This soundtrack won the Academy Award for best Score the year it came out, and it deserved it in my opinion. The music stands out in a way few soundtracks do, these days. Michael Giacchino spins and pulls the film's simple and haunting central melody every way he can. I'd say he captured the mood of the story perfectly, but that's probably not giving him enough credit because, of course, he created the film's mood as much as the screenwriters and the animators.It's a wonderful recording. My only reservation with this CD is that it was apparently burned on demand, rather than pressed in mass quantities the way most CDs are. I wonder if it will hold up (pardon the pun) over the years? I'm not sure, but I think that burned CDs tend to have a shorter life than disks stamped from a master.Disney had to be prodded to put this soundtrack out as a CD, but to their credit, when they were finally shamed into it (probably by the Oscar win) they did it up right. It comes with a lavish booklet.All of which makes it very strange that they seem to have done their best to bury the composer and conductor's name. The word's "Music by Michael Giacchino" appear in about five-point type at the very bottom of the CD cover. The label on the disk itself is no better. The man is probably one of the most sought-after composers in film today, and he won an Oscar for this soundtrack. Give him a little credit!Actually, that's a poor choice of words. The whole problem is that they gave him 'a little credit.'