Frederic Chopin, Janusz Olejniczak - The Pianist: Music from the Motion Picture
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Free Music Review: Felt the movie,now feel the music that truly inspires..
Hit: 4 Stars
The Pianist is a great and "fantaztisch" movie itself! Note the great actors Adrien Brody and Thomas Kretschmann. Now, how would the movie be without the music itself that inspired and still inspiring thousands of people who listened to it.
All the piano works are classical and have a story of it's own.
From the Nocturnes; sad, moving and played on the first part of the movie (yes, the intro) and when the jews are fighting and facing their nightmares.
To Ballade 1 & 2, which was played by Spilzman (adrien brody) in that movie when he met up with the german officer Hosenfeld (thomas kretschmann)..
Just by listening to the soundtrack you could already see and feel the whole movie. Especially the Nocturnes... very touching.. recommending this album to those who fell in love to the piano works in the movie like i was, just by listening it for the first time! :)
Free Music Review: I don't know much about art, but I know what I like
Hit: 4 Stars
I don't know Chopin from Chopped Onion, but I decided to purchase the soundtrack from the movie "The Pianist." After seeing the film, and developing a recent appreciation for classicla music, I decided to be this CD. The music is moving, soothing, powerful, and soaring all at once. I would give it a 5 star rating, but my lack of knowledge of classical music prevents me from making solid judgements. I do know what I like, and I like this CD.Free Music Review: I expected more-
Hit: 4 Stars
If you have not seen the movie, than the CD is less adequate.The recording did not "flow" well to my ears. I understand the need to let the last chord resound, but the musical pieces are interrupted by bothersome recording studio pauses. If you like Chopin you will love the musical selections. The piano is appropriately tuned and well played. The memory of seeing the movie will do more to help move you than the actual recording.
Free Music Review: somewhat ironic
Hit: 4 Stars
Great film. Fabulous soundtrack. But it's weird because I have read that Chopin was a "rabid anti-semite." I hope it was a way off-base exaggeration. I don't know. Pain is pain no matter where it's derived from, I guess.Free Music Review: Shattering a few myths
Hit: 3 Stars
I was amazed by the ignorance and completely uncritical enthusiasm of the vast majority of these reviews... A few points should be cleared up to shatter some of the myths circulating here. Firstly, Chopin was not Jewish (where on earth did you get that one from "emil r"? A 'jew by nationality'??!! So Chopin was an Israeli, inspite of having Catholic Polish and French parents!?). And yes, if you read his correspondence, he was - as was sadly common in those days - prone to make anti-Semitic remarks. But to call him a rabid anti-Semite (in the mould of Wagner, Dostoevsky) is overstated and excessive.
Secondly, the pieces played in the film do not always represent the pieces that Szpilman actually played - he didn't play the G minor Ballade for Hosenfeld (a very silly choice in the film - to suggest that after some 3 years without a piano, in a freezing house in the middle of a Polish winter, that anyone could sit down and play such a substantial, taxing piece is ludicrous!). And some from the CD don't appear in the film at all. But Chopin was central to Szpilman's repetoire, both as a pianist and a patriotic Pole... and the melancholy and pathos of his music enables people to attribute to it any old sentimental garbage they like. He certainly didn't write music to enable people to have a self-indulgent weep in movies about the Holocaust - but 'classical' music is so often used in a cheap, manipulative way!
Thirdly, Janusz Olejniczak is a perfectly decent pianist who does an excellent job of immitating Szpilman's slightly old fashioned pianistic style for the purposes of the movie soundtrack. But if you actually want to listen to great Chopin plying, forget movie soundtracks, and go out and find Argerich, Zimerman, Rubinstein, Pires, Rachmaninov, Cortot, etc... And what is this complete nonsense about 'Kilar's interpretation'? Err.. read your CD notes carefully - he composed the (non-Chopin) actual original incidental music for the film - he isn't playing the piano or conducting, so he can't really be doing any interpreting, can he? And 'christianwriter' - Szpilman did write a lot of music, and performed it himself - but it was mostly very lush and optimistic (including a cocertino for piano and orchestra written partly in the Ghetto, some 500 popular songs, and film music), and would have been completely inappropriate for this movie.