Schindler's List (Original Motion Picture Score)

We can think of only one composer whose deft musical ability can do justice to a story as moving as Schindler's List’s: John Williams. On the plaintive "Immolation (With Our Lives, We Give Life)," the veteran scorer forges gently ahead with a single, mournful melody, and the heartbreaking refrain makes a beeline straight to our hearts. Elsewhere, on stirring tracks like "Making the List" and "I Could Have Done More," Williams collaborates with violinist Itzhak Perlman, whose tremulous strings convey the frailty of hope.