Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Varese Sarabande ****

Starting 2011 with tent pole movies Super 8and Cars 2, composer Michael Giacchino finishes the year on a high note with this, his second score for the Tom Cruise franchise. His new score recalls his first collaboration with director Brad Bird on The Incredibles,as he weaves a deft line between pastiche and homage to create a work of remarkable originality, which drives like a high-octane action score but shifts dramatic register and changes thematic direction with ease and style. Mixing elegant themes and sensuous rhythms (bongos galore) with dynamic orchestration (jittery strings and staccato brass) and fusion (Russian choral, Bollywood and a little old school Bond), Ghost Protocolexudes energy, wit, and heart. See colosseum.de

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