Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

1	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score~Fog / Hollywood Studio Symphony 2:16
2	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score~The / Hollywood Studio Symphony 1:52
3	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score~The / Hollywood Studio Symphony 2:16
4	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score~Will / Hollywood Studio Symphony 2:08
5	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score~Swor / Hollywood Studio Symphony 3:15
6	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score~Walk / Hollywood Studio Symphony 1:58
7	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score~Barb / Hollywood Studio Symphony 4:06
8	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score~Bloo / Hollywood Studio Symphony 3:32
9	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score~Moon / Hollywood Studio Symphony 2:08
10	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score~To T / Hollywood Studio Symphony 3:30
11	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score~Skul / Hollywood Studio Symphony 3:23
12	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score~Boot / Hollywood Studio Symphony 2:38
13	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score~Unde / Hollywood Studio Symphony 4:12
14	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score~One / Hollywood Studio Symphony 4:46
15	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, film score~He's / Hollywood Studio Symphony 1:30

Barnes & Noble

Directed by Gore Verbinski (The Ring, The Mexican), Pirates of the Caribbean -- The Curse of The Black Pearl parlays the action and romance of Disney's theme park attraction to the big screen, with a touch of the supernatural thrown in for good measure. Composers Klaus Badelt (The Recruit) and Hans Zimmer (The Lion King), who have collaborated on the scores for Gladiator and Hannibal, join forces once again on Pirates, with the Academy Award–winning Zimmer serving as producer. The disc opens with a few bars of a deceptively merry melody played on a solo cello. Then, like a sudden plunge into the deep, pulsating horns and violins usher in a darker passage. "The Medallion Calls" follows, again with a brief, romantic orchestral introduction to what becomes a sweeping section with a wordless male chorus, brass, and taut strings conveying a sense of adventure and excitement that reaches an ominous climax. It's a melody that recurs throughout the score, with each variation signalling dark and dangerous doings. In a final burst of fireworks, "He's a Pirate" serves as an orchestral coda to this rousing salute to those tales of derring-do that can, at least in dreams, make pirates of us all. Andrew Velez

All Music Guide

The soundtrack for Pirates of the Caribbean was originally composed by Alan Silvestri, who left the project prior to the film's release. Credited to Klaus Badelt, a protégé of Hans Zimmer, it was hastily assembled at the last minute, resulting in a paint-by-numbers exercise in big studio fluff that required the work of several unnamed composers. Badelt and his mysterious co-conspirators have created a schizophrenic pastiche of Hollywood excess -- much like the film itself -- disguised as a traditional score. The swashbuckling is propelled by an instantly unmemorable -- albeit rousing -- motif that contains bits of every action score in existence. "Fog Bound" starts off with a sprightly Celtic flair before dissolving into a generic Jerry Bruckheimer wash of keyboard strings and synthetic flute patches. This is the case for much of the record, resulting in inspired flashes of creativity here and there. Reverend Lee Power