:37 | 10 MB | 0 MB |
| 18 | Tender MemoriesVangelis | Vangelis | Play | 02:58 | 6 MB | 0 MB |
| 56 mins | 129 MB | |||||
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| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Detchapat Arttasan | Art Direction, Design |
| 2 | Maria Bildea | Harp |
| 3 | Stéphane Briand | Engineer |
| 4 | Pierre Brien | Assistant Engineer |
| 5 | Christophe Briquet | Orchestra Contractor |
| 6 | Jaap Buitendijk | Photography |
| 7 | Budd Carr | Music Supervisor, Supervisor |
| 8 | Philippe Colonna | Engineer, Mixing |
| 9 | Epirus Polyphonic Ensemble | Vocal Ensemble |
| 10 | Epris Polyphonic Ensemble | Vocals |
| 11 | Chantal Feghali | Production Consultant |
| 12 | Vic Fraser | Copyist |
| 13 | Vahan Galstian | Duduk |
| 14 | Wahan Galstian | Duduk |
| 15 | Irina Valentinova Karpouchina | Transcription, Vocals |
| 16 | Christina Kline | Coordination, Music Coordinator |
| 17 | Dominique Lemonnier | Violin |
| 18 | Konstantinos Paliatsaras | Vocals |
| 19 | Konstantinos Paloatsaras | Vocals |
| 20 | Nic Raine | Conductor, Orchestration |
| 21 | Frédérick Rousseau | Assistant Producer, Engineer |
| 22 | Joel Sill | Executive, Music Executive |
| 23 | Roxanne Slimak | Art Direction, Design |
| 24 | Alexane Alves De Souza | Assistant Contractor |
| 25 | Irina Valentinova-Karpouchina | Vocals |
| 26 | Vanessa-Mae | Violin |
| 27 | Vangelis | Arranger, Audio Production, Composer, Engineer, Primary Artist, Producer, Programming |
| 28 | Stathis Zalidis | Photography |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |