The Secret Garden: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Composer: Zbigniew PreisnerEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1993-08-31
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- Main Title
- Leaving the Docks
- Mary Downstairs
- First Time Outside
- Skipping Rope
- Entering the Garden
- Walking Through the Garden
- Mary and Robin Together
- Shows Dickon Garden
- Awakening of Spring
- Craven Leaves
- Taking Colin to the Garden
- Colin Opens His Eyes
- Colin Tries Standing
- Colin Loves Mary
- Craven's Return
- Looking at Photos
- Craven to the Garden
- Colin Senses Craven
- Happily Ever After
Free Music Notes for The Secret Garden: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Free Music Review: Short but sweet...
Hit: 5 Stars
Having grown up on the 1987 Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation of The Secret Garden, I was enthralled with Agnieszka Holland's 1993 The Secret Garden. The 1993 Secret Garden soundtrack, composed by fellow Pole Zbigniew Preisner, makes use of haunting instrumentals: the deliciously foreign Main Title, with its ghostly, tremulous flute, and the omnipresent piano, echoing melancholy snippets of Chopin. On Skipping Rope, Preisner playfully uses pizzicato strings and guitar reprising the Winter Light theme. Preisner incorporates a myriad of influences; the dramatic, piano-driven Craven's Return sounds as if it could have been torn from Shostakovich. On Walking Through the Garden, a boychoir vocalizes the Secret Garden theme as a solo violin captures the main melody. On Mary and Robin Together, the solo violin cheerfully emulates a robin's spring song. Bells, harp, guitar, and violin round out the cast.
As with most soundtracks, many tracks echo or reprise the main theme, so the CD does come off as repetitive after several listens, but makes lovely background music for a quiet spring dinner. If you were thinking of buying the CD for the haunting Winter Light, you won't find it here. Unfortunately, perhaps due to licensing, Linda Ronstadt's version of Winter Light is not included on the soundtrack (it was played over the closing credits). Sarah Brightman also covered Winter Light on her Sarah Brightman Classics CD. But Preisner's unerring ear for measured, dignified melodies bring Mary's English garden to lush life.
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