The Red Violin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Composer: John CoriglianoEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Music Label: Sony
Product features:
- The Red Violin OST
- The Red Violin: Anna's Theme
- The Red Violin: I. Cremona: Main Title
- The Red Violin: I. Cremona: Death Of Anna
- The Red Violin: I. Cremona: Birth Of The Red Violin
- The Red Violin: I. Cremona: The Red Violin
- The Red Violin: II. Vienna: The Monastery
- The Red Violin: II. Vienna: Kaspar's Audition; Journey To Vienna
- The Red Violin: II. Vienna: Etudes; Death Of Kaspar
- The Red Violin: III. Oxford: The Gypsies; Journey Across Europe
- The Red Violin: III. Oxford: Pope's Gypsy Cadenza
- The Red Violin: III. Oxford: Coitus Musicalis; Victoria's Departure
- The Red Violin: III. Oxford: Pope's Concert
- The Red Violin: III. Oxford: Pope's Betrayal
- The Red Violin: IV. Shanghai: Journey To China
- The Red Violin: IV. Shanghai: People's Revolution; Death Of Chou Yuan
- The Red Violin: V. Montreal: Morritz Discovers The Red Violin
- The Red Violin: V. Montreal: Morritz's Theme
- The Red Violin: V. Montreal: The Theft
- The Red Violin: V. Montreal: End Titles
- The Red Violin: 'The Red Violin': Chaconne For Violin And Orchestra
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Free Music Review: Terrific Recording by Itself, But This is a Private Preview
Hit: 5 Stars
THE RED VIOLIN is a deeply moving film, a magical and wonderful tracing of a musical instrument's journey from creation of the Cremona Violin through its multiple owners and the subsequent impact this rare instrument has on the lives of those it touches. Listening to John Corigliano's exquisite score creates all the mystery and beauty of this fine film, but this soundtrack recording goes far beyond that. Creatively programming a piece for violin and orchestra from fragments of the score of the movie, this disc includes a fine performance of THE RED VIOLIN: CHACONNE FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA and this concert piece is exquisitely performed by the gifted Joshua Bell and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra. The Chaconne has found its way into the symphony concert halls already. Now John Corigliano has composed a full CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA ("THE RED VIOLIN") which he has dedicated tot he memory of this father, who was Concertmaster for the New York for twenty-five years, and the strength of this initial disc is actually a private preview of the Concerto. Having just heard the West Coast premiere with Joshua Bell and the Los Angeles Philharmonic I am convinced that this Concerto will have a secure life. The first movement is the original Chaconne from this disc, and to this movement Corigliano has added three movements of extraordinary brilliance and beauty. The passion of the Chaconne is set aside for the second movement 'Pianissimo Scherzo' which whispers and scampers along with themes from the scores lighter moments. The third movement 'Andante flautando' is closely based on the film's main theme and recalls the tenderness and beauty of Anna's theme in a conversation between the violin and alto flute. The fourth movement 'Accelerando Finale' is all virtuosity both in composition and playing. Hopefully the Concerto will be recorded soon - it is one of Joshua Bell's finest achievements, matched by the virtuosic playing by the LA Phil (the conductor was Miguel Harth-Bedoya). Get to know this disc and when the Concerto is played near you (or is released on recording) you will be all the more ready for the intricacies and beauties of a unique American piece.
The Red Violin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Poster
Leave it to composer John Corigliano and violinist Joshua Bell--two of biggest names in classical music--to team up and create one of 1999's best soundtracks. For many, the soundtrack to The Red Violin was just as impressive as the film, a moving blend of gypsy, folk, and classical compositions. --Jason VerlindeNormally we think of a musical instrument as a passive object in the service of a performing artist. But what if that instrument is itself a work of art, containing the secrets of the various owners through whose hands it has passed over the centuries? That's the premise behind this intriguing film by François Girard (director of 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould). It traces the story of a legendary violin (thought to be possessed by an immortal soul) from its birth in 17th-century Italy through Mozart's Vienna, Victorian England, and revolutionary China to its present-day fate on the auction block. The score, in suggesting the violin's unique aura, therefore carries much of the burden of the story, and it brings together some of the most outstanding talents in contemporary classical music. Composer John Corigliano's richly eclectic and poetic score--encompassing classical elegance, gypsy passion, and angst-ridden harmonies--etches vivid portraits of the film's various epochs but also gives an overarching sense of unity to the episodic character of the script. It's essentially a set of remarkably imaginative variations for violin and orchestra on a theme of haunting pathos and is a substantial work of music in its own right. As the soloist, Joshua Bell saturates the eponymous instrument with personality. His combination of virtuoso bravura and soulful phrasing almost seems to lead the violin to the brink of human speech. Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen shapes the exchange between orchestra and violin into tautly dramatic dialogue. The disc also includes a powerful related work on the theme used in the score, the Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra, which confirms Corigliano's status as one of today's leading and most personally communicative American composers. --Thomas May
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