Frederic Chopin, Janusz Olejniczak - The Pianist: Music from the Motion Picture
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Free Music Review: Excellent
Hit: 5 Stars
The Pianist is a hugely enjoyable CD, containing beautifully expressive Chopin pieces and a wonderful clarinet solo.Janusz Olejniczak offers deeply felt renditions of Chopin's music, best among them the Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Ballade No.1 in G-minor, Op.23, Grande Polonaise, and the Nocturne in C-minor. The music rings of genuine thought and feeling--it is a joy listening to Olejniczak play.
As this is a soundtrack to the movie about the pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, the CD fittingly includes a 1948 recording of Szpilman playing Chopin's Mazurka in A-minor, Op.17 No.4, a soft little gem that adds to the CD's already immeasurable value.
Wojciech Kilar's gentle and expressive composition, Moving to the Ghetto Oct.31 1940, is expertly played by Hanna Wolczeska. This is an excellent composition, because not only is it an intrinsically fine song, but it is also written for clarinet.
I highly recommend this CD.
Free Music Review: Beautiful music that is the soul of the film
Hit: 5 Stars
The Pianist soundtrack is a wonderful collection of Chopin's songs that accurately and effectively reflect the songs Szpilman played during one of the most tumultuous times in history. Though only one song is authentically performed by Szpilman, the songs played by Janusz Olejniczak genuinely project Szpilman's emotion with his musical interpretation. His interpretation of the music appropriately fits the film's pathos to its greatest potential through musical elements of crescendos, decrescendos and tempo changes. Szpilman's emotion and passion for music are fully realized in one of the most poignant scenes of the movie, when he plays his heart out for the SS officer to prove he was and still is a pianist. This not only is a great starter collection for those who are not familiar with Chopin's music, but is also a vehicle for us to transcend ourselves back to this heart-felt and truly moving film.Free Music Review: A Masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
This US version of the original movie soundtrack of Polanski's "The Pianist" which portrays Wladyslaw Szpilman's will to survive against the evil of holocaust through his music.
Whilst the music of Chopin and others makes an excellent score for the mood of the movie (Janusz Olejniczak plays superbly on the piano), one is left in stunned silence throughout at the injustice and horror that could ever have happened to humankind and tears will only start rolling when the movie ends on the triumphant note of Grand Polonaise brillante preceded by an Andante spianato Op.22 jolting you out of your helpless anguish to applaud in standing ovation with the audience on screen. Get this CD, enjoy the exquisite music and relive the poignant scenes. You won't regret it.
Free Music Review: Stunning soundtrack from a stunning film
Hit: 5 Stars
I went to see The Pianist knowing only that it a Roman Polanksi film about the Warsaw Ghetto. I left the theatre stunned by the power of this film, incredulous that it didn't win the Best Picture Oscar. The other "star" of the film, in addition to the amazing Adrian Brody, is the music of Chopin. I have long loved Chopin but this film really brought out in a new way all the melancholy, romance, nationalistic fervor for and love of Poland, and ultimately, spiritual uplift that make Chopin so great. This soundtrack has even more Chopin thanthe movie and the pianist on all but one, Janusz Olejniczak, to my ear at least, does a marvelous job of interpretation. I also enjoyed the recording by Szpilman himself.
Free Music Review: Yesterday's holocaust and todays...music to grieve with....
Hit: 5 Stars
The element of music, which at times parallels the sense of absolute heart-break perfectly, can only resonate with us as we viewed the film with a sense of "deja vu"....watching the suffering of those who were segregated, seized, humiliated, starved, oppressed,and killed-- with Chopin in the background --as military tanks moved in to fire at ghetto buildings with resistence fighters inside, being blown away...the reason that Nuremberg trials happened--and its all happening again; this time by those who were oppressed now become the mighty oppressors. Is this Polanski sending an alarm? warning? I wept with the sense that "never again" really meant "never US again"...Chopin Nocturnes were a perfect backdrop....