The Red Violin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Brand: SonyComposer: John Corigliano
Edition: 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
Soundtracks:
- Anna's Theme
- Cremona: Main Title
- Cremona: Death of Anna
- Cremona: Birth of the Red Violin
- Cremona: The Red Violin
- Vienna: The Monastery
- Vienna: Kaspar's Audition/Journey to Vienna
- Vienna: Etudes/Deat of Kaspar
- Oxford: The Gypsies/Journey Across Europe
- Oxford: Pope's Gypsy Cadenza
- Oxford: Cotius Musicalis/Victoria's Departure
- Oxford: Pope's Concert
- Oxford: Pope's Betrayal
- Shaghai: Journey to China
- Shanghai: People's Revolution/Death of Chou Yuan
- Montreal: Morritz Discovers the Red Violin
- Montreal: Morritz's Theme
- Montreal: The Theft
- Montreal: End Titles
- Red Violin: Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra
Free Music Notes for The Red Violin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Free Music Review: Before It Became an Industry
Hit: 4 Stars
This is not your typical soundtrack. First, it was written by a contemporary "classical" composer who is not usually associated with film music. Second, it contains not just music from the film, but also a "serious" concert orchestral piece written using some of the themes from the soundtrack music (this piece, which is titled "The Red Violin": Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra, is the 17-minute track that closes this CD in spectacular fashion.) Third, the film itself (which I have not seen) is itself based on a tale involving music, so the music that Corigliano wrote was conceived as integral to the film itself, not just something to supply the proper mood for certain scenes.
The music is quite able to stand on its own; even the "soundtrack" sections of the program are musically interesting, and the sounds that Corigliano's scoring are colorful but never merely splashy. Probably because this is a soundtrack , there are some bass effects that will put your woofers--or better yet, your subwoofer--to the test (but some really low, loud notes occur in the concert piece, not just the soundtrack sections themselves), so be forewarned. The music is colorful and enjoyable; for my money, this is the best thing that Corigliano has yet done.
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 Fran?ois 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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