Sabrina


A&M Records (00731454045629)
Movie | Released: 1995 | Film release: 1995 | Format: CD
 

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# Track Artist/Composer Duration
1.Theme from Sabrina4:30
2.MoonlightSting5:20
3.Linus' New Life2:45
4.Growing up in Paris3:02
5.(In the) Moonlight2:59
6.Sabrina Remembers - La Vie En rose1:42
7.Sabrina Comes Home4:14
8.Nantucket Visit2:31
9.The Party Sequence (Song Medley)10:53
10.Sabrina and Linus Date2:40
11.How Can I Remember?Michael Dees2:50
12.Sabrina's Return to Paris2:22
13.Theme from Sabrina (Reprise)5:23
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Sabrina - 06/10 - Review of Tom Daish, submitted at
This is about as far from the John Williams style as you can get. Perhaps only older readers will recall music of this type from his pre-Star Wars days. The only thing I can actually think that sounds even remotely like Sabrina is The Towering Inferno romantic sections, which I honestly thought were really naff. I don't consider this score to be naff and I realise that it won't be to everyone's liking, but it makes for extremely pleasant background music, nothing too taxing, just a gentle listen with romantic, jazz-influenced cues intermingled with some songs and song instrumentals.

The Theme from Sabrina starts out as a piano solo until the orchestra all join in with the piano weaving in and out of the orchestral textures beautifully. This has been arranged as a solo violin version that Williams performs at concerts and on compilations, but I think I prefer the original. Snippets of different parts of the theme appear in the instrumental cues from time to time and provide the perfect atmosphere for the slightly whimsical tale that the film tells. Many of the cues are rather interchangeable I would suggest, since they all have a similar mood about them. Nantucket Visit does introduce some more sprightly, faintly comedic music to liven the mood, but not spoil the overall atmosphere.

The songs, Moonlight and How Can I Remember aren't exactly staggering and have a very old fashioned air about them. Williams' songs in his other scores (such as Somewhere in My Memory from Home Alone and When You're Alone from Hook) tend to be rather sentimental, whereas these are rather laid-back and just float along and would be ideal for performing in a cocktail bar, but they aren't exactly the kind of hit songs that James Horner or the like tend to produce (My Heart Will Go On and the like). The Party Sequence consists of instrumental renditions of songs by various other artists and I think just provide source music for the, well, party sequence.

Those who enjoyed his score from Stanley & Iris and The Accidental Tourist will probably enjoy Sabrina, even if this is more rooted in old fashioned Hollywood romance than the other two. Not a classic Williams score by any means, but certainly pleasant enough listening for 50 minutes.

Other releases of Sabrina (1995):

TributeTo John Williams: An 80th Birthday Tribute, A (2012)
Sabrina (2023)


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