4/5 I hate the word awesome
  by Robert Guttke (Minneapolis, Minnesota USA)
It's annoying and never used correctly and acts as a summary word to indicate something impresive. The children of today should learn their English. That said, this is an IMPRESSIVE stand alone score... very Hans Zimmer and not worth the effort to compare it to the effort for the previous film (though its seems LESS religious/mysterioso). I just wish some day Zimmer would use a chorus where we can understand what they are singing. THE WORDS would be nice. In the case of his score for King Arthur the chorus was singing a single vowel: "A" throughout. And of course I won't bother to see the film since many years ago when the book first came out I tossed it across the room, the ending was so ridiculous. But the cover of the book back then was very clever in its visual creation of the title reading the same as a reflected image- the most I can say about the book.

5/5 Wonderful to just listen to
  by Maureen Ahearn (Portland, OR)
I first heard this on a local radio program, and have not seen the movie. It's marvelous music in and of itself, I listen to it often. And you can't miss with Joshua Bell's playing.

3/5 Once a fan of Hans Zimmer, always a fan of Hans Zimmer.
  by Jean-rené Leroux
I think we can easily make two categories of film music fans: those who admire Hans Zimmer and those who accuse him of destroying the film music industry. In the history of film scores, there is a "before" Hans Zimmer and there is also an "after" Hans Zimmer. He litteraly changed the face of film music for ever. His sound is his. Like the funny horror themes of Danny Elfman, the melodic waltz of Patrick Doyle or the funny suburbian sounds of Thomas Newman, you hear the powerful and sad-heroic synths of Mr. Zimmer and you know it's him. In fact, he was copied so much that he had to starts his own school of film music just to teach others how to immate him correctly (Harry Gregson-Williams, Klaus Badelt, John Powell, Nick Glennie-Smith, Ramin Djawadi, Trevor Rabin (no matter what he thinks...))! Now, you have little clones of Hans Zimmer pouring out of "Remote Control / media Venture", the school of Mr. Zimmer. Some people hate it for it makes almost all movies sound the same. Some others absolutly love it. After all, it's hard to hear "Lion King", "Crimson Tide", "The Rock", "Pirates Of The Caribbean","The Da Vinci Code" and other "Gladiator" and not catch yourself humming the themes and wanting to jump on the screen in order to fight with the heroes. So if others clones want to immitate him ("Transformers", "Iron Man", "Chronicles Of Narnia"...), than fine, i guess. The More the better (or is it?). But in the meanwhile, it keeps Alan Silvestri from scoring "Pirates Of The Caribbean", for example. And that's the down side even if the score of "Pirates" was fun.

Anyhow, "Angels & Demons" is not as powerful as its predecessor "The Da Vinci Code" but it's Hans Zimmer. And i don't think you can really put one of his scores down. You can criticize the originality, the sound, the clones out there. But taken apart, this score is still beautiful and a piece like "Science & Religion" has got to make you want to pay your respects to the Teacher's talent. For me, Hans Zimmer is the best and i will follow him no matter where he goes musically cause he's the true master behind his school. Not his students and clones. He's able to innovate, to change directions, to come up with something new and he's also capable of immitating his own style. But even if he does that, who will be angry to hear variations of "Chevaliers de SangReal"? Will you be mad if he comes up with a theme that sounds like "Roll Tide" or "Now We're Free", "Like A Dog Chasing Cars" or "Drink Up Me hearties"?

If you do, well you must be one hard person to please.

5/5 Angels and Demons Soundtrack
  by Preemie (Washington, DC United States)
I love it. This is a classical. You love violins, you will love this CD.

5/5 Angels & Demons Soundtrack Review
  by D. S. Dunmire (Macon, Ga USA)
This is an awesome CD! I love it! It is dynamic, exciting, beautiful, thrilling. It stands on its own and you can almost forge that it is a soundtrack. Plus, the iTunes Visualizer seems to be made for this music; the 'spheres' and 'stars' Visualizer explodes with activity when reacting to the music.