Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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Composer: Tom TykwerComposer: Johnny Klimek
Composer: Reinhold Heil
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2006-12-05
Music Label: EMI Classics
Product features:
- Movie soundtrack
- Prologue- The Highest Point (Berliner Philharmoniker)
- Streets of Paris (Berliner Philharmoniker)
- The Girl with the Plums (Berliner Philharmoniker)
- Grenouille's childhood (Berliner Philharmoniker)
- Distilling Roses (Berliner Philharmoniker)
- The 13th essence (Berliner Philharmoniker)
- Lost Love (State Choir Latvia)
- Moorish Scents (Berliner Philharmoniker)
- Meeting Laura (Berliner Philharmoniker)
- The method works! (Berliner Philharmoniker)
- Grasse in panic (Berliner Philharmoniker)
- Richis' escape (Berliner Philharmoniker)
- Laura's murder (Berliner Philharmoniker)
- Awaiting Execution (Berliner Philharmoniker)
- The Perfume (Berliner Philharmoniker)
- The crowd embrace (Berliner Philharmoniker)
- Perfume- distilled (Berliner Philharmoniker)
- Epilogue- Leaving Grasse (State Choir Latvia)
Free Music Notes for Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Free Music Review: Superb romantic underscoring for a unique film
Hit: 5 Stars
PERFUME was one of the most original and unique pieces of literature written in the last half of the 20th century. The film which was released twenty years after the novel's publication was absolutely true to both the narrative and the mood of the work. It is an exceptional and incredibly unique work of art.
The romantic musical score is superb, at once langorous, sinister and mysterious - think Goldenthal's excellent mood score to INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE and you have the equivalent mood of it.
Scoring is primarily for horns and strings over harp glissandos with wordless choirs helping to draw you into the mysteries. MEETING LAURA is the high point musically for me.
No one has yet caught the bit of homage to ONE STEP BEYOND - the four note theme of that television series is stolen intact for THE GIRL WITH THE PLUMS.
One of the best scores of the current decade. The film deserved multiple Oscar nominations but was shut out for reasons I cannot fathom.
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PERFUME tells the story of a man who is obsessed by the idea of creating the perfect perfume. The novel, by Patrick Süskind, was written in 1985 and has been translated into 45 languages, so far selling more than 15 million copies worldwide, making it the most successful novel of post-war German literature. The film boasts a top-class cast of international actors such as Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman and up-and-coming talent Rachel Hurd-Wood, and an original soundtrack from the film's director Tom Tykwer, recorded by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker and released exclusively on EMI Classics - the first soundtrack from this internationally acclaimed award-winning partnership.The soundtrack, with its symphonic appeal reaching from airy and light sounds to majestically heavy motifs, manages with stylistic verve to make the world of odours downright tangible. The orchestra closely and cautiously follows in the steps of the plot, taking up the historical atmosphere of the 18th century and yet remaining entangled in the universe of olfactory attractions. The choir pieces, recorded in Riga by the National Choir of Latvia, lend a sacral and spherical aspect to many passages whilst the body of sound from the Berliner Philharmoniker produces soundscapes to indulge the senses. If the soul of a human is his odour, as Grenouille states in the film, then music is the heartbeat of the film.
Germany's Tom Tykwer is among the rare directors who score their own movies (Charlie Chaplin, Clint Eastwood, and John Carpenter also belong to that small circle). Here, he and his regular collaborators, Johnny Klimer and Reinhold Heil (both boasting experience with... Nina Hagen!) have come up with a symphonic score performed by none other than Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker, with Absolute Ensemble founder Kristian Järvi conducting the State Choir Latvia. Alas, even Rattle and Järvi cannot make the score more than mildly pleasant--and ultimately unmemorable. Overall the vocal cues fare best: Soprano Chen Reiss shines on "Meeting Laura," for instance, a track that displays vague Philip Glass-esque echoes. Another highlight is the contribution of eerie-sounding boy soprano Victor de Maizière on "Laura's Murder." Elsewhere, the composing trio mercifully doesn't overdo the middle-oriental exoticism on "Moorish Scents," though the track does feature a glockenspiel--now officially the most overused instrument on contemporary soundtracks. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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