Product details: - Product group: Music
- Edition: Audio CD
- Publisher: Milan Records
- Format: Soundtrack
- Release Date: 1998-06-02
- Number of discs: 1
- Tracks:
- Disc 1
- Trutalk - Burkhard Dallwitz
- It's A Life - Burkhard Dallwitz
- Aquaphobia - Burkhard Dallwitz
- Dreaming of Fiji
- Flashback - Burkhard Dallwitz
- Anthem-Part 2 (From Powaqqatsi) - Phillip Glass
- The Beginning (From Anima Mundi) - Phillip Glass
- 2nd Movt from Pno Con No. 1 in e, Op.11: Romance-Larghetto - Artur Rubinstein
- Drive - Burkhard Dallwitz
- Underground - Burkhard Dallwitz
- Do Something! - Burkhard Dallwitz
- Living Waters (From Anima Mundi) - Phillip Glass
- Reunion - Burkhard Dallwitz
- Truman Sleeps - Phillip Glass
- Truman Sets Sail - Burkhard Dallwitz
- Underground/Storm - Burkhard Dallwitz
- Raising The Sail - Phillip Glass
- Father Kolbe's Preaching - PO National De Pologne
- Opening (From Mishima) - Phillip Glass
- A New Life - Burkhard Dallwitz
- Twentieth Century Boy - The Big Six
- Studio: Milan Records
- Manufacturer: Milan Records
- Package Dimensions: 5.55 x 74 x 75 inches
Comparisons to Forrest Gump have saddled The Truman Show: the nebulously cheerful protagonist, the Tupperware set design, the Big Picture conceit. But those parallels dissolve when the soundtrack album commences. This is no brand-inducing pop-song nostalgia trip; it's an authentic document of The Truman Show's musical imperative, a mix of percolating minimalism and sweeping orchestrations that imbue the film with its atmosphere of apocrypha and fable. Composers Burkhard Dallwitz and Philip Glass share the responsibility. Dallwitz gets the opening theme; Glass, the anthems (borrowed from previous scores) and much of the finale. One highlight is "Truman Sleeps," Glass's solo-piano on-screen cameo. The eccentric closing track, a rockabilly remake of T. Rex's "Twentieth Century Boy," couldn't be more true to director Peter Weir's populist vision. --Marc WeidenbaumCustomer reviews:  Recycled Glass, 2006-10-27
This is another cd with Philip Glass songs being used from other full length Glass recordings. There are only a couple new songs, and they are short and rather similar sounding to other Glass music. Philip Glass is being recycled too much!
 Good music with smatterings of great music, 2006-09-29
The score for the Truman show features a few wonderful pieces of music, including some classical things, and there are quite a few tracks from the album that are great stand-alone tracks. When the album is viewed as a whole, though, the tracks don't really seem to go together very well. Perhaps that it because so many of them are written by different people. The music is good, and some of it is much better than good, but the lack of coherency in this score keeps me from giving it a full 5 stars
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