I was cleaning my cinema's IMAX room, and didn't really pay attention at first. I got to the middle of the room and stopped to listen, it was an amazing thing really, all alone there with my little broom.
I remember I stayed very long in the room for no real reason but wasn't paying attention to the credit scene. Then, as i was heading out I heard the part with Catwoman's soundtrack and I turned around surprised and remained there for the rest of the piece. I love it, im so glad i stayed after the movie ended.
I'm astonished that no one has asked about the pianist, who deserves a great deal of the credit for the impact of the piece. She is my Grammy Award-winning UCLA colleague Gloria Cheng-who has spent much of her career playing the likes of Boulez, Stockhausen, Adams, and Lutoslawski. She creates a sense of suspense and heartbreak that requires an artist of overwhelming emotional honesty. A separate shout out goes to the piano technician and audio engineers, who create a deep, resonant sound field that envelops us as we listen.
I just assumed it was Michael Giacchino himself playing…thanks for correcting my assumption and letting us all know! She deserves the recognition for sure! Made me cry my first time listening to this masterpiece (a word I rarely use and also one that when I DO actually use, I never do so lightly…) Hats off to her and the rest of the team for this gloriously incredible feat and wonderfully phenomenal performance!!! 🥂 👏🏼 🦇 🥷 🖤 👌🏼
This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve heard in years. I’ve been a fan of Michael Giacchino since his work on LOST, and this might be his masterpiece.
As a Pianist I can't describe how excited I am that this piece exists. As if a (top tier) film composer wrote a piano sonata for a batman film, which in itself is a masterpiece, and also btw it actually sounds like a contemporary sonata that could stand on its own.. its stuff like this and what composers like Joe Hisaishi do that makes me excited about solo piano in film music
For me, even as a 6 year old child. Batman was never an epic superhero and I’ve never perceived him as that. He’s a true Shakespearean tragic character. Kevin Conroy has been quoted himself saying that his story is really a retelling of the Hamlet story. The fact that Giacchino is taking notes from Shirley Walker in the sense that her themes were always so operatic but very mysterious and very sad and even romantic and theatrical. Everything the Batman should be. Incredible score.
@@naFarto I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s “bad” Nolan still stayed true to the heart of the character and Nolan’s style as a filmmaker is very epic in scale and grounded in story and character so by that standpoint I really loved Nolan’s take. Is it the version that is the most comic accurate? No. But it is still a very unique vision that stayed true to what makes the character great
You can have your own take on Batman but he's not just a tragic hero, for most of his stories he has been an adventurer, in some he was almost like James Bond, and for decades he was a very light-hearted character. If you only watched the movies and read the famous graphic novels of course you're gonna think he's a dark troubled character but for most of his stories he's not that tragic, try reading the Grant Morrison run he tried to condense every version of Batman into one
it made me really emotional seeing him ride with Selina as they parted ways and drove off in different life directions. sometimes the ones who really understand us aren't always right for us. This music really added beauty to the multitude & complexity of Bruce/Batman and Selina/Catwoman
Glad to see that sequence getting more love. The way they rode amongst tombstones and even playfully raced a little, just to silently sit and go their separate ways. Sometimes, that’s all you get with someone. The Batman is a really well made film.
As a worker at a movie theater, I always try my best to get to the theater showing Batman so I can sit through the credits, close my eyes and listen to this masterpiece and just immerse myself whenever I can. Every time I hear this sonata it really makes me want to learn piano.
This is a very beautiful tragic piece. It hits harder for me though. At my piano recital there was a boy who went up first to play, he was only sixteen. And beautifully played this piece, so much emotion he put out. The entire church was in shock just admiring his talent and I was amazed. I can’t explain how amazing he was, so young and it felt so intense and deep. Once the recital ended, I looked around the church, trying to find him so I could thank him for his breath taking performance. He left though, as I could not find him. Two months later my piano teacher has to cancel, as she just found out one of her students died of suicide. I was saddened, but it was not said what student it was. At our most recent recital I found out it was the kid who played this song. I will forever be upset that I never got to tell him how much I loved his performance. I hate knowing that he’s not alive anymore, as I won’t be able to listen to him play ever again. I didn’t even know him personally but I was hit deeply by it. I don’t want to know what his parents friends and family felt about this. I now listen to this piece a lot, in memory of him. Rest in piece.
This score somehow perfectly captures the entirety of Batinson's character, from the lows to the highs, the bombastic aggression and the quiet compassion. Absolute perfection.
Love the rendition of Catwoman’s theme starting 3:08. Feels like a duet piece and perfectly embodies the relationship between Bruce/Selina in the movie. Broken people trying to find identity.
This is the most classical sounding piece of movie music I’ve heard in a long long time. It’s so harmonically interesting, it’s a bit indulgent in romantic themes, but I listened to it the same way I listen to any sonata or concerto. I sat through the credits for this piece.
This whole piece is giving me vibes of all of Batman’s history. From the 30s to today, from the animated series, to even fan films like “city of scars”. This song just combines so many interpretations of the character for me
A beautiful soundtrack really, it's one of the rare times that I've listened to a batman album in its entirety as I read batman comics. I was enchanted! Michael Giacchino is a genius composer.
I really love how this piece sounds as if its being played by the man in black himself. I like how Bruce was depicted as more closed off and lonely in this movie, and the music sounds so sorrowful yet elegant. Absolute masterpiece.
"I know what this city needs now. I have to be more." Batman in his begining always thought that fear was the only thing that's keep criminals at bay. but he realize that's nothing but false. since the crime rate increases in his two year running batman in gotham. He was still developing as a detective. in the comics, the long hollowing made the batman push his limits. he understood that he has to be one step ahead from everything. in the batman movie, while it took inspiration from the long hollowing, hush, and year 1 and zero, it did something different. every character is important in this movie for batman to grow. to become as penguin stated, world's greatest detective. like every batman movie ever made never really explored the batman and bruce wayne like in this movie. in here he can be broken, conflicted, confuse, and anger takes the best of him. but this movie will give him the growth he needs. finally a comic close batman movie. *_-and the last scene where batman saves the citizens from drowning in the flood, every one walking in back with him in the dark, it felt like a giant batman cape-_* . just pure awesome. it felt like i was watching or reading the dc animated batman movies or comics. love this masterpiece. can't wait to watch it home.
Bro fr, that scene when he took adrenaline and beat up that riddler guy was amazing, it showed his first steps in becoming the Batman. It was fueled by rage. I loved how the movie felt it was a “Batman” movie and not just a vigilante running around Gotham saving people. Compared to Batman begins and the rest Batman films, reeves managed to compare the bat in a such a divine way while still remains true to the comics.
@@_aspiring_apologist Yeah I know, but the version Bane uses is usually explained as a variant of what's just a highly addictive super-steroid that even Batman used once like what's potentially the case in this movie. I said "Bane's Venom" just to clear any confusion that I might be talking about something else.
@@themadtitan7603 I didn’t know that, that’s cool tho. I hope they run with that story and add bane as a maybe main antagonist una a possible sequel. Or maybe even a side character.
I had my first panic attack recently. It lasted 6 hours, and I genuinely thought I was going to die. I laid down played this song through my headphones full volume. Tapping the notes was the only thing that kept me tethered. When I realized the fear was finally subsiding, I spent a moment tapping the music still, and I swear, it was the sweetest sound I had ever heard.
Yeah I agree, he is the new John Williams, and he has already proven himself worthy of having the torch on both "Star Wars" and "Jurassic Park", two of Williams' most famous scores, and he perfectly emulated WIlliams style but ALSO added his own flavour to it (Fallen Kingdom is probably the best Giacchino score so far, but this one sure sounds epic as well, I'm getting serious Elfman/Mask of The Phantasm vibes and it is TRULY how Batman should sound musically, rather than the thumping percussion and horns of Zimmer, which sounded more like a generic action film). If Giacchino is the new John Williams, I also think it is safe to say that Bear McCreary is the new Jerry Goldsmith, and Tom Holkenborg the new Hans Zimmer.
I never add comments...less then ten in my whole time watching TH-cam. That being said this soundtrack and moreover this wonderful song has moved me...continues to do so. It is a masterpiece in the greatest sense I can express musically. Truly thank you
I'm a HUGE Batman fan. I saw this movie 6 times at the imax and stayed every time to hear this played over the credits. Perfect way to finish out an incredible movie going experience. Needless to say I adored this movie and it's music.
Same bro. I’m currently learning this on the piano.. it’s so beautiful. I love the stages of the song too. Hopeful beginning, meets catwoman, develops feelings for her (the part where the Batman theme and catwoman theme play at the same time), Gotham floods (intense part), and then the hopeful ending. That’s how I see it
At first I thought it was a cover, like maybe from Debussy or something like that. To know that this is an original piece of music just blows my mind. It listens like a classical piece of music that was lost in time. Brilliant to hear this in a modern hollywood blockbuster.
It is very much a classically inspired composition. I felt like I could connect to this music at a deeper emotional level than I normally would with most movie music. It helps that they brought a classically trained pianist to record this.
the transition between 05:00 and 06:10 is just.. fascinating. in the first five minutes, the 10-years-old bruce's feelings of pain, loss and grief are imprinted and palpable on these notes. but after 6 minutes, we can feel batman and his hatred, dark and inevitable vengeance. the pain of a child who just lost his parents, the sadness and raging obsession of a man and the bat - a furious thing who devours the soul and bodies of everything around is frightening, disturbing, yet, at the same time, trapping and tempting. the final minutes of the song, as well, just show us the bat strong and retumbating notes melting, mixing with bruce's melancholic notes, to, at the end, consumes everything, revealing batman in his absolut. the pianist and composer just exceed the limits of pure perfection on the batman full soundtrack, but sonata in darkness is simply absolutely and incomparable.
I can't stop listening to this sonata all day when i'm alone or late at night, this nails the mood of Batman/Bruce's character with the overall somber, sad tone and vibe of the movie.
Best "superhero" movie since a long time. Although I'm a "Marvel -zombie", I must admit that the best movies very often come From DC comics characters.
I've been listening to this track since it's release and I'm astonished that this music can now be so perfectly attuned to the likes of a character like Batman. Let alone a comic book movie. Every single note of this sonata digs so deep into the soul of who and what Batman is. The low keys that introduce you to what Batman is on the surface and then the transition into a beautiful melancholic ballad, as if the music itself is looking under the surface and seeing the broken boy who has experienced tragedy and with a heavy heart has carried that trauma. Then the keys crescendo into a more hopeful ballad that is both beautiful and sad. The embodiment of Bruce Waynes journey to becoming The Batman. I don't know how a piece of music can be any better than this in terms of describing a character with just music. Absolutely magnificent and beautiful.
I think this amazing music plays during the end credits. I watched, listened and felt the movie from the beginning to the end of credits. Michael Giacchino touched hearts. Incredible.
A lovely, classical piano-driven variation of all three of the main ideas that Michael Giacchino created for this film: the themes for Batman, the Riddler, and Catwoman.
I don't know but this soundtrack is very calming. It's so beautiful and touch your soul soulfullly. It has the feeling of tragic, mysterious, eerie, sadness, sorrow, and darkness, but yet it's also romantic, poetic, heroic, elegant, mesmerizing, and undescribable. I don't know how a piano could make this magnificent melody and tell the whole bittersweet story of the Batman at the same time. Michael Giacchino is very brilliant composer
This piece of dark and dreadful beauty represents the triad of Bruce Wayne/Gotham/The Batman. It’s magnificent and absolutely stunned me as I sat watching the ending credits of this remarkable film. Bravo Mr. Giacchino, bravo!
The Batman is a masterful film. The score absolutely lives up to that standard. It’s perfect noir, and yet it’s not all minors and dread. It climbs. It reaches for hope. Perfection. Can’t wait to see the film again.
Love that he is able to add his own stamp on his own Bat theme to stand apart from Zimmer’s signature sound. This piano version is at the top of my need to learn pieces on the instrument.
I watched this twice in the theaters. Not for better understanding of the plot, but to re-experience this amazing work of audio/visual art. The music takes this film from an 8/10 to a 10/10 easily. This is the complete package. The filmakers were firing on all cylinders, at the top of their game. Kudos and see you guys at the oscars next year.
I found this soundtrack the night that I got news that my father lay dying. A whole country away. Then this piece, with its ardent tones that echo so much of Beethoven (I don't know if this was intentional, but with the name and theme it's tempting to think if it as companion to or the reverse of "Moonlight Sonata") sent the tears flowing. All I can say is that it's some of the most moving music I've heard and it's going in my collection. Thank you for posting.
I think this piece sounding like Beethoven or Chopin is very intentional. I have friends who are composers. At this level of professionalism in music, it’s rarely an accident that the music sounds inspired by something that came before.
This piece deserves everything in he world. The sonata that I want. I want to play this piece so bad right now!!! Since it is also a piano piece that can be played
This is absolutely incredible! I’m seeing it next Friday night and I honestly couldn’t be more excited! I’m jealous of all of you that get it on the Thursday😩
Gonna make a weird comparison here, but this gives me heavy Max Payne vibes, especially 3. I grew up playing those and watching The Animated Series. This mixes them in a way that is almost unreal to me. The movie itself is one of my favorites of all time. And I don't even like superhero movies. Anyway, being a LOST fan, I'm not surprised Giacchino knocked it out of the park here.
I really wish they had just called this “Nocturne in B-flat minor” or something similar instead of the more pop/Hollywood-sounding “Sonata in Darkness”. It really does have all the weight and seriousness of Romantic era classical music, and I’d prefer if the title reflected that.
Reeves' Batman really captured me, in a different way than Nolan's did. Nolan's interpretation has always been intentionally hyper-realistic, but Reeves' Batman is grounded while at the same time, fantastical enough to remind us that Batman is not just a vigilante. He's a superhero who inspires hope. I can totally see this version of the Batman, when he's much older, forming and leading the Justice League. I doubt this movie trilogy will go down that path, but it's the feeling that this Batman exudes with me. He feels like he can stand alongside gods like Superman and Wonder Woman and not feel out of place as a leader. While I love Nolan's Batman, I can't really say that about him since he was intentionally made as a realistic vigilante in mind.
Great soundtrack it's a perfect match between moonlight sonata 3rd movement, Ave Maria, chopin's sonata 2 3rd movement, a tribute to both the Danny Elfman and the shirley theme. It sounds great
The Batman music theme by composer Michael Giacchino from MCU Spider Man trilogy, Doctor Strange, Rogue One, Jurassic World trilogy, and Dawn and War of the Planet of the Apes movies
@@LiterarySahitya because DC hasn’t been doing well lately in terms of numbers at the box office. Even Suicide Squad which was fantastic tanked in terms of the financial take back
@@realmaximouse This movie might tank. This is not a superhero movie. This was a horror thriller master piece. But then again was joker and that movie did make a lot of money, I wouldnt put the batman with The suicide squad, cause 1. batman is a famous well loved character 2. The marketing for the movie was nuts. Will it tank ? maybe but itll go down in history as a cult classic (similar to blade runner 2049)
Love the soft piano in this. Sonata In Darkness is aptly titled. When I hear it, I think of the title "In The Shadows". Very classic Batman here. Subtle at times. Bold in others. And always compelling.
I was cleaning my cinema's IMAX room, and didn't really pay attention at first. I got to the middle of the room and stopped to listen, it was an amazing thing really, all alone there with my little broom.
Wow!!
I can imagine how not many movie scores have that effect on you.
I remember I stayed very long in the room for no real reason but wasn't paying attention to the credit scene. Then, as i was heading out I heard the part with Catwoman's soundtrack and I turned around surprised and remained there for the rest of the piece. I love it, im so glad i stayed after the movie ended.
Respect at you
@@BoardWalkToke any movie score will have this effect on you based on the context
I'm astonished that no one has asked about the pianist, who deserves a great deal of the credit for the impact of the piece. She is my Grammy Award-winning UCLA colleague Gloria Cheng-who has spent much of her career playing the likes of Boulez, Stockhausen, Adams, and Lutoslawski. She creates a sense of suspense and heartbreak that requires an artist of overwhelming emotional honesty. A separate shout out goes to the piano technician and audio engineers, who create a deep, resonant sound field that envelops us as we listen.
I've been looking for the name of the wonderful pianist who plays this beautiful piece for 2 weeks, thank you!
I'm so speachless... I could even clap with my feet too. It's breathtaken!!! Saudações do Brasil, 🇧🇷🌹👽🖖🏽
She is the true definition of "a master at her art"
Omh, she's so great!! 🖤♥🖤
I just assumed it was Michael Giacchino himself playing…thanks for correcting my assumption and letting us all know! She deserves the recognition for sure! Made me cry my first time listening to this masterpiece (a word I rarely use and also one that when I DO actually use, I never do so lightly…) Hats off to her and the rest of the team for this gloriously incredible feat and wonderfully phenomenal performance!!! 🥂 👏🏼 🦇 🥷 🖤 👌🏼
This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve heard in years. I’ve been a fan of Michael Giacchino since his work on LOST, and this might be his masterpiece.
I agree completely.
If UP is not his masterpiece then i dont know what is
@@markfowlermusic Jupiter Ascending is
Rogue One, anyone?
@@markfowlermusic Up is beautiful and one of the best scores ever. The soundtrack to Batman is probably just more my taste tbh
As a Pianist I can't describe how excited I am that this piece exists. As if a (top tier) film composer wrote a piano sonata for a batman film, which in itself is a masterpiece, and also btw it actually sounds like a contemporary sonata that could stand on its own.. its stuff like this and what composers like Joe Hisaishi do that makes me excited about solo piano in film music
"Joe Hisaishi" he's a GOAT for sure!
As if?... It literally happened.
Who writes a gorgeous sonata for a Batman movie? This guy. I do not take this for granted.
For me, even as a 6 year old child. Batman was never an epic superhero and I’ve never perceived him as that. He’s a true Shakespearean tragic character. Kevin Conroy has been quoted himself saying that his story is really a retelling of the Hamlet story. The fact that Giacchino is taking notes from Shirley Walker in the sense that her themes were always so operatic but very mysterious and very sad and even romantic and theatrical. Everything the Batman should be. Incredible score.
Exactly why Nolan interpretation and Hans Zimmer soundtrack are bad for this character
@@naFarto I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s “bad” Nolan still stayed true to the heart of the character and Nolan’s style as a filmmaker is very epic in scale and grounded in story and character so by that standpoint I really loved Nolan’s take. Is it the version that is the most comic accurate? No. But it is still a very unique vision that stayed true to what makes the character great
You can have your own take on Batman but he's not just a tragic hero, for most of his stories he has been an adventurer, in some he was almost like James Bond, and for decades he was a very light-hearted character. If you only watched the movies and read the famous graphic novels of course you're gonna think he's a dark troubled character but for most of his stories he's not that tragic, try reading the Grant Morrison run he tried to condense every version of Batman into one
Well I've always perceived of him as an epic superhero. :) that's the take on the character i prefer especially as I have gotten older.
Bru stop lying. You didn’t think that at 6 years old. You didn’t even know who Shakespeare was😂🤦♂️
Hearing this on the theater was a true religious experience. This soundtrack is epic, beautiful, dark and noir.
I got a :) at end of the credits, magnifico!!!!!
Thank u for sharing this, awesome.
No, :D
Unfortunately I couldn't saw it in cinema
@@joel-rk7bp bro the biggest sin u ever commit
it made me really emotional seeing him ride with Selina as they parted ways and drove off in different life directions. sometimes the ones who really understand us aren't always right for us. This music really added beauty to the multitude & complexity of Bruce/Batman and Selina/Catwoman
He's spoken for.
Vin Diesel Paul Walker
Glad to see that sequence getting more love. The way they rode amongst tombstones and even playfully raced a little, just to silently sit and go their separate ways. Sometimes, that’s all you get with someone. The Batman is a really well made film.
You're funny.
@@InspectorSpacetime333 most def...no need for words
How dare they interrupt this absolute masterpiece with an ad 5 minutes in.
The one and only time my Premium subscription feels worth the money.
I'm not the only one to think about it!
It's 2022, use an ad blocker.
Who gets ads lol 😂
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Michael Giachinno’s a G for prioritising this to be a solely piano piece
What does this comment even mean
@@pderham26 bro why are u in every comment section spreading negativity 😂 do you not have anything better to do with your life
Me who can play piano: I was made for this
You could even say, a G-iachinno.
@@novengeance8119 Sounds like something he’d name a song.
As a worker at a movie theater, I always try my best to get to the theater showing Batman so I can sit through the credits, close my eyes and listen to this masterpiece and just immerse myself whenever I can. Every time I hear this sonata it really makes me want to learn piano.
This is a very beautiful tragic piece. It hits harder for me though. At my piano recital there was a boy who went up first to play, he was only sixteen. And beautifully played this piece, so much emotion he put out. The entire church was in shock just admiring his talent and I was amazed. I can’t explain how amazing he was, so young and it felt so intense and deep. Once the recital ended, I looked around the church, trying to find him so I could thank him for his breath taking performance. He left though, as I could not find him. Two months later my piano teacher has to cancel, as she just found out one of her students died of suicide. I was saddened, but it was not said what student it was. At our most recent recital I found out it was the kid who played this song. I will forever be upset that I never got to tell him how much I loved his performance. I hate knowing that he’s not alive anymore, as I won’t be able to listen to him play ever again. I didn’t even know him personally but I was hit deeply by it. I don’t want to know what his parents friends and family felt about this. I now listen to this piece a lot, in memory of him. Rest in piece.
Just saw this masterpiece. I'm still not over how great it was it.
agree. and i was expecting nothing.
Really wasn't that great 7 out of 10
@@Imperialbbuilding Nah, it was pretty amazing.
@@HisVirusness movie was incredible long. First half of movie was a 8/10 second half of movie was a 5/10
@@yousefalshiekh4074 If you obviously didn't like the movie, why are you on a video like this to begin with?
This score somehow perfectly captures the entirety of Batinson's character, from the lows to the highs, the bombastic aggression and the quiet compassion. Absolute perfection.
Love the rendition of Catwoman’s theme starting 3:08. Feels like a duet piece and perfectly embodies the relationship between Bruce/Selina in the movie. Broken people trying to find identity.
Thanks for pointing out that it's Selina's theme. I went crazy trying to find it.
This is the most classical sounding piece of movie music I’ve heard in a long long time. It’s so harmonically interesting, it’s a bit indulgent in romantic themes, but I listened to it the same way I listen to any sonata or concerto. I sat through the credits for this piece.
Rach 2 :)
@@tarikeld11 my thought exactly!
wait they played it in credits????
Ted Mosby wrote this??
I love this soundtrack so much. The Batman is something that will take peoples minds off of current problems
LoL "comic book movie will help humanity"
Grow up.
Any theaters in Ukraine playing it?
@@pderham26 they didn't say that, you're literally making things up and getting mad at them 💀
@@pderham26 let other people enjoy things
@@ishaansharma8215 I never told anyone they couldn't enjoy things.
This whole piece is giving me vibes of all of Batman’s history. From the 30s to today, from the animated series, to even fan films like “city of scars”. This song just combines so many interpretations of the character for me
A beautiful soundtrack really, it's one of the rare times that I've listened to a batman album in its entirety as I read batman comics. I was enchanted! Michael Giacchino is a genius composer.
Now that's a theme of the Caped Crusader.
Calm, peacful and at the same time powerful.
I really love how this piece sounds as if its being played by the man in black himself. I like how Bruce was depicted as more closed off and lonely in this movie, and the music sounds so sorrowful yet elegant. Absolute masterpiece.
like rooftop The Crow but like way better
M. A. S. T. E. R. P. I. E. C. E
These themes nail the target right in the middle and are absolutely perfect for the character... I'm speechless.
people throw "masterpiece" recklessly these days, but this is where it actually fits.
@@lessermook7608 i'd say you are absolutely right man!
I love Michael Giacchino so much. His Spider-Man score and this are just perfect
His soundtrack for Planet of the apes is a banger too and so is Up, Rogue One or Incredibles :D
@@janchuck576 lets be honest most of his OSTs are the greatest out there!
@@janchuck576 incredibles was his first major banger
Bro same with Ratatouille
Caesar home is so beautyfull
"I know what this city needs now. I have to be more."
Batman in his begining always thought that fear was the only thing that's keep criminals at bay. but he realize that's nothing but false. since the crime rate increases in his two year running batman in gotham. He was still developing as a detective. in the comics, the long hollowing made the batman push his limits. he understood that he has to be one step ahead from everything.
in the batman movie, while it took inspiration from the long hollowing, hush, and year 1 and zero, it did something different. every character is important in this movie for batman to grow. to become as penguin stated, world's greatest detective.
like every batman movie ever made never really explored the batman and bruce wayne like in this movie. in here he can be broken, conflicted, confuse, and anger takes the best of him. but this movie will give him the growth he needs. finally a comic close batman movie. *_-and the last scene where batman saves the citizens from drowning in the flood, every one walking in back with him in the dark, it felt like a giant batman cape-_* . just pure awesome. it felt like i was watching or reading the dc animated batman movies or comics. love this masterpiece. can't wait to watch it home.
Bro fr, that scene when he took adrenaline and beat up that riddler guy was amazing, it showed his first steps in becoming the Batman. It was fueled by rage. I loved how the movie felt it was a “Batman” movie and not just a vigilante running around Gotham saving people. Compared to Batman begins and the rest Batman films, reeves managed to compare the bat in a such a divine way while still remains true to the comics.
@@_aspiring_apologist It's not confirmed but I'm certain that might be Bane's Venom.
@@themadtitan7603 that would be cool but bane’s venom normally gives you super strength, you know what I mean?
@@_aspiring_apologist Yeah I know, but the version Bane uses is usually explained as a variant of what's just a highly addictive super-steroid that even Batman used once like what's potentially the case in this movie. I said "Bane's Venom" just to clear any confusion that I might be talking about something else.
@@themadtitan7603 I didn’t know that, that’s cool tho. I hope they run with that story and add bane as a maybe main antagonist una a possible sequel. Or maybe even a side character.
The most beautiful track in the album imo
Easily
this is so majestic
OMFG, this is like Chopin playing the piano next door to Eric Zann while Edgar Allan Poe in a Batman suit wrights furiously about the Court of Owls
Probably the best piece of Music I’ve heard since Zimmmers A Dark Knight. That piece was epic. The is more inner and psychological
Joker too.
I was thinking that as well when I first listened to it!
I had my first panic attack recently. It lasted 6 hours, and I genuinely thought I was going to die. I laid down played this song through my headphones full volume. Tapping the notes was the only thing that kept me tethered. When I realized the fear was finally subsiding, I spent a moment tapping the music still, and I swear, it was the sweetest sound I had ever heard.
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
Michael Giacchino IS the next John Williams
The Batman theme sounds a little bit like Vaders theme. It’s freaking awesome.
@@BungeeGum_ litteraly it has the same notes, just played differently
Yeah I agree, he is the new John Williams, and he has already proven himself worthy of having the torch on both "Star Wars" and "Jurassic Park", two of Williams' most famous scores, and he perfectly emulated WIlliams style but ALSO added his own flavour to it (Fallen Kingdom is probably the best Giacchino score so far, but this one sure sounds epic as well, I'm getting serious Elfman/Mask of The Phantasm vibes and it is TRULY how Batman should sound musically, rather than the thumping percussion and horns of Zimmer, which sounded more like a generic action film).
If Giacchino is the new John Williams, I also think it is safe to say that Bear McCreary is the new Jerry Goldsmith, and Tom Holkenborg the new Hans Zimmer.
@@BungeeGum_ its Nirvana and Shirley Walker inspired... the thing batman has been missing since the mid early 2000s..
As well as the next John Barry.
Listening to this while it’s raining outside just makes it all the better.
I never add comments...less then ten in my whole time watching TH-cam. That being said this soundtrack and moreover this wonderful song has moved me...continues to do so. It is a masterpiece in the greatest sense I can express musically.
Truly thank you
I'm a HUGE Batman fan. I saw this movie 6 times at the imax and stayed every time to hear this played over the credits. Perfect way to finish out an incredible movie going experience. Needless to say I adored this movie and it's music.
Same bro. I’m currently learning this on the piano.. it’s so beautiful. I love the stages of the song too. Hopeful beginning, meets catwoman, develops feelings for her (the part where the Batman theme and catwoman theme play at the same time), Gotham floods (intense part), and then the hopeful ending. That’s how I see it
You should've done Dolby 😢 audio sounded even better (I did both IMAX and Dolby)
What's more rewarding staying through the credits in a theatre now days than a post credit scene, an amazing soundtrack.
Love the piano here, I mean sonatas are always great.
They feel old and new at the same time.
At first I thought it was a cover, like maybe from Debussy or something like that. To know that this is an original piece of music just blows my mind. It listens like a classical piece of music that was lost in time. Brilliant to hear this in a modern hollywood blockbuster.
It is very much a classically inspired composition. I felt like I could connect to this music at a deeper emotional level than I normally would with most movie music. It helps that they brought a classically trained pianist to record this.
the transition between 05:00 and 06:10 is just.. fascinating. in the first five minutes, the 10-years-old bruce's feelings of pain, loss and grief are imprinted and palpable on these notes. but after 6 minutes, we can feel batman and his hatred, dark and inevitable vengeance.
the pain of a child who just lost his parents, the sadness and raging obsession of a man and the bat - a furious thing who devours the soul and bodies of everything around is frightening, disturbing, yet, at the same time, trapping and tempting.
the final minutes of the song, as well, just show us the bat strong and retumbating notes melting, mixing with bruce's melancholic notes, to, at the end, consumes everything, revealing batman in his absolut.
the pianist and composer just exceed the limits of pure perfection on the batman full soundtrack, but sonata in darkness is simply absolutely and incomparable.
I never thought I'd be emotional listening to this but here I am
I can't stop listening to this sonata all day when i'm alone or late at night, this nails the mood of Batman/Bruce's character with the overall somber, sad tone and vibe of the movie.
Frrrrr. I’ve been trying to learn this on the piano for a while.. I’m only about a quarter through 😂
Best "superhero" movie since a long time. Although I'm a "Marvel -zombie", I must admit that the best movies very often come From DC comics characters.
They're definitely less standardized than those produced by the Marvel machine, which can be for both the better and worse at times haha
@@cduncan6182 The DCEU is a failure to be honest but almost everything they put out that's outside it is great and this movie is a masterpiece.
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises
And Now we Have this Masterpiece The Batman. I Love this two Batman Saga😭👏
Matt reeves is the new nolan.
And we had Batman and Batman Returns before too
I’m curious if this is playing over the end credits or the ending scene?
It’s beautiful
that's what I was thinking too
probably credits
Or both
Both I think
@@themcusbiggestfan3210 Selina Dies?..
i think michael giacchino likes to make me cry when i listen to his scores
This is beautifully haunting
The starkness of the piano chords at 8:29 is *chef's kiss*
What a perfect reflection of the darkness of Bruce Wayne and this film.
I've been listening to this track since it's release and I'm astonished that this music can now be so perfectly attuned to the likes of a character like Batman. Let alone a comic book movie. Every single note of this sonata digs so deep into the soul of who and what Batman is. The low keys that introduce you to what Batman is on the surface and then the transition into a beautiful melancholic ballad, as if the music itself is looking under the surface and seeing the broken boy who has experienced tragedy and with a heavy heart has carried that trauma. Then the keys crescendo into a more hopeful ballad that is both beautiful and sad. The embodiment of Bruce Waynes journey to becoming The Batman. I don't know how a piece of music can be any better than this in terms of describing a character with just music. Absolutely magnificent and beautiful.
I think this amazing music plays during the end credits. I watched, listened and felt the movie from the beginning to the end of credits. Michael Giacchino touched hearts. Incredible.
I haven’t heard this song in a while. But in honor of a fallen friend, I came back.
A lovely, classical piano-driven variation of all three of the main ideas that Michael Giacchino created for this film: the themes for Batman, the Riddler, and Catwoman.
Can't Wait To See The Vengeance!!
Loving every single soundtrack of the movie...
This is so aptly named. This does feel like a sonata.
I don't know but this soundtrack is very calming. It's so beautiful and touch your soul soulfullly. It has the feeling of tragic, mysterious, eerie, sadness, sorrow, and darkness, but yet it's also romantic, poetic, heroic, elegant, mesmerizing, and undescribable. I don't know how a piano could make this magnificent melody and tell the whole bittersweet story of the Batman at the same time. Michael Giacchino is very brilliant composer
This piece of dark and dreadful beauty represents the triad of Bruce Wayne/Gotham/The Batman. It’s magnificent and absolutely stunned me as I sat watching the ending credits of this remarkable film. Bravo Mr. Giacchino, bravo!
What a masterpiece of a score!! He did a great job picking up the mantle
I don’t think I’ve heard a more beautiful piece of music. this is hands down one of the best pieces of music in something related to Batman
The Batman is a masterful film. The score absolutely lives up to that standard. It’s perfect noir, and yet it’s not all minors and dread. It climbs. It reaches for hope. Perfection. Can’t wait to see the film again.
Love that he is able to add his own stamp on his own Bat theme to stand apart from Zimmer’s signature sound. This piano version is at the top of my need to learn pieces on the instrument.
I really love how Hans Zimmer's music sounds epic and legendary while Giacchino's is more intimate and personal...
I watched this twice in the theaters. Not for better understanding of the plot, but to re-experience this amazing work of audio/visual art. The music takes this film from an 8/10 to a 10/10 easily. This is the complete package. The filmakers were firing on all cylinders, at the top of their game. Kudos and see you guys at the oscars next year.
This Sonata is so emotional ... a great piece of music. What a great discover , at the end of this amazing movie !
I found this soundtrack the night that I got news that my father lay dying. A whole country away. Then this piece, with its ardent tones that echo so much of Beethoven (I don't know if this was intentional, but with the name and theme it's tempting to think if it as companion to or the reverse of "Moonlight Sonata") sent the tears flowing. All I can say is that it's some of the most moving music I've heard and it's going in my collection. Thank you for posting.
Thank you for sharing this. Sending prayers!
I think this piece sounding like Beethoven or Chopin is very intentional. I have friends who are composers. At this level of professionalism in music, it’s rarely an accident that the music sounds inspired by something that came before.
Sorry for ur loss.
I wanna learn piano to play this amazing music infront of people to show off.
That's what I'm doing currently. Have to start somewhere. I will play along with beautiful songs like this one day 😁
I played piano for around 5 years and then quit but when this soundtrack came out I immediately learned this song. Practice makes perfect
I’m so excited.. I found a super accurate visual video of the notes for this song, and I’m about a quarter through!
The best Batman theme ever.
This piece deserves everything in he world. The sonata that I want. I want to play this piece so bad right now!!! Since it is also a piano piece that can be played
I like to imagine lonely Bruce pounding this away on a dusty grand piano somewhere deep in the mansion.
This is absolutely incredible! I’m seeing it next Friday night and I honestly couldn’t be more excited! I’m jealous of all of you that get it on the Thursday😩
I see it Friday afternoon. Beginning of next week I’m staying off all social media.
@@kai-ryanmccall6254 same here! Friday afternoon… seeing it after college!!!
@@kai-ryanmccall6254 I got to wait till Sunday 😔
Next Sunday*
@@centerworldUSA stay off social media for a week. I know it may be hard, but you don’t wanna get spoiled
I'm going to enjoy listening to this as people leave the theaters and I'm watching the credits.
this is amazing
when the deeper notes begin to play the melody around 4.12, WOW
Parts of this, especially the end, really reminded me of Chopin’s Funeral March
Same
this is why everyone says it sounded like vader's theme
@@AanoMakesMusic its in the same key too, Bb minor
Gonna make a weird comparison here, but this gives me heavy Max Payne vibes, especially 3. I grew up playing those and watching The Animated Series. This mixes them in a way that is almost unreal to me. The movie itself is one of my favorites of all time. And I don't even like superhero movies. Anyway, being a LOST fan, I'm not surprised Giacchino knocked it out of the park here.
I love you Batman
Sounds like my dude was on a conference call with Frederic Chopin & Ludwig van Beethoven before he wrote this. Awesome!
Sounds a lot like mix of Chopin’s Sonata 3rd movement and Beethoven’s moonlight sonata first movement, while still being its own thing
I really wish they had just called this “Nocturne in B-flat minor” or something similar instead of the more pop/Hollywood-sounding “Sonata in Darkness”. It really does have all the weight and seriousness of Romantic era classical music, and I’d prefer if the title reflected that.
This is simply glorious. Perfect masterpiece for the tragic hero
While I prefer the orchestra arrangement of the Catwoman/ Selina's theme, I think I might actually prefer the Batman/ Bruce theme as a piano piece.
That's the beauty of it, you dont have to choose!
I was the only one who bothered to stay in the theatre and listen to this beautiful masterpiece when I went to watch The Batman.
me too.
I was there for it All.✌
The movie is gonna be a a masterpiece
7:20 Thanks for the ringtone.
Reeves' Batman really captured me, in a different way than Nolan's did. Nolan's interpretation has always been intentionally hyper-realistic, but Reeves' Batman is grounded while at the same time, fantastical enough to remind us that Batman is not just a vigilante. He's a superhero who inspires hope. I can totally see this version of the Batman, when he's much older, forming and leading the Justice League. I doubt this movie trilogy will go down that path, but it's the feeling that this Batman exudes with me. He feels like he can stand alongside gods like Superman and Wonder Woman and not feel out of place as a leader. While I love Nolan's Batman, I can't really say that about him since he was intentionally made as a realistic vigilante in mind.
Great Film.
Great soundtrack. The Batman (2022) is in the same league as Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992) and I'm going to watch again this week.
AND AN INCREDIBLE SOUNDTRACK
It's beautiful! Its sounds sanders and heroic at the same time. Thanks Mr. Giacchino for this amazing soundtrack 🦇
Had to buy the soundtrack. Seems like Batman soundtracks are career highlights for some composers.
This is a beatiful piece of music.
6:15 best part starting 🎶
Love the tribute to Danny Elfman at 7:20.
could u explain, im lost
nvm i got it now
This actually reminds me more of when Shirley Walker performed her Batman theme on the piano
@@90snickshows84 this theme would mash up so well with Walkers theme! Hers is one of my faves!
its not elfman.. its walker... mask of the phantasm.. its sampled along with nirvana through the whole soundtrack and slowed down..
Great soundtrack it's a perfect match between moonlight sonata 3rd movement, Ave Maria, chopin's sonata 2 3rd movement, a tribute to both the Danny Elfman and the shirley theme. It sounds great
The Batman music theme by composer Michael Giacchino from MCU Spider Man trilogy, Doctor Strange, Rogue One, Jurassic World trilogy, and Dawn and War of the Planet of the Apes movies
These melodies and the new shape of the mask make this movie similar to the noir from the 30-40s and musicals like Phantom of the Opera.
I love listening to this. I work at the theater and when the credits are playing with the music, I clean to it. Then I hang around to the end.
Whoa I've got tears in my eyes ...this is moving.
Blimey… what a stunning piece of music composition. Even if this film flops, at least we got a beautiful soundtrack from it
Why would say, "even the film flops"
@@LiterarySahitya because DC hasn’t been doing well lately in terms of numbers at the box office. Even Suicide Squad which was fantastic tanked in terms of the financial take back
@@realmaximouse This movie might tank. This is not a superhero movie. This was a horror thriller master piece. But then again was joker and that movie did make a lot of money, I wouldnt put the batman with The suicide squad, cause 1. batman is a famous well loved character 2. The marketing for the movie was nuts. Will it tank ? maybe but itll go down in history as a cult classic (similar to blade runner 2049)
@@Lord_ofcinder dw it did not tank luckily.
@@Lord_ofcinder bro it opened better than Batman Begins lol it isn't gonna tank at all
This is such a beautiful melody. It's like my cry from nightfall.
I can hear The dance of the death, the dance macabre and so much from the funeral March Beautiful
Love the soft piano in this. Sonata In Darkness is aptly titled. When I hear it, I think of the title "In The Shadows". Very classic Batman here. Subtle at times. Bold in others. And always compelling.
I’m definitely hiring someone to play this at my funeral.
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This is not just a movie this is relationship thx Matt Reeves & MG & everyone participated to make this piece of art 🦇🖤
Ayer la ví por cuarta vez en el cine. Estoy completamente enamorado de ésta película. Batman siempre va a ser el mejor.
Best CBM human ever made 🦇🖤
Esto merecía un Oscar, mínimo la nominación!
So beautiful and dark at the same time. Take a bow Michael Giachinno 🖖
Felt beautiful