Unlike Back To Titanic, this sequel album tries to tell a complete story, drawing in large amounts of external material "to keep the spirit of William Wallace ... alive, and to further enhance your listening pleasure". That actually means five tracks of traditional bagpipe music (totalling 17 minutes of the running time), that have nothing to do with the film. There are also numerous cuts ...
The past cross-fertilises with the present on In Darkness Let Me Dwell, and the result is music-making of profound beauty. Tenor John Potter, a core member of the Hilliard Ensemble, here sets out to "reclaim" for today's audience the music of John Dowland. Even considering the Elizabethan penchant for melancholy, the saturnine Dowland stands out as an artist preoccupied with death and ...
As if to accentuate their fundamental hugeness, Metallica (arguably the most consistently innovative metal band of the 80s and 90s) stretched yet further into the arena of the titanic with this immense cohesion of the orchestral and the truly seismic. Recorded live at California's Berkeley Community Theatre with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under the direction of composer and arranger ...